Reverend Samuel Phillips Payson (January 18, 1736 – January 11, 1801) was a Harvard

Harvard College

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 graduate who ministered for the town of Chelsea, Massachusetts

Chelsea, Massachusetts

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 from 1757. The reverend, born in Walpole

Walpole

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, was the son of Rev. 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) and Anne Swift (1706–1756). Samuel married Elizabeth Stone (1735–1800), daughter of Rev. James Stone and Elizabeth Swift. The Payson family originated from Nazeing

Nazeing

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, England, first settling in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Massachusetts Bay Colony

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as early as 1635.