George Payne

George married Mary Jane Woodson on 30 Oct 1705 in , Goochland, Virginia, USA. Mary (daughter of Col Robert "Potato Hole" Woodson and Elizabeth Ferris) was born in 1678 in Curles Plantation, Henrico, Virginia, USA; died on 15 Jan 1744 in , Goochland, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Josias 'Sr' Payne was born on 30 Oct 1705 in Northam, Goochland Co, VA, USA as the first child of. He had one sibling, namely: John 'Colonel'. He died on 17 Dec 1785 in Pittsylvania Co, VA, USA. When he was 26, He married Anne Fleming Payne in 1732 in Goochland Co VA, and had the following children:

1. Josias Payne was born in 1735 in St. James Northam Parish, Goochland Co., VA. He died in 1804 in Nashville, TN.
2. William Payne was born on 10 Feb 1731/32 in Goochland Co, VA, USA. He died on 02 Mar 1822 in Fulvanna, VA.
3. George Payne was born in 1734 in Fluvanna, VA. He died on 13 Sep 1807 in Fluvanna, VA.
4. Susanna Payne Heale was born in 1737 in Goochland Co, VA, USA. She died on 30 Oct 1812 in Scott Co., KY.
5. Robert Payne was born in 1738 in Goochland Co, VA, USA. He died in 1791 in Pittsylvania Co, VA, USA. He married Anne Burton Payne on 22 Jul 1763.
6. John Payne was born on 09 Feb 1738/39 in Goochland Co, VA, USA. He died on 24 Oct 1792 in Philadelphia, PA.
7. Agnes Michel Payne was born in 1739 in St. James Northam Parish, Goochland Co., VA. She died in 1766.
8. Anna Payne Harrison was born on 27 Mar 1748 in Goochland Co, VA, USA. She died in 1779 in Dan River, Pittsylvania, VA.
9. Tarleton Payne was born in 1749.

Will of Josias Payne 12 January 1785 Pittsylvania Co., Virginia.
To son William in Fluvanna Co. containing Four Hundred Acres, the following slaves: LONG TOM, SQUIRE, PATT
To son, Josias and gives him land in Goochland Co. of seven hundred acres on the waters of Beaver Dam Creek with the following slaves: LONDON, NED, and NICE
To son George: Two hundred acres land on Licking Hole Creek, land on Three Chop ? Road with the following slaves: WILL, ROSIE?, JUDE.
To son John: Two Hundred acres Land on the Little Bird Creek and the following slaves: PETER, NED, BOB and IALIO.
To son in-law William Heale: m. DA. Susanna : Three hundred and sixty-five acres land on the waters of Little Bird Creek and the following slaves: PHILLIS, a girl named TILLER.
To son Robert Payne: all tract land in Gooochland co. on Licking Hole Creek and land where I formerly lived: and following slaves: JOE, NAN, SUSY, JAMES
To DA. Agnes Michel the Negroes she rec. of me after her Marriage with the following Negroes: JANE MOLE and her child HANAH
To DA. Anna Harrison the Negroes she has in her population with the following: TOM, HANAH his Wife and BON their son.
To Granddaughter Ann DA. of Robert: MILLEY
To Granddaughter Keturah DA. of Robert: BETTY

Will of Josias Payne, 1785 In the name of God Amen. I JOSIAS PAYNE of Pittsylvania County being at this time in perfect health, mind and memory do make an d ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following first I recommend my Soul to God hoping for a happy resurrection and my body the Earth to be buried in a Christian like manner at the direction of Executor hereafter mentioned, And after all my just debts and funeral Charges are paid I give and dispose of my Estate in the following manner -------?

I give and bequeath to my Son WILLIAM the Negroes he has now in population. I likewise give to my Son WILLIAM the tract of Land whereon he now lives in Fulvanna County containing Four hundred acres, with the following Negroes, LONG TOM, SQUIRE, AND PATT.

Item I confirm the gift formerly made my son JOSIAS of Seven hundred acres of land in Goochland County on the Waters of Beaver dam Creek with the following Negroes, LONDON, NED, AND NICE,

Item I confirm the gift formerly made to my Son GEORGE of two hundred acres Land on Lickinghole Creek, also tow hundred acres on the Three chopt Road with the following Negroes, WILL, ROSIE, AND JUDE and fifty pounds I gave him in Cash in lieu of a Negroe.

I confirm Gift made to my son JOHN of two hundred acres of land in the fork of James River with the following Negroes PETER, NED AND BOB, IALIO.

