This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: barrychapman59 Surnames: Claypoole Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.claypoole/66.2.1.2.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: 1) Re John Claypoole's marriage to Elizabeth Cromwell - yes, it would have been documented in England, but according to Graff, the common belief of USA Claypoole descendants of James 'the migrant', prior to Graff's 1893 work being published, was that they were direct descendants of Oliver Cromwell. My point was that descendants of James Claypoole of Jamaica held a similar mistaken belief. 2) It was James the migrant's eldest son John Claypoole who arrived in America before his father, mother and siblings. James Jr. remained in London, working in his father's business till the rest of the family left England on the 'Concord'. Ref: Balderston, Marion, Editor.(1967)'James Claypoole's Letter Book, London and Philadelphia, 1681-1684' (NOTE: the first member of the Claypoole family of Northborough to arrive in America was James the migrant's brother, Norton. He sailed from London on the 'Bachelor's Delight', on 22 February 1678, to New York via Barbados, West Indies, where he stayed with his brother Edward for over 2 years. On 27 Feb 1681, he was granted 500 acres near New Deal, later called Lewestown, then Lewes, in Sussex Co., Delaware. He died there in 1688.) 3) Oliver Cromwell's daughter Elizabeth and husband John Claypoole had four children, namely Henry, Cromwell, Martha and Oliver. My researches haven't found a grandson of Oliver Cromwell named either James Claypoole or James Cromwell - is he a scion of one of Cromwell's other daughters? Ref: Fraser, Antonia (1973)'Cromwell Our Chief of Men' 4) I cannot find any reference to a James Claypoole in Jamaica prior to 1770, when James Claypoole, portrait painter married Helen(a) Frazier. Do you have a primary or reputable secondary source for your claim? Some 1200 miles SE of Jamaica, as the crow flies, Edward Claypoole, brother of James the migrant, married Abigail, the widow of Edward's friend Timothy Mascall, who died in Barbados, West Indies during March 1674. Edward Claypoole himself died in Barbados c1691/2. 5)Having searched the Pennsylvania Archives via www.footnote.com, the only Claypoole I have found who was Sheriff of Philadelphia, in addition to James'(1720/21-1784)term of 1777-1780, was John Claypoole, eldest son of James the migrant, who served two terms, namely 1687-1689 and 1693-1698. Incidentally, I claim my direct line from James 'the migrant too; via Joseph, James 'the Sheriff' and James 'the portrait painter'. Barry Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.