John Payne

GEDCOM Note

Family Mentioned in will of

8. Freer, John (Calendared as FryerJ but signed Freer), of
Clare, Co. Suffolk, 20 June, 1585. To poor of Clare 40/-. To
Bridgett wife all my freehold in Essex. Also my mansion house
in Clare with two crofts of land called Bryans and Tyle Croft.
To Robert Payne son and heir of Thomas Payne of Wilberton in
the Isle of Ely two tenements in Northgate Street Clare. To
Henry Campion my servant one tenement in Nethergate Street
now in the occupation of his father William Campion. I bequeath
to Mr. Lynsey my father-in-law my black gelding. To
my cousin Thomas Payne of Wilberton ,£10. Res. and Ex. wife
and cousin Thomas Payne of Wilberton. Wit. Edmond Lee,
Thomas Reynold, William Byshopp. Pr. 16 July, 1585. (P. C. C.
Brudenell 36.)
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The Cherokee Mother of John Red Bank
Payne
https://nativeheritageproject.com/2013/12/23/the-cherokee-mother-of...

John’s father, Thomas Payne, was born in Westmorland County, Virginia, about 1725, and owned property in Halifax and Pittsylvania counties, Virginia, as well as Wilkes County, North Carolina, and Franklin County, Georgia. Several factors suggest Thomas travelled with his older brother, William, to North Georgia and beyond, engaging in the deerskin trade with the Cherokee Nation during the mid 1700s. Thomas Payne died probably in Franklin County, Georgia, after February 23, 1811.
Local North Georgia tradition identifies the first wife of Thomas Payne as a Cherokee woman. Anna Belle Little Tabor, in History of Franklin County, Georgia, wrote that “Trader Payne” managed a trading post on Payne’s Creek, and “one of his descendants, an offspring of his Cherokee marriage, later married Moses Ayers whose descendants still live in the county.”
Descendants of John Red Bank Payne also cite his name Red Bank, recorded in his son’s family Bible, as evidence of his Cherokee heritage. Before the American Revolution, British Americans rarely defied English legal prohibitions against giving a child more than one Christian name. So, the very existence of John’s name Red Bank suggests non-English ethnicity. On the other hand, many people of mixed English-Cherokee heritage were known by their Cherokee name as well as their English first and last names during this period.