PEYTON, of England and Virginia
Reverend Horace Edwin HAYDEN, continues to be the leading genealogist of the PEYTON family of Virginia. His celebrated book, “Virginia Genealogies,” published in 1891, included a chapter on the PEYTON family: “PEYTON, ‘of Iselham,’ Cambridgeshire, England, Gloucester, and Westmoreland Counties, Virginia.” The author closely followed the English PEYTON lines in the 1878 book “Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicheley,” by Robert E. Chester WATERS.
One hundred seventeen years ago, when Reverend HAYDEN published the lineage and history of the PEYTON family of Virginia, his work was the most comprehensive and accurate in data, scope and material ever received. Since then, his extensive “Peyton” chapter in “Virginia Genealogies” has formed the basis of all succeeding published genealogies of the Peyton family. This scanned reprint will be a welcome and necessary resource for those studying the PEYTON family of Virginia. His acclaimed essay “Descent” is included.
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Do you know where Hayden’s papers ended up? Are they in a library or collection somewhere? I am deeply involved in researching the early VA Conways and would like to review his primary info that he provided by Richard Moncure Conway. Any help would be appreciated!
Laverne Conway
Comment by L. — March 17, 2009 @ 7:21 pm
I do not know where they are, but they should be somewhere in the Virginia - Maryland - Pennsylvania area. He was a prolific researcher and writer.
Comment by Edna Barney — March 17, 2009 @ 10:54 pm
im looking for lucinda farish peyton. lived near stauton, va. large family, dr.e.o. peyton was one of the children.
Comment by sara wright — December 17, 2009 @ 12:41 pm
To Sara Wright -
Lucinda Farish and her Peyton descendants are on pages 564, 565 of “PEYTON of England and Virginia.” There is more on this PEYTON family and their ancestry back to the middle ages in “PEYTONS Along the Aquia - Second Edition,” including Dr. E.O. PEYTON.
Comment by Edna Barney — December 18, 2009 @ 8:03 am