Descendants of Thacher

 

Generation No. 1

 

1.  REV. PETER1 THACHER1 was born Bet. 1545 - 15491, and died Bef. 07 May 1624 in Queen Camel, County Somerset, England1.

 

Notes for REV. PETER THACHER:

Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W S Tyler, DD,LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), page 247.

Mr. John R. Totten--see his articles in the N. Y. Geneal. & Biog. Record XLI, 108, 216, etc.-says Mr. Thacher always spelled his own name Thacher, but clerks and scriveners spelled it Thatcher--apparently the popular and more customary spelling.

Appointed: Bet. 1574 - 1624, Vicar of St. Barnabas' Parish, Queen Camel, County Somerset, England1

       

Children of REV. PETER THACHER are:

2.                i.    PETER2 THACHER, 2ND, b. Bet. 1587 - 1588, Queen Camel, County Somerset, England; d. 16 Feb 1641, Wilts, County Salisbury, England.

                  ii.    THACHER1, b. Aft. 15881; d. Unknown.

                 iii.    THