5. William Clayton of Craven Co. NC
Descendants of William Clayton
Two of William Clayton's sons, James and Dempsey, were Methodist ministers, and they both moved to Georgia early in the 19th Century. William Clayton's third son, William, appears to have remained in Craven County.
William Clayton married Susannah Leverman in 1792.
Bondsman: John Clayton; T. Mckey, Witness. (This may or may not be
out William Clayton.)
6. Rev James Clayton of Butts Co. GA
James was born in 1776. In early years a blacksmith, he became a Methodist minister, (and a doctor of some sort), helped start churches in Craven and Person Counties in NC, others in Butts Co. GA, in Coosa and Tallapoosa Counties in AL. (He was the ancestor of the present writer.) ; in 1792 he married Sarah Carraway.
James Clayton of Craven Co. NC, Person Co. NC, Butts and Carroll Counties, GA, and Tallapoosa and Chambers Counties in AL died in the last of these locations some time after 1860.
In 1805 in Craven County James Clayton signed a bond for the marriage of Patsy Delamar to Spencer Pittman.
In 1806 he signed the bond for marriage of Christopher Delamar to Ann York.
In 1811 Polly Delamar, James Clayton's daughter, married Churchill Delamar, brother of Christopher. Both were sons of Francis Delamar IV.
Dempsey Clayton was admitted to the Virginia Conference of the Methodist Church in 1805 and assigned to the Caswell Circuit in the Salisbury District. (He apparently 'located' within a year because he does not appear among the appointments for 1806 or thereafter.) He later appeared with his brother, James and his nephew Churchill Delamar, on a list of trustees to receive a piece of property in Person Co. for a meeting house for Methodists. Later still he moved to Newton Co. GA and then to Carroll Co. GA.
William's 3rd son, William, Jr., a blacksmith, married Susanna Hammontree in 1798. Most likely he remained in Craven Co. and was the ancestor of the present generation living there.
As stated above William Jr's two brothers and his nephew Churchill Delamar moved to GA. But before they did they spent some time in Person County, probably largely for the purpose of organizing what became the Tirzah Methodist Church in the southeast corner of the county, a few miles in fact from Durham.
In 1816 Clayton James, acting as trustee of a Methodist congregation in Person Co., together with Dempsey Clayton and Churchwell Delamar and several Moores received a conveyance from Samuel Dickens, a member of the Moore family who owned most of the Mt. Tirzah neighbor in SE Person Co. They were deeded "five acres on a branch of Hillsboro Rd to erect a house of worship for Methodist Episcopal Church" A few years later the house of worship burned and a new deed was issued for property nearby.
The 1820 census reveals Dempsey Clayton and Churchill Delamar in Person County. James appears to be absent and it appears that during that year he probably moved to Hancock County GA., part of which later became Butts Co.
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