Abigail Lay

Abt 1730 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Abigail Lay  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1730
  Gender	Female
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Notes	"The inventory of the estate of Abigail Payne, deceased, was recorded May 1822 in Fx. Co. (Fairfax County, Virginia) Her administrator was her son Sanford Payne, Jr. He was allowed payment for her board from 1808 to 1820." (Payne, p 239)
  Person ID	I1829	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	Abraham Lay,   b. Bef 1710   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Sarah Grymes,   b. Bef 1710   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F1219	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sanford Payne,   b. Abt 1730, Westmoreland County, Virginia d. 17 Dec 1792 (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	Kentucky Historical Society, "Genealogies of Kentucky Families: Vol. O-Y" (Baltimore Gen. Publ.-1981) makes the errorneous statement that "their daughter Dolly, married James Madison, President of the United States; another daughter married John G. Jackson, from who descended Stonewall Jackson, the famous Confederate General." Dolly Madison was a Payne by birth, but not a daughter of Sanford and Abigail (Lay) Payne. As is noted below: "She always called herself Dolley, and by that name the New Garden Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends, in Piedmont, North Carolina, recorded her birth to John and Mary Coles Payne, settlers from Virginia. In 1769 John Payne took his family back to his home colony, and in 1783 he moved them to Philadelphia, city of the Quakers. Dolley grew up in the strict discipline of the Society, but nothing muted her happy personality and her warm heart." From Clinton Dillard's PRESIDENTS-PIONEERS-PILGRIMS tree. He cites - Presidents Database: Genealogy of the US Presidents; Brian Tompsett, Computer Science Dept, University of Hull (England); based on book "The Presidents", pub. by Funk & Wagnall's; University of Hull, Hull, UK UK1HU6 7RX http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/presidents/ NOTE: WEBSITE: RootsWEB: U.S. Presidential Ancestor Tables; Contact; Gary Boyd Roberts ; New England Historic Geneological Society; from 'Ancestors of American Presidents', a 456-page book http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/presidents/prez3.htm NOTE: WEBSITE: BIOGRAPHY OF JAMES MADISON: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jm4.html In searching various internet biographies of Gen. Stonewall Jackson, I was not able to find evidence to support this either.
  Children	1. Benjamin Payne,   b. Abt 1761, Fairfax County, Virginia d. Abt 1828, Fauquier County, Virginia (Age 67 years)   2. George Payne,   b. Abt 1763, Fairfax County, Virginia d. Abt 1799, Fairfax County, Virginia (Age 36 years)   3. Sarah Payne,   b. Abt 1765   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Alicia Payne,   b. Abt 1767   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Ann Payne,   b. Abt 1769   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Helen Payne,   b. Abt 1771   d. Yes, date unknown   7. Sanford Payne, Jr.,   b. Bef 1775, Fairfax County, Virginia d. Fairfax County, Virginia   8. Jane Payne,   b. Aft 1775   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F1216	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2006

  
  

• Sources

  [S250] Ancestral File, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints [database online], (Ancestral File (found at www.familysearch.org) is a collection of genealogical information taken from Pedigree Charts and Family Group Records submitted to the Family History Department since 1978. The information has not been verified against any official records. Since the information in Ancestral File is contributed, it is the responsibility of those who use the file to verify its accuracy.), AFN: GCFZ-KH (Reliability: 3). [S272] Payne, Brooke THE PAYNES OF VIRGINIA (Third Printing, C.J. Carrier Company, Harrisonburg, VA 1998).