Thomas Paine was son of Joseph Paine, a Quaker, and Frances Paine (née Cocke), an Anglican, in Thetford, a small, market town and coach stage-post, in rural Norfolk. He attended Thetford Grammar School (1744-1749)9L0-402 that selected pupils on ability, at a time when there was no compulsory education.[2] At age thirteen, he was apprentice to his corset-maker father; in late adolescence, he enlisted and briefly served as a privateer, before returning to Britain in 1759. 9L0-509 Exam There, he became a master corset maker, establishing a shop in Sandwich, Kent. On 27 September 1759, Thomas Paine married Mary Lambert. His business collapsed soon after. Mary became pregnant, and, after they moved to Margate, she went into early labour, in which she and their child died.
In July 1761, Paine returned to Thetford to work as a supernumerary officer. In December 1762, he became an excise officer 9L0-402 Braindump in Grantham, Lincolnshire; in August 1764, he was transferred to Alford, at a salary of £50 per annum. On 27 August 1765, he was fired as an Excise Officer for "claiming to have inspected goods he did not inspect." On 31 July 1766, he requested his reinstatement from the Board of Excise, which they granted the next day – upon vacancy. While awaiting that, he worked as a stay maker in Diss, Norfolk, and later as 9L0-509 a servant (per the records, for a Mr Noble, of Goodman's Fields, and for a Mr Gardiner, at Kensington). He also applied to become an ordained minister of the Church of England and, per some accounts, he preached in Moorfields.
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