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Joseph Pain
(1708–1787)
BIRTH
1708
PLACE
Unknown
DEATH
1787
PLACE
Unknown
FAMILY
CHILDREN
Thomas Paine
(1737-1809)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
QUAKER
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Joseph Pain was the father of the political writer Thomas Paine. A Quaker staymaker in Thetford, he trained Thomas in his trade. Contemporary records vary the family surname between Pain and Paine.
EARLY LIFE
He made stays, the structured garments used in eighteenth-century dress.
CAREER
DEATH
Joseph Pain died in 1787, after his son Thomas Paine had arranged a visit from America but before they were reunited in England. Thomas then visited his widowed mother Frances in Thetford and arranged support for her. The consulted accounts do not establish Joseph's cause of death or grave.
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