Job Paine (1723 - bef. 1801)

Born 11 Oct 1723 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Terry) Pain — married 13 Sep 1759 in Freetown, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died before 3 Feb 1801 before age 77 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Job Paine, son of Thomas Paine and Susanna (Haskell) Payne was born on 11 Oct. 1723 at Freetown, Bristol County, Massachusetts Bay Colony.^[1][2]

He married Hannah Terry on 13 Sep. 1759 at Freetown.^[3][2]

Job passed away in 1801.

Children of Job and Hannah

Children (PAINE) all born in Freetown:

1. Betty b, 11 Dec. 1759
2. Lydia b. 24 July 1761
3. Thomas b. 16 May 1763 not in his father's will.
4. Susanna b. 18 May 1765.
5. Olive b. 3 Oct. 1767 not in her father's will.
6. Silas b. 7 April 1772 died after 11 March 1808.
7. Job b. 18 July 1774 died 21 Sep. 1856.
8. Hannah b. 11 Jan. 1777.^[4]

Biography by Robert M. Gerrity: ^[5]
JOB PAINE, (Thomas, Ralph), was born in Freetown on 11 October 1723 and died there probably in January 1801. He married in Freetown on 13 September 1759 HANNAH TERRY, who was born there 30 November 1734 and probably died there before December 29, 1800, the daughter of John and Lydia Williams) Terry. She was a descendant of Mayflower Pilgrim Thomas Rogers. [MFG III 130^[6]; "Paine" PGN^[7].]

EWPeirce in his Peirce Family has an extended, playful yet censorious, comment on the timing of Job and Hannah's marriage and the birth of their first child. To EWP the bald facts in the clerk's records show the couple had no desire to add any other "written evidence of shame to a record already sufficiently Pain-ful." [Peirce Fam. 403.^[8]] As other Peirce couples similarly miscalculated but go unremarked upon, EWP simply couldn't resist the chance to use this obvious pun.

Job, like his brother Ralph, never held any significant town offices. He served four terms as a "deer keeper," 1764, 1765, 1767 and 1771. Job, with his brother Ralph, was proscribed by the town of Freetown in April 1776 as a Tory. No action was taken against him. [FVR Misc.,^[9] loose sheet, EWP notes from town records; History of Freetown^[10].]

Job may have served later that year on a 24-day enlistment to answer a Rhode Island alarm. Several "Paynes" served as privates in Capt. Benjamin Read's company in Col. Pope's regiment which marched 8 December 1776. [MSSRW XI 1047.^[11]] The transcribed record gives the name as "Job Payne 2nd," however. Use of the "2nd" indicates a second, usually younger man by the same name, not necessarily related, living in the same area. Serving together was John Payne (no. 74 in this book) as well as Solomon and John Payne 2nd (nos. 82 and 83). In the extant records, there is no other Job of military age in Freetown at this time. If there was another, younger Job, he would have to be totally unrelated to this family or be a previously unidentified descendant of Joseph Pain.

Job received his core patrimony on 14 January 1754 when he paid his father 66£ 13s 6d for the northerly half of Thomas' homestead. Thomas is termed "yeoman" and Job "shipwright." Total acreage was not specified. The boundaries to the west (or north) were Douglas, Evans, Douglas and Thomas Pain, to the north and east (or east and southeast) by lands of David Evans, the whole running southerly "till it meets with a parralel middle line East & West of ye Lotts of Land my Honrd father first gave me." The lot was bounded "below" by the way to Briant's Neck. The deed was acknowledged on 23 April 1759 and recorded 1 November 1759. [BCD 43:555.^[12]]

