Person:Stephen Paine (9)

NOTE: his baptismal date is printed as "7 May 1626/8" in the Bass genealogy.

    Stephen is not recorded as holding town office, but the town met several times at his house to consider town affairs.  He lived on his father's place, probably near Payne Street in the present Quincy.
    Stephen gave money toward the expenses of the early Indian Wars (Colonial Wars, 1902, p. 723).  He was Sergeant of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery of Boston in 1649 (another sources says he was in the artillery company at Braintree MA).  He was made freeman in 1653.  He served in the Mt. Hope campaigned in King Philips War in 1675 under Captain Prentice, and was a Trooper under Lt. Edward Oakes (Bodgis: "Soldiers in King Philip's War", pp. 81, 85).

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Holman, Mary Lovering. Moses Paine of Braintree, Massachusetts and his Ancestry in England. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jan 1945)
   (at 21:189).
2. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   3:335.
3. ↑ Sprague, Waldo Chamberlain, comp. Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1640-1850: including the Modern Towns of Randolph and Holbrook and the City of Quincy. (Boston, Massachusetts: Published in cooperation with the Quincy Historical Society by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1983).
4. ↑ Bass, Charissa Taylor. Descendants of Deacon Samuel & Ann Bass. (Freeport, Ill.: Priv. print., 1940)
   9-10.
5.   Sprague, Waldo Chamberlain, comp. Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1640-1850: including the Modern Towns of Randolph and Holbrook and the City of Quincy. (Boston, Massachusetts: Published in cooperation with the Quincy Historical Society by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1983)
   15, 3685.