When Electa Payne was born on 17 February 1804, in Hamilton, Hamilton, Madison, New York, United States, her father, John Calvin Payne, was 25 and her mother, Philena Pierce, was 20. She married Jacob Knapp Jr. on 1 September 1824, in Hamilton, Hamilton, Madison, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Burritt Township, Winnebago, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Illinois, United States in 1870. She died on 16 October 1884, in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1806: Madison, New York, United States
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
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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