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VirginiaJuly 31, 2007 1:38 pm

The final third volume of the fourth edition of “Adventurers of Purse and Person” was released this spring. This is a “must have” set of books for Virginia genealogists.
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This is the third and final volume of the legendary Adventurers of Purse and Person, a monumental compendium of genealogies of the founders of Virginia during the formative period 1607-1625 and the culmination of more than twenty-five years of research by the widely respected Virginia genealogist John Frederick Dorman. Suffice it to say, this fourth edition brings together the results of all the most recent scholarship on these families, expanding the limits of what is presently known and opening up possibilities for research beyond the sixth generation.

The concluding volume contains accounts of forty-six pre-1625 Virginia settlers or members of the Virginia Company of London whose families later came to the colony, with thirty-six of them traced to the sixth generation. Individuals ranging from R-Z (Reynolds to Zouche) identified in the work must have been resident in Virginia during the period 1607-1624/25 or members of the Virginia Company of London in order to be designated “adventurers,” and it is their descendants alone who qualify for membership in one of the most distinguished hereditary societies in America, the Order of First Families of Virginia. Adventurers of Purse and Person is their story, a collection of genealogies of all adventurers with proven descents into the sixth generation.

Adventurers of Purse and Person: Volume Onebook of this new fourth edition includes families A through F. The second volume covers Virginia’s founding families alphabetically from G through P. Volume One covers the following families: Andrews, Bagwell, Baley-Cocke, Barkham-Jenings, Barne, Bates, Bayly, Beheathland, Bennett (Edward), Bennett (Samuel), Bennett-Chapman, Bernard, Bibby, Bickley, Bland, Boyce, Boyle-Mountney, Branch, Buck, Burwell, Bush, Calthorpe, Calvert, Carsley, Carter, Chaplaine, Chew, Chisman, Claiborne, Clay, Clements, Cobb, Codrington, Cole, Cope, Cox, Crew, Croshaw, Crump, Curtis, Davis, Dawson, Delk, Digges, Edloe, Epes, Evelyn, Farrar, Fisher, Fleet, Flood, Freeman.

Volume One covers a total of fifty-two families that were established in Virginia prior to 1625 or members of the Virginia Company whose descendants later came to Virginia. Of these fifty-two families, seven have not been researched in previous editions. Thirty-six are traced to the sixth generation.

Genealogy, Virginia Families, British IslesJuly 28, 2007 11:45 am
I was delighted to find in this book that I have two Virginia ancestors who descend from the twenty-five famous Magna Carta Barons of 1215, who served as sureties for “The Great Charter” of liberty granted by King John of England at Runnymede. Since then, as they say, the rest is history; a history of charters of freedom to come, down to the present day.

My two ancestors are Thomas LIGON of Henrico County, Virginia and George READE of Gloucester County, Virginia. Here is the complete list of seventeenth-century colonial American ancestors whose Magna Carta descent is documented in this book:

Abbott, Anne (Mauleverer), of Nottingham Township, Burlington Co., NJ
Abell, Robert, of Weymouth & Rehoboth, MA
Abney, Dannett, of King William & Spotsylvania Cos., VA
Allin, Katherine (Deighton), of Roxbury and Dedham, MA
Alsop, Elizabeth
Alsop, Timothy, of New Haven, CT
Alsop, George, of Milford, CT
Alston, John, of Berkeley Co., SC
Argall, Sir Samuel, deputy Governor of VA
Asfordby, William, of Kingston & Marbletown, NY
Aston, Walter, of the West Indies
Aubrey, Barbara
Baldwin, Elizabeth (Alsop), of Milford, CT
Ball, Elizabeth (Harleston), of St. James Parish, Berkeley Co., & Charleston, SC
Barclay, John, Governor of New Jersey
Barclay, Robert, Governor of East Jersey
Barham, Charles, of Surry Co., VA
Barnes, Charles, of Long Island, NY
Batt, Anne (Baynton), of Boston, MA
Batt, Christopher, of Boston, MA
Batte, Henry, of Charles City Co., VA
Batte, Thomas, of Charles City & Henrico Cos., VA
Batte, William, of Charles City Co., VA
Baynard, John, Gent., of Talbot Co., MD
Baynton, Anne
Beckwith, Sir Marmaduke, of Richmond Co., VA
Berkeley, Sir William, Governor of VA
Bernard, Anna (Cordray), of York Co., VA
Bernard, Richard, of York Co., VA
Bernard, William, of Isle of Wight Co., VA
Bevan, Barbara (Aubrey), of PA
Bevan, John, of PA
Beville, Essex, of Henrico Co., VA
Bickley, Joseph, of King William Co., VA
Bladen, William, of St. Mary’s & Anne Arundel Cos., MD
Blakiston, George, of St. Mary’s Co., MD
Blakiston, Nehemiah, of St. Mary’s Co., MD
Blunston, Hannah (Levis), of Darby, Chester Co., PA
Bolles, Joseph, of Winter Harbor & Wells, ME
Booth, Thomas, of Gloucester Co., VA
Bosvile, Elizabeth
Bourchier, Mary
Bradshaw, Sarah (Levis), of Darby, Chester Co., PA
Brent, [Capt.] George, of Stafford Co., VA
Brent, [Col.] Giles, of Kent Island, MD, & Stafford Co., VA
Brent, Robert, of Stafford Co., VA
Bressey, Thomas, of New Haven, CT
Brooke, Mary (Wolseley), of Calvert Co., MD
Browne, Nathaniel, of Hartford & Middletown, CT, & Springfield, MA
Bruen, Obadiah, of Marshfield & Gloucester, MA, & New London, CT
Bulkeley, Elizabeth
Bulkeley, Grace (Chetwode), of Concord, MA
Bulkeley, Martha
Bulkeley, Rev. Peter, of Concord, MA
Bull, Stephen, of SC
Burnet, William, Governor of NY
Burnham, Alice (Eltonhead), of York, Lancaster, & Middlesex Cos., VA
Burrough, Nathaniel, of Calvert Co., MD, & Roxbury, MA
Butler, Elizabeth
Butler, John, of Kent Island, MD
Calthorpe, Col. Christopher, of York Co., VA & NC
Calvert, Charles, Governor of MD
Calvert, Jane (Lowe) (Sewall), of St. Mary’s Co., MD
Calvert, Leonard, Governor of MD
Campbell, Lord William, Governor of SC
Carleton, Edward, of Rowley, MA
Carleton, Ellen (Newton), of Rowley, MA
Carroll, Dr. Charles, of MD
Carter, Eleanor (Eltonhead), of Lancaster Co., VA
Carter, Sarah (Ludlow), of Lancaster Co., VA
Cartlidge, Mary (Need), of Darby, Chester Co., PA
Chauncy, [Rev] Charles, of Scituate and Plymouth, MA
Cheseldine, Kenelm, of St. Mary’s Co., MD
Chetwode, Gracy
Claiborne, Elizabeth (Butler), of the Isle of Kent, Chespeake Bay, & New Kent, VA
Clarke, Jeremy, of Newport, RI
Clarkson, Matthew, of New York City, NY
Claypoole, James, of Philadelphia, PA
Claypoole, Norton, of Lewes, DE
Clopton, William, of York & New Kent Cos., VA
Codd, St. Leger, of Lancaster & Northumberland Cos., VA, & Cecil Co., MD
Conway, Martha (Eltonhead), of Lancaster Co., VA
Cooke, Elizabeth (Haynes), of Cambridge, MA
Corbin, Alice (Eltonhead), of Middlesex Co., VA
Corbin, Henry, of Middlesex Co., VA
Cordray, Anna
Coytemore, Elizabeth
Crowne, Agnes (Mackworth), of Boston, MA
Cudworth, James of Scituate, MA
Culpeper, Katherine (St. Leger), of VA
Culpeper, Thomas, of VA
