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

THOMAS PAIXE'S MOXUMEXT.

farm ; but in the year 1819 the remains were disinterred by William Cobbett, and conveyed to England. I once mot with an aged man, who informed me that he was living a small boy at the time, in a house almost directly opposite the place where Paine was buried. At a very early hour one morning, when going to the pasture to drive up the cows for milking, he discovered several men hard at work digging near the road. He was alarmed and watched them from a distance. They placed something contained in a box, in a wagon, tilled up the empty grave and drove rapidly away. That was the last of the mortal remains of the author of "Common Sense" ever seen in this country. What became of them is not known, and probably never will be. They are supjiosed, however, to have been taken by Cobbett to England.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTEE COUNTY.

At a much later period a monument was erected near the spot and facing the road to White Plains.