tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60457364602702516862024-03-13T02:10:37.686-04:00The Peyton BookPEYTONS Along the Aquia Genealogy ~~ SECOND EDITIONEdna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675664838665651789noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-43182684277168204732022-09-23T21:44:00.001-04:002022-09-23T22:31:38.940-04:00Margaret Gallahue Peyton - Possible DAR Patriot<span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">I have found two extant records which prove that Mrs. Margaret Gallahue PEYTON provided Patriotic Service in Prince William County, Virginia, during the Revolutionary War. </span><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"> #1: Margaret PEYTON was enumerated on the 1783 Personal Property Tax List of Prince William County, Virginia, which verifies payment of a tax which provided funding for the war. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"> #2: Mrs. Margaret PEYTON entered a Public Service Claim in Prince William County during the American Revolution (Commissioner’s book: IV, page 204, Court Booklet: page 12.)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Margaret GALLAHUE was the second wife of Colonel Henry PEYTON who appears on pages 55 thru 61 of my genealogy book, <a href="https://www.lulu.com/shop/edna-barney/peytons-along-the-aquia-genealogy/hardcover/product-1kv2wd87.html?q=peytons+along+the+aquia&page=1&pageSize=4">PEYTONs Along the Aquia</a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Colonel Henry PEYTON was an important patriot of the American Revolution. In "<i>Writings of Washington</i>" by Ford is "<i>Colonel PEYTON's valuable aid was recognized by General WASHINGTON.</i>" </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">His third and last son old enough for military duty, Valentine PEYTON, was killed by a cannon ball from the British fleet during the siege of Charleston, South Carolina. He fell into the arms of General Porterfield of Augusta who communicated the sad news to the soldier's father. Colonel PEYTON, when he heard of it, was struck dumb with grief, but in a moment recovering his equilibrium and self-control, exclaimed, "<i>Would to God I had another to put in his place.</i>" Just one year after the loss of his two sons at Charleston, Colonel Henry himself was dead. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Henry PEYTON is DAR Ancestor #089984, having performed Patriotic service in Prince William County, Virginia during the American Revolution. Now we know that his wife Margaret also qualifies for DAR Patriot status.</span></div><div><br /></div></div>Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-41641120774791370592020-08-22T15:00:00.006-04:002022-09-23T22:33:50.508-04:00Timothy PEYTON of Bourbon County, Kentucky<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">Today at a wonderful website was published the Will and Marriages of Timothy PEYTON who appears on pages 57, 106, 107 of my genealogy book, <a href="https://www.lulu.com/shop/edna-barney/peytons-along-the-aquia-genealogy/hardcover/product-1kv2wd87.html?q=peytons+along+the+aquia&page=1&pageSize=4">PEYTONs Along the Aquia</a>, including a will transcript and many images of the will and the marriages of his children in Bourbon County, Kentucky.</span></p><span style="font-size: x-large;">
I have also verified the name of Timothy's wife as Sarah <i>"Sary"</i> MATSON, a sister of James MATSON, who appears on pages 59, 60 where he married a sister of Timothy PEYTON. Apparently Timothy took his entire family to Kentucky, as it is there in Bourbon County that we find the marriages of his children, along with Timothy's will.</span><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>
<div></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;">This transcript of the Will of Timothy Peyton (Bourbon County, Kentucky Will Book A, Pages 16-20) is from PHYLLIS BROWN of <a href="https://kentuckykindredgenealogy.com/2020/08/22/will-of-timothy-peyton-and-marriages-of-his-children-bourbon-county/">Kentucky Kindred Genealogical Research, 8 August 2020</a>:</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span face="" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px;">In the name of God, amen. I, Timothy Peyton, of Prince William County do constitute and appoint this to be my last will and testament. First it is my will and desire that all my just debts and funeral expenses be first be paid. I give and bequeath to my beloved wife, Sarah, all my estate both real and personal and when my </span><span face="" style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px;">Children Sitha Ann, Ann Thornton, Frances Elizabeth, Valentine Smallwood, and the child my wife is now pregnant with arrive at the age of eighteen years or marries, then it is my desire my personal estate shall be equally divided between my beloved wife and children. I give unto my wife my preemption in Lafayette County during her natural life, after her decease to be equally divided among my children. I leave to my son Valentine Smallwood four thousand acres of land which I hold as heir to my brother, Valentine Peyton. All my lands not yet mentioned I leave to be equally divided between my several children already named. Should any of my aforesaid children die before they come of full age, and without heirs lawfully begotten their proportion of any estate shall be equally divided among the survivors. Should all my children die without heirs lawfully begotten of their body, I leave my whole estate real and personal to my beloved wife during her natural life, after her decease I leave my said estate, both real and personal, to be equally divided between my brother-in-law James Matson’s children. I constitute and appoint my beloved wife, James Matson and John McMillion, executors to this my last will and testament.</span></div><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">Timo. Peyton, September 5<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> 1782</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">Signed in presence of Jesse Davis, John Davis, George Jackson, Thomas Calvert</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">Commission for examination of John Davis, George Jackson and Thomas Calvert.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">The Commonwealth of Virginia to Jesse Ewell, James Ewell and Bernard Ewell, of Prince William County, gentlemen, know ye that we are trusting to your fidelity and provident circumspection in diligently examining John Davis, George Jackson and Thomas Calvert, witnesses in and upon certain interrogation respecting the last will and testament of Timothy Peyton, deceased, in Bourbon County. We therefore command you or any two of you that a certain day which you shall appoint you call and cause to come by you, the said witnesses, and then diligently examine, being first duly sworn as the law directs, touching the premises and there in you abide until have completed the same and their examination into the county court of Bourbon, distinctly and openly, without delay, you send and certify enclosed returning also to us this writ. Witness John Edwards, Clerk of said Court of Bourbon County at the courthouse the sixteenth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">Test. John Edwards, CL. B.C.