JOHN, of Stafford Co., Virginia, born 1725, who married Elizabeth a daughter of John Rouse, and left issue,

JOHN ROUSE and VALENTINE, M.D.

John Rouse Peyton married Anne, daughter of Howson Howe, and left issue,

I. JOHN HOWE, (of Montgomery Hall) born April
27th, 1778, his successor, and of whom presently,
II. BERNARD PEYTON, a Captain in the U. S. Army,
and afterwards Adjutant General of Virginia and
President of the Board of Visitors of the Virginia
Military Institute at Lezington. He married
Amanda daughter of General Moses Green of
Faquier, and left issue,

1. THOMAS, a Captain of Artillery in the
Confederate Army, who married Catherine,
daughter of the Right Rev. John Johns, Bishop
of Virginia, and has issue.

2. GREEN, a Colonel in the Confederate Army,
and, since the war, a professor in the University
of Virginia. He married Champe, daughter
of Dr. Charles Carter of Albemarle, and has
issue.

3. BERNARD, who married Estelle, daughter of
Dr. Tricon, of California, and has issue.
4. THOMAS, jun., a Major in the Confederate
Army, who married a daughter of the Hon.
Dabney Carr, late American Minister Plenipo-
tentiary to Turkey, and a grand daughter of

Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the U. S. and has issue.

5. SUSAN, who married Major General W. B. Hagner, U. S. Army, and has no issue.

6. AMANDA, married J. C. Washington, and has no issue.

III. GARNETT, who married Agatha daughter of W. S. Madison, and left issue, but only one of his children married and had issue, viz., William, who married a daughter of William Munford, and has issue. IV. ROUSE OF ROUZE, who married, first, Ann Gallagher, and left issue: 1st Bernard, and 2nd Ann, who married Bronson Murray, of New York, and has issue. He married secondly, Eliza daughter of Col. J. B. Murray and left issue-one son, Hamilton, and three daughters, all married and with issue. V. Lucy, married General Green, of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and left issue.

VI. ANN FRANCES, who married Robert Green, but left no issue.

John Howe, of Montgomery Hall, married 1st Susan, daughter of William S. Madison, and by her left issue one son Colonel William M. Peyton the subject of the foregoing memoir, who married Elizabeth A. E. Taylor and left issue,

1 ELIZABETH, who died in her 16th year unmarried.

2 JOHN HOWE, died in infancy.

3 SUSAN, who married Joseph H. White, and

then Col. Washington, and died without issue living by either husband.

4 WILLIAM ALLAN, died of typhoid fever in his 14th year.

5 GARNETT, married Walter Preston, and has issue, one son Peyton, and a daughter Sally.

6 SALLY PRESTON, married Thomas C. Read, and left issue, one daughter, who married Dr. William Berkeley, a descendant of Sir Wm. Berkeley, Colonial Governor of Virginia.

7 JULIET, died in her 17th year unmarried.

8 BERNARDINE, married in 1872, Lewellyn, of Albemarle County, Virginia.

John H. Peyton, married secondly, Ann Montgomery, daughter of Major John Lewis, of the Sweet Springs, and left issue, at his death, which occurred at Montgomery Hall, 3rd of April, 1847.

I. John Lewis, born 15th of September, 1824, who married Henrietta E. C. daughter of Colonel John C. Washington, of County Lenoir, North-Carolina, a relative in the 4th Canonical degree to the illustrious Washington, and has issue, one son,

LAWRENCE WASHINGTON HOWE, born in Guernsey,

Channel Islands, 27th of January, 1872.

II. YELVERTON HOWE, born 8th of January 1838, and is in 1873, unmarried.

III. SUSAN MADISON, married Col. J. B. Baldwin, a

son of Judge B. G. Baldwin, and has no issue.

IV. ANN MONTGOMERY, died unmarried.

V. MARY PRESTON married R. A. Gray, and has issue two sons, 1 Peyton, and 2 Baldwin, and daughters, VI. Lucy married J. N. HENDREN, and has issue one son Samuel and daughters,

VII. ELIZABETH married Wm. Boys Telfair, of Ohio, and has issue two sons 1 William and 2nd Baldwin and daughters,

VIII. MARGARET, married G. M. Cochrane, jun., and has issue, one son, George, and daughters.

IX. VIRGINIA, married Col. J. F. Kent, and has issue one son Joseph,

X. CORNELIA, married Dr. Thomas, and has issue two sons, 1 Peyton, 2 Baldwin,

The Peyton arms, as in the visitation of Suffolk, Harl., A.D., 1560, are: quarterings,

1. sable, a cross, engrailed, or, for Peyton; 2. Gernon; 3. Colville; 4. Sutton; 5. Hassingborne; 6. Langley; 7. Atleze; 8. Atbridge; 9. Langley; 10. Francis; 11. Lucy; 12. Chamberlaine.

Crest-a Griffin, Sejant, or,

Motto-Patior, Potior:-I labour, I secure.

ISLEHAM HALL,

THE PRIORY AND CHURCH,

CO. CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND.

EXTRACT PROM A MS ACCOUNT OF A VISIT TO ISLEHAM, IN 1870, BY THE AUTHOR OF THE FOREGOING MEMOIR.

The forenoon of the next day, the strangers, whom the readers will recognize as ourselves, were occupied examining Ely Cathedral, one of the most ornate and beautiful in England. The same afternoon we set forth in a gig for Isleham, across a region, commonly styled the "Fen Country," though terra cotta drainage has long since turned the swamp into the driest of dry land. This district is flat, monotonous and uninteresting. There is little in it to arouse and enlighten the imagination, or to inspire artistic genius. In our cloudcompelling chariot, we actually scoured the Cambridgeshire plains, though the dust was suffocating and the heat tropical, for our steed belonged to a class known to London cab proprietors as a retired racer, an animal no longer fit for the Olympic games of Epsom, but who before a gig rather flies than runs, and, I may add, generally leaves a visible wrack

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