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Elizabeth Clayton (d. Bef. 1804)

Elizabeth Clayton was born in Virginia, and died Bef. 1804 in Virginia.She married William Walker on December 16, 1793 in Albemarle County, Virginia, son of Francis Walker and Rebecca Laird.
Notes for Elizabeth Clayton:
Elizabeth Clayton was first married in 1771 to Orlando Jones residing at Jones plantation in Albemarle County known as Refuge.Hessian soldiers captured at Saratoga were housed on the Jones Plantation. (Orlando Jones was a cousin of Martha Washington.)There is some confusion over parent/grandparent.Best evidence suggests John Clayton, longtime clerk at Gloucester, Va. and world renowned botanist was her grandfather and her father was John Clayton, his son.
Sources:
Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Vol. 1-IV, Burgesses and Other Prominent Persons, Ancestry.com
"Walker's Administrators vs. Jones Administrators O.S.226:N.S. 80--Bill, 1810. (From Chalkley's "Abstracts and Records of Augusta Co., Va., Vol II, Pages 180-1.)
More About Elizabeth Clayton and William Walker:
Marriage: December 16, 1793, Albemarle County, Virginia.