Halifax County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Biographies.....Clay, Matthew March 25, 1754 - 1815 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Alice Warner http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00015.html#0003503 January 1, 2009, 6:13 pm Author: Ed. by Lyon Gardiner Tyler, LL. D. Clay, Matthew, born in Halifax county, Virginia, March 25, 1754; served in the revolutionary war from 1776 to 1783 as a lieutenant and quartermaster; elected as a Democratic Republican to the fifth, sixth, seventh, eight, ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth congresses (March 4, 1795 - March 3, 1813); died in Halifax county, Virginia, 1815. Additional Comments: From The Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Vol II. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/halifax/bios/clay160gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb