The ups and downs of William Peachey
As we cover 1759 in this year of 2023, we run into a plea by William Peachey on 28 Nov 1759 and then on 4 Dec 1759 to pay his troops a few more days since they are being disbanded per the 8 Nov 1759 law passed by the House of Burgesses.
That led us to consider who William Peachey was.
From Founders Online, here is William Peachey's biography in blue italics, supplemented by notes by this blog author.
William Peachey
See Founders Online footnote to first letter 11 September 1755 GW writes --- (Peachy; 1729–1802) was one of the new captains present in Williamsburg when GW took command of the regiment. See GW’s Orders, 17 Sept. 1755, n.2. In Jan. 1756 GW listed Peachey as captain of the 14th company.
Fort Loudoun Winchester VA
See Founders Online footnote to first letter 11 September 1755 GW writes --- In Mar. 1756 the burgesses authorized construction of a fort at Winchester, and GW placed Peachey in charge of the men who labored on that project (7 Hening 33).
The George Mercer company was also used to help build Fort Loudoun Winchester VA.
Washington in Winchester VA writes to Lt Col Adam Stephen (GW’s 2nd in command at Fort Cumberland), ” …I am also detained here [Winchester VA] to construct and erect a fort, which the Governor has ordered to be done with expedition3—As it will be necessary to have a number of Carpenters, &c. to carry on the work with spirit, and vigour; you are desired to send down all the men of Captain George Mercers Company; those that are there of Captain Bells—all the men that are really skilled in masonry: and if all these do not make up fifty—you are to complete the party to that number, out of the best Carpenters in other Companies…”
By Nov 1756 Lt Charles Smith became foreman of construction. He learned the art of building forts on the South Branch of the Potomac from Capt Thomas Waggener.
Mass Resignation
The Officers of the Virginia Regiment plan to resign if no redress of an insult published in the Virginia Gazette. They become aware of the article October 5, 1756. The next day, October 6, 1756, the officers write to Lt Col Adam Stephen, their intent to resign 20 November 1756 if no redress of these insults. They then write of their intent to resign to Colonel George Washington November 12, 1756. See Source.
Peachey writes on 12 Nov 1756 a letter saying the Regiment will resign in mass
if the House of Burgesses does not publicly thank them for their service to counteract a big press criticism published by the Virginia Gazette, authored by a mysterious Centinel X. This letter came to Colonel George Washington after he toured the condition of Virginia's southern region defences September 29 to October 22.
Peachey is in Fort Cumberland at the time. That threat of a letter was written at Fort Cumberland.
Reducing to 10 Companies
See Founders Online footnote to first letter 11 September 1755 GW writes ---- When the number of companies in the regiment was reduced in 1757, Peachey lost his captaincy, and he resigned from the regiment in July of that year.
This did not really go too well. Peachey finds out from his brother that it was George Washington, not Lt Gov Dinwiddie who picked Peachey as one of 4 officers to be stripped of his rank and company. Lt Gov Dinwiddie ordered to reduce the companies to 10, but relied on GW to pick who was to stay and who was to go. See that story below. On top of that, Peachey doesn't get paid his last month of service. GW defends Peachey on that matter.
Major William Peachey
See Founders Online footnote to first letter 11 September 1755 GW writes - - - In Mar. 1758, with the creation of the 2d Virginia Regiment, Peachey returned to military service. Promoted to major, he served as that regiment’s paymaster during John Forbes’s expedition against Fort Duquesne.
After the French and Indian War,
See Founders Online footnote to first letter 11 September 1755 GW writes - Peachey rose to colonel in the militia and eventually secured the adjutancy of Virginia’s Middle District, the area between the James and Rappahannock rivers east of the Blue Ridge.
Prior to this Peachey was adjutant of Virginia's Frontier District. He applied for adjutant of Virginia's Middle District 10 May 1769 and won it.
Have not found the date of his being a Colonel in a militia. Still looking.
On 9 March 1772 he petitions the VA Executive Council to sell this Middle District Adjutancy because of ill health and in need of money. The Executive council approves this request as long as the individual taking over is capable.
