Phillip Payzant (1746 - aft. 1795)

Born 1746 in St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands

Ancestors

Husband of Martha Hood — married 1774 in Boston, Suffollk, MA

Died after 1795 after age 49 in Boston, Massachusetts [uncertain]

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Biography

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Phillip Payzant was a son of a Huguenot emigrant (1540-1790).

Phillip Payzant migrated from Jersey to Nova Scotia.

Phillip Payzant migrated from Nova Scotia to Massachusetts.

Private Phillip Payzant served with 2nd Massachusetts Bay Provincial Regiment (1775), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Phillip was born in 1746^[1]. His father, Louis Paisant was a French Huguenot who had fled Normandy as a religious fugitive for the Isle of Jersey with his daughter Anne after the death of his first wife. Settled in St. Helier, Jersey he married Mary Anne Noguet and began a new family. Louis Paisant removed to Halifax, Nova Scotia with his wife and children in the summer of 1753, and settled at Lunenburg, the "Foreign Protestant" settlement on the South Shore of Nova Scotia; owned a trading post on Covey's Island in Mahone Bay, Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia, where an Indian party on the evening of 8 May 1756 massacred Louis Payzant, a woman servant and child and scalped the son of Capt. Rous who had acted as a guide for the Indian party. Pregnant at the time, Mrs. Payzant and her four children were taken overland to Quebec and held captive until the fall of that city in 1759. Marie Payzant and her children returned to Nova Scotia in 1760 and received a 500-acre grant in the Township of Falmouth, Nova Scotia - Farm Lot 47 ^[2].

Philip's name appears in "Lotts drawn by inhabitants of Chester in the first division of farm lotts called the disputed lot", dated 30 May 1763.^[3] In 1763, Philip was granted 300 acres of land near Chester, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia ^[4]. Philip sold his property in Nova Scotia and relocated to Boston, Massachusetts in 1772, where in 1774 he married Martha Hood^[5].

He served in the Revolutionary War, in Captain Josiah Hayden's Company ^{[6] [7] [8]} and in Capt Daniel Lathrop's Company of Col Thomas Craft's Artillery Train, ^{[9] [10]} but there are no further records of Philip after 1782, so his date and place of death is unknown.

Notes

Philip was baptized at St Helier parish, Jersey, on 26 Nov 1746. Given his younger sister Mary was born 23 Jan 1747, it is reasonable to assume that Philip was born before April 1746. It may also be noted that his older sisters Marie and Anne both died on 10 April 1746.

Payzant, Philip, Boston. Private, Capt. Josiah Hayden’s Co., Col. John Thomas’s Regt; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted May 15, 1775; service, 2 mos., 3 weeks, 1 day; also, muster roll for Sept. and Oct. 1775, dated Camp at Roxbury.

Paysant, Philip, Boston. Private, Capt. Josiah Hayden's co.. Gen. John Thomas's regt.; company return dated Oct. 6, 1775; also, Gunner, Capt. Daniel Lothrop's co.. Col. Thomas Crafts's (Artillery) regt. ; enlisted June 14, 1776, 4 days preceding march ; service to Aug. 1, 1776, 52 days; also, Capt. Lothrop's (7th) co.. Col. Crafts's regt.; service from Aug. 1, 1776, to Nov. 1, 1776, 3 mos. ; also, same co. and regt. ; service from Nov. 1, 1776, to Feb. 1, 1777, 3 mos. ; reported as serving 1 mo. in Colony service, 2 mos. in Continental service.^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ Baptismal record: Jersey Heritage; St Helier, Jersery; Jersey Parish Registers; Reference Number: G/C/03/A2/3
2. ↑ John V. Duncanson, Falmouth: A New England Township In Nova Scotia. https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=vendingace&id=I50722
3. ↑ Phillip Pysant[sic], No.16: https://www.familysearch.org/records/images/image-details?page=1&place=8132246&rmsId=TH-909-70942-110631-48&imageIndex=623&singleView=true
4. ↑ per research of Linda Layton: he was granted 300 acres of land about 31 km northwest of Lunenburg which he farmed (lot F-9 in Third Division) near present-day Branch LaHave (per Registry of 300 Acres Lots, 1763-1766)
5. ↑ Ancestry.com: Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
6. ↑ Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War. Vol. 1-17. Boston, MA, USA: Wright & Potter Printing, 1896-1908, p.1049
7. ↑ "Massachusetts, Revolutionary War, Index Cards to Muster Rolls, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGVF-XVT6 : 19 February 2021), Philip Paysant Or Payson, 6 Oct 1775; citing Military Service, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm .
8. ↑ "United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG2M-WJBJ : 1 March 2021), Philip Payzant, 15 May 1775; citing Military Service, , Citing various published state rosters, United States; FHL microfilm 101711088.
9. ↑ Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War
10. ↑ Massachusetts, Revolutionary War, Index Cards to Muster Rolls, 1775-1783
11. ↑ Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the revolutionary war. A compilation from the archives (Volume 11) online: https://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/massachusetts-office-of-the-secretary-of-state/massachusetts-soldiers-and-sailors-of-the-revolutionary-war-a-compilation-from--ssa-588/page-157-massachusetts-soldiers-and-sailors-of-the-revolutionary-war-a-compilation-from--ssa-588.shtml

• Baptismal record: Jersey Heritage; St Helier, Jersery; Jersey Parish Registers; Reference Number: G/C/03/A2/3

• "Massachusetts, Revolutionary War, Index Cards to Muster Rolls, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch
  • (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGVF-XVTX : 19 February 2021), Philip Paysant Or Payson, 14 Jun 1776; citing Military Service, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm .
  • (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGXF-1CCQ : 19 February 2021), Philip Paysant, 1 Aug 1776; citing Military Service, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm .
  • (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGXF-1CC7 : 19 February 2021), Philip Paysant, 1 Nov 1776; citing Military Service, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm .

• Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (Wright & Potter Printing Co., Boston, 1896); Vol. 11,
  • p. 1053 "Private, Capt. Josiah Hayden's co.. Col. John Thomas's regt.; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775; enlisted May 15, 1775; service, 2 mos., 3 weeks, 1 day; also, muster roll for Sept. and Oct., 1775, dated Camp at Roxbury."
  • p. 1049 "Private, Capt. Josiah Hayden's co., Gen. John Thomas's regt.; company return dated Oct. 6, 1775; also. Gunner, Capt. Daniel Lothrop's co., Col. Thomas Crafts's (Artillery) regt.; enlisted June 14, 1776, 4 days preceding march; service to Aug. 1, 1776, 52 days; also, Capt. Lothrop's (7th) co., Col. Crafts's regt.; service from Aug. 1, 1776, to Nov. 1, 1776, 3 mos.; also, same co. and regt.; service from Nov. 1, 1776, to Feb. 1, 1777, 3 mos.; reported as serving 1 mo. in Colony service, 2 mos. in Continental service."