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Abandons the Jackson party, 11 Alexander, Dr., 53 Alexander, John, 130 Account of his visit to Kentucky, 51 African colonization favors, 79 Ablest criminal lawyer in Virginia, 84 Academy, the Staunton, 10 Adams, John Quincy, 11 Adams, Dr., 37 Appendices A, 270 Anecdote of the Fighting Major, 29 Anecdote of Gen. Peyton of Kentucky, 260 Anecdote of J. H. P. in a criminal case, 55 Allen, Judge J. J., 13, 116, 138, 132 Augusta Agricultural Society, 10 "Allen" nominates Mr. P. for Court of Appeals, 118 A bundle of miscellaneous letters, 131 Amherst Festival, J. H. P's letter, 123-5 Anderson, Col. Wm., a letter of, 236 Advice of J. H. P. to S. M. P., 132 A hero of 1776—Col. Hy Peyton, 280 Advice to Col. J. L. P., 139 Appeals, Court of, adopts J. H. P's letter to Tucker, 116 A deplorable accident to J. H. P., 125 Accident to Judge B. G. Baldwin, 101 A captain of light horse, 7 Attorney for the Commonwealth resigns, 158 A complete lawyer, 160 Allison's History of Europe, Mr. P. on, 180 Always helped the young, 179 A master spirit, 181 Barbour, Judge P. P., 9 Baldwin, J. B., 17, 46, 149, 226 Baldwin, Susan M., sketch of, 271 Baldwin, B. G. on J. H. P., 65, 76, 101, 138 Bumgardner, Capt. James' speech, 204, 210 Bowyer, m., 37 Bowyer, Henry, 126 Baxter, John, 49 Baxter, Sidney S., 208 Barton, R. R., 130 Bickle, Adam, 20 Berrian, John M. (Senator), 70 Brockenbrough, Dr. John, 37, 134 Brickley, 37 Brock, R. A., letter of, 238 Bradshaw, 48 Brown, Chancellor John, 45 Breckenridge, Gen. Jas, 92 Benton, Th. H., 104 Bosses, The Ring, Mr. P. on, 76 Burrell, Nat, 126 Boys, Dr. William, 45 Books a boy should read, 45 Cabell, J. C., 109 Cabell, Wm. H., 116 Cabell, Mayo, accident to, 144 Cadets, the Va., at West Point, 143 Campbell, Hugh, 143 Campaign of 1840, 118 Clay, Henry visits Staunton, 113 Charlottesville, J. H. P., speech, 114 Cameron, Col, 48 Carter, Hill, 116 Carter, Robt. W., 160 Conrad, R. Y., 13 Comfort, Professor, 53 Chalkley, Judge L., letter of, 203 Cowan, Joseph, 40, 82 Crutchfield, Mr., 240 Cowan, A. M. D., 14 Clark, Samuel, 82 Crawford, B., 50, 191 Clark, A. B., of N. Y., 107 Cochran, John, his home, 97 Cochren, Geo. M, 204, 191 Couch, Deborah, 144 Captain of Light-horse, 7 Chief of Staff, 27 County Court, on J. H. P's resignation, 159 Daniel, Judge Wm., 13 Daniel, Peter V., 97 Dabney, John, 108 Dade, Judge A. G., 111 Declines a 2nd term in Senate, 127 Dorman, Geo. C. P., 130 Dined and wined, 97 Descendants of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Peyton, 270 Duncan, Judge E. S., 112 Divers, Mr., 95 Difficulties, how to overcome, 90 Disease leads to his change of home, 23 Democratic party, 11 Davidson, Jas. D., 209, 235 Dupuy, Mrs. L., letter of, 239 Derby, Earl of, 285-6 Empress, Catherine, of Russia, 36 Education, his views on, 10, 11 Eskridge, George, 82 Elder, Maj. T. C. speech accepting J. H. P's portrait, 210 Echols, General letter of, 230 French, Judge S. B., letter of, 235 Fighting Major, 29 Federal Attorney declines, 32 Fultz, David, 59 Green, T. M., 208 Goss, John, 242 Family, every one a history, 88 Frazier, Win., sketch of J. H. P., 109, 168 Farragut, Admiral, 105 Fry, Judge, 107 Faulkner, Chas. J., 160 Garland, Mayor James, 184 Gallagher, M., 54 Gaston, Judge Wm., 70 Gallagher, Miss, 98 Green, Mary, of Kentucky, 98 Girl, defenceless, J. H. P. defends, 112 Gallaher, J. S. on J. H. P's retirement, 128 Griffith, Dr., 126 Gatewood, E., 145 Green, John R., 152 Green, T. M., 208 Getty, George W., 152 Goss, John, 242 Hay, George, 9 Hayne, R. C., 23 Harrison, Wm. H., 30 Harrison, Randolph, 116 Hart, Nat, 32 Holiday, Lewis, 36 Harvie, Wm., 37 Huston, Gen., 54 Halcombe, Wm. H., 