| 6. | Adam Payne was born in 1781 in Virginia or Pennsylvania (son of Adam Payne and Rachel Dawson); died on 23 May 1832 in Black Hawk War, Illinois. Other Events and Attributes:
- Religion: Between 1826 and 1828, Christian Conference of United Churches of God in Christ, Kentucky; "Christian Messenger"
Notes:
"I have heard that he traveled a lot, but don't have much of the documentation. He was a Quaker preacher, and was killed at the beginning of the Black Hawk War in IL, 1832. He was probably b VA, but could have been PA. His brother, Christopher, is my ancestor. The family seems to have gradually drifted west with Christopher in WI and Aaron in OR. Apparently their parents were Adam Payne and Rachel Dawson."
ancestry thread: Adam Payne of Belmont Co Ohio
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CIRCUIT COURT RECORDS 1817 - 1848
Excerpts from: "The History of Randolph, Monroe and Perry Counties, IL"
Submitted by Susan Cook and Sue Reed
On 21 July, 1817, in Harrisonville, the first circuit court was held. The Hon. Jesse B. THOMAS presided, with Charles MATHENY as prosecuting attorney. The following men
Other cases include 7 more assault and battery charges, two divorce cases, one for Sarah MILLER and Abraham MILLER. She was awarded the divorce and custody of their only child, Isaac and Joseph and Patsey BAILEY HOGAN in August 1818. He accused her of adulty and presented the following witnesses: Alexander JAMESON, Edward CROUSH and Adam .Payne. The divorce was granted.
Rev. Adam Payne: mostly from Robert Barnes
He lived for many years in Walker's Grove,( now called Plainfield?) Du Page Co. (?), IL. He served in the war of 1812 as a soldier in the Volunteer Militia, Territory of IL. He was with Capt. Nelson Rector at St. Louis. He was described as an eccentric preacher, and was preaching at Fort Wayne, IN in 1831. His listeners included Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman). At the time, he was living near his Uncle (?brother-in-law), John Dawson, in Dearborn, IN (?or was he in IL by this time). He was an early victim of the Black Hawk War: he was robbed and beheaded. It was reported that his head was displayed on a pole. Other sources say that his head was never found. Prior to his death, he had been a traveling Preacher among the Indians. He "promised hell and damnation if they should take to the warpath."
Albany, NY, from a story about a Mr. Pierson: "characterized by a strong devotional spirit" became acquainted with the "notorious" Robert Matthews or Matthias - "his beard had now obtained a respectable length, and thus he attracted attention, and easily obtained an audience in the streets. For this he was sometimes arrested, once by mistake for Adam Paine, who collected the crowd, and then left Matthias with it on the approach of the officers" ... which Adam is this?
NAME INDEX TO THE CHRISTIAN MESSENGER
PART I:
by Ruth E. Browning
Vol. 1--Nov. 25, 1826-Oct. 25, 1827
Christian Conference on 1 Sept. 1826, Harrison County, Kentucky. Elders in attendance: Hugh Cole, Josiah H. Yager, Jas. Daugherty, Simon Hiller, Wm R. Davis, David Morriss, Reuben Duggans, Sherman Babcock, Clement Nance, Elisha Gun, Jesse Lucas, John Lucas, John Roger, Adam Payne. Unordained preachers in attendance: Wm Lindsay, Wm Ellis, Barsillai Willie.
Vol. 2, Nov. 1827-Oct. 1828 Publ. Georgetown, KY: Report on Christian Conference of the United Churches of God in Christ of the states of Indiana and Kentucky at Rood's Creek, Hardin Co., KY, Sep. 231, 1827.,..., Names of all Elders and Preachers in the district be printed in minutes:,...Unordained Preachers: William Lindsay, Richard G. Lindsay, ... Elder Adam Payne has withdrawn his membership.
The 1879 Old Settlers Reunion
Taken From the Henry Republican
August 28, 1879
Old Settlers
Their Meeting at Lacon Last Week
The Oration by Perry Armstrong of Grundy County
Short Talks by a Number of Pioneers
An Immense Throng and Glorious Time.
RELIGION
We had no churches or church choirs or organs in those days, yet we had pure and undefiled religion with simple but effective religious services in our humble little cabins. Our pioneer preachers were men of slender education, yet they were wonderfully effective in their modes of preaching Christ and him crucified. Among the earliest of our preachers was the lisping yet trumpet-tongued Aaron Payne, and his more accomplished brother, Adam; then came the earnest, faithful and persevering Methodist preachers, Stephen Beggs and William Royal.
