"Dr. Paine was born at Worcester, Mass., in 1750. One of his teachers,
before entering Harvard, was
John Adams, afterwards president of the United States. John Adams
was at the time referred to a student
in the office of Attorney General Putnam, of Massachusetts, a Loyalist
who settled in St. John at the close of the war, and became a judge of
the supreme court of New Brunswick. "
In John Adams by David McCullough, David McCullough describes John Adams
as a teacher.
...Yet for the day-to-day routine of the classroom, he thought himself poorly suited and dreamed of more glorious pursuits, almost anything other than what he was doing. One student remembered Master Adams spending most of the day at his desk absorbed in his own thoughts or busily writing--sermons presumably. But Adams did like the children and hugely enjoyed observing them:
I sometimes. in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a commonwealth. In this little state I can discover all the great geniuses, all the surprising actions and revolutions of the great world in miniature. I have several renowned generals but three feet high, and several deep-projecting politicians in petticoats. I have others catching and dissecting flies, accumulating remarkable pebbles, cockleshells, etc., with as ardent curiosity as any virtuoso in the Royal Society....At one table sits Mr. Insipid foppling and fluttering, spinning his whirligig, or playing with his fingers as gaily and wittily as an Frenchified coxcomb brandishes his cane and rattles his snuff box. At another sits the polemical divine, plodding and wrangling in his mind about Adam's fall in which we sinned, all as his primer has it.
Dr. Paine began the practice of medicine in Worcester in 1771. That
year John Adams
revisited Worcester. His diary is available on-line, as a transcription and as images. In his own hand, you can see where he wrote:
Here I saw many Faces much altered and many others not at all, since I first knew this Place which is now 16 Years. Here I saw many young Gentlemen, who were my Scholars and Pupils, when I kept School, here -- Jno. Chandler Esq. of Petersham, Rufus Chandler, the Lawyer, Dr. Wm. Paine, who now studies Physick with Dr. Holyoke of Salem, Nat. Chandler, who studies Law with Mr. Putnam, and Dr. Thad. Maccarty, who is now in the Practice of Physick at Dudley. Most of these began to learn Latin with me."
See also: The biography of Dr. William Paine at Worcester
Loyalist, http://college.holycross.edu/users/staff/bbatty/worcester/loyalist.html,
one of the best biographies of Dr. William Paine.
John Adams taught in the two-room schoolhouse built in 1752 by James Putnam and John Chandler among others.
Holyoke Mutual is named for Dr. Edward A. Holyoke, the physics teacher
of Dr. Paine who John Adams wrote about, who served the Salem, Massachusetts,
community in his medical practice for 80 years. A portrait of Dr.
Holyoke may be found at one of their Web pages at http://www.holyokemutual.com/about/c_history.htm.
Another portrait may be found at
http://www.roughnotes.com/rnmag/november00/11p82.htm.
"...His voluminous diaries, which he had kept from his youth, were bequeathed
to the Massachusetts medical society, of which he was a founder and first
president. A memoir of him was published by the Essex medical society (1839)."
For the funeral of American president George Washington, his son, Samuel Holyoke wrote tunes for two hymns by Isaac Watts. His music may be heard at http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/a/s/assembld.htm.
Prior to moving to St. John, "[at the end of the American Revolutionary
War] [Dr. Paine] went with the Loyalists to Halifax, and was retired on
half pay. While there he obtained a grant of LeTete Island, [now
Fry's Island,] in Passamaquoddy bay, and went there to live...."
Mr. Lawrence, in a MS., says that a descendant of Dr. John Califf, with
others, purchased from Dr. Paine the Island of LeTete in 1822.
There is a chart of Back Bay, Frye Island, New Brunswick, Canada at http://www.coastguides.com/r8/8.02chrt.html.
It is written in "L’ETANG," written by W.O. Raymond and found in Acadiensis,
July 1907, Volume VII,
Number 3, pages 250-260, that "One of the first to praise [Fry's Island],
and in a modest way, to advertise it, was Dr. William Paine,* a Loyalist
of the American Revolution, who took up his residence here in the early
part of the year 1784." See: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbpstgeo/stge5letang.htm.
