When Samuel Payne Sr was born on 10 June 1654, in Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Stephen Payne, was 28 and his mother, Hannah Bass, was 21. He married Mary Penniman on 4 April 1678, in Braintree, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 10 December 1739, in his hometown, at the age of 85, and was buried in Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.