This book is a genealogy and history of the Payne family of Hamilton, New York. A brief statement con cerning families of the name in England and Normandy is followed by biographies of the ancestors of this family in the male line as far back as the immigration from England to Plymouth Colony. All the descendants of Elisha Payne, the founder of Hamilton, in male and female lines are given. There are also chapters in the form of appendices giving information about the families of the wives of each of the ancestors of Elisha Payne in the male line.