The Clays were an influential nineteenth-century U.S. political and business dynasty. The Clays are of English stock, and there are quite a few Clay families still in England, and also in other parts of the world.[1]

Alphabetical list of American Clays

Chronological list of American Clays

Descendants of enslaved people held by Clay family

Henry Clay, Jr. owned an enslaved man named John Henry Clay among whose 20th century descendants were the boxer Muhammad Ali and his father, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr.:

References

  1. "Clay of Piercefield | Home".
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