JOHN Clay 
JOHN was born on November 27th, 1558 in Glouceshire, England.1 JOHN's father was JOHN Clay. His paternal grandfather is JOHN Clay. He was an only child. He died at the age of 73 on May 16th, 1632 in Monmouthshire, England.1 General Notes
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John Clay was a coal baron from Wales. He was Knighted by Queen Elizabeth I. He was the great-grandson of John Claye, who was knighted by King Edward IV, after the Battle of Tewkesburg in May of 1471. Sir John Claye, (Tradition) Coal Baron of Wales; Knighted by Queen Elizabeth I, and given lands in Monmouthshire, Wales; said to be the son of JOHN CLAYE of Glouchester, who was the son of John Claye of Derby, Knighted by Edward IV at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471; b. ca 1565, probably Glouchester Co., England; d. ca 1632, probably Monmouthshire, Wales; wife unknown; the traditional names of his three sons were: Richard, William, John (Called "The English Grenadier")
The Clay Family: Genealogy of the Clays by Mrs Mary Rogers Clay Louisville, Ky John P. Morton & Co 1899 call# 976.9 F489c pg 65
"Patent 210 grants John Clay twelve hundred acres in Charles City County, Virginia, beginning at the lands granted by order of Court to Francis Hooke, up to the head of Wards' Creek, and bounded on the north by James River. Due one hundred acres to him as an old planter before the government of Sir Thomas Dale, and the other eleven hundred for the transportation of twenty-two persns by the "West" July 13, 1635. (Ledger I page 230) These lands granted John Clay were near the present City Point only a few miles from what is now Chesterfield County. Children:
Francis Clay, whose name appears on the records of NorthumberlandCo Va from Oct 19, 1652 in the grants of lands, until June 8,
1658, and in Westmoreland Co. on May 21, 1666.
About 1580 when Sir John I was 22, he married Mary Carlton, in England.
They had the following children:
John Thomas II (1587-1655)
Charles born after 1587 in Wales, England. Charles died in unknown about 1610, he was 23.
Henry Clay born on August 3, 1672 in Dale Parish, Chesterfield Co Va.4,3 Henry died in The Raells, Chesterfield Co Va on August 3, 1760, he was 88.6
JOHN and MARY Anne were married in a religious ceremony about 1580 in England.1 They had five sons named Richard, JOHN Thomas, William, Charles and Henry.
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Children
JOHN Thomas Clay
JOHN Thomas was born about 1587 in Monmouthshire, England.1 He died on April 7th, 1655 in Jamestown, Charles City Co., Virginia.1