Thomas Green Peyton 1833-1900

"THOMAS GREEN PEYTON 1833-1900 - LT. COL. C.S.A. 15TH VIRGINIA INFANTRY - SON OF GENERAL BERNARD PEYTON - AND JULIA AMANDA GREEN PEYTON - OF FARMINGTON, ALBEMARLE COUNTY"

Thomas Green Peyton is buried at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond City, Virginia (Find A Grave Memorial# 8623978).

Thomas Green PEYTON appears on page 124 of the genealogy book, PEYTONs Along the Aquia along with his parents and his documented descent from the original Peytons of Aquia Creek.

This photograph was found at Ancestry.com where it was originally uploaded by eforster1313 on 10 February 2015, with the caption "Richmond, Virginia."

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

PEYTON of Gloucester County

Arms: Sable a cross engrailed or. 

Crest: A griffin sejant or.

Motto: Patior potior. 

Major Robert Peyton of Rongham, Norfolk, and of Isleham, Gloucester county, Virginia, 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. 

The Peytons of Westmoreland county 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.

"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.

The genealogy book PEYTONs Along the Aquia, covers the PEYTON family of Westmoreland County, Virginia.

The Genealogy of the PEYTON family of Gloucester County, Virginia is covered in Reverend Horace Edwin Hayden's 1891 genealogy, "PEYTON, of England and Virginia," on pages 468 through 479.

Jeremiah Peyton

I 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 Nancy PEYTON born 1751, who was the sister of her third great grandfather Jeremiah PEYTON born 1753. She descends through Jeremiah's grandson, Henry "Harvey" PEYTON, born about 1834.

"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."

Her research accounts for the following children to Henry "Harvey" PEYTON who appears on page 159 of  PEYTONs Along the Aquia.

• James Henry PEYTON born in 1861.


• John W. PEYTON born about 1863 in Virginia.


• Amos PEYTON born in 1864.


• Howard Franklin PEYTON born in 1866.


• Adolphus PEYTON born 1874, had 18 PEYTON children, including her father Edgar Carl PEYTON.


• Luemma S. PEYTON born in 1876.


• Walter Robert PEYTON born in 1884.

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.

John Rowzee Peyton of Montgomery County

HISTORY OF BECKLEY AND RALEIGH COUNTY - Early Settlers of Raleigh County, West Virginia: The following by Judge W. A. Riffe appeared in the Beckley Post-Herald Centennial Edition on August 26, 1950.

PEYTON, John Rowzee - 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.

According to Reverend Horace Edwin Hayden's 1891 genealogy, "PEYTON, of England and Virginia," 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 "Peytons Along the Aquia", 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.

The Northern Neck of Virginia

Ancestral Home of the Peyton Family

Photograph of Popes Creek, Virginia

"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."  History of the Northern Neck

See pages 17 through 22 of PEYTONs Along the Aquia Genealogy, 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, "Peyton, of Stafford and Westmoreland County, Va." begins on page 480, of Reverend Horace Edwin Hayden's 1891 genealogy: PEYTON, of England and Virginia.

For more genealogical research on the Northern Neck of Virginia see Northumberland County, Virginia at FamilySearch.

The Haunted Aquia Church

"Stairways to the Belfry" photograph by Edna Barney

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.

"A young woman was violently murdered by one or more highway men. She was murdered in the chapel and her body was hidden in the belfry. The chapel was not in use and it was several years before her body was found. Her skeletal remains with her long golden hair were discovered and the legend began. Her blood stains where visible of the floor boards for 100 years, until a new cement floor was put in the early 20th century. The most common reported phenomenon is the loud sounds of a struggle, the sound of running up and down the belfry stairs, and the appearance of a terrified woman standing at a window."

Story from "The Haunted Aquia Church"

Henry Lindsey Peyton

Henry Lindsey Peyton (I first wrote the following post for "Blog Some Genealogy" on 28 July 2007.)

AKA Henry PAYTON
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 “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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

When I first published the First Edition of “PEYTONS Along the Aquia Genealogy” 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.

A comment was made on May 17, 2008, at "Blog Some Genealogy" by Barbara Van Houte: "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."

See Henry Lindsey Peyton of Cabell County

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.

William PEYTON of 1658

Virginia Patent Book 4 ("Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1800," 1934)

The "Wm. PEYNTON" mentioned in the grant, seems to be the William PEYTON on pages 12, 13 of PEYTONs Along the Aquia. The creek mentioned, Chopawamsic Creek, is in Prince William County, Virginia and is where settled the HARRISON family who married into the PEYTON family of Prince William County. See the maps on pages xiv, xv of the aforementioned book for Chopawamsic Creek.

