Person:Giles Payson (1)

Deacon Giles Payson

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m. Apr 1637

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Name^[1]	Deacon Giles Payson
Gender	Male
Christening^[1]	14 May 1609	Nazeing, Essex, England
Emigration^[1]	1635	On the Hopewell.
Residence^[1]	1635	Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	Apr 1637	Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Elizabeth Dowell
Other^[1]	18 Apr 1637	Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United StatesAdmitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Death^[1]^[2]	28 Jan 1688/89	Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Will^[1]	26 Apr 1697	Letters of administration to daughters Elizabeth and Sarah.
Occupation^[1]		Husbandman. Yeoman.
Estate Inventory^[1]	30 Apr 1697	£543 in real estate.

Hopewell (1635)

This Hopewell sailed from London in April; there was another Hopewell that sailed from Weymouth in May.
Sailed:	April 1635 from London under Mr. William Bundocke (?)
Arrived:	May-June 1635 at Massachusetts

Passengers: ~65 (full list)	Joh: Astwood - James Burgis - Jo: Bushnell - Martha Carter - Joh: Cooper & family - Phelip Elliott & family - Geo: Griggs & family - Edmond Farrington & family - Nath: Kyrtland - Phillip Kyrtland - Wm. Parryer or Purryer & family - Giles Payson - Tho: Pell - Jo: Pent - Jo: Ruggells - Alexander Thwaits - Robert Titus & family - Laurence Whittimore & wife - Geo Woodward

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↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 ^1.8 Giles Payson, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
5:396-400.

ORIGIN: Nazeing, Essex.
MIGRATION: 1635 on the Hopewell (on 3 April 1635, "Giles Payson," aged 26, was enrolled at London as a passenger for New England on the Hopewell [Hotten 46]).
OCCUPATION: Husbandman [SPR 11:284]. Yeoman [SLR 19:369].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admitted to Roxbury church in 1635 as member #151 ("Giles Paison, a single man. He married our sister Elizabeth Dowell") [RChR 82]. On 14 January 1671/2, "our brother Giles Pason was elected & called to the office of a Deacon & the Sabbath following [21 January 1671/2] he was solemnly ordained by prayer and imposition of the hands of the Elders" [RChR 210].
FREEMAN: 18 April 1637 (sixth in a sequence of six Roxbury men) [MBCR 1:373].
BIRTH: Baptized Nazeing, Essex, 14 May 1609 (aged 26 on 3 April 1635 [Hotten 46]; d. 28 January 1688/9, aged 78).
DEATH: Roxbury 28 January 1688:9. "a. 78 years."
↑ Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1925-1926)
2:609.

Payson, Giles, Dea., [died] Jan. 28, 1688-9, a. 78 y.