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Gazette Of The United States
New York, New York County, New York
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Biographical account of Thomas Paine's early life in England as exciseman and schoolkeeper, his introduction to Dr. Franklin, relocation to America, appointment as Secretary for Foreign Affairs to Congress, and his opposition to monarchy.
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Mr. Thomas Paine, author of the "Rights of Man," was born at Thetford in Norfolk, and is said to have been bound apprentice at Tunbridge, in Kent, to an employment he appears afterwards never to have followed; for he became soon an exciseman, and was many years an officer in the excise at Grantham in Lincolnshire, and Lewes in Sussex: from the station of a supernumerary at the former place, he had the misfortune to be removed, and he then undertook the employment of keeping school. When Dr. Franklin was last in England, Paine was accidentally made known to him from his knowledge of electricity. The Doctor, perceiving his abilities, took him over with him to America, and procured him the appointment of Secretary for Foreign Affairs to Congress, where he presently distinguished himself by an avowed antipathy to the government of his native country, and a more than Roman detestation of the name and office of King.