Clayton immigrant cluster

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Clayton immigrant cluster

Legg inn av John Brandon » 27 jun 2006 15:33:22

Recently, I pointed out that the Clayton immigrant group may have a
descent from the Thornhills of Fixby. One of the sources I mentioned,
the biography of John Clayton in _Patriot-Improvers: Biographical
Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society_, has
recently become available on Google Books.

http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0 ... 5M7evDxV3k


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The 1st ed. of _Adventurers of Purse and Person: Virginia, 1607-1625_,
p. 290, discusses a John Clayton, immigrant to Virginia, who married
widow Alice (Bowyer) Buggins:

"John Clayton, educated, probably at Cambridge, admitted to the Inner
Temple, came to Virginia, 1705, appointed Attorney General of Virginia,
1714 and served until his death; he was member of the House of
Burgesses from James City, 1720-1734 and served as Judge of the
Admiralty Court. Their [ie, John and Alice's] son John Clayton, the
well known botanist, married 6. Elizabeth Whiting and their son Thomas
Clayton married 14 July 1720, Isabella Lewis of 'Warner Hall,'
Gloucester County."

Whitfield J. Bell, _Patriot-Improvers: Biographical Sketches of Members
of the American Philosophical Society_, vol. 1, pp. 166-172, discusses
"the well known botanist":

He was born in England in the fall of 1694, the first of three sons of
John and Lucy Clayton, of a family of substantial means and rank. His
father, who had studied at Eton and Cambridge, had been called to the
bar in 1691; his uncle Jasper Clayton rose to be lieutenant general in
the army and was appointed governor of Gibraltar; his aunt Charlotte
married Lord Lovelace, Governor of New York and New Jersey in 1708;
while their father, the botanist's grandfather, Sir John Clayton, also
a barrister, was an original Fellow of the Royal Society, a friend of
John Evelyn, and a member of the court of William III.

The major discrepancy in these accounts (on the one hand, that the
botanist's mother was Alice Bowyer Buggins; on the other that she was
Lucy), can probably be accounted for by the extracted marriage record
in the IGI of John Clayton to Alice Buggins in 1664. Hence, the
botanist's *father* John was probably son of Alice Bowyer Buggins.

But, anyway, the John Clayton who married Alice Bowyer was a descendant
of the Thornhills of Fixby, according to _Le Neve's Knights_. See
http://tinyurl.com/atzrl .

John Brandon

Re: Clayton immigrant cluster

Legg inn av John Brandon » 27 jun 2006 16:49:10

Apparently there is something on this family in _Papers of the
Historical Society of Delaware_:

http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN0 ... ace&pgis=1

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