Author name: Not Thomas Paine

TPNHA Editor’s Note TPNHA is leading an international effort to expand and clarify the Paine Canon. We have attempted to mark those works that have come into question and are doubtful that they are the work of Paine. The Canon is expanding as new works and correspondence not previously in collected writings of Paine are […]

OF THE SABBATH-DAY IN CONNECTICUT from the September 15, 1804 Prospect. (Editor’s Note: This article has not been edited for accuracy, as it is not Paine’s work.) Sample of testing: (IMAGE: On the Sabbath W.png) The word Sabbath, means REST; that is, cessation from labor, but the stupid Blue Laws (They were called Blue Laws

To THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY, STYLING ITSELF THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY (Editor’s Note: This article has not been edited for accuracy, as it is not Paine’s work.) Sample of testing: (IMAGE: To Members of Society W. png) The New York Gazette of the sixteenth (August) contains the following article-“On Tuesday, a committee of the Missionary

A Friend to Constitutional Order. From Richard Gimbel’s pamphlet New Political Writings by Thomas Paine. However: In a letter to the American Mercury on Aug 27, 1804 Paine says: “I have received three of your papers. The first wherein you announce for publication of the piece I sent to Mr. Bishop signed A Friend to

OF CAIN AND ABEL (Editor’s Note: this article has not been edited for accuracy.) Sample of testing: (IMAGE: Cain and Abel Palmer.png) The story of Cain and Abel is told in Genesis iv. Cain was the elder brother and Abel the younger, and Cain killed Abel. The Egyptian story of Typhon and Osiris, and the

OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT (Editor’s Note: This article has not been edited for accuracy as it is not Paine’s work.) Sample of testing: (IMAGE: Of Old and New W.png) Archbishop Tillotson says: “The difference between the style of the Old and New Testament is so remarkable, that one of the greatest sects in

Somehow the author knew the contents of Jay’s Treaty months before its release. Paine was just out of prison and ill. The two people in the American government close to Paine may have had access to that information, Barlow and Monroe, may have supplied him with it, but testing shows Paine was not the author.

The document in French Archives (Etats-Unis, vol. 38, Part II, July, 1793 – October) is dated “Philadelphia, July 28, 1793; 18th year of Independence”. Paine’s name is penciled on the document. So context is in question, as Paine was in Paris at the time of writing. Paine may have received it from America, and it

TPNHA Editor’s Note TPNHA is leading an international effort to expand and clarify thePaine Canon. We have attempted to mark those works that have come into question and are doubtful that they are the work of Paine. The Canon is expanding as new works and correspondence not previously in collected writings of Paine are located.

Foner claims Paine wrote this, but there is no evidence, and it doesn’t test that way at all. The two components are the Preamble, that appears to be written by Rush, and the Regulations. The Society was a collection of mostly conservative people with the common interest of preparing for the Constitutional Convention and insuring

TPHA Editor’s Note TPHA is leading an international effort to expand and clarify thePaine Canon. We have attempted to mark those works that have come into question and are doubtful that they are the work of Paine. The Canon is expanding as new works and correspondence not previously in collected writings of Paine are located.

Analysis: Paine signed it as Clerk, but was not the author. He shows no presence at all. When printed in London they attributed it to Paine because his name was on it. Adams (John) is the leading candidate, but that makes little sense in context. AN ACT FOR INCORPORATING THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, HELD AT