John PEYTON of Winchester, Virginia

JOHN PEYTON of Winchester, Virginia appears on pages 60, 210, of PEYTONs Along the Aquia, along with his wife SUSANNAH RUTHERFORD, his children and his lineage back to the earliest PEYTONS of Aquia, Virginia. His birth date should be given as 1757, as that agrees with other records that he left.

He also appears on page 502 of Reverend Horace Edwin Hayden's "PEYTON, of England and Virginia", as born "14 April 1763," and on page 530, as "JOHN PEYTON, Jr." (son of Henry, Valentine, Henry, Henry, Henry) "of Frederick county, Va., born cir. 1757;" with his wife, eight children and nine grandchildren.

John PEYTON and Harriet TERRILL

I have determined that the John PEYTON (#307) on page 158 of my genealogy book, PEYTONs Along the Aquia, is the John PEYTON of Rappahannock County, Virginia, born about 1804, who appears in the 1840 through 1880 censuses of said county, in the village of Stonewall. There is no evidence that he ever married, but early on he apparently allied with a Mulatto slave women, Harriet TERRILL. Beginning on the 1840 census, we find John PEYTON owning three slaves, one of whom was a Mulatto female, age ten to twenty-three. On the 1870 census, his former slave was enumerated in his household as Harriet TERRILL, Mulatto, age 52, "keeping house" with twelve Mulatto children named TERRILL. On the 1880 census, the three Mulatto children remaining in the household were enumerated as Alice PEYTON 18, Jordan PEYTON 21, and Nannie PEYTON 14, daughters and son of William DENNIS who was recorded as the Head of Household. Perhaps the census taker was confused. John PEYTON's parents are named on pages 157, 158 of PEYTONs Along the Aquia where his descent is traced back to the PEYTON family of Aquia Creek, Virginia.

Wives of CRAVEN PEYTON (c1730-1781)

On page 71, of my genealogy book, PEYTONs Along the Aquia, the three sons, VALENTINE PEYTON, WILLIAM PEYTON and CRAVEN PEYTON, recorded as belonging to CRAVEN PEYTON and ANN WEST, I now believe to be sons of CRAVEN and his first wife, ANN HARRISON.

CRAVEN PEYTON first appears on page 499, of Reverend Hayden's "PEYTON, of England and Virginia" where he is described as the first in the Virginia Line of PEYTON to be named for CRAVEN, the son of Sir ROBERT PEYTON, #20 on page 484. Reverend Hayden gives CRAVEN's wife as "ANN." Additional research implies that CRAVEN married ANN HARRISON first, then ANN WEST. Furthermore, I find no proof that the mother of ANN WEST was from the HARRISON family.

PEYTONs of Illinois

My book does not cover the lineage of the PEYTONS of Aquia who settled in Illinois. I assume they were the descendants of the Thomas Bronaugh PEYTON from Kentucky who died at Coles County, Illinois in 1842, as he had thirteen children. His father had served as an Ensign during the American Revolution (page 115) and then went to Kentucky afterwards. Thomas and his wife Charlotte are cited on page 116, and his lineage is documented back to the PEYTONS of Aquia, Virginia and to England.

The PEYTONs found in Illinois could also be descended from the Joseph PEYTON (page 125), who had a son, Joseph PEYTON, Jr. who went from Kentucky to Coles County, Illinois after 1840.

Please see pages 115, 116, 125 and 126, of PEYTONs Along the Aquia for the connections of these two families to the PEYTONs of Virginia and England.

Elizabeth Rowzee

Waller Home at Aquia Creek, Virginia a photo by Edna Barney on Flickr.

On page 498 of Reverend Hayden's "PEYTON, of England and Virginia" in "EXCURSUS - ROWZEE" he quoted Colonel John Lewis PEYTON as having given the name of his ROWZEE grandfather as "John ROUSE." However, a more careful reading of Reverend Hayden's "EXCURSUS - ROWZEE" leads me to conclude that, whoever Grandfather JOHN ROUSE was, he was not in fact, the father of Elizabeth ROWZEE.

Therefore, the father of the Elizabeth ROWZEE who married John PEYTON as given on page 43 of PEYTONs Along the Aquia, I now believe to be incorrect. I conclude that her father was Edward ROWZEE. Because he did not mention daughter Elizabeth ROWZEE in his 1719 will, but she was mentioned in the 1725 will of her stepfather, would give her a birthdate of circa 1720.

"Concord" the Old Waller Home at Aquia Creek, Virginia, belonged to the family of Elizabeth ROWZEE's first husband. She may be buried in the adjoining cemetery, as WALLER family tradition gives. Another view of this home is pictured on the back cover of PEYTONs Along the Aquia.

Mary Ann Payton of Arkansas

Mary A. PEYTON, born about 1830, in Tennessee, appears on the 1860 Census of Franklin Township, Sevier County, Arkansas, with her mother Milly PEYTON, age 54, and brothers, Ephraim H. PEYTON 28, and Marcus A. PEYTON 24. Her parents appear on pages 160, 161 of PEYTONs Along the Aquia, where her PEYTON lineage is traced back to the first PEYTONS who came from England and settled on the Northern Neck of the Virginia Colony.

Mary Ann PAYTON of Sevier County, Arkansas married Cyrus BAILEY of Hempstead County, Arkansas on 7 November 1860, in Sevier County, Arkansas. Cyrus BAILEY was a Confederate soldier who served in Arkansas's First (Monroe's) Cavalry.

Private Charles PEYTON

Images of the Revolutionary War Pension of Charles PEYTON of Virginia are available on the Internet with a signature of his daughter "Nancy P. LIMERICK." Charles PEYTON and his family are featured on pages 142, 143 of PEYTONs Along the Aquia, where his lineage is traced back to the PEYTONS who came from England and settled on the Northern Neck of the Virginia Colony. There is free shipping on the PEYTON Book if purchased before May 31st, 2011.