Peggy
Peggy was living in Staunton and was about 40 years old in 1827, born c. 1787. Peggy was appraised in December, 1827, $250.00. Peggy was devised by Margaret Reed’s will to Reed’s niece, Sarah (Lockhart) Waterman, daughter of Margaret Reed’s sister, Isabella (Cunningham) Lockhart Burns and her first husband and wife of Dr. Asher Waterman. Margaret Reed specified in her will that if Peggy didn’t want to leave her friends in Staunton (Waterman lived in Rockingham County, Virginia) that she was to be sold to a humane master. In a memorandum separate from her will, Margaret Reed directed her executors to distribute specific articles of clothing, household items, furniture, and personal possessions to her family, friends, and to five enslaved women. Peggy received clothing.
John Howe Peyton’s daughter, Mary Preston Peyton, married Robert Asher Gray, a grandson of Sarah Lockhart and Dr. Asher Waterman, at Montgomery Hall in 1850. They lived at “Hilltop” near Harrisonburg.