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AI-0012 – Some Notes on the Clay Family

Record Summary


Evidence Category:
Documentary Record

Record Type:
Article

Date:
1944

Individuals Mentioned:
Rev. Stephen O. Southall, Mrs. Mary Rogers Clay, John Clay, Francis Clay, Thomas Clay, Ann Clay, William Nicholl, Capt. Francis Hooke, Sir Thomas Dale, William Bayly, John Frame, Mr. Morrissette, Henry Clay, General Green Clay, Charles Clay, John Clay II, Hannah Wilson, Robert Munford, Henry Threawt, Mr. Charles Knott, Mary Clay, William Clay, Elizabeth Clay, Henry Reynolds, Mary Reynolds, Judith Clay, Capt. William Corker, John Wall, John Wilson, John Wilson Jr., John Didball, Cornelius Clemence, Emlin Clay, Fleet.

Repository:
CFS Archives

Archive Reference:
AI-0012

Summary

This document provides a critical examination and correction of the genealogy of the Clay family in colonial Virginia.


Clay Line: John Clay 1613


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Source Citation

Southall, Rev. Stephen O., “Some notes on the Clay Family” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography; Vol LII (1944) page 59-62.


Historical Context

Identifying the descendant children of John Clay the 1613 immigrant to the British colonies is probabily the second most researched topic of John 1613 next to identification of his origins in England.