Payne, Thomas

Died: 1835-09-XX Morgan County, Illinois

Thomas Payne was a landowner and father-in-law of David M. Irwin. In 1830, he purchased eighty acres of public land southwest of what would become Virginia, Illinois, and in 1834, he would purchase an additional eighty acres. The disposition of this land after his death became the subject of lawsuits which saw Abraham Lincoln defend Irwin and Payne's other heirs against Henry H. Hall.

J. N. Gridley and Others, Historical Sketches [of Cass County, Illinois] (Virginia, IL: Virginia Enquirer, 1907), 103; Hall v. Irwin et al., Document ID: 127101, Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, 2d edition (Springfield: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2009), http://www.lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org/Details.aspx?case=139233; Illinois, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1772-1999, 9 September 1835, Morgan County (Provo, UT: Ancestry.Com Operations, 2015); Irwin et al. v. Hall, Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, http://www.lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org/Details.aspx?case=139231; Hall et al. v. Irwin et al., Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, http://www.lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org/Details.aspx?case=139232.