Wives of Peachey
He and his wife Million Glasscock Peachey, whom he married in 1748 before he was 20, had a son in 1749 and a daughter in 1752. He subsequently had a number of children by his second wife Elizabeth Griffin Peachey. See footnote 2 to letter of 14 Nov 1757 Peachey writes to GW.
Brothers of Peachey
Founders online footnote founder under letter of 14 Nov 1757 says his brothers are Peachey’s brothers were Samuel Peachey (1732–1795), Thomas Griffin Peachey (later Peachy; 1734–1810), and LeRoy Peachey (b. 1736). Thomas Griffin Peachey became clerk of Amelia County in 1757 and held that office until 1791.
Peachey or Peachy
See Founders Online footnote to first letter 11 September 1755 GW writes to Peachey: At this time Peachey seems to have usually signed his name “Peachey,” but for most of his life he spelled it “Peachy.”
Under the new United States
He served as colonel of the 5th Virginia Regiment in 1776, represented Richmond County in the Virginia assembly in 1778, 1779, and 1780–81, and attended the Virginia Ratifying Convention in 1788. Peachey enclosed this letter in one addressed to “The Senators and Representatives from the State of Virginia in Congress" See footnote to letter of March 1789 Peachey writes to the federal govt.
I am induced to sollicit your Honorable Body for the Appointment of Collector of Import duties on Rappahanock River. See letter of March 1789 Peachey writes “To the Honorable the President, The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.”
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Compiled by Jim Moyer 11/22/23
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Executive Council Journals
Here is a search for William Peachey in the upper house, which also played the roles as advisor to the Lt Governor and as the highest court in the colony.
Dec 12 1759
#169 (p. 151)- 2 matching terms
...Stephen dated the same Day and Place, informing of the Situation of Affairs in those Parts, and the Circum- stances of the Regiment. Also two Letters from Lt. Col. Peachey;, dated Augusta Court-House, the one Novemr. 28th, the other, Decemr. 4th signifying he apprehends no Danger or Disturbance from the Enemy at present on the Frontiers; and recommending, when the Men under his Command shall be discharged, to allow them to draw Six or Eight Days Provision to carry them Home, and to pay them as long....
May 10 1769
#334 (p. 316)- 2 matching terms
...At a Council held May 10th 1769 Present His Excellency and as before The Governor was pleas'd to acquaint the Board that the adjutancy of the Middle District becoming vacant by the death of Major Finnie, Captain Bullett, and Captain Price, officers in the late Virginia Regiment, had applied to him for the place, and that Lt. Colonel Peachey; had signified his desire to be Adjutant thereof, instead of the Frontier District, which he at present holds, and desired the advice of the Council therein, upon which the Council advis'd, that Mr. Peachey; be appointed Adjutant of the middle district, and that Mr. Bullett have the Adjutancy of the Frontier, they being of opinion that he, as senior officer, was entitled to the preference....
June 15 1770
#370 (p. 352)- 1 matching term
...At a Council held June 15th 1770 John Blair William Nelson Thomas Nelson Richard Corbin William Byrd Present His Excellency Philip Ludwell Lee John Tayloe Robert Carter Robert Burwell John Page Esquires Mr. Commissary Upon reading and considering a Petition of Col. Peachey; in behalf of himself and others, praying that they may be admitted to a distribution of the two hundred thousand Acres of land granted by a Proclamation of Governor Dinwiddie in the year 1754, as an encouragement for persons to enter into the service of the Colony against the French in the said year, it is the Opinion of the Board...
Note: that proclamation was only for the men of 1754. Washington tried to make sure that point was made.
March 9 1772
#466 (p. 448)- 1 matching term
...The Board observed that as to a Moiety of the Fine it was ap- propriated to the Informer, and could not, therefore, be remitted; and they were also of opinion that such Practices ought to be dis- couraged as much as possible, and therefore advised his Excellency not to remit the said Fine or any Part thereof. His Excellency communicated to the Board the Petition of Col William Peachey;, praying, for divers reasons particularly set forth therein; more especially that he had greatly impaired his Health in the Service, that he might be allowed to sell his Office of Adjutant; Whereupon, the Board recommended to his Excellency the granting the Prayer of the Petition provided that the Person pur- chasing be duly qualified for the Office....
