ABSTRACT
Dolley Payne was born on May 20, 1768. Her mother, Mary Coles, was descended from Isaac Winston, an early Quaker settler in Virginia who was the grandfather of the American patriot Patrick Henry, and from William Coles, an immigrant from Wexford County, Ireland. Her father, John Payne, came from an Anglican family of middling success. Dolley's parents were married outside the Quaker faith in 1761, but three years later her father applied and was admitted to the Quaker Monthly Meeting in Hanover County, Virginia.
