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SOME NOTES OF AN EARLY NEW HAMPSHIRE FAMILY.

PHILIP PAINE, "Yeoman," probably of Portsmouth, N. H., bought land in New Castle in 1713. Of his ancestry nothing certain has been ascertained. His wife, Christine, was the daughter of Peter Ball, of Portsmouth. He removed to Rye, and in 1738, April 11, he gave a deed "for and in consideration of his natural love and affection for his beloved son, John, and in consideration that the said John do pay to his brother, William, £50, and the same amount to his brother, Amos, fifteen acres of land in Rye." He died before 1746, in which year his son, John, as administrator, presented his inventory, amounting to £142 2s. 3d. In the following year, William acknowledged receipt of £50 from his brother, John, according to the terms of the above deed, and a few months later sells to John for £70, all his interest in the property of his father, Philip, at the time of his death. It appears, then, that Philip Paine had three sons :

JOHN,

WILLIAM,

AMOS.

JOHN seems to have removed to Portsmouth, where he died in 1752; administration granted to Sarah Paine (probably his wife), July 29; inventory, amounting to £1,604 15s., presented September 27. He had a son, Amos, and a daughter, Christine, who married William Locke, of Rye.

WILLIAM married Susanna, daughter of Benjamin Seavey, of whom, in 1741, he bought five acres of land in Rye. He had a son :

PHILIP.

AMOS and wife, Lydia, sold five acres in Rye to Mark Kendall for £300, in 1741. He afterwards seems to have removed to Gilmanton, and possessed large estate. At Dover is recorded sale of a farm by Amos and wife, Lydia, of N. Hampton, to Amos, Jr., July, 1795.

PHILIP, the son of William, was born about 1756. At the outbreak of the Revolution, being then twenty years of age, he joined the continental army, enlisted for three years, and served his term. He was remarkable for his coolness and bravery, of which various instances have been narrated. He married Katrine St. Clair, a Scotch

lady, and settled, after the war, in Parsonfield, York Co., Me. He was much esteemed for his strict integrity, sobriety and perseverance. His wife was also a woman of distinguished characteristics. Of a strong mind, a clear head, a vigorous frame, she was well qualified to endure the hardships of a frontier life. She was a practised and daring equestrian, and kept up the habit of riding on horseback till 85 years of age, when she was disabled by being thrown from her saddle and fracturing her thigh. Her voice was so clear that she could make it heard to the extreme limits of the large farm on which they resided. They had the following children:

JOHN,
PHILIP,

WILLIAM,

POLLY,

BETSY, and a daughter.

KATRINE,

JOHN, 2d son of Philip and Katrine, was born about 1777, (?) at Rye. He married Polly Mackintosh, and died 1871, æ. 96. He settled in Middletown, N. H., afterwards in Parsonfield, Me. He had the following children:

JOHN TREAT,
LOUIS,

MARY,
ROWENA,

NICHOLAS EMORY,
THOMAS.

JOHN TREAT, b. at Middletown, N. H.; mar. Mary Goodwin. Was for many years one of the leading lawyers at the Boston bar.

MARY, b. at Middletown, N. H.; mar. James Hull, Esq., of North Berwick, Me.

NICHOLAS E., b. at Middletown, N. H., Jan. 23, 1808. Removed from Maine in 1841 to Rochester, N. Y., where he lived for many years, and filled with honor and success various official positions of responsibily and distinction. He was District Attorney of the county, Mayor of the city, Commissioner of Education, etc. He married Abby Mary Stetson Sprague, daughter of Oatman Sprague, Esq. He now resides in New York and Westchester. His children are:

ELLEN SINCLAIR,

OATMAN SPRAGUE,

WILLIS S.

LOUISA, b. Middletown, N. H.; unmarried.

ROWENA, b. New Durham, N. H.; mar. Ist F. Allen, 2d Gen. T. Shaw.

THOMAS, b. N. Durham, N. H. A lawyer of reputation; died at Keasaqua, Iowa, 1836.

EARLY BOSTON RECORDS.

BIRTHS.

