McLemoreStrong
Genealogy
Strong - McLemore History and Ancestry
First Name:  Last Name: 
[Advanced Search]  [Surnames]

William Johnson Payne

Male 1802 - 1813  (11 years)


Generations:      Standard    |    Vertical    |    Compact    |    Box    |    Text    |    Ahnentafel    |    Fan Chart    |    Media    |    PDF

Generation: 1

  1. 1.  William Johnson Payne was born on 26 Jan 1802 in Scott County, Kentucky (son of John Payne and Elizabeth "Betsy" Johnson); died on 30 Jan 1813.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  John Payne was born on 8 Apr 1764 in Fairfax County, Virginia (son of William Payne and Anne Jennings); died on 9 Sep 1837.

    Notes:

    Moved to Kentucky in the mid 1780's. He was arrested by Colonel Levi Todd on 6 September 1786 and threatened to be treated as a deserter until he furnished a substitute for his service. He settled in Scott County at Payne's depot near Georgetown. The Magazine of the Kentucky Historical Society refers to him as General John Payne, and states that he commanded Kentucky troops in the first expedition against the Indians in 1812. He was a State Senator from Scott County from 1830-1832.

    According to his son, Asa, he died after being thrown from his horse.

    Westerfield's book of Kentucky Genealogical and Biographical Sketches states that he was in the Virginia Militia, and present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, soon after which he settled in Kentucky; was active in the Indian wars on the frontier; a general in the war of 1812, a State senator, a farmer and large slave holder, and died in 1837.

    John married Elizabeth "Betsy" Johnson on 28 Jun 1787 in Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky. Elizabeth (daughter of Robert Johnson and Jemima Suggett) was born on 10 Apr 1772; died after Jul 1846. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Elizabeth "Betsy" Johnson was born on 10 Apr 1772 (daughter of Robert Johnson and Jemima Suggett); died after Jul 1846.

    Notes:

    In the book THE PAYNES OF VIRGINIA, there is an interesting account on pages 240 through 242 about the siege of Bryan's Station, Kentucky. It is an abstraction of a letter written by Betsy in 1846, detailing her memories of her family being attacked by Indians.

    Kentucky Historical Society, "Genealogies of Kentucky Families: Vol. O-Y" (Baltimore Gen. Publ.-1981) notes she is the sister of Col. Richard M. Johnson of Georgetown, Kentucky. Betsy and John had fifteen children, four of them surviving: Asa Payne of Payne's Depot, Scott County, Kentucky; 2. John of Jack Payne, Warsaw, Ky.; 3. Jeff Payne, Howard Co, Missouri; and 4. A daughter, Mrs. Offut.

    Children:
    1. Col. Asa Payne was born on 19 Mar 1788 in Scott County, Kentucky; and died.
    2. Robert Payne was born on 20 Dec 1789 in Scott County, Kentucky; died on 28 Aug 1827 in Fayette County, Missouri.
    3. Nancy Payne was born on 16 Oct 1791 in Scott County, Kentucky; and died.
    4. Sally Payne was born on 16 Nov 1793 in Scott County, Kentucky; and died.
    5. John Payne was born on 15 Nov 1795 in Scott County, Kentucky; died in 1887 in Warsaw, Gallatin County, Kentucky.
    6. Elizabeth Payne was born on 22 Jan 1798 in Scott County, Kentucky; and died.
    7. Newton Payne was born on 4 Jan 1800 in Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky; died on 16 Mar 1850.
    8. 1. William Johnson Payne was born on 26 Jan 1802 in Scott County, Kentucky; died on 30 Jan 1813.
    9. Thomas Jefferson Payne was born on 3 Feb 1804 in Scott County, Kentucky; died about 1880 in Howard County, Missouri.
    10. Franklin Payne was born on 16 Mar 1806 in Scott County, Kentucky; died about 1874 in Scott County, Kentucky.
    11. Richard Johnson Payne was born on 26 Feb 1808 in Scott County, Kentucky; died on 27 May 1823.
    12. Emeline Payne was born on 13 Mar 1810 in Scott County, Kentucky; died about 1851 in Grand Lake, Chicot County, Arkansas.
    13. Cyrus Payne was born on 10 Nov 1812 in Scott County, Kentucky; died between 1846 and 1848.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  William Payne was born on 10 Aug 1692 in Westmoreland County, Virginia (son of William Payne and Elizabeth Pope); died on 24 Aug 1776 in Fairfax County, Virginia.

    Notes:

    His will dated 20 June 1769 (16 Sept 1776) named his sons in the order William, Edward, Sanford, and John, and mentions his wife and daughters, but not by name. His wife was to live on the plantation on which he lived if she so chose, otherwise, his son Edward was to possess it. Edward was named as sole executor, and was to have the care and education of testator's son John. (Payne, The PAYNES OF VIRGINIA).

