The
Clopton
Chronicles
The Ancestors and Descendants of
Sir Thomas Clopton, Knt. &
Dame Katherine Mylde
A Project of the Clopton Family Genealogical
Society
Volume I
Tales To Tell
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Chapter
I
Saints
and Sinners, Wise Men and Fools
The Birth of a Family
“Heaven take my soul, and England keep my
bones!” – William Shakespeare
Regarding the First
Clopton
by Suellen
Clopton Blanton
His
Wife Katherine Mylde
(to be released in the
coming months)
After Sir Thomas' death, Dame Katherine took as her
second husband Sir William de Tendring of Stoke-by-Nayland. Through this marriage she became the
distant grandmother of three queens of England: two of the unfortunate wives of
Henry the VIII, Ann Boleyn and Catherine Howard, and Queen Elizabeth I. Dame Katherine,
who died in 1403, is buried at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin,
Stoke-by-Nyland, Suffolk. Their memorial brasses are among the finest in
England. The Clopton Arms: ermine spot on the bend in base, may be
seen on the mantle of the depiction of Dame Katherine. . It is
believed that those claiming Clopton ancestry through William Clopton,
Gentleman, of Eastwood, County Essex, and York (now New Kent) County, Virginia
and his wife, Ann (Booth) Dennett are descendants of both these marriages.
Thomas Erpingham, K.G.
by John Henry Knowlton &
Suellen Clopton Blanton
Regarding Sir
William Clopton & His Wives
(to be released in the
coming months)
Sir William fought in the Battle of Agincourt under the banner of the
Duke of Gloucester on October 25, 1415 along side his uncle, Sir Thomas
Erpingham. This date marked a
stunning victory of the English over the French during the mid-point of the
Hundred Years’ War. Following an
unexpectedly long march in an attempt to find a practicable ford over the
Somme, the exhausted invaders of 6000 were caught at Agincourt (Azincourt in
the Pas-de-Calais) by a French force numbering between 20,000 and 30,000 men
under the constable Charles I d’Albret.
But because of the land and serious tactical errors committed by the
French their numerical advantage was forfeited. The English archers led by Sir Thomas Erpingham, repelled preliminary
attacks by the cavalry and three hours of battle ended in disaster for the
French. It is thought a plague
visited the countryside, and
Margery Drury, her son, William, and two of her daughters, Margery and Anne,
all died in 1420. William died
March 10, Margery in June, and the two girls both died in October.
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
by
Thomas Gray
The Red Rose or the
White
Regarding John
Clopton, Sheriff of Counties Norfolk & Suffolk
(to be released in the
coming months)
A widower with five children, John
Clopton, courted young Elizabeth Paston.
She refused his marriage proposal, and her parents locked her in a dark
room without food and almost beat her to death. Bloody but definitely unbowed, she held her ground. John would spend the rest of his long
life overseeing the construction of Long Melford’s Holy Trinity Church. And Elizabeth, why, she married twice,
and became one of the wealthiest women in England. In 1485, John was summoned to be made a Knight of the Bath
at the coronation planned for the young Edward V. However, while John was shining his armor, his kinsman was
busy plotting murder, and John’s chances of becoming a knight died along with
the little Princes in the Tower.
Regarding Mary
Clopton, of Fore Hall & Her Husband
William Cordell,
Knight, of Melford Hall, Long Melford, County Suffolk
by Suellen
Clopton Blanton
Where Mightier Do Assault Than Do
Defend
Regarding Richard
Southwell, Knt. &
Saint Robert Southwell
by John
Henry Knowlton
Five Centuries in
Christ
The Great Church of
Holy Trinity
Long Melford
(to be released in the
coming months)
John Clopton was
the principal benefactor of Long Melford’s Holy Trinity Church, a magnificent
example of medieval architecture.
The “Jewel in the Crown of Suffolk,” it is blessed with splendid glass
windows, graceful brasses, and impressive tombs. It was dedicated on Trinity Sunday, 1484.
A Pretender At the
Door
Regarding Sir William
Clopton & His Wives
Joan Marrow, Katherine
Hopton & Thomasine Knyvet
(to be released in the
coming months)
While Sir William Clopton was off to do battle with
one Lambert Simnel, his wife, Thomasine Knyvet, added to her duties of
maintaining the household and bearing children, the responsibility of guarding
her husband’s properties. Warfare
defined the world of the Clopton and women from the ninth to the seventeenth
century. A knight’s lady acted on
their behalf in their absence during war.