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">Prince William County</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">By virtue of the within commission to us directed, we have examined George Jackson, Thomas Calvert and John Davis concerning the premises within mentioned who being duly sworn on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God, depose that they saw Timothy Peyton sign and publish the writing hereunto annexed as his last will and testament and that they believed him to be in his proper senses at the time. Also given under our hands and seals this seventeenth of October one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">Jesse Ewell, James Ewell</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">Commission for Examination of Jesse Davis</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">The Commonwealth of Virginia to Charles Polk and Joshua Ferguson, Gentlemen, of Nelson County, know ye that trusting to your fidelity and provident circumspection in diligently examining Jesse Davis, gentleman, a subscribing witness to the last will of Timothy Peyton, deceased, upon certain interrogations respecting the same we therefore command you or any two of you that at a certain day which you shall appoint you call and cause to come before you the said witness and him, diligently examined being first duly sworn and there in the execution of the premises you abide until you have completed the same and his examination into the county court of Bourbon distinctly and openly without delay you send and certify enclosed returning also to us this writ, witness John Edwards, Clerk of our said Court at the courthouse the twenty-ninth day of November one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">John Edwards</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">December the 7<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> 1787</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">This day came before us the subscribed Justices of Peace for the said county Jesse Davis, of the said county, and being duly sworn confesseth that the said Timothy Peyton, deceased, was in perfect health and senses, acknowledged a certain will dated September the fifth, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two to be his last will and testament and that the said witness knows of no other will. Given under our hands the day above written.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">Joshua Ferguson, Charles Polk</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">Bourbon County, December Court 1788</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">The last will and testament of Timothy Peyton, deceased, was proved by the oaths of Jesse Davis, Thomas Calvert, George Jackson and John Davis.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">Who were examined by deputies issued from this court and ordered to be and upon the petition of Sarah Peyton and James Matron, named executors in said will who acknowledged bond with Edward Waller and John ?, Gentlemen, their securities in the penalty of two thousand pounds and made oath as the law directs, a certificate is granted them for obtaining probate thereof in due form.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">Test. John Edwards, CL</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px 0px 15px;">===========================</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: lato, arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The images of the will and the marriage records of the PEYTON children can be seen at the above linked website. Timothy PEYTON's father was an important patriot of the American Revolution, which I covered in my book <a href="https://www.lulu.com/content/6856721">PEYTONs Along the Aquia</a> on pages 55, 56, 57, however, he was not the one who gave his life at Charleston, South Carolina on May 12th, 1780. That was one of his other sons.</span></p></div>Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-86416407956469586252019-02-12T21:29:00.002-05:002020-08-23T10:39:11.000-04:00Elizabeth, Wife of Henry Lindsey Peyton<blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
On page 141, of my genealogy book, <a href="https://www.lulu.com/content/6856721">PEYTONs Along the Aquia</a> there is a conflict with the maiden name of the wife of Henry Lindsey PEYTON. We cannot be sure whether she was Elizabeth PAIN or Elizabeth BURDEN. In William Montgomery Sweeny's <i>Marriage Bonds and Other Marriage Records of Amherst County, Virginia 1763-1800, </i>1937, page 59, her name was given as <i>PAIN: "Peyton, Henry, and Elizabeth Pain, married by the Rev. Benjamin Coleman.</i>" However, I recently encountered a death record for her in <i>West Virginia, Deaths Index, 1853-1973,</i> where she was recorded as the daughter of A. and L. BURDEN of Amherst County, Virginia. Perhaps the original marriage record in Amherst County, Virginia may shed some light on her true family name.</span></blockquote>
Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-26365793172256045202019-02-11T10:47:00.003-05:002020-08-23T10:44:40.284-04:00William DOWNING(s) of mid-1600 Virginia<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">I continue to receive inquiries about the PHILIP PEYTON in my book on pages 22, 23, a descendant of the <a href="https://www.lulu.com/content/6856721">PEYTONs Along the Aquia</a> who lived in Westmoreland and Stafford Counties, Virginia. People are confusing him with another PHILIP PEYTON, a documented indentured servant from Bristol, England, who lived in Northumberland County, Virginia. I have already written about <a href="https://peytonbook.blogspot.com/2010/01/philip-peyton-of-northumberland.html" target="_blank">Philip Peyton of Northumberland</a>.<br />
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The latest query on PHILIP PEYTON indentured servant from Bristol, involves this record that I found in Northumberland County, 1667:<br />
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"Records of Indentured Servants and of Certificates for Land Northumberland County Virginia 1650-1795," W. Preston Haynie, 1996, pages 87, 88: "421, 20 Oct. 1667 -- Wheras by ye Complynt of Philip Peyton & ye Testamony of some of ye neighbors. It appeares ye Phil: Peyton & Nath: Garner, servts to Rich: Nelmes, have grivous sores on his legges & are very much neglected by their sd Master who taketh nor care to see ye sd sores Cured, It is ordered yt ye sd Nelmes forth endeavour to get ye sd Servts Cured & if ye next Vestry held for this parish Mr Wm Wildey & Mr Wm Downing (who are by ye Court desired to inquire into ye sd business) shall then give their report yt ye sd Nelmes hath been remiss in ye effectual performance of what here ordered yt then ye Court to be further ... therein. OB 1666-78, 12." </span></blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;">
