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121. Dr. Moses Payne (Married Catherine (Katherine) Wroe (122), on 27 October 1787 in Shenandoah, Virginia according to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The date is confirmed in Ancestry.com Virginia Marriages to 1800 and The Wroe and Chancellor Families Compiled by William C. Wroe, p. 268)

Born: about 1763 in New Jersey of John Payne (241) & Mary Freeman (242).

Died: 1809 in Front Royal, Virginia.

 

[His siblings, if any, are unknown.]

Miscellaneous: LDS addresses Moses as a doctor.

As quoted from The Wroe and Chancellor Families Compiled by William C. Wroe, p. 268 & 269, "Dr. Moses Payne's granddaughter, Mrs. Catherine (Payne) Radcliffe, left a written record in which she states her grandfather, Dr. Moses Payne, was born in or near Newark, New Jersey."

"He was the second son of Captain John Payne of Rahway, New Jersey (who was shot from his horse during the Revolutionary War,) and his wife Mary, daughter of Samuel Freeman."

"Dr. Moses Payne was descended from a long line of English ancestors who settled first in Massachusetts in 1638 and later moved to the vicinity of Woodbridge, New Jersey. Dr. Payne is mentioned in the will of his father, Capt. John Payne, which was probated October 25, 1781. At that time, the young son was evidently under age, having been born about 1763. How Dr. Payne came to be living in Virginia is not known." [Note: Moses was only about 18 when his father was killed.]

"Possibly because Catherine's brother, Original Wroe, was one of the initial incorporators of Front Royal, Virginia in 1788, Dr. Payne bought a parcel of land in Front Royal on 26 October 1796 and continued to live there until his demise in 1809".

 

"In 1799, H. Holmes recommended to the Governor of Virginia that Dr. Payne be a lieutenant in the county militia. The letter has been preserved and reads as follows:

"Winchester

May 23, 1799

May I be permitted, sir, to nominate as proper persons to officer a troop of cavalry in Frederick County, to be raised out of the __th regiment, Ferguson Bell, Captain; Moses Payne, First Lieutenant; Robert Vance, Second Lieutenant; and William F. Simsal, Cornet."

"Dr. Moses Payne's name appears regularly on the Frederick County tax lists until 1809 when 'Moses Payne's Estate' is taxed for a lot in Front Royal. He died intestate1. An inventory of his personal estate was taken May 30, 1809. In 1812, Caty Payne (his wife) paid tax on the lot formerly owned by Dr. Payne and the indication from the tax list is that she died about this time, for this identical lot appears on the tax lists of Frederick County 1813-1921 as Moses Payne's Representatives. Also the name of Catherine (Caty) Payne does not appear on any of those tax lists."

1: without a will

Moses and his wife, Catherine, had 7 children: John, Grace (Gracy), Mary (Polly), Catherine Chancellor, William Wroe (61), Moses Congo, and Jane Chancellor.