Phillips Payson Jr., Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetPhillips Payson Jr.
American clergyman
Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1736
Place of Birth: Walpole, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 11-Jan-1801
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Phillips Payson Jr.
- Phillips Payson (January 18, 1736 – January 11, 1801) was an American Congregationalist minister who was the pastor for the town of Chelsea, Massachusetts from 1757 until his death. Payson is not the same man as Captain Samuel Payson who also fought during the Battle of Lexington.
- (Capt.
- Payson thereafter sold his farm to loan the money to his town to fund the revolution.)He was born in Walpole, the son of Rev.
- Phillips Payson Sr.
- (1704–1778) and Anne Swift (1706–1756).
- The Payson family originated from Nazeing, England, first settling in the Massachusetts Bay Colony as early as 1635.
- Payson graduated from Harvard in 1754.
- He was ordained three years later.
- He married Elizabeth Stone (1735–1800), daughter of Rev.
- James Stone and Elizabeth Swift.
- Payson was a charter member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1780).
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