John Payne

Abt 1615 - Bef 1690  (~ 74 years)

• Name	John Payne
  Birth	Abt 1615	England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 1690	Rappahannock County, Virginia   [1]
  Alternate death	1690	Westmoreland County, Virginia   [2]
  Burial	"Red House" (Cedar Hill), Westmoreland County, Virginia   [1]
  Person ID	I35175	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	15 May 2021

  
  

  Family	Margaret   d. Aft 1674
  Children	+ 1. George Payne,   b. Abt 1661   d. Between 1 Jan 1711 and 2 May 1711, Richmond County, Virginia (Age ~ 50 years)
  Family ID	F20669	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 May 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Planter, merchant, carpenter, boat builder, ship owner, tobacco inspector. He first appears on record in 1653 in Lancaster County, Virginia, living on Payne's Creek on the west side of the Corrotoman River near what is now called Ottoman. In that year the Lancaster County court paid him to provision and transport burgesses from Lancaster to Jamestown. He probably died in the winter of 1689-90. Records of Richmond County indicate that he left a will, but the will book covering that period has been lost. On 7 Apr 1690 a deed by Henry Thacker, who married a granddaughter of John Payne, refers to him as "late of Rappahannock County, deceased." He is a subject of at least seventeen different "three brothers came over together" just-so stories published over the years. Further, like many early settlers in Virginia, he is the subject of millions of words of meritless speculation attempting to connect him to English gentry and baronial families. Nothing about his origins is actually known.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5742] The Paynes of Virginia by Brooke Payne. Richmond, Virginia: The William Byrd Press, 1937. [S5767] The Blakemore Family and Allied Lines by Maurice Neville Blakemore. 1963.