The wives and daughters exercised authority, defended the family’s lands
and title. While women received no
formal education, surviving documents show they could read and write. Noblewomen left records of their
household accounts, instruction to administrators of the family’s holdings, and
letters to their husbands to keep them abreast of decisions made while they
were at battle. Like the other
women of the castles and manors, Lady Thomasine would be expected to serve food
and drink to the warrior bands and tend the injured and sick.
Regarding William
Clopton, Lord of Castlings Manor &
His Wife Margery
Waldegrave of Lawford Hall
by Suellen
Clopton Blanton
Knights of the Garter
(to be released in the
coming months)
The descendants
of William Clopton and Margery Waldegrave are eligible to belong to The
Descendants of the Knights of the Garter.
King Edward III founded the Knights of the Garter in 1348 as a noble
fraternity consisting of the King, the Prince of Wales and 24 Knights
Companion. This group was chosen
for their chivalry and their valor at the Battle of Cre’cy in France two years
earlier. The Society of the
Friends of St. George’s and Descendants of the Knights of the Garter was
established in 1931 and exists to help in preserving St. George’s Chapel and in
providing the necessary furnishings and equipment for this historic but living
church, which is the shrine on the Order of the Order of the Garter. It is the burial place of many British
sovereigns. On June 19, 1999,
Edward Windsor, Earl of Wessex, and son of Queen Elizabeth, II., married Sophie
Rhys-Jones, now the Countess of Wessex at St. George’s Chapel.
Regarding Thomasine
Clopton &
Her Husband John
Winthrop
by Suellen
Clopton Blanton
On An Infant Dying As Soon As Born
By Charles Lamb
Regarding
Anne Clopton of Kentwell Hall &
Her
Husband Simonds D’Ewes, Bart., of Stowlangtoft
by
Suellen Clopton Blanton
by Lord
George Gordon Noel Byron
For
Conscience Sake
Regarding
William Clopton, M.A. &
His
Wife Elizabeth Sutcliffe
(to
be released in the coming months)
William Clopton
graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, considered by his time to be
"a nursery of Puritanism."
The Cloptons had married and remarried into a network of the great
Puritan families of East Anglia.
For many, their ties with the Church of England was all but a distant
memory. Their timing could not
have been worse. Charles II
regained the monarchy in 1660 and proceeded to make life miserable for the
Puritans. William was one of more
than 2,000 clergymen who refused to embrace the High Church or Anglo-Catholic
rituals, and were "ejected from their livings.” Their son, William, would flee to America and become the
patriarch of the American Cloptons.
Chapter
II
Second
Genesis, Chapter One
A New Beginning
“I believe in the United States of
America as a Government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose
just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a
republic, a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union one and
inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice
and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and
fortunes. I therefore believe it
is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its
laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.” – William
Tyler Page
The Story of An
American Patriarch
Regarding William
Clopton, Gentleman, &
His Wife Ann Booth
(to
be released in the coming months)
Raised on tales of the exciting
adventures of his kinsmen in the American Colonies, the urge to escape his
straight laced Puritan family got the better of him, and at fifteen, William
Clopton, of Eastwood, County Essex, apprenticed himself to one Joshua White of
London. He would eventually settle
at St. Peter’s Parish, New Kent County, Virginia and begin living the life of a
Virginia planter with his wife, Ann Booth.
A
Hymn
by
Dr. J. E. Rankin
Regarding Private
David Clopton
by Carole
Elizabeth Scott, Ph.D.
Sweet Be the Sleep of Those Who Prefer
Liberty to Slavery
Regarding Jeremiah
Coleman & His Brother, Jesse
by John
Henry Knowlton
May You Live a Thousand Years My
Friend!
