Memoir of John Howe Peyton / in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton

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INDEX.

Abandons the Jackson party, [11]
Alexander, Dr., [53]
Alexander, John, [130]
Account of his visit to Kentucky, [51]
African colonization favors, [79]
Ablest criminal lawyer in Virginia, [84]
Academy, the Staunton, [10]
Adams, John Quincy, [11]
Adams, Dr., [37]
Appendices A, [270]
Anecdote of the Fighting Major, [29]
Anecdote of Gen. Peyton of Kentucky, [260]
Anecdote of J. H. P. in a criminal case, [55]
Allen, Judge J. J., [13], [116], [138], [132]
Augusta Agricultural Society, [10]
"Allen" nominates Mr. P. for Court of Appeals, [118]
A bundle of miscellaneous letters, [131]
Amherst Festival, J. H. P's letter, [123]-[5]
Anderson, Col. Wm., a letter of, [236]
Advice of J. H. P. to S. M. P., [132]
A hero of 1776—Col. Hy Peyton, [280]
Advice to Col. J. L. P., [139]
Appeals, Court of, adopts J. H. P's letter to Tucker, [116]
A deplorable accident to J. H. P., [125]
Accident to Judge B. G. Baldwin, [101]
A captain of light horse, [7]
Attorney for the Commonwealth resigns, [158]
A complete lawyer, [160]
Allison's History of Europe, Mr. P. on, [180]
Always helped the young, [179]
A master spirit, [181]
Barbour, Judge P. P., [9]
Baldwin, J. B., [17], [46], [149], [226]
Baldwin, Susan M., sketch of, [271]
Baldwin, B. G. on J. H. P., [65], [76], [101], [138]
Bumgardner, Capt. James' speech, [204], [210]
Bowyer, m., [37]
Bowyer, Henry, [126]
Baxter, John, [49]
Baxter, Sidney S., [208]
Barton, R. R., [130]
Bickle, Adam, [20]
Berrian, John M. (Senator), [70]
Brockenbrough, Dr. John, [37], [134]
Brickley, [37]
Brock, R. A., letter of, [238]
Bradshaw, [48]
Brown, Chancellor John, [45]
Breckenridge, Gen. Jas, [92]
Benton, Th. H., [104]
Bosses, The Ring, Mr. P. on, [76]
Burrell, Nat, [126]
Boys, Dr. William, [45]
Books a boy should read, [45]
Cabell, J. C., [109]
Cabell, Wm. H., [116]
Cabell, Mayo, accident to, [144]
Cadets, the Va., at West Point, [143]
Campbell, Hugh, [143]
Campaign of 1840, [118]
Clay, Henry visits Staunton, [113]
Charlottesville, J. H. P., speech, [114]
Cameron, Col, [48]
Carter, Hill, [116]
Carter, Robt. W., [160]
Conrad, R. Y., [13]
Comfort, Professor, [53]

Chalkley, Judge L., letter of, [203]
Cowan, Joseph, [40], [82]
Crutchfield, Mr., [240]
Cowan, A. M. D., [14]
Clark, Samuel, [82]
Crawford, B., [50], [191]
Clark, A. B., of N. Y., [107]
Cochran, John, his home, [97]
Cochren, Geo. M, [204], [191]
Couch, Deborah, [144]
Captain of Light-horse, [7]
Chief of Staff, [27]
County Court, on J. H. P's resignation, [159]
Daniel, Judge Wm., [13]
Daniel, Peter V., [97]
Dabney, John, [108]
Dade, Judge A. G., [111]
Declines a 2nd term in Senate, [127]
Dorman, Geo. C. P., [130]
Dined and wined, [97]
Descendants of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Peyton, [270]
Duncan, Judge E. S., [112]
Divers, Mr., [95]
Difficulties, how to overcome, [90]
Disease leads to his change of home, [23]
Democratic party, [11]
Davidson, Jas. D., [209], [235]
Dupuy, Mrs. L., letter of, [239]
Derby, Earl of, [285]-[6]
Empress, Catherine, of Russia, [36]
Education, his views on, [10], [11]
Eskridge, George, [82]
Elder, Maj. T. C. speech accepting J. H. P's portrait, [210]
Echols, General letter of, [230]
French, Judge S. B., letter of, [235]
Fighting Major, [29]
Federal Attorney declines, [32]

Fultz, David, [59]
Green, T. M., [208]
Goss, John, [242]
Family, every one a history, [88]
Frazier, Win., sketch of J. H. P., [109], [168]
Farragut, Admiral, [105]
Fry, Judge, [107]
Faulkner, Chas. J., [160]
Garland, Mayor James, [184]
Gallagher, M., [54]
Gaston, Judge Wm., [70]
Gallagher, Miss, [98]
Green, Mary, of Kentucky, [98]
Girl, defenceless, J. H. P. defends, [112]
Gallaher, J. S. on J. H. P's retirement, [128]
Griffith, Dr., [126]
Gatewood, E., [145]
Green, John R., [152]
Green, T. M., [208]
Getty, George W., [152]
Goss, John, [242]
Hay, George, [9]
Hayne, R. C., [23]
Harrison, Wm. H., [30]
Harrison, Randolph, [116]
Hart, Nat, [32]
Holiday, Lewis, [36]
Harvie, Wm., [37]
Huston, Gen., [54]
Halcombe, Wm. H., [149]
Hendren, John N., [152]
Hubbard, J. R., [160]
Harrison, Judge Geo. M., [218]
Hanger, Hon. Marshall, [219]
Invests money in public work, [84]
Ingersoll, I. R., M. C., [i]
Johnston, Frederick, [126]

