![]() ![]() He shipped out on a privateer - a private warship authorized by the English government to attack and loot commercial vessels sailing under the flag of any nation with whom England was legally at war. Within a couple of years, he had begun running away from home, searching frantically for some way to escape corset making.Īt sixteen, in 1753, he brought it off. ![]() Young Thomas attended the Thetford Grammar School until he was twelve years old then he went to work as an apprentice to his father, learning the corset-making trade, which he quickly learned to loathe. His mother, Frances, was the daughter of a local attorney and a member of the Church of England. ![]() His father, Joseph Paine, was a corset maker and a Quaker. Depending on whether you reckon by the Julian calendar or the Gregorian calendar, Thomas Paine was born late in January or early in February of 1737, in Thetford, England, a small town about eighty-five miles north-northeast of London. ![]()
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