Because the Northumberland Vestry of 1667, charged a "MR WM DOWNING" to give a report on the health conditions of "PHIL: PEYTON & NATH: GARNER, servts" a reader of this blog gives as proof that PHILIP PEYTON of Northumberland County is the same PHILIP PEYTON of Westmoreland and Stafford Counties who had a number of intimate land dealings from 1700 to 1714, with a "CAPTAIN WILLIAM DOWNING" who owned land next to PHILIP PEYTON in Stafford County.<br />
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I judge the two WILLIAM DOWNINGS to be separate people, considering the time span of 33 plus years between 1667 and 1700, 1714, the different counties of residence, and their different titles. WILLIAM DOWNING of Northumberland was referred to by the title of "Mr." WILLIAM DOWNING of Westmoreland and Stafford was referred to as CAPTAIN WILLIAM DOWNING. I find no evidence of a wife for the MR. WILLIAM DOWNING, however, the wife of CAPTAIN WILLIAM DOWNING appears in land records as Diana.<br />
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In addition, during the same time span I find in the Parish Records of Christ Church, that there were two WILLIAM DOWNINGS in Middlesex County, Virginia. WILLIAM DOWNING and his wife ELIZABETH had a son named WILLIAM DOWNING, born there in 1665.<br /></span>
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Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-5551820138263958682018-11-02T18:23:00.003-04:002020-08-23T10:52:12.140-04:00Angelina Eberly was Angelina Belle Peyton<h2>
She became the heroine of Austin, Texas for preserving the city as the permanent Capitol of Texas.</h2>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>Angelina Belle PEYTON (1798-1860) married her first cousin, Jonathan PEYTON. Their fathers were twin brothers. After Jonathan’s death, and the burning of San Felipe during the Texas Revolution, she moved to Columbia. There, in 1836, she married Colonel Jacob EBERLY, a widower.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I came upon this interesting article featuring Angelina Eberly and her historical connections to Texas while reading the October 2018 Smithsonian Magazine. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>You may catch up on Angelina's connections to the Peytons of Virginia in my genealogy book <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/6856721" style="color: #666666; font-family: -webkit-standard;" target="_blank">PEYTONs Along the Aquia</a>. </span>On pages 136, 262 and 163 you will find Angelina Belle PEYTON along with her parents, her first husband Jonathan PEYTON and their documented descent from the original Peytons of Aquia Creek, Virginia back to England.</span></div>
<br />Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-39747480493916594092018-04-14T15:55:00.002-04:002020-08-23T10:53:25.785-04:00Updates to Major Daniel PEYTON<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;">On page 94, of my genealogy book, </span><a href="https://www.lulu.com/content/6856721">PEYTONs Along the Aquia</a><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333;">, </span>Major Daniel PEYTON died "5-5-1826 JACKSON CO ALABAMA" according to updated DAR records.</span>Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-57682219286542219892018-04-14T15:47:00.001-04:002020-08-23T10:57:06.736-04:00Anne McGUFFEY / Ann GUFFEY (c1723 - 1785)<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">On page 97, of my genealogy book, </span><a href="https://www.lulu.com/content/6856721">PEYTONs Along the Aquia</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">, I have updated the vital statistics of ANNE MCGUFFEY. Latest research reveals that she was born about 1723, and died about 1785, in Amherst County, Virginia. She married ROBERT PEYTON in 1754.</span></span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="" style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms", verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">She also appears on page 498, of Reverend Hayden's </span></span></span><a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/2741858">"PEYTON, of England and Virginia"</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> where she is named as ANN GUFFEY.</span></span></span>Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-77935707649415377072017-04-14T12:53:00.000-04:002017-04-14T22:46:01.182-04:00Valentine Harrison Peyton<h4>
VALENTINE HARRISON PEYTON (a1740 - 1796) appears on page 40 of <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/6856721" style="color: #666666;" target="_blank"><i>PEYTONs Along the Aquia Genealogy</i></a>, along with his two daughters, Anna Maria PEYTON and Susannah PEYTON, and their "negro slave, Jenny." The lineage of these PEYTONs is documented back to the original immigrant to Virginia and his English ancestors.
He is the same "VALENTINE PEYTON" documented in Reverend Horace Edwin Hayden's 1891 genealogy, <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/2741858" style="color: #666666;" target="_blank">"PEYTON, of England and Virginia"</a>, on page 563, where his will is included. He was named "HARRISON" to honor his grandmother who appears on page 38. The William PEYTON who was a witness to his will, seems to be his nephew, who relocated to Jefferson County, Kentucky. See page 71 for William's lineage. The wife of Valentine Harrison PEYTON is unknown; she was not mentioned in his will. She was not the Sarah HALE, suggested as a possibility by Reverend Hayden. That "Sally" HALE appears on page 71, married to another nephew, namesake Valentine PEYTON.</h4>
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In the Index to Prince William County, Virginia Wills there is "1801 Peyton, Valentine dec'd, Book H, page 429, Sales" which probably refers to this Valentine Peyton who died in 1796, leaving orphans in Virginia.</h4>
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Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-54257283757806412212017-03-22T17:42:00.001-04:002017-04-14T12:42:36.080-04:00Thomas Green Peyton 1833-1900<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"<b>THOMAS GREEN PEYTON 1833-1900</b> - LT. COL. C.S.A. 15TH VIRGINIA INFANTRY - SON OF GENERAL BERNARD PEYTON - AND JULIA AMANDA GREEN PEYTON - OF FARMINGTON, ALBEMARLE COUNTY"
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Thomas Green Peyton is buried at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond City, Virginia (Find A Grave Memorial# 8623978).
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<b>Thomas Green PEYTON</b> appears on page 124 of the genealogy book, <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/6856721" style="color: #666666;" target="_blank"><i>PEYTONs Along the Aquia</i></a> along with his parents and his documented descent from the original Peytons of Aquia Creek.
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This photograph was found at Ancestry.com where it was originally uploaded by eforster1313 on 10 February 2015, with the caption "Richmond, Virginia."
Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-11451150387110515182016-09-13T14:38:00.000-04:002016-09-13T17:26:37.307-04:00Peytons at Silver Creek Baptist Church, Indiana<center>
<b>SILVER CREEK CEMETERIAL --</b><br /><b>Annual Meeting of the Silver Creek Cemeterial Association:</b><br /><b>Interesting Historical Paper by the Secretary</b><br /><b>(written by William H. McCoy)</b></center>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>Minutes of the 11th annual meeting of the<br />Silver Creek Cemetery Association in 1886,<br />
published in the National Democrat newspaper<br />
in Jeffersonville, Indiana on May 21, 1886.<br />
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Transcribed by James D. VanDerMark, April 1995<br />
Proofread against the original by Jennifer Abbott, October1998<br />
Republished in the Bicentennial History of Silver Creek Baptist Church (now known as Stony Point Christian Church), published November 22, 1998.<br />
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<b><i>THE PIONEER FAMILIES OF CLARK COUNTY</i></b></div>
<i> The families and individuals of whom we shall give a brief history in this the second chapter of our paper, are the Littells, Bowells, Nugents, Nathan Kelly, Thomas Broadstreet, Jeremiah Payne, Whites, Sellers, <b>Peytons</b>, Worrall, Harrods, Perrys, Bottorffs, Capt. John Norris, McCormicks, Listers, McCoys, Jonah Harris, Dr. Kellogg, and Kahl.</i><br />
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<i>John Peyton, Charlotte Peyton, Daniel Peyton, Terry Peyton and Micajah Peyton are names found on the roll of the old church. This family came from Virginia to Kentucky and from Kentucky to this Territory in about 1806. John and Daniel settled on land on Sinking Fork near the White farm.</i><br />
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<i> Micajah Peyton settled on land on the Muddy Fork, near the village of Bridgeport.</i><br />
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<i> John and Charlotte Peyton were the parents of Daniel and Micajah Peyton. John and Charlotte Peyton joined Silver Creek church June 1806.</i><br />
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<i> John Peyton, Jr., who died in 1882 was a son of Daniel Peyton.</i><br />
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<i> John Peyton, Sr., his wife, Daniel Peyton, his wife and John Peyton, Jr., are all buried in Silver Creek Cemetery.</i><br />
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Editor's Note: The above was originally published on the Internet about 1999, at RootsWeb as <i><b>Silver Creek Cemetery website</b>.</i> The page seems to have disappeared about 2008.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">I judge this John PEYTON of Silver Creek, Clarke County, Indiana to be a presumptive son of Philip and Winifred PEYTON who appear on pages 92, 93 of the genealogy book, <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/6856721" style="color: #666666;" target="_blank"><i>PEYTONs Along the Aquia</i></a>. See post at this blog for more explanation: <a href="http://peytonbook.blogspot.com/2013/02/peytons-of-indiana.html">PEYTONs of Indiana</a></span></h4>
Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-66862194747245669122015-11-17T12:25:00.002-05:002015-11-17T12:32:33.388-05:00Lewis & Winnefred PEYTON of Indiana<b>VIRGINIA MARRIAGE BOND </b>-- Lewis PEYTON and Charles ANDERSON were bound unto the Governor of Virginia, 8 November 1786: "<i>whereas there is a Marriage shortly intended to be Solemized between the above bound Lewis PEYTON & Winnefred FOLWELL - for which a license has been issued." </i>The above image is from Ancestry.com, submitted by PAllen7783, believed to have come from Lincoln County, Kentucky (Virginia District).
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Lewis PEYTON and his wife Winnefred are on pages 132, 133 of the genealogy book,<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><b><a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/6856721" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank"><i>PEYTONs Along the Aquia</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">,</span></b> with two of their children. NSDAR documents her name as "Winifred FOLWELL" and verifies two additional children: Nelson PEYTON who married Mary JOHNSON and Frances PEYTON who married John TUELL. Revolutionary War Pension Records of Lewis PAYTON, (S. 17003) contain a letter written in 1929 which states that Elizabeth FOLWELL was the mother of Winfred FOLWELL. Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-50108977726525709232015-10-23T12:23:00.002-04:002015-10-23T12:23:47.726-04:00Government Island, Aquia Creek<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>"The picks and mauls are silent now at Government Island. Gone are the muscled laborers who quarried the rock. Gone, too, are the masted ships that carried it north. Government Island is quiet now Overgrown with oaks and maples and sticker bushes. Only the silent stones say that This was once the nation’s most famous quarry."</i> – <a href="http://www.staffordparks.com/DocumentCenter/View/683">Jim Hall, Journalist, July 6, 1992; The Free Lance-Star</a></blockquote>
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Government Island in Stafford County, Virginia, now a 17-acre historic site, was an early American quarry named Brent’s Island or Wiggington’s Island. Since 1694, stone was quarried from this site for use as architectural trim in Colonial America. The quarry’s fine-grained sandstone was called Aquia Stone, due to its location along the Aquia Creek, or Freestone, for its ability to be freely carved without splitting. It was a desirable building material for its composition as well as its fine grain and brilliant white color. In 1791, George Washington sent Major Pierre Charles L’Enfant to find the best supply of sandstone to build the new federal city. L'Enfant purchased the island on December 2, 1791, which afterwards became known as Government Island. Extensive quantities of Aquia Stone (sandstone) were extracted from this site from L'Enfant's date of purchase through the 1820s, loaded onto sailing ships and carried up the Potomac River to the Federal City.<br />
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<a href="http://blogs.loc.gov/law/2015/10/pic-of-the-week-public-quarry-on-government-island-virginia/?loclr=twlaw" target="_blank">Library of Congress Blog</a>
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Brent family members were cousins of the Peytons in Westmoreland County, and along Aquia Creek. In fact the real properties of the two families seem to border each other's on the Aquia. The Peytons had early real estate dealings with the Wiggingtons. The genealogy book <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/6856721" target="_blank">PEYTONs Along the Aquia</a>, covers these families on pages 9, 26, 46.Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0Government Island, Aquia, VA 22554, USA38.4481797 -77.384149112.926145199999997 -118.6927431 63.9702142 -36.0755551tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-29729242470842254302015-08-23T17:29:00.005-04:002022-09-24T11:44:46.519-04:00PEYTON of Gloucester County<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<i>Arms: Sable a cross engrailed or. </i>
