Overwharton Parish Register

The Register of Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia

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, PEYTONs Along the Aquia where their lineage is traced back to 16th century England and before.

• RACHEL PAYTON - see pages 91 of  PEYTONs Along the Aquia.
• CHARLES PAYTON - see - pages 91, 126.
• ANNE PEYTON - see pages 42, 64, 66, 76, 79, 81, 108.
• ELEANOR PEYTON - see pages 43, 207.
• ELIZABETH PEYTON - see page 43.
• PHILIP PEYTON - see pages 92 - 95.
• VALENTINE PEYTON - see pages 93, 130 - 132.
• JEREMIAH PEYTON - see pages 91, 127, 128.
• NANCY PAYTON - see pages 91, 129, 130.
• JOHN PEYTON - see pages 28, 41 - 45.

Note: Nancy PAYTON and John and Ureth PAYTON are my ancestors. Image snipped from Ancestry.com.

Catherine PAYTON and Alander PAYTON of Overwharton Parish

In 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 PEYTONs Along the Aquia.

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.