Johnson, Col. R. M., [32]
Jay, John, [32], [35]
Jackson, Pres., refuses to follow him, [87], [43]
Jackson, party dines him in Richmond, [97]
Judgeship declines, voted for, [68], [70]
Jefferson, T., letters, [109]
Kent, Mrs. Jos. F., why so named, [139]
Knowledge leads to happiness, [142]
Langhorne, M., [126]
Languages, ancient and modern, improvements of, [143]
Lee, Gen. G. W. C., [240]
Lawyer, the fiddling, [59]
Lawyer, the ablest in Va., [84]
Leigh, B. W., [9], [97]
Letters, old, [32], [39], [44], [48], [88], [99]
Letters, of J. H. P. on 2nd term in Senate, [121]
Letters, miscellaneous, [131]
Letters, declines a 2nd Senatorial term, [127]
Letters, from Rockbridge committee, [129]
Letters, of advice to S. M. P. and J. L. P., [132], [139]
Letters, on Earl of Derby, [284]
Letters, Littlepage, Lewis, [35]
Lewis, Charles H., [152]
Lewis, Gen. S. H., [97]
Lewis, Col. Wm. L., [59], [60]
Lewis, James A., [145]
Lewis, Major John, [42]
Lewis, major Thos. Preston, [102]
Lewis, John Benjamin, cadet, [51]
Lewis, J. F., letter of, [237]
Lewis, Mrs. Mary P., letter of, [242]
Lewis, Col. John, [243]
Lewis, Mrs. Mary Preston, letter of, [240]
Lockridge, Alex, [50]
Legislature dines, J. H. P., [97]
Loyal, Mr., of Norfolk, [105]
Log cabins of the West, [102]

Lines to the memory of Mrs. Peyton, [268]
List of Peytons in U. S. A., [275]
Massie, Capt., [14], [36], [39], [45]
Mosby, Charles L., [149]
Minor, Prof. J. B., letter of, [234], [236]
Manners, Ld. John, [73]
McCue, John, [82], [130]
McCue, John H., sketch of J. H. P., [23], [176]
Military Schools, [25]
Mayor of Staunton, J. H. P., [17], [31]
Matthews, Sampson, [48]
Murray, Mrs. Jas. B., [54]
McDowell, Gov. Jas., [98]
McDowell, Dr. James W., [154]-[5]
Massie, Henry, [99]
Meade, Bishop, [105]
McElhany, Parson, [107]
Mind, J. H. P. unimpaired, [17]
McClintic, Wm., [41]
Michie, Thomas J., on Peyton, [121], [109], [131], [119], [208], [215], [231]
Mathematics, should be studied, [141]
Moncure, Mrs. Wm., [133]
Moncure, Judge R. C. L., [78], [208]
Moore, Samuel McD., [68], [102]
Madison, President James, [11]
Madison, Wm. Strother, [7]
Madison, Bishop, [7]
Monroe, James, [11]
Nicholas, Norborne, [37]
Norfolk, visits, [105]
Nelson, Dr. and Mrs., [107]
Nominated for Senate, [83]
National Whig Convention, [113]
North mountain road case, [119]
Oliver, M., [126]
Originality, Mr. P's, [65]
Old letter of J. L. P., [280]

Patton, J. M., [134]
Payne, Dr., [126]
Porterfield, Gen. R., [9]
Pleasants, John H., [96], [128]
Potter, Ben, [46]
Points, James, [144]
Parrish, R. L., [240]
Peyton, Val., Capt., killed, [28]
Peyton, Valentine, [52]
Peyton, Henry, [1]
Peyton, List of Peytons in the Revolutionary army, [274]
Peyton, Susan, M., [91], [132]
Peyton, Mrs. S. M., her death, [34]
Peyton, John, [1]
Peyton, Jesse E., letter of, [240]
Peyton, John Rowze, [2]
Peyton, Rowze, letter of, [157]
Peyton, John Lewis, [93], [143]
Peyton, John Lewis, letter of, [150], [154]
Peyton, John Lewis, letter to, [139]
Peyton, John Lewis, speech, [216]
Peyton, John Lewis, U.S. agent in Europe, [183]
Peyton, John Lewis, letter of, [282], [284], [285]
Peyton, Mrs., sketch of, [240]
Peyton, Wm. Madison, [7], [126], [33], [55]
Peyton, Wm. Madison, letter of, [155]
Peyton, Gen., of Kentucky, anecdote, [276]
Peyton, John Howe, [7], [9], [15], [16], [38], [51], [55], [67], [88], [71], [83], [127]
Peyton, John Howe, death of, [157], [160]
Peyton, John Howe, sketches of, [160], [168], [176], [192], [198]
Peyton, John Howe, his portrait presented to Augusta Co., [201]
Peyton, Robert L. Y., [148]
Peyton, Townsend Dade, [148]
Peyton, Col. Francis, [148]
Peyton, Mrs. John H., [241]
Peyton, Craven, letter to, [280]
Preston, Wm., [14]

