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BARNABAS PAINE, son of Thomas, Esq. and Hannah Paine, of Truro, married Mary Purrington, June 25, 1724, and settled in Truro. He was Selectman seven years; Representative one year, and Town Clerk seven years. He was a Justice of the Peace, receiving his appointment in 1753, and also a Coronor. He died May 25, 1768, in his 63d year. His wife, Mary, died Dec. 22, 1768, in her 62d year. It is said that much relating to the early history of the Paines upon the Cape, was communicated to his nephew, Dr. Barnabas Paine, of Amenia, N. Y., when upon a visit to Truro, some years before his death. Letters of administration were granted to Joseph Paine to settle the estate, October 11, 1768. Letters also granted him to settle wid. Mary Paine's Estate, April 18, 1769.

Children of BARNABAS and MARY PAINE of Truro :159. I. ELIZABETII, born Aug. 11, 1725, married Ambrose Snow, April 2, 1747; dead in 1768.

160. II. BARNABAS, born Sept. 24, 1727, married Hannah Vickery.

161. III. MERCY, born April 11, 1727, married

was dead in 1768.

Rich ;

162. IV. MARY, born Jan. 28, 1731-2, married Samuel Lombard, Nov. 7, 1751; died Oct. 4, 1758.

163. v. JOSHUA, born Aug. 3, 1734; died July 5, 1735. 164. VI. RUTH, born April 23, 1736, married Eben. Rich,

Oct. 20, 1754.

165. VII. PHEBE, born June 25, 1738, mar.

Higgins.

166. VIII. JERUSHA, born July 12, 1740; died Nov. 9,

1740.

167. IX. JEMIMA, born Feb. 5, 1742-3; died Sept. 16, 1744. 168. x. JOSEPH, born Feb. 20, 1744–5.

169. XI. HANNAH, born Dec. 11, 1746.

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JOHN HOWARD PAINE, author of "Home, Sweet Home," died while American Consul to Tunis, and was buried in the Protestant cemetery in that city. The English Chaplain at Tunis, taking advantage of the public attention directed to that point, asks for subscriptions for a memorial window in the church of St. Augustine to the poet. Recently ascertained facts have definitely established his genealogical relationship-heretofore undetermined-to the "Eastham" family of Paines.

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By ALBERT W. PAINE, ESQ., of Bangor, Me.

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JOHN PAINE, Son of William, was born in England, and came to this country with his father, at the age of three years. He succeeded his father in the various business undertakings, in which the latter was interested at the time of his death, and prosecuted them with zeal and industry. Besides these, he also added many others, being a man, as it would seem, of an ambitious character, and deeply interested in works of a public nature. A brief history of these has already been given under his name in No. 1 of the Records, and lack of space must be an excuse for not repeating it here. For the information of the reader it may be properly remarked that the various documents referred to, as connected with his Prudence Island, or "Sophy Manor" enterprise, are all now to be found among the unpublished manuscripts at Albany, in the State Department of New York. These include the "Patent" and "Commission" as Governor, and also the "Orders and Privileges for the Welfare and Good Government of Prudence Island," the latter being what may be called a "Constitution of State," whereby rights and privileges of the people and their Governor were instituted and defined, as well as enforced. The documents are all of a very curious nature and of especial interest to members of the family and all others interested in such matters. They are, however, of too great length to be inserted in such a periodical as the "Records." In the work just published by the writer entitled “Paine Genealogy, Ipswich Branch," verbatim copies of both the documents, as also of Mr. Paine's argument, before the Jury, on his trial for "intrusion," are given at length.

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HANNAH PAINE, sister of John Paine, and daughter of William, was also born in England and came to this country with her father, at the age of eight years. married Samuel Appleton, the ancestor of the Appletons of the present day, who have acted so conspicuous part in the history of the country. She died leaving three children, viz.:

Hannah, who married Wm. Downes and died leaving an only child, a daughter.

Judith, who married Samuel Walcott, of Windsor, Conn., and had eight children: Samuel, Josiah, Hannah, Sarah, Lucy, Abigail, Elizabeth and Mary.

Samuel, who married Elizabeth Whittington, a descendant of John Calvin's sister, by whom he had a son, Samuel, and two daughters, Hannah and Martha. This Samuel married John Gerrish's daughter, Anna, and died in 1728, leaving an only child, Samuel, who died young and unmarried. Hannah married William Clark in 1705, and Martha married Joseph Wise in 1708. The PaineAppleton line thus became, in name, extinct. After the death of Hannah Paine Appleton, her husband married a second wife, Mary Oliver, from whom has descended. the race now bearing the Appleton name.

JOHN PAINE, son of Robert, and thus cousin of John and Hannah, last treated of, was born at Ipswich, where he lived until manhood, and then moved to Nantasket (not Nantucket as related by Farmer). He resided there until his death, on July 13, 1677. On September 21, 1657, he married Elizabeth Coggswell, who survived him, having by him no children. After her first husband's death she married again, John Whipple, one of the appraisers on her first husband's estate. In 1666, Mr. Paine was admitted to the Artillery Company, an honor, in those days, of no small significance and importance. He is related to have died at sea, which is probably a mistake arising from the confusing of his name with that of his cousin, who did so die. His estate was administered upon by his wife, the inventory as rendered by her, and appraised by Mr. Whipple and John Appleton, being now on file in the Probate Court, at Salem, dated October 25, 1677.

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ROBERT PAINE, JR., son of Robert, Sen., was also born at Ipswich, and graduated at Harvard University in the class of 1656. After graduation he studied for the ministry, and became a preacher, but whether settled over any particular church as pastor is not known. the historian, speaks of him as "preacher," and there is no doubt that he did practise as such. On July 10, 1666, he married Elizabeth 'Reiner, by whom he had four chil dren, viz. Elizabeth, born June 15, 1677, who married Daniel Smith, and died in 1717; John, born October 24,

1684; Robert, who died December 24, 1693; and Dorcas, who married Matthew Whipple, son of Lieut. Col. John Whipple. No children are reported as born of either.

It was during the active years of his life that the witchcraft excitement existed at Salem, and he was the Foreman of the Grand Jury which found the several bills of indictment against the "witches." An interesting incident connected with this delusion is very properly admissible here, growing out of Mr. Paine's action with reference to it.

Among the most important of all the influences which tended to break up and destroy the delusion, was a letter written on the subject to Judge Corwin, one of the presiding Justices of the Court, before which the "witches' were tried. The letter bears date August 9, 1692, and is signed by the initials "R. P.", under which are written the words "Robert Paine." The letter is still preserved by the "Essex Institute" at Salem, found among the papers left by Judge Corwin at his death, carefully filed away by him among his valuable documents.

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Mr. Upham in his "History of Witchcraft" long dissertation on the subject of this letter, in which he discusses its merits as well as its authorship. "Whoever was its author," he says, "he did his duty nobly and stands alone above all the scholars and educated men of his time, in bearing testimony openly, bravely, in the very ears of the Court, against the disgraceful and shocking course they were pursuing." "It is truly a marvelous production, an intellectual phenomenon not easily to be paralleled."

With reference to the authorship of the letter, however, he doubts the claim of Mr. Paine, and ascribes its writing to Major Robert Pike. At the same time, he says of it that "it bears internal evidence of a theological education and a familiarity with matters that belong to the studies of a minister," which Mr. Paine was and Mr. Pike was not. The only reason given by Mr. Upham for doubting the authorship by Mr. Paine is that he was Foreman of the Jury, as already stated. The discussion which follows, and in which he spends his whole argument, is one between the Major and Mr. Paine, Sen., or "Elder Paine," he being ignorant of the fact that the latter had been dead eight years before the letter was written. The whole argument is, then, one based on a false or mistaken hypothesis, and of course the conclusion is altogether unreliable.

Space will not admit of a full presentation of the argument and facts, showing the justness of the claim now made in favor of him, whose name, as well as initials, are appended to the letter. The conclusion can hardly be doubted that the author of the letter was known to the person addressed, and that in filing the letter away as worthy of preservation, he placed the writer's name under the initials, as a memorandum of its real authorship.

The fact that the Foreman of the Jury should have written such a letter to the Judge, is no more surprising than that two months afterwards his fellow minister and collegemate, John Hale, should have been found resisting and fighting against the very same delusion, which he had but just before been using all his energies to support and enforce. History will undoubtedly bear out the allegation that the Judge, the Foreman and the Parson, all three of whom had been active supporters of the heresy, now joined hands in successful opposition to it, and to such an extent, that in a few short. weeks, their whole work was accomplished. The custom, or habit of "crying out" against some friend, or relative of any person who opposed the illusion, as was the case with Judge Corwin's mother-in-law and Mr. Hale's wife, goes to show the truth of the hypothesis now stated. The relations of both Mr. Paine and Mr. Hale, it is believed, may justly claim, for their progenitors, the credit due for brave and successful work, in accomplishing the result of breaking up the wildest heresy of the age.

NATHANIEL PAINE, Esq., of Worcester, has issued a small edition on large paper, for private circulation, of his GENEALOGICAL NOTES of the Paine Family at Worcester, as they appeared in the early numbers of the Records, but now enriched with several photographic and other illustrations, for a copy of which he will please accept our thanks.

We have received also:

GENEALOGY OF THE EDDY FAMILY, by Charles Eddy, M. D., of Brooklyn.

TOWNE FAMILY MEMORIAL, by Edwin Hubbard, Chicago.

GENEALOGY OF BENJAMIN CLEVELAND, by Horace G. Cleveland, Chicago.

THE PIONEER MONTHLY, devoted to the History of Western New York; G. W. Mason, A. M., Editor, Leroy, N. Y. No. 1, August, 1881.

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