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Payne, George, a native of England, born July 20, 1840, is the youngest of six children of John and Sophia Payne.
My mother's maiden name being Reader, natives of England, and there they died. Subject was reared in the town of
Sheerness, county of Kent, England. In the year of 1866 he came to this county. While in England he worked eleven
years in London at iron ship building, he worked on the Great Eastern after the laying of the Atlantic cable, also
on the Rapanhanee, when being fitted for the Confederate service. After crossing to America he worked in New York
in a boiler shop on Cherry street. He soon came to town of Macedon and engaged in farming and there became interested
in concrecting wood for the railroad company with George Glover and after four years in the wood business came
to Walworth, purchased a small farm of fifty seven acres, where he now lives; he has added 103 acres to it known
as Philites Miller farm. He has been highway commissioner and supervisor of the town. Mr. Payne married August
4, 1860, Charlotte Copping of England, by whom he has ten children, John, Lottie, Annie R., Flora, who were born
in England, and George J., Willie W., Walter J., John W., Nellie E., Guy, were born in this country. Six are now
living.
From:
Landmarks of Wayne County, New York
Edited by: Hon. George W. Cowles
Assisted by: H. P. Smith and others
D. Mason & Co., Publishers
Syracuse, N. Y. 1895
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