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]
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Note.—In the library and papers of his son, J. L. Peyton, which were stored for safe keeping on his estate in Alleghany on Jackson's River, and in the Valley of the Falling Spring, in the Spring of 1861, there were many boxes of MSS., letters from various members of the family, written between 1740 and 1860, and often the answers of them. The letters were from John Peyton, who died in 1760, John Rowze Peyton, John Sergeant, C. J. Ingersoll, Jos. R. Ingersoll, J. M. Berrian, Thos. Jefferson, John Marshall, James Madison, Bishop Madison, Governor Tyler, John Scott, of Fauquier, Dr. Alexander, D. D., Bishop Meade, B. W. Leigh, Chapman Johnson, John S. Archer, Gov'r. McDowell, Governor Campbell, Thos. H. Benton, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Wm. C. Rives, Gen. Francis Preston, Wm. C. Preston, William Preston, J. M. Preston, Wm. B. Preston, John Floyd, Judge A. G. Dade, John Yates, Bushrod Washington, Gov. Thos. Mann Randolph, H. A. Wise, John Randolph, of Roanoke, John Tyler, Spencer Roane, and others; and Mr. Peyton's letter book, beginning about 1806. The whole of this invaluable mass was burnt, or destroyed, together with Col. Peyton's library, by Federal troops during the civil war. Cr.
[2] LEWIS LITTLEPAGE. Note.—The James here mentioned was James Littlepage Woodville, who married Mrs. Peyton's eldest sister, Mary Lewis.—Mr. Woodville resided at Fincastle and Buchanan, and was a prominent lawyer and president of the Bank of Buchanan. His father was Rev. John Woodville, Rector of St. Mark's Parish, Culpeper Co., and a native of North Britain. He was a nephew of the celebrated, but eccentric Lewis Littlepage, whose career was brilliant and unequaled. Littlepage was born in Virginia in 1762, and died at Fredericksburg in 1802. At the age of 17 he went to Europe, and in 1779-80 accompanied Mr. Jay, American Envoy, to the Court of Spain, Madrid. Though only a youth, his figure was fine and manly—his dark eyes bright and penetrating. Among his acquaintances he was regarded as a prodigy of genius and acquirements.—Shortly after reaching Madrid, Littlepage separated from Mr. Jay's family, and joined as a volunteer aid, the duke of Cuillon, and was with the army at the siege of Minorca. At the siege of Gibralter he was on a floating battery and blown up, but being uninjured was rescued from the sea and distinguished himself during the further operations against that fortress. On the return of the fleet to Cadiz, he was sent with despatches to Madrid, where the Court received and treated him with much distinction. He then proceeded to Paris, and was on terms of friendship with Dr. Franklin, who was then living at Passy.—At Paris and Versailles this adventurous, young Virginian moved in the best society and attracted marked attention from all. After a brief visit to London, he returned to the Continent and made a tour of Europe, establishing himself at Warsaw, where he was so popular that he rose to be in effect, the King's Prime Minister. He resisted and defeated the plans of Zamoyski before the Diet. He afterwards went to St. Petersburg as Ambassador from Poland, and acquitted himself with distinguished ability and became a favorite of the Empress Catherine. The following letter of Lewis Littlepage to Lewis Holiday takes up the history of his life where our account ends and completes the story of his eventful career in Europe.
[3] STONY HILL. Note.—It may not be uninteresting to mention that the Stony Hill mansion was an old red brick building erected in the 17th century, with a wide hall and Grecian portico, commanding an extensive and beautiful view of Aquia creek and the Potomac river. The dwelling had grown to be a large and rambling domicile under the additions of four generations of the Peyton's, and all of them improving men. This fine old colonial house was demolished during the first year of the Civil-war, 1861-62, by Federal troops, on the spurious pretext that it was a necessity to have at once material for baking ovens. The old red bricks of this stately home, brought from England, as ballast in sailing vessels sent out to fetch back tobacco to Bristol, were used to erect many ovens in which bread was baked for the invading northern army.
When John Peyton lived at Stony Hill the estate consisted of 1900 acres of fine land, and as far as the writer knows, still does. It is owned and occupied in 1894, by Mr. Moncure, a son of the late President of the Virginia Court of Appeals, Judge R. C. L. Moncure, whose widow still lives, and is a descendent of John Peyton.
[4] Foot Note.—Mr. Madison was elected President in 1809 and re-elected in 1813.
[5] This refers to the sale of the personal property of Colonel John Lewis, Mrs. Peyton's father.
[6] The mail was then carried on horseback, and the postoffice was in the office of the tavern.