John Payne Sr. (1646 - 1726)

Born 27 Apr 1646 in Dedham, Suffolk, Mass. Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Day) Paine — married 7 Feb 1677 in Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 1726 at about age 79 in Needham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

[He signed his will John Pain.]

John Payne Sr. was born in Dedham, (then) Suffolk County, Mass. Bay Colony, on 27 April 1646, the son of Thomas & Rebecca Payne.^[1] The family home was on Dedham Island, a peninsula formed by a bend in the Charles River just north of the town center.

He married-1 in Dedham on 7 Feb. 1676 to Mary Day, one of the daughters of Ralph & Susan (Fairbanks) Day.^[2]

John Payne first appeared in the town (versus vital) records in a list dated 22:9mo:1680 which listed rate payers for town charges.^[3]

His father died 3 August 1686, leaving him and his brother Thomas ”all the houses and lands not already disposed of equally divided," Thomas to divide, John to choose first; John was also to receive the weaving and husbandry tools.^[4]

John settled in that part of Dedham which became Needham in 1711 and Wellesley in 1881.^{[5] [6]}

Mary died 25 Oct 1694.^[7]

He married second Martha (Devotion) Ruggles, widow John Ruggles 2d of Roxbury who died 16 Dec 1694. On 14 Feb 1704/5 Martha Payne late Ruggles signed the final account of John Ruggles estate. ^[8]

Martha died in Needham 12 Jan 1714.^[9]

John died in Needham between 12 Jan 1725/6 and 13 Jun 1726. He signed his will ‘John Pain”, mentioned daughters Rebeka Boyden, Mary Barber, Susanna Pain and Sarah Pain and left the home to son John. For a copy of his will and more, see ^[10]

Children

Born and married in Dedham:

1. Rebecca b. 1678, m. John Boyton.
2. Mary b. 1680, m. Joseph Barber.
3. Susanna b. 1682. Single in 1725.
4. John b. 1685, m. Mary Ruggles, m-2 Ann Wilson
5. Thomas b. 1687. Died by 1725, not mention in father's will.
6. Sarah b. 1689. Single in 1725.

Sources

1. ↑ Don Gleason Hill, compiler, The Record of Baptisms, Marriages & Deaths ... Town of Dedham, MA, 1635-1845 (Dedham, MA: Town of Dedham, 1886) p. 3. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101013827207&view=1up&seq=17&size=150
2. ↑ Don Gleason Hill, compiler, The Record of Baptisms, Marriages & Deaths ... Town of Dedham, MA, 1638-1845 (Dedham, MA: Town of Dedham, 1886), p. 17. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101013827207&view=1up&seq=33&size=125
3. ↑ Don Gleason Hill, editor, The Early Records of the Town of Dedham, Mass., 1672-1706, Vol 5. (Dedham, MA: Dedham, MA, 1899), p. 103
4. ↑ Suffolk Co. Probate Bk.11, p.28: will dated Jul 26 1686; prvd Sep 23 1686.
5. ↑ Clark, George Kuhn. History of Needham (1912). p.54. https://archive.org/details/historyofneedham01clar/page/54/mode/2up
6. ↑ Payne, Nathaniel Emmons. Thomas Payne of Salem and His Descendants (1928), p.44. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89069611663&view=1up&seq=82&skin=default&size=125
7. ↑ Don Gleason Hill, compiler, The Record of Baptisms, Marriages & Deaths ... Town of Dedham, MA, 1635-1845 (Dedham, MA: Town of Dedham, 1886) p.24. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101013827207&view=1up&seq=40&size=125
8. ↑ Payne, p.43, 44..
9. ↑ Needham vital records, deaths: Martha w. of John https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Norfolk/Needham/DeathsP.shtml
10. ↑ Payne, p.[in front of] p.43. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89069611663&view=1up&seq=78&skin=default&size=150