Thomas Paine's Cottage - New Street, Sandwich,Kent UK
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Plaque commemorating the one time home of Thomas Paine, a Founding Father of the United States Of America.
Waymark Code: WME1AH
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/20/2012
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A small plaque on the front of 20, New
Street, Sandwich, Kent, denotes it as being the one time home of Thomas Paine
(born in Thetford Norfolk England in 1737) and his wife Mary in 1759. Thomas
Paine went on to become one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of
America. His widely read pamphlet, Common Sense (1776), advocated colonial
America's independence from Great Britain. John Adams said of Thomas Paine, "
without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would
have been raised in vain". He died in new York City in 1809.