This farm, said to have consisted originally of about tbree hundred acres, was, at the commencement of hostilities, in the possession of one Frederic Deveau, called in the records of the Confiscation Act, Bevoe, by mistake, and styled "Yeoman." As the name indicates, he was doubtless a descendant of the Huguenots.

At the close of the war, being a Tory, his property was confiscated and given to Paine. It was called by some "The Paine Farm " and by others "Mount Paine.'' Thomas Paine came to live upon his property in New Rochelle during the first years of the present century (1801-2). In his " Field-Book of the Revolution,"" Benson J. Lossing, in referring to this monument,

speaks of the inscription, "Thomas Paine, Author of Common Sense," as though no other words had been placeil there. If he had taken the trouble to examine more closely, he would have ascertained that his admirers have placed extracts from his work, " The Age of Reason," in the rear. If (as has been stated by those who ought to know) the likeness of Paine placed by his admirers upon the monument is a good one, the one given by Mr. Lossing is not so, for there is very little resemblance of the one to the other. A part of the house in which Paine lived still remains intact, and is thought to be one of the most ancient dwellings in the town.

As he died on the 8th of .June, 1809, in New York, Paine could only have lived in New Rochelle four or five years. He was buried in a corner of the Paine