149 Hendren, John N., 152 Hubbard, J. R., 160 Harrison, Judge Geo. M., 218 Hanger, Hon. Marshall, 219 Invests money in public work, 84 Ingersoll, I. R., M. C., i Johnston, Frederick, 126 Johnson, Col. R. M., 32 Jay, John, 32, 35 Jackson, Pres., refuses to follow him, 87, 43 Jackson, party dines him in Richmond, 97 Judgeship declines, voted for, 68, 70 Jefferson, T., letters, 109 Kent, Mrs. Jos. F., why so named, 139 Knowledge leads to happiness, 142 Langhorne, M., 126 Languages, ancient and modern, improvements of, 143 Lee, Gen. G. W. C., 240 Lawyer, the fiddling, 59 Lawyer, the ablest in Va., 84 Leigh, B. W., 9, 97 Letters, old, 32, 39, 44, 48, 88, 99 Letters, of J. H. P. on 2nd term in Senate, 121 Letters, miscellaneous, 131 Letters, declines a 2nd Senatorial term, 127 Letters, from Rockbridge committee, 129 Letters, of advice to S. M. P. and J. L. P., 132, 139 Letters, on Earl of Derby, 284 Letters, Littlepage, Lewis, 35 Lewis, Charles H., 152 Lewis, Gen. S. H., 97 Lewis, Col. Wm. L., 59, 60 Lewis, James A., 145 Lewis, Major John, 42 Lewis, major Thos. Preston, 102 Lewis, John Benjamin, cadet, 51 Lewis, J. F., letter of, 237 Lewis, Mrs. Mary P., letter of, 242 Lewis, Col. John, 243 Lewis, Mrs. Mary Preston, letter of, 240 Lockridge, Alex, 50 Legislature dines, J. H. P., 97 Loyal, Mr., of Norfolk, 105 Log cabins of the West, 102 Lines to the memory of Mrs. Peyton, 268 List of Peytons in U. S. A., 275 Massie, Capt., 14, 36, 39, 45 Mosby, Charles L., 149 Minor, Prof. J. B., letter of, 234, 236 Manners, Ld. John, 73 McCue, John, 82, 130 McCue, John H., sketch of J. H. P., 23, 176 Military Schools, 25 Mayor of Staunton, J. H. P., 17, 31 Matthews, Sampson, 48 Murray, Mrs. Jas. B., 54 McDowell, Gov. Jas., 98 McDowell, Dr. James W., 154-5 Massie, Henry, 99 Meade, Bishop, 105 McElhany, Parson, 107 Mind, J. H. P. unimpaired, 17 McClintic, Wm., 41 Michie, Thomas J., on Peyton, 121, 109, 131, 119, 208, 215, 231 Mathematics, should be studied, 141 Moncure, Mrs. Wm., 133 Moncure, Judge R. C. L., 78, 208 Moore, Samuel McD., 68, 102 Madison, President James, 11 Madison, Wm. Strother, 7 Madison, Bishop, 7 Monroe, James, 11 Nicholas, Norborne, 37 Norfolk, visits, 105 Nelson, Dr. and Mrs., 107 Nominated for Senate, 83 National Whig Convention, 113 North mountain road case, 119 Oliver, M., 126 Originality, Mr. P's, 65 Old letter of J. L. P., 280 Patton, J. M., 134 Payne, Dr., 126 Porterfield, Gen. R., 9 Pleasants, John H., 96, 128 Potter, Ben, 46 Points, James, 144 Parrish, R. L., 240 Peyton, Val., Capt., killed, 28 Peyton, Valentine, 52 Peyton, Henry, 1 Peyton, List of Peytons in the Revolutionary army, 274 Peyton, Susan, M., 91, 132 Peyton, Mrs. S. M., her death, 34 Peyton, John, 1 Peyton, Jesse E., letter of, 240 Peyton, John Rowze, 2 Peyton, Rowze, letter of, 157 Peyton, John Lewis, 93, 143 Peyton, John Lewis, letter of, 150, 154 Peyton, John Lewis, letter to, 139 Peyton, John Lewis, speech, 216 Peyton, John Lewis, U.S. agent in Europe, 183 Peyton, John Lewis, letter of, 282, 284, 285 Peyton, Mrs., sketch of, 240 Peyton, Wm. Madison, 7, 126, 33, 55 Peyton, Wm. Madison, letter of, 155 Peyton, Gen., of Kentucky, anecdote, 276 Peyton, John Howe, 7, 9, 15, 16, 38, 51, 55, 67, 88, 71, 83, 127 Peyton, John Howe, death of, 157, 160 Peyton, John Howe, sketches of, 160, 168, 176, 192, 198 Peyton, John Howe, his portrait presented to Augusta Co., 201 Peyton, Robert L. Y., 148 Peyton, Townsend Dade, 148 Peyton, Col. Francis, 148 Peyton, Mrs. John H., 241 Peyton, Craven, letter to, 280 Preston, Wm., 14 Preston, Col. Wm. of Kentucky, 8 Preston, J. M., 45 Preston, John, letter of, 241 Preston, Thos. L., 136 Preston, John T. L., sketch of J. H. P., 160 