Another William Paine biography may may be found on the World Wide Web
at
http://members.shaw.ca/caren.secord/locations/NewBrunswick/Glimpses/LXXIII.html.
In 1785, Dr. Paine removed to St. John, as it was known then. At the opening of the legislature, Jan. 7, 1786, in St. John, Dr. Paine was appointed by the Governor Clerk of the House.
"Dr. Paine was an active and useful citizen. His interest in education
is indicated by his presenting, in
December, 1783, a memorial to the governor-in-council praying that
a charter of incorporation be
granted for the institution of a Provincial Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The memorial was duly
considered Dec. 13th; and it was ordered that the attorney-general
and the solicitor-general be
directed with all convenient speed to prepare the draft charter for
the establishment of the said
institution. The member for Charlotte was thus the one to initiate
the movement to which we are
indebted for our provincial university.
Dr. Paine was appointed, June 14, 1786, one of the commissioners of
the New England Company (so
called) for the education and Christianizing of the Indians.
In 1785, Sir John Wentworth, Surveyor General of Woods and Forests in
the Province of Nova Scotia,
and other his Majesty’s Territories in America, appointed Dr. Paine
principal deputy for New Brunswick, ‘to survey, inspect, and examine the
lands and timber growing, and carefully to register such white pine trees
as may be now or hereafter fit for the use of the Royal Navy.’
In the summer of 1883 Mrs. Sturgis, a grand daughter of Dr. Paine, visited
St. John. Standing with her
alongside the Putnam
tomb, in the old burial ground, the late J. W. Lawrence heard her relate
an
incident in the history of her great-grandmother, the mother of Dr.
Paine:-
At a dinner party at Worcester, about the time
of the commencement of the Revolution, the
host (Dr. Paine’s father) proposed the health
of ‘The King,’ some of the Whigs declined to
honor it, but Mr. Adams requested them to
comply, saying we shall have an opportunity to
return the compliment. When asked to
propose a toast he gave ‘The Devil,’ which Mr.
Paine was about to resent, when his wife quietly
remarked, ‘My dear as the gentleman has
been so kind as to drink the health of the
King, let us by no means refuse to drink to his
friend.’
At left, the Loyalist Burial Ground in Saint John where the Putnam vault is located. The remains of Jonathan Sewell, the former best friend of John Adams, was also interred in the vault.
After the repeal of the banishment act, Dr. William Paine returned to
Worcester, where he resided in
the old homestead till his death, in 1833, at the age of 84 years."
[The "Banishment Act of the State of Massachusetts" may be found at http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/halew/Mass-Banishment-Act.html, It was "An Act to prevent the return to this state of certain persons therein named and others who have left this state or either of the United States, and joined the enemies thereof." Dr. William Paine was banished from theMr. Lawrence records that at the commencement of the war of 1812, Dr. Paine was called on by the
State of Massachusetts by it.]
[Evlyn] F. Farris refers to a pamphlet which states that UNB owes its
origin to the anxiety of Mrs. William Paine about a college education for
her sons. The source of the referance may be found in the UNB Presidents'
Papers - Series 3 at http://www.lib.unb.ca/archives/President/s3.html.
"The date of the petition for the establishment of a ‘School of liberal
arts and science’ should be 1785, (not 1783.) The original draft,
in Dr. Paine’s writing, was in the possession of a descendant, Nathaniel
Paine, of Worcester, Mass., a few years since; and is probably still in
existence. It pleads ‘the situation in which the Loyalist Adventurers
here find themselves. Many of them upon removing here had sons whose
time of life and former hopes call for an immediate attention to their
education.’ See:
http://members.shaw.ca/caren.secord/locations/NewBrunswick/Glimpses/LXXX.html.
There is an interesting article titled "Treason in America -- From Aaron
Burr to Averell Harriman" at
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02126.html
that describes the connection between Dr. Paine's sister and Bell telephone.
There is an illustration of Dr. Paine at
http://members.shaw.ca/caren.secord/locations/NewBrunswick/Glimpses/LXXIII.html,
taken from an engraving in the rooms of the N. B. Historical Society, at
St. John, that first appeared in the St. John Globe of March 7, 1889, to
accompany an article on the Clerks of the House of Assembly by the late
J. W. Lawrence.
There is a portrait of William Paine at the Online Exhibitions at the
American Antiquarian Society at
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Portraits/williampaine.htm.
"William Paine...was one of the eleven incorporators of the American Antiquarian Society in 1812. He served as the Society's vice president from 1813 to 1816 and later was a member of the committee for publications. He bequeathed his professional library which consisted of many early medical texts to the Society.(1) His personal and business papers, including documents relative to his activities during the Revolutionary War, are preserved in the Society's manuscript collection.(2)"
The following offprints are available from them:
Dr. William Paine by Francis, George Ebenezer 1900. 17 p.
From the Proceedings for Apr. 1900, pages 394-408.
Offprint number: 260
$5.00
Paine, William. An Address to the Members of the American Antiquarian
Society, October
23, 1815 [Worcester: William Manning], 1815. 27 p.
From the Proceedings for 3-25.
Offprint number: 6
$25.00
The following title is available from Quintin's Family History Centre
at
http://www.quintinpublications.com/familygenealogies_p.html#A:
A Sketch of the Children of Dr. William Paine
(Esther Orne Paine Harriet Pain William Fitz
Paine) and Frederick William Paine the Public
Spirited Citizen 1774-1869. From Proceedings
of Worcester Society of Antiquity. Sturgis, E.
O. P. (1904)
Payne Genealogy, Ipswich Branch (1053-1880) (on microfiche) by Albert W. Paine. Contains six generations down to the American Immigrant, William Paine. Also contains 9 generations following William Paine. Indexed. There are 185 pages on 3 microfiche.
Another biography of Dr. William Paine may be found at http://www.famousamericans.net/williampaine/.
In 1965 [Worcester Art Museum] received another major contribution to its collection: the Paine Charitable Trust gave the museum Stuart's portrait Russell Sturgis and silver by Paul Revere (1734–1818). Revere made the silver pieces[, "The Paine Service,"] in 1773 for Lois Orne on the occasion of her marriage to Dr. William Paine, and the pieces in the Paine Trust's gift joined other examples already in the collection from the same set. The museum would later purchase Joseph Badger's portrait of Lois Orne and that of her sister Rebecca Orne. The painting of Dr. Paine's wife, Lois Orne, may be found at http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/Early_American/Artists/badger/lois_o/catalog.html. It is part of the collection of Early American Paintings in the Museum.
"The Paine Service" is Revere's largest commission. Of the original
45 pieces that Revere created for Paine, the 30 works known to have survived
are now at theWorcester Art Museum. See:
http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/1aa/1aa467.htm.
See Paul Revere's ride at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/668376/posts.
Two other stories of New Brunswick families divided by the Revolution
may be found in the Worcester Art Museum's collection of Early American
Paintings.
The Welch's story may be found at
http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/Early_American/Artists/stuart/francis/discussion.html.
Born on August 30, 1776, Francis Welch was the fourth of five children born to Susanna Rankin (or Renkin) (d. 1806) and Francis Welch (1744–1790), of Boston.1 He was baptized at the Trinity Church on September 13, 1776.2 Like his father, Francis attended Boston Latin School.3 He also followed his father’s lead in becoming a Mason at the Old Colony Lodge in Hanover in August 1797, and on November 26,1800, he became a member of St. John’s Lodge in Boston.4Francis’s father was a Loyalist. Sometime before or after the birth of his fifth child, John Noyes Welch, on December 10, 1780, he left for Philadelphia, where he worked as a customs officer. He remained in Philadelphia until the Revolutionary War was over, at which time he left for Saint Andrews, New Brunswick, where he was awarded rations and land. He supported himself by teaching school until he departed for London in January 1788.5 Francis Welch (about 1788–90, private collection), a portrait of the senior, is characteristic of the work of James Earl and was likely painted when Welch was in London. The sitter i shown smoking a long clay pipe and wearing a green coat and yellow waistcoat with a white ruffled shirt.
Francis Welch, Sr., died in London on December 7, 1790. His obituary was published in the Columbian Centinel several months later: "Died At London, Dec. 7, 1790, FRANCIS WELCH, Esq. Son of Mr. John Welch, late of this town, Comptroller of the Customs, in Cape-Breton."6 Although Francis Welch, Sr., had been appointed comptroller of the Customs on Cape Breton Island, it appears that he never arrived there.7
The Revolution often divided families, as it did the Welches. Francis’s mother apparently did not accompany her husband to London. She died in Boston on April 15, 1806.8 Francis’s paternal grandfather, John Welch (1711–1789), was a captain in the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company as well as the militia, and he disinherited his loyalist son. John Welch was a leading Boston carver, who, among other things, supplied picture frames to John Singleton Copley.9 When Copley departed for London in 1774, John Welch purchased his property on the north east side of Green Street.10
After Boston Latin School, Francis Welch became a merchant and eventually president of the Franklin Insurance Company in Boston in 1860,11 likely having entered the insurance business by working in the office of Lemuel Pope, Jr.12 In 1819 Francis Welch served one year as a representative from Boston in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.13
The Murray's story may be found at
http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/Early_American/Artists/copley/lucrecia_murray/discussion.html.
Lucretia’s husband[, John Murray,] was born in Ireland on November 22, 1720, emigrated to Massachusetts in the 1730s, and settled in Rutland about 1744.10 Murray made a fortune in land speculation and finance. He was elected a town selectman beginning in 1747 and a representative to the General Court of Massachusetts from 1751 to 1774.11 In 1755 he became a colonel in the militia and a judge of the Court of Common Pleas. John Murray married for a third time in 1770 to Deborah Brinley in Boston, and the couple had two children together.12 In 1774 Governor Thomas Gage chose Murray to be a member of the Council of Massachusetts, an appointment which nullified the popular election.13 Murray’s acceptance of a position granted by royal authority rather than the will of the people angered his townsmen and he was driven out of Rutland.14 He sought refuge in Boston and remained there until the British evacuated in 1776, at which time Murray moved to Halifax, and then London and Wales; he eventually settled in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada.15 In 1778 Murray was officially banished from Massachusetts and in 1779 his property totaling nearly thirty-one thousand pounds was confiscated by an act of the General Court.16 The British government granted Murray a stipend of two hundred fifty pounds per year as compensation for the losses he suffered as a Loyalist, and he settled permanently in St. John where he died on August 30, 1794.17
On another Web page, is is written:
At left, nearly 210 years after the death of John Murray, Saint John harbour is shown from Martello Tower.
Major Daniel Murray[, the son of John Murray,] was a representative for York County in the Provincial House of Assembly, and seems to have acquired the confidence and respect of the inhabitants of that County. Although unfortunate, in some respects, during the years he filled that position, and has left in the records of the Province evidence of his industry as a representative and his worth as a soldier, his career began brilliantly, but ended in obscurity. Major Murray was a son of Colonel John Murray, a prominent Loyalist of Massachusetts, who died at St. John in 1794. Major Murray was born at Brookfield in that colony, and graduated at Harvard University in 1771. His family remained loyal to the crown during the Revolution, and, consequently, lost their estates and were proscribed and banished for their fidelity. In 1778 Major Murray was captain of Governor Wentworth's Volunteers — a corps composed of New Hampshire men who had remained loyal, and followed within the British lines the last royal governor of New Hampshire. In 1781 he was commissioned major of the King's American Dragoons — Sir Benjamin Thompson, better known in later years as Count Rumford, and with the exception of Benjamin Franklin, the most distinguished American of the last century — was lieutenant-
colonel and commander of the regiment. Major Murray served with the King's American Dragoons during the closing scenes of the Revolution in the Carolinas, and, on the termination of the contest, he came to New Brunswick in command of the remnant of the corps in 1783, where they were disbanded. He was one of the grantees of Parrtown (St. John), and was one of the first representatives for York County in 1786, in the Provincial Assembly, and continued to represent that County for some years after his appointment to the King's New Brunswick Regiment. He remained in the corps until it was disbanded in 1802, when he left the Province, and died in obscurity at Portland, Maine, in 1832.