House of Burgesses
.Here is a search for William Peachey in thelower house.
10 March 1760.
#190 (p. 164)- 1 matching term
Alfo a Petition of William Peachey;, late Colonel of the Frontier Battalion, in Behalf of himfelf and the Officers lately under his Command, praying that they may be repaid by the Publick for the additional Expences they were at, more than allowed by Law, in raismg Recruits for the said Battalion, and marching them through the Country to their Place of Rendezvous....
10 March 1761
#231 (p. 205)- 1 matching term
Alfo a Petition of William Peachey;, late Colonel of the Frontier Battalion in Behalf of himfelf and the Officers lately under his Command, and praying that they may be repaid by the Publick for the additional Expenses they were at, more than allowed by Law,...
17 March 1761
#243 (p. 217)- 1 matching term
Resolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee that the Petition of M' Peachey;, in Behalf of himself and the Officers late of the Frontier Battalion, to be allowed a Satisfaction for maintaining the Recruits by them enlisted in the Service, over and above what is now settled by Law, be rejected....
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Founders Online letters
Here are all the letters between Washington and Peachey
1From George Washington to William Peachey, 11 September 1755 (Washington Papers) You are hereby Ordered, as soon as you arrive in Town with your Recruits, to put yourself under... 2From George Washington to William Peachey, 16 October 1755 (Washington Papers) You are hereby ordered, to send off all the Recruits which are now under your Command at... 3To George Washington from William Peachey et al., 12 November 1756 (Washington Papers) On the 5th or 6th of October, We met with a papr in the Virginia Gazette intitled the Centinel N... 4To George Washington from William Peachey, 22 August 1757 (Washington Papers) Having but an indifferent Hand at Complimts I have hitherto referr’d writing to you & shod have... 5From George Washington to William Peachey, 18 September 1757 (Washington Papers) Your favour of the 22d ultimo came to hand about 4 days ago. In answer to that part which relates... 6To George Washington from William Peachey, 14 November 1757 (Washington Papers) I received yr kind Letter of the 18th September about a Week ago, the Sight of which caused at... 7To George Washington from William Peachey, March 1789 (Washington Papers) I have served the Publeck in some or other Capacity ever since I was twenty years old, now forty... 8To George Washington from William Peachey, 20 June 1795 (Washington Papers) The young Gentleman who will have the Honour of presenting this to you is a nephew of mine who...
Reduce to 10 Companies
GW explained to Dinwiddie on 10 July 1757 that he could not make the June return of the Virginia Regiment because he had not yet got the returns from the detached posts. Nevertheless, the delayed return for June 1757 (DLC:GW) enclosed in this letter of 3 Aug 1757 is a report made as of 1 July 1757.
It lists twelve companies of the regiment in Virginia, although in June GW completed the reduction of the Virginia companies to eight (two more were in South Carolina) as Dinwiddie had instructed on 16 May 1757.
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GW picked them
The four captains "reduced," meaning those who were stripped of their companies and jobs were William Peachey, Thomas Cocke, Christopher Gist, and William Bronaugh
Dinwiddie wrote on 13 August 1757 to GW that, "The Capts. were fix’d by me on yr Recommendation, as I was a Stranger to the Merit of any of them."
But this Founders Online footnote 3 to that above quote, gives the impression Dinwiddie decided on them: Dinwiddie gave GW the names of the captains to be retained in the Virginia Regiment when he ordered the reduction of companies on 16 May 1757.
The four captains who served in June but left before the end of the month or in early July were William Peachey, Thomas Cocke, Christopher Gist, and William Bronaugh.
