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Treesearching with Doris Boyd Co, Press Observer Jan 29, 1976 Charles Clay (1638-1686) son of Capt. John Clay, married Hannah Wilson, daughter of JOHN WILSON, Sr., of Henrico County, where they also lived, near the site of present Petersburg. ------ Clay Tentative Lineage by Ruth Clay Burrell, Peggy Carswell Peacock, and Shirley Langdon Wilcox September 22, 1983 Charles Clay b 1645, Charles City Co., Va.; (In a Deposition dated 2 September, 1682, Henrico Co., Va., he stated that he was "about 37 years old".); d. ca May, 1686, Henrico Co., Va.; md. ca 1667, Henrico Co., Va. to Hannah Wilson, daughter of JOHN WILSON, Sr. of Henrico Co, Va. In the Henrico Co., Va. "Deeds and Wills, 1677-1697, Part 1" pp359-360 can be found the inventory of JOHN WILSON, Sr.’s estate, and the following is recorded: "Upon agreement with John Wilson, the Administrator, and my wife’s brother, in paying and defraying debts & charges, I acknowledge in right of my wife to have received a full share & satisfaction, and therefore forever discharging him, his executors and administrators. Witness my hand the 18th day of February 1685 Witnesses: Peter Field CHARLES CLAY Henry Randolph "Proved in Court by Testimony of ye witnesses & recorded as it is endorsed on ye back of ye inventory of ye sd estate of JOHN WILSON, Senr., dec’d. Teste: Henry Randolph, Clerk of Court 1 April 1686" ------- Colonial Wills of Henrico Co, Va Pt 1 1654-1737 Weisiger 975.5453 Page 13 p.342 JOHN WILSON, late of this county, died intestate. John Wilson, his son, is appointed adm’r. 1 Feb 1685 ------- Adventurers of Purse & Person by Jester Page 193-4 Charles 2 Claye married Hannah Wilson, daughter of JOHN WILSON, Sr., and sister of John Wilson, Jr., to whom he gave a receipt for his wife’s full share of her father’s estate, 18 Feb. 1685/6. 17 Shortly thereafter Charles 2 died intestate for on 1 June 1686 his widow Hannah was granted letters of administration on his estate. An inventory was returned 2 Aug. 1686. 18
---------- The Clay Family. Mrs. Mary Rogers Clay 929.2C The Genealogy of the Clays pp. 63-68 Charles Clay, born 1638, died 1686 (intestate). He married Hannah Wilson, daughter of JOHN WILSON, senior, of Henrico Co, Virginia, and states in Court, April 1686, that he has received his wife’s part of her father’s estate. (1688-1697, page 360.) Extracts from the inventory and appraisement of the estate of Charles Clay, deceased, presented June 15, 1686, by Hannah Clay, administratrix: Cows &c, belonging to Mary Clay, one of ye orphans, which were given her by her God-father.Cows &c belonging to Elizabeth Clay, one of ye orphans, which were given her by her grandfather. Horses &c set apart by Charles Clay for ye children in lieu of two mares with increase, given them by their grandfather, JOHN WILSON Sen. Dec’d ------- Genealogy of VA Families VII 1981 Some Notes on the Clay Family p 77-80 Contributed by the late Reverend Stephen O. Southall Wilson Family. On June 6, 1666, JOHN WILSON patented land in Henrico County on north side Appomattox River on the second falls of Swift Creek. In 1677 John Wilson appears as 30 years old. In 1686 John Wilson, Jr. Had administration granted him on the estate of his father, JOHN WILSON, deceased. In April 1686 Charles Clay gave receipt to John Wilson, Jr. For his wife [Hannah’s] part of the estate of her father JOHN WILSON, deceased. JOHN WILSON, of Henrico County, who died in 1686, was the father of: (1) John Wilson, Jr., whose will was recorded in Henrico County in 1716. (2) Hannah Wilson, who married Charles Clay.
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