People

• Edward Payson
  Edward Payson
  Edward Payson , American Congregational preacher, was born on 25 July 1783 at Rindge, New Hampshire, where his father, Seth Payson , was pastor of the Congregational Church. His uncle, Phillips Payson , pastor of a church in Chelsea, Massachusetts, was a physicist and astronomer...
  
   (1783—1827), American Congregational preacher
• Edwin Blake Payson (1893—1927), U.S. botanist
• Phillips Payson
  Phillips Payson
  Phillips Payson was minister for the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts from 1728.He was the father of Samuel Phillips Payson, and is buried in the Rumney Marsh Burying Ground in Revere, Massachusetts....
  
   (1704—1778), American minister for the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts from 1728
• Samuel Phillips Payson
  Samuel Phillips Payson
  Reverend Samuel Phillips Payson was a Harvard graduate who ministered for the town of Chelsea, Massachusetts from 1757. The reverend, born in Walpole, was the son of Rev. Phillips Payson and Anne Swift . Samuel married Elizabeth Stone , daughter of Rev. James Stone and Elizabeth Swift...
  
   (1736—1801), American minister for the town of Chelsea, Massachusetts from 1757
• William Farquhar Payson
  William Farquhar Payson
  William Farquhar Payson, author, was born in New York city, February 18, 1876, the son of Francis and Mary F. Payson and grandson of John Larkin and Frances Payson, and of Charles Henry and Ellen M. Dabney, and a descendant of Edward Payson...
  
  (1876—1939), notable American author