Born about [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Daughter of Thomas Bressey
and Phebe (Bisby) Martin
Sister of
Constance Bressey [half], Hannah Bressey [half], Phebe (Bracy) Hale, Constance (Bressey) Morey, John Bressey, Thomas Bressey Jr., Susanna Bressey, Samuel Martin [half], Joseph Martin [half] and William Seaborn Martin [half]
Wife of
Thomas Paine
— married
25 Aug 1659 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Descendants 
Mother of
Hannah (Payne) Smith and Thomas Paine
Died
at about age 42
in Wethersfield Twp, New Haven, Connecticut
Profile last modified
| Created 13 Oct 2014
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Biography
Hannah was born about 1640. She was the daughter of Thomas Bressey and Phebe Bisby. She passed away in 1682.
Sources
See also--
- Hannah Paine 1682 Estate
- Widow Hannah Paine of Wethersfeild
- Inventory September 25, 1682
- The children of the widow are Hannah Paine aged 20 years, Thomas aged 9 years.
- Hartford, Connecticut Wills
- Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume 1, A-B (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999). 372-375 (Thomas Bracy), at 374 for immigration; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- She was age 18 on 13 March 1657/8, citing "WMJ 1:93."
- She was "Hanna Paine of Wethersfield daughter to Mrs Martin" on 13 May 1661, citing "WMJ 356, 507; see also WMJ 101, 103, 335, 343."
- Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Sarah Stone ... (Portland, Me., The Southworth Press, 1930), 103-106 (Bracy); digital images, HathiTrust.
- Walter Goodwin Davis, "Ancestry of Thomas Bressey of New Haven, Conn.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 112 (1958):27-44 at 42-43 (6-Thomas Bressey); digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
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Historical records directly support that both John[1][2] and Hannah[3][4] were born about 1640, yet the New Haven 1647 baptism names "John & Susanna Brasy." The best explanation for why Hannah's name doesn't appear in the church record is that she was recorded or mis-recorded as Susanna.
Siblings Phebe, Constance and Thomas Bressey are treated as the older children--old enough to place their births earlier than those above, born about 1640/baptized New Haven 1647.
[1] John Bressey was about age 24 in 1664. Citing his deposition as "Supreme Judicial Court of Mass., No. 746," Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Sarah Stone ... (Portland, Me., The Southworth Press, 1930), 103-112 (Bracy) at 106; digital images, HathiTrust.
[2] He was about 70 in 1708/9 when he died. See John Bracy 1708/9 death, "[Wethersfield (Connecticut)] Records of births, marriages, and deaths, 1635-1924," 1:3 (B); digital images, FamilySearch, FSL film 1315118, digital collection (DGS) 7730389, image 28 of 769, "John Bracy Deceased in Weathersfield on the 19th day of Janury 1708/9 ... about 70 as is thought:"
[3] Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Sarah Stone ... (Portland, Me., The Southworth Press, 1930), 103-112 (Bracy) at 106; digital images, HathiTrust.
[4] Hanna Bracy 1657/8 entry (Hartford) in Charles E. Banks, "Genealogical Items from the Medical Journal of John Winthrop," The American Genealogist, 9 (1932):58, in particular part; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors, "Bracy, p. 93. Hartford, 1657/8, Hanna, ae 18 yrs."