When John Cleaton was born about 1763, in Mecklenburg, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, William C. Clayton II, was 39 and his mother, Jane Poole, was 38. He married Martha Taylor in 1787, in Brunswick, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1855, in Virginia, United States, at the age of 93.
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"Patrick Henry made his ""Give me Liberty or Give me Death"" speech in Richmond Virginia."
On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
English (Montgomeryshire): variant of Clayton .
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