The following entries of births are copied from the original Records of Boston:

Sarah, dau. of John and Sarah Paine, b. Aug. 14, 1660; d. Feb. 19, 1666.

Hannah, dau. of John and Sarah Paine, b. Mar. 31, 1662. William, son of John and Sarah Paine, b. Mar. 15, 1663. Ann, dau. of John and Sarah Paine, b. Mar. 24, 1664. Elizabeth, dau. of John and Sarah Paine, b. Feb. 19, 1665. [John Paine was son of William, founder of the (See vol. I., p. 25.) His wife was Sarah Parker.]

Ipswich" family.

Thomas, son of Thomas and Hannah Paine, b. Feb. 19, 1664.

William, son of Tobias and Sarah Paine, b. Jan. 21, 1668-9.

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[Tobias was from Jamaica," and mar. Sarah Winslow, the widow of the redoutable Miles Standish. For particulars of this family, see vol. I., p. 46.]

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Samuel, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Paine, b. Aug. 26, 1670.
Hannah, dau. of Moses and Elizabeth Paine, b. Ap. 20, 1671.
Lydia, dau. of Moses and Elizabeth Paine, b. Aug. 23, 1674.
Ebenezer, son of John and Elizabeth Paine, b. Ap. 25, 1679.
William, son of William and Catharine Paine, b. Nov. 14, 1679.
Edith, dau. of William and Catharine Paine, b. Feb. 8, 1686.
Thomas, son of William and Sarah Payne, b. Nov. 15, 1680.
Sarah, dau. of William and Sarah Payne, b. Mar. 25, 1683.
William, son of William and Sarah Payne, b. June 10, 1688.
Hannah, dau. of William and Sarah Payne, b. Ap. 21, 1695; [d. Oct.
26, 1702.]

Mary, dau. of William and Sarah Payne, b. May 16, 1697.
Hannah, dau. of William and Sarah Payne, b. Jan. 27, 1702.

William, son of William and Mary Paine, b. Nov. 23, 1695.
Sarah, dau. of William and Mary Paine, b. July 16, 1699.
Mary, dau. of William and Mary Paine, b. Jan. 6, 1700–1.

John, son of John and Bethia Paine, b. Ap. 18, 1699.
Sarah, dau. of John and Bethia Paine, b. Feb. 22, 1701-2.
Hannah, dau. of John and Bethia Paine, b. Oct. 19, 1704.
Sarah, dau. of John and Bethia Paine, b. Jan. 29, 1707-8.
Stephen, son of John and Bethia Paine, b. Mar. 1, 1713.
Sarah, dau. of William and Margaret Paine, b. Jan. 15, 1704-5.
William, son of William and Margaret Paine, b. Sept. 19, 1706.
Edward, son of William and Margaret Paine, b. Mar. 17, 1708-9.

Thomas, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Paine, b. Dec. 25, 1704.
Joseph, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Paine, b. Aug. 9, 1707.
William, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Paine, b. Feb. 23, 1708–9.

OBITUARIES.

HORATIO PAINE, M.D. The sudden death of this already eminent physician was announced in the previous number of the Records, p. 171. The following minute, in relation thereto, was adopted by the Trustees of the Roosevelt Hospital in New York, with which he was connected.

"The Trustees of the Roosevelt Hospital are called to regret the severe loss their institution has sustained in the death of their late Superintendent, Dr. Horatio Paine.

"Dr. Paine was appointed Superintendent in the early part of 1871, in anticipation of the opening of the Hospital for patients; and having performed valuable service in the work of organization, continued to occupy the position until his death on the 1st of May, 1882, at the age of 43 years.

"The Trustees desire to express their sense of the value of his services. He has been always zealous in the performance of the many duties which devolved upon him, bringing to such performance great capacity and intelligence, and a courtesy which endeared him to all with whom he was brought in contact. He had worthily gained the entire confidence and respect of the Trustees, and his death makes a vacancy which can at best be inadequately filled.

"The Trustees direct that this minute be entered on their records and published, and that a copy be transmitted to the widow of Dr. Paine, with the assurance of their sympathy in her great bereavement."