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.

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.

William J. and George G. PEYTON of Spotsylvania

The births of William J. PEYTON (1868) and George G. PEYTON (1871) are found in the Birth Register of Spotsylvania County, Virginia.  Their father, George H. PEYTON, along with his wife, appears on page 147, of the Second Edition of PEYTONs Along the Aquia Genealogy. The lineage of their grandfather, Minor PEYTON, is documented back to the PEYTONs who immigrated to Virginia in the early 1600s and to their PEYTON forebears of Suffolk, England.

The Peyton Church at Aquia

"Aquia Church by Edna Barney" is available as a print or as note cards at Imagekind.

John G. PEYTON & His GOODLOE Wives

John G. PEYTON is from the PEYTON family of Spotsylvania County, Virginia. He, his two GOODLOE wives, their parents and their children appear on pages 169, 170, of the Second Edition of PEYTONs Along the Aquia Genealogy, where the lineage of John G. PEYTON is documented back to the PEYTONs who immigrated to Virginia in the early 1600s and their PEYTON forebears of Suffolk, England.

Joseph PEYTON of Anderson County, Kentucky

Joseph PEYTON of Anderson County, Kentucky is a descendant of the PEYTON family of East Virginia. Joseph, his parents, and his wife Elizabeth MCMICHAEL appear on page 100 of the Second Edition of PEYTONs Along the Aquia Genealogy, where the lineage of Joseph PEYTON is traced back to the PEYTON Family of Bury Saint Edmonds, England.

PHILIP PEYTON of Northumberland, Virginia

PHILIP PEYTON is mentioned on pages 25, 26 of "PEYTONs Along the Aquia Genealogy (Second Edition).” He was dispatched from Bristol, England on 30 August 1665, to serve four years in Virginia to THOMAS WHITE. Two years later, on 20 October 1667, a person of that name is documented as an "indentured servant" to RICHARD NELMES in Northumberland County, Virginia, when neighbors complained to the court that he and fellow servant NATH. GARNER were infected with leg sores and "very much neglected by their sd Master who taketh nor care to see ye sd sores Cured." By 1670, PHILIP PEYTON was a free man when he was accused by other servants and a slave women, at Northumberland County Court, of being the mastermind of multiple hog stealings from his former master. By 1672, "PHILL PAYTON" appears in Northumberland County, Virginia court records as a witness.

I see no evidence that this PHILIP PEYTON of Northumberland County, born before 1655, in England, was connected to the PHILIP PEYTON of Aquia Creek. That Philip PEYTON, of Westmoreland and later Stafford County, Virginia, appears on pages 22, 23 of "PEYTONs Along the Aquia Genealogy (Second Edition).” Nor do I see any connection to the PEYTON family of Gloucester County, Virginia.

By 18 June 1701, we find another PAYTON in Northumberland County records: "SUSANNAH PAYTON, servant to JANE YARRATT, haveing had a Bastard Child by WILLIAM DUGARD, another servant of the said JANE ..."

Francis PEYTON of Alexandria

Until very recently, the DAR records had credited the Francis PEYTON on page 117 of the "Revised and Updated" Second Edition of PEYTONs Along the Aquia Genealogy, as a Colonel during the Revolutionary War. DAR has now amended that stance, stating that his service as a Colonel should be credited to his uncle, Colonel Francis PEYTON, who is documented on pages 72 and 73 of said book. Francis PEYTON of Alexandria is also cited on page 500 of PEYTON, of England and Virginia, 1891, by Reverend Horace Edwin Hayden. The DAR states that there is no credible evidence that this Francis PEYTON served during the Revolutionary War. However, there was a Private Francis PEYTON who could be him or the son of Colonel Francis PEYTON.

The tombstone of this Francis PEYTON is at Saint Paul's Cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia. It is pictured at Find-A-Grave and shows a DAR marker from the Elisha Dick Chapter of Virginia, which also identifies him as a Colonel, now considered in error by DAR.

Peytons of All Hallows the Less

There are two typos on page 4 of PEYTONs Along the Aquia, Second Edition. Of the PEYTON children christened at All Hallows the Less Parish, Mary PEYTON was christened on 1 April 1593 (not 7 April) and Elizabeth PEYTON was christened in 1594 (not 1694).