That same year Job Pain, "Ship Right," bought on 8 March 1759 for 12£ from Lucy Winslow of Freetown the north one-quarter share of the 16th lot in Freetown, totaling 10 acres, it being the "land on the easterly side of the mill brook, rec'd from her uncle William Winslow." Its description suggests that one side of this lot bounded upon Ralph Pain II's land (the land on the other side of the mill brook?). The other abutters were Winslow, Terry, S. Barnaby's wife, and Winslow again. Perhaps the mill creek was navigable up to this point and Job used the shore for small boat building, brother Ralph himself also being a shipwright. The deed was acknowledged 19 March 1759 and recorded on 1 November 1759. One of its witnesses was the Reverend Silas Brett of Freetown's Congregational Church. [BCD 44: 18.^[12]]

His next land purchase was not in Freetown at all. On 10 October 1764, Job bought for 17£ 6d a saltmarsh of 1 acre and 100 rods lyinq on the westerly side of Taunton River from Lydia Ware of Dighton, "relict of William Ware of Dighton Deceasd," acting as executrix. The deed was acknowledged on the 20th, but not recorded until 9 October 1765. [BCD 48:198.^[12]] The reason for this purchase is not evident and there is no other record of Job in relation to Dighton.

Job's next recorded land transaction was not until 1 November 1787 when he sold to George Shove for 12£ the land he had bought from Lucy Winslow in 1759. The deed specifically names her and her uncle William Winslow; the boundaries are the same, though three out of the five abutters names have changed. Job's wife Hannah waived her dower rights with her mark. Job's son Thomas and his brother Ralph witnessed the deed which was acknowledged on 2 February 1788 and recorded 29 April 1798. [BCD 67:79.^[12]]

Sometime that year or early in 1789, Job ran into an as yet undetermined problem with his Hathaway neighbors. (The Bristol County Court of Common Pleas records on this case have not yet been obtained.) The upshot was he lost two civil cases in September 1789. To satisfy the judgment, he had to deed two parcels containing a total of 9 acres and 63 rods of land to Nicholas Hathaway of Freetown, yeoman, and one parcel of 6 acres and 32 rods to Philip Hathaway, Jr of Freetown, yeoman. Nicholas had won a judgement of 84£ 18s 3d and Philip one of 9£ 5s 8d. Both deeds were made on 24 November 1789 and recorded on the same date. This acreage came out of his homestead land. [BCD 67:277. 278-9.^[12]]

Within six months Job was able to reclaim the first two parcels. He paid Nicholas Hathaway 94£ 16s, about an 11% increase over the appraised sale value, on 25 May 1790. (In this deed Job was styled "carpenter.") He had it acknowledged on 8 June and recorded on 10 June 1790. He got the money by borrowing on 8 June 1790 a sum of 95£ 11s 10d from his spinster sister-in-law Lydia Terry. (For this Terry family, see the quitclaim of 1 December 1784 of Lydia Terry, widow, et, al. to Ebenezer and Job Terry, BCD 79:1-2.^[12]) He gave her as collateral a deed which included the 10 acre Hathaway parcel, "it being the easterly part of his homestead", and a second parcel of 14 acres "at the Western part of my homestead farm." [BCD 69:14.^[12]] For the exact same amount, Job was finally able to pay Lydia back on 22 May 1795. [BCD 74:270.^[12]] Though he may have tried the parcel deeded to Philip Hathaway, Jr. was never recovered. The Paines had lost another section of the 19th Lot.

In the 1771 Massachusetts Valuation List, Job was listed as 1 poll with 1 house, personal property valued at 4£ 10s. In the 1790 Census his household consisted of two FWM over 16, one FWM under 16, and three FWF. Job appears in the Massachusetts 1798 Direct Tax living separately but not so in the 1800 US Census. [MA Valuation .1771; MA 1798 Direct Tax, XI, 650, 702 US Census 1800.]

The will of Job Pain of Freetown, "shipwright', dated 29 December 1800, was proved 3 February 1801. To his "dearly beloved sons Silas & Job Payne", he gave "all my homestead Farm" to them equally, and $1 each to daughters Betsey Peirce and Lydia "Daley".

