When Priscilla Paine was born on 16 October 1701, in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Nicholas Paine, was 39 and her mother, Hannah Higgins, was 29. She married William Norcott on 4 August 1726, in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 16 September 1752, in Middletown, Mattabeset, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 50.
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English: variant of Payne .
History: The author of the republican treatise The Rights of Man, Thomas Paine (1737–1809), left England for North America in the mid 1770s, where he became involved in the movement that led to independence. His pamphlet of 1776, Common Sense, influenced the Declaration of Independence and furnished some of the arguments justifying it.
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