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| | ROBERT TREAT PAINE - LoveToKnow Article on ROBERT TREAT PAINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | See John Sanderson, Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence (Philadelphia, 1823), vol. |
 | | His son, ROBERT TREAT PAINE (1773-1811), who was christened Thomas but in 18oi took the name of his father and of an elder brother who died without issue in 1794,was a poet of some repute, but his verses have long been forgotten. |
 | | His best known productions are Adams and Liberty, a once popular song written in 1798, The Invention of Letters (i795), and The Ruling Passion, the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa poem of 1797. |
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