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- Edward came to New England as a man-servant and in 1634 became a member of the church in Roxbury. He was a freeman 13 May 1640 and married 20 Aug 1640 Ann Parke, she died 10 September the following year having borne a daughter, Mary, eight days before. He married less than a year later to Mary Elliot, with her he had ten children. The names, Payson and Eliot, are in the records of the Parish Church of Nazing, a rural village in Essex County, England, in the northwest corner of Waltham Half-hundred on the Lee River twenty miles east of London. Speculation concerning the parents of Edward Payson and his brother Giles have not provided any conclusive evidence. The records of baptisms, marriages, and burials in the parish records of Nazeing give the baptism of Giles as 14 May 1609, and of Edward on 30 October 1613, but unfortunately, those records do not mention who their parents were. However, Michael Roos, local historian for Nazeing and a member of the Nazeing History Workshop, reports on a book by John Gervis that states, "Prominent among these non-conformists were John Eliot and the Payson brothers, all of whom were Cambridge graduates and had probably come under the influence of Thomas Hooker, a fellow of Emmanuel College and an inspiring member of this sect. Lawrence Payson married Joanne Webb in 1605. They were the parents of Giles and Edward Payson and possibly resident at Nazeing Bury." Mary Eliot's parents died when she was a baby. Mary was 11 years old when she came to America in the company of her three older brothers, Philip, John, and Jacob. They came aboard the ship Lyon, William Pierce, master, in 1631 when the ship left England with the first group of Nazing Pilgrims on board. Later, in 1635, a large number of "Nazing Christians" came to America in the ship Hopewell. Giles Payson is listed as a passenger on this ship but it has not been determined when or on which ship Edward Payson arrived in the Colonies. These Nazing Pilgrims were among the first-comers to Roxbury, MA, and settled chiefly in the easterly part of town next to Boston, MA. The first mention of the town as one of the plantations on which a part of the general tax of 50 pounds was levied is in the records of the Third Court of Assistants, held on 28 September 1630. Roxbury was the sixth town incorporated in Massachusetts. Both Edward and Giles Payson are listed in the Record of Homes and Lands in Roxbury (MA) in 1654 as among the "dwellers in this quarter at that time." In the town of Roxbury, MA, Edward Payson was a proprietor, was made "freeman" on 13 May 1640, and was a member of the church as early as 1634. His will was proved 3 September 1691.
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1613 - 1691 (~ 77 years)
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