Henry Rideout

Location: Montgomery Hall, Augusta County, Virginia

Henry Rideout was appraised in 1847, $600.00. He was sold in 1851 to John Lewis Peyton, $570.00. John Lewis Peyton inherited the Lower Farm in Alleghany County from his father in 1847 and also owned property in Staunton and Augusta County.

Bob and Andrew/Andy Primus were also sold to John Lewis Peyton in 1851.

Maria, Maria’s daughter, Hannah, Tom Cole, and Ben Cole were sold to Peyton in 1847.

Sarah Moore and her daughter, Harrietta, were sold to Peyton in 1856.

John Cobb Washington, Peyton’s father-in-law, gave enslaved African-Americans to John Lewis Peyton at the time of Peyton’s marriage to Washington’s daughter, Eliza Clark “Bettie” Washington. One of these enslaved men, George, 22, died of pneumonia in Augusta County, Virginia in 1856. John Cobb Washington lived at “Vernon” in Lenoir County, North Carolina.

Henry Rideout was hired out much of the time between 1848 and 1850:

January-May, 1848: Hired out to Peter B. Wade

1848: Hired out for a period of time to James B. Trimble

February-March, 1849: Hired out to Minor Reynolds

Unknown four months, 1849: Hired out with Smith to James B. Trimble

November-December, 1849: Hired out to James B. Trimble

May, 1850: Hired out to John Lewis Peyton

John Lewis Peyton lived in his law office in Staunton, Virginia prior to his marriage and later at his farm, “Shirley,” near Staunton. Peyton also inherited his father’s lower arm in Alleghany County, Virginia. During and after the Civil War, Peyton lived in England and Guernsey, the Channel Islands. He returned to Virginia in 1876 and purchased a former part of Spring Farm, much of which is now Gypsy Hill Park in Staunton, where he built “Steephill.” Peyton lived briefly in Ohio but returned to Steephill until his death in 1896.