Mansfield Payne received his name in a unique way. Court was in session in his father's house, when he was born. Judge Payne asked the lawyers to name the child. They thereupon gave him the name of the famous Chief Justice of England, Mansfield.
Mansfield Payne's boyhood differed little from that of other lads of his day. With the exception of a few years, he always lived in Hamilton. After his marriage he took possession of the old Sanford homestead, near Hamilton, and managed the large estate with great success. In a few years he purchased a town house in Hamilton, on Payne Street, and for the rest of his days lived at either place, as fancy suggested. After 1810 a new wing was added to the town house for the use of his mother, Mrs. Elisha Payne, who lived there several years before her death.
Mr. Payne took an active interest in all the affairs of the town and was an ardent politician of the old Whig party. In middle life he had a stroke of paralysis which partially disabled him, and after a number of years a second stroke came. So he was obliged to use a cane ever after, until the third stroke caused his death at the early age of sixty-three years.
"The Payne's of Hamilton" A Genealogy and Biographical Record by Augusta Francelia Payne White, Tobias A. Wright Publisher, Dated 1912
Mansfield Payne received his name in a unique way. Court was in session in his father's house, when he was born. Judge Payne asked the lawyers to name the child. They thereupon gave him the name of the famous Chief Justice of England, Mansfield.
Mansfield Payne's boyhood differed little from that of other lads of his day. With the exception of a few years, he always lived in Hamilton. After his marriage he took possession of the old Sanford homestead, near Hamilton, and managed the large estate with great success. In a few years he purchased a town house in Hamilton, on Payne Street, and for the rest of his days lived at either place, as fancy suggested. After 1810 a new wing was added to the town house for the use of his mother, Mrs. Elisha Payne, who lived there several years before her death.
Mr. Payne took an active interest in all the affairs of the town and was an ardent politician of the old Whig party. In middle life he had a stroke of paralysis which partially disabled him, and after a number of years a second stroke came. So he was obliged to use a cane ever after, until the third stroke caused his death at the early age of sixty-three years.
"The Payne's of Hamilton" A Genealogy and Biographical Record by Augusta Francelia Payne White, Tobias A. Wright Publisher, Dated 1912
Family Members
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Elijah Payne
1799–1837
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Elisha Payne Jr
1800–1883
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Joseph Colwell Payne
1803–1887
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Nelson Payne
1804–1883
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Charles Clark Payne
1806–1888
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Thomas Hubbard Payne
1807–1892
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Maria Payne Chollar
1809–1861
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Henry B. Payne
1810–1896
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William Wallace Payne
1814–1863
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Esther Cornelia Payne Brownson
1816–1846
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Edwin Douglass Payne Sr
1818–1884
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