John Peyton (d. 1809), brother of Craven and Robert Peyton, occasionally hauled goods for and sold lime and sadlery to TJ. He served as postmaster at Milton from January 1806 until his death. Peyton headed west in the spring of 1809, entrusted with the sale of slaves belonging to John Gilmer. He sold the slaves, but died soon thereafter at New Orleans (MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1004, 1155, 1203, 1226; Axelson, Virginia Postmasters description begins Edith F. Axelson, Virginia Postmasters and Post Offices, 1789–1832, 1991 description ends , 5; Woods, Albemarle description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901 description ends , 295; TJ to Abraham Bradley, 7 Sept. 1809; TJ to Benjamin Morgan, 27 Oct. 1810). A letter from John Gilmer’s brother George Gilmer to TJ of 14 Jan. 1810, not found, is recorded in SJL as received from Milton the same day.

Abner Lawson Duncan (ca. 1777–1823) was a lawyer in New Orleans whose prominent clients included James Wilkinson in 1808 and Andrew Jackson in 1815. He served as a volunteer aide to Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. A strong opponent of Spanish rule in the New World, Duncan supported an 1810 rebellion in West Florida and subsequent movements for independence in Texas. He lost a bid to become governor of Louisiana in 1820, and Jackson unsuccessfully recommended him to President James Monroe for a judgeship in 1821. Late in life Duncan co-owned a steam ferry on the Mississippi River at New Orleans (Malcolm D. McLean, ed., Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas [1974], liii; Terr. Papers description begins Clarence E. Carter and John Porter Bloom, eds., The Territorial Papers of the United States, 1934–75, 28 vols. description ends , 9:639, 664; Jackson, Papers description begins Sam B. Smith, Harold D. Moser, Daniel Feller, and others, eds., The Papers of Andrew Jackson, 1980– , 6 vols. description ends , 3:226–7, 340–3, 5:4, 12n; New Orleans Louisiana Gazette, 27 Dec. 1823).

TJ appointed Robert Peyton (d. 1813) an ensign in the United States Army in 1804. He was promoted to lieutenant in 1806 and captain in 1812 (Woods, Albemarle description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901 description ends , 295; JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States description ends , 1:467, 468, 2:51, 53, 297, 302, 404 [24, 26 Mar. 1804, 25, 27 Feb. 1807, 9, 10 Nov. 1812, 28 July 1813]; Heitman, U.S. Army description begins Francis B. Heitman, comp., Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, 1903, 2 vols. description ends , 1:787).