Colonel Valentine Peyton

Frances Harrison Was not his wife.

Col. Valentine Peyton (1686-1751), son of Henry Peyton, and grandson; of Henry Peyton, the emigrant (q. v.), was born in Hamilton parish, Prince William county, circa 1686-1688, was burgess for the county in the assembly of 1736-1740; was justice in 1743 and sheriff in 1749; and died 1751. He left issue Henry Peyton (q.v.) Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography

Note: Francis Peyton owned land in Montgomery County, Kentucky. He died in Virginia. (See Valentine Peyton Will and Deeds below)

He was a staff officer for George Washington.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine_Peyton

Valentine Peyton (1687–1751), was a Virginia planter and military officer who served in the House of Burgesses representing Prince William County (part-time) from 1736 through 1740, as well as in local offices. ... he was named for a great-uncle who emigrated to the Virginia colony and served as a burgess for then-vast Westmoreland County in 1663-64.

He married twice, first in 1725 to Anne, whose original surname has not survived but who bore children. After her death, Peyton remarried, to Frances Linton, daughter of a merchant who emigrated from Scotland and who bore several children, including Henry who served in the House of Burgesses and administered his father's will, and Francis Peyton, who would serve many years in the Virginia General Assembly representing Loudoun County.

Peyton died in 1751 and his eldest surviving son Henry was appointed executor of his estate.[15] Henry Peyton would also serve as a burgess for Prince William County, although the member of this branch of the family with the longest legislative service in Prince William County would be John Henry Peyton. Although Dumfries' port silted up by the end of the century, and it lost its position as county seat, Dumfries is now the oldest chartered town in Virginia.

Several of Valentine Peyton's children would continue the westward movement. His son John Peyton and youngest son Francis Peyton moved tot Loudoun County, which Francis would represent in the House of Burgesses, Virginia Conventions and Virginia House of Delegates. This man's grandson Col. Leven Powell, who served in the Continental Line during the Revolutionary War, supported ratification of the federal Constitution, donated acreage to found Middleburg (the Loudoun County seat) and also served a term in the U.S. Congress. A great-grandson, Dr. Samuel Oldham Peyton (1804-1870) was born in Bullitt County, Kentucky and served in the Kentucky House of Representatives as well as in the U.S. Congress before the Civil War.

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Family

No, Valentine Peyton (1687-1751) was NOT married to Frances Harrison or Sarah Harrison, only to Frances Linton.See "The Peytons of Virginia", p. 119.

Source: http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/peyton/287/

THE PEYTONS OF VIRGINIA, published by the Peyton Society of Virginia in 1976, show children as:

• (1) Eleanor (married William Powell);
• (2) Henry (m. Ann Thornton and Margaret Gallaher) and stayed in Virginia
• (3) Robert (THE PEYTONS OF VIRGINIA says ". . .This may have been the Robert Peyton who m. by 1765 in Prince William Co., Va., Anne Guffey. .." but that is wrong. Capt. Valentine Peyton's son, Robert, was still a minor in the early 1760s and had a guardian, first John Peyton (his brother?) and then Benjamin Rush, so he could not have been the father of children born in 1755.) Robert died in Franklin Co., N. C.;
• (4) John (m. Seth Harrison, and stayed in Virginia, dying testate in Prince Wm. Co. in 1774 - Will in PW Will Book H:289);
• (5) Craven (m. Ann West, and lived and died in Loudoun Co., Va. Will proved there in 1781.);
• (6) Valentine (The Peyton book seems to be silent about this son, and I know nothing about him.); and
• (7) Francis (m. Frances Dade) In 1976, when the Peyton book was published, there was conflicting information about where this Francis Peyton died. He might have stayed in Loudoun County, Va., and died there, or he might have died in Montgomery Co., Ky.

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Notes

• "Valentine Peyton (1686-1751), brother of John Peyton, of “Stony Hill” Peyton Society of Virginia Spouse conflict
• It is possible that there was a Valentine Peyton Jr., or that researchers have confused other families with the same name.
• "Valentine Peyton married Frances Harrison. Many are convinced that Frances Linton, daughter of Moses Linton and Margaret Barton, was his wife, and the mother of my ancestress Eleanor Peyton. I wonder if the evidence used, that Moses Linton mentions grandson Henry Peyton in his will, could refer to another Henry Peyton than the son of Valentine Peyton. [Later info: I have been informed that there may have been an adoption in the family that caused the name confusion.]"

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Source: Valentine Peyton Will and Deeds:

DEED ABSTRACTS OF STAFFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA, 1722-1728; 1755-1765. Ruth and Sam Sparacio (Stafford Co., Va., DB J:536-539) July 10, 1728. Valentine Peyton of Overwharton parish, Stafford County, to John Peyton of same, £40 good and lawfull money of Great Britain for a 100 acres on Acquia Run in Parish and County aforesaid now in occupation of said John Peyton being part of Patent for 1000 acres granted to Valentine Peyton on June 6, 1654 and by him conveyed to Henry Peyton on May 26, 1657 and acknowledged in Westmoreland County Court. Conveyed by Henry Peyton unto the afsd Valentine Peyton his Son by his Last Will and Testament it being the Lowest part of 200 acres of land which was to be divided equally between the said Valentine and the above mentioned John Peyton as by the said Henry Peyton last will and Testament .. Wits: La: Pepper, W. Mason /s/ Valentine Peyton July 10, 1728. Valentine Peyton acknowledged his deeds and ffrances the Wife of the said Valentine in Open Court relinquished her Right of Dower to the lands .. admitted to record.

That Capt. Valentine Peyton's wife, Frances, (1) survived him; (2) was the mother of Henry; and (3) was the devisee of Moses Linton, is proved by the following deed: PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA, DEED ABSTRACTS, 1749-1752; 1761-1764. Ruth and Sam Sparacio

(Prince William Co., Va., DB P:299-309) On margin: "dd. Mr. Lawson 24. Sep. 1765" January 21, 1763. Indenture between John Ballendine of Prince William County, gent. and Mary his Wife of one part and John Tayloe of Richmond County, Esquire, and Presly Thornton of Northumberland County, Esqr., of the other part. Whereas Henry Peyton of Dettingen Parish in the County of Prince William Gent by Deeds of Lease & Release beating date respectively the 24th and 25th of March, 1755, for the sum of £150 Current money of Virginia did sell unto the said John Tayloe. Presly Thornton & John Ballendine and to their heirs and assigns all that parcel of land in the County of Prince William on the South side of Occuquan River near the Falls thereof being the land and plantation whereon Valentine Peyton late of the said County gent deced and Frances his Wife lived & died including Occuquan Warehouse on the Southside of the said River and the Forge Landing House the same being granted to George Mason gent deced by Patent from the Proprietors Office dated March 3, 1704, and by the said George Mason sold to one Moses Linton by an Assignment Endorsed on the said deed dated May 9, 1707, and by the said Moses Linton by his Last Will & Testament given and devised unto Frances Peyton Mother of the said Henry Peyton to whom the same descended after her death; the said land being granted by the said Original Deed as for Seventy nine acres and being sold by Henry Peyton for the same Quantity; Together with all Houses profits rights whatsoever belonging as by Deeds duly recorded relation being had and Whereas Richard Blackburn of the said County of Prince William Gent. and Mary his Wife by Deeds of Lease and Release dated May 23 and 24, 1755,

While this doesn't prove that Frances, the mother of Henry Peyton, was Moses Linton's daughter, it is surely grounds for that assumption.

A link to show Francis Linton as a possible wife to Valentine. With Moses providing land to his grandson Henry Peyton in his will shows one of his relatives (or children) married a Peyton.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=billzouch...

Moses Linton's will, dated April 1729 and proved June 1729, left grandson Henry Peyton 500 acres (part of the Broad Run patent).

References

1. Hayden, Horace Edwin. (1891) Virginia genealogies : a genealogy of the Glassell family of Scotland and Virginia: Peyton, of "Iselham," Cambridgeshire, England, Gloucester and Westmoreland counties, Virginia. Person # 40. Page 495. < AncestrySharing >. Page 499 < AncestrySharing > 40. Craven5 Peyton (Valentine4, Henry3, Henry2, Henry1), of Loudon County, Virginia, b. -; d. -, 1781; will pro. Loudon County, Sep. 10, 1781; ex’rs, Ann Peyton, William Peyton and brother Francis Peyton; m -, Ann -. 10 children.
2. Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via son Robert Peyton by SmartCopy: May 6 2015, 23:34:24 UTC
3. Updated from WikiTree Genealogy by SmartCopy: May 6 2015, 23:37:02 UTC
4. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Peyton-15
5. Pg 35 thru 40, Peytons along the Aquia, Genealogy, second edition, Edna Barney, 2009.
6. http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Valentine_Peyton_%281%29
7. https://colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I27278&tr...