Regarding The
Honorable John Clopton
by Suellen
Clopton Blanton
The
Reverend John Day
by
Suellen
Clopton Blanton &
Laurel
C. Sneed
Regarding Anthony
Clopton &
His Wife Rhoda Hoggatt
by Carlyn
McCullar Bain &
Suellen Clopton
Blanton
Work While Thou Hast Life for Christ
Regarding Mary Jane
Smithey &
Her Daughter Martha
Smithey Wilson
by
W. A. Ogden
A Quilt or Many Colors
Regarding William
Edmund Clopton, Sr. &
His Wife Mary Ann
Apperson
A
Descendant of William Clopton of St. Paul’s Parish, Hanover County, Virginia
&
His Wife Joyce
Wilkinson, of Black Creek
(to be released in the
coming months)
After being married about 20 years and
having met with financial difficulties, William Edmund Clopton, Sr., and his
wife, Mary Ann Apperson, determined to find a new home and started to
Georgia. They encountered so much
trouble with the Indians there, they turned their course to the West and went
to Kentucky. The nights were
fraught with danger and the men stood guard each night.
The Old Doctor’s Son
Regarding Sarah
Clopton &
Her Husband James
Lovick Pierce
A
Descendant of William Clopton of St. Paul’s Parish, Hanover County, Virginia
&
His Wife Joyce
Wilkinson, of Black Creek
(to be released in the
coming months)
Sarah Clopton, the daughter of Alford
Clopton and his wife, Sarah Kendrick, married into one of the most famous
family of Methodist ministers in nineteenth century Georgia. Her husband, James Lovick Pierce, Sr.,
D.Div., was the son of Lovick Pierce, I, D.Div. of Halifax County, North
Carolina, his mother, Ann Foster, of Green County, Georgia. As a theologian his father rated him
above his son, George Foster Pierce, D.Div., but his “delicate nervous
organism” prevented him from reaching the status enjoyed by his brother.
Chapter
III
A
Right Smart Fight
The American Civil War
“This Southern Confederacy must be
supported now by calm determination and cool brains. We have risked all and we must play our best, for the stake
is life or death.” – Mary Chesnut
by John
Henry Knowlton, Jr., Ottis Edwin Guinn, Sr. & Suellen Clopton Blanton
A rough draft of those who served during
the American Civil War.
A War Song of the Confederacy
by
George H. Miles, of Baltimore
Regarding The
Honorable John Bacon Clopton &
His Wife Maria
Gaitskell Foster
by Suellen
Clopton Blanton
Let Me Kiss Him For His Mother
A War Song of the
Confederacy
Regarding William
Henry Clopton, Sr. &
The Widow of President
John Tyler, Julia Gardiner Tyler
by Suellen
Clopton Blanton
A War Song of the Confederacy
by Catherine
M. Warfield
Regarding Marianne Clopton
&
Her Daughter Sarah
Elizabeth Reid
by Ottis
Edwin Guinn, Sr. & Suellen Clopton Blanton
A War Song of the Confederacy
by Carrie Bell Sinclair
Regarding Dr. Thomas B.
Clopton & His Wives
Martha Harwell,
Harriet B. Claiborne &
Cornelia A. Harrison
Palmer
by Suellen
Clopton Blanton
Farwell To The Star Spangled Banner
A
War Song of the Confederacy
Beware the Subterfuge of Charlatans
Regarding Dr. Albert
Gallatin Clopton
by Suellen
Clopton Blanton
A War Song of the
Confederacy
Ragged Rebbles and the Kilkenny Cat
Regarding Waldegrave
James Clopton &
His Wife Frances D.
Lamar
by Lois
Eulalia Armstrong Goocher & Suellen Clopton Blanton
Regarding Dr.
Nathaniel Vanderwall Clopton &
His Son John Marshall
Skinker Clopton
by Leonard
Alton Wood & Suellen Clopton Blanton
When Tories Come
Calling in the Middle of the Night
Regarding John
Franklin Bradford &
His Sister Amanda
Susan Bradford
A
Descendant of Walter Clopton, The Elder, of “Callowell,.” New Kent County,
Virginia &
His Wife Mary Jarratt
(to be released in the
coming months)
For the good folk of Springfield,
Alabama, a reign of terror would end when John Franklin Bradford killed a man
who needed killing in the worst way.
