EIGHTH GENERATION

210. Captain Edward Pegram ⁽¹³⁾ was born on Jan 13 1745 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. He died on Mar 30 1816 in Diamond Spring, Virginia. Edward Pegram inherited considerable wealth from his father and lived the life of the Virginia aristocracy. He was said to be six feet six inches tall and large in proportion, which would have made him very large indeed by the standards of the day. He was appointed Special Commander by the colonial government to defend the parish and county against Indian attack, a position that earned him the nickname of "King Pegram." He served as a captain in the Revolutionary War and in the Dinwiddie County Militia. In 1789 he was appointed one of the "Gentlemen Justices" of Dinwiddie County and served as Presiding Justice for a number of years. In 1792-93 he served as Sheriff of the county. He was Mayor of Petersburg in the last years of his life. He was a member of the grand jury that indicted Aaron Burr for treason. The foreman of that jury was John Randolph of Roanoke. He was married to Mary Lyle about 1765.

211. Mary Lyle was born in 1742. She died on Jun 30 1779. Children were:

i. Elizabeth Pegram was born on Jan 28 1766.
ii. Mary Baker Pegram was born on Nov 16 1767.
iii. Rebekah Pegram was born on May 28 1769.
105 iv. Anne Lyle Pegram.
v. Major General John Pegram⁽¹³⁾ was born on Nov 16 1773. He died on Apr 8 1831. John Pegram inherited much land from his father and expanded his holdings. He was a gentleman justice of Dinwiddie County, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1797 to 1801, and a member of the Virginia Senate from 1804 to 1808.

A brigadier general in the Virginia Militia, John Pegram served nobly in the War of 1812 and was raised to the rank of Major General before the war's end. During the presidency of James Monroe, Pegram served as Untied States Marshal for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Pegram was the grandfather of Brigadier General John Pegram (1832-1865) and Colonel William R. J. Pegram (1842-1865), both of whom gave their lives for the Confederacy and are prominently mentioned in D. S. Freeman's Lee's Lieutenants. Of the latter, Robert E. Lee wrote after the war that "no one in the army had a higher opinion of his gallantry and worth than myself." Freeman wrote that he was "one of those rare men who expand in battle." There is a recent book on Col. Pegram, entitled Lee's Young Artillerist by Peter S. Carmichael.
vi. Baker Pegram was born on May 8 1776. He died Young.
vii. Edward Pegram was born on May 10 1778. He died Young.

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