My Peyton Book 2

This post is in response to a comment from Bill Deyo left here: https://neddysnook.wordpress.com/comments-to-guestbook/#comment-32509

Bill – This is in response to your paragraphs below:

The Peyton Society gives the lineage as Charles, son of Evan, son of Charles and Diana, son of Philip, son of Philip and Mary (Rush), son of Henry. Your book gives the lineage as Charles, son of Evan, son of Philip and Diana, son of Valentine, son of Henry.

Actually, although I probably was not as clear as I should have been in the book, I have Philip PEYTON as a “possible” husband of Diana, (page 51) and therefore “possible” father of Evan PEYTON. I made the assumption that others would see that relationship, but I should have spelled it out. Evan PEYTON is a proven son of Diana. I found no proof of the husband of Diana except that he was a PEYTON. I found Philip to be the “presumptive” husband which I explained in the book. I know other researchers have her husband as Charles PEYTON and her maiden name as “EVANS”, but I never found any proof nor presumption of any of that, so I went with my research here, instead of what others wrote. I continue to stand by my conclusion that Philip PEYTON is the presumptive husband of Diana, mother of Evan and James PEYTON.

Elizabeth Rush, married Joshua Hudson, and had a son Caleb Hudson who apparently married a Miss Peyton of this line. Since Caleb left a long line of descendants named “Valentine Peyton Hudson”, Caleb’s wife was likely a daughter of Valentine Hudson. With the common practice of marrying first cousins at that time, one would normally assume that Caleb’s wife was a daughter of Philip Peyton and Mary Rush, but in the case of Philip not having any children, his closely associated nephews and nieces would then be the closest contacts of that line to the Hudson descendants of Elizabeth Rush.

I am sorry not to be able to follow this, as I have no information on Elizabeth RUSH, other than that she was a sister of Mary RUSH who married Philip PEYTON. I know nothing of Caleb HUDSON who married a PEYTON, nor how Caleb’s wife could be a daughter of a Valentine HUDSON, nor of Philip and Mary PEYTON.

I have never have written that Philip and Mary (RUSH) PEYTON had no children. I wrote that he “possibly” had no heirs. I also wrote that, although I believe the Philip and Charles who were devisees of his estate were probably nephews, they could have been sons (page 23). In fact, in my book I mention a possible daughter that I cannot prove. I have no sons listed for Philip and Mary because I never found any that I could accept as sons, however, the old records are very fragmented, and because I found no sons, does not mean he had no sons. My research and calculations would not allow me to accept Valentine PEYTON as one of his sons, even though others do. I explained all of my calculations and my conclusions about this line in my book.

You may be correct that Caleb HUDSON’s wife was a PEYTON, but I have no documentation to show that and I have not done any research on the HUDSONS.

I will get to your other comments as soon as I can research them.