Elizabeth Ollive (c. 1750-1808) was a member of a prominent Revolutionary-era family and the spouse of Thomas Paine. Thomas Paine was a writer whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Elizabeth Ollive to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. The recorded death at Cranbrook, England provides a later geographic anchor for a life otherwise preserved chiefly through family and genealogical records. Including Elizabeth Ollive in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.