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- Source: "Seldens of Virginia and Allied Families"
1 PHILIP2 CLAYTON (Samuel1) of St. Mark's Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia, the eldest son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Pendleton) Clayton, married Ann Coleman, sister of Robert Coleman, of Culpeper County. Prior to 1745 he removed to Orange County, and resided in the portion known as St. Mark's Parish, which was included in Culpeper County in 1749. In 1745 he was elected a member of the vestry in that Parish, in the place of John Catlett, deceased, and served as a vestryman for many years. He was church warden in 1763, and resigned from the vestry in 1766. When Fairfax County (now Culpeper Court House), was laid out in 1759, he was made one of its trustees. He was deputy to the first clerk of Culpeper County, Roger Dixon, and performed all the duties of the latter, who lived in the lower country. His estate was near the Court House in Culpeper County, and was named Catalpa, it is said from a catalpa tree which he had transplanted from Essex, which was the first of that kind brought to the locality. "In the old field at Catalpa was the first encampment of the Culpeper minute men, and there they drilled in preparation for service in the Continental army."
1785 DEED: Culpeper Co, VA, DB N-54, 18 Apr. Philip Clayton of Culpeper left his grandson Philip Clayton, son of Samuel Clayton, money and 156 acres.
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1712 - 1786 (74 years)
