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I have just finished the “Revised and Updated” Second Edition of my genealogy book of the PEYTON family of Virginia, - PEYTONs Along the Aquia Genealogy. It is now available as a “keepsake” edition in hardcover.

PEYTONs Along the Aquia Genealogy

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.

Photograph from Flickr.

This wonderful site from Central Rappahannock Regional Library covers history of Fredericksburg, Stafford, Spotsylvania and Westmoreland counties of northern Virginia. HistoryPoint.org

Fredericksburg, Virginia - This is a great source for Virginia researchers, not only for the city of Fredericksburg, but the neighboring counties. Historic Court Records