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- He is not a proven father of our Barnett-but there was a Barnett Paine who was christened in Barford, Warwick, England on 29 April 1666, the son of John and Mary Paine. (Parish Register of Barford, Warwick, England 1538-1980). John was christened there on 26 Jun 1620, the son of Richard and Elizabeth Payne. John and Mary were the parents of seven known children: Richard
born 1647, Mary born 1650, John born 1653, William born 1658, Elizabeth born 1660, Thomas born 1663 and died 1675, and Barnett born 1666. After 1675 all of the family, with the exception of Richard has disappeared from Barford. (The Big Payne Book by John C. PAYNE 2007)
http://www.sallysfamilyplace.com/MulberryGrove/cottenj.htm
I don't have information that would prove that Ann Dunbar and Ann Cotton were one in the same, but I do see it as a possiblity. The names John Cotton and Ann Dunbar first appear together in Drummond's 1661 headright application. Then in Nov. 1666, John Paine applied for a headright for 18 people and listed John Cotton and Ann Dunbar side by side. In 1667, John Weire and Robert Paine applied for headrights for 24 people. Many of the names are the same as in the two previously mentioned applications, but John Cotton's and Ann Dunbar's names are transposed as John Dunbar and Ann Cotton. None of the other names were switched around like this. That mistake might suggest that these two people were thought of as a pair.
I don't know if Ann Cotton's letter to Christopher Harris means anything or not. They were neighbors when Harris lived in Virginia and John Cotton is listed a member of a jury in Dec. 1657 alongside Christopher and Richard Harris. It is possible that they simply met in Virginia and maintained contact after Harris returned to England. On the other hand, people often moved together in large family groups so they may have been a connection. In 1677, John Cotton filed a lawsuit against two York Co. merchants named Philip Cooke and John Harris, but I don't know if John Harris is related to Christopher and Richard. I have come across one Cotton connection in
Northamptonshire where Christopher Harris lived. There is a record that John and Henry Cotton, London merchants and half-brothers of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, purchased Broughton Hall in the county of Northampton. Their sister, Frances, was married to Baron Edward Montagu of Boughton, Northamptonshire. Henry Cotton died young, but it would be interesting to see if John left any family. He would be about the right age to be the father of John Cotton of York Co., VA.
The PAYNE name is Norman in origin and is supposed to be a corruption of "PAGEN", which was a term applied to Normans of the Tenth and Eleventh centuries, not only to individuals who were slow about embracing Christianity, but also to county people, in general, as being proverbially "slow". It was about this time in history that surnames came into use. The first that is known to have borne this name was "PAGEN" of Doomsday. He was a Norman who went over to England from Normandy in the time of Edward the Confessor, before the Norman conquest. When William the Conqueror came, in 1066, PAGEN'S fortunes were greatly enhanced. Doomsday Book, which was an enumeration of the estates of England, made in and about 1086, shows that PAGEN held lands in sixteen counties, and notes that he had the right to go"withersoever he would". He died about this time, and left and eldest son, EDWARD who inherited his estates.
SIR HUGH de PAYEN, supposed to have been a younger son of PAGEN of Doomsday, and because he was younger, was without inheritance, went with Robert of Normandy on the first Crusade in 1099. He remained for some time in Palestine, and with Godfrey St. Omer founded the Order of the Templars of the Cross, which attained great size and power during the middle ages. (See Ridpath's History of the World") He was sent by King Baldwin II of Palestine as envoy to the Kings of France and England, and he was a very famous Crusader. HUGE D. and EDMUND PAIENE were the first of the family to have both given and surnames.
EDMUND, son of HUGH, received a manor. (See Proctor's History of the Crusade.) After the crusade, HUGH's son, THOMAS, dropped the old Norman spelling and signed his name PAINE. SIR THOMAS PAINE also received a manor house in the "King's Forest" of "two Plowings" formerly owned by Hugh BROWMAN, and Englishman. (See small Doomsday Book)
Other Paine, Payne's of interest:
Dolley Payne Madison, wife of James Madison, President.
Thomas Paine
Even before news of events reached colonies, public opinion about the king and independence had begun to change. One of the spark plugs of the change was a poor London writer who had arrived in America two years earlier.
In an anonymous forty-seven page pamphlet entitled "Common Sense (January 1776), Thomas Paine attacked King George in particular and monarchy in general. Responsibility for British tyranny. Paine argued, lay with "the royal brute of Britain." One honest man in Paine's opinion was worth "all the crowned ruffians that ever lived."
It was time, Paine declared, for Americans to proclaim an independent republic and have nothing further to do with hereditary kings. Independence was the "destiny" of Americans. And there were practical advantages as well. For example, an independent America could trade freely with other nations, thus obtaining money for guns and ammunition. If American soldiers were captured by the British, independence meant they would be treated as prisoners of war instead of rebels. They would be imprisoned instead of being shot.
Also, it would be easier for an independent American to obtain foreign aid. Spain and France, both monarchies, might not help rebels against a king. But they were almost certain to help an independent country at war with their common enemy, England. Without foreign aid, it was doubtful that the colonies could win.
There was yet another argument for independence, according to Paine. That was the chance to create a better society. Paine foresaw a nation where everyone would be free fro tyranny, and where there would be equal social and economic opportunity for all.
"Common Sense" was widely read (some 500,000 copies were eventually sold) and widely applauded. It was, in fact, one of the most influential political pamphlets ever written. Within six months, the Second Continental Congress encouraged by public opinion - did just what Paine suggested.
*From the book, "The Americans, The History of a People and a Nation" page 131
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