James PAYNTER

• Name	James PAYNTER
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I598	FHC006 - White Tree
  Last Modified	26 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	Francis PAYNTER,   b. Bef 27 Jul 1661, Trelissick, St Erth, Cornwall, England d. Abt 1720, Trelissick, St Erth, Cornwall, England (Age > 58 years)
  Mother	Miss SUTHERLAND
  Family ID	F900	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ann FRERE
  Children	1. Susanna PAYNTER,   b. Abt 1714, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England d. 25 Nov 1724, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England (Age ~ 10 years)
  Family ID	F252	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Devon Notes & Queries says that James was the son of Francis by his first wife, Miss Sutherland. There is a story that James proclaimed the Pretender James III the King in the Market place at St Columb the day after Queen Anne died (1714). Hewassent to Newgate and tried for high treason, but claimed to be judged in Cornwall, so was tried at Launceston, where he was acquitted by apackedJacobite jury and welcomed "by bonfire and by ball" from there to Land's End. Francis, his father, in his will of 1716 left him an annuity of 100 pounds a year "so long as he do not disturb or molest my Executrix" (his stepmother Margaret]. Trelissick was left to his step-sisters. His behaviour in other ways may not have pleased his father, for he married Ann Frere, a reputed papist and friend of a suspected priest.