Confirm the Gift made to WILLIAM HEALE who married my daughter SUSANNA of three hundred and sixty-five acres of land on the waters of the Little Bird creek with the following Negroes PHYLLIS AND HER CHILDREN AND A NEGRO GIRL NAMED TILLER.

Item I give and bequeath to my son ROBERT PAYNE all that tract of Land in Goochland County on Licking hole creek contango eight hundred acres being the Plantation and Land whereon I formerly lived. I likewise confirm the gift of Negroes I formerly made him, which he has now in population with the following Negroes, JOE, NAN, SUSY AND JAMES, with their future increase, together with my Still my household and Kitchen furniture and all the plantation Utensils to him his heirs forever.

Item I give to my daughter AGNES MICHEL the Negroes she rec of me after her Marriage with the following Negroes JANE MOLE AND HER CHILD HANAH with their future Increase.

Item I give to my daughter ANNA HARRISON the Negroes she has now in population with Negroes following TOM, HANAH HIS WIFE AND BON their Son with their future increase.

Item I give and bequeath to my Granddaughter ANNA the daughter of my son ROBERT one Negro a Girl named MILLEY with her future increase to her and her heirs for ever.

Item I give to my Granddaughter KETURAH daughter of my Son ROBERT Negro Girl named BETTY, with her future increase to her and her heirs forever

And all the rest of my Estate not heretofore given consisting of Stock--? I desire my be sold and after my debts and funeral charges are paid the Money equally divided amonst all my Children.

I do hereby constitute and appoint my two Sons WILLIAM AND ROBERT PAYNE and my Son in Law WM HARRRISON Exuetors of this my last Will and Testament revoking and disannulling all and every Will or Wills by me heretofore made In --------? Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 12 day of January 1785. JOSIAS PAYNE LS Signed, sealed and delivered published-d-? to be last will in presence of JAMES SANDERS, CHAS DIXSON SA HOPSON Will probated in Pittsylvainia County the 19th day December 1785 . Teste: WILL TURNBALL ?

Josias married Mary Anna Fleming in 1732 in , Goochland, Virginia, USA. Mary was born on 30 Oct 1705 in Saint Peters Parish, James City, Virginia, USA; died on 6 May 1794 in , Goochland, Virginia, USA; was buried in , Goochland, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1782, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

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Robert Payne of Goochland and Pittsylvania Co., VA, was born about 1738, grandson of George (will 1744) and Mary Woodson, son of Josias Payne (died Jan. 12, 1785, probate Dec. 17, 1785 Pittsylvania Co. Will Book, 1767-1820) and Ann Fleming of Goochland. Josias and Anna move to the south side of Dan River. "Widow" Anna Fleming Payne lived with son Robert Payne. Her will filed in Orange Co., NC. Robert's brother, John Payne and wife Mary Coles, the parents of Dolley, future wife of President James Madison, live in the Quaker settlement, "New Garden," Rockingham Co., NC, south of Robert's home on the Dan River at Cascades, named "Cascades." John returns 1769 to Hanover, VA, before the Battle Of Alamance. Robert's sister, Anna Payne married William Harrison, settled on the south side of the Dan near his brother Thomas Harrison. The people of goochland are familiar with the Dan river area as it is part of the vast section that neighbor Col. William Byrd claimes, called "New Eden". Robert is said to have been a chain carrier during part of running NC and VA line.

Robert Payne died testate about Nov. 5, 1785; probate May 16, 1791 (Pittsylvania Co. Will Book: 1767-1820), married July 20, 1762, Ann Burton, born 1742 Goochland Co., Ann died in 1810 in Bedford Co., part of giant Rutherford, TN. Nine known children: 1. Charles married Ann Lee. 2. Robert married Elizabeth Lee Fern. 3. John, born 1772, died after 1797, married Lucy Lee Fern. 4. Elizabeth "Betsy", born Mar. 31, 1763, married Richard Saunders. 5. Keturah, born Feb. 2, 1765, married Jan. 8, 1786, Wynne Dixon, Pittsylvania. 6. Ann, born Nov. 13, 1766 married (1) Nov. 30, 1784, Pittsylvania, 1st cousin Robert Harrison; (2) May 28, 1804, John Shelton. 7. Susannah, born about 1768, "Cascades," died about 1828, "Cascades", married Oct. 17, 1789 1st cousin William Ware, his second wife, at "Cascades". (Compilers line) Wiliam's first was 1st cousin Susannah Harrison, who died in childbirth. 8. Agnes, b. unknown, died Alabama, married (1) Feb. 2, 1795, Robert Harris, married (2) Dec. 25, 1798, Marmaduke Williams, US Senator, Yanceyville, Caswell Co. NC. 9. Mary "Polly" Woodson, b. unknown, married (1) Christopher Harris, Pittsylvania Co.; (2) John Cooper, Hnederson Co. TN.

