When John Payne Jr. was born on 13 August 1690, in Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Payne, was 23 and his mother, Deborah Neale, was 22. He died in 1706, in Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 16.
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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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