10 Facts About Francis Peyton

Francis Peyton's nephew of the same name, Francis Peyton was a Revolutionary War captain and paymaster who became a prominent Alexandria merchant and politician and corresponded with Thomas Jefferson.

Francis Peyton outlived not only Henry but his brothers John Peyton and Craven Peyton.

Francis Peyton's father Henry Dade was a prominent landowner, though members of that family would not win a seat in the Virginia General Assembly until 1807.

Townsend Dade Francis Peyton, who became his father's executor, married twice and had several grandchildren.

At some time after his second marriage in 1822, to Sarah Yates of King George County, Townsend Francis Peyton sold his slaves and moved down the Ohio river to Oxford, Ohio where he died, although his only son by that second marriage, Col.

Robert Ludwell Yates Francis Peyton never married and became a member of the Confederate States Senate and Colonel of the 3rd Missouri Cavalry, and died in 1863 of malaria incurred defending Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Francis Peyton owned nine enslaved children under age 16 and 10 enslaved adults in the 1787 Virginia tax census.

Francis Peyton bought land near Licking Creek in Kentucky, that in his will he bequeathed to his son Townsend.

Francis Peyton died in Leesburg, probably in late 1815, for the will he had written in 1810 was formally presented to the probate court on January 8,1816.

Francis Peyton was buried in the Ball Burying Ground} in Loudoun County.