Peachey Wonders who picked
Months later, William Peachey catches on that it may not have been Dinwiddie making that decision. It might have been Washington. Peachey in a very classic "passive-agressive" letter writes on 14 November 1757 GW:
I was going to conclude, but I can’t help giving yo. a piece of conversation that pass’d not long since between the Governr [Lt Gov Dinwiddie] and my Bror the Clerk of Amelia, says his Honr [Lt Gov Dinwiddie] “Well Master Peachey how does your Bror the Captn do? I do assure yo. Mastr Peachey I am very sorry he is reduced, for I understand he was a very usefull Man, but it was not my Fault, I assure you I coud not help it, for it came in Turn” and all this he said without the Things being mention’d or even Thought of by my Brother—Now what do you think of this?
Founders online footnote says his brothers are Peachey’s brothers were Samuel Peachey (1732–1795), Thomas Griffin Peachey (later Peachy; 1734–1810), and LeRoy Peachey (b. 1736). Thomas Griffin Peachey became clerk of Amelia County in 1757 and held that office until 1791.
Junior officer survives the cut
Robert McKenzie was the “younger Capt.” kept in the Virginia Regiment after it was reorganized in May 1757, but Dinwiddie’s letter to GW of 13 Aug. 1757 seems to indicate that Dinwiddie followed GW’s advice in choosing the captains to be retained. See footnote 4 of Peachey writing to GW 22 August 1757 .
Peachey wasn't paid for his last month
GW’s return of the Virginia Regiment for June 1757 indicates that Peachey was with the regiment that month. For GW’s response to this request, see GW to Peachey, 18 Sept. 1757. See footnote 4 of Peachey writing to GW 22 August 1757
See footnote 3 to letter of 14 Nov 1757 Peachey writes to GW -- 3. Peachey was paid only to 1 June 1757 but served until 4 July 1757. See GW to Peachey, 18 Sept. 1757.
GW writes on 18 September 1757 to Peachey defending Peachey's right to be paid for the whole month of June 1757 and into July: . . . "the Governor forbad his paying you for the month of June. I have nevertheless certified, that you did duty until sometime in July; and wish it had been your lot to have continued with."
The 8 remaining
The other eight companies were commanded by GW, Thomas Waggener, Robert Stewart, Joshua Lewis, Henry Woodward, Robert Spotswood, Robert McKenzie, and Peter Hog.
The Captain George Mercer company and the Lt Col Adam Stephen company were sent to Charleston SC.
By the time the returns were made Peter Hog had been relieved of his command and his company had been assigned to Maj. Andrew Lewis. The total rank and file returned was 412 men, 354 of them certified as fit.
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Researched in 2016, compiled in in 2017 by Jim Moyer, updated 11/22/23
William Peachey's Bio
This is the first letter between GW and Peachey
followed by a Founders Online biography of Peachey
From George Washington to William Peachey,
11 September 1755
To William Peachey [Alexandria, 11 September 1755]
To Captain William Peachy, of the Virginia Regiment.
You are hereby Ordered, as soon as you arrive in Town with your Recruits, to put yourself under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Adam Stephen, or the Field Officer appointed to that Rendezvous: and you are to be strictly obedient to such Lawful Commands as you shall from time to time receive from him; and particularly to observe, that the Muster Roll of your Men is regularly called three times a day; and that they are as often called out to their Exercise; at which times you are to be present.
\ If it should happen that you arrive before the Field Officer; you are then to receive your Orders from, and make your daily Reports to the Oldest Officer present, having regard to the above Directions. Given &c. at Alexandria: Sept. 11th 1755.
G:W. LB, DLC:GW.
William Peachey (Peachy; 1729–1802)
was one of the new captains present in Williamsburg when GW took command of the regiment. See GW’s Orders, 17 Sept. 1755, n.2. In Jan. 1756 GW listed Peachey as captain of the 14th company.
In Mar. 1756 the burgesses authorized construction of a fort at Winchester, and GW placed Peachey in charge of the men who labored on that project (7 Hening 33).
When the number of companies in the regiment was reduced in 1757, Peachey lost his captaincy, and he resigned from the regiment in July of that year.
In Mar. 1758, with the creation of the 2d Virginia Regiment, Peachey returned to military service. Promoted to major, he served as that regiment’s paymaster during John Forbes’s expedition against Fort Duquesne.