Poor Adam Payne fell a martyr to his faith in the protecting had of God by venturing too far from the fort in the Black Hawk war in 1832, and his beautiful long black hair dangled from the scalp belt of one of Black Hawk's band of murderers. The heroic Aaron immediately volunteered as a private to avenge the death of his brother, and although fearless in his bravery and reckless of his personal safety, he survived through many a severe encounter and came home covered with scars, with the full assurance that Adam's treacherous death had been terribly avenged. Shortly after the Black Hawk war he moved to what was then the territory of Oregon, and was still living there a short time since, although nearly 90 years of age. His compeers and co-laborers, Royal and Beggs, are also living - the former in Oregon, and the latter at Plainfield, Ill.
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IL Black Hawk war
Other Attacks
Shortly after the attack on the Davis Settlement, Adam Payne, sometimes refered to as the Dunkard Preacher after the pacifist denomination, left Fort Beggs near today?s Plainfield and headed to the Ottawa fort. Payne had family there who sought to protect themselves from raiding Indian parties. As he passed through LaSalle County, he was spotted by a band of Indians who pursued him for several miles. When he approached an area about three miles northeast of present Marseilles, the Indians caught and killed him. His body was not found until sometime the following month.
A Dorothea McClure married an Adam Paine in St. Clair Co., IL on May 2, 1816 (or is this date of marriage license). She may be the wife of our Adam. However, there is an Adams Paine in the area as well - is he the one who married Dorothea? Judy Kuster has Dorothea married to our Adam. Dayton Selby sent me the congressional record of Dorothea's request for her husband's pension (as he was in the war of 1812). Clearly, he spelled his name Adams Payne. Also, it says that he died in 1835. Therefore, I believe that she was not our Adam Payne's wife.
Posted on the Internet: TNLINCOL Village Messenger, 1823-1828 (Fayetteville TN Newspaper) from The Village Messenger, Fayetteville, Tennessee, Vol. I, Number III, March 25, 1823:
Agreeably to appointment made two years since, we are authorized to say that Adam PAINE will preach in the Court House in this place, on Saturday next. from The Village Messenger, Fayetteville, Tennessee, Vol. 3, No. 3, May 17, 1826:
In "The History of Kendall County" around the time of the Blackhawk War, there is a reference to the slaying of "Mr. Payne, a dunkard preacher, while attempting to reach his family at Ottawa,..." on P. 12. On p. 88,
"The next murder, while the Indians were camped, or secreted, at Holderman's, was that of Adam Payne, the missionary. He was a large, portly man, with a black beard that hung to his waist, and was well known, having preached about through the western settlements for years. He had been to Ohio, and on his return stopped in Chicago a few days to preach. The commander at Fort Dearborn, at the same time, was pressing horses to mount a company of rangers, and Payne, who had a splendid horse, in order to save it, decided to go to Hennepin, below Ottawa, where his brother Aaron lived.
The morning he left he preached his last sermon, at the northern end of the military parade ground, corner of South Water street and Michigan Avenue. His sermon was two hours long, but he held his audience of traders, soldiers, citizens and Indians, spell-bound to the close, as he pressed upon them the reality of eternal things. When he came to Plainfield to put up for the night, he found the people in a state of great excitement over the news of the Indian Creek massacre. They imagined that the country was being over-run by an army of savages, who would not spare a soul alive, and that the woods all around were full of them. Besides this, the stockade there was too small to accommodate the multitude, so that it had been decided to break up and go to Chicago. They were to start the next morning after Payne's arrival, and tried to prevail on him to go with them, but he would not. He wished to see his family, and believed that his profession and his acqquaintance with the Indians, and, if it came to the worst, the fleetness of his splendid bay mare, would carry him through safely. So, in the morning, Plainfield was deserted__the settlers going eastward and Payne going west. He rode on without being molested until he passed Holderman's Grove, when there was a sudden report of guns, and a bullet pierced his shoulder, and another struck his horse. The Indians probably saw him from their hiding-place. They used to cut bushes and make a little barricade by the road, where they watched for travelers. One such hiding-place was found in a tree at the north-west corner of Kellogg's Grove, where they could overlook all the surrounding country. Payne immediately put his horse on the run, and out-stripped the savages, who would probably have given up the chase but for the fact that they knew he was wounded. Across the country they went like the wind, pursuer and pursued. Across the slough and up the next rise of ground west of Holderman's the fugitive urged his panting steed, but the race was nearly over. A little beyond the grove the horse dropped from exhaustion and loss of blood, and Payne deciding that his best course was to bravely stand his ground, waited until the Indians came up, and with his Bible in one hand and the other pointing heavenward, he appealed for mercy. Two of the three Indians were moved at this, but the third struck him on the head from behind, and he expired in a few moments. His head was placed on a pole, and at night the whole band assembled, laden with spoils from the houses of the settlers, and held a wild war dance around the spot where their victim fell. The body was found a few days afterwards by a company of rangers, or volunteer cavalry, and buried. The scalp was stuck up on a ramrod, with fifteen or sixteen little sticks around it, indicating the number they had taken. It was as large as the palm of a man's hand, and as thick as a little finger. It was probably left by the Indians through the belief that ill-luck would attend them by having the scalp of a man of God.
