Peytons at Silver Creek Baptist Church, Indiana

SILVER CREEK CEMETERIAL --
Annual Meeting of the Silver Creek Cemeterial Association:
Interesting Historical Paper by the Secretary
(written by William H. McCoy)
Minutes of the 11th annual meeting of the
Silver Creek Cemetery Association in 1886,
published in the National Democrat newspaper
in Jeffersonville, Indiana on May 21, 1886.
Transcribed by James D. VanDerMark, April 1995
Proofread against the original by Jennifer Abbott, October1998
Republished in the Bicentennial History of Silver Creek Baptist Church (now known as Stony Point Christian Church), published November 22, 1998.

THE PIONEER FAMILIES OF CLARK COUNTY

     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, Peytons, Worrall, Harrods, Perrys, Bottorffs, Capt. John Norris, McCormicks, Listers, McCoys, Jonah Harris, Dr. Kellogg, and Kahl.

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.

     Micajah Peyton settled on land on the Muddy Fork, near the village of Bridgeport.

     John and Charlotte Peyton were the parents of Daniel and Micajah Peyton. John and Charlotte Peyton joined Silver Creek church June 1806.

     John Peyton, Jr., who died in 1882 was a son of Daniel Peyton.

     John Peyton, Sr., his wife, Daniel Peyton, his wife and John Peyton, Jr., are all buried in Silver Creek Cemetery.

Editor's Note: The above was originally published on the Internet about 1999, at RootsWeb as Silver Creek Cemetery website. The page seems to have disappeared about 2008.

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, PEYTONs Along the Aquia. See post at this blog for more explanation: PEYTONs of Indiana

PEYTONs of Indiana

My 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 PEYTONs Along the Aquia. See my blog post Nelson PEYTON of Kentucky and Indiana 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.

Philip PEYTON and his descent from the PEYTONs of early Colonial Virginia is documented on page 92 of PEYTONs Along the Aquia Genealogy.

Nelson PEYTON of Kentucky and Indiana

Nelson PEYTON of Kentucky and Indiana was the son of Lewis PEYTON a Revolutionary War soldier of Amherst County, Virginia. I found two other sons of Lewis PEYTON, although according to his Revolutionary War Pension (S.17003) it appears there were definitely others. Lewis PEYTON has been proven as a DAR Patriot, but the only child of Lewis PEYTON that I found in the DAR records is the aforementioned Nelson PEYTON who is proven by his father's war pension:

"it appears that Lewis PAYTON was born March 8, 1763. While a resident of Amherst County, Virginia he enlisted a short time after the surrender of Cornwallis and served seven months as a private in Captain Kirkpatrick's Company, Colonel Hawes' Virginia Regiment. ... In 1854, Nelson PAYTON one of the children of soldier, was a resident of Harrison County, Indiana. The names of other children and that of the soldier's wife not given."

Lewis PEYTON and his descent from Philip, Valentine, Philip, and Henry PEYTON of early Virginia is documented on pages 132, 133 of PEYTONs Along the Aquia Genealogy.