Peyton Skipwith (1740–1805) was brother of William Short’s mother, Elizabeth Skipwith Short. The baronetcy from which he claimed his title was created in 1622 by James I. In 1794 he began to build a large mansion at Prestwould Plantation on the Roanoke River in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. British debts he had accumulated before the Revolutionary War hampered his progress on the house.
“Sir Peyton Skipwith to Thomas Jefferson, 9 December 1795,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-28-02-0426. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 28, 1 January 1794 – 29 February 1796, ed. John Catanzariti. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000, pp. 549–550.]
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