Maybe make an image of the post and include the image in a new post with a comment such as "Sorry, this was a case of mistaken identity. This was from another Thomas Paine. THE Thomas Paine was in France at the time." Also tag the four people who liked or reposted it. Then delete the original post.

Furthermore, Paine was still living in France when Washington died.

You have the wrong Thomas Paine. Paine believed Washington didn't try to get him out of French prison. Note it said "Thomas Paine, A.M." According to Conway, an unpublished derogatory epigram was found amongst Paine's Papers directed at Washington. Last line: "And on his heart mark--Ingratitude."

and when "merciless Indian Savages," which helped set the stage for genocide and ethnic cleansing, replaced Paine's "that barbarous and hellish power, which hath stirred up the Indians and Negroes to destroy us, the cruelty hath double guilt, it is dealing brutally by us, and treacherously by them."

The counterrevolution began when the abolitionist "MEN" clause in Jefferson's draft-which passed the committee of five-was removed by the Continental Congress! 1/2

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I missed seeing this message until after I posted. We are in agreement!

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I didn't mean to say Benjamin Rush. The letters were to Joseph Reed.

OTOH, "United Colonies" was used in 1764: founders.archives.gov/?q=%22united...
John Hancock used "United Colonies" on June 19, 1775: founders.archives.gov/?q=%22united...
Republicus may still be the first to explicitly and publicly suggest a name when independence was at hand. 3/

In the two letters from Molyan to Benjamin Rush in the collection, I didn't find a uppercase "U" to compare it to. As noted in @boston1775.bsky.social 's link, there is also a letter from "A Planter" in the April 6, 1776 Virgina Gazette which uses lowercase "u." www.nyhistory.org/blogs/coined... 2/

Actually, TPHA had published on this without mentioning Moylan.
www.thomaspaine.org/resources/is... It was claimed he used small "u" in united as an adjective. Below is image from Moylan's letter:
nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
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I'm not sure it is a revelation, as TPHA has previously written, as have others, without evidence, that "Republicus," who you quote, was Thomas Paine. It will be fantastic if you have new evidence to support the claim!
@boston1775.bsky.social

On the other hand, so are marriage rates!
ourworldindata.org/marriages-an...

How would we know if they doctored or deleted files?

"Your Common Sense, and your Crisis, unquestionably awakened the public mind, and led the people loudly to call for a declaration of our national independence." --Samuel Adams, Jan. 1, 1803 letter to Thomas Paine

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"Your Common Sense, and your Crisis, unquestionably awakened the public mind, and led the people loudly to call for a declaration of our national independence." --Samuel Adams, Jan. 1, 1803 letter to Thomas Paine

www.google.com/books/editio...

Mercy Otis Warren was a fraudster! She left Thomas Paine out of her 3-volume 1805 "history" of the American Revolution except in the appendix where she wrote that infidels like Paine, Voltaire and Gibbon would be "forgotten," & "cease to be admired by the real friends of the Christian dispensation."