BIOGRAPHY. 



I. Memorandums of the Life and Writings of Mr, 

 John Clayton, ?^^ celebrated Botanist of Firginia. 



" DR. MADISON presents his respects to 

 Dr. Barton, with the following particulars relative to 

 Mr. Clayton, which Dr. Gait has been so kind as to 

 collect. 



" Mr. John Clayton, the botanist, was born at Ful- 

 ham, in the county of Kent, in Great-Britain. He 

 came to Virginia, with his father, in the year 1705, 

 and was, most probably, then in his twentieth year. 

 His father was an eminent lawyer, and was appointed 

 attorney- general of Virginia. 



*' Young Clayton was put into the office of Mr. 

 Peter Beverly, who was clerk, or prothonotary, for 

 Gloster-county, in Virginia. He succeeded Mr. Be- 

 verly as clerk of that county, and filled the office fifty- 

 one years. He died on the fifteenth of December, 

 1773, in his eighty-eighth yeaf. 



