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James B. Payne (Newport, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace)

b. 1794?

Newport, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Son of Devall Payne. Married Eliza Summers Payne. Father of Duval Payne, William A. Payne, Cornelia Payne, and Benjamin Payne. Veteran of the War of 1812. Farmer in Newport in 1850. Attorney in Newport in 1860. Justice of the Peace in Campbell County from 1862 to at least 1870.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 44. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 158. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 381. Henry D. Paine, ed., Paine Family Records: A Journal of Genealogical and Biographical Information Respecting the American Families of Payne, Paine, Payn, &c., volume I (New York: Henry D. Paine, 1880), p. 119. KYR-0001-029-0586.

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Payne, James B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212847 (November 12, 2026).

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