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AT&T Natural Voices can be a good resource to determine pronunciation of names by various voices. I tested the family surname VIA - VIAR. I was suprised that every one of the native English speakers pronounced it the same way, just as my family had done long ago. Give it a try: AT&T Natural Voices.

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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I published “So Obscure A Person”, today 13 March 2007. It is a story of a man who wanted too much, and his Virginia descendants, who were the beneficiaries of his quests. He was ALEXANDER STINSON Senior of Williamsburg and Buckingham County, Virginia and his lifetime spanned almost the entire eighteenth century of Colonial Virginia.He first appeared in the court records of Virginia as a bound servant boy, “a slave without shackles.” The title of this book comes from the reply of the Virginia Council at Williamsburg in May of 1741, when, as an overly ambitious young man, he made an official petition for land to fulfill his dream of becoming a Virginia planter. After years in bondage, his hopes must have seemed shattered when President JAMES BLAIR and the Council denied his plea, explaining that it was “too much land for so obscure a person.”

As his childhood had been passed being owned by tavern keepers along Williamsburg’s Duke of Gloucester Street, young SAWNEY seemed not easily discouraged. He allied himself with some of Virginia’s finest families, and went on to win his Virginia land and much, much more.

Eighteenth century Virginians muddled through life much as we do today. They lived each day, one at a time, the same as do we, but they did so much more during those one hundred years of history. Alexander STINSON moved upcountry from Tidewater Virginia to a place called Willis’s on the branches of Cattail, in what is now the center of Virginia, Buckingham County. He saw the land when it was a wilderness, and he settled it, and built a home for himself and his family. His dream of working the land he had won came true, as he became a Virginia planter. He cleared and built his own roadways, he taught his children, and he helped create a society where there had been no community at all. He and his children rebelled against a tyrannical government, fought a war, and created a brand new nation. While living through it all, he kept intact the faith of his fathers. After having accomplished all that he did, his children moved on to new places to pioneer as he had done.

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Reverend Edgar Woods’ celebrated history, “Albemarle County of Virginia”, published in 1901, on page 296, mentions the following about the brother of my PEYTON ancestress, Lucy PEYTON.

“Henry PEYTON became the owner of Park Hill, the old Drury Wood place near Stony Point, where he resided until his death. His wife was a sister of William P. Farish, and his sons were William, Benjamin, George L., Dr. E.O., Bernard and Eugene, all of whom exhibited a marked degree of enterprise, some in conducting lines of Stages and some in hotel keeping. They removed for the most part to West Virginia.”

The genealogical lineage and descendants of Henry PEYTON of Park Hill in Albemarle County, Virginia are contained in my genealogy book published in 2004, available at Amazon and Lulu: “PEYTONs Along the Aquia”.

The eight children of Valentine PEYTON (1749-1831) were enumerated in his will, extant in Lincoln County, Kentucky, and also in a bounty land claim. They seem to be Randolph PEYTON, Buford PEYTON, Lucy PEYTON (married William HILL), Simeon PEYTON, Delila PEYTON, Vincent PEYTON, and Rhoda PEYTON (married Fleming GOODE). More than a few of his children married into the SPEED family. Many grandchildren are also mentioned in these documents, which are a wealth of information for genealogists. Valentine PEYTON and his lineage is on pages 130-132 of “PEYTONs Along the Aquia.”

When I wrote the genealogy book in 2004, “Peytons Along the Aquia”, I published the ancestry (page 71) but not the descendants of the William PEYTON, born 1753, who married Mary ROSS on 22 February 1796. William PEYTON had removed to Hartford County, Kentucky, sometime before 1780.

Under “Shelby County TN Biographies” are the details and stories of the illustrious descendants from his son Craven PEYTON: Presley Ross PEYTON, Dr. William Peyton (born 1817), Dr. Craven Peyton (born 1821), and Dr. Thomas Fleming Peyton (10 May 1823 Mount Vernon, Kentucky - 14 February 1878 Shelby County, Tennessee).

William PEYTON served as a private during the American Revolution in the 5th Virginia Regiment on the Continental Line. Although I have found no pension for him, William PEYTON has been proven as a DAR patriot by descendants of his son Samuel Oldham PEYTON. Samuel was born on 8 January 1804, at Bullitt County, Kentucky and died at Hartford, Ohio County Kentucky on 18 January 1870. On 12 November 1829, he married Mary Worthington KINCHELOE who was born in 1810, at Muhlenberg County, Kentucky and who died in Kentucky in 1888.

All women who descend from William PEYTON through his son Craven PEYTON are also eligible for membership in the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.

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
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Lewis, Elizabeth (Marshall), of ME
Ligon, Thomas, of Henrico Co., VA
Littleton, Nathaniel, Esq., of Northampton Co., VA
Lloyd, Thomas, of Philadelphia, PA
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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)

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 cousin in the next county with the same exact name was declared a “fraud” because the government was already paying him a pension. I have sympathized with them at having given such great service to the new nation, to 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.

From Moorman’s River

James W. WOOD and his wife Mildred are buried at White Hall, Virginia, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The Wagener Family Memorial at Pohick Church, Virginia, including Revolutionary War patriot, Peter Wagener (1744-1798). “The remains from 29 graves were brought here from the Wagener family cemetery at Stisted, their plantation on the Occoquan River near Colchester. The Second Peter Wagener (1717-1774, Clerk of the Fairfax County Court (1752-1772), served as a Vestryman and Church Warden of Truro Parish.”

The image, Wagener Family Memorial at Pohick, was originally uploaded by barneykin. It is posted here from Neddy’s .