Lucretia Hart Clay
BIRTH
Mar 18, 1781
Hagerstown, Maryland
DEATH
April 7, 1864
Lexington, Kentucky
FAMILY
FATHER:
Thomas Hart
(1730-1808)
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Clay, Lucretia Hart
(1781-1864)
Lucretia Hart Clay (1781-1864) was a member of a prominent Revolutionary-era family and the spouse of Henry Clay. Henry Clay was a public official and lawyer whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Lucretia Hart Clay to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. The recorded birthplace at Hagerstown, Maryland helps place this family connection within the geography of the Revolutionary Atlantic world. Including Lucretia Hart Clay in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.
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HUSBAND
Henry Clay
(1777-1852)
James Brown Clay
(1817-1864)
John Morrison Clay
(1821-1887)
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DIED:
Lexington, Kentucky
Apr 7, 1864
Lucretia Hart Clay was born on Mar 18, 1781 in Hagerstown, Maryland. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Lucretia Hart Clay is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Lucretia Hart Clay died on Apr 7, 1864 in Lexington, Kentucky. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.