Dr. Paine was the son of the late Judge Elijah Paine, of the Supreme Court, and a nephew of John Paine, Esq., and of the late Prof. Martyn Paine, of New York. He was born Dec. 5, 1838; graduated in Arts at Harvard, and in medicine from Penn. Med. Col., Philadelphia; served as surgeon in the late war; was sanitary inspector of New York city, and assistant superintendant of St. Luke's Hospital. He married Meta Roberts, daughter of John Pennington, Esq., of Philadelphia.

R. E. PAINE, M.D., of Camden, Me., died after a short illness, at his residence in that village, May 31, 1882. He was born in Exeter, Me., Sept. 18, 1834, where his father and mother still live. He was a graduate of Bowdoin Medical College, and was surgeon in the army during the civil war. After retiring from the service, 1867, he settled in Camden, where he was in active practice as a physician till his death. He was very successful and popular as a practitioner, and highly esteemed as a citizen. He married, first, Ada V. Pease, of Exeter, Aug. 23, 1857. She had a son, Arthur Carroll, b. June 21, 1858, and a daughter, Lelia Agnes, b. May 14, 1861, who died in infancy. He married, second, Marion Godard, of Washington, D.C., Jan. 17, 1864, who survives. Dr. Paine was a member of high standing in the Masonic Order, and was buried with the rites of that organization. He was much interested in genealogy, and was one of the earliest subscribers to the Paine Family Records.

DEATH ITEMS FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

1808, July 8, at Townshend, Vt., Mrs. RACHEL PAINE, in her 49th year, wife of Capt. JABEZ PAINE, of Westminster, Vt.

[Capt. Jabez Paine, of Westminster, Vt., was on the Roll of Revolutionary Pensioners in 1840, æ. 84.]

1820, Jan. 29, at Worcester, Mass., JABEZ PAINE, æ. 92, formerly of Leicester.

[This Jabez was probably gunner in Capt. Henshaw's Comp. of Col. Craft's Mass. Artillery Regt., Sept. 1776; and in 1777, at Bennington, Lincoln's Comp., Col. Flagg's Regt.]

'1850, Dec. 26, at Madrid, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., CAROLINE E., æ. 16 y. 8 mo.

1853, Nov. 11, CATHARINE M., æ. 29 y. 9 mo., daughters of Ansyl and Betsey Paine; granddaughters of Rev. Ebenezer Paine, of Potsdam, N. Y.-Gravestones at Madrid.

1828, Aug. 28, at Montpelier, Vt., Mrs. RUTH JEWETT, wife of Nathan Jewett, and daughter of Gov. Elisha Paine.

1707, Dec.. 23, at Boston, Sarah, wife of RICHARD PAINE.

1708, Apr. 10, at Boston, RICHARD PAYN, æ. 72.

Further information respecting any of the above named will be thankfully received.

CAPT. THOMAS PAINE, U. S. Navy, a native of Georgia, but for many years a resident of Charleston, S. C., died in Washington, D. C., 19, 1859, of pneumonia, after a short illness. He was severely wounded during the war of 1812, and permanently disabled for active service.

DR. L. SCOTT PAYNE, a prominent physician of Rahway, N. J., was accidentally drowned in the North River about May 10, last. About two weeks after, his body was found in the water opposite Twentieth St., New York. He was about 40 years of age, and highly esteemed in the community where he resided.

HON. R. G. PAYNE, State Senator, from Shelby Co., Tenn., died of sunstroke, September, 1861.

NEWPORT, R. I., July, 1882.-A beautiful altar and reredos of exquisite design and workmanship, erected to the memory of Mrs. ELIZA A. PAINE, in Kay Chapel, by her son, John W. Paine, Esq., of Troy, N. Y., were dedicated with impressive services on the 7th inst., by Bishop Clark, of the Diocese of Rhode Island. Mrs. Paine, thus dutifully commemorated, was the wife of John Paine, the only son of Amasa Paine, of the Vermont branch, and daughter of Esaias Warren, of Troy, N. Y. See vol. I., p. 129.

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