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Paine, Robert Treat (Signer of the declaration)

signer of the declaration of independence, was born March 11, 1731, in Boston, Mass. In 1773 he was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature; and was a delegate to the provincial congress from 1774 to 1775.

He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1774 to 1778, and a signer of the declaration of independence. In 1776 he was one of the deputies sent by congress to visit the army of Schuyler in the north. He was speaker of the house of representatives of the state in 1777. He was attorney-general of Massachusetts, and a member of the executive council.

He was judge of the supreme court of the state from 1790 to 1804; and was founder of the American academy of Massachusetts in 1780. He died May 11, 1814, in Boston, Mass.