Clopton FamilySource: The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Jul., 1901), pp. 54-58Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and CultureStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1919806 .

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wife Elizabeth, brother Howell Lewis and Robert Lewis, and friends Philip Taylor and Edmund Taylor, executors. Witnesses, Edmund Taylor, Robert Lewis, Jr., Ann Taylor and Charles Kennon.

61 HOWELL5 LEWIS, son of Col. Charles4 Lewis, of The Byrd, married Elizabeth Willis, daughter of Col. Henry Willis and Mildred Howell, and moved to Granville county, N. C. He had issue as far as known, (1) Howell, born April 2, 1759, and married, in 1780, Betty, daughter of Robert Coleman, of Gooch- land county, Va. (Marriage Bond, QUARTERLY, VIII., 93). (2) Mildred, married John Cobb, first of Goochland county, and then of Georgia (Virginia Magazine, Vol. IV., p. 209), and had issue, Howell Cobb, Mary Willis Cobb, Susannah Cobb, Henry Willis Cobb, John Addison Cobb, and Mildred Lewis Cobb. (Howell Cobb was Secretary of the Treasury under Buchanan.)

(To be Continued.)

CLOPTON FAMILY.

(Continued from Vol. V., p. 80.)

As already shown, the ancestor of this family in Virginia was 1 WILLIAM' CLOPTON, aged about thirty in 1685. In 1682 he was constable of Hampton Parish, York county, and on January 23, 1682-'83 he made a deed of gift to his daughters Ann and Elizabeth. He married Ann Booth, widow of Thomas Dennett, and daughter of Robert Booth, clerk of York court.

Robert Booth died in 1657, leaving a widow Frances and three children, viz.: A daughter Elizabeth, who married Dr. Patrick Napier, of York county; a son Robert, who married Anne Bray, and who is mentioned in the General Court Records as heir to lands in New Kent patented by his father, and a daughter Anne already mentioned as marrying, first Thomas Dennett; second, William Clopton. Dennett's will, proved in York court August 25, 1673, names children Anne, John, Sarah, and Ellinor, and makes his "loving brothers John Baskervyle and Robert Booth overseers" of his will. Dennett calls Baskervyle "brother" be- cause Baskervyle married Mary, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel William Barber, one of the justices of York county (born 1602), and his wife Mary, widow of John Dennett (died before 1646),

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and mother of Thomas Dennett, first husband of Anne Booth. On March 24, 1679-'80, "Ann Clopton, as relict of Thomas Dennett, deceased," swore to his inventory in York court.

The following, taken from the records of York, illustrate the times. It appears that Mrs. Clopton was not satisfied with the length of the service awarded her by the court against Elizabeth Cole, her servant girl, for running away:

"26 February, 1682-3. Ordered that Elizabeth Cole, servant of Mr. Wm. Clopton, serve her said master for forty-four days for being absent from her master's service twenty-two days, and pay to her master one pound five shillings or serve for the same, being for the charges in retaking of her."

April 24, 1683. Elizabeth Cole, servt to Mr William Clopton, comeing before Otho Thorp and Samuel Tympson, two of his Majesties Justices of the Peace, this 28th day of March, 1683, Examineth saith that on the 26th day of feb.ry last in the house of said Mr William Clopton, did heare Jno Dennett, sonn to the said Clopton's wife, say that there was no justice done at York Court, but what was done for Esq. Bray.* Then Mr William Clopton did say noe noe, Jack, if there had been any done to-day I should have had some done. Then this Examinant did heare Mrs Clopton make reply, noe, Jack, if thy father had been as rich a man as Capt. Archer t hee had justice done him as well as Capt. Archer, but hee being a poore man, there was none for him, belike, and yt on the 26th day of this Instant March this examinant did hear the said Mrs Clopton say upon the delivery of the last ordr of Yorke Courtt to Mr t William Clopton yt she care not for her nor her ordr neither meaning Yorke County Courts ordr and that she would certainly baist her this Exami- nant duely every day for the time she had to serve, for all the order of Yorke Courtt, to which this Examinant is ready to depose & hath sub- scribed her name the day and yeare above.