John told his slaves to put a chain around the dead man’s neck and drag
him to the turnip patch and bury him. His mother, Susannah Truss Bradford asked her son not
to be so cruel, so John compromised and told the men to carry the body and not
to drag it. The miscreant was
buried dressed as he was and in a coffin less grave. His sister, Amanda, wife of Lewis M. Herring, owned and
operated the Herring Hotel in Springville. Many people from Birmingham and Gadsden enjoyed driving to
Herring Inn where they rocked on the wide porch or strolled to Springville Lake
to feed the fish, then enjoyed a leisurely lunch. The children liked to romp on the tailored lawn under the
shade of the spreading elm trees.
The register contained the named of many statesmen, dignitaries,
European travelers, and even movie stars.
Regarding David
Clopton & His Faithful Slave
Edy
by Carole
Elizabeth Scott, Ph.D. & Suellen Clopton Blanton
A War Song of the Confederacy
by
James R. Randall
The Death of an Old
Land Mark
Regarding The
Honorable David C. Clopton & His Wives
Mary F. Chambers,
Martha E. Ligon & Virginia Caroline Tunstall
(to be released in the coming months)
Upon the death of Judge David C. Clopton,
in 1892, a great flurry of commentary blanketed newspapers throughout the
South. In addition to the expected
recitation of his career, his ancestry from a “conspicuous Virginia Family,”
was duly noted, and, oddly, the shape of his head, complexion and eyes received
praise. Of his wives, it was his
third who is best remembered, the unflappable Virginia Caroline Tunstall, widow
of Clement Claiborne Clay, who was himself, a descendant of the ancient
Cloptons.
A War Song of the Confederacy
by George
Herbert Sass, Charleston, South Carolina
Fire, Fear and Death: The Fall of Richmond
Regarding Edward Andrew
Jackson Clopton &
His Wife Anne Waring
Latane’
by Miles
George Turpin
A War Song of the Confederacy
by
R. B. Vance, of North Carolina
Regarding Captain
William Latane’
by Miles
George Turpin
A War Song of the Confederacy
by Olivia
Tully Thomas
Chapter
IV
Love,
Life, and Renewal
Reconstruction
“But as you already know your rights and privileges
so well, I am going to ask you to excuse me if I say a few words to you about
your duties. Much has been given
to us . . . and we must take heed to use aright the gifts entrusted to our
care. It is not what we have that
will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.” – Theodore
Roosevelt
Of Possums and Land Barons and
Wonders of the Sea
Regarding William
Henry Harrison Clopton &
His Wife Martha Isabel
Lancaster
by Suellen
Clopton Blanton
All This Nonsense
Regarding Dr. John
Fielding Clopton & His Wife
Wilhelmina Somerville
Piggott
(to be released in the
coming months)
When Dr. John Fielding Clopton began his
fourteen years of service at Williamsburg’s Eastern State Hospital for the
Insane, the method of treatment for the mentally ill consisted of “employment
of fresh air, generous diet, exercise, personal cleanliness, constant
occupation and rational amusements.”
An experiment attempting to ease the inmates back into society by
permitting them to go out into the community to socialize, so shocked the good
citizens that many of the administration and staff were fired. He had a deep appreciation for the
ladies, but once he met the lovely young Wilhelmina Somerville Piggott, he had
eyes for no other. Dr. Clopton
courted her madly and eventually won her heart. They would end their days together at Norge, Virginia.
When All is Said and
Done
Regarding Eugenia
Clopton Wiley &
Her Daughter Sally
Lamar Blount
(to be released in the
coming months)
Eugenia Clopton Wiley and her husband,
James Henderson Blount, were parents of one of the most interesting characters
in the Clopton family tree. Their
daughter Sally Lamar Blount, spent her life fighting for causes. They were for the most part, losing causes, but she never lost her
desire to hurl herself enthusiastically into the fray. She early learned the art of political
debate, having spent much of her youth in Washington, D.C., where her father
served eighteen years as a Georgia senator. She was four square against alcohol and women getting the
vote. Her grand passion, however,
was the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
The Unfortunate Mattie
Lee
Regarding Martin
Kendrick Clopton &
His Wife Sarah
Elizabeth Greathouse
(to be released in the coming months)
Martin Kendrick
Clopton died of typhoid fever, August 10, 1864, in a Confederate hospital at
Greenville, North Carolina, leaving a young widow, Sarah Elizabeth Greathouse,
and four children. Her father, The
Reverend Greathouse served two terms in the Alabama legislature from Dadeville
and was on committee that wrote a new State Constitution when Alabama was
re-admitted to the Union after the Civil War. Soon after, he moved to Texas, and Sara, with her children,
went with him where tragedy waited.