Another Story, or Indian tradition, says that Gurty had once been Payne's interpreter, and when he recognized the body, after the dance was over, he was filled with remorse, and having buried it he burnt his most valuable articles over the grave to appease the Great Spirit. If that is true, the remains of Adam Payne sleep to-day not far from the south-west corner of Big Grove township, and the body found was that of a Dunker preacher who was also missed about the same time. As the Indians themselves gave this account, there is so far an air of great probability about it. Mr. Cummins was Payne's step-son and Mrs. Payne and her family went down with him and the Holdermans to a prairie camp in Putnam county. She never received any of her husband's effects, though she lived for a long time in the hope that she should.
The following, from Vetal Vermet, who lived here at the time, corroborates the main features of the story, while differing in some minor parts. He says:
'Rev. Mr. Payne lived at Holderman's Grove at the time of the Indian war. Just before it commenced he had to go to Chicago on business, and when he returned found his family and the other settlers gone. He resumed his journey, but coming across some Indians hid in the grove, they chased him about seven miles in a southern direction, when they shot him, and he fell from his horse some time after he was killed. There we found and buried him, but his head we never found.'..."
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History of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches
The Brethren Church began with a very small group of people who wanted to be Bible believing Christians who would follow the Scriptures in simple faith and obedience. The protestant reformation of the 1500-1600's inspired by Martin Luther, John Calvin and others started the ball rolling. The Bible once again was given its rightful place. Biblical doctrines and good theology were taught. But barren orthodoxy and cold indifference to dynamic Christian living left many with much to be desired. The church was not relevant to ordinary life and simple faith obedience to the moral precepts of the Bible. It tolerated evil. Some people wanted to go a step further.
Alexander Mack was one. Having studied carefully the commands of the New Testament together, Mack and his few followers (5 men and 3 women) began a new fellowship of believers in Schwarzenau, Germany. Their attitude of obedience to the Bible was demonstrated in a triune baptismal service in the Eider River in 1708. From that humble beginning the Brethren Church grew--not perfectly--not fantastically--but steadily and solidly. In 7 years several congregations were established in Germany. But by 1719, because of opposition, the majority of "The Brethren" moved westward to America under the leadership of Peter Becker, many living in the area of Germantown, Pa. From this humble beginning the Brethren Church started. Through many trials and a few divisions the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches has emerged to what it is today. A study of the Tunker Fraternity Church and the dates, names and places on the following list, and a reading of CE National's readable "What Is a GBC?" will help you get a birds-eye view of our history. For full details we suggest you read Dr. Homer A. Kent, Sr.'s book, Conquering Frontiers.
Names, Dates and Places to remember:
1708 - Eight people, under the leadership of Alexander Mack baptized in the Eider River by Triune immersion at Schwarzenau, Germany. They declared they were returning to the New Testament more
fully than Martin Luther and the other Reformers.
1719 - The people of the Brethren Church came to America. Peter Becker was their leader. Most of them settled and lived near Germantown, Pa.
1723 - On Christmas Day the American group baptized some others and began the first official church in America. Becker was the pastor.
1728 - The Ephrata, Pa. break off movement was started by Conrad Biessel. He led a group into a type of cloister life, trying to get people to stay away from the world via hyper-separatism, non-marriage and
austere living. The whole thing failed, but the cloister with buildings can still be seen in Ephrata, Pa.
