Colonel Nathaniel Paine

III Nathaniel Paine son of Nathaniel Paine 2 born at Rehoboth October 18 1661 married Dorothy daughter of Jonathan Rainford of Boston He was a judge of the court of common pleas judge of probate and a councillor of Massachusetts Bay He died February 28 1723 He had eleven children Nathaniel the fourth being the progenitor of the Worcester Paines

There seems but little doubt that this was the Nathaniel Paine who in 1706 was appointed by the council of Massachusetts Bay as one of a committee to consider the expediency of resettling the town of Worcester and the building of the fort there in accordance with the request of owners of land in that settlement The request was not granted by the general court as the disturbed condition of the times rendered the enterprise too dangerous to be sanctioned by the legislature.

The children of Nathaniel Paine and Dorothy his wife were I Elizabeth born November 6 1681 married Samuel Venion 2 Mary born June 8 1682 married Simeon Drown 3 Hannah born April 20 1685 married Lieut Charles Church 4 Nathaniel bom March 9 1688 married Sarah Clark He was the immediate progenitor of the Worcester Paines 5 Edward born October 7 1690 died young 6 Jonathan born April 18 1695 died young 7 Alathea born August 28 1697 married Timothy Fales 8 Sarah born May 5 1699 died in August same year 9 Stephen born 1701 graduated at Harvard College in 1721 He was register of probate for Bristol county in 1721 49 judge of inferior court of common pleas for Bristol county 1745 and until his death in 1749 10 and 11 Dorothy and Sarah twins born March 19 1706 Dorothy married John Williams of Boston October 13 1726 and died in 1774 Sarah married Joseph Russell of Barnstable and died in 1764

Mr Paine died at Bristol Rhode Island February 28 1723

Council 1703-07, 09-20, 22, 23. Bristol County Probate Judge 1710-15; lieut colonel. farmer. original proprietor of Bristol