Texas Bound
Regarding Sarah Susan
“Sallie” Clopton &
Her Husband Willis
Newell Floyd
(to be released in the
coming months)
In 1857 the young Sallie, her husband,
and their two small sons joined family and friends and left Georgia, bound for
Texas. The devastation,
deprivation, tribulation, and grief brought by the American Civil War was
courageously endured by Sallie, now widowed, and her five children.
Fried Chicken, Sweet
Lips & Bad Poetry
Regarding John Palmer
Clopton &
His Wife Mattie
Stallings
(to be released in the
coming months)
John Palmer Clopton, of Americus, Sumpter
County, Georgia, pursued his beloved Mattie Stallings with passionate letters
and bad poetry. A letter, touching
in its simple words of love, which he wrote to her before their wedding day, as
survived, and reads in part: John
loves his Darling and believes she loves him so let the world wag as it may we
will be happy for my Dear Girl it will (be) my ambition to so love you... John
thinks of his Pet every Day your Boys hands will be awful rough to join hand
with you the cotton Burrs are picking them up and I dont like to see a man with
Gloves on when he marries it is all ok for the Lady to wear them. Sadly, his life with his
"Pet," was cut short. He
died of typhoid fever five days after his daughter's first birthday.
A Potpourri of
Blessings
Regarding Nancy Ellen
Clopton &
Her Husband Benjamin
Franklin Wheeler
(to be released in the
coming months)
When Nancy Ellen Clopton, of Hart County,
Kentucky, was fourteen, she married, Benjamin Franklin “Doc,” Wheeler, who had
served with the United States Army during the Civil War. She quickly gave birth
to two children. She was an
excellent seamstress and produced countless quilts. She wove blankets and could knit and crochet. Her greatest gift, however, was that of
a healer. Physician of the day did
not hesitate to administer laudanum, opium, and morphine to adults and infants
alike, often doing far more harm than good. But in her wisdom, Aunt Sis, as she was affectionately
known, followed a more ancient and gentle path and sought out the herbs growing
in her beloved mountains of Kentucky.
The lowly barberry, was cherished to sooth sore throats. Garlic found many uses, from garlic oil
to soothe an earache to smelling salts made from the pungent herb to sniff to
relieve hysteria. Wild rue
relieved gas pains and colic and could also induce uterine contractions. Teas of chamomile relieved headaches
and colds, comfrey, to heal wounds and burns.
Fair Willie
Regarding Wilhelmina
Clopton &
Her Husband Clifford
Anderson Lanier
(to be released in the
coming months)
Clifford Anderson Lanier’s brother, the
beloved Georgia poet, Sidney Clopton Lanier, saved Clifford’s life during the
War. Sidney thereafter suffered
poor health for the rest of his too brief life. . He blamed
himself, gave up his own budding career as a poet and devoted his life to
supporting not only his family but his brother as well. Clifford was the husband of Wilhelmina
Clopton, of Eatonton, Putnam County, Georgia.
Pea Ridge Memories
Regarding Benjamin
Arnold Bustin
(to be released in the
coming months)
Benjamin Arnold Bustin, a veteran of the
Spanish-American War, was a prolific writer who left an abundance of memories
of his life. Remarkably, in his
later years he was blind, but that didn’t stop him from recording his
thoughts. He lived most of his
life in the Pea Ridge Community of Eatonton, Putnam County, Georgia. Even when recalling the harrowing days
of battle, sustained by gruesome food, he never lost his sense of humor.