1729 - A second group of Brethren sailed to America. Alexander Mack was their leader and he became the pastor of the group in Germantown.
1742 - The first Annual Conference of the church in America met.
1743 - Christopher Sower, a printer, prepared and produced the first Bible printed in America. It was printed in German. He also printed other helpful literature.
1836 - At an annual meeting, "The Brethren" unanimously adopted the name "Fraternity of German Baptist." By now the church had lost a lot of its original evangelistic fervor. Some still carried the
churches aggressive spirit. Among them were George Wolfe, leader of the Far Western Brethren in Illinois, and Adam Paine who had a real burden for the Indians.
From Brethren Life, the Frontier Journal posted on the Internet: Written by Merle C. Rummel - Published 1999: gives a timeline of the establishment of the church in America. In 1830, The Sugar Creek Church (Sangamon Co., IL0 Ishham Gibson, minister. Includes mention of Adam Paine, Bureau Co., IL - Brethren Missionary who preaches to the Indians.
Daily Sentinel
Fort Wayne, Ind
Monday, Oct. 23
Johnny Appleseed
(concluded)
Mr. Haley has well described his personal appearance, his sharp voiuce, etc., and those who knew him here will know him b that description. But his garb was not always alike, and some have seen him in other garbs and under other circumstances than those noted by Mr. Haley, so that some would describe him in one way and some another. He very rarely ate at table with others, and never slept in a bed. He preferred to lie on the floor of a tavern or private house__always laid in the bar-room of a hotel, when stopping there, and, when necessary, kept fire during the night. Exceedingly penurious, he complained of tavern charges and thought a sixpence quite enough for a meal. At stated times he would work, often coming to this place at the season of corn gathering and hiring to do that work. Capt. James Barnett, deceased, used to say that Johnny Appleseed was the best hand he hired to husk corn; and always gave the old pioneer a place to stay when he desired. This is no invidious mention, for there were many others who used to give him a place. John Rogers, Esq., now living and an octogenarian, Absalom Halcomb, now deceased, and others. He was regarded as a temperate man, and so he was, but occasionally he would take a dram of spirits to keep him a little warem, as he said. He did not believe in marriage on earth, but held that he was raising a girl to be his spiritual wife in the New Jerusalem, to gain which all his life was a sacrifice. On one occasion a gentleman now living, with whom he often lodged and ate, and who had a little daughter whom the old man fancied was asked by ole man if he would give him the child for his spiritual wife and on thoughtlessly giving him his consent, Johnny regarded the bargain as sacred and treated the child thereafter with much care. This, however, was interrupted by an accident. A neighbor's children came over to see this child and others of the family, when the father told a little boy to kiss Johnny's girl, which he did in Johnny's presence. This was considered by Johnny as a violation of faith plighted by the father, and in anger declined to further care for his spiritual wife. The name of this boy I withhold, less a very worthy gentleman, long my friend, and high in the esteem of the people of this county might be the subject of a joke. He is a husband and father now, and perhaps in no other instance has ever parted a man and wife, and this unconsciously.
Our hero may be considered as insane by those who never knew him, but while this was not true, his fanaticism made him a religious monomaniac. I have seen him under many circumstances at public meetins, in private talks, in courts of justice, and at religious meetings, and never heard a disorderly word fall from his lips. In the year 1841, at a camp meeting, the first, perhaps, ever held by the methodists in this county__it was on the site of Lindenwood Cemetery, near a spring of wter, on the north side,__I saw him lying on the ground, near a large tree in good hearing of the pulpit; and I now have a vivid recollection of the earnest attention he gave to the eloquent words of the clergyman, who discoursed of that New Jerusalem, which our hero hoped to reach, and there carry on his now earthly occupation among the sacramental hosts around the throne of God.
