Sally Cobb Paine
(1744-1816)
BIRTH
May 15, 1744
PLACE
Taunton, Massachusetts
NAME
Sarah Cobb
DEATH
June 6, 1816
PLACE
Boston, Massachusetts
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Robert Treat Paine
(1731-1814)
HOMES
NICKNAMES
Sally
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Sally Cobb Paine (1744–1816), also called Sarah, was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, to Thomas and Lydia Leonard Cobb. She married lawyer Robert Treat Paine in March 1770 and raised eight children. Her brother David Cobb became a Revolutionary officer, while her husband signed the Declaration of Independence and served as a judge. One son, the poet Thomas Paine, later adopted his deceased brother’s name, Robert Treat Paine Jr. Sally died in Boston.
EARLY LIFE
Sally Cobb Paine was born on May 15, 1744 in Taunton, Massachusetts. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Sally Cobb Paine is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Sally Cobb Paine died on Jun 6, 1816 in Boston, Massachusetts. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Sally Cobb Paine died on Jun 6, 1816, in Boston, Massachusetts. Sally Cobb Paine, also called Sarah, was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, to Thomas and Lydia Leonard Cobb. She married lawyer Robert Treat Paine in March 1770 and raised eight children. Her brother David Cobb became a Revolutionary officer, while her husband signed the Declaration of Independence and served as a judge. One son, the poet Thomas Paine, later adopted his deceased brother’s name, Robert Treat Paine Jr. Sally died in Boston. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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