How did thomas paine die
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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.
Paine's most significant works revolved around the American Revolution. Paine's Common Sense: Addressed to the In Aldridge, A. Owen. “Thomas Paine: A Survey of Research and Criticism since 1945.” British Studies Monitor 5.2 (1975): 3–27. An excellent discussion of books and articles about Paine published between 1945 and 1975. Davis, Michael T. “A Bibliography of Writings on Thomas Paine, 1975–1993.” Bulletin of the Thomas Paine Society 2 (1994): 10–20. Simply lists works on Paine published during these years. Gimbel, Richard, ed. Thomas Paine: A Bibliographic Check List of Common Sense with an Account of Its Publication. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1956. Includes all known editions and translations at the time of printing. Gimbel, Richard, ed. The Resurgence of Thomas Paine with the Catalogue of an Exhibition “Thomas Paine Fights for Freedom in Three Worlds.” Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1961. The first part is a very brief survey of Paine’s career, while the catal Thomas Paine was born on January 29, 1737 to a family of moderate means in Norfolk, England. His father was a Quaker and his mother an Anglican, and it is likely Paine was baptized into the Anglican church. He had some schooling, although his father forbade him to learn Latin, and at the age of twelve he was withdrawn from school and apprenticed to his father to learn the craft of staymaking. When he was in his mid-teens, inspired by the romantic stories of naval life by one of his teachers, Paine twice ran away from home to sea. The first time he was intercepted. The second time he enlisted on the privateer, the King of Prussia. The exact sequence of events over the subsequent ten to fifteen years is unclear. He lived in London on and off, but also had periods in Sandwich and in Margate. He continued periodically to ply his skills as a staymaker; he may have done some preaching (in the Methodist persuasion); and in 1759 he married a Mary Lambert, who died the following year in childbirth. Following his wife’s death, he sought his father-in-law&rsqu
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