Vol. II. Page 110. No. 325. Sept. 6, 1881, born Elizabeth Everts (ix), 329. daughter of Edward Sargeant Paine and Kate S. Duncan. May 21, 1881, born in Providence, Charles Peck Everts (ix), son of Dolly Elizabeth, and Rev. William W. Everts. 335. July 24, 1880, born Ellen Paine Huling (x), daughter of Ellen Corinna, and Ray Greene Huling. Mr. Huling is Principal of the High School, at Fitchburg, Mass. (To be continued.) WORCESTER BRANCH-ERRATA. In the first volume of the Paine Family Records, "one of the advantages of the method of publication adopted," is stated to be the opportunity to make timely correction of any errors which may have occurred in preparing the genealogical collections. The compiler of the Worcester Branch wishes to avail himself of this advantage and correct some errors of the press, as also others made by reason of too much reliance paid to statements of previous writers. He must admit also that one or two of these errors arose from his own negligence, but the importance of having the dates and names mentioned in this record as correct as possible, requires him to note the following errata : In Vol. I page 39. DOROTHY is given as the second child of Nathaniel and Sarah Clark Paine, while the dates given show that she was the fourth. The date of her marriage should have been stated as March 5, 1741, not 1746. Page 56, Caroline Burling. The first child of Hannah Paine and Ebenezer Bradish, married James Brazer, by whom she had one son, James Brazer, Jr., born July 26, 1823, and not by her marriage_with William Kinnicut as the printer states. On the same page, JOHN PAINE, eighth child of Timothy and Sarah Clark Paine, is stated as having died in 1809, it should be 1832. At bottom of same page it is said that James Perkins, son of James and Eliza Callahan Perkins died unmarried. He was married and his wife survived him. Page 57, first line. Sarah Paine Perkins should read Eliza Callahan Perkins, who married the Rt. Rev. Bishop Doane of New Jersey. Of the two sons of this marriage, William Croswell Doane, D. D., is P. E. Bishop of Albany, N. Y., and George H. is Vicar Gen. of the R. C. Diocese of Newark, N. J. Page 8, 10th line. Annie Cushing Sturgis Paine, dau. of Frederick Wm. Paine, died at Brookline, Mass., Nov. 19, 1873-not in Worcester. EASTHAM FAMILY. By JOSIAH PAINE, OF HARWICH, MASS. 41. ABIGAIL PAINE, daughter of Elisha and Rebecca Paine was born in Eastham. She went with her father to Canterbury, and there married Josiah Cleaveland. They united with the First Church in 1713. They afterwards became "Separatists." Mr. Cleaveland died before 1765 leaving a considerable sum to the Separate Church in Canterbury, to carry on the meetings. Their children were: 170. I. KEZIAH. 171. II. JOSIAH. 172. III. ABIGAIL. 173. IV. ELISHA, who settled in Nine Partners, N. Y. 174. V. LOIS. 175. VI. MARY, who married William Bradford, had among others, William, Moses, and Ebenezar. William graduated at Princeton College in 1774 and was a preacher; Moses graduated at Dartmouth in 1785; Ebenezar graduated at Princeton and settled in the ministry at Rowley. She died in 1765, after giving birth to her fourteenth child. She was "an ornament to her sex, and indeed to all her Christian friends." 176. VII. JOHN, born in 1722, became a student at Yale but before his graduation he was expelled for being in sympathy with the Separate movement which his uncle, Elisha Paine, was leading. He became an eminent minister at Ipswich. 177. VIII. LYDIA. 178. IX. EBENEZAR. He was a student at Yale, but was also expelled for sympathy with the Separates at Canterbury, and attending Separate meetings during vacation, in 1748. He afterwards became a minister. 179. X. AARON, born Nov. 27, 1727, married Thankful, daughter of Rev. Elisha Paine, his cousin, when she was fifteen years of age. He was a distinguished man in Canterbury, and prominent in public affairs during the Revolution. He furnished the "pent up" Bostonians a cow for food in 1776. He was known as Col. Aaron. He was struck with palsy, and died after a lingering illness, in 1785, aged 58 years. He had been in the French and English wars. He had eight children. His sons, William Pitt and Moses, were prominent men. 180. XI. MOSES. 42. ABRAHAM PAINE, son of Elisha and Rebecca Paine, was baptized at Barnstable in 1691; went to Canterbury with his father, where he married Ruth Adams, Dec. 19, 1718. He became a member of the Canterbury Church, together with his wife, in 1739. He removed to that part of the Oblong, now Amenia, N. Y., about 1748, and was one of the most active in founding the church in that place. He was a Separatist, but appears not to have been so zealous as his younger brothers. But little relating to his life subsequently is known. The children of ABRAHAM and REBECCA Paine were, according to the Canterbury records : 182. I. BETHIA, born Aug. 5, 1719; died May 25, 1720. 183. II. ABIGAIL, born Dec. 27, 1720. 184. III. ABRAHAM, born about 1722; married Rebecca Freeman, March 8, 1743-4. 185. IV. THOMAS, born in 1724; married widow Abigail Hull, Oct. 25, 1750. 186. V. BENJAMIN, born March 29, 1726, 187. VI. RUTH, born April 4, 1728. 188. VII. SAMUEL, born Oct. 4, 1729. 189. VIII. JAMES, born Nov. 11, 1737. 