Sixteenth Generation

18. WILLIAM CLOPTON GENT.⁶⁷ was born about 1655 in EASTWOOD, COUNTY ESSEX, ENGLAND.⁶⁸ He died before 1733 in NEW KENT COUNTY, VIRGINIA, USA.^69,70 He was buried before 1733 in ST. PETER'S PARISH CHURCH, NEW KENT COUNTY, VIRGINIA, USA.⁷¹ From Lucy Lane Erwin "William Clopton of Virginia" and "The Clopton
Family" by Gene Carlton Clopton, William Clopton #1 in both books of New
Kent County, Virginia is the ancestor of all Clopton descendents in the
United States

was born Abt. 1655 in Eastwood, County Essex, England, and died Bef. 1733 in New Kent County, Virginia and buried at St. Peter's Parish Church. He married Ann Booth Abt. 1677, daughter of Robert Booth and Frances. She was born Abt. 1646, and died March 4, 1715/16 in New Kent County, Virginia and buried at St. Peter's Parish Church.

Raised on tales of the exciting adventures of his kinsmen in the American Colonies, the urge to escape his straight laced Puritan family got the better of him, and at fifteen, William Clopton, of Eastwood, County Essex, apprenticed himself to one Joshua White of London. He would eventually settle at St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Virginia and begin living the life of a Virginia planter with his wife, Ann Booth. See "The Story of An American Patriarch"

WILLIAM CLOPTON GENT. and ANN BOOTH⁷² were married about 1677 in YORK COUNTY, VIRGINIA, USA.⁷³ ANN BOOTH was born about 1647 in YORK COUNTY, VIRGINIA, USA. She died on 4 March 1715/6 in NEW KENT COUNTY, VIRGINIA, USA. She was buried in March 1716 in ST. PETER'S PARISH CHURCH, NEW KENT COUNTY, VIRGINIA, USA.⁷⁴

WILLIAM CLOPTON GENT. and ANN BOOTH had the following children:

20	i.	ANN CLOPTON was born before 1682 in YORK COUNTY, VIRGINIA, USA.
21	ii.	ELIZABETH CLOPTON was born before 1682 in YORK COUNTY, VIRGINIA, USA.
22	iii.	ROBERT CLOPTON was born on 27 January 1683 in YORK COUNTY, VIRGINIA, USA.
23	iv.	WILLIAM CLOPTON was born about 1685 in VIRGINIA, USA.
+24	v.	WALTER CLOPTON , The Elder, of "Callowell".