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Tim -
Do you spend your time at the VA State Archives researching just your CLAY
line? or other lines as well. It is great you can do that.
Janis H.
> [Original Message]
> From: <SPRAD666(a)aol.com>
> To: <clay(a)rootsweb.com>
> Date: 3/10/2009 7:50:07 PM
> Subject: [CLAY] Robert (Bob) Clay
>
> Hi everyone. I usually stop by and go out and eat with Bob Clay in
Richmond
> when I go to the State Archives three weeks a year. Last week he wasn't
> feeling well (Blood Pressure) and we didn't get to go. Might be nice to
drop Him a
> Card if you have a chance. Hopefully in the Summer we'll get to see each
> other again. Best regards, Tim
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Hi:
My husband is a descendant of this family, but alas he does not carry the
CLAY surname.
But could you keep him informed as to the progress.
I will be glad to send you his genealogy if you would like to have it.
Kathy Clifton
Husband: Lassister Neale Clifton -- ancestor Hiram Clay
lnccsa(a)infionline.net
----- Original Message -----
From: <JNTGREATHO(a)aol.com>
To: <clay(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:47 PM
Subject: [CLAY] Clay DNA Project
> Hi Folks,
> Looking for a male descendents who has retained the Clay Surname from
> John Clay of Surry County, Virginia and Edward Clay who was in North
> Carolina,
> to do a Y-DNA test in the Clay DNA Project at Family Tree DNA.
> _www.familytreedna.com_ (http://www.familytreedna.com)
> Edward Clay was a descendent of John Clay, son of Henry and Mary
> (Mitchell)
> Clay.
> Please contact me if you have are a descendent or have any contacts from
> either of these families.
> Thank You.
>
> Regards,
> Nancy Acord-Greathouse
>
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> Gregory Hatcher,
> Nancy Acord-Greathouse
>
> Co Administrators,
> Clay Y-DNA Project
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M. E.
Try searching Google by entering "Dupuytrin" and it will tell you it is
a muscular contracture. There are also articles that will more fully
explain it.
Skip
----- Original Message -----
From: "M.E.Sorensen" <jsorensen4(a)cfl.rr.com>
To: <clay(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:55 PM
Subject: [CLAY] Off topic- trying to track and inherited disease
> My son, niece and her son all have a disease called Dupuytrin. It is an
> inherited disease. I would like to find which ancestor it came from. It
> has to be my side of the family. It is a disease that originated with the
> Vikings who brought it to Scotland when they invaded that country and then
> to England and France. Do any of you have this disease? M.E.
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Hi Folks,
Looking for a male descendents who has retained the Clay Surname from
John Clay of Surry County, Virginia and Edward Clay who was in North Carolina,
to do a Y-DNA test in the Clay DNA Project at Family Tree DNA.
_www.familytreedna.com_ (http://www.familytreedna.com)
Edward Clay was a descendent of John Clay, son of Henry and Mary (Mitchell)
Clay.
Please contact me if you have are a descendent or have any contacts from
either of these families.
Thank You.
Regards,
Nancy Acord-Greathouse
Gregory Hatcher,
Nancy Acord-Greathouse
Co Administrators,
Clay Y-DNA Project
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My son, niece and her son all have a disease called Dupuytrin. It is an inherited disease. I would like to find which ancestor it came from. It has to be my side of the family. It is a disease that originated with the Vikings who brought it to Scotland when they invaded that country and then to England and France. Do any of you have this disease? M.E.
Hi everyone. I usually stop by and go out and eat with Bob Clay in Richmond
when I go to the State Archives three weeks a year. Last week he wasn't
feeling well (Blood Pressure) and we didn't get to go. Might be nice to drop Him a
Card if you have a chance. Hopefully in the Summer we'll get to see each
other again. Best regards, Tim
**************Worried about job security? Check out the 5 safest jobs in a
recession.
(http://jobs.aol.com/gallery/growing-job-industries?ncid=emlcntuscare00000002)
Janis:
Your email arrived in fine style. I would be glad to help you...but I'm in
the process of moving...final arrival at new place in mid April....
Forward any specific questions and I'll do my best. The marker was
moved...but is still by the road. Finding the grave site is a bit more of a
challenge...but we did it in June of 2006...
