HISTORY OF GENERAL TINIO NUEVA ECIJA

General Tinio, officially the Municipality of General Tinio, is a 1st class municipality in
the province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a
population of 47,865 people.[3]
It was known as Papaya until 1957.
The town is at the foot of the Sierra Madre Mountains, adjoining the Fort
Magsaysay Army Reservation on the east side.

According to the story passed on from one generation to another, the town got its name
because of miscommunication between the natives and the Spanish colonizers. A
native settler when asked by a Spanish soldier "Llama el pueblo?" replied "Papaya"
referring to the particular fruit tree growing abundantly in the place (not understanding
the Spanish language). The name stuck to the Spanish colonizers and the place from
then on was called "Papaya".
Papaya was a sitio of Bo. Mapisong which was then a barrio of Gapan (now Gapan
City). Bo. Mapisong became a town in 1851 changing its name to Peñaranda after a
Spanish engineer Jose Maria Peñaranda. Papaya became one of its barangays.
Papaya became a town on January 1, 1921, through the collaborative efforts of Capitan
Mamerto Padolina who was then the Secretary of the Governor of the Province, Judge
Segundo Bernardo and Francisco Padolina.
Congressman Celestino Juan sponsored a congressional act changing the name of
Papaya to General Tinio in honor of General Manuel Tinio, a noble and prominent
revolutionary leader against the Spaniards who hailed from the Nueva Ecija. The act
was signed into law on June 20, 1957 as Republic Act No. 1665.[4] The new name of the
town was inaugurated days later, on August 19, 1957.
Recently, the municipal council approved a resolution to rename the town back to its
original name, "Papaya".
10 commandments

1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven
above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow
down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the
iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate
me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him
guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou,
nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy
stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all
that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and
hallowed it.

5. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy
God giveth thee.

6. Thou shalt not kill.

7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

8. Thou shalt not steal.

9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his
manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor’s."