Anne Clayton

Ann Coleman

• BIRTH: 1703
• Father: Thomas COLEMAN
• Mother: Mary LORT
• RESIDENCE: Essex and Culpeper Cos. VA

Married

1. Phillip CLAYTON of Catalpa MARRIAGE: ABT 1720, VA

Children

1. +Lucy CLAYTON
2.  Philip CLAYTON Jr.
3. +Elizabeth Anne CLAYTON
4.   CLAYTON
5. +Susan CLAYTON

Notes

"Sister of Robert Coleman of Fairfax, now Culpeper, VA. Ann's sister Elizabeth married John Pendleton. Ann Clayton was named in the will of her father, Thomas Coleman who married Mary Lort."

Links

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mysouthernfamily/...

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ANN COLEMAN

b. 1703

m. Philip Clayton (1702-1786)

Philip’s will admitted to probate 21 Mar 1786. \(WB C, p. 245, Culpeper Co. Records\) He was a Major in the Colonial Wars, a son of Samuel Clayton and Elizabeth Pendleton. His home in Culpeper Co. was called "Catalpa". Legend says his home was named for a species of tree Philip brought from Essex co. (Slaughter’s History of St. Mark’s Parish, Pt. II, p. 6) (The Pendleton Family by Mrs. Katherine Cox Gattschalk, Washington D.C., and Major John B. C. Nicklin, Chattanooga, TN\)

Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mobjackbaycoleman...

GEDCOM Note

Colonial Families of the USA 1607-1775 says Anne Coleman was the sister of Robert Coleman of Fairfax, now Culpepeter. She married !1720, Major Philip Clayton of "Catalpa", Culpeper County. Catalpa was the name of a tree brought from ____ and was planted in the field on which the Culpeper Minute Men first assembled. Philip Clayton kept the diary.

GEDCOM Note

Ann Coleman Clayton
BIRTH 18 Feb 1707
Essex County, Virginia, USA
DEATH 1792 (aged 74–75)
Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia, USA

Ann was the daughter of Thomas Coleman and Mary Lort.

Her brother Robert Coleman (1711-1793), upon whose land Culpeper was founded, was the first of the Coleman names in the county. Robert Coleman in his will (1793) recorded in Culpeper , leaves legacies to his daughters Ann Clayton , Sarah Slaughter , Lucy Strother , Frances Crutcher Susanna Yancey . Philip Clayton was his executor.

Ann married Mjr Philip Clayton, August 18th, 1736, in Essex County, Virginia. Three children were born of this marriage: Lucy who married William Williams the son of James and Ann Tutt Williams of Essex; Samuel who married his cousin Ann Coleman, daughter of above named Robert and Sarah Saunders Coleman; and Susanna who married James Slaughter (1732-1799) the son of Col. Robert & Mary Smith Slaughter, who would lead the 1st engagement of the Revolution at the Battle of Great Bridge.

When Ann died is yet unknown. As meticulous as her husband Philip was, had she died before him, one would expect the provision for her in his will to have been revised. As it stands, and there being no record of discrepancy in the probate proceedings, we believe she became the surviving widow who died sometime after 1786.

My best guess is 1792 when there was a flurry of gifts, exchanges of property, mortgages, and yes household slaves within the family by deed of gift recorded in Culpeper to the grandchildren of Philip & Ann Clayton. This would indicate that Ann had died and the remaining portion of the estate was settled.

Family Members
Spouse
Philip Clayton
1702–1786

Children
Lucy Clayton Williams
1737 – unknown

Samuel Clayton
1738–1799

Susannah Clayton Slaughter
1740–1818