The "Banishment Act of the State of Massachusetts" at http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/halew/Mass-Banishment-Act.html also banished John Murray from the State of Massachusetts.
The inspirational exodus of the Loyalists of Long Island to Saint
John, New Brunswick is recounted at
http://www.newsday.com/extras/lihistory/4/hs428a.htm.
Another Loyalist tale is recounted at
http://earlyamerica.com/review/fall96/loyalists.html.
Other Loyalist families returned to the United States.
"Fannie Alabama Pitfield has an interesting lineage. Her father, Oliver A. Pitfield, listed his profession as steamboat orsteamship captain. He was born November 7, 1809 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. His father, George Jefferson Pitfield, was a loyalist in the American Revolution and was deported and arrived in Saint John on May 18, 1783. George Pitfield's wife, Eliza Kenny, was the daughter of Samuel Kenny, an Irish Protestant. The Pitfield line hasbeen traced to Robert Pitfold (note spelling variation) who died at Allington, Dorset, England in 1586.For further reading, see also:Pitfield family tradition relates that George Pitfield chose a wife for his son Oliver. Oliver rejected her and chose instead Mary Amelia Martin, whom he married in Trinity Church, New York City, on August 10, 1833. Disapproving of this marriage, George Pitfield subsequently disinherited his son.
Oliver Pitfield appears to have been connected with steamships all of his adult life. He commanded the steamer "Arrow" in 1861 and is said to have been a blockade runner during the Civil War. This entry appears on a correspondence book of the Quartermaster General's Office, Confederate States: "Marine Dock Company, Mobile, claim for docking and repairing the Steamer "Arrow" in October, 1861, certificate by O.A. Pitfield commanding "Arrow" and Lieutenant J.D.
Johnston, Confederate States Navy."Oliver's name also appears in the "Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies in the War of the Rebellion". M.D. McAlester, Captain of Engineers and Chief Engineer noted a memorandum of information obtained from Mr. Pitfield, "who, as supervising inspector of steam-boats under the Federal Government before the war, has visited the whole navigable portions of the rivers ... I place the fullest confidence in the above statements of Mr. Pitfield, who is a very intelligent, truthful man, and whose occupations and opportunities have been such as to enable him to know and judge correctly as to these rivers." He is also listed as a reliable source of information in another entry concerning the
Mobile, Alabama area.May Terry Gill, in her book of poetry, "Mind and Melody," credits this quotation to Oliver Pitfield: "A river has a unifying influence on the land it traverses." She also credits him as "United States Navy" however this connection has not been proven. He did have the title of "U.S. Supervising Inspector of Steamers" at New Orleans prior to the Civil War.
Oliver A. Pitfield died at his home on January 20, 1880 with the cause of death listed as "phthisis pulmonalis." As noted on the death certificate, "Deceased was married; a sea captain by occupation and a resident of the U.S. for 50 years." His wife Mary Amelia Martin died at No. 124 Terpsicore Street in New Orleans on February 12, 1885. The death certificate gives the cause of death as "chronic hepatitis" and states that the "Deceased was a resident of this city for 40 years." Both are buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in New Orleans. "
Captain John McClure was a son of James and Mary Gaston McClure. His mother was a sister of Justice John Gaston. He is the great grand uncle of George Washington Terry. George W. Terry married Fannie Alabama Pitfield
Elizabeth Gaston, sister of Mary Gaston McClure, married John Knox. Their son, Dr.James Knox had a
daughter named Jane Knox. Jane Knox married Samuel Polk in 1794, and their son, James Knox Polk, was the 11th President of the United States.See: http://www.terry-family-
historian.com/Family%20of%20George%20W.%20Terry%20son%20of%20G.%20B.%20H.%20Terry.htm