Died ‎1754 at Bellingham,Norfolk County,Massachusetts,United States

Died ‎before 1714

Born ‎1657 at Eastham,Barnstable County,Massachusetts,United States, died ‎23 Jun 1721 at Truro,Barnstable County,Massachusetts,United States‎, age 63 or 64 years
‎1st marriage to: Hannah Shaw, ‎2nd marriage to: Elizabeth Tolman

!New England Historical And Genealogical Register Vol. 47 page 186/187. &
vol. 22, page 62.

!Genealogies of Signers of the Declaration of Independence.

!Adventures Of Purse And Person Virginia 1607-1625 Pueblo library 975.

!His was the first known grave in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts

" Here lies ye body of
Thomas Paine, Esql,
of Truro, died January 23,
1721, in ye 65 year
of his age."

Judge Thomas Paine was admitted a freeman at Eastham, June 6, 1684. Having bought from his father the tracts of land at Pamet, later Truro ,which the elder Paine bought from Governor Prence and Jabez Howland, he became a proprietor there and established himself as a resident. He was Clerk of the Proprietors and of the Town many years, selectman for six years, and a Representative of the Provincial Legislature at Boston for five years. He was clerk, Selectman and Representative of Eastham before the incorporation of Truro. Besides being a Captain of the Military Company and a Justice of the Peace, he was a Special Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for Barnstable County and held that office at his death.

- Taken from "The Payne's of Hamilton" A Genealogy and Biographical Record by Augusta Francelia Payne White, Tobias A. Wright Publisher, dated 1912