"Widow" Ann Burton Payne moves with two daughters Agnes and "Polly" to frontier Rutherford Co., TN. The county government meets in her house, "tavern," for three years. David Crockett, Sam Houston, and Andrew Jackson are frequent visitors. She is called the "famous" widow Payne of TN. Relations include Patrick Henry and her neice Dolley Payne Madison, first lady of the land, 1809-1817. She dies in 1810. Cousin William Charles Cole Clayborne is the Jefferson-appointed governor of Mississippi Territory, and new Territorial Govenor of the "Orleans Territory." Marmaduke goes to Alabama and becomes a power. Another Burton clan cousin is neighbor Charles L. Davis, the father of Sam Davis, called "The Nathan Hale of the Confederacy." In TN, the "widow" Payne is famous still, although her grave is unmarked.



Robert Payne owned a plantation named "Cascades," which he willed to his daughter Susannah Payne (second wife of William Ware).
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As if the place just grew, like Harriet Beecher Stowe's Topsy, the origins of Danville are frustratingly vague because its first settlers did not keep written records of life on the south side of the Dan. It is known from early land records that the first man to ask the Commonwealth for land of his own within what has become the City of Danville was William Wynne, a justice of Brunswick County. He received 200 acres on the south side of the Dan in 1738, at which time Danville, Pittsylvania County and all the land around them in Virginia were a part of Brunswick. Later he moved his family to this area and settled at the falls on the river.

The rush of water at that place became known as Wynne's Falls (or Ford), the original name of Danville. This ford, down river from the falls, was the shallowest spot on the Dan in this area. In an age before bridges, it was a natural place for people to cross over and, if they liked the spot, to settle.

Recreation Area

But before Danville became a town of settled homes and businesses, it was a recreation area. People came to the shallows on the Dan to fish, as they still do today. Dr. George W. Dame, one of Danville's earliest educators and founder of the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, described this recreational enterprise in his "Notes on the Origin of Danville." He wrote, ". . . some years after the close of the Revolutionary War, many of these gentlemen who had become impoverished by that War, in the Eastern part of the State, moved into this then very thinly settled part of the country to begin life again. "To keep up their acquaintance and talk over the past, they agreed to meet at Wynne's Falls annually, at the fishing season, and enjoy themselves. The fish chiefly sought was the sturgeon, which then abounded in the Dan River." These people vacationed in tents along the river, Dame claimed, because there were no houses south of the Dan at that time.

Ferry Operation

That situation changed when John Barnett, Danville's second permanent settler known by name, moved here to operate a ferry on the river in the late 18th century. According to Dame, Barnett also "had a line of bateaux (flat-bottom boats) put on the river for trading purposes" and the increasing river traffic determined that Danville would become more than a favorite fishing spot for the new settlers from eastern Virginia. On Nov. 23, 1793, the Virginia Legislature directed that 25 acres of Barnett's land be vested in 12 men who would lay it off into half-acre lots and establish streets. The new town would be called Danville, or village on the Dan.

These 12 men, Danville's founders, were George Adams, John Call, Matthew Clay, James Dix, Thomas Fearne, William Harrison, Roberty [sic] Pane, Thomas Smith, John Sutherlin, Thomas Tunstall, John Wilson and Thomas Worsham.

Prominent Danvillians

Many of their descendants have been prominent Danvillians, instrumental in Danville's later progress. Of the 12 names, seven survive as appellations for streets in the city. Following the legislature's directive, it took nearly two years for sale of the lots to be accomplished. Although Edward Pollock in his "Sketch Book of Danville" claims that a grocery store-tavern-blacksmith's shop was the first edifice erected on this side of the river, the sale of Barnett's lots provides the first documented evidence that structures definitely were to be built. Barnett, later a postmaster here, obviously took land during the sale. Other original landowners, in addition to the founders, included James Colquhoun and Halcourt Townes. They settled on what have become Main and Craghead streets. There were enough citizens in the fledgling town in 1797 to sustain a post office and Danville's first postmaster, Charles Hoyle.