An Honorable and Contrite Heart
Regarding The
Honorable William Capers Clopton
by Suellen Clopton
Blanton
Chapter
V
Party
Lines and Other Dangers of Southern Living
The Twentieth Century
“When an American says that he loves his
country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies
glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which
freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.” - Adlai Stevenson
Three Little Cloptons In Virginia
Regarding Irene Horsely
Clopton Waters & Her Sisters
Julia H. Clopton Cresap
& Alice C. Clopton Watson
by
Irene Horsley Clopton Waters
A Fruit Jar of Whiskey & A
Chicken in the Pot
Dr. Malvern Bryan Clopton & His Brother
A Few Good Men
by
Suellen Clopton Blanton
Papa Whipped Me, So I
left for Parts Unknown
Regarding
Julian Campbell Clopton
Based on an Article by James M McMillen
Regarding The Reverend Wallace Theodore “Ted”
Jones
by
Wallace Theodore “Ted” Jones
Regarding Concord United Methodist Church
Eatonton,
Putnam County, Georgia
by Suellen Clopton Blanton
Volume II
Ancient Genealogies
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Chapter
I
The Descendants of Guillaume Peche,
A Genealogy of the First
Sixteen Generations
Published October 1999; Revised February 8,
2000; Revised February 16, 2000; Revised November 12, 2000; Revised November
20, 2000; Extensively Revised December 2000; Extensively Revised January 2001
Chapter
II
The Descendants of Johane or Joan Clopton
& Her Husband, Roger Beauchamp, 2nd
Baron Beauchamp of Bletsho
The Royal
Lines
Under Construction. To be released in the year 2001
Johane (or Joan) Clopton married into one
of the most eminent and powerful families of England, the Beauchamps. A companion in arms of the victorious
William the Conqueror, the family was represented by the Earls of Warwick and
Albermarle, and the Barons of St. Amand, Barons of Bletsho, Hache,
Kydderminster and Powyke. Counted among
her direct descendants are most of the Kings and Queens of England who have
held the throne since Henry VII.
Through this ancient marriage descend both Charles Philip A. G. Windsor,
the Prince of Wales and his late wife, Diana Frances Spencer, Princess Di. Many Clopton descendants, although not
all, also trace their ancestry from this couple by Thomas
Claiborne, Jr., of “Sweet Hall,” King William County, Virginia, and his wife,
Ann Fox, of “Huntington,” King William.
Chapter
III
The Descendants of William deTendring,
Knt., of Tendering Hall &
Published
December 2000; Extensively Revised January 2001
Published March 2000
The Cloptons of
Warwickshire were most certainly connected to the Cloptons of Suffolk. However, only the most circumstantial
evidence exists to connect the families, namely the time frames all synchronize
and the uniqueness of the surname.
Until more substantial documentation is found, the Cloptons of
Warwickshire will be treated as separate and distinct from the Cloptons of
Suffolk. This is a most
colorful family with connections to the great William Shakespeare.
Volume III
American Genealogies
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Chapter
I
The Descendants of Ann Clopton, of “Callowell,” &
Her Husband Nicholas Mills II, of St. Martin’s Parish
compiled by Ann Avery
Hunter, Kenneth Eugene Mills,
Jane Johann Gresham & Mary Jane Ritchie
Johann
Published October 1999; Revised January 31,
2000; Extensively Revised February 2000
Ann left her beloved New Kent County to
make her home and raise a family in Hanover County, Virginia. Her kinsman, the great orator, Patrick
Henry, and his wife, Sarah Shelton, were their neighbors. Her children would marry into the
Thompson, Rice, Wyatt, Hopkins, Jackson, and Anderson families.
Chapter
II
The
Descendants of Elizabeth Clopton, of New Kent County & Her Husbands,
Alexander Moss & William Walker, Sr.
Under Construction. To be released in the year 2001
Like her sister, Elizabeth would leave
New Kent and live in Powhatan County, Virginia. Her daughter, Ann Moss, would marry Lieutenant William
Diuguid, a first cousin of her sister’s neighbor, Patrick Henry. Tragically, two of the three children
from her marriage to William Walker, died, and the fate of the third child is
unknown.
Chapter
III
The Descendants of Robert Clopton, I &
His Wives Sara Ann Scott and Mary Crump
compiled by Michael
Gregory Clopton, Sallie Lou Colvin McClintock &
Jack Hugh Thacker
Published October
1999; Extensively Revised March 2000
Their son would give his life serving as
a private under Captain Thomas Massie’s Company of Foot in the Sixth
Continental Virginia Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel James
Hendricks. His records include a
company muster roll dated June 16, 1777.
