This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CLAY, BLUE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vh.2ADI/2130 Message Board Post: Rev. Bradbury Clay, born 1790 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was first united with the Methodist Episcopal Church in Androscoggin Co., Maine, in 1817 he was ordained by Bishop Enoch George. After serving 5 years as a circuit preacher, he became a Baptist. In 1822, he marries his first wife Abigail Baker in Saratoga Co., NY, where he is the first Minister at the Burnt Hills Baptist Church. Soon after the birth of their daughter Sarah Frances in July of 1824, Abigail dies. Bradbury's second wife is Mary Raymer, whom he marries in Milton, Saratoga Co., NY. Bradbury continues to serves as a Baptist minister in Winfirld, Herkimer Co., NY; Mooreville, MI, and Adrian, Lenawee Co., Michigan. Elder Bradbury Clay was one of the first ministers of the Baptist Church in Goshen, Indiana. It was her that two of his daughters are married. Sarah Frances marries William WIlcox May 10, 1842, and they return to Adrian, Lenawee Co., MI. His daughter Harriet N. Clay, married Abner Blue on August 17, 1843 and they continued to live in Goshen, Indiana. Their father performed both marriages. By 1846 Bradbury moved on to Door Village, LaPorte Co., Indiana. He continued being a missionary Baptist Minister on the frontier in Illinois and Missouri, until his death in 1869. Bradbury and Mary Clay, had a son that was born between 1820-25. He may have gone away to school at Oberlin College, as did his younger brothers, or he may have died between 1840 and 50. Any leads of male Clay deaths in this time frame, in these areas, or of any male Clay, who was born in New York would be appreciated. The three younger children of Bradbury and Mary Clay were Henry, Frank and Mary. Frank and Henry lived in Adrian, with Henry eventually moving to California. Mary, the youngest, married James N. Wilson, and lived in Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska.