Paine was born in 1731 to a Clergyman father, the Reverand Treat of Barnstable county. His maternal grandfather was also a clergyman. He enjoyed the instruction in letters from the same tutor as Hancock and John Adams. He attended Harvard college and studied law. In 1755 Paine was Chaplain for the military expedition in the North in.
In 1770 he served as District Attorney in the trial of Captain Preston. He was chairman of the Committee of Vigilance of Taunton, Mass. in 1773-1774.
He advocated for a Continental Congress and was a member of the Provisional Congress of Massachusetts in 1774 and became very active there. He was appointed Chief Justice in Massachusetts and elected to the General Congress in 1775 where he signed the Declaration of Independence the next year.
John Treat Paine served in the new government throughout the war, became a judge of the Supreme Court and died in 1814 at the age of eighty-four years...Medicineman!
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