Main Street Homes

The town grew slowly during the early 19th century. One by one, homes crept up Main Street. Shops were opened and warehouses built on Craghead. In 1820, the Roanoke Sentinel became the town's first newspaper. It folded fast, to be replaced in 1822 by The Telegraph. The Danville Male Academy was opened, followed by the Danville Female Academy. In a grove of trees near the male academy, a cemetery was established. Now called Grove Street Cemetery, in the early 19th century the burial ground was situated on the extreme western edge of town. Beside Dames notes on Danville's early history, which were penned nearly a century after the town's founding, there is only one good source which describes the youthful village built on the banks of the Dan. Thompson Coleman, postmaster of the town from 1831 to 1853, arrived in Danville in 1829. Years later, he carefully described the place as he found it that year. His account is quoted in part below:

Coleman's Account

When I came to Danville to reside there, in 1829,I approached the place, then a mere struggling village, by way of the country road leading north, towards Pittsylvania Court House (Chatham). The road was a common country road, unimproved by grading or otherwise, narrow and often impassable in winter because of the sticky red mud, into which vehicles sank to the hubs. The country on the north side of the river, opposite Danville (now occupied by the town of North Danville

Dan River Bridge

The bridge was an old-fashioned structure of heavy girders, twelve to fourteen inches square, laid at length from pillar to pillar - the pillars being pens of logs in the bed of the river, filled in with loose stones. (Coleman then explains that between the river and the canal, which had been cut around the falls to carry river traffic, were situated several milling operations, including flour, saw, corn and linseed-oil mills.) Passing from the toll bridge, the canal was crossed by a small frail bridge, built of hewn togs laid from bank to bank and covered with two-inch boards: and then the road took the name of Main Street, made a sharp turn to the right, and led up the hill and out of the town to a point a mile from the bridge, where it forked - one branch leading south into Caswell County, N.C., and the other west, and known as the Salisbury, N.C. road. (Coleman continues by naming the 55 structures he remembered as being the total number of buildings existing in Danville at the time.) Forty-five residences, business houses and warehouses stood on Main Street, which was a dirt road without sidewalks. It stopped in the vicinity of Grove Street Cemetery. In addition, there were four buildings on Bridge Street and three on Craghead and three others scattered near the river east of there.

Limited Business

The business of the town was small. There were only two regular stores, the most extensive of which was kept by Thomas and Samuel D. Rawlings, and the other by John Ross & Co. (Wilson and Baskerville and Ross, Lansdown & Co. have just gone into liquidation.) There was an agency of the Farmer's Bank of Virginia with a very small capital, managed by Seymour Scott and John W. Chew, as officers, and a board of directors. There were two tailor's shops, one blacksmith's shop and one shoemaker's shop (Captain John Noble's). There was one tan-yard (Linn's) operated by Samuel Patton, a brother of Dr. James D. Patton. Hats were manufactured on a small scale by Gilmore & Lyon. The trade of the place was in general merchandise, like that of the country stores of the present period, and was mostly carried on by barter for country produce, including whiskey and bacon, which were the staples of this section of the country at this time.

New Tobacco Trade

The tobacco trade was in its infancy, and was carried on by Thomas and Samuel D. Rawling and John B. Roy (who may be called the pioneers of the trade here). It amounted to about 350 hogsheads per annum. No leaf tobacco was sold loose, but all was prized in hogsheads, which were inspected by State Inspectors and sold at the warehouses; though the greater part of it was purchased from the planters at their barns, then prized and delivered at the warehouses. There was scarcely any tobacco manufactured here at all, but there was one small establishment conducted by Captain Wm. Linn and Wm. Chandler, who were the "Pioneer Manufacturers" of Danville.

There was one newspaper, The Telegraph, published weekly by Colonel Thomas H. Clark. There was no church in the town, and but little preaching. Occasionally there was preaching at some private residence, and sometimes at the "Yellow House" or the Male Academy, managed by a board of trustees, with Robert B. Gilliam at that time principal of the school; there were also two mixed schools for girls and boys, one of which was conducted by James Aiken and the other by Robert White. Such was Danville in 1829.

Source: The Register & The Bee Bicentennial Edition, Sunday, 4 July 1976.
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Robert Payne's will in Pittsylvania County, VA, Deed & Will Book 9, pp. 14-16,written on 15 Nov 1785 names a daughter Keturah and her marriage. The will was witnessed by Robert Burton, Thomas Fearn, and Edmund Burton.

