Valentine Peyton (abt. 1700 - bef. 1761)

Descendants

Died before 10 Sep 1761 before about age 61 in Prince William County, Virginia

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Biography

Valentine Peyton was born about 1700 or 1710.^[1] He married Francis Harrison, daughter of Thomas Harrison.^[2] Their children included Craven and Robert.^[3]

He was a prominent citizen of Virginia, serving as clerk of the court of Stafford County. Serving in this position past the time that Captain Valentine Peyton passed away.^[4]

Valentine Peyton, Gent. died after November 1752 but before September 10, 1761, when his son Robert, being a minor, was represented in court by John Peyton, his Guardian.^[5]

Research Notes

Estimated Birth Date

"About 1700" birth is a guess based on his son Robert's birth in 1745 and Valentine's death before 10 September 1761, when Loudoun County Order Book records that "Robert Peyton, an infant, is represented by John Peyton, his Guardian.^[6][5]

Conflated Valentines

Merge Warning: Do not merge with Peyton-15 or Payton-679.

• This profile (Peyton-221) represents the Valentine who was the father of Robert (m Ann Rush).
• Peyton-15: The Peyton Society of Virginia maintains that the father of Robert Peyton b 1745 and who married Ann Rush was Valentine, but not the Captain Valentine Peyton (Peyton-15) who married Frances Linton,^[7] whose son Robert married Ann Guffey in 1754.
• Peyton-263: Another Peyton, Yelverton, married another Ann Guffey, who was born in 1758.
• Payton-679: To further confuse matters, there is also a third Valentine Peyton (Payton-679) who married Sarah Randolph, but they did not have a son named Robert.

This Valentine (Peyton-221) is designated the "FE Line" by the Peyton Society of Virginia and Robert Peyton (married Ann Rush) is labeled FE-1.^[8] The Valentine who married Frances Linton is the "G Line". Their son Robert (who married Guffey) was the "P Line" and listed with a "probably" until 2013, when the probably was removed and the P Line merged into the G Line.

Two of the Valentines are combined by Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden in his book PEYTON, of England and Virginia^[9] — as noted in the following recitation of the G Line:^[10]

"Peyton, Valentine {G} of Prince William Co., Va.; one of the two Valentine Peytons combined in Hayden as #36. . .b. ca. 1687, Westmoreland Co., Va.; d. 1751, Prince William Co., Va. . .Son of Henry and Ann Peyton (B-91); m. Frances Linton. Issue: +i. Eleanor Peyton. +ii. Henry Peyton. +iii. Robert Peyton. +iv. John Peyton. +v. Craven Peyton. vi. Valentine Peyton. +vii. Francis Peyton."

Son Robert, married Ann Rush

• Robert m Ann Rush by March 1765. Their marriage date based on a deed of that date with "Robert Peyton of Loudoun County [Virginia] and Anne his wife." The transfer is for property sold to Valentine Peyton in August 1750.

In September 1761, John Peyton was the guardian of Robert, born 1745. Benjamin Rush became his guardian in November 1762 (the court documents called Robert "Orphan of Valentine Peyton, Gent., deceased").^[5]

From Mary Gregg's research: "Robert's existence, and relationship to Capt. Valentine of Pr. Wm. is proved by one or more deeds which, I [Mary Gregg] believe, I have already posted." (See this post on Robert and Ann, and also this post on Valentine and Robert.)

Leads

• Marriage information source: Hiatt and Scott, Book, "Implied Marriages of Farifax Co., Va." (Athens, GA: Iberian Pub. Co,, 1994). This was added to Valentine Peyton-15, but it was probably for Frances Linton, as it seems it was meant to support the 1719 married date added for Harrison (which can't be... she was born 1711).
• ...Craven PEYTON by Valentine PEYTON, which had been conveyed to Valentine PEYTON by Thomas OWSLEY by deed dated 25 Aug 1740.^[11]
• Payton/Peyton, World Families DNA site; yResults
• Rootsweb online tree entry for Valentine Peyton lists info from records for both (three? includes info on Valentine in Hamilton, Overwharton, & Dettington parishes with overlapping dates)
  • This article, published 14 August 1746, includes a piece submitted by, among others, Valentine Peyton, involving the sale of a house and land, mentioning vestries of Hamilton Parish and "Dettigen" Parish. (enlarged image)

Sources

1. ↑ See Estimated Birth Date (above).
2. ↑ See her profile.
3. ↑ For Craven, see comments on Robert's profile; for Robert, see Son Robert... (above)
4. ↑ Stafford County Stafford County (Va.) Court Records, Order Book (1749-1755). See page 181 (July Court, 1752), page 201 (November Court, 1752).
   

   Available online through Library of Virginia's digital collections: search for "000039218" using the Library's DigiTool search

5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} September 10, 1761: Loudoun Co., Va., Order Bk A:509 sent by Pat Duncan to Mary Gregg. November 2, 1762, Prince William Co., Va., OB 1761-1763:385 from Ruth and Sam Sparacio (see Mary Gregg's Genforum post #352, in which she provides a summary of information that she and her co-researcher Carlene St. John had found.)
6. ↑ Note from Mary Gregg: "Infant" did not mean "baby." It was a legal term referring to anyone who was still a minor.
7. ↑ per Harold Davey of the Peyton Society of Virginia, who confirmed that while Robert Peyton b 1745 m Ann Rush was indeed the son of Valentine Peyton, neither he nor his father was descended from Capt. Valentine Peyton who died 1751.
8. ↑ "Peyton Book Additional Data #65"
9. ↑ PEYTON, of England and Virginia, by Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden (this is the Hayden book that combines two Valentines, so this Valentine is not included, nor are his wife and children that I could find - Google Books' snippit view is limited, and page 498 is not part of it, but the text at the top of page 499 indicates a problem).
10. ↑ Payton, post to Genealogy Forum, noting that Hayden combined two Valentines
11. ↑ Rootsweb tree

See also:

• Mary Gregg's posts: [1], [2]
• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed March 9, 2017), "Record of Maj. Valentine Peyton", Ancestor # A089995.
• Rootsweb tree, entry for [Maj.] Valentine Peyton b 1754
• WikiTree profile for Major Valentine Peyton
• DAR records showing Peyton & Guffie marriages:
  • Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed May 4, 2015), "Record of Yelverton Peyton", Ancestor # A090000.
  • Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed May 4, 2015), "Record of Robert Peyton (b before 1740)", Ancestor # A089994.