James Spriggs Payne: Difference between revisions

Payne was born in [[Richmond, Virginia]], in 1819 to free [[mixed-race]] parents. Payne grew up in a deeply religious [[Methodist]] family and was a devout [[Christians|Christian]].<ref name=dacb>[http://www.dacb.org/stories/liberia/payne_james.html "Payne, James Spriggs"], ''Dictionary Of African Christian Biography''</ref> His father, David M. Payne, was a Methodist minister and was ordained a [[deacon]] by the [[Virginia Conference]] in 1824.<ref>Melton (2007), p. 58.</ref> Payne was noted for having a rather light complexion, with some estimates claiming that he was indeed an [[octoroon]]—having seven-eights European ancestry and one-eighth African ancestry. When Payne was ten years old, his family emigrated to [[Liberia]] on the shipbrig ''The Harriet'', the same ship as [[Joseph Jenkins Roberts]], Liberia's future first president, under the auspices of the [[American Colonization Society]].<ref name=":1">[http://ccharity.com/liberia/shipharriet1829.htm "Roll Of Emigrants That Have Been Sent To The Colony Of Liberia, Western Africa, By The American Colonization Society And Its Auxiliaries, To September 1843"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705224429/http://www.ccharity.com/liberia/shipharriet1829.htm |date=2008-07-05 }}</ref>