The wood-cut in Harper which represents a well-fed and dressed preacher somewhere in Ohio discoursing eloquently against extravagance of dress, &c., and where Johnny Appleseed went forward and amazed the divine by presenting himself as "a primitive Christian," dressed in coffee-sack and barefoor,__I say this represents a scene which actually transpired, and is confirmed by an incident which occurred at this place a little pater. A certain Adam Payne, who was also an eccentric man, but in a different way, a preacher of a very illiterate kind, who wanted to appear a second Lorenzo Dow, in 1830 came to this city, and standing on a box on the northeast corner of Clinton and Columbia streets, announced himself thus: "Hear ye! hear ye! I am now about to scold the devil." Having finished his scold Johnny Appleseed, being present, went forward and asked Mr. Payne if he recollected "the primitive Christian" which he had before seen in Mansfield, Ohio. Payne at once recognized him. Now, if this Rev. Adam Payne were the veritable itinerant missionary who appeared in Ohio and preached in Mansfield to an aopen-air congregation, as Mr. Haley has it. He certainly gives the picture too much color when he calls him the "well-clothed missionary," for Adam Payne was as poor as Johnny Applesee, of very plain dress, and wore long hair and a long bears; and, aside from tattered apparel, would have mated Johnny Appleseed very well.
Mr. Haley states the incident of Appleseed comforting the "itinerant missionary" toward the latter part of Johnny's career in Ohio; and this is confirmed by the incident of recognition related above as taking place at Fort Wayne, in the year 1830.
Right here a circumstance comes just in play to fix with some accuracy the time of Johnny's advent to this region. Adam Payne was a very near neighbor of my father__in fact the parents of Payne lived on our farm as early as 1916, in the county of Dearborn, Indiana, while the Indians were still numerous. He was given to eccentricities, and was an itinerant preacher, wore long beard and long hair, and some later than the period named, but before my memory, he and his parents emigrated to the wilds of western Illinois, and but little was heard from him for many years till one summer day in the year 1831, a steamboat landed at the wharf at Lawrenceburgy, on the Ohio River, and put off an aged coupld and their scanty effects. I was then residing there with my brother-in-law, Col. Spencer, who at once recognized them as Mr. and Mrs. Payne, Sr. They were taken to my father's house in the county, where they were kept over a year, and then removed to the county asylum, where they died. From these old people it was ascertained that Adam Payne, their son, had been killed by the Indians, and his head severed from his body, and carried on a pole as a trophy. Those who may read this, and who are of forty-five years of age, will recollect what ravages were committed on western settlers by the Indians before the Black Hawk was of 1832. It was these depredations, and the loss of theif son Adam, which caused these aged pilgrims to return to Dearborn county to die.
Adam Payne was here in 1830, and is known to have been killed by the Indians, and his body treated as above described, somewhere in the northern part of this State, woon after his visit here.
I have introduced this incident to give accuracy to the date of Appleseed's advent into the Maumee Valley; and this incident of Adam Payne's and Appleseed's meeting here to support the supposition that Payne was the identical itenerant missionary of whom Mr. Haley writes in Harper. If these circumstances do not fix it, the date then perhaps is lost. Still it is only essential as a bit of local history. For all that related to our hero in Ohio, and the relation of a beautiful story in elegant diction, refer the reader to Harper's Monthly for March, 1871.
Now to the close of Appleseed's life. Mr. Haley gives obituary thus: ...
John W. Dawson
Spy Run Avenue, Oct. 20, 1871.
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Religion:
NAME INDEX TO THE CHRISTIAN MESSENGER
PART I:
by Ruth E. Browning
Vol. 1--Nov. 25, 1826-Oct. 25, 1827
Christian Conference on 1 Sept. 1826, Harrison County, Kentucky. Elders in attendance: Hugh Cole, Josiah H. Yager, Jas. Daugherty, Simon Hiller, Wm R. Davis, David Morriss, Reuben Duggans, Sherman Babcock, Clement Nance, Elisha Gun, Jesse Lucas, John Lucas, John Roger, Adam Payne. Unordained preachers in attendance: Wm Lindsay, Wm Ellis, Barsillai Willie.
Vol. 2, Nov. 1827-Oct. 1828 Publ. Georgetown, KY: Report on Christian Conference of the United Churches of God in Christ of the states of Indiana and Kentucky at Rood's Creek, Hardin Co., KY, Sep. 231, 1827.,..., Names of all Elders and Preachers in the district be printed in inutes:,...Unordained Preachers: William Lindsay, Richard G. Lindsay, ... Elder Adam Payne has withdrawn his membership.
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Adam married Elender Madden, (dau of who?) on 25 Mar 1806 in Belmont Co, Ohio. Elender was born about 1798; died after 1820 in of, Belmont Co, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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1839 - Aft 1850 (12 years)