When Benjamin Scott Payne was born on 10 April 1850, in Marshall, Fauquier, Virginia, United States, his father, Thomas Withers Payne, was 31 and his mother, Nancy E Thompson, was 26. He married Mildred Frances Henson on 21 December 1876, in Fauquier, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Virginia, United States in 1870. He died on 16 July 1913, in Fauquier, Virginia, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Payne Family Cemetery, Orlean, Fauquier, Virginia, United States.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Pai(e)n, Pagen (from Latin Paganus), a fairly common personal name among Normans. It derived from a word that originally meant ‘villager, rustic’, later ‘heathen’, but it had doubtless lost these connotations in its use as a late medieval personal name. This name has also been established in Ireland since the 14th century.
History: Thomas Payne, who was a freeman of Plymouth Colony in 1639, was the founder of a large American family, which included Robert Treat Paine (1731–1814), one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. See also Paine .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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