After the French and Indian War, Peachey rose to colonel in the militia and eventually secured the adjutancy of Virginia’s Middle District, the area between the James and Rappahannock rivers east of the Blue Ridge.
At this time Peachey seems to have usually signed his name “Peachey,” but for most of his life he spelled it “Peachy.”
Source
Mass Resignation Threatened
To George Washington from William Peachey et al., 12 November 1756
From William Peachey et al. Dated at Fort Cumberland [Md.] 12th Novr 1756
Sir On the 5th or 6th of October, We met with a papr in the Virginia Gazette intitled the Centinel N: 10, wherein some person or persons have undertaken to callumniate Us in the most vile & scandalous Manner,1
on which We address’d ourselves to Lieutt Collo. Stephen (a Copy of which Address You have herewith) desiring him to apply to the Governr for Redress,2
but as his Honour has not thot propper to give it us, & the Time We proposed to resign being nigh at Hand, We hope You will lay our Case before the Assembly now setting,3
being determined, if they take no more Notice of our Grievance than the Governr has, no longer to serve a Country that is guilty of the basest Ingratitude to a Sett of Men who have made it their Study to defend & protect it at all Times: But as the Time prefix’d by us for giving up our Commissions, seems to you too short, (thro’ the Regard We have for his Majesty, the best of Kings, as knowing it must be of infinite Disadvantage to his American Settlemts to leave this Quartr exposed to a rapacious & merciless Enemy) We agree at yr Request to defer the Matter till We hear from You,4
whether we shall recieve Satisfaction in some Measure equivalent to the Injury done Us, (and We think that Nothing less will be suffic⟨ien⟩t than the Thanks of the Assembly in the publick prints for what We have already done & are still willing to do, might we with Honr continue in a Capacity for that purpose, join’d with as publick a Declaration of their Disbelief of ev’ry Article the Centinel has alledged against Us) or, that they or the Governr are pleased to choose & appoint a Sett of Gentlemen who will more fully ansr their & his Expectation & perform that for their Country which it seems the Governr, if not they, little hope for from a Company of dastardly Debauchees;
We say, We agree to defer it, provided either of the two Things proposed be speedily done,
otherwise we are as we inform’d Collo. Stephen determined soon to make good our Resolves, &
expect that They or the Governr will be answerable to Lord Loudon, or to his Majesty for the Consequences,
for We think that We cannot with Justice be blamed for any Event that shall happen after our Departure,
having first acquainted the Governr with our Determination & now the Country in General in communicating it to it’s Representatives.5
We are not, Sir, induced to address You thro’ a Concientiousness of any Neglect, for You yrself know & can witness for us that We have faithfully done our Duty & always with Alacrity perform’d (as far as was in our power) the Orders of our Superiour Officers, but beca⟨use⟩ we imagined that You were as particularly aim’d at as any among Us, We having acted in Obedience to yr Commands.
You know & can represent better than We the Reasons why We have not with a thousd Men (which Number We have not been always fortunate enough to have) cover’d the whole Frontiers of Virga & made more Excursions to the Westward (tho’ We don’t know but that quite the Reverse to what our latent Enemy mentions of our lurking in Forts, was the Matter scrutinously examined, we shou’d rather be blameable for having made them so frequently as We have).
You can inform them of our luxurious and dainty Living. You can in short fully answer ev’ry Article that the Centinel has urged against Us & make it appear that He or his Informers were malicious, wilfull and (as they fear to discover themselves) cowardly Lyars.
We beg of You that You will push the Matter immediatly & as soon as possible let Us know their Resolves, for, as indigent as some persons have hinted Us to be we are resolv’d to let them see, That Men of Spirit will not bear patiently any Thing unbecoming the Character of Gentlemen. We are Sir with due Respect Yr mo: Obedt and very humble Servts6
Willm Peachy
Thos Waggener
Chas Smith
Peter Steenbergen
Robt Spotswood
Natha. Milner
Austin Brockenbrough
Robert McKensie
John McNeil
Mordi Buckner
John Lomax
John Blagg
Wm Daingerfield
Leond Price
John Williams
Jas Baker
Hanck Eustace
James Roy
Wm Bronaugh
George Weedon
Bryan Fairfax
H. Woodward
Walter Steward
C. LewisJ
as Dunncaston
H. Harrison
John King
Edwd Hubbard
Jethro Somnor
John Dean
Nathl Thompson
Griffin Pert
John Lawson
Thos Cocke
ALS, DLC:GW.