(Signed) ELIZ. [E.] COLE.

This Examinacon taken the day and yeare above Sd before us Tho. Thorpe, Samuell Thompson, Aprill 24th, 1683. Sworn to in open Courtt & is recorded. Teste, E. JENNINGS, e1. Cur.

* The term "Squire" at this time was a title given in Virginia to members of the Council only. Squire Bray was James Bray. Anne Clopton's brother, Robert Booth, married Squire Bray's daughter Anne.

tJames Archer, Jr., is meant, an ensign in the regiment of Col. Herbert Jeifreys, sent over to subdue Bacon's Rebellion. He settled in York county, and was at this time one of the justices.

1 The title "Mr." was one of respect. Persons below the status of yeomen or gentlemen had either no handle to their names or were ad- dressed as "goodman."

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William Clopton moved, not long after this, to New Kent county, where the family was resident for many years.

Issue of 1 WILLIAM' CLOPTON (born 1655, died ) and Anne Booth, his wife (born 1647, died March 4, 1716-'l) "three sons and two daughters" (inscription on tombstone of Anne Clopton). 2 Robert Clopton; 3 William; 4 Walter; 5 Anne, who married Nicholas Mills; 6 Elizabeth, who married William Walker, January 19, 1713, and, second, Alexander Molss, of New Kent. (The will of Alexander Moss was proved in Cumberland county.)

2 ROBERT CLOPTON (William'), married, first, Sarah Scott December 18, 1711. She died October 24, 1719, after which Robert Clopton married, second, iVary . Issue by first wife: 7 Bertha, born August 19, 1722; 8 daughter, born July, 1714; 9 Margaret, born April 8, 1717. Issue by second wife, 10 Frances, born February 2, 1722223; 11 William, born Novem- ber 11, 1721; 12 Robert, born July 28, 1728. There is preserved an old deed dated July 12, 1733, from Robert Clopton, Walter Clopton, of New Kienlt, Nicholas Mills, of Hanover county, who married Ann Clopton, and Alexander Moss, of New Kent, who married Elizabeth Clopton, empowering Micajah Perry, of Lon- don, merchant, and Ebenezer Adams, of New Kent, to get posses- SiOll of an estate left by one William Hammond, of Stepney Par- ish in the county of Middlesex, in Great Britain, gent., to Wil- liam Clopton for his life, and afterwards to the children of said William, or to so many as should survive him, and the said Robert and Walter Clopton, and Anne Mills and Elizabeth Moss are the survivors in 1733. William Hammond, of Ratcliffe, in the Par-. ish of Stepney, als Stebonheath, it seems, made hi;s will in July, 1732, and devised all that his freehold farm with the buildings at Thundersley, in the county of Essex, and two copy hold farms at Eastwood, in same county, "to my uncle William Clopton, of Virginia, for life, and to his children surviving him ;" two free- hold messuages in possession of John Thompson, watchmaker, and Joseph Scrafton, perukemaker, he devised to friends Samuel Skinner, of Ratcliffe, Esq., and Josiah Cole, of Ratcliffe, apothe- cary, to sell the same, and out of the proceeds to give ?500 "to my servant Christian Walters, and ?500 to Mary Hamond, als Waters," to whom he gave also his plate and jewels.

3 WILLIAM2 CLOPTON (William-) married Joyce Wilkinson

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on January 27, 1718, and had issue, 13 Waldegrave, born Nov. 19, 1719. 14 Anne (who married William Divers), born Janu- ary 16, 1720-'21. 15 William, born February 2, 1721-'22. 16 George, born January 14, 1773. This William Clopton was dead before 1733, as already seen, and in 1761 (as shown by an old bond from Waldegrave Clopton, of New Kent, to William Clopton, of Hanover) his children, Waldegrave, William, George and Anne, wife of William Divers, had commenced suit in the General Court against Walter Clopton, Alexander Moss and others for the property devised by another Hammond, Henry Hammond, of London. By this bond Waldegrave Clopton sells his interest to William Clopton, of Hanover, for 10,000 pounds current money. The witnesses to the bond are Daniel Ford and William Jones.

