Individual Details

Marriage

Jeremiah Claypoole was born in Sussex Co. Delaware in 1685 and was the son of Norton and Rachel Claypoole. In 1710 he married Sarah Shepherd, the daughter of Hercules Shepheard and Mary Avery. After Sarah's death in the 1730's, Jeremiah Claypoole married Mary Davock Russell. Jeremiah Claypoole died and left an extensive will in which he names his living children: Comfort; Mary; Sarah; Rachel; Joseph; George; Elizabeth; and Jehu. The date of the will is 1745. Jeremiah Claypoole was Justice of the Peace for Sussex Co. in 1726. The Shepheards and Claypooles belonged to St.Peters church in Lewes, Delaware. All of the above children of Jeremiah were born to his first wife Sarah between 1713 and 1730. Sarah Shepheard was the daughter of Hercules Shepheard and Mary Avery and the grand-daughter of Capt. John Avery and his wife Sarah Browne of Rehoboth Bay, Delaware.