This individual was indicted for treason 10th November, 1780, and judgment signed 5th July, 1783;° whereupon the farm was conveyed o See Bcarsdale,

b The following entries are made in the Soulice Family Bible, "written in New Rochelle, by John Soulice, Sen : " " The 7th of December, in the year of our Lord. 1737, there was an earthquake which was terrible -which never was known in America before ; it began about 10 o'clock at night, and so continued to be heard at times very loud, until the middle of March

following In the year of our Lord Christ 1741, the Sound was frozen over from New Itochelle unto Long Island until 19th of March."

c A record of judgments, under the Confiscation Act, in possession of George n. Moore, Of New York.

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under the confiscation act, by the State government act, to the notorious Thomas Paine, for services he had rendered the country during the Revolutionary struggle for independence. This remarkable man was the son of a Quaker, a stay-maker by trade, and was born at Thetford, Norfolk, England, in 1737. His mother was the daughter of an attorney-- herself a member of the Church of England. In her religious principles, the son appears to have been educated ; for we find he was confirmed, at the usual age, by the Bishop of Norwich. After leaving school, (at the early age of thirteen,) Paine embraced his father's trade as a stay-maker, in which he continued five years. He next ventured on a sea-faring life. In 1759 he again established himself in stay-making, and married his first wife, Mary Lambert, who died the next year, in consequence of his bad treatment of her.