Woodstock Branch, 18, 34, 63, 98, 109, 143, 190, 215, 244, 266, 271 Worcester Branch, corrections and additions.. 155, 250 PAINE FAMILY RECORDS: A Quarterly Magazine of Genealogical and Biographical Information relating to the American Families of Payne, Paine, Payn, etc. EDITED BY HENRY D. PAINE, M. D. The object of the above work-the first volume of which is now completed-is to collect for preservation and future reference the scattered and fading records of the family named in the title. Its range of inquiry includes all American branches of this patronymic, however variously spelled, especially those of Colonial origin, their ante-emigration sources and lineage, and an accurate registration of their successive generations. In particular it seeks to rescue from further destruction, or loss, such authentic relics and memorials of the Fathers and Founders of our race in this country as may yet be recovered. The rich mine of material available for these objects is indicated by the amount of important and curious information already published. The volume already completed is a treasury of interesting and memorable facts, collected from many sources with much trouble and at no inconsiderable cost, illustrative of the origin, genealogy and traditions of the Paine family, the greater part of which must have been a surprise to the generality of readers. Besides much matter of general interest exemplifying the annals of the family at different times, the RECORDS devotes a large part of every number to the publication of carefully arranged Pedigrees, in which particular lines of descent are traced from their first known progenitor in this country-and in some cases from a much earlier date-through successive generations. The supply of like valuable contributions to the stock of family lore being still abundant and accumulating, it is proposed, in compliance with many urgent requests, to continue the publication of the Magazine for some time to come, and, if possible, until the most important particulars have been recovered, should the subscriptions afford sufficient encouragement for doing So. Thus far the receipts have not been sufficient to defray the expenses of publication and distribution, and the Editor respectfully appeals to his fellow-members of the family to manifest their approval of the undertaking by giving it the necessary support. Those who are disposed to ensure its permanent success can most effectually do so by ordering a number of copies. Any excess of receipts above the cost of publication will be devoted to the enlargement of the Magazine or to the prosecution of further researches. The work will be issued, as heretofore, in quarterly numbers of, at least, 24 octavo pages each, without covers, for ONE DOLLAR a year (four numbers), in advance. In future the months of publication will be January, April, July, and October. The first volume, bound in cloth, with a copious Index, will be sent by mail, post free, for Two DOLLARS. The same, in numbers, with Title page and Index, unbound, is offered to new subscribers for ONE DOLLAR a set; (eight cents additional, for postage, if to be sent by mail). As the number of complete sets on hand is limited, this offer. cannot be held open indefinitely, and only as a premium to new subscribers. Early subscriptions and renewals are again earnestly solicited. All persons having knowledge of facts relating to any branch of the family, are earnestly requested to send the information to this office, to be used as opportunity or occasion may require. Orders and communications may be addressed to HENRY D. PAINE, M. D., No. 26 West 30th Street, New York City. PAINE FAMILY RECORDS: PUBLISHED QUARTERLY. EDITED BY HENRY D. PAINE, M. D., 26 West 30th Street, New York. VOL. 2. No. 1.] JANUARY, 1881. [WHOLE NO. IX. The experience of the last two years in publishing this magazine has shown how large and rich a field for genealogical research has been developed in the annals of the Payne family, and what unsuspected stores of its personal history and incident are within reach of diligent and discriminating investigation. Much authentic testimony as to the origin and early segregation of the Paynes as a distinct family, or race, has been collected, and many details indicative of the character and acts of its founders and their successors, have been found scattered through numerous early chronicles and gathered up by industrious compilers. It is especially interesting to the present generation to learn that so many attested facts concerning the first planters of our name in these American colonies have escaped the ravages of time, and that they afford abundant evidence of the sterling character that seems to have distinguished our immigrant forefathers as a class, and of the active and influential share they took in forming and directing the institutions of the country. The same is happily true also with regard to many of their innumerable descendants. From still existing records it has been possible to follow in their growth and ramifications the families founded by those resolute patriarchs through several successive generations, with tolerable fullness, and in a number of instances, to com pile for publication fairly complete pedigrees down to the present time, and to reproduce many characteristic memorials of its individual members. These results of much labor and research by a number of zealous and intelligent correspondents, have, in part, ap peared in the first volume of this serial, and have become permanent portions of the family chronicles. But the supply of similar material is far from being exhausted. There yet remain many valuable and interesting contributions for which it has not been possible to find space within the limits of its pages. It is hoped that most of those that have been long waiting will have better fortune in the following numbers, and room be found also for other important papers that are in course of preparation. Notwithstanding the abundance of the present supply, it is most desirable that the collection of material should still be continued. Though so much has been accomplished, still more remains to be done before our work can be considered complete, which will not be until all available sources of information have yielded up their treasures to the common stock. Contributions of such information as has any relation to the work in hand, will therefore be still thankfully received, and will be used as opportunity offers or occasion requires. To those esteemed co-laborers and correspondents who have contributed so liberally to the value and interest of the "Records" hitherto, the Editor takes this opportunity to return his thanks, and to express the hope that their interest in the work and its object will continue unabated. The extraordinary revelations of the historical an tiquity of our family in England, contained in the leading article in this number, seem to require its publication at length. The undoubted evidence thus given of the character and possessions of the presumptive founder of our race is most interesting and valuable. |
