Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Paine was born on 27 April 1738, in North Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, her father, Benjamin Paine, was 38 and her mother, Amie Mowry, was 23. She married Jonathan Sayles on 24 August 1755, in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She died about 1814, in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 77.
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- Elisabeth - Birth of daughter Alce by Jonathan Sayles, "Rhode Island, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1630-1945"
- Elesabeth Pain - Marriage to Jonathan Sayles, "Rhode Island, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1630-1945"
- Elisabeth in entry for Israel Sayles, "Rhode Island Deaths and Burials, 1802-1950"
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1763 · First Synagogue in America
The first Jewish Synagogue in America was built in Newport, Rhode Island in 1763. It still stands today, making it the oldest synagogue in the United States.
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1780 · French Occupy Newport
During 1780 to 1781, over 12,000 French troops occupy Newport, Rhode Island.
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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