Thomas Paine (abt. 1638 - bef. 1700)

Husband of Elizabeth (Unknown) Beazer — married about 1674 in Dover, New Hampshire [uncertain]

Descendants

Died before 22 Aug 1700 before about age 62 in New Castle, New Hampshire

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Biography

Thomas Paine's date and place of birth is unknown. Thomas Paine was early at Concord, NH as a trader with the Indians [1668]. Thomas Paine resided 1659, at Dover, New Hampshire, later, after the Indian attack in 1689, he resided Great Island, New Castle, New Hampshire, where he died about 1700.

(dover extracts) J. The tax list for 1659, furnishes the following additional name [s]: At Oyster River: --... In the other parts of the town:

Tho Payne Thomas Payne

TITLE: EXTRACTS FROM DOVER, NH TOWN RECORDS [communicated by Alonzo Hall Quint, A.B. , of Dover, N.H.] SOURCE: Historical and Genealogical Registers, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Samuel G. Drake, Publisher, ©1847- Vols - 1 - 50 - (July 1850 pg 246-250 ) SUBMITTED: Transcribed by Cathy Parziale 7/1/2000 with some current translations added to facilitate search engines.

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Sold 60 a. land, Dover, to Job Clements, 29,4, 1665.[29 April 1665] Historical Memoranda Concerning Persons and Places in Old Dover, New Hampshire By Alonzo Hall Quint page 376.

Thomas Paine was of Dover, NH in 1683, and had a Garrison House there.

Thomas Peaine was chosen Constable [one of three] at Town Meeting of Dover, 10 August 1687. Historical Memoranda Concerning Persons and Places in Old Dover, New Hampshire By Alonzo Hall Quint page 153.

Later, in his will of 1694, he is called Thomas Paine of New Castle [New Hampshire].

1668, summer [July] Penacook HIST [Concord]

"Penacook, originally called "Fisherville", [2] is an unincorporated community within the city of Concord in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, United States. It lies along Concord's northern border with Boscawen. The name comes from the Pennacook tribe that lived in the area. "Penacook" (Pennycook) was the original name of the plantation incorporated by present-day Concord. [2]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penacook,_New_Hampshire

Class: certain Crime: HOM Rela: NONDOM Motive: QUARREL Intox?: assailant Time of day: Day of week: Holiday? Days to death: 0

HOM: a Penacook Indian man m. Thomas Dickinson (an English trader who ran a trucking & fur trading house with Thomas Payne for Capt. Richard Waldron & Mr. Peter Coffin of Dover)

Weapon: knife

Circumstances: near the Indian fort, near the future Sewall farm, on the east side of the Merrimack River at Penacook. Dickinson & Payne sent an Indian to Piscataqua[Dover] to get guns, powder, shot, & cloth from Waldron & Coffin, which was to be traded to the Indians. Instead, Waldron & Coffin sent cotton cloth & liquor. 100 Indians were drunk for 36 hours. One Indian stayed behind at the trucking house after the others left--& that Indian committed the homicide.

Court proceedings: Tried before an Indian council. pG. DEATH. Executed. Shot dead by Indians at the fort for his crime.

Massachusetts authorities also investigated the murder on the spot in August, 1668. They fined Thomas Payne 30 l. & Peter Coffin 50 l.

Noted: "...Thomas Payne, who told us he was Captain Wadren's servant .... and after farther discourse with ye said Payne he sayd that ye person that was killed was Peter Coffin's man ..." page 11 GROTON DURING THE INDIAN WARS By Samuel Abbott Green, M.D.; 1883

{Homicides of Adults in New Hampshire, 1623-1774 Homicide among Adults in Colonial and Revolutionary New England, 1630-1797; Compiled by Randolph Roth and Cornelia Hughes Dayton; October 2009 version]

Source:

James O. Lyford, ed., History of Concord, New Hampshire (Concord: Rumford Press, 1903), 1: 79-81. https://archive.org/stream/historyofconcord01conc#page/79/mode/1up

"Thomas Paine and his wife Elizabeth had the following children: Noted: Elizabeth m 2nd Mr. Richard Beazer.

[1] Thomas m. Mary Gookin at Sherborn on 23 Jan. 1706/7 https://archive.org/stream/mainewills16401701sarg#page/454/mode/1up/search/payne

[2] Jane m. George Blagdon [Son of James Blagdon of Star Island, Isle of Shoals, New Hampshire] https://archive.org/stream/newhampshireprov32none#page/n176/mode/1up

[3] Elizabeth m. Nathan Raynes [see Raynes-109]

[4] Catherine [living in 1750] m. Francis Raynes [ Deacon Francis Raynes, shipwright, Greenland, New Hampshire, 24 November, 1720]

[5] Ann m. 1st. Joseph Preble 2nd. Norton Woodbridge" [see Preble-147]

From: "Thomas Dunn" <tdunn@gofree.indigo.ie> Subject: Re: [NHSTRAFF] Portsmouth Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 09:56:04 -0400 [Tom Dunn]

From: knwill@juno.com <knwill@juno.com> To: NHSTRAFF-L@rootsweb.com <NHSTRAFF-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, June 10, 2000 10:58 PM Subject: Re: [NHSTRAFF] Portsmouth

Paine's Garrison. Mention is made of Thomas Paine's garrison being surrounded by a band of Indians in the night of June 27-28, 1689. {Ihid., 2:bl.) It was probably destroyed on that occasion, for no mention is made of it subsequently. Dr. Quint says it stood close to the house of the late Capt. James Varney, on the turnpike road (Portland St.), near the corner of Rogers St. ; but on what authority does not appear. It was undoubtedly on that side of the Cochecho river, however—probably on Mt. Rawlings, where Thomas Paine acquired land and a dwelling-house March 5, 1673. (See Mount Rawlings.) Page 63

Great Hill. Mentioned the 5th, 10 mo., 1652, when John Heard had a grant of 50 acres under the Great Hill of Cochechoe, on the south side, below the cartway. A freshet is mentioned the same day as " coming out of the marsh beside the great hill at Cochecho." Thomas Paine of Dover, in y^ county of Dover and Portsmouth, conveyed to Ginking Jones, July 9, 1673, twenty acres of land at Cochecha near y* Greate hill, bought of Wm. Wentworth March 6, 1666, being part of 50 acres granted said Wentworth the 1st, 10 mo., 1652, beginning at a gutt at y*" lower end of said Wentworth's field, on y east side of the Greate hill, and running by y** cartway to a marked tree. This hill is otherwise called the Great Cochecho hill and Cochecho Great hill. The Rev. John Pike calls it simply " the Hill" May 28, 1704. It is now called Garrison Hill. Page 89

Mount Rawlings. Mentioned March 26, 1683, when Richard Waldron of Dover conveyed to Thomas Paine a tract of land, with a. dwellinghouse thereon, situate lying, and being, at or near Cochecho, commonly called or known by the name of Mount Rawlings, bounded on the south by the Cochecho river, and running from a great pine tree on the brow of the hill N. by W . 44 perches to a pine tree on the brow of another hill, being a parcel of land said Richard Waldron bought of James Rawlings March 5, 1673. This land was conveyed to Richard Waldron of Portsmouth, June 17, 1705, by Thomas Paine of Newcastle (son of the above Thomas) , who in the deed of conveyance repeats the same bounds, and also gives to this tract the name of Mount Rawlings. This name has not been perpetuated, but it appears to have been given to one of the hills near the Cochecho river in the vicinity of Rogers street, at the head of which Paine's garrison is said to have stood. Further east are Paine's woods, now called Guppy's woods. Page 153

LANDMARKS IN ANCIENT DOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE. BY MARY P. THOMPSON. COMPLETE EDITION. DURHAM, N. H. 1892.

HEAD, Arthur, the first of the name of which we have a record, took a deed of houses and land of Christopher Goss bearing date of 25 Dec. 1671. On Nov.5, 1690, "Arthur Head of the Great Island in town of Portsmouth In ye Province of New Hampshire, Fisherman," deeded to Thomas Paine a warehouse and land.

http://kirkpatrick.familygenes.ca/getperson.php?personID=I21710&tree=Kirkpatrick

THOMAS PAINE I694 NEWCASTLE

In the Name of God amen. I Thomas Paine now inhabitant in New Castle on the Great Island In the Province of New Hampsheir In New England Trader being weak in Body But of Sound and perfect Memory do make this my Last Will and Testament * , Imprimis I make and Ordaine my wife Elizabeth Paine my Sole Executrix of and in all my Estate Scituate or being in or on this place Called New Castle both Moveables and Immoveables and of all things within dores or without during her Naturall Life being for and towards her perticular support and Comfortable being and allso for the support and Education of my Son Thomas Paine and my ffower Daughters Namely Jane Elizabeth Catherine and Ann Paine—

Item[:] I give and Bequeath unto my said Son Thomas Paine when he comes to Age all my Land and Estate Scituate and being at Cachecha, Barwick, Sammon falls. To be possesd by him.

Item[:] I give and Bequeath unto my above said daughr Jane Paine, Twenty pounds in Money when She is Come to Age to be paid out of my Estate by my Sayd Son Thomas Paine—

Item[:] My will is That mr. Robert Elliot and mr. Richard Waldren Be my Overseer to See that this My last will be executed and performed hereby Revaking and disanulling all former wills Dated this twenty seaventh Day of October in the year of our Lord One Thousand Six hundred Ninety and fower. witness my hand and Seal Signed Sealed and Delivered Thomas Pain [seal] in presence of Robt. Elliot Nicho Heskins

[Inventory, Jan. 17, 17OO/1 ; amount, £311. 14.7; signed by Francis Tucker and John Holden.]

Provincial Papers. Documents and Records Relating to the Province ..., Volume 31 New Hampshire Wills Page 396, & Page 397

Sources

• Genealogical Dictionary of Maine & New Hampshire. [1928 by Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, Walter Googwin Davis; Note: see PAINE, THOMAS_ page 524]

https://cjrc.osu.edu/research/interdisciplinary/hvd/united-states/colonial-revolutionary-new-england

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Notable events in the history of Dover, New Hampshire, from the first settlement in 1623 to 1865 by Wadleigh, George Published 1913

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https://archive.org/stream/notableeventsinh00wadl#page/68/mode/1up/search/Payne

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