1907 NEWFOUNDLAND HERRING NECK 2 PAGE LETTER - "THOMAS PEYTON - LAND SURVEYOR"

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Thomas Peyton
(1828–1912) was a fisherman, civil servant and politician in
Newfoundland
. He represented Twillingate in the
Newfoundland House of Assembly
from 1889 to 1893 as a
Liberal
.
The son of John Peyton Jr. and Eleanor Mahoney, he was born on Exploits Burnt Island. Peyton married Ann Pearce of
Twillingate
. He managed the family
salmon
fishery on the
Exploits River
. He was a
justice of the peace
and also served as a deputy land surveyor on the geological survey of Newfoundland by
Alexander Murray
.
Peyton was briefly magistrate at
Pilley's Island
and served as fishery warden on rivers on
Notre Dame Bay
.
He is credited with the discover of copper deposits at
Green Bay
in 1875.
He died at Twillingate in 1912.
His son Ernest was the first Newfoundland member of the
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
. His niece,
Georgina Stirling
, was an opera singer known as the "Nightingale of the North".
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