When John Payson was born on 17 July 1676, in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Payson, was 33 and his mother, Bathsheba Tilestone, was 26. He married Elizabeth Tucker on 14 January 1701, in Milton, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 6 January 1747, in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 70, and was buried in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.