Peyton / Payton Clements
I think that it is possible that we may have finally found our family's long lost "Pate" Clements.
This Pate Clements was a son of my 4th great grandmother, Susannah White, and her first husband, William Clements. Susannah and William had at least 2 children that I can name: Bethia White (Clements) Darwin, b. 3 Feb 1798 in NC., and Pate Clements. Their father William Clements died after 1798 and before 1809. All we previously knew about Pate was his approximate birthdate, his parentage, and recorded family lore from 1937 that Pate was the "secretary of Jefferson Davis" from 1860-1865 (this remains to be proved).
I now think that our Pate is the same Payton C. / Peyton C. Clements, b. abt 1805-08 in Wake Co., NC, who moved to Greene Co., Alabama in 1838, with his wife, Angelina.
I also think that my Pate's father, William Clements, was the same William Clemments who was listed on the 1800 Federal census in Hillsborough, Wake Co., N.C., along with another Peyton Clements. Susannah White's father, Captian William White, was listed in the 1790 Federal census in Wake Co., NC., and who later founded Fort Blount, in Tennessee.
I also think that this William Clements is the same one that shows up on the court records for Bute Co., NC in 9 Feb 1779, 9 Nov 1779, 12 Aug 1779, May 1774, ....and more.
Read the following:
“Memorial Record of Alabama: a Concise Account of the State’s Political, Military, Professional and Industrial Progress, Together with the Personal Memoirs of Many of It’s People,” Madison Wis., Brant & Fuller 1893
Vol. II Page 424
“Captain William N. Clements....born in Orange county, N. C., in 1838. He was the son of Payton C. and Angeline (Rencher) Clements, the former of whom was born in Wake county, N. C. in 1805, and the latter in Orange County, same state, in 1822. They were married in 1836, and in 1838 came to Alabama, settling in Greene county when the country was a wilderness. They spent their lives in that county, and died in 1870, within a few days of each other. He was a farmer by occupation, energetic, industrious and self made. He was a captain of the state militia for some years. He was the youngest of seven sons born to William Clements, a native of Scotland, reared and married in his native country, and came to America prior to the Revolutionary War. He and two brothers served in that war on the side of the colonies, and afterward settled in North Carolina, William Clements dying when Capt. Payton C. Clements was a boy. His profession was that of a civil engineer, and he was employed by the government of that state.....”
Susannah White's 2nd husband was my ancestor, Jesse McClendon, b. abt 1769 NC, with whom she had 8 additional children in Jackson Co., Tennessee.
I always wondered what had happened to Pate.
Pate's sister, Bethia White (Clements) Darwin named her first son Thomas C. Darwin and her 2nd son Peyton Clements Darwin.
I have written to the group admin for the Clements DNA Project to see if this line has been Y-DNA tested.
And I have to thank Alton Blevins for pointing out to me yesterday that the Peyton C. Clements in Greene Co., AL could be the same man as our Pate Clements. He also reminded me of Bethia's son's names. I was skeptical until I found the exerpt in the book on Capt. William N. Clements.
Mary (McClendon) Becker
Group Admin
McClendon DNA Project
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