Display Patriot - P-134427 - Joseph CLAY

Joseph CLAY

SAR Patriot #: P-134427

The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
 

State of Service: GA      Qualifying Service: Colonel / Patriotic Service
DAR #: A022857

Birth: 16 Oct 1741 Beverly / Yorkshire / England
Death: 15 Nov 1804 Savannah / Chatham / GA

Qualifying Service Description:
  1. Member of the Council of Safety
  2. Delegate to the Provincial Congress
  3. Deputy Paymaster-General of the Southern Department during the American Revolution with the rank of Colonel

Additional References:
  1. Heitman, Francis B, Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution, 1775-1873, Washington DC: Rare Book Shop Publishing Company, 1914, pg 159
  2. Candler, Allen D, The Revolutionary Records of the State of Georgia, Georgia. Atlanta: Franklin-Turner Co, 1908:
    • Volume I, pg 68, 229
    • Volume 2, pg 101, 182-183, 207

Spouse: Anne Legardere
Children: Joseph; Mary; Anne; Catherine; Ralph;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1959-01-29 NC Unassigned Ralph Clay Price Jr (84253) Ralph   
Burial:
Colonial Park Cemetery (C-0371601)
Location:
Savannah / Chatham / GA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
33357
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
32.075612 / -81.089750
Find A Grave Memorial #:
7441074
Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:
  • Large family monument, possibly contemporary with the death of the Patriot, but likely later
  • Surrounded by an iron fence with a State Historical Marker


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

The cemetery is located on the southeast corner of East Oglethorpe Avenue and Abercorn Street



Author: Kenneth Scott Collins

Joseph Clay             b. 1740        d. 12/21/1804                         RICHMOND COUNTY, GEORGIA

 

He served as a paymaster for the southern division of the Continental Army.  In 1777, he was a member of the Provincial Congress and the Council of Safety. 

 

Buried:  Augusta City Cemetery.

 

See:       (1) "Deaths of Revolutionary War Soldiers Who Died in Georgia and Their Widows"

               (2) Georgia Citizens and Soldiers of the American Revolution, p. 21.

               (3) List of Revolutionary War Soldiers buried in Burke and Richmond Counties, by Bowen (unpublished).

               (4) Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, p. 51.

 

Source:  Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 2, by Ross Arnold & Hank Burnham with additions and corrections by: Mary Jane Galer, Dr. Julian Kelly, Jr., and Ryan Groenke.  Edited by: Ryan Groenke.

 

A Georgia County-by-County compilation of Revolutionary War Patriots who made Georgia their permanent home and died here, including information on service history, birth dates, death dates and places of burial with an index. 

 

Published by the Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution, 2001.

 

Printed in the United States of America

New Papyrus Co., Inc.

548 Cedar Creek Drive

Athens, GA  30605-3408


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