Thomas Jefferson Papers

Enclosure: Administrators of John Peyton’s Estate to Abner L. Duncan, 26 December 1809

Enclosure

Administrators of John Peyton’s Estate to Abner L. Duncan

Sir

You will pay to the honble Thomas Jefferson two thousand four hundred & seventeen Dollars, which money is in your hands belonging to the estate of the late John Peyton, as pr your rect to Robert Peyton dated Orleans August 12. 1809. given under our hands this 26th day of December 1809.

Craven Peyton
Robert Peyton
Burwell Logwood

Test

  John Gilmer

   Harrison Peyton.

Pay to Benjamin1 Morgan esq. of New Orleans or order

Th: Jefferson

PoC of Tr (MHi); entirely in TJ’s hand; at head of text: “Mr Abner L. Duncan”; subjoined to preceding enclosure; at foot of text: “(copies).”

Burwell Logwood, a longtime resident of Bedford County, married Pruey Peyton on 20 July 1794 (William W. Hinshaw and others, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy [1936– ], 6:951; DNA: RG 29, CS, Bedford Co., 1810, 1830).

1Reworked from “George,” erased.

Index Entries

  • Duncan, Abner Lawson; and J. Peyton’s estate search
  • Gilmer, John (1782–1834); and J. Peyton’s estate search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; and J. Peyton’s estate search
  • Logwood, Burwell; and J. Peyton’s estate search
  • Logwood, Burwell; identified search
  • Logwood, Burwell; letter from to A. L. Duncan search
  • Morgan, Benjamin; and J. Peyton’s estate search
  • Peyton, Craven; and J. Peyton’s estate search
  • Peyton, Craven; letter from to A. L. Duncan search
  • Peyton, Harrison search
  • Peyton, John; estate of search
  • Peyton, Robert; and J. Peyton’s estate search
  • Peyton, Robert; letter from to A. L. Duncan search