. A history of middle New River settlements and contiguous territory . ulia Howe,daughter of Major Daniel Howe, from whom Daniel R. Cecil,of Giles County, Virginia, descends, and who married ArdeliaPearis, granddaughter of Colonel George Pearis, a soldier ofthe American Revolution, and first settler where Pearisburgstation, N. & W. Ry. Co., is now situated. THE CLAY FAMILY. The Clays of Virginia and Kentucky, the descendants of theirEnglish ancestry by that name, emigrated to America and set-tled in Virginia prior to the American Revolution. Onebrother, the father of Henry Clay, of Kentucky, a
. A history of middle New River settlements and contiguous territory . ulia Howe,daughter of Major Daniel Howe, from whom Daniel R. Cecil,of Giles County, Virginia, descends, and who married ArdeliaPearis, granddaughter of Colonel George Pearis, a soldier ofthe American Revolution, and first settler where Pearisburgstation, N. & W. Ry. Co., is now situated. THE CLAY FAMILY. The Clays of Virginia and Kentucky, the descendants of theirEnglish ancestry by that name, emigrated to America and set-tled in Virginia prior to the American Revolution. Onebrother, the father of Henry Clay, of Kentucky, a Baptist min-ister, settled in the Slashes of Hanover; one, the ancestor ofGeneral Greene Clay, settled in Powhatan, and was the an-cestor of General Oden G. Clay of Campbell County, one who settled in Franklin County was the ancestor ofthe elder Mitchell Clay, who came from Franklin to the CloverBottom on the Bluestone, in 1775. Mitchell Clay married in Franklin County, Virginia, in theyear of 1760, Phcebe Belcher. In April, 1774, there was granted. DWELLING HOUSE OF GEORGE CHAPMANNear Ripplemead, Va., built in 1 794. The Clay Family. 397 by Dunmore, the Royal Governor of Virginia, to Mitchell Clay,assignee of Lieutenant John Draper, 800 acres of land on Blue-stone Creek, Clover Bottoms, then Fincastle County, Virginia,now Mercer County. By the terms of this grant Clay was re-quired to take possesion of this land within three years, clearso much per year, and render so much ground rent to the Kingof Great Britain. A copy of this grant is on file in the Clerksoffice of Mercer County Court. In payment for this tract ofland, Clay gave Draper a negro woman and her children, execut-ing to him therefor a bill of sale. Many years afterward, andafter the death of Mitchell Clay, which occurred in 1812, thistrade gave rise to two interesting law suits; one, by the negrowoman and her children against Draper or his representativesfor their freedom, which they succeeded in est
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