Thomas Payne
Thomas Payne is known from one phrase in a marriage entry. James Savage, in his Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, records that John Hunting the younger of Dedham married on 18 April 1671. He identifies the bride as "Eliz. d. of Thomas Payne of D.", the D. standing for Dedham. That is the whole of him: a given name, a surname, a town and a daughter.
His daughter Elizabeth bore nine children at Dedham between 1672 and 1696. The second of them, Nathaniel, went to Harvard. He was ordained minister of East Hampton on Long Island in 1699, and he kept that town's church register for fifty four years.
Nothing else about Thomas Payne is known: not his birth, his wife, his death, his trade or his origin, and no other child. Savage has no separate entry for him under his own surname that can be matched to a Dedham man with a daughter Elizabeth of marriageable age in 1671. Payne and Paine are the same name in these records, and the printed dictionaries run them together. Whether he belonged to the Dedham or the Rehoboth branch of the name is not known.
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Cite: Heirology, "Thomas Payne", https://heirology.com/ancestors/thomas-payne-1edde0.