When Jesse Clifton was born in 1747, in Southampton, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Benjamin Clifton, was 36 and his mother, Dorothy Walters, was 33. He married Priscilla Harris in 1767, in Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. He died in 1787, in Montgomery, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 40.
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English: habitational name from any of the very numerous places called Clifton, from Old English clif ‘slope’ (see Cliff ) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
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