    William married Anne Jennings on 1 Mar 1763 in Fairfax County, Virginia. Anne was born on 28 Feb 1738; died on 11 Dec 1827. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Anne Jennings was born on 28 Feb 1738; died on 11 Dec 1827.
    Children:
    1. 2. John Payne was born on 8 Apr 1764 in Fairfax County, Virginia; died on 9 Sep 1837.
    2. Mildred Payne was born after 1765; and died.

  3. 6.  Robert Johnson was born about 1745; died about 1815.

    Notes:

    Colonel Robert Johnson was a Captain in the Revolution under George Rogers Clark, also Representative and State Senator in Kentucky, and member of the Constitutional Convention at Danville, Kentucky.

    Robert + Jemima Suggett. Jemima was born about 1753; died about 1814. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Jemima Suggett was born about 1753; died about 1814.
    Children:
    1. 3. Elizabeth "Betsy" Johnson was born on 10 Apr 1772; died after Jul 1846.
    2. James Johnson was born about 1774; died about 1826.
    3. William Johnson was born on 7 Dec 1775; died on 25 Apr 1814.
    4. Sallie Johnson was born about 1778; and died.
    5. Richard Mentor Johnson was born about 1780; died about 1850.
    6. Benjamin Johnson was born about 1784; died about 1849.
    7. Robert Johnson was born about 1786; died about 1812.
    8. John Telemachus Johnson was born about 1788; died about 1856.
    9. Joel Johnson was born about 1790; died about 1846.
    10. George W. Johnson was born about 1792; died about 1810.
    11. Henry Johnson was born about 1794; died about 1862.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  William Payne was born before 1652 in Virginia (son of John Payne and Margaret ???); died on 23 Feb 1697 in Westmoreland County, Virginia; was buried in Yeocomico, Westmoreland County, Virginia.

    Notes:

    The earliest recognized court reference to William Payne (b. ca. 1652) is found in Rappahannock County in 1673, when "William Payne, son of Mr. John Payne", recorded the earmark of his cattle---"three slits in each ear, and the middle slit cropt." This refence and the composite of the 17 traditional versions abstracted int he Introduction under the title of Genesis of the Virginia Families, particularly the 6th and 10th, taken in conjunction with the fact that the 1673 reference cannot be made to fit any other William Payne found int he Northern Neck records of this period, and that the McCartys, Lees, Fitzhughs, and Popes continued to be neighbors of or to intermarry with the Paynes of Leedstown and their descendants, are accepted by Brooke Payne as satisfactory proof of the identity of the said William Payne as the son of John Payne. Particularly convincing to the author is the fact, shown by documents referred to in Version 10 and still preserved in the family, that Captain William Payne (b 1755) recognized his relationship to the Paynes of Fairfax County near whom he lived.

    According to the PAYNE'S OF VIRGINIA, William was a merchant, planter, Justice, and probably shipowner. Mr Payne was apparently acquainted in England with merchants whom he represented in Virginia. He was probably the Captain Payne who in 1680 delivered letters from England to Col. William Fitzhugh of Westmorland County.

    His will (dated 31 Jan 1697/8) referred to money that he had on deposit in Newcastle [England].

    William married Elizabeth Pope in 1691 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Elizabeth (daughter of Humphrey Pope and Elizabeth Hawkins) was born in Jun 1667 in Virginia; died in 1716 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Elizabeth Pope was born in Jun 1667 in Virginia (daughter of Humphrey Pope and Elizabeth Hawkins); died in 1716 in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

    Notes:

    In THE PAYNES OF VIRGINIA, the author notes that the badly defaced tombstone of Elizabeth was discovered in 1907 beneath the tomb of her second husband, Captain McCarty, and read "(Here liet)h the body of Elizabeth (daught)er of Humphrey Pope, Gentleman, by (Elizabeth) his wife, first the wife of (William Pay)ne, Gentleman, to whom sh(e bore two so)ns and two daughters, and last(ly of) Daniel McCarty, Esq., to (whom she) was married 19th October (1699 and b)ore four sons and four daugh(ters). She was born ___ of June 1667."

    After Elizabeth POPE PAYNE lost William PAYNE she married [on 19 Oct 1699] Capt. Daniel MCCARTY who died 4 May 1724. He was the son of Dennis MCCARTHY and Elizabeth BILLINGTON of Richmond Co., VA then he married 2nd Mrs. Ann FITZHUGH widow of William FITZHUGH and she was the daughter of Richard LEE and Lettice CORBIN.

    Children:
    1. 4. William Payne was born on 10 Aug 1692 in Westmoreland County, Virginia; died on 24 Aug 1776 in Fairfax County, Virginia.
    2. Edward Payne was born in 1693 in Westmoreland County, Virginia; died in 1702.
    3. Elizabeth Payne was born in 1695 in Westmoreland County, Virginia; and died.
    4. Mary Payne was born about 1697 in Westmoreland County, Virginia; and died.