• General Notes

  NOTE:  Was great-great grandfather of Henry ("Great Compromiser") CLAY.
  NOTE:  Participated in Bacon's Rebellion which burned Jamestown in 1676.
  NOTE:
  lemail dec 2002 james wall jewall@@students.wisc.edu
  is researching clay, wall and farrar in 1600's henrico & chas city co Va.
  near the border with is now Surry co VA, then part of james city co--or may
  have actually been on the surry co. side of the prince george/surry co line
  ANYWAY 23 aug 1643 john wall patented 1791 acres on chippoakes cr between john
  hacker and john pilkington, adjacent john claye and john freme (Frame?);
  
  NOTE:
  !SOURCE:
  pages 192-196 of
  ADVENTURERS OF pURSE AND PERSON VIRGINIA 1607-1625 3RD ED 1987
  revised and edited by virginia M. meyer and John Frederick Dorman;
  a typewritten Clay descendancy mostly of Gen Green Clay of KY family,
  DUKE UNIVERSITY, Durham NC special collections library, the Clement
  Claiborne Clay papers - leter from Wm Erwin, Sr Ref librarian Jan1995;
  Chesterfield co wb 1 page 544 entered about 1761/4 , as in ch co wills p.55
  will of 28 March 1749 dtr amy williamson 5 pounds
  names wm henry charles john amy williamson mary watkins grandson henry clay
  granddtr mary clay dtr of chas,
  WIFE MARY;
  LDS FHC microfilm 1322493 almost end the end of the roll:
  her family group sheet cites Charles Clay probate
  case begun 1 Jun 1686 Henrico Co VA, 1687 Henrico
  Co Deeds, filson Club #14, membership applications
  for Colonial Dames 17th century, VA grants, County
  records, other VA books;
  LDS FHC microfilm 1035535, item 2, page 282 or so ;
  Filson Club Publication #14 by Mary Rogers Clay 1899 on the Clay and
  related families. Unfortunately it on LDS film 1011852 item 5 but they won't
  circulate that to local Family History Centers;
  George Norbury MCKenzie, Colonial Families of the USA
  1912, reprinted Gen Pub Co Baltimore MD 1966,1995, see pages 171-176 of Vol 4;
  MARR: etc:
  Annie Mahaffay's ca. 1980 genealogy of Matt Martin Moseley b. 1828or so and
  a little about his wife Jones Elizabeth Chilcoat--a copy sent to me about
  1985 by T.B. Moseley Jr. Rt2 Box 47A, Clifton TX 76634
  Tillman genealogy
  by George Newton Tillman 1905 pub by McQuidy, Nashville TN has a section
  which it says is based upon a Mary Rodgers Clay genealogy;
  NOTE:
  !CURLES,VA area MAP:
  SURELY CHARLES CITY CO. FOR EARLY CLAY FAMILY REFERS TO S.E. CHESTERFIELD CO.!:
  16 july 2002 internet http://www.stanscrib.50megs.com/curles.html
  (presumably readily available at Library of VA, if you ask for it?)
  showed an early 1600's land patent names map of area from what is now
  southeastern suburbs of Richmond, about 30 miles Southeastward and about
  20 miles straight south almost as far as petersburg VA:
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  THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF TODAY'S CHESTERFIELD CO. WAS IN CHARLES CITY CO IN
  EARLY 1600'S! East of the following line was in Charles city Co. then, not in
  Henrico Co.!: roughly from 2 miles west of Interstate 295 on today's northern
  boundary of Chesterfield Co. (Farrar's Island in the James River)
  down to a point 3 miles west of Interstate 95 at
  today's southern boundary of chesterfield Co. at west edge of Petersburg VA;
  More technically the line was a radius presumably drawn from some point 25
  miles east near the present-day 3 county boundary of Prince George Co/ Surry
  Co./ Charles City co. VA and the line was drawn southward from the SE corner
  of Farrar's Island on the James River, but the above method using straight-line
  estimates from modern Interstate locations is better,without the old Curles map
  to look at;
  

Details of Charles' family with Hannah WILSON