1. Michael Warnick Thomas Paine

3. At the age of thirteen he was apprenticed to his stay-maker father.

4. In 1759 he returned to Britain and became a master stay-maker, establishing a shop in Sandwich, Kent.

5. Married Mary Lambert on September 27, 1759.

7. Returned to America in the early stages of the Second Great Awakening. Federalists attacked him for his ideas of government stated in Common Sense because of his association with the French Revolution and friendship with president Jefferson.

8. Died on June 8, 1809. In his will he left most of his estate to Marguerite, including 100 acres of his farm so she could take care of and educate Benjamin and his brothers.