To protect his two youngest, unmarried daughters he made a very detailed exception to what Silas and Job were to receive. Susannah and Hannah were to receive "the Priviledqe of the South Room South Bedroom [they] to Pas and Repass through the kitchen, Priviledg in the Cellar and Chamber and use of all the land southward" of the house extending westwardly within two rods of the barn, [easterly?] extending the old way from the road to the barn. He also gave them one cow and pasturing rights on the premises and the privilege of picking apples in the orchard "all their Living A Single Life and No Longer." He also noted they had the right to go to the well for water.

Witnesses were Warden Payne, Job Winslow and Malbone Hathaway. While the brothers took out a bond to file an inventory by 3 May 1801, none was ever submitted, nor is there an unrecorded one in the file papers. [BCP 38:35; File Papers. "Job Payne, Freetown, 1801."^[13]]

Not named in her father's will was Olive Paine. This usually means the person had died before then. However, an "Olive Paine" witnessed with James Hathaway the $1000 bond issued 3 February 1801 to Job and Silas as executors. As there is no other recorded Olive Paine in the family at this or any other time, she must be Job's daughter. Why she was not mentioned in the will is not known.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ6V-FLT : 4 December 2014), Job Pain, 11 Oct 1723; citing FREETOWN,BRISTOL,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 945,020.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2 for Ralph Pain page 299.
3. ↑ "Massachusetts Town Records, ca. 1638-1961," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29P-WKLT : 20 April 2016), Job Paine and Hannah Terry, 13 Sep 1759; citing Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, Town clerks and local churches; FHL microfilm 1,993,524.
4. ↑ Children Mayflower
5. ↑ Gerrity, Robert M., ‘’Ralph Pain and Descendants: Four Generations (A Work in Progress)’’ 1992. [Under revision by author, 2020-2022.] Personal copy in the files of DLG; and at the Old Colony Historical Society Library, Taunton MA. Author has granted permission to share in full.
6. ↑ Soule, John E., Milton E. Terry, and Anne Borden Harding. 1980. ‘’Mayflower families through five generations. descendants of the pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620 Volume 3’’. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants. Library Search here
7. ↑ Ebenezer W. Peirce, “Genealogical Notes” on various Freetown families, filed under Freetown Vital Records, Misc. at the Old Colony Historical Society Library, Taunton MA.
8. ↑ Peirce, Ebenezer Weaver. 1990. ‘’The Peirce family of the old colony: or, The lineal descendants of Abraham Peirce.’’ Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Library Search HERE
9. ↑ Thomas, Helen Gurney. 1988. ‘’Vital records of the town of Freetown, Massachusetts, 1686 through 1890.’’ Bowie, Md: Heritage Books. http://books.google.com/books?id=G4UlAQAAMAAJ.
10. ↑ A History of the town of Freetown, Massachusetts: with an account of the Old Home Festival, July 30th, 1902. 1991. [Salem, Mass.]: [Higginson Book Co.]. Library Search Here
11. ↑ Office of the State Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War. 17 vols. (arranged alphabetically). Boston MA 1896-1908.
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7} Bristol County, MA, Registry of Deeds. Bristol County Courthouse, Taunton MA.
13. ↑ Bristol County, MA, Probate Court. Bristol County Courthouse, Taunton MA.

• Ebenezer W. Peirce. ‘’A brief Sketch of the Early Branch of the Pain Family, settled at Freetown, Bristol Co., MS.’’ In The New England historical and genealogical register New England Historic Genealogical Society Vol. XV 1861. pp. 235-7. Published 1874; Job son of Thomas Pain, b 11 Oct 1723.

• Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. 20:59, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

• Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2 for Lydia Pain, p. 299, image 302 20:20, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Job Pain Self (Head)

Hannah Terry Wife

Betty Pain Child

Lydia Pain Child

Thomas Pain Child

Susanna Pain Child

Olive Pain Child

Silas Pain Child

Job Pain Child

Hannah Pain Child

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