The letter appears to be in the hand of William Peachey, whose signature is first. At this time Peachey was spelling his name Peachy. He was made a captain in GW’s Virginia Regiment when it was formed in September 1755 and lost his company when the number of companies was reduced in May 1757.
1. For a discussion of the Virginia-Centinel No. X, see John Kirkpatrick to GW, 22 Sept. 1756, n.2.
2. The letter of 6 Oct. 1756 to Adam Stephen is printed as an enclosure, below.
3. The assembly was prorogued to 9 Nov., but further prorogations delayed its meeting until April 1757.
4. GW had recently come to Fort Cumberland and intended to leave soon for Alexandria and Williamsburg.
5. A copy of a document headed “To the Worshipful the Speaker & Gentlemen of the House of Burgesses. The Address of the Officers of the Virginia Regiment” is entered in GW’s letter book at the end of 1756. The text is as follows:
“The act being expired which rendered your Forces subject to military discipline, has made us with some impatience wait for the time of this present Session of Assembly: For, as from experience we are become very sensible, that our vigilant and active Enemy have usually made their horrid incursions early in the Spring: But, a little time will remain to put our Regiment into such a fitness as may be capable of defending our Frontiers, and acting offensively, when supported by a renewal of the act and proper Orders to execute in our future marches:
and we being now reminded that in a late Virginia Gazette, a narrative was published under the title of ‘The Centinel, No. X.’ wherein the officers of our Regiment were particularly charged with many immoral practises; which Gazette is dispersed throughout his Majestys Dominions; and as the said unjust aspersions therein contained, may obtain too easy credit, not being in a like public manner gainsaid or answered—We humbly entreat that you will kindly take into consideration, and agreeably to the hopes assured us by Colo. Washington, give us public testimony, that in your esteem we have not deserved the obloquy complained of.
“We can not omit mentioning that notwithstanding our early entrance into the Service of our Country; the many attacks & skirmishes had with several of the french parties and their Indians, wherein great slaughter on both sides hath been effected: and when the approaching Winter has necessitated Regular Troops to retreat into Winter quarters, the Officers and Soldiers of our Regiment, have been constantly and fully employed in building a new Fort at Winchester; and by adding new works to Fort Cumberland, thereby endeavouring to make it defensible:
Likewise erecting other Fortresses, and transporting Stores & provisions which have proved very laborious and fatiguing: also the Workmens wages too low and discouraging. Under this head, we further take the humble liberty to remonstrate the little or no notice taken of our Address at Home, setting forth the frequent trials of our Loyalty, courage and activity to do His Majesty good & faithful service; not without presuming we might be thought of, and put on an Honorable Establishment, among the many Battalions raised and lately sent over to assist and strengthen our operations against the common Enemy.
As we have on many occasions been convinced of your friendly thoughts and dispositions toward us, which we shall desire no longer than our merit may claim; So we with grateful hearts present ourselves, and refer all our interest and concerns to your Wisdom & Judgment; subscribing ourselves as we truly are, Your most faithful and obedt Servants.”
6. A number of the names following are misspelled in a way to indicate that they are certainly not signatures. Known to have been at Fort Cumberland only two weeks before, on 30 Oct., were fifteen of these officers, thirteen of whom (all but Charles Smith and Robert McKenzie) are among the first fifteen names listed here.
It is probable that the first fifteen did sign the letter at Fort Cumberland.
It is also certain that most of the other officers named here were on 12 Nov. not at Fort Cumberland but were either on the South Branch or at Winchester.
