Thomas Paine (bef. 1612 - 1706)

Born before 26 Apr 1612 in Wye, Kent, England

Husband of Elizabeth (Litchfield) Paine — married 1633 (to 1645) in London, England

Husband of Mary (Snow) Paine — married before Apr 1651 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 16 Aug 1706 after age 94 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, New England

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Thomas Paine migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Directory, by R. C. Anderson, p. 250) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Genealogy Caution Note

There were several men named Thomas Paine / Payne who emigrated to Massachusetts between 1630-1660. Please use caution in merges and use reliable sources in making your decision. Please do NOT merge this profile with Paine-237; that Thomas Paine was from Wrentham, Suffolk, England, and he married Rebecca Ware (Ware-111), not Mary Snow. Mary's husband Thomas Paine was from Kent, England and may have used spelling "Payne" before emigration. There is also some question as to this Thomas Paine's mother: Elizabeth Tuttle, Elizabeth Bloomfield, and Margaret Pultney have all been proposed as candidates. A descendant (see below) says his mother was "Marie Carter" but no other documents have surfaced with that name. The most-likely candidates are Elizabeth Tuttle (who may have been "widow Bloomfield") and Margaret or Elizabeth/Margaret Pultney...^[1]

NOTE: "I have found the baptism record of Thomas (of Kent, England) which states Thomas, baptized on 26 Apr 1612 was son of Mathew of Wye, Kent, England. See Parish record: Tyler Index- pg 14 of 44- 1538-1874- Payne Life Events- Shepherdswell & Wye Parish Registers pg 10- Kent Co, England. This means Thomas of Kent was NOT a JR. and not born of the Suffolk, England branch. So the Project protect manager should realign and remove the above connection to the Thomas of Suffolk branch." requested by Michael F. Payne Sr.

Biography

This comment about the Paine Ancestry, The Family of Robert Treat Paine, Signer of the Declaration of Independence by Sarah Cushing Paine and Charles Henry Pope:

"This book is inaccurate as to the Thomas Paine (formally Thomas Payne) that married Mary Snow. Thomas Payne, son of Thomas Payne and Marie Carter first married Elizabeth Litchfield (1633) in London, England. This Thomas with wife Elizabeth and son Thomas (b. 1635 "at Sagus") came to America in 1639. Elizabeth died 1645 after giving birth to second son Samuel. When he married Mary Snow in 1650 [15 June 1650], his name was spelled Paine. (In those days, the spelling of one's name depended on how the name sounded to the person doing the recording.)" Forrest R. Paine, 8th Great Grandson of Thomas Paine and Mary Snow." ^[2][3]

Some old genealogies state that Thomas was blinded in one eye by an arrow while still living in England, and arrived at Massachusetts Bay with his father, Thomas, at age ten. There are no sources to prove these, but the stories still are in many pedigrees.^[4]

He married Mary Snow before April of 1651 at Eastham, Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, New England.^[5] Eastham had been settled but a very few years when Thomas Paine became a resident. He was resident at Eastham in 1653 and served in several ways after being made a freeman. One was as water bailiff of Plymouth Colony Court and served many years in that post, requiring him to regulate fishing on Cape Cod. On March 14, 1696, he purchased a home in Boston and lived there until he sold the same on October 13, 1697, and moved back to Eastham. He was also known as a cooper (builder and repairer of barrels and casks) as well as the builder of mills.

In 1662 he was appointed, with Nicholas Snow, Jonathan Sparrow and Giles Hopkins, to view and lay out the meadow between Namskaket and Silver Springs, then within the limits of Eastham; and the same year, with Giles Hopkins, was selected a surveyor of highways. In 1664, for the first time he was chosen deputy to the Plymouth Colony court, and a juryman. In 1667, with eleven others, he was called to investigate the causes of deaths of three men of Captain John Allen's company, who were put ashore at Cape Cod. The same year he was allowed by the Colonial court to select a tract of land for his use, and in June, 1669, he was allowed to purchase land at Namskaket, now Middleboro. In 1670, with Jonathan Sparrow, he was appointed an inspector of the ordinaries in town, to see that there was no excessive drinking. He was selectman (an officer) of Eastham in 1671. In 1676, he was one of the committee to collect a debt of Sandwich and to superintend the building of the meetinghouse in Eastham. This meetinghouse was the second one built there and stood near the ancient burying ground. The first one was thatched roof and stood nearby, and had been erected many years. It was now considered unsuitable for the congregation of their minister, Rev. Samuel Treat, who was now regularly settled. Mr. Paine was clerk and treasurer of Eastham as well. Mr. Paine was many years a "rate maker" or assessor. In 1685, with Rev. Samuel Treat, Captain Jonathan Sparrow, John Mayo, Sen., and Jabez Snow, he was chosen by the town "to hear and determine the difference between those called the purchasers of the town," respecting land within the limits of Eastham.

The will of Thomas Paine,^[6] dated 12 May 1705 and proved 2 Oct. 1706, left mills, house and housing and specified lands to son Nicholas Paine; ten shillings to daughter Mary, wife of Israel Cole; and the residuary estate equally to Samuel Paine (executor), Thomas Paine (executor), Elisha Paine, John Paine, Nicholas Paine, James Paine, Joseph Paine, Dorcas Vickerie (wife of Benjamin), and the three oldest children of his daughter Mary (wife of Israel Cole), namely James Rogers, Mary Cole and Abigail Yeats.

“The twelvth day of May,1705, I Thomas Paine of Eastham… do make… this my last Will and Testament…

Impr I give and bequeath my son Nicholas Paine… all my Lands, mill house and housing att Keaskokagansett in the town of Eastham, with all my right title to all Town priviledges and my two shares in ye Land purchased of Mr. Samll Smith, called the ten pound purchase as also all my meadow Lying on or by Sampsons Island, and between Sampsons Island & Hog Island in sd Eastham as also my upland at both ends of Sampsons Island and my shear of meadow which Lyes to the Southward of Porchy Island, which was granted me by ye Town in ye year of our Lord, 1703.

Itm, I give to my daughter Mary, the wife of Israel Cole, ten shillings money.

All the rest and residue of my estate, both real and personall goods & chattels whatsoever, I give & bequeath to be equally divided to and among my children, viz:- Samll Paine, Thomas Paine, Elisha Paine, John Paine, Nicholas Paine, James Paine, Joseph Paine, Dorcas Vickerie, the wife of Benj. Vickerie and three eldest children of Mary, my daughter, the wife of Israel Cole, viz:- James Rogers, Mary Cole, & Abigail Yates… the sd children of my sd daughter shall have (with the ten shillings which she is to have) one share of equal portions with ye rest of my sd children, which shall be equally divided among them.

And I do also hereby constitute, make & ordain my two sons Samuel Paine & Thomas Paine, to be ye Executors of this my last Will and Testament…

Thomas Paine

In ye presence of us…
His
John X Rogers
Mark
John Rogers, Jr.
Eleazar Rogers.”

Proved 2 Oct. 1706. ^[7]

“Inventory of all & singular the goods, chattels & credits of Mr. Thomas Paine of Eastham… prized at Eastham, August ye 30th 1706…

Imprimis: To Lands, meadows Housing &

Mills, Two hundred pounds………………. £200 00 00

It. To Cash at 15 penny weight to six shillings,

ninety-two pounds fourteen shillings &

four pence…..................................................92 14 04

It. To plate at eight shillings P ounce, nine

pound, six shillings and four pence….……. 9 06 04

It. To beds, bedsteads, & other Household stuff,

Cloth, Tools, old iron & lumber, seventy-six pound

Five shillings & 5 pence…………….…………… 76 05 04

It. To debt, nine & twenty pound fifteen shillings

& a penny…………….…………………………........ 29 15 01

It. To desperate debts four & twenty shillings

and eight pence……………………………………….1 04 08

....................................................................409=05=10

Samuel Freeman

Joshua Bangs” ^[8]

