Thomas Paine, of Kent & Eastham

Seen as son of Thomas Paine, of Cookley without supporting evidence.

Family

Proposed (see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Paine-84)

Thomas Paine of Kent and Eastham, who married Elizabeth Litchfield and Mary Snow (See the Hopkins Silver Book p 13 -14, Anderson GM and Cape Cod Genealogical Society's Summer & Fall 1999 Bulletin Addendum, Vol XXV Numbers 2 & 3, Issue # 86. Forrest R. Paine, (8th Great Grandson of Thomas Paine and Mary Snow) shows his parents are Thomas Payne of Kent and Eastham and Marie Carter.

Biography

From THOMAS PAINE, FOUNDER OF THE EASTHAM FAMILY, AND HIS POSTERITY.

'Thomas Paine

Of the ancestry of Thomas Paine, of Eastham, founder of that family of Paines which settled on Cape Cod, but very little is certainly known as yet. Credible traditionary accounts that came down in several branches of the family, and committed to writing before the commencement of the present century, have it that he came over from England with his father, who bore the same name, when a lad of about ten years of age, having lost the sight of one of his eyes by an arrow, married Mary Snow, and settled in Eastham Mass. As to the date of their arrival, and the name of the place whence they came, traditional accounts differ. The descendents in the line of James, of Barnstable, have it that they came from the "North of England," while those in the line of John, of Eastham, have reported they came from "Kent." In what vessel they found passage, or at what place they landed on the New England coast, no account, oral or wr1tten has come to the knowledge of the writer.

Of what became of the elder Thomas, there is nothing positively known. It is supposed by some he found his way to Yarmouth, and was the Thomas Payne who was the first Deputy from that place to the Old Colony Court at Plymouth, in June, 1639, who took the freeman's oath June 4, that year, who was able to bear arms in 1643, and who was a resident in that town as late as 1650.

• THOMAS PAINE, FOUNDER OF THE EASTHAM FAMILY, AND HIS POSTERITY.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony