No. XIV.
The Peyton Family.
[The following limited account of this family has been sent me by a
friend. In the civil and ecclesiastical lists the name may be found at an
early day.]
John Peyton, Esq., of Stafford county, Virginia, who died in 1760,
was twice married. By his first wife his children were Yelverton, Henry,
and Ann Waye. By the second wife they were John Rowzee, and Valentine.
1. Yelverton had four sons and four daughters. One of the daughters—
Elizabeth—married her cousin, John Peyton Harrison; and Catherine
married Captain William Bronaugh, of Stafford, who moved to Kanawha
and is the father of a numerous family, the most of whom now live in
Missouri.
Of the sons of Yelverton, Henry was a pious Methodist preacher, and
married a Miss Brent, of Fauquier; and another of his sons—Colonel
Samuel Peyton—was the father of Yelverton, William, and Henry, all of
whom were talented and pious ministers of the Methodist Church, and
died young, leaving each one child.
2. Henry, the second son of John Peyton, married a Miss Fowke, and
resided near the Plains, in Fauquier county. He was a pious member of
the Episcopal Church. One of his sons—Dr. Chandler Peyton—married
Eliza B. Scott, the eldest daughter of the Rev. John Scott; and another
son—Yelverton—married Margaret, the youngest daughter of the Rev. Mr.
Scott. She, after his death, married Mr. Charles Lee, and then Mr.
Glassell.
3. Ann Waye, the daughter of John Peyton, married Mr. Thomas
Harrison, of Stafford. She had a son named John Peyton Harrison, who
married his cousin, Elizabeth Peyton, and has left many descendants; and
another son—Thomas—who was an Episcopal minister and the father of
Philip Harrison, Esq., late of Richmond.
4. John Rowzee, the third son of John Peyton, was the father of John
Howard Peyton, of Staunton, of General Bernard Peyton, of Richmond,
and of Mr. Rowzee Peyton, who has moved to the State of New York.
5. Doctor Valentine Peyton, the fourth son of John Peyton, resided at
the family seat, Tusculum, in Stafford, and was the father of Mrs. John
Conway, of Stafford Court-House, and Mrs. Chichester, who resides near
the Falls Church, in Fairfax county, and of many others.
