Many or most of the passengers of the Submission disembarked at Choptank and traveled overland to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on the west side of the Delaware River a few miles above Philadelphia. It may be assumed that James Clayton and his family were in this number. Neither is it difficult to imagine that some of the party found desirable home sites along the way. Each of the three Clayton sons of James Clayton, as he reached his majority, appeared in the records of Kent County, Delaware.[1]
The listing below is not a genealogy of the family, and is missing many branches of a very large posterity. It is rather intended to an index, providing a guide for the relationships among the many members who are notable and are mentioned in other articles. Presently it is focused on the family in the state of Delaware. As with many family histories, attempts have been made to trace the lineage in the past based on incomplete or inaccurate information, and so therefore, older sources may have information inconsistent with later research.
Family members
James Clayton (1632–1684), m. Jane, to America with Penn’s fleet, 1682
James (1666–1697), m. Mary Bedwell Webb, res. Kent County, DE
John (c1692- 1759)
John Clayton
John Edmund Clayton
James Clayton (c1720- ), m. Grace, miller near Wyoming, Delaware
