Brief Life History of Abigail
When Abigail Paine was born on 2 May 1744, in North Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, her father, Benjamin Paine, was 44 and her mother, Amie Mowry, was 29. She married Ananias Mowry Jr on 5 March 1763, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 2 November 1828, in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in North Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
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- Abigail Pain - Birth, "Rhode Island, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1630-1945"
- Abijail Pain - Marriage to Annanias Mowry Jr., "Rhode Island, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1630-1945"
- Abigail Paine Mowry, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1772 · The Gaspee Affair
On June 9, 1772, colonists that are angry with the trade restrictions that Britain put them under, board the HMS Gaspee and set it ablaze. This was the first act of violence against the British on the North American continent.
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
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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