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Thomas Paine


In September of 1776, on the outskirts of Newark, among the tired,
discouraged, soldiers, as they paused from their daily retreat, sat Thomas Paine.
He wrote many papers that would have a major effect on the outcome of the quest
for independence. Born the son of a Quaker Laymaker on January 29th, 1737 at
Thetford, Norfolk England. He received a basic elementary education, and started
to work for his father as an apprentice, and later as an excise officer. He was
not a huge success at either, and was in fact fired twice from the job as an
excise officer. When he arrived in Philadelphia on November 30th 1774,
he was sick and feverish, and had to be carried on a stretcher. With a letter of
recommendation from Ben Franklin, he was accepted into a hospital and given
special care, until he recovered. With that same letter from Ben Franklin, he
found many doors opened for him, including jobs tutoring many of the sons of the
wealthiest men in Philadelphia.
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