Sally Cobb Paine
BIRTH
May 15, 1744
Taunton, Massachusetts
DEATH
June 6, 1816
Boston, Massachusetts
FAMILY
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Paine, Sally Cobb
(1744-1816)
Sally Cobb Paine (1744-1816) was a member of a prominent Revolutionary-era family and the spouse of Robert Treat Paine. Robert Treat Paine was a public official whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Sally Cobb Paine 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. Surviving documentation is strongest in genealogical, family, estate, and marriage records rather than in a separate public biography. Including Sally Cobb Paine in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.
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HUSBAND
Robert Treat Paine
(1731-1814)
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DIED:
Boston, Massachusetts
Jun 6, 1816
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.