His death was noted in his son John’s Journal:

” On this 16 day of August, 1706, my aged father Thomas Paine departed this life. I am now left fatherless and motherless, as to my natural parents, but my God is a Father of the fatherless upon whose Providence I cast myself. O! God my Father do not cast me off. Though my father and mother have forsaken me my hope is in Thee.” ^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ Note added to by Chet Snow, September 3, 2014.
2. ↑ Cape Cod Genealogical Society's Summer & Fall 1999 Bulletin Addendum, Vol XXV Numbers 2 & 3, Issue # 86.
3. ↑ Paine Ancestry: The Family of Robert Treat Paine... by Sarah Cushing Paine, Charles Henry Pope: 1912.
4. ↑ Note by Chet Snow: this story may well be about a different contemporary Thomas Paine Paine-237.
5. ↑ John D. Austin, Mayflower Families Through 5 Generations, Stephen Hopkins, Vol. 6 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001 [3rd edition]), p. 13.

   Mary Snow m. bef. April of 1651 Thomas Paine... believed to be the son of Thomas Paine who settled in Yarmouth in 1639.

6. ↑ County Probate Records, Vol. 3:360, will of Thomas Paine.
7. ↑ Barnstable Probate Records-Vol. III, pp. 360-2
8. ↑ Thomas Paine, Founder of the Eastham Family, and his Posterity- Josiah Paine in Paine Family Records- Henry D. Paine, M.D.- Vol. II, NY, 1883- pp. 16-17; Barnstable Probate Records-Vol. III, pp. 360-2
9. ↑ A transcription of Deacon John Paine’s Journal is in “The Mayflower Descendant”- Vol. VIII and IX

• Thomas Paine – Eastham Land Records 1650 - 1745
• Thomas Paine article, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 47: 1893.

• PAINE FAMILY RECORDS. A Journal of Genealogical and Biographical information respecting the American Families of Payne, Paine, Payn, etc. Edited by H. D. Paine, M.D. Volume II. New York. 1883. See either: PAINE FAMILY RECORDS at Google Books or PAINE FAMILY RECORDS at Archive.org, pg. 12. The same book but the Google Books version is searchable online.

• Cape Cod Gravestones

• Chrisman Pedigree

• Find A Grave Memorial# 34166386 This should not be used as a source, but is included for memorial purposes only.

• Mayflower Marriages. Susan E. Roser. Genealogical Publishing Co. 1990

• S64 John(5) Billings of Deer Isle, Maine. Harold Ward Dana, A.B., M.D., of Brookline, Norfolk, Mass. NEHGR, Vol. 97, October 1943. Note: Originally from "Genealogy of William Billings", Frank Billings, M.D., n.d., published about 1931.

• S983 Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Austin, John D., F.A.S.G. Plymouth, Ma, General Society of Mayflower Descendants

• Caleb H. Johnson, The Mayflower and her passengers (Indiana:Xlibris Corp., Caleb Johnson, 2006)

• "Mayflower Families Through Five Generations", Volume six, "Hopkins", Published by General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1992.

• Cape Cod Genealogical Society's Summer & Fall 1999 Bulletin Addendum, Vol XXV Numbers 2 & 3, Issue # 86. Forrest R. Paine, (8th Great Grandson of Thomas Paine and Mary Snow) proposed his parents are son of Thomas Payne and Marie Carter available on microfilm at your local Family History Center - 974.492 D25cc.

• Josiah Paine, Early Settlers of Eastham : Containing Sketches of All Early Settlers of Eastham, (Yarmouthport, Mass. : C. W. Swift, 1916), p. 21, "Thomas Paine".