960. PAINE
The PAYNE name is Norman in origin and is supposed to be a corruption of "PAGEN", which was a term applied to Normans of the Tenth and Eleventh centuries, not only to individuals who were slow about embracing Christianity, but also to county people, in general, as being proverbially "slow". It was about this time in history that surnames came into use. The first that is known to have borne this name was "PAGEN" of Doomsday. He was a Norman who went over to England from Normandy in the time of Edward the Confessor, before the Norman conquest. When William the Conqueror came, in 1066, PAGEN'S fortunes were greatly enhanced. Doomsday Book, which was an enumeration of the estates of England, made in and about 1086, shows that PAGEN held lands in sixteen counties, and notes that he had the right to go"withersoever he would". He died about this time, and left and eldest son, EDWARD who inherited his estates.
SIR HUGH de PAYEN, supposed to have been a younger son of PAGEN of Doomsday, and because he was younger, was without inheritance, went with Robert of Normandy on the first Crusade in 1099. He remained for some time in Palestine, and with Godfrey St. Omer founded the Order of the Templars of the Cross, which attained great size and power during the middle ages. (See Ridpath's History of the World") He was sent by King Baldwin II of Palestine as envoy to the Kings of France and England, and he was a very famous Crusader. HUGE D. and EDMUND PAIENE were the first of the family to have both given and surnames.
EDMUND, son of HUGH, received a manor. (See Proctor's History of the Crusade.) After the crusade, HUGH's son, THOMAS, dropped the old Norman spelling and signed his name PAINE. SIR THOMAS PAINE also received a manor house in the "King's Forest" of "two Plowings" formerly owned by Hugh BROWMAN, and Englishman. (See small Doomsday Book)
Other Paine, Payne's of interest:
Dolley Payne Madison, wife of James Madison, President.
Thomas Paine
Even before news of events reached colonies, public opinion about the king and independence had begun to change. One of the spark plugs of the change was a poor London writer who had arrived in America two years earlier.In an anonymous forty-seven page pamphlet entitled "Common Sense (January 1776), Thomas Paine attacked King George in particular and monarchy in general. Responsibility for British tyranny. Paine argued, lay with "the royal brute of Britain." One honest man in Paine's opinion was worth "all the crowned ruffians that ever lived."
It was time, Paine declared, for Americans to proclaim an independent republic and have nothing further to do with hereditary kings. Independence was the "destiny" of Americans. And there were practical advantages as well. For example, an independent America could trade freely with other nations, thus obtaining money for guns and ammunition. If American soldiers were captured by the British, independence meant they would be treated as prisoners of war instead of rebels. They would be imprisoned instead of being shot.
Also, it would be easier for an independent American to obtain foreign aid. Spain and France, both monarchies, might not help rebels against a king. But they were almost certain to help an independent country at war with their common enemy, England. Without foreign aid, it was doubtful that the colonies could win.
There was yet another argument for independence, according to Paine. That was the chance to create a better society. Paine foresaw a nation where everyone would be free fro tyranny, and where there would be equal social and economic opportunity for all.
"Common Sense" was widely read (some 500,000 copies were eventually sold) and widely applauded. It was, in fact, one of the most influential political pamphlets ever written. Within six months, the Second Continental Congress encouraged by public opinion - did just what Paine suggested.
*From the book, "The Americans, The History of a People and a Nation" page 131
984. Joseph ELLEDGE
Joseph and wife Mary had son Francis who was bound to James Crook and it did not suit Mary and Joseph, so they sued James Crook over Francis, then age 13. Next record without name of wife as Mary was about 14 years later when Joseph and Elizabeth ELLEDGE sold land, so this is a possible second marriage. (This could be a totally different Joseph, but they were living on the same land!) I will list this Mary and Elizabeth as two separate people, but perhaps her name was Mary Elizabeth. (Source from Cynthia Snider e-mail: scnider@tomco.net)
986. Richard RHODES
Their daughter's marriage is recorded in St. John's Parish Records and list these parents. Pg. 41
992. John MCINTIRE
From website: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dan_mcintire&id=I410
Daniel McINTIRE arreaux@gmail.com (2005)James & Robert Donald & Co., Plaint, v John McIntire, Def, In Debt. Sheriff returned the Def no inhabitant of this Co.
Joseph England plantiff vs. John McIntire defendant. On an attachment against defendants estate. Plantiff not appearing, this attachment is dismissed.