Peyton House/Waverly and Grant... *Note: The Peyton family remained in the home during Grants brief occupation. During the Battle of Raymond, General U.S. Grant selected Waverly, as his headquarters. Located on what is now the Raymond-Clinton Road, the home provided the perfect location for the Yankee general and his men. The history of Waverly goes back to 1829 when John B. Peyton and his wife, Mary Fairchild Lewis, moved to the area of Raymond, a newly established town designed to become the county seat. John B. and Mary moved into Hinds County near Edwards Station in 1825. His brother-in-law told him he should buy some land near present-day Raymond because it was such a pretty location. They were both surveying the land ceded by the Treaty of Doaks Stand in 1820. John Peyton received his first land patent in 1828 for land in Section 17 - it was signed by Andrew Jackson. In 1829, he moved his family into Raymond and began to build Waverly, dated 1831-1834.battleofraymond.org/history/waverly.htm
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