Person:David Payne (1)

Parentage

Some researchers have placed this David Payne as a son of Col. John Payne (1713-1784) and his wife Hannah Harris, of Goochland County, Virginia, but it appears that a different John Payne (that also married a wife named Hannah) are likely his parents. It appears that the Pittsylvania County Payne's may be entirely un-related to the Goochland County Payne's based upon DNA research. Additional research necessary.

Biography

David Payne11 [Carroll County] 1765-1815: The Settlements, By John Perry Alderman; Published by Alderman Books, 1985, p. 156-157 David Payne’s early history remains to be discovered although it would seem that he was a young man when he came to the area. There were several households of that name in Pittsylvania County at the time he was settling on Stewarts Creek, and it may well be that he descends from one of them. The earliest record of him, curiously, is north of the Blue Ridge on the ridge which divides the headwaters of Little Reed Island and Crooked Creek. There he entered fifty acres of land on July 2, 1782, describing it as his improvement on Reed Island Creed (Montgomery, entry A-63); it sold to Daniel Carlan who obtained the grant, and David Payne does not appear in any of the other Montgomery records, not even the tax list for 1782. He had settled south of the Blue Ridge on Stewarts Creek in what was then Henry County, but soon was to become Patrick County. There he bought from Isham Webb a tract which Peter Sanders had surveyed in 1784, consisted of 212 acres and was described as on a branch of Stewarts Creek against the mountain and including the Poplar Cove. It was the only land he owned for many years, although he had another tract of 195 acres surveyed on the Briery Fork in 1811 (Patrick, Survey1-227). The second tract was still taxed to him in 1842 when Carroll was formed. There are practically no records of him other than his land records and the census. His original grant was conveyed in three transactions to Edmond Payne, commencing in 1812 and ending in 1824 (Grayson, D.B. 3-72); D.B. 3-73; and D.B. 5-142). He appears in the 1820 census, but had probably died before 1830. His widow is thought to be found in one of the Payne households in the census, aged 60/70 which would put her birth in the 1760s. His family is mostly guesswork. Edmond and Polly are known from the death records (Vital Statistics, on microfilm Virginia State Library) to have been two of the children. The writer thinks there were seven sons: (1) Edmond Payne, born about 1784, died in 1876, (2) Stephen Payne, (3) Nathaniel Payne, born in the 1780s, (4) Walter Payne, born in the 1780s, (5) Matthow Payne, (6) David Payne Jr., born in the 1790s and (7) Joseph Payne, born in the 1790s. The daughter Polly (there were likely other daughters) was born about 1793 and lived until 1877.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

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