Some of these undoubtedly did sign the letter. GW was at the fort on 12 Nov. and presumably took the letter with him when he went to Alexandria shortly thereafter, but he may have gone to Alexandria via Winchester.
Source:
Virginia House of Delegates
Here is a little where Peachey and his brothers show up:
but here is a list where William Peachey shows up 1781/85 :
#139 (p. 25)- 1 matching term
...Resolved, That this House will, to-morrow, again resolve itself into a committee of the whole House on the state of the Commonwealth. A message from the Senate by Mr. Peachey;: 6 MR. SPEAKER,-The Senate have agreed to the bills "to continue the act, entitled' an act, to ascertain the number of people within this Commonwealth;" "to continue the act, entitled an act, to empower the Judges of the General Court, to superintend and regulate the public jail;" "to continue the act, entitled an act, to ascertain the losses and injuries sustained from the depredations of the enemy within this Commonwealth;" and "to vest certain lands in William Robinson, in fee," with several amendments; to which they desire the concurrence of this House; also, they have added the name of Turner Southall, Esq. to the nomination of persons to be ballotted for as a mem- ber of the Privy Council, or Council of State....
#155 (p. 41)- 1 matching term
...Resolved, that it is the opinion of this committee, That the petition of Henry Armistead, setting forth, that some time in the year 1780, an auditor's warrant amounting to 4,760l. 14s. was granted to Robert Scott, late of Fredericks- burg, for services done this Commonwealth; that the said Robert Scott being about to leave this State, the petitioner purchased the said warrant of him, and enclosed it in a letter to Col. William Peachey;, which was lost by the bearer; that the petitioner has never assigned, sold, or received any compensation for the said warrant; and that the same has not been paid at the treasury, as appears by a certificate from the clerk thereof, and praying relief, is reasonable; and that the auditors of public accounts ought to grant the petitioner a warrant in the name of the said Robert Scott, in specie, agreeable to the scale of depreciation upon the above sum. 11....
#261 (p. 55)- 2 matching terms
Resolved, that it is the opinion of this committee, That the petition of Le Roy Peachey;, setting forth, that in the discharge of his duty as county lieutenant of Richmond, he did, in the year 1779, receive and disburse on public account, considerable sums of paper money; that the auditors have refused to settle his accounts for the same, except by the scale of depreciation, which he conceives would in many instances be unjust, and praying relief; be rejected. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this committee, That the petition of William Peachey;, praying that certain sums of paper money which he received from the county lieutenant of Richmond, and another gentleman, to place to the credit of their accounts with the Commonwealth, but which were by accident lodged in the treasury and fund- ed, may be now credited as first intended; be rejected....
#287 (p. 81)- 3 matching terms
...81 ble; and that the auditors ought to re-audit two of the petitioner's pay rolls, for militia services performed in the years 1780 and 1781, and grant new certificates thereon in specie (it appearing to the committee, that depreciation ought to have been allowed thereon by the auditors when settled by them, as was done in the petitioner's, other pay roll, but through some mistake was omitted, and that the treasurer ought to receive from the petitioner the money by him drawn for the service of his said two companies of militia in 1781. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this committee, That the petition of Le Roy Peachey;, setting forth, that in the discharge of his duty as county lieutenant of Richmond, he did, in the year 1779, receive and disburse on public account, considerable sums of paper money; that the auditors have refused to settle his accounts for the same, except by the scale of depreciation, which he conceives would in many instances be unjust, and praying relief, is reasonable; and that the sum of 4,4621. 5s. put into the hands of William Peachey;, to be applied to the credit of the petitioner, in his account with the public, ought to be placed to the credit of the petitioner, without depreciation. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this committee, That the several claims of the said Le Roy Peachey; against the public for ferriages, provisions, &c. furnished the militia of his county, ought to be referred to the court of Claims in the said county of Richmond, for their inspection and decision thereon....
#288 (p. 82)- 1 matching term
...And the said resolutions being twice read, were amended; and on the question put thereupon, agreed to by the House. Ordered, That Mr. William Nelson do carry the resolutions to the Senate, and desire their concurrence. A message from the Senate by Mr. Peachey;: MR. SPEAKER,-The Senate have agreed to the resolution, directing the treasurer to grant Thomas Dobyns a certificate for one thousand pounds of tobacco....