Gregg Clemmer
(Rev. E. Clay is my 4g grandfather.....on my mother's side)
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Hi Janis: In 2006 the year of the Clay Family Gathering in Chester, the
Salem Baptist Church in Chesterfield was celebrating an anniversary(250
yrs?).Eleazar Clay had been their minister and they were interested in
finding more information about Eleazar and the Clay family. I corresponded
with a person from the church and it was proposed that there be a church
service for the Clay descendants but we were not able to set it up so I
don't what kind of celebration was held. The person who probably knows most
about this family is Gregg Clemmer. I don't have a current e-mail address
for him but perhaps someone else on the this list does. If not I may be able
to contact someone who has the address. Connie Collins
-----Original Message-----
From: clay-bounces(a)rootsweb.com [mailto:clay-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf
Of redwingersgen(a)earthlink.net
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 11:21 AM
To: clay
Subject: [CLAY] Eleazar Clay Historic Marker
Hi Clay List:
I suspect that my second great-grandfather Eleazer Green Clay [born St.
Francois Co, Missouri Mar 7 1816] and my third great-grandfather Eleazer
Clay [born Chesterfield Co VA Oct 14 1779] were named after the Eleazer Clay
born 1744 in Virginia. So I am interested in this Eleazer born 1744. I
just noticed an historic marker listed online S37 for Eleazar Clay on Route
360 and N. Baily Bridge Road, Chesterfield County, Virginia. Thank you to
the picture of marker courtesy of John Musgrove. Here is the text on the
marker:
S37 Eleazar Clay (1744-1836) led the establishment of the first Baptist
church in Chesterfield County, known as Chesterfield (Baptist) Church,
Rehoboth Meeting House, or Clays Church, in 1773. He also supported the
Baptist preachers imprisoned for breaching ecclesiastical law in the county
jail in 1771. Ordained as a minister in 1775, Clay preached for more than 50
years, organized three other churches, served as moderator for the Middle
District Baptist Association when it formed in 1784, and published Hymns and
Spiritual Songs in 1793. Clay is kinsman of statesman Henry Clay
(1777-1852). Eleazar Clays home site and tomb are located approximately two
miles south.
I am wondering if the historic marker still exists? Anyone know? I may go
by there this Spring if I am in Chesterfield Co.
Here are some other notes on Eleazer I just picked up in February at the
Raleigh Genealogy Library. I hope I have not duplicated Clay family data
for you.
Red Book Chesterfield An Old Virginia County, Lutz, Francis Earle
Index: Clay, house 9, 94, Statue of 215, 222, Henry 6, 99, 177,
195,200,204,215 Henry (Elder), 93, Eleazer, 96, 100, John 94, 99, Phineas,
burial 322, Rev Paul, 133, Clays Farm 251,252.
Pg 96 Eleazer Clay, listed as a winner, receiving deed to lots won on
occasion of a lottery advertised in 1767 1768. Land was in Manchester VA.
Lottery held by William Byrd. Drawing took place Dec 1768 at Williamsburg.
100-acre lots.
Our Clay - a gambling Baptist preacher???
Pg 100 & 101 "Eleazor Clay was one of the fearless and outspoken opponents
in Chesterfield to the established church. He moved to Chesterfield in 1765
following service in the French and Indian War. He was ordained a Baptist
minister in 1775 after having been a leader in the establishment of the
first Baptist church in the county. On one occasion while one of the
itinerant preachers was sick in the jail, Clay, who was a salty character,
brought a jug of wine to him as a stimulant. Knowing that it was against
the law for prisoners to have wine, Clay wrote in his diary "I greased his
(the jailor's) paw and got it in." One time while Clay was preaching in a
private home in Chesterfield a man approached and sent word to Clay that he
had come to "cowhide him". Clay retorted that he feared no man and "if I
have to go out after him, I will give him one of the worst whippings he has
had in his life." Col. Cary is reported to have given as a reason for not
arresting Clay tha!
t "Mr. Clay has a livlihood, but those others were taken up under the
vagrant law." The first Chesterfield Baptist church was first known as
Rehoboth Meeting House, but was frequently called Chesterfield Church and
Clay's Church. It was located five miles west of Chesterfield Courthouse
near the five forks at Woodcock's Corner. The building burned about 1890.
