As anyone who's researched Clayton history over the years can tell you, there are a lot of tangled branches to sort through. This particular branch begins with the Claytons of Clayton-le-Moors in Lancashire around the year 1066. From there, the line moves to John de Clayton's Clayton Hall in Yorkshire before making its way down to Sussex, stopping to obtain a few advanced degrees from Cambridge along the way.Incentives from the British Crown bring these Claytons to the Colonial Province of Virginia in the 1540s, and shortly thereafter, they follow the burgeoning tobacco industry into the Province of Carolina before seeking vast acres of fertile land in Kentucky. When tobacco moves north after the Civil War, they follow the lumber boom into Missouri.This booklet was created for my family using nearly 70 sources, scattered from 1666 to the present, all contained within the Bibliography in the back. It's as researched, sourced, and accurate as I'm capable of making it. That said, understand that I'm not a genealogist, and this is not meant to be a scholarly work. My hope is that readers find information to help them untangle their own branches, and if in that process they find new twigs and leaves I may have overlooked, that's even better.

Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Charles Collier Clayton who was born ca. 1781 in Charlotte Co., Virginia. He married Nancy Toney ca. 1800. They lived in South Carolina ca. 1800-1810, Tennessee ca. 1811-1849 and settled in the state of Mississippi ca. 1849. Charles and Mary were the parents of eight known children. Descendants lived in Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and elsewhere.

Genealogy of William Clayton of Chichester (1625-1689), who was born in the parish of Rumbaldswick, near Chichester, Sussex, England, and died in Chichester, Chester Co., Pennsylvania. He came to Pennsyl- vania with other Quakers, arriving in New York 1677, and then sailing on south. He married Prudence Lanckford, daughter of William Lanck- ford, 1653 in St. Pancras parish, Chichester, Sussex, England. She was probably born in Surrey. The early ancestor of this line was Thomas Clayton (b. c. 1500), who have made a will in Rudgwick parish, Sussex, England in 1557. Includes some genealogies of New England, Delaware, New Jersey and Virginia branches of Clayton families.

The William Clayton family immigrated from England to Pennsylvania in 1671. William was a Quaker, a member of William Penn's Council, a Judge and a carpenter; he became Governor of Pennsylvania and died in 1689.

Excerpt from The Clayton Family He had three sons: - John, William and Robert. John accompanied William Rufus in his war against Malcolm King of Scotland, and fell nobly in battle near Penrith, in Cumberland. William de Clayton, the second son, succeed ed his father. He faithfully served King Stephen in all his troubles, and on Candlemas Day, II4I, he lost his life in battle, and was succeeded by his son Robert. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.