Aquilla Payne

Brief Life History of Aquilla

When Aquilla Payne was born in 1791, in South Carolina, United States, his father, Isaac Payne, was 38 and his mother, Mary Anne Hays, was 37. He married Rachel Imes in 1819, in Grainger, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Grainger, Tennessee, United States for about 20 years. He died on 2 September 1852, in Vermillion, Indiana, United States, at the age of 61.

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Family Time Line

Aquilla Payne
1791–1852
Rachel Imes
1798–1865
Marriage: 1819
Isaiah Payne
1825–
Mary F. Payne
1828–
Martha Payne
1831–
Nancy Payne
1834–

Sources (11)

  • Aquilla Pain, "United States Census, 1830"
  • Aquila Payn, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1959"
  • "Aquilla Payne", Tennessee Early Tax Records

World Events (8)

1791

Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.

1792 · Head Tax Law

"In 1792, South Carolina passes a law called the ""head tax"" for all free African Americans from age 16-50. This tax was $2.00."

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

Name Meaning

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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