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<i>Crest: A griffin sejant or.</i>
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<i>Motto: Patior potior. </i>
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><b
>Major Robert Peyton of Rongham, Norfolk, and of Isleham, Gloucester
county, Virginia</b
>, was born in 1640 and died 1694. He was a son of Thomas Peyton and
Elizabeth Yelverton, a daughter of Sir William Yelverton, Bart., of
Rougham, Norfolk. He married in 1668 and was in Virginia before 1679. He was
Major of the Gloucester County Militia. </i
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><b>The Peytons of Westmoreland county</b> are of kin to those of Gloucester
county and use the same arms, with the addition of "a mullet argent, in the
second quarter, and a bordure ermine" for a difference. Henry Peyton of
Lincoln Inn died in London in 1656 and was a cadet of the Peytons of
Isleham. He had issue, Robert born 1624; Valentine, Henry, Laurence,
Catherine, Margaret, Henry, John, Charles and Mary. Of these, Valentine,
Lawrence, Henry and John came to Virginia. Valentine died in Westmoreland
county in 1665 at his estate of Nominy. Henry, his brother, died in 1659,
and from these two brothers came a numerous progeny whose descendants are
found through Virginia and the South.</i
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"VIRGINIA HERALDICA - A Registry of Virginia Gentry Entitled to Coat Armor WITH
GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF THE FAMILIES," edited by WILLIAM ARMSTRONG CROZIER, 1908,
from the "Virginia County Record Series" Volume V, page 92.<br />
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The genealogy book <a
href="https://www.lulu.com/shop/edna-barney/peytons-along-the-aquia-genealogy/paperback/product-1rm7dmkp.html?q=peytons+along+the+aquia&page=1&pageSize=4"
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>PEYTONs Along the Aquia</a
>, covers the PEYTON family of Westmoreland County, Virginia.<br />
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<span
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>The </span
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>Genealogy of the PEYTON family of Gloucester County, Virginia </b
><span
style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.91499900817871px;"
>is covered in Reverend Horace Edwin Hayden's 1891 genealogy, </span
><a
href="https://www.lulu.com/shop/rev-horace-edwin-hayden/peyton-of-england-and-virginia/paperback/product-16eq5ve.html?page=1&pageSize=4"
style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.91499900817871px;"
>"PEYTON, of England and Virginia,"</a
><span
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> on pages 468 through 479.</span
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Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-14482857127820753402015-07-06T12:43:00.001-04:002015-07-06T12:43:27.145-04:00JEMIMA PEYTON of Culpepper, VirginiaUpdated research reveals that the JEMIMA PEYTON on pages 91 and 253 of <a href="http://www.lulu.com/product/hardcover/peytons-along-the-aquia-genealogy/5301207" style="color: #225588;">PEYTONs Along the Aquia</a> did not marry Benjamin WASH who went to Anderson County, Kentucky. I don't know what happened to JEMIMA after the mention in her grandfather's will. BENJAMIN WASH is a proven Revolutionary War soldier and in previous DAR records his wife was named as JEMIMA PEYTON. Recently, DAR has changed her name to "JEMIMA." From my recent research in Amherst County, Virginia records it appears that the "JEMIMA PAYTON" living there in 1784, was the widow of an unknown PAYTON. It is believed that she is the JEMIMA PAYTON who married secondly to BENJAMIN WASH and went with him to Kentucky.Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675664838665651789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-12297601349071578452015-02-02T08:51:00.002-05:002017-02-22T08:49:52.391-05:00Gloucester County PEYTONsThis is from "SELDON and Kindred of Virginia" by Edna Mae Seldon, 1941, page 133: "<i>Dr. Valentine PEYTON ... daughter, Elizabeth Washington PEYTON ...</i>" when PEYTON researchers believed that the PEYTON family of Northern Virginia was descended from the Gloucester County, Virginia PEYTONs. Later genealogical research has discounted that theory.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.91499900817871px;">The <b>Genealogy of the PEYTON family of Gloucester County, Virginia</b> is included in Reverend Horace Edwin Hayden's 1891 genealogy, <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/2741858" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.91499900817871px;">"PEYTON, of England and Virginia,"</a> on pages 468 through 479.</span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.91499900817871px;">Dr. Valentine </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.91499900817871px;">PEYTON</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.91499900817871px;"> and his family appear on page 45 of </span><a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/6856721" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.91499900817871px;" target="_blank">PEYTONs Along the Aquia</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.91499900817871px;">. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica";">According to recent genealogies, the father-in-law of Elizabeth Washington PEYTON was Governor Patrick HENRY. Elizabeth's second husband was Reverend George PATTERSON.</span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.91499900817871px;">Mary Howe </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.91499900817871px;">PEYTON, her father John PEYTON,</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.91499900817871px;"> and their PEYTON family appear on page 60, of </span><a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/6856721" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.91499900817871px;" target="_blank">PEYTONs Along the Aquia</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.91499900817871px;">.</span><br />
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Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-70776092949020103762014-05-28T13:53:00.000-04:002015-11-23T08:00:32.946-05:00Jeremiah PeytonI received the following information from a reader of both of my PEYTON family books. She discovered that we are related through my fifth great grandmother <b>Nancy PEYTON</b> born 1751, who was the sister of her third great grandfather <b>Jeremiah PEYTO</b>N born 1753. She descends through Jeremiah's grandson, <b>Henry <i>"Harvey"</i> PEYTON</b>, born about 1834.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "comicsansms"; font-size: 14px;"><i>"Jeremiah had Jeremiah, Jr. in 1791, Jeremiah, Jr. had Henry (sometimes referred to as Harvey) in 1832, Henry/Harvey had Adolphus in 1874, Adolphus had Edgar Carl Peyton, my father, in 1914. My father was one of 18 children, obviously all Peytons!! ... In addition to John W. and Adolphus, my records show there was a brother named James Henry born in 1861, a brother Amos born in 1864, a brother Howard Franklin born in 1866, a brother Walter Robert born in 1884 and a sister Luemma S. born in 1876."</i></span></blockquote>