Culpeper, John, of VA
Dade, Francis, of Warwick Co., VA
Dale, Diana (Skipwith), of Lancaster Co., VA
Davie, Humphrey, of Boston, MA, & Hartford, CT
Deighton, Frances
Deighton, Jane (see Lugg)
Deighton, Jane (see Negus)
Deighton, Katherine
Derehaugh, Anne
Digges, Edward, of York Co., VA
Dudley, Katherine (Deighton), of Roxbury & Dedham, MA
Dudley, Thomas, Governor of MA
Dunlop, Archibald, of CT
Eddowes, Ralph, of PA
Eddowes, Sarah (Kenrick), of Philadelphia Co., PA
Edwards, Agnes, of Cambridge, MA and Hartford, CT
Elkington, George, of Burlington Co., NJ
Ellis, Rowland, of Bryn Mawr & Gwynedd, PA
Eltonhead, Agatha
Eltonhead, Alice
Eltonhead, Eleanor
Eltonhead, Jane
Eltonhead, Martha
Farrar, William, of Henrico Co., VA
Farwell, Olive (Welby), of Concord & Chelmsford, MA
Fenwick, Jane (Eltonhead), of St. Mary’s Co., MD
Fenwick, John, of Salem, NJ
Filmer, Henry, of James City & Warwick Cos., VA
Fisher, John, of Northampton Co., VA
Fitz Randolph, Edward, of Scituate and Barnstable, MA and Piscataway, NJ
Fleete, Henry, of Lancaster Co., VA
Foliot, Edward, of York Co., VA
Fowke, [Col.] Gerard, of Westmoreland Co., VA and Charles Co., MD
Gerard, Thomas, of St. Mary’s Co., MD, & Westmoreland Co., VA
Gill, Mary (Mainwaring), said to be of MD
Goddard, William, of Watertown, MA
Gordon, Thomas, of NJ
Gorsuch, Anne (Lovelace), of VA
Gurdon, Muriel
Gye, Mary
Hackburne, Katherine (Deighton), of Roxbury & Dedham, MA
Hamby, Katherine
Harlakenden, Elizabeth (Bosvile), of Cambridge, MA
Harlakenden, Mabel
Harlakenden, Roger, of Cambridge, MA
Harleston, Elizabeth
Harleston, John, of St. James Parish, Berkeley Co., SC
Harris, Agnes
Haugh, Elizabeth (Bulkeley), of Cambridge & Boston, MA
Hawes, Edmund, of Duxbury & Yarmouth, MA
Haynes, Elizabeth
Haynes, Mabel, of Hartford, CT
Henry, John, of VA
Horsmanden, Warham, of Charles City Co., VA
Houston, Sir Patrick, 5th Baronet, of GA
Hoyle, Edward of VA
Humphrey, Anne
Humphrey, Daniel, of Haverford, Delaware Co., PA
Humphrey, John of PA
Hunter, Robert, Governor of NY & NJ
Hutchinson, Anne (Marbury), of Boston, MA, RI, & NY
Hutchinson, Katherine (Hamby), of Boston, MA
Iremonger, Corderoy, of Northumberland Co., VA
Iremonger, Francis, of Gloucester Co., VA
Iremonger, Martha
Iremonger, William, of Lancaster Co., VA
Isham, Henry, of Henrico Co., VA
James, Rev. Thomas, Jr., of Southampton, NY
Jennings, Edmund, of York Co., VA
Jones, Martha, of Northumberland Co., VA
Keayne, Anne, of Boston, MA
Keith, Sir William, Governor of PA & DE
Kempe, Edmund, of VA
Kempe, Edward, of VA
Kempe, Matthew, of Lancaster & Gloucester Cos., VA
Kempe, Richard, Esq., of James City Co., VA
Kenrick, Sarah
Launce, Mary
Levis, Hannah
Levis, Samuel, of Chester Co., PA
Levis, Sarah
Lewis, Elizabeth (Marshall), of ME
Ligon, Thomas, of Henrico Co., VA
Littleton, Nathaniel, Esq., of Northampton Co., VA
Lloyd, Thomas, of Philadelphia, PA
Logan, James, of PA
Lovelace, Anne
Lowe, Henry, of St. Mary’s Co., MD
Lowe, Jane
Lowe, Nicholas, of Talbot Co., MD
Lowe, Vincent, of Talbot Co., MD
Lowell, Percival, of Newbury, MA
Ludlow, Gabriel, of New York City, NY
Ludlow, Roger, of Dorchester, MA; Windsor & Fairfield, CT
Ludlow, Sarah
Lugg, Jane, of Boston, MA
Lunsford, Thomas, of Lancaster Co., VA
Lynde, Simon, of Boston, MA
Mackworth, Agnes
Mainwaring, Mary
Mallory, Roger, of New Kent & King & Queen Cos., VA
Mallory, Thomas, of Charles City Co., VA
Mansfield, Elizabeth
Mansfield, John, of Charlestown, MA
Manwaring, Oliver, of New London, CT
Marbury, Anne
Marbury, Katherine
Marbury, Elizabeth
Mauleverer, Anne
Maverick, Mary (Gye), of Dorchester, MA
Mellowes, Martha (Bulkeley), of Charlestown, MA
