Ancestry of
William Rufus Day

36th U.S. Secretary of State

Solomon Paine

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of William Rufus Day — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 52 
  • Father:
  • Elisha Paine 
  • Mother:
  • Rebecca Doane   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 May 1698 
  • Birth Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 25 Oct 1754 
  • Death Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Cleaveland Cemetery, Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ruth Carver
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Mar 1720/1721 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Solomon Paine

  Solomon Paine

  Ruth Paine

  Elihu Paine

  Ichabod Paine

  David Paine (Ahnentafel No:26 )

• Additional marriages for Solomon Paine

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  • Spouse:
  • Priscilla Fitch
  • Marriage Date:
  • 31 May 1732
  • Marriage Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut

• Sources for Solomon Paine

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Canterbury, p. 120, Birth record for son David Paine.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Canterbury, p. 121, Marriage intention for Solomon Paine and Sarah Carver.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Canterbury, p. 121, Marriage record for Solomon Paine and Priscilla Fitch.
  • ⁴ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Canterbury, p. 121, Death record for Solomon Paine.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/25/2016).
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1964, Vol. 118, p. 103.
  • ⁷ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 41, 177-178.
  • ⁸ Carver, Clifford N., The Carver Family of New England: Robert Carver of Marshfield and His Descendants, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Co., Inc. (1935), 58.
  • ⁹ Fitch, Roscoe Conkling, History of the Fitch Family, A.D. 1400-1930: A Record of the Fitches in England and America . . ., Volume 2, Haverhill, Massachusetts: Record Publishing Company (1930), 21.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#48 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The Ancestry of Novelist Thomas Pynchon", (accessed 11/28/2018).
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 75, 188, 718.