Her research accounts for the following children to <b>Henry <i>"Harvey"</i> PEYTON</b> who appears on page 159 of <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/6856721" target="_blank">PEYTONs Along the Aquia</a>.<br />
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<li><b>James Henry PEYTON</b> born in 1861.</li>
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<li><b>John W. PEYTON</b> born about 1863 in Virginia.</li>
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<li><b>Amos PEYTON</b> born in 1864.</li>
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<li><b>Howard Franklin PEYTON</b> born in 1866.</li>
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<li><b>Adolphus PEYTON</b> born 1874, had 18 PEYTON children, including her father <b>Edgar Carl PEYTON</b>.</li>
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<li><b>Luemma S. PEYTON</b> born in 1876.</li>
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<li><b>Walter Robert PEYTON</b> born in 1884.</li>
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Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-3297232864037593302014-02-24T14:30:00.002-05:002014-02-24T14:36:54.941-05:00Overwharton Parish Register<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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In 1961, noted Virginian genealogist George Harrison Sanford King made a transcription of Stafford County, Virginia's Overwharton Parish Register, pages 92, 93, containing PEYTON - PAYTON names. All of the names appearing on this snipped view are documented in the genealogy book, <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/6856721" target="_blank">PEYTONs Along the Aquia</a> where their lineage is traced back to 16th century England and before.</div>
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<li>RACHEL PAYTON - see pages 91 of <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/6856721" target="_blank">PEYTONs Along the Aquia</a>.</li>
<li>CHARLES PAYTON - see - pages 91, 126.</li>
<li>ANNE PEYTON - see pages 42, 64, 66, 76, 79, 81, 108.</li>
<li>ELEANOR PEYTON - see pages 43, 207.</li>
<li>ELIZABETH PEYTON - see page 43.</li>
<li>PHILIP PEYTON - see pages 92 - 95.</li>
<li>VALENTINE PEYTON - see pages 93, 130 - 132.</li>
<li>JEREMIAH PEYTON - see pages 91, 127, 128.</li>
<li>NANCY PAYTON - see pages 91, 129, 130.</li>
<li>JOHN PEYTON - see pages 28, 41 - 45.</li>
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<br />Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-68576499423087436332014-01-18T21:14:00.001-05:002014-01-18T23:33:12.541-05:00John Rowzee Peyton of Montgomery County<b><a href="http://jeff560.tripod.com/raleigh.html">HISTORY OF BECKLEY AND RALEIGH COUNTY - Early Settlers of Raleigh County, West Virginia</a></b>:
The following by Judge W. A. Riffe appeared in the Beckley Post-Herald Centennial Edition on August 26, 1950.
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><i>PEYTON, John Rowzee</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> - A native of Montgomery County, Va., he settled in the Marshes in 1845. He was related to the Madison, Preston, Breckinridge, and Floyd families. A large man weighing over 300 pounds, he was well educated and an original and entertaining conversationalist of humorous temperament. He owned fine farms in Trap Hill District and engaged in farming, stock raising and trading. He entered the Confederate service in 1861 and was attached to a regiment of the Stonewall Brigade. He participated in the Battle of First Manassas and later was detailed for recruiting service in Southwest Virginia. Peyton was murdered from ambush in 1862 by some Confederate deserters on Bent Mountain in Roanoke County, Va. while on his way to Floyd County.</i></span></blockquote>
According to Reverend Horace Edwin Hayden's 1891 genealogy, <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/2741858">"PEYTON, of England and Virginia,"</a> on pages 552, 553, John Rowzee PEYTON was born 6 December 1806, in Montgomery County, Virginia. John Rowzee PEYTON appears with his parents on page 122, of <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/6856721">"Peytons Along the Aquia"</a>, where his descent from the PEYTONs of early Colonial Virginia and England is documented. Reverend Hayden described his war service and his death and reported that, although married, he left no descendants.Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675664838665651789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-35964942474192219012013-12-05T13:46:00.000-05:002013-12-05T14:23:27.469-05:00Charles Peyton of CulpeperThe marriage record of Ephraim PEYTON to Mary F. BREEDEN is of record in 1889, Madison County, Virginia, and census records record their children as Cora L. PEYTON (born 1891), Bessie L. PEYTON (born 1893), Andrew B. PEYTON (born 1895) and Ephraim PEYTON (born 1899). Ephraim's parents were documented as James and Mahaly PEYTON. James PEYTON born about 1825, his wife "Haley" lived in Green County, Virginia, where their children were born. The 1830, 1840 and 1850 Census records of Orange and Greene Counties, Virginia, indicate that James was the child of Ephraim and Elizabeth PEYTON and I assume it is he who is one of the two teenaged males ages 10 to 19, in the household of Elizabeth PEYTON, age 40-49, in the 1840 Census of Greene County, Virginia. Ephraim PEYTON was not found, so I assume that he had died between 1830 and 1840.<br /><br />
Who were the parents of Ephraim PEYTON born between 1800-1810, with connections to Orange County, Virginia? I have found no proof connecting him with a family, but location evidence suggests he would have been a grandson of George PEYTON on pages 107 - 111 of <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/6856721">"Peytons Along the Aquia."</a> The one son of George PEYTON of whom we know almost nothing is #192 - Charles PEYTON on page 110 of said genealogy book. I no longer believe that Charles had moved on to Missouri, and Indiana (that was another Charles Peyton). I suspect that Charles PEYTON, son of George PEYTON, is possibly the father of Ephraim PEYTON who died before 1840 in Greene County, Virginia.<br /><br />
