{"id":946,"date":"2009-06-05T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/weekly-genealogy-blogging-prompt-22\/"},"modified":"2013-07-11T22:44:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T03:44:35","slug":"weekly-genealogy-blogging-prompt-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/weekly-genealogy-blogging-prompt-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Genealogy Blogging Prompt #22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prompt:<\/strong>\u00a0 Dish the dirt on your celebrity ancestors. Don\u2019t have a movie star in the tree? Then talk about ancestors famous for other reasons. This is your chance to be an historical gossip columnist!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/2f\/Robert_Treat_Paine_portrait.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"222\" align=\"right\" \/> Who is <strong>Robert Treat PAINE<\/strong>?\u00a0 First, he is my third cousin nine time removed; our common ancestors are Richard TREAT and Alice GAYLORD (my tenth great-grandparents, his second great-grandparents).\u00a0 He was born on 11 March 1731 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Rev. Thomas PAINE and Eunice TREAT.\u00a0 Robert died on 11 May 1814, likely in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Robert was a lawyer and heavily involved in politics.\u00a0 To his credit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>State convention delegate at Boston in 1768<\/li>\n<li>Member of the colonial house of representative in 1773<\/li>\n<li>Member of Massachusetts Provincial Congress from 1774 to 1775<\/li>\n<li>Massachusetts delegate to Continental Congress from 1774 to 1778<\/li>\n<li>Massachusetts attorney general from 1777-1790<\/li>\n<li>Constitutional convention delegate in 1779<\/li>\n<li>Massachusetts supreme court judge from 1790-1804<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But I think most importantly, Robert was a signer of the Declaration of Independence on 4 July 1776.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/07\/Us_declaration_independence.jpg\/505px-Us_declaration_independence.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>His signature is located in the right-most column, in the fifth position, just under John Adams.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/58\/Robert_Paine_signature.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"51\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How cool is that?\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Images<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Portrait of Robert Treat Paine, (permission granted under the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GNU_Free_Documentation_License\">GNU Free Documentation License<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>2. Facsimile of the Declaration of Independence, public domain.<\/p>\n<p>3. Robert Treat Paine\u2019s signature from the Declaration of Independence, public domain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Robert Treat Paine biography, <a href=\"http:\/\/bioguide.congress.gov\/biosearch\/biosearch.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Biographical Directory of the United States Congress<\/a>, accessed 2 June 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt:\u00a0 Dish the dirt on your celebrity ancestors. Don\u2019t have a movie star in the tree? Then talk about ancestors famous for other reasons. 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