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From: Bill Clayton <>
Subject: Re: [CLAYTON-L] Clayton/Claydon/Clayden of Oxfordshire, England
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 08:23:11 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20020714.184158.-7395.7.jgpark@juno.com>


Sir Robert Clayton (29 Sep 1629 - 16 Jul 1707) was the Lord Mayor of London.
The only date that I have of his Mayoralty is 1679. He was also a Member of
Parliament 1688 - 1702. He was a 'Scrivener' in the City of London.

To my knowledge, Sir Robert was the only Clayton to be Lord mayor of London.

Bill Clayton
Surrey, BC, Canada

On 14/7/02 3:23 PM, "" <> wrote:

> Would you happen to have anything on the William Clayton, who was
> Lord Mayor of Liverpool, in the late 1600's, and also in 1713. He died
> in that office in 1713. William Clayton was a tobacco merchant in
> Liverpool, England, and he did business in the Virginia Colony in the
> late 1600's and the early 1700's. There was also another tobacco
> merchant in Liverpool, at the same time as the above, and this one was
> named Thomas Clayton. He made numerous trips to the Virginia Colony,
> apparently for the purpose of purchasing tobacco for same in England.
> Sure would like to know if either of them had any relatives who settled
> in the Colony about the above time.
>
> Joe Parker
>
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