Descendants of this line should do further research to confirm this connection. On the 1840 Census of Culpeper County, Virginia, Sarah PEYTON, age 80-90, (born 1750-1760) had living with her a couple aged 40-50 (born 1790-1800). On 6 August 1841, in Fredericksburg, Virginia newspaper, "Political Arena", page 3, column 3. Sarah, Benjamin and John PEYTON advertised property for sale. Identifying the people named in these records may further elucidate this PEYTON lineage of Greene and Orange Counties. Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675664838665651789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-9539064775037103892013-09-28T10:00:00.000-04:002013-12-05T19:30:46.276-05:00The Northern Neck of Virginia<h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Photograph of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/neddy/sets/72157628361979849/with/6534565373/" target="_blank">Popes Creek, Virginia</a></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #000033; font-family: Verdana; text-align: justify;"><i>"Across the ocean, meanwhile, developments were taking place that would have a tremendous impact on the Northern Neck. In 1649 Charles I was executed, and Cromwell ascended to power. At the time, Charles II was in exile. In 1649 he made a grant of the Northern Neck territory to certain of his loyal subjects (much as the monarchy had earlier granted Pennsylvania to William Penn and Maryland to Lord Baltimore). Three years later, 100 men signed the Northumberland Oath—ninety-nine of them gathered at Chickacoan to do it—pledging support of an England "without Kings or House of Lordes," although privately, no doubt, many felt otherwise. When Charles II was restored to the throne in 1660, his land grant took effect, shakily at first, but clouding ownership of the newly settled territory nevertheless. During the next century, this Northern Neck Proprietary became a source of power, and huge land holdings were achieved by those who served as its agents, overseeing and collecting quitrents on the Proprietary-patented land."</i> </span><a href="http://www.rivahresearch.com/westmorelandcty/vitals/resources/places/NorthernNeck.htm" target="_blank">History of the Northern Neck</a></h4>
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See pages 17 through 22 of <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/6856721"><b>PEYTONs Along the Aquia Genealogy</b></a>, where the arrival on Virginia's Northern Neck of the Colonial PEYTONs of Aquia is documented along with their connection to Charles I and Charles II. In addition, "<i>Peyton, of Stafford and Westmoreland County, Va.</i>" begins on page 480, of Reverend Horace Edwin Hayden's 1891 genealogy: <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/2741858" style="color: #225588;"><b>PEYTON, of England and Virginia</b></a>.<br />
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For more genealogical research on the Northern Neck of Virginia see <a href="https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Northumberland_County,_Virginia" target="_blank">Northumberland County, Virginia</a> at FamilySearch.Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-80168804918129796542013-09-19T08:44:00.000-04:002013-09-19T09:02:00.605-04:00The Haunted Aquia Church<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/neddy/2676339879/" title="Aquia Church Sanctuary by Edna Barney, on Flickr"><img alt="Aquia Church Sanctuary" height="500" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3294/2676339879_385bd0933b.jpg" width="400" /></a><br />
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Aquia Church dates from February 17th, 1754 when it was severely damaged by fire, three days before the completion of its construction. The haunting of the church began with a murder more than two hundred years ago.<br />
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Story from <a href="http://voices.yahoo.com/the-haunted-aquia-church-52856.html?cat=9">"The Haunted Aquia Church"</a></blockquote>
Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-76679793551295577452013-03-11T17:06:00.000-04:002013-03-11T17:47:33.462-04:00"Old Joe" Bourbon Whiskey<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"<i>Old Joe</i>" has the distinction of being America's first known brand of bourbon whiskey. It was crafted by <b>JOSEPH PEYTON </b>(1787-1859) and manufactured from about 1818 to 1840, by the Old Joe Distilling Company, which is now closed and in ruins. It is supposed that JOSEPH PEYTON built the distillery shortly after arriving in Kentucky by way of canoe in 1818. Originally going by the name “Old Joe,” PEYTON’s products were hugely successful. After the distillery was sold to Gratz Hawkins, it was renamed Old Prentice. The distillery ended up changing ownership frequently, once purchased by the Ripley Brothers. Finally, in 1888, it was bought by Paul Jones who registered it under its current name. In 1917, the still was closed, and then reopened in 1933, as the Old Prentice Distillery. Today, in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, sits the Spanish Mission style distillery, Four Roses, also known as "Old Joe's." This distillery is possibly one of the loveliest in the United States; currently it is also one of the most beloved, being named "2011 American Distiller of the Year" by Whisky Magazine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b>JOSEPH PEYTON, SR.</b> -- "<i>son of BENJAMIN and ELLEN PEYTON was born about 1787 and died in Anderson County, Kentucky on March 11, 1859. His marriage bond to
ELIZABETH MCMICHAEL, daughter of JAMES MCMICHAEL was filed in Franklin County, Kentucky, November 6, 1811. A deed located in Anderson County, Kentucky
Deed BK E, pp. 233-234, dated July 14, 1842 would indicate JOSEPH and ELIZABETH MCMICHAEL PEYTON agreed to separate due to unhappy differences. Forty acres
and personal property deeded to BENJAMIN PEYTON in trust as her full part of alimony. On October 19, 1848, Deed BK G, p. 127 mentions land devised to ELIZABETH PEYTON, SR. AND her children, by her father JAMES MCMICHAEL, deceased to BENJAMIN PEYTON. ELIZABETH PEYTON, age 63, born Virginia appears on the 1850 census
for Anderson County, Kentucky, page 205. It is believed ELIZABETH died sometime prior to the 1860 census in Anderson County, Kentucky.</i>" ( <a href="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ky/county/franklin/index/jospeyton.html">"Genealogies of Franklin County Families"</a> )</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JOSEPH <i>"Old Joe"</i> PEYTON appears with his parents, wife and son, on page 100 of <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/6856721">PEYTONs Along the Aquia Genealogy</a>, where his descent from the PEYTONs of early Colonial Virginia and England is documented.</span>Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-3323742029147427242013-02-17T11:19:00.000-05:002013-02-18T23:45:29.793-05:00PEYTONs of IndianaMy research suggests that many or most of the PEYTONS who settled nineteenth century Indiana were descendants of Philip PEYTON who appears on pages 92, 93, 94 and 95 of <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/edna-barney/peytons-along-the-aquia-genealogy/hardcover/product-5301207.html">PEYTONs Along the Aquia</a>. See my blog post <a href="http://peytonbook.blogspot.com/2010/12/nelson-peyton-of-kentucky-and-indiana.html">Nelson PEYTON of Kentucky and Indiana</a> for more information. Augusta PEYTON of Harrison County, Indiana seems a proven son of Philip PEYTON according to Revolutionary War records. The John PEYTON who settled at Clark County, Indiana in the early 1800s, I consider to be a "presumed" son of the same Philip PEYTON mentioned above. John's children settled in Clark County. Perhaps someone has been able to document John PEYTON's lineage.<br />