Political sentiments of J. H. P., 85 Providence of God, 91 Pickpockets rob J. H. P., 135 Pocahontas visits, 47 Public meeting to receive J. H. P's portrait, 204 Pigeon-hole a, contents of, 273 Poem, on Lee, 285 Ranson, Capt. T. D., 204 Rives, Wm. C., 13 Rives, Alexander, letter of, 233 Roane, S. Judge, 37, 38 Retires from bar, J. H. P., 83 Robertson, Judge John, 144 Robinson, Anthony, 105 Religious topics, 59 Religious belief, J. H. P's, 65 Rush, Richard, Minister to England, 70 Radicals oppose him, 74 Roanoke, visits, 126 Rockbridge Committee to J. H. P., 128 Ruff, John, 130 Ritchie, Thomas, Jr., 128 Robbed by pickpockets, 135 Reading, a course of recommended by J. H. P., 149 Rieley, Judge, G. W., letter of, 237 Ruffner, Rev. W. H. (D. D.), letter of, 238 Senate course in, 12 Smeade, Rev. G. G., letter of, 238 Scott, R. E., 13, 32 Scott, R. Taylor, 240 Scott, Gen. Winfield, 54 Scott, Stuart, Lewis, 93 Stuart, A. H. H, 231, 121 Stuart, Charles A., 82 Stuart, Judge A., 47, 109, 110, 195 Staunton Spectator, editorial of, 223 Staunton Post, (newspaper) editorial, 219 Sketch of J. H. P., by Prof. J. T. L. Preston, 160 Stribling, Dr. F. T., 134 Speech, on the death of Roane J. H. P's, 37, 38 Staunton issues paper money, 31 Senex, anecdote by, 132 Sherrard, Jos. H., letter of, 232 Spencer, Mrs. T. R., 98 Sheffey, Dan'l, 9, 23 Sheffey, H. W. Judge, 120, 209 Sheffey, J. H. P. eloquence of, 209, 231 Stout, Judge Jno. W., letter of, 201 Stannard, Judge Robt., 116 Smith, J. W., 144 Smith, Rev. J. H., letter of, 220 Smith, Gen. F. H., 145 Sergeant, Judge Jno., 70 Speece, Dr. Conrad, 83 Shelby, Governor of Kentucky, 32 Stony Hill, 77 Sketch of J. H. P., 160 Sketch of J. H. P., 168 Sketch of J. H. P., 176 Tazewell, L. N., 9 Tucker, H., St. George Judge, 9, 133, 116, 180 Tucker, John Randolph, letter of, 217 Traveling in 1826, 30, 51 Thompson, L. P., 65 Thompson, Hon. G. W., sketch of J. H. P., 198 Taylor, Wm., M. C., 98 Taylor, George B., 126 Trials, how to meet them, J. H. P. on, 90 T . . ., by J. H. P., 125 Telfair, Mrs., 38, 133 Tapscott, Susan, 152 Tams, Wm. Purviance, 204 Thomas, C. B., letter of, 239 Van Buren, Martin, J. H. P. on, 115 Valentine, Ed., 106, 135 Virginia Female Institute, 10 Volunteers in the war of 1812, J. H. P., 28 Wirt, Wm. Hon., 9, 32, 227 Washington College Trustee of J. H. P., 10 West Point, letter from, 142, 51 Wilson, Rev. J. C., 134 Wined and dined, 97 Whig address, 160 Wren, M. B., lines in memory of Mrs. Peyton, 268 Woodville, J. L., 34, 138, 153 Waddell, Dr. A., 188 Waddell, L., 54, 139, 159 Waddell, Jos. A., Sketch of J. H. P., 187 Western Hospital, 11 Western trip in 1815, 32 Watts, Gen. E., 126 Webster, Daniel, 23, 183, 228 War of 1812, 27 Witcher, V., 13 Young, D. S., Sketch of J. H. P., 192 Young people encouraged by J. H. P., 179 Yost's Weekly, (newspaper,) editorial of, 226

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Page 42 "the kind attenins of Mrs. Massie and her family". "attenins" has been replaced with "attendance". It could also be "attentions".

Page 55 "the third to George Mays, and John Brown.*" The original has an asterisk here, but no footnote.

Page 74 original has a blank space "and said that these enthusiasts".

Page 98 footnote 7: "continued up and the time of Mr. Peyton's death". Substituted "to" for "and".

Page 118 "able to get any than that which follows". Inserted "get any 'other'".

Page 156 "good deal a machinery to work ..." The "a" has been replaced with "of".

Page 261 "which will afford 8 day"... Inserted '8 "hours a" day' as implied.

Page 277 "Valentine, Book 4, p. 42?" The question mark denotes that a number is obscured.

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