Ancestry of
Thomas Pynchon

American Novelist

Thomas Paine Jr.

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Thomas Pynchon — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 608 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Paine 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1610 
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Aug 1706 
  • Death Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Snow
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 3 Apr 1651 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Paine

  Samuel Paine

  Thomas Paine

  Eleazer Paine

  Elisha Paine (Ahnentafel No:304 )

  John Paine

  Nicholas Paine

  James Paine

  Joseph Paine

  Dorcas Paine

  • Notes: 

  • Thomas Paine may be the son of Thomas Payne of Yarmouth, England. More evidence is needed to support this claim.

    Thomas Paine is believed to be the son of Thomas Paine who settled Yarmouth in 1639.

• Sources for Thomas Paine Jr.

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1703.
  • ² Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 13-14.
  • ³ Baker, Peggy M., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 19, 2nd ed., Thomas Rogers, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2013), 39.
  • ⁴ Merrick, Barbara Lambert and Scott Andrew Bartley, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 1, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2014), 305.
  • ⁵ Merrick, Barbara Lambert, comp., Mayflower Families in Progress: William Brewster of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, 3rd edition, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 99.
  • ⁶ Pope, Charles Henry, ed., Paine Ancestry: The Family of Robert Treat Paine, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Including Maternal Lines, Boston: Printed for the Family (1912), 7-10.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#48 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The Ancestry of Novelist Thomas Pynchon", (accessed 11/28/2018).
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 140.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 48, 75, 98-99, 138, 159, 188, 209, 216, 228, 263, 274, 328, 394, 425, 428, 450, 485, et. al.
  • ¹⁰ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 62.