When James Paine was born on 29 January 1720, in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Paine, was 22 and his mother, Hannah Huckins, was 20. He married Patience Crosby on 30 August 1759. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter.
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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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