![]() In 1780, Paine received an honorary master of arts from the University of Pennsylvania. After that, he took his education on himself, reading anything he could and accepting informal instruction from various scholars into his early twenties. Paine attended a mere seven years of formal education at the Thetford Grammar School. Paine never remarried nor did he have any children. In 1774, Paine and his wife signed a formal separation agreement. Paine then married Elizabeth Ollive in 1771. ![]() ![]() In 1759, he married Mary Lambert she and their child died in less than a year later in childbirth. Thomas Paine was born on January 29, 1737, in the small village of Thetford in Norfolk, England, to Joseph Pain and Frances Cocke Pain (Paine added the e to his name later). ![]()
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