Worship at Rehoboth was constituted August 22, 1773, by Elders John Williams
and William Webber, with twenty members. Clay was chosen pastor in 1775 and
continued for more than half a century. In its first hundred years the
church had only three pastors. This was the mother church of Hephzibah
(Branch's), Second Branch and Mt. Olivet."
Janis Hendrick
North Carolina
Clay Roots in Illinois, Missouri
Hi Clay List:
I suspect that my second great-grandfather Eleazer Green Clay [born St. Francois Co, Missouri Mar 7 1816] and my third great-grandfather Eleazer Clay [born Chesterfield Co VA Oct 14 1779] were named after the Eleazer Clay born 1744 in Virginia. So I am interested in this Eleazer born 1744. I just noticed an historic marker listed online S37 for Eleazar Clay on Route 360 and N. Baily Bridge Road, Chesterfield County, Virginia. Thank you to the picture of marker courtesy of John Musgrove. Here is the text on the marker:
S37 Eleazar Clay (1744-1836) led the establishment of the first Baptist church in Chesterfield County, known as Chesterfield (Baptist) Church, Rehoboth Meeting House, or Clay�s Church, in 1773. He also supported the Baptist preachers imprisoned for breaching ecclesiastical law in the county jail in 1771. Ordained as a minister in 1775, Clay preached for more than 50 years, organized three other churches, served as moderator for the Middle District Baptist Association when it formed in 1784, and published Hymns and Spiritual Songs in 1793. Clay is kinsman of statesman Henry Clay (1777-1852). Eleazar Clay�s home site and tomb are located approximately two miles south.
I am wondering if the historic marker still exists? Anyone know? I may go by there this Spring if I am in Chesterfield Co.
Here are some other notes on Eleazer I just picked up in February at the Raleigh Genealogy Library. I hope I have not duplicated Clay family data for you.
Red Book �Chesterfield � An Old Virginia County�, Lutz, Francis Earle
Index: Clay, house 9, 94, Statue of 215, 222, Henry 6, 99, 177, 195,200,204,215 Henry (Elder), 93, Eleazer, 96, 100, John 94, 99, Phineas, burial 322, Rev Paul, 133, Clay�s Farm 251,252.
Pg 96 Eleazer Clay, listed as a winner, receiving deed to lots won on occasion of a lottery advertised in 1767 � 1768. Land was in Manchester VA. Lottery held by William Byrd. Drawing took place Dec 1768 at Williamsburg. 100-acre lots.
Our Clay - a gambling Baptist preacher???
Pg 100 & 101 "Eleazor Clay was one of the fearless and outspoken opponents in Chesterfield to the established church. He moved to Chesterfield in 1765 following service in the French and Indian War. He was ordained a Baptist minister in 1775 after having been a leader in the establishment of the first Baptist church in the county. On one occasion while one of the itinerant preachers was sick in the jail, Clay, who was a salty character, brought a jug of wine to him as a stimulant. Knowing that it was against the law for prisoners to have wine, Clay wrote in his diary "I greased his (the jailor's) paw and got it in." One time while Clay was preaching in a private home in Chesterfield a man approached and sent word to Clay that he had come to "cowhide him". Clay retorted that he feared no man and "if I have to go out after him, I will give him one of the worst whippings he has had in his life." Col. Cary is reported to have given as a reason for not arresting Clay tha!
t "Mr. Clay has a livlihood, but those others were taken up under the vagrant law." The first Chesterfield Baptist church was first known as Rehoboth Meeting House, but was frequently called Chesterfield Church and Clay's Church. It was located five miles west of Chesterfield Courthouse near the five forks at Woodcock's Corner. The building burned about 1890. Worship at Rehoboth was constituted August 22, 1773, by Elders John Williams and William Webber, with twenty members. Clay was chosen pastor in 1775 and continued for more than half a century. In its first hundred years the church had only three pastors. This was the mother church of Hephzibah (Branch's), Second Branch and Mt. Olivet."
Janis Hendrick
North Carolina
Clay Roots in Illinois, Missouri