Preston, Col. Wm. of Kentucky, [8]
Preston, J. M., [45]
Preston, John, letter of, [241]
Preston, Thos. L., [136]
Preston, John T. L., sketch of J. H. P., [160]
Political sentiments of J. H. P., [85]
Providence of God, [91]
Pickpockets rob J. H. P., [135]
Pocahontas visits, [47]
Public meeting to receive J. H. P's portrait, [204]
Pigeon-hole a, contents of, [273]
Poem, on Lee, [285]
Ranson, Capt. T. D., [204]
Rives, Wm. C., [13]
Rives, Alexander, letter of, [233]
Roane, S. Judge, [37], [38]
Retires from bar, J. H. P., [83]
Robertson, Judge John, [144]
Robinson, Anthony, [105]
Religious topics, [59]
Religious belief, J. H. P's, [65]
Rush, Richard, Minister to England, [70]
Radicals oppose him, [74]
Roanoke, visits, [126]
Rockbridge Committee to J. H. P., [128]
Ruff, John, [130]
Ritchie, Thomas, Jr., [128]
Robbed by pickpockets, [135]
Reading, a course of recommended by J. H. P., [149]
Rieley, Judge, G. W., letter of, [237]
Ruffner, Rev. W. H. (D. D.), letter of, [238]
Senate course in, [12]
Smeade, Rev. G. G., letter of, [238]
Scott, R. E., [13], [32]
Scott, R. Taylor, [240]
Scott, Gen. Winfield, [54]
Scott, Stuart, Lewis, [93]

Stuart, A. H. H, [231], [121]
Stuart, Charles A., [82]
Stuart, Judge A., [47], [109], [110], [195]
Staunton Spectator, editorial of, [223]
Staunton Post, (newspaper) editorial, [219]
Sketch of J. H. P., by Prof. J. T. L. Preston, [160]
Stribling, Dr. F. T., [134]
Speech, on the death of Roane J. H. P's, [37], [38]
Staunton issues paper money, [31]
Senex, anecdote by, [132]
Sherrard, Jos. H., letter of, [232]
Spencer, Mrs. T. R., [98]
Sheffey, Dan'l, [9], [23]
Sheffey, H. W. Judge, [120], [209]
Sheffey, J. H. P. eloquence of, [209], [231]
Stout, Judge Jno. W., letter of, [201]
Stannard, Judge Robt., [116]
Smith, J. W., [144]
Smith, Rev. J. H., letter of, [220]
Smith, Gen. F. H., [145]
Sergeant, Judge Jno., [70]
Speece, Dr. Conrad, [83]
Shelby, Governor of Kentucky, [32]
Stony Hill, [77]
Sketch of J. H. P., [160]
Sketch of J. H. P., [168]
Sketch of J. H. P., [176]
Tazewell, L. N., [9]
Tucker, H., St. George Judge, [9], [133], [116], [180]
Tucker, John Randolph, letter of, [217]
Traveling in 1826, [30], [51]
Thompson, L. P., [65]
Thompson, Hon. G. W., sketch of J. H. P., [198]
Taylor, Wm., M. C., [98]
Taylor, George B., [126]
Trials, how to meet them, J. H. P. on, [90]
T . . ., by J. H. P., [125]

Telfair, Mrs., [38], [133]
Tapscott, Susan, [152]
Tams, Wm. Purviance, [204]
Thomas, C. B., letter of, [239]
Van Buren, Martin, J. H. P. on, [115]
Valentine, Ed., [106], [135]
Virginia Female Institute, [10]
Volunteers in the war of 1812, J. H. P., [28]
Wirt, Wm. Hon., [9], [32], [227]
Washington College Trustee of J. H. P., [10]
West Point, letter from, [142], [51]
Wilson, Rev. J. C., [134]
Wined and dined, [97]
Whig address, [160]
Wren, M. B., lines in memory of Mrs. Peyton, [268]
Woodville, J. L., [34], [138], [153]
Waddell, Dr. A., [188]
Waddell, L., [54], [139], [159]
Waddell, Jos. A., Sketch of J. H. P., [187]
Western Hospital, [11]
Western trip in 1815, [32]
Watts, Gen. E., [126]
Webster, Daniel, [23], [183], [228]
War of 1812, [27]
Witcher, V., [13]
Young, D. S., Sketch of J. H. P., [192]
Young people encouraged by J. H. P., [179]
Yost's Weekly, (newspaper,) editorial of, [226]