RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR, 1809–17, filed under “Peyton.” 1 p.; signed by Fitzhugh, John McKinney, Robert Young, Archibald McClean, Joseph Dean, and Amos Alexander. Fitzhugh was a judge of the circuit court of the District of Columbia; McKinney, Young, Dean, and Alexander were justices of the peace for Alexandria County; McClean directed the Young Ladies’ Academy there until 1813. In a message dated 1 Feb. 1814, JM nominated Young as a judge of the Orphans’ Court for Alexandria County, and the Senate approved the appointment on 7 Feb. (Senate Exec. Proceedings, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (3 vols.; Washington, 1828). description ends 1:458–59, 2:305, 466, 469–70, 601; Alexandria Gazette, Commercial and Political, 28 May 1813).