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Clayton was baptized on December 9, 1632, in Boxgrove, England, the son of William Clayton and Joan Smith. His mother died before he was a teenager, and in 1653 he married Prudence Lanckford, a daughter of William Lanckford, in St Pancras, London. Clayton became a carpenter by trade and a follower of the Quaker religion. [1]
William de Beauchamp (died 1260) ... Rice Richard Clayton; Sir William Clayton, 5th Baronet; ... William Fleetwood (died 1630) Francis Fortescue; G.
William F. Clayton (1923–2017), US politician; William C. Clayton (1831–1915), American educator, lawyer, politician, and businessperson; W. H. H. Clayton (1840–1920), American soldier, lawyer, judge in post-Civil War Arkansas and Indian Territory Oklahoma; William L. Clayton (1880–1966), US assistant secretary of state for economic affairs
His eldest son, William Claiborne Jr.(ca. 1636 – before 1678), who in the 1650s was a merchant on his father's behalf in England and served as a burgess in the following decade (1660–1678) as well as on the court to try members of Bacon's Rebellion, inherited his father's Romancoke plantation and other lands, but died before 1678. [47]
Commemorative plaque at Locust Creek, in Wayne County, Iowa, where William Clayton composed the hymn "Come, Come, Ye Saints" (originally "All is Well") is one of the best-known Latter-day Saint hymns. The lyrics were written in 1846 by Mormon poet William Clayton.
William H. Clayton (July 17, 1814 – December 4, 1879 [2]) was a clerk, scribe, and friend to the religious leader Joseph Smith.Clayton, born in England, was also an American pioneer journalist, inventor, lyricist, and musician.
The execution date for a man convicted in the 1998 fatal shooting of a delivery driver who had stopped at an ATM has been set for July 18, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced Thursday. Keith Edmund ...
1630 8 April – Winthrop Fleet : The ship Arbella and three others set sail from the Solent with 400 passengers under the leadership of John Winthrop headed for the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America as part of the Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640) ; seven more, with another 300 aboard, follow in the next few weeks.