Edward Payson

Biography

He was baptized in Nazeing, Essex, 3 October 1613 about the same time as Giles Payson who was most likely his brother.[1] He arrived in Roxbury in 1634 based on admission to Roxbury church.[2]

He married first on August 20, 1640 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, to Anne Parke.[1]

Child with first wife:

• 1. MARY PAYSON, b. Roxbury 2 September 1641 [NEHGR 6: 184]; no further record.[1]

He first wife was buried in Roxbury on 10 September 1641[3]

He married second on January 1, 1642 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, to Mary E. Elliott[1]

Children with second wife:

• 1. JOHN PAYSON, b. Roxbury 11 June 1643 [NEHGR 6:184], bp. there 18 June 1643 [RChR 115]; m. (I) by 1670 Bathsheba Tilestone (eldest known child b. Dorchester 18 September 1670 [DVR 12]), daughter of THOMAS TIL.ESTONE {1634, Dorchester} (on 18 February 1671[/2], Bathshuah the daughter of Thomas Tilstone who married with Jno. Pason was dismissed [from Dorchester church] to join the church at Rocksbery she was not in full communion as yet [DChR 11 ]); m. (2) by 1685 Hannah (eldest known child b. Roxbury 26 June 1685).[1]
• 2. JONATHAN PAYSON, b. Roxbury 19 December 1644 [NEHGR 6:184], bp. there 22 December 1644 [RChR 116]; d. there 7 January 1666/7 of the smallpox [RChR].[1]
• 3. ANN PAYSON, b. Roxbury 26 April 1647, bp. there 2 May 1647 [RChR 117]; d. there 15 August 1650 [RChR 174].[1]
• 4. JOANNA PAYSON, bp. Roxbury 25 March 1649 [RChR 118]; d. there 27 March 1668 [RChR 179]. [1]
• 5. ANNE PAYSON, bp. Roxbury 30 November 1651 [RChR 119]; m. by 1670 Benjamin Tucker (eldest known child b. Roxbury 8 March 1670[/1?]).[1]
• 6. SUSANNA PAYSON, bp. Roxbury 28 August 1653 [RChR 120]; d. there 29 September 1654 [RChR 176]. [1]
• 7. SUSANNA PAYSON, b. Roxbury 27 June 1655, bp. there 1 July 1655 [RChR 121 ]; m. Dorchester 9 April 1673 Samuel Capen [DVR 22].[1]
• 8. EDWARD PAYSON, b. Roxbury 20 June 1657, bp. there 28 June 1657 [RChR 122]; Harvard College 1677 [Sibley 2:514-18; Rowley Fam 266-67]; m. (1) Rowley 7 November 1683 Elizabeth Phillips, daughter of Samuel Phillips [Rowley Fam 290-91; Sibley 1:221-28; GMB 3:1448]; m. (2) Rowley (intention) 10 September 1726 Elizabeth (Whittingham) Appleton, daughter of William Whittingham and widow of Samuel Appleton [Sibley 2:516-17].[1]
• 9. EPHRAIM PAYSON, bp. Roxbury 20 February 1658/9 [RChR 122]; m. Dorchester 12 June 1684 Catherine Ledbetter [DVR J 00].[1]
• 10. SAMUEL PAYSON, bp. Roxbury 21 Septe1nber 1662 [RCl1R 124]; m. Rowley 14 June 1688 Mary Phillips, daughter of Satnuel Phillips [Rowley Fam 290-91 ; GMB 3: 1448].[1]
• 11. MARY PAYSON, bp. Roxbury 19 March 1664/5 [RChR 125]; m. Dorchester 16 May 1682 Preserved Capen [DVR 24].[1]

He died between 10 November 1688 (date of will) and 3 September 1691 (probate of will) in Roxbury.[1] His second wife died at Roxbury on 24 March 1697[/8].[1]

Sources

• 1. Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration: Immigrants to New England: 1634-1635, (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic and Genealogical Society. Sep 1996) Volume V, M-P p 389-395 link to purchase and link to Americanancestors subscribers to text
• 2. [RChR 80]).
• 3. [NEHGR 6:184].
• Find-A-Grave, Edward Payson memorial.
• Source: S11 The Capen Family: Descendants of Bernard Capen of Dorchester, Mass. Author: Jessie Hale Tuttle, editor Publication: Salem, Massachusetts: Higginson Book Company, 2012.
• Jeff Walton, transcribed from The Descendants of Rev. John Eliot, Capt. James Parker, Capt. Thomas Prentice from New England and Pulteney, New York, 1620-1967: Including references to the families of Mullins, Southworth, Bradford, Bridge, Stanton, Lord; compiled by Wilford V. Case; Syracuse, NY; December 15, 1967.
• HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, County of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, CT, 1900, p. 527

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Edward Payson was sworn a freeman May 13, 1640. He married first, August 20, 1640, Ann Parke, daughter of William Parke of Roxbury, she died September 10 of the following year, eight days after the birth of a daughter Mary who died young.

Edward married second January 1, 1642, Mary Eliot, sister of the noted Rev. John Eliot, "Apostle to the Indians." Mary and Edward Payson moved to Dorchester about 1658.

Edward died about 1690 and his widow Mary died March 24, 1697.

Children by second marriage:

1. Deacon John, who married first Bathsheba Tileston. He married second, Hannah________.

2. Jonathan

3. Ann, who died young

4. Joanna

5. Susanna, who died young

6. Ann, who married Lieut. Benjamin Tucker

7. Susanna, who married Samuel Capen of Braintree

8. Rev Edward, who married first Elizabeth Phillips (20 children), and married 2nd Elizabeth Whittingham, widow of Col. Samuel Appleton.

9. Ephraim, who married Katherine/Catherine, daughter of Henry Leadbetter.

10. Samuel, who married Mary, daughter of Rev. Samuel Phillips.

Source: A Genealogical History of the Clark and Worth Families and Other Puritan Settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Privately Printed 1970 Member of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution; Daughters of the American Colonists; and the Connecticut Society of Genealogists. By Carol Clark Johnson

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