When Samuel Paine was born about 1720, in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Paine Jr, was 31 and his mother, Mrs John Paine Jr, was 31. He married Mary Gould on 6 February 1742, in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. He died from 4 January 1784 to 19 January 1784.
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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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