The Payne's of Hamilton, NY and Louisiana
| I am looking for decendants of ELISHA PAYNE (ABRAHAM, ABRAHAM, ELISHA, THOMAS, THOMAS) who was born December 13, 1762 in Amenia, New York, and died February 4, 1843 in Hamilton, New York. He married (1) MARY POLLY BROOKS September 17, 1787, daughter of SAMUEL BROOKS and RHODA BECKWITH. He married (2) ESTER DOUGLASS August 17, 1797 in Whitestown, New York, daughter of CALEB DOUGLASS and BETHIAH CHAPEL. "Elisha Payne was, like his brother Samuel, a powerful man physically. He was not tall, but compact in build. When the Revolutionary War broke out he was living, of course, in his father's family in Amenia, New York. He was twelve years old. The war closed before he became of age and yet, in his teens, he saw service as a soldier in the Revolution. He was an enlisted man in the Dutchess County Militia, and belonged to the Sixth Regiment. After the Revolution he lived at Northeast, N. Y., which was originally a part of Amenia. Before 1795 he had purchased a great tract of land in what was then the unbroken wilderness of the extensive town of Paris in Herkimer County, and went there with his family, consisting of wife, three sons and a daughter. This tract adjoined on its southern boundary a tract his brother Samuel had bought the year before, where Colgate University now stands. Mr. Payne's settlement in this new fertile region attracted many new settlers immediately. His brother-in-law, Thomas Hart, and other relatives came. Elisha Payne there upon set about organizing civic affairs, and a new town was formed from Paris, March 5, 1795. Its territory originally embraced four townships of the so-called “Chenango Twenty Towns.” Eaton, Lebanon and Madison were “set off” from it in 1807. Mr. Payne named the new township Hamilton, in honor of Alexander Hamilton, whom he greatly admired, but it was called “Payne's Settlement” for a number of years. The first town meeting was held at the house of Elisha Payne on the first Tuesday in April, 1795. Mr. Payne's purchase included a great part of the present site of the village of Hamilton, and he bent all his energies toward creating a thriving community. " Reference: "The Payne's of Hamilton" A Genealogy and Biographical Record by Augusta Francelia Payne White, Tobias A. Wright Publisher, Dated 1912. "The Paynes of Hamilton" book ,(245 pages) is available from Higgins Books for $39.50. See: (http://www.higginsonbooks.com/) Children of ELISHA PAINE and MARY BROOKS are: ABRAHAM PAYNE, b. January 7, 1789, North East Dutchess Co. New York; d. May 7, 1854, Winchester, Indiana. JOHN PAYNE, b. November 5, 1790, Northeast Duchess Countey, New York; d. August 12, 1844, Huntsville, Montgomery County, Texas. MARY POLLY PAYNE, b. September 17, 1792, Northeast Duchess Countey, New York; d. May 2, 1854, Hamilton, New York. SAMUEL PAYNE, b. April 23, 1794. Children of ELISHA PAINE and ESTER DOUGLASS are: ELIJAH PAYNE, b. April 13, 1799, Hamilton, New York; d. July 29, 1839, Depauville, New York. ELISHA PAYNE, b. August 9, 1800, Hamilton, New York; d. October 28, 1883, Barlett, Oneda County, New York. MANSFIELD PAYNE, b. October 11, 1801, Hamilton, New York; d. September 26, 1864, Hamilton, New York. JOSEPH COLWELL PAYNE, b. May 26, 1803, Madison County, Hamilton, New York; d. December 31, 1887, Seneca, Falls, New York. NELSON PAYNE, b. October 15, 1804, Hamilton, New York; d. November 3, 1883, Sennett, New York. CHARLES CLARK PAYNE, b. April 4, 1806, Hamilton, New York; d. June 14, 1888, Brooklyn, New York. THOMAS HUBBARD PAYNE, b. December 9, 1807, Hamilton, New York; d. June 14, 1892, Fremont, Lake County, Ill.. MARIA PAYNE, b. March 3, 1809, Hamilton, New York; d. October 2, 1861, Homer, New York. HENRY B. PAYNE, b. November 30, 1810, Hamilton, New York; d. September 9, 1896, Cleveland, Ohio. WILLIAM WALLACE PAYNE, b. May 17, 1812, Hamilton, New York; d. July 1, 1813, Hamilton, New York. WILLIAM WALLACE PAYNE, b. January 22, 1814, | The Payne's of Hamilton, NY and Louisiana Updated October 5, 2001 |
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