Miles, Anne (Humphrey), of Swansea, MA
More, Richard, of Plymouth & Salem, MA
Need, Joseph, of Darby, Chester Co., PA
Need, Mary
Negus, Jane (Deighton) (Lugg), of Boston, MA
Nelson, John, of Boston, MA
Nelson, Margaret
Nelson, Philip, of Rowley, MA
Nelson, Thomas, of Rowley, MA
Newton, Ellen
Norwood, Charles, of VA
Norwood,[Col.] Henry, of VA
Orr, John, of VA
Otis, Rose, of Dover, NH
Owen, Joshua, of Burlington Co., NJ
Owen, Rebecca (Owen), of Merion, Philadelphia Co., PA
Owsley, Thomas, of Stafford Co., VA
Oxenbridge, John, of Boston, MA
Palgrave, Dr. Richard, of Charlestown, MA
Palmes, Anne (Humphrey), of Swansea, MA
Parker, George, of VA
Parker, Richard, of Charles City & Henrico Cos., VA
Pelham, Elizabeth (Bosvile), of Cambridge, MA
Pelham, Herbert, of Cambridge, MA
Pelham, Jemima (Waldegrave), of Cambridge, MA
Peyton, Robert, of Gloucester Co., VA
Pole (or Poole), Elizabeth, of Taunton, MA
Pole (or Poole), William, of Dorchester & Taunton, MA
Popham, George, of Maine
Pynchon, Amy (Wyllys), of Springfield, MA
Randolph, Henry, of Henrico Co., VA
Randolph, William, of Henrico Co., VA
Raynsford, Edward, of Boston, MA
Reade, George, of James City & York Cos., VA
Rodney, Capt. John, Gent., of St. Kitts & Philadelphia, PA
Rodney, William, of Kent Co., DE
Rudyard, Thomas, deputy Governor of East Jersey
Saint John, Elizabeth
Saint Leger, Katherine
Saltonstall, Muriel (Gurdon), of Ipswich, MA
Saltonstall, Richard, of Watertown & Ipswich, MA
Savage, Anthony, of VA
Scott, Katherine (Marbury), of Massachusetts & RI
Seton, William, of NY
Sewall, Jane (Lowe) of St. Mary’s Co., MD
Sherman, Mary (Launce), of Watertown, MA
Skepper, Rev. William, of Boston, MA
Skipwith, Diana
Skipwith, Sir Grey, Knt., 3rd Baronet, of VA
Smith, Lawrence, of VA
Smith, Mary Johanna (Somerset), of Calvert Co., MD
Somerset, Mary Johanna
Spencer, Agnes, of Cambridge, MA and Hartford, CT
Spotswood, Alexander, Governor of VA
Stockman, John, of Salisbury, MA
Stoughton, Rose
Stratton, Anne (Derehaugh), of Salem, MA
Taylor, James, Gent., of Boston & Lynn, MA
Teackle, Margaret (Nelson), of Accomack Co., VA
Throckmorton, John, of Salem, MA, Providence & Warwick, RI, & NJ
Torrey, [Rev.] Samuel, of Hull and Weymouth, MA
Torrey, William, of Weymouth, MA
Towneley, Lawrence of VA
Towneley, Mary
Tyndall, Margaret
Tyng, Elizabeth (Coytemore), of Boston, MA
Veatch, James, of MD
Waldegrave, Jemima
Warner, Mary, of York and Gloucester Cos., VA
Washington, John, of Westmoreland Co., VA
Washington, Lawrence, of Rappahannock Co., VA
Welby, Olive
Wentworth, [Elder] William, of Dover, NH
West, Francis, Governor of VA
West, John, of York Co., VA
West, Thomas, Knt., 3rd Lord De la Warre, Governor of VA
Whiting, Elizabeth (St. John), of Lynn, MA
Whitaker, Rev. Alexander, of VA
Whitaker, Jabez, of Henrico Co., VA
Whittaker, Mary (Bourchier), of Henrico Co., VA
Whittingham, Elizabeth (Bulkeley), of Cambridge & Boston, MA
Williams, Frances (Deighton), of Taunton, MA
Willis, Amy
Wilson, Elizabeth (Mansfield), of Boston, MA
Wingfield, Thomas, of New Kent Co., VA
Winthrop, Margaret, of Boston, MA
Wolsey, Mary
Worden, Peter, of MA
Wormeley, Agatha (Eltonhead), of Middlesex Co., VA
Wyatt, Sir Francis, Governor of VA
Wyatt, Rev. Hawte, of Jamestown, VA
Wyche, Henry, of Surry Co., VA
Yale, Thomas, Gent., of New Haven, CT
Yate, George, of Anne Arundel Co., MD
(Ancestor List from Genealogical.com)

Genealogy, Peyton, Virginia, American Revolution, West Virginia 10:04 am

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 Lindsay PEYTON) of Amherst and Cabell Counties, Virginia.

When I published “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.