Henry PEYTON served as a soldier of the American Revolution with the Virginia Militia. The following is from "Cabell County Annals and Families" by George Selden Wallace, 1935, page 71:

"Henry Peyton, (Payton). Born 1760 in Culpeper County, Virginia. Died 1836. Served 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. Lived about one mile west of Tom’s Creek beyond Martha where John Hash now lives. Was great-grandfather of Home Peyton and Mrs. L.L. Wilson."

More recent research has discovered that the death date given in the 1935 publication was wrong, as he was still writing letters as late as 1842. Henry Lindsey PEYTON (1760-post 1842) is a descendant of the PEYTONs Along the Aquia. He is a son of Henry PEYTON, whose lineage begins on pages 98, 99 of my Peyton book. Henry Lindsey PEYTON’s descendants begin on page 141.