Robert Treat Paine
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Robert Treat Paine (March 11, 1731 – May 11, 1814) was a Massachusetts attorney and politician best known as a signer of the Declaration of Independence as a representative of Massachusetts.
He served as the state's first attorney general and as an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the state's highest court.
Early life and ancestors
On March 11, 1731, Robert Treat Paine was born in Boston, Massachusetts, British America. He was one of five children of the Rev. James H. Payne. Paine and Paine (Treat) Thomas Paine and Eunice (Treat) Pains. His father was pastor of Franklin Road Baptist Church in Weymouth, but he and his family immigrated to Boston in 1730 and became a merchant there. His mother was the niece of Rev. David Bosco. Samuel Treat, whose father, Maj. Robert Treaty, was one of Newark, New Jersey,'s primary founders, and later a governor of Connecticut. Robert Treat Paine's family has a long history in the British colonies, and his Paine family, in particular, can trace a lineage back to the Mayflower.
Education
Paine attended the Boston Latin School and then transferred to Harvard College at the age of 14; he graduated in 1749 at the age 18. He taught school for many years, first at Boston Latin and later in Lunenburg, Massachusetts. Paine also embarked on a career as a merchant, with trips to the Carolinas, the Azores, and Spain, as well as a whaling trip to Greenland. In Lancaster, Massachusetts, he began studying law with his mother's cousin in 1755.
Paine served as a chaplain on the Crown Point Expedition. He did occasional preaching and returned to his law studies when returning to civilian life. He returned to Boston in 1756 to continue his legal preparations with Samuel Prat, and he was admitted to the bar in 1757. He first considered starting his law practice at Portland (then part of Massachusetts, but now in Maine), but instead in 1761, he moved to Taunton, Massachusetts, and then back to Boston in 1780.
Legal career
He delegated to the provincial convention in 1768, which was scheduled to convene in Boston. Following the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770, Paine, alongside Samuel Quincy, prosecuted Captain Thomas Preston and his British troops. Adams was debating counsel, and the jury's decision was overruled by the judge, and the bulk of the troops were allowed to go.
Paine served in the Massachusetts General Court from 1774 to 1774, as well as representing Massachusetts in the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776. He appealed to the king (the Olive Branch Petition of 1775), helped frame the rules of debate and purchase armspowder for the forthcoming war, and in 1776, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
He returned to Massachusetts at the end of December 1776 and served as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1779, a member of the committee that drafted the state constitution in 1780. Following Shays' Rebellion, he served as Massachusetts Attorney General from 1777 to 1790 and defended the treason cases. Benjamin Kent, his acting Attorney General, served from 1777 to 1785. He was a charter member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1780. After being a justice of the state supreme court from 1790 to 1804, he retired.