Thomas Paine: American Hero?

[Yankee_Blue]

Granted, TomH, but my whole response to you was more of a response, really. Major General Arthur St. Clair was a Scot and fought on the American side, as was William Alexander, Lord Stirling, etc. etc. etc. My favorite bit of irony, though were the Scots who had been (or their fathers had been) transported to the colonies after the '45 but fought with the British/Loyalist forces against the Americans. Oy.

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[TomH]

Fair enough, Yankee Blue.

Dr Watson, I was not aware of that, thogh checking in the Dictionary of National Biography, I found:

Paine was buried at New Rochelle on 10 June 1809. His bones were dishumed by Cobbett in 1819, and taken to Liverpool. They were left there till after Cobbett’s death, and were seized in 1836 as part of the property of his son, who became bankrupt in 1836. They were last heard of in possession of a Mr. Tilly in 1844. A monument was erected at New Rochelle in 1839.