Doctor
John Peake studied medicine in Edinborough,
Scotland. Married Miss Catharine Bowie of
Maryland. Her will was dated 1847. He was
living at Blandville, Westmoreland County,
Virginia, in 1811. "Uncle John left two
daughters who married two grandsons of old
Counsellor Carter and lived in lower Virginia."
Alexander
Spence patented three hundred and twenty
acres on July 16, 1695 from the Proprietors of
the Northern Neck. He named it "Woodbury,"
and it remained as patented until the Civil War.