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here is a list where William Peachey shows up 1786-1790
#367 (p. 42) - 1 matching term
...John Calvert, for the term of three years; that she has never been able to obtain a certificate of the enlistment of the said slave from the said Calvert, owing, as he alleged, to the loss of his books; that there is a considerable sum due to her for the bounty and pay of the said slave; and praying that she may receive payment thereof. Also, a petition of William Peachey;, executor of Henry Armistead, deceased; setting forth, that on examining the papers of his testator, he found two certificates for property furnished the public during the late war; that it does not appear that the said testator in his lifetime ever received any satisfaction for them, nor has any been made to the petitioner, his executor, since his decease; and praying such relief as to the, General Assembly may seem just and reasonable....
Virginia upper house, The Senate
List of all the early years:
1778 Richmond County Committee of Propositions and Grievances, Public Claims
1779 Richmond County Committee of Trade
1782 Lancaster
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Milden Hall
Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Society ornoSsdtpe32g lya26m62ti9gln3130ia6r1gll074a2i23Jc,03ifau0i
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Milden Hall, located by the Rappahannock River in Richmond County, Virginia, was built by Col. William Peachey in ca. 1795. Prior to the building of Milden Hall, a frame house stood in the area between the brick manor and the river. Milden Hall is privately owned and is not open to the public.
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Preston and Peachey
William Preston and the Revolutionary Settlement BY RICHARD OSBORN Patriot (1775-1778)
Colonel William Peachey, a military colleague of Preston's, noted this contradiction to Preston early in 1775 after congratulating him on the recent peace with the Shawnees. He warned, "The next attack, I fear, will be from worse Savages for so, Such may truly be deem'd who will take up arms to enslave their Friends, Countrymen and fellow subjects."6 So the Fincastle Committee prepared for the worst and Preston helped his fellow committee members develop their own sources of amunition
A Frontier of Fear: Terrorism and Social Tension along Virginia’s Western Waters, 1742–1775 by B. Scott Crawford
William Preston kept a record of frontier settlers killed, wounded, and taken captive between October 1754 and April 1758. During that time he recorded over three hundred names of frontier settlers who became casualties as a result of Amerindian raids along the frontier. Twenty years later, in the midst of the American Revolution, Preston still viewed the Shawnee as “Our old Inveterate Enemies” as they continued to plague Virginia’s frontier.3
3 Ingles, Escape from Indian Captivity, 8; Floyd, “Letter to her son Rush”; Conway Howard Smith, Colonial Days That Became Pulaski County (Pulaski, VA: B. D. Smith & Bros. Printers, 1975), 36; and William Preston to William Peachey, microfilm, reel 5, folder 984, Preston Family Papers, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg.
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9. GW explained to Dinwiddie on 10 July that he could not make the June return of the Virginia Regiment because he had not yet got the returns from the detached posts. Nevertheless, the delayed return for June (DLC:GW) enclosed in this letter of 3 Aug. is a report made as of 1 July. It lists twelve companies of the regiment in Virginia, although in June GW completed the reduction of the Virginia companies to eight (two more were in South Carolina) as Dinwiddie had instructed on 16 May 1757.
The four captains who served in June but left before the end of the month or in early July were William Peachey, Thomas Cocke, Christopher Gist, and William Bronaugh. The other eight companies were commanded by GW, Thomas Waggener, Robert Stewart, Joshua Lewis, Henry Woodward, Robert Spotswood, Robert McKenzie, and Peter Hog. By the time the returns were made Peter Hog had been relieved of his command and his company had been assigned to Maj. Andrew Lewis. The total rank and file returned was 412 men, 354 of them certified as fit.
10. GW sent Robert McKenzie’s letter, which has not been found, to Col. John Stanwix on 30 July 1757.
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3. Dinwiddie gave GW the names of the captains to be retained in the Virginia Regiment when he ordered the reduction of companies on 16 May 1757.
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