Henrico County was established in 1634 as one Virginia's eight original shires. Its boundaries incorporated an area from which ten Virginia counties were later formed.
Chesterfield County, Virginia was organized in 1749 when the territory south of the James River was separated from Henrico County.
Henry Clay was born in 1711 in Cumberland County (was Henrico), Virginia. He was the son of Henry Clay and Mary Mitchell.
He married Lucy Green about 1735 in Cumberland County, Virginia.
Henry and Lucy's children probably included:
Henry Clay (1736, married Rachel Povall),
Charles Clay (1740, married Phebe Cheatham),
Samuel Clay ( 1743),
Thomas Clay (1745, married Susannah Watkins),
Abijah Clay (1747, maried Sarah Skinner),
Marston Clay (1749, married Elizabeth Williams),
Rebecca Clay (1752, married John Marshall),
John Clay (1754),
Elijah Clay (1759), and
Lucy Clay (1756, maried Richard Jones, Jr.).
When his father died he inherited land.
I give and bequeath to my son, Henry Clay, the land and plantation he now lives on, and two hundred acres of land at Let alone, in Goochland County, it being the Lower Survey belonging to me at the said Let alone, to him, his heirs and assigns forever.
Henry died about 1764 in Southam Parish, Cumberland County, Virginia..
In 1607 the London Company established Virginia as the first permanent New World English colony.
