Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Paine was born about 1764, in Brooklyn, Windham, Connecticut, United States, her father, Daniel Paine Jr, was 29 and her mother, Elizabeth Williams, was 32. She died in 1857, at the age of 94.
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- Mary Paine, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1781 · British Forces Capture Fort Griswold
The capture of Fort Griswold was the final act of treason that Benedict Arnold committed. This would be a British victory. On the American side 85 were killed, 35 wounded and paroled, 28 taken prisoner, 13 escaped, and 1 twelve year old was captured and released.
1789
George Washington elected first president of United States.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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