In Pittsylvania County, VA, December Court, on 18 Dec 1797 and recorded in Book 8, p.437-8, several of the children of Robert Payne (and their spouses) sued the executor. Keturah is not mentioned by name, but Wynne Dixon is:

"It is decreed and ordered that Thomas Fearn, Charles Hoyle, Daniel Coleman, Halcott Townes and John Russell or any three of them do divide between the plaintiffs and defendants their several and respective Legacies devised them by the Last Will and Testament of said Robert Payne deceased and agreeable to said Will, and report thereof to the court for a final decree, and it is ordered that Wynne Dixon be summoned to March Court and to show cause why a final decree should not be entered agreeable to the report of the Commissioners aforesaid, if any there be." (as transcribed by Kitty Dawson).

Robert married Anne Burton on 22 Jul 1762 in St James Northam Parish, Goochland, Virginia, USA. Anne was born on 12 Aug 1742 in , Goochland, Virginia, USA; died in Aug 1819 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1790, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

John married Mary Winston Coles in 1761 in New Garden, Guilford, North Carolina, USA. Mary was born on 14 Oct 1743 in Coles Hill, Hanover, Virginia, USA; died on 8 Feb 1808 in Clarksburg, Harrison, West Virginia, USA; was buried in Clarksburg, Harrison, West Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emily married Zachariah William Matlock on 12 Apr 1780 in , Halifax, Virginia, USA. Zachariah was born on 3 Mar 1754 in , Halifax, Virginia, USA; died on 12 Apr 1837 in Buffalo Ridge, Washington, Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Keturah married Wynne Dixon on 8 Jan 1786 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Wynne (son of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Dixon and Martha Frances Wynne) was born in 1764 in Redhouse, Caswell, North Carolina, USA; died on 24 Nov 1829 in Henderson, Henderson, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1840, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1850, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA; Age: 80

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Residence:
10 slaves

Anna married Robert Harrison on 30 Nov 1784 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Robert (son of William Henry Harrison and Anne Payne) was born on 29 Jun 1766 in , Goochland, Virginia, USA; died in May 1839 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Abt 1830, , , Virginia, USA
• Probate: 12 Jul 1830, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA

Robert married Elizabeth Lee Fearn on 17 Jun 1793 in , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA. Elizabeth was born on 17 Jun 1775 in Danville, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA; died in 1855 in Russell, Greenup, Kentucky, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Dolley Madison, wife of James Madison, fourth president of the United States, died July 12, 1849. She was 81.

Madison was born Dolley Payne on May 20, 1768 in Guilford County, North Carolina. Her family moved to Philadelphia when Dolley was 15. She grew up in the rigid confines of the Quaker Society of Friends.

In 1790 she married John Todd Jr. They had two children. In 1793 her husband and one of their children died in a yellow fever epidemic.

She soon met James Madison, who represented Virginia in the U.S. Congress. They were married in 1794. Seventeen years older than Dolley, the couple would be married for 42 years, but had no children of their own. Dolley’s son, John Payne, would be the only child in the household.

When her husband became Thomas Jefferson’s Secretary of State in 1801, Dolley assisted in social events at the White House since Jefferson was a widower.

And when her husband became president in 1809, Dolley came into her own as a First Lady with both social and political skills. It is said that she could charm and appease statesmen, diplomats and politicians who were at odds with either the president or themselves.

When the War of 1812 resulted in the capital and the White House being ransacked and burned by the British, the story is told that Dolley was the cool head who tore the Gilbert Stuart painting of George Washington from its frame and took it with her as she fled the White House.

After their White House years, the Madisons returned to their plantation home in Virginia where they had seventeen years of retirement together. When her husband died in 1836, she moved back to Washington where she is reported to have had an active social life.

Her last public appearance was at a ball for President James Polk in 1848. Dolley Madison died in Washington on July 12, 1849.

Dorothea married John Todd, Jr on 7 Jan 1790 in Philadelphia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, USA. John was born on 17 Nov 1763 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 24 Oct 1793 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dorothea married James Madison on 15 Sep 1794 in Harewood Charlestown, Jefferson, West Virginia, USA. James (son of James Madison and Eleanor Rose "Nelly" Conway) was born on 16 Mar 1751 in Port Conway, King George, Virginia, USA; died on 28 Jun 1836 in Montpelier Station, Orange, Virginia, USA; was buried in Montpelier Station, Orange, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]