I22821: Lisa BECKLEHIMER

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Sir John Peyton (c. 1720 - 3/25/1790), born in Kingston Parish, Gloucester Co., VA to Thomas Peyton and Frances Tabb. "He fell heir to the title of 'Baronet' upon the death of a cousin, also John Peyton, in 1721. When he assumed the title is not known, but he was using it as early as 1756 according to several entries in the Kingston Parish Register recording the birth of his children. Married 1st Frances Cooke c. 1748/49. Married after 1786 to Mary Dick, daughter of Charles Dick and widow of James Taliaferrio. . Known children of Sir John Peyton & Frances Cooke are: Thomas (c. 1751), Frances (c. 1753), Elizabeth (2/6/1765), Mary (6/11/1758) Harriot (2/19,1761), Martha Cooke (3/13/1763), Elizabeth (2//6/1756), Henry Yelverton (5/5/1770), and Seignora (1/8/1767). Sir John Peyton and Mary Dick had one child which died in infancy … sex and name unknown. Sir John was a Col. in the Gloucester Militia in 1775; County Lt., Gloucester; 1st Lt. 3rd Va CL; Feb. 5, 1776; wounded at Brandywine Sept. 11, 1777. Capt. Feb. 1778; retired Sept. 14, 1778. Justice of the Peace 1776; and Sheriff 1783 - 1784. Sir John personally paid for 250 stand of arms to fortify his county troops and became known as the County Patriot. Isleham stayed in ownership until 1813 according to tax records at the Library of VA. Mathews tax records indicate Sir John with 2000 acres, 2 men, 128 negroes, 28 horses, and 120 cattle for the year 1782. The Mathews tax records of 1791 indicate Sir John Peyton Estate with 1650 acres, 68 negroes, 4 horses and 1 chair riding carriage. (Info from Revolutionary War Roster Gloucester Co. Va by Elizabeth Dutton Lewis, Kingston Parish Vestry Book 1749-1827, Tax List of Mathews Co. VA 1774-1782-1791 for Kingston Parish and the Peyton family web site: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~marshall/esmd17.htm).

from "Mathews History from 1791." "After her death Sir John married Mary Dick, of Fredericksburg, whose first husband had been Commissary of Governor Dinwiddie during the French & Indian Wars. They became the parents of one son, another John Peyton, who was the father of Rebecca Courtenay Peyton, who married Edward Carrington Marshall, a son of Chief Justice John Marshall."

My Southern Family

Lisa BECKLEHIMER

Howard Lee COLSON

MARGARET FOGGE

ABT 1460 - ____

ID Number: I74121

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Peter GASKELL

ABT 1730 - ____

ID Number: I5356

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Mary HOWELL

ABT 1730 - ____

ID Number: I76491

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Benjamin NAYLOR

ABT 1758 - ____

ID Number: I97779

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Lucy PENN

ABT 1740 - ____

ID Number: I51346

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Sir JOHN PEYTON Baronet of Isleham

ABT 1726 - 25 Mar 1790

ID Number: I59971

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Benjamin Franklin WADDELL

11 Aug 1829 - 6 Aug 1897

ID Number: I26142

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