Under remarks, it states simply, “Dead.” Descendants of the Clopton-Crump marriage may trance their
ancestry to the Rev. Richard Buck who came to Virginia in 1610. Rev. Buck was the colonial clergyman
who officiated at the marriage of the Indian princess Pocahontas to John Rolfe
at Jamestown on April 5, 1614.
Chapter
VI
The Descendants of William Clopton of St. Paul’s Parish
Hanover County, Virginia & His Wife Joyce Wilkinson of Black
Creek
compiled by Suellen Clopton
Blanton, Robert Malcolm Fortson, Jr.
Carole Elizabeth Scott, Ph.D., Miles George
Turpin, & Leonard Alton Wood
Published October 1999; Extensively Revised
March 2000
Identifying the early American Cloptons
was fairly simple as long as the family was associated with St. Peter’s Church,
New Kent County, Virginia. The
names were all neatly entered into the church registry. Unfortunately, from a genealogical
point of view, the family began drifting away and joining other churches whose
registries have not survived the years.
The descendants of the Clopton-Wilkinson marriage made the task of
identification even more difficult by their love affair with the names William,
Waldegrave, and Alford. Their
children married into the Alford, Divers, Ford and Jones families.
Chapter
V
The Descendants of Walter Clopton, The Elder, of
“Callowell,”
New Kent County, Virginia & His Wife Mary Jarratt
compiled by Carlyn
McCullar Baine, Roger Alan Bartlett,
Reva Gene Gist Bradford, Tilden Eugene Clopton,
Carl L. Cochrane,
Dean Evan & Mila Jane Burnett Reiszner
Published October 1999; Revised November 1999;
Extensively Revised February 2000
The great mystery is that some of the
thirteen children identified as their children may, in fact, be the children of
another Clopton male. There are a
number of Clopton adult men of this period who have not yet been connected with
a family who may be the father of several of those children connected with the
Clopton-Jarratt marriage.
Volume IV
Abbreviated Genealogies of Certain
Allied Families
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Chapter
I
European
Connections
compiled
by Martin
Wood, L.L.B., M.A. & Suellen Clopton Blanton
Published
October 1999
His descendants
would make their mark in the newly established British Colonies in America.
compiled
by Suellen
Clopton Blanton
Published
October 1999; Revised December 20, 1999; Revised November 20, 2000
Possibly the most
distinguished ancestor of Adam Winthrop and his wife, Joane Burton, was John
Winthrop. He would one day become
the first governor of Massachusetts.
American Allied Families
compiled
by Roger
Alan Bartlett
Jess Bartlett and
his wife, Frances Callaway were pioneers who arrived in Texas in 1831, when it
was still part of Mexico. They
lived through the harrowing Texas Revolution of 1836. This site is a project of Roger Alan Bartlett, their
great-great-great-grandson.
Suellen
Clopton Blanton
Published
October 1999
Born February 15,
1771 in Virginia, Thomas Jefferson Johnston, Esq. Migrated to Eatonton, Putnam
County Georgia. He married first,
Martha Bass and secondly, Mary Gilbert of Bedford County, Virginia.
His Wives, Mary,
Kesiah Sanders & Margaret Hall,
Suellen
Clopton Blanton
Published
October 1999
Born August 3, 1773 and died about
August 7, 1855 in Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia, he married first
Mary, who died after 1796. He
married next Kesiah Sanders and following her death after 1820, married
Margaret Hall who died before October 26, 1847 at Eatonton, Putnam County,
Georgia.
His Wife Agnes
Kay, The First Five Generations
compiled by Ottis
Edwin Guinn, Sr. James Penick Marshall, Jr.,
& Suellen Clopton
Blanton
Published September 1999 (revised November 11, 1999)
A soldier in the American
Revolution, Captain Reid was born July 8, 1728 in Ireland His wife, Agnes Kay, was born at
Ireland and died at Green County, Georgia. He died in 1810 at Eatonton, Putnam County, Georgia.
His Wife
Elizabeth Prime, The First Seven Generations
compiled by Dorothy Maddox Bishop, Virginia Ruffin Crilley &
Suellen Clopton Blanton
Published October 1999
Robert
Ruffin was born about 1646 at Isle of Wight County, Virginia and died about
1693 at “Richneck,” Surry County, Virginia
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