4 WALTER2 CLOPTON (William'), married Mary Jarratt, sister of Rev. Devereux Jarratt, and daughter of Robert Jarratt (see Life of Devereux Jarratt), and had issue, 17 Anne, born July 3, 1712; 18 child born November 19, 1714; 19 Walter, born March 24, 1720-'21; 20 Robert, born June 4, 1725; 21 Devereux, born August 30, 1727; 22 Margaret, born September 9, 1729; 23 Naomi, born January 11, 1735.

15 WILLIAM3 CLOPTON (William2, William') resided in Han- over county, and married Elizabeth Dorrall Ford, sister of Rev. Reuben Ford, a Baptist minister, and had issue: 22 Robert4, of Cumberland county (eldest son); will dated April 17, 1783, proved April 22, 1793; died without issue. 23 (Hon.) John4, born in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent, February 7, 1756; 24 Reuben4, 25 George4.

23 JOHN4 CLOPTON (William3, William2, William') studied at the University of Pennsylvania, 1773, was a captain of Virginia militia during the Revolution, served several terms in the General Assembly. He represented the Richmond District in the United States House of Representatives continuously from 1795 to 1816, except in 1799-1801, when John Marshall defeated him. He was succeeded in Congress by John Tyler. He was a member of the order of the Cincinnati. He died September 11, 1816. He mar- ried May 1.5, 1784, Sarah Bacon, daughter of Edmund Bacon, of New Kent, and had issue, 26 John Bacon- Clopton, a distin- guished judge of Virginia, who married Maria G. Foster, and had two sons (1) Francis Bacon, (2) Judge William Izzard, of

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Manchester, Va., and one daughter, (3) Joyce, who married Charles M. Wallace, of Richmond. 27 William Edmund5, who married Mary Apperson, and had two sons, (1) William E1d- mund, Jr., deceased; (2) Dr. John Clopton, deceased, late assist- ant physician at Eastern Hospital for Insane, Williamsburg, Va.

24 (REV.) REUBEN4 CLOPTON (William3, William2, William') was at his death, in 1795, established as a minister in a parish in King William county. He married Elizabeth Hales, and had issue: 28 Elizabeth H.,5 29 William H.,5 30 Reuben5, 31 Sam- uel5. Of these William Hales Clopton left three sons, (1) Dr. J. A. Clopton, of Huntsville, Ala.; (2) William Hales, (3) John Hales, of Aberdeen, Miss.

25 GEORGE4 CLOPTON (William3, William2, William') married Frances . There is a deed in Hanover, dated 1783, from Mrs. Mary Anderson to her granddaughter Frances Clopton, wife of George Clopton. Issue: 32 Sarah, married Robert Ellyson; 33 Ann Lain, married Meredith, of Hanover county; 34 William D.; 35 Elizabeth, married Nathaniel Hill.

See chancery papers in Williamsburg, Clopton's admr. vs. Clopton, etc. In these papers it is stated that William Clopton, Sr., made a deed for land in Cumberland county to son Robert, dated July 8, 1791, which was witnessed by Samuel Meredith and Elisha Meredith. In 1761 there was a suit in York county between John Hudson and Anne Jones, his wife, William John- son, and Martha (Jones), his wife, Roger Gregory, guardian of Orlando Jones, infant, William Johnson, guardian of Rolling [Rowland] Jones and Frances Barber Jones, infants, William Clopton, guardian of William Jones, an infant, vs. William Graves and John Ferguson, exors. of Anna Maria Thornton, de- ceased. Comparing this with QUARTERLY, V., 184 and 196, it might appear that Orlando Jones married Mlary Anderson (daughter of Mrs. Mary Anderson in deed above), and had Frances Jones, who married George Clopton( ?).

(To be Continued.)

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