JAMES CLOYD (1731-n.d.) James Cloyd was born on October 29, 1731. He married Jean Lapsley on February 16, 1764. He received from Patrick Henry, Governor of Virginia, in 1783 a grant to 881 acres of land in Jefferson County, Virginia, lying on Cloyd's Creek. (See Grant Book, OP, Richmond Land Office) James and Michael Cloyd were privates in the Augusta County Militia in 1758. (See Hennings Statutes at Large, Vol. 7) James Cloyd and wife Jean, supposedly Jean Lapsley, had the following children Sarah (1765), David (1766), Joseph (1768), Margaret (1771), Mary (1773), Jean (1776), Margaret (1779), and James Lb
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