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Philip PEYTON and his descent from the PEYTONs of early Colonial Virginia is documented on page 92 of <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/6856721">PEYTONs Along the Aquia Genealogy</a>.Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675664838665651789noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-24312437560270279342013-02-09T14:26:00.000-05:002013-02-09T14:45:59.176-05:00Henry Lindsey Peyton<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20110314133313/http://genealogy.blogsome.com/2007/07/28/henry-lindsay-peyton/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #6e6a7e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;" title="Permanent Link: Henry Lindsay Peyton">Henry Lindsey Peyton</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Georgia, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: left;"> (I first wrote the following post for "Blog Some Genealogy" on 28 July 2007.)</span><br />
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Henry PAYTON served as a private in the Revolution with the Amherst County Riflemen. The “Cabell County Annals and Families” by George Selden Wallace of 1935, credited the service of Henry PAYTON as “<em>first as a substitute at $20.00 a month, was on garrison duty at Point Pleasant, was at Guilford Court House and at Yorktown, later at Winchester guarding prisoners, a privater in the Virginia Militia</em>.”</div>
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Henry PAYTON made application for a pension on 28 October 1833, when he was seventy-three years of age and a resident of Cabell County, Virginia. His pension was approved, but then, as often happened with these honorable patriots, for some reason his statement of service was declared fraudulent, resulting in his name being removed from the Revolutionary Pension Rolls.</div>
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I have encountered this same sequence of events with one of my own ancestors who was impressed as a teenager to carry a message from southeastern Virginia to Fort Pittsburg and who afterwards enlisted in the Continental Army, yet was never able to document his service to the government’s satisfaction. Another of my ancestors did qualify for his pension, but his exact-named cousin in the adjoining county was declared a “fraud” because the government considered it was already paying him a pension. I have sympathized with them at having given such invaluable service to their new nation, and then be declared dishonest and frauds as old soldiers in their waning years.</div>
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During his lifetime, Henry PAYTON petitioned several times to restore his good name, and finally on 16 February 1839, an act of the U.S. Congress reinstated his pension and made it retroactive to 1831. To add further insult to the soldier’s memory, the death date of 1836, on his grave marker that was placed by a Revolutionary War lineage society, was wrong. Henry PAYTON was alive in 1839, and still writing letters to Washington as late as 1842.</div>
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As of today, even though a number of descendants of three different children of Henry PAYTON had joined the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) under his Revolutionary War Service, his line has been closed, as the statement of fraud has been “rediscovered” in his pension record. Once again as genealogists, we see how difficult it is to correct errors of many years ago that were put in “official” writings. It will now be necessary for a descendant of patriot Henry PAYTON to join the DAR under his lineage and include a copy of H.R. Bill 1150 as proof of his service, or for a descendant who is already a DAR member to make a supplemental application proving his Revolutionary War service. Hopefully, someone will be able to once again, reinstate the good “Patriot” name of Henry PAYTON (Henry Lindsey PEYTON) of Amherst and Cabell Counties, Virginia.</div>
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When I first published the First Edition of “<a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/6856721" style="color: #bdbb9b; text-decoration: none;">PEYTONS Along the Aquia Genealogy</a>” in 2004, I included on page 140, a photocopy of H.R. 1150 of the United States Congress, dated February 16, 1839, “For the relief of Henry PEYTON.” Page 141 onward contains some of the descendants of Henry PAYTON – one of the ‘PEYTONs Along the Aquia’ descendants.</div>
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A comment was made on May 17, 2008, at "Blog Some Genealogy" by Barbara Van Houte:<span style="color: grey; font-size: 9px; line-height: 16px;"> </span><i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"</span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.5em;">Thank you for this information about Henry Peyton. He wrote a letter that is in the RW file of William Davis of Amherst County, VA, who married Benedicta Milstead in 1787 in Amherst. William and Benedictia and family moved to Greenbrier & Fayette Counties of WV. Benedicta was the daughter of Joseph and Rebecca Milstead."</span></i></div>
See <a href="http://peytonbook.blogspot.com/2009/10/henry-lindsey-peyton-of-cabell-county.html">Henry Lindsey Peyton of Cabell County</a></div>
Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15675664838665651789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6045736460270251686.post-80036426980220098382012-12-13T15:39:00.001-05:002012-12-17T07:11:44.712-05:00Catherine PAYTON and Alander PAYTON of Overwharton ParishIn 1740, there are two PEYTON (PAYTON) women, born circa 1722, whose marriages were documented in the Overwharton Parish Register of Stafford County, Virginia. The first was CATHERINE PAYTON who married WILLIAM SCROGGING on 18 February 1740. The second woman was ALANDER PAYTON who married JAMES HEFFERNON on 20 May 1740. I have found no records which reveal the parentage of these two PAYTON women, but preponderance of evidence can be employed to claim them as granddaughters of either VALENTINE PEYTON or PHILIP PEYTON who appear on pages 28 through 32 of <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/edna-barney/peytons-along-the-aquia-genealogy/hardcover/product-5301207.html">PEYTONs Along the Aquia</a>.<br />
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Because the two women married within a few months of each other is a good indication that they may have been sisters. The possible parentage of CATHERINE PAYTON is mentioned on pages 45, 46. Although we cannot document their parents, it can be presumed that their PEYTON ancestors were HENRY and Ellen PEYTON, pages 19 through 22, who immigrated from England to Aquia Creek, Virginia in the early seventeenth century, and whose British lineage is well established.Edna Barneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04643502016287878191noreply@blogger.com0