Andrew Peddy was born in Halifax County, Virginia in 1757. He relocated to North Carolina, where he served in the Wake County Regiment during the American Revolution for a time, before moving to Chatham County, North Carolina. He gave an affidavit in support of a pension application for Philip Geane, who died at the Battle of Lindley's Mill on September 13, 1781. Peddy died in Chatham on June 30, 1846.