Through his persuasive essays and pamphlets, Thomas Paine became one ... Cynthia Morrow is called out to the murder of a 27-year-old man found in an open field. .... was born in England in 1737, to a Quaker father and an Anglican mother.

1737, February 9th - Thomas Paine is born in Thetford, Norfolk, to Joseph and ... up a tobacco business with Elizabeth and her mother after Elizabeth's father's death. ... and ratified by conventions in each US state in the name of "The People ".

After several years at sea and after trying various occupations on land, Paine took ... and many of the leaders in the colonies' resistance to the mother country, then ... aide-de-camp, wrote the first of a series of influential tracts called The Crisis, ...