Individual Details

Marriage

Saint Jerome's Thicket, Saint Mary's County, Maryland

Will-shared

The will of Thomas Payne, dated 12 Mar 1672, names his wife, Jane, two sons: Isaack and Joseph, five daughters: Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth, Hanah and Rachell. The daughters are all apparently under the age of 17 because Thomas writes that they are to receive their inheritance "Tenne head of female Cattle apiece, at the age of seventeen years or at the day of Marriage." The sons are not yet 18 years old. Thomas writes, "in case either dy before he happens to arrive to ye age of Eighteen years..." Thus all of the children were born between 1656 and 1672.
Executors: Nathaniell Garrat, John Smallpiece [probably his brother-in-law John Smallpeece] and John Renolds (or Reynold).

Will

Isack Payne names his heirs: son Thomas and daughters Hannah and Sarah. Thomas and Hannah (and perhaps Sarah) are not yet of age, as he writes, "as to the rest of my personal Estate not heretofore given, I give the same to my three Children to be equally divided between them & the Survivors if any of them dyes before before they attain to their several ages... and my will is that my son Thomas, shall be at age & for himself, when he attains to the age Eighteen years." Hannnah is "lame" and "unmarried," so Sarah, by implication, may already be married. Their mother is not mentioned, so she must have died before 15 Mar 1713, the date of this Will. Among the estate are named several slaves: George, Will, Margrat and her two sons named Dick and Robert.
Executor: Richard Griffin.