43. ELISHA PAINE, son of Elisha and Rebecca Paine, of Canterbury, Conn., was born in Eastham, Mass., Dec. 29, 1693, and went with other members of his father's family to the territory now known as Canterbury, Conn., in or about the year 1700. He at an early age showed a fondness for study and a thirst for knowledge. Choosing 66 the profession of a lawyer, he prepared himself for practice, and rose to distinction; and in his time was considered "one of the greatest in Connecticut." Becoming deeply interested in religious matters, and believing "it was his duty to preach the gospel," he abandoned the law, and in December, 1742, offered himself for examination before some ministers of that colony, among whom were Revs. Joseph Meacham, Samuel Moosely, Ebenezar Wheelock and Benjamin Pomeroy, who were satisfied as to his preparation for the ministry, and "his Christian life and conversation, advised him to apply to the Committee of the Association" for a license to preach. The Committee failing to meet at the time appointed to grant it, on the account "of badness of the weather and necessary business," he made no further attempt to obtain a license, but at once commenced his labors as an itinerant. He was arrested at Woodstock, in February, 1743, for preaching without license at the house of Mr. John Morse, and carried before Col. Chandler, the justice, who issued the warrant for his arrest, who required him to give bonds to obey the law regarding preaching without a license. He refused to give bonds and was committed to the dirtiest prison," he says, he "ever saw, and was compelled to beg a broom to sweep a place to walk in." Here he passed his time until May 13, when, by order of Court, he was released, it having been found that he was unlawfully incarcerated. While here many persons visited him, and persuaded him "to give bail the warrant required, and a few offered to become bound for him, but to comply with the warrant his "conscience" forbade him. The imprisonment did not in the least abate his zeal or deter him from proceeding on his tour. He visited Grafton, Upton and Shrewsbury, preaching with acceptance, and returning to his family, May 28, having been absent three months. In July following he set out for another preaching tour, visiting Providence, Bristol, Boston, Cambridge, Lancaster and other towns, returning in December, having, during his absence, preached two hundred and forty-four sermons. In the summer of 1744, having a desire to again see the dear old home of his childhood where many of his near relatives yet were residing, he visited Eastham and many other of the Cape towns. In a letter to his "wife and children," dated at Chatham, July 3, 1744, it would appear that his labors were attended with great success in that vicinity as * * * and in Harwich. He writes: "I am proposing every day to come home, but dare not leave the Lord's harvest, lest the wild beasts devour, and the wild boars should root up what the Lord seems to be doing here with the greatest power that I ever saw, here or I think, anywhere. The Lord is doing wonders in this sandy land. The pine woods in Harwich ring hallelujahs and hosannas, even from babes. I never heard the like before from little ones from six years old and upwards." He further writes: "Our relations, the most of them, stand at a distance. Cousin Ebenezar Paine and his family seem exceedingly opposite, except one daughter." At Harwich, it is well-known, his labors resulted in the organization of a Separate Church, in 1749, which, a few years afterward, became a Baptist church. Soon after his return from the Cape he was arrested for having, in the month of April preceding his visit, preached at the house of Benjamin Cleaveland, in Windham, "both as to doctrine and practice, to a great number of people then present that were notified many days before," in violation of the law of the Colony, enacted in 1742, prohibiting any but settled or ordained ministers from public teaching. At the Court, Sept. 22, 1744, Mr. Paine claimed that the "facts complained of" were "unwarranted by the laws of God and the King, therefore not liable by any court, or law, inferior thereto; but the Justice saw proper to require of him bonds to "not again offend in the like kind" before "the sitting of the County Court in December" following. He flatly refused to comply and was incarcerated. He humbly submitted to the hardships of prison life, declaring if he went "from prison to paradise" it would be as sweet as if he went from a throne." His conduct in prison was such that his persecutors became alarmed, and in a few days he was released. With zeal unabated, he continued in the work he had begun, and within a short period the Windham County churches felt the effects of his labors. The church in his own town of Canterbury, with which he united after his conversion in 1721, became schismatical, and the most influential part followed him into the Separate movement, and a church established, over which his brother Solomon was ordained, Sept. 10, 1746. Mr. Paine, after many years' labor in Connecticut, as an itinerant, endeavoring to produce a change in that colony in religious opinions, to secure the independency of the |