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Thomas Paine was born on January 29, 1737, in the small village of Thetford in Norfolk, England, to Joseph Pain and Frances Cocke Pain (Paine added the e to his name later). In 1759, he married Mary Lambert; she and their child died in less than a year later in childbirth. Paine then married Elizabeth Ollive in 1771. In 1774, Paine and his wife signed a formal separation agreement. Paine never remarried nor did he have any children.
Paine attended a mere seven years of formal education at the Thetford Grammar School. After that, he took his education on himself, reading anything he could and accepting informal instruction from various scholars into his early twenties. In 1780, Paine received an honorary master of arts from the University of Pennsylvania. The first piece of writing that can be definitively attributed to Paine was his The Case of the Officers of Excise (1772), which he wrote on behalf of his fellow excise officers in their pursuit of higher wages.
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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine grew up in a household of modest means, and only came to America a year before the start of the Revolutionary War at the age of 37. Yet, before long, his writings had set the continent aflame and Paine established himself as the preeminent voice for independence from Great Britain, and later as one of the great Enlightenment thinkers on either side of the Atlantic.
Born in February 9th, 1737 in a small town in Norfolk, England, Paine spent much of his childhood as an apprentice to his father, a stay-maker for sailing ships. Later writers helped spread the idea that Paine and his father made stays, or wiring, for women’s corsets, but this is likely a myth, originating as a cruel joke at Paine’s expense by his political opponents. He did, however, receive some schooling, as until the age of thirteen he attended the local grammar school w
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Thomas Paine Life Work and Accomplishments
His Revolutionary Spirit
Though there was discontent sewn amongst the colonists in government against the heavy handed power plays of their English masters, some saw Paine as dangerous to their long begrepp goals. As a prolific pamphleteer, the blogger of his day, he penned many critical and incendiary words that some of the Founding Fathers found to be excessive and belligerent. The lawyer, and eventual co-signer of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams, would attack Paine’s character by calling him “democratic,” a word that was used as a pejorative against those that advocated for chaos and mob rule. Paine’s ideas were viewed as extreme, including his stance against slavery. Shortly before his death, he helped negotiate the sale of Louisiana in what became the Louisiana Purchase. Afterward, he proposed to Thomas Jefferson that upon acquiring the new parcel of land, that no new slaves would be added to any new colonial territories. Je