Excerpt from Ancestors and Descendants of James Payne of Pomfret, Conn., And Hauppauge, L. IRepresentatives of the Payne family, under one or other of its orthographic varieties: Payne, Paine, Payn, etc., are to be found in every State and territory of the Union, though the name is far from being common in any part of the country. It appears to be most frequent in New England and in the regions colonized by emigration from the Eastern States. Of those states Rhode Island and Massachusetts include a larger proportion numerically, of our congeners than any others.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.