John Clayton (1694/5–1773) was an Anglican minister in and for decades clerk for Gloucester County in the Colony of Virginia who is today best known as a plant collector and botanist. He may be confused with several distant family members, including Rev. John Clayton who served as minister at Jamestown (1682-1684) and conducted various scientific experiments, before returning to England (although his papers and specimens were lost at sea during that voyage).

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