This post is an answer to Roy Martin who wrote the following:
Thank you so much for publishing your wonderful book on the Peyton’s. Question – on page 143, you list two children for Thomas Peyton and Sarah Maddox. Bill Deyo sent me an email sometime back suggesting that Thomas and Sarah had at least two other children – Anne Carter Peyton and my GG Grandfather James Henry Peyton. James Henry Peyton married Lucy Monteith and they had at least one child, my G Grandfather, Simeon Thomas Peyton, who married Sarah Katherine Grigsby. They had several children including my Gandmother Eva Peyton who Married Ernest Lee Stoffregen of Fredericksburg. Among their children is my mother, Freda Lee Stoffregen who married my father Roy Martin, Sr.
Can you corroborate Deyo’s claim that James Henry Peyton was a son of Thomas Peyton and Sarah Maddox and, also, do you have any family history on Sarah Maddox beyond her parents? Roy
No, on page 143 of “PEYTONs Along the Aquia,” I list only one known child for Thomas and Sarah PEYTON. The other children that I mention are “possible”. I can now verify that James H. PEYTON and Simeon C. PEYTON were children, as they appear on the 1850 Census with Thomas and Sarah. It is likely that there were other children, besides the ones I have found. Perhaps Mr. Deyo can supply his sources for the other children. Although, I cannot verify this about Sarah MADDOX, it is said that her parents were Basil and Margaret (NAILLE) MADDOX of Charles County, Maryland. There was another James H. PEYTON who married Lucinda and ended up in Missouri. Could he be your ancestor? I don’t know who his parents were. It would indeed be nice to be able to sort out these PEYTONs from the Fredericksburg area. Many were named James and Charles.
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I must apologize as I read pg 143 incorrectly. I inadvertantly read Nancy Ann Peyton and Valentine Peyton as CHILDREN of Thomas rather than as siblings. I see now the daughter of Thomas and Sarah you list along with possible other children. The James H Peyton you indicate subsequently finding along with Simeon C Peyton as children of Thomas and Sarah in the 1850 census is my GG grandfather. His son, my G Grandfather, Simeon Thomas Peyton, must have been named both for James’ brother, Simeon, and father, Thomas.
In asking Bill Deyo about this matter also, he replied as follows:
“As for the children of Thomas Peyton and Sarah Maddox, I am positive that your James Henry was their son. The son (Joseph Payton) of James Henry’s brother, Robert, gave the complete list of children to the late genealogist, George H. S. King. I talked at length to Joseph’s son, Joe, before his death. He was quite a character and had a fantastic memory of things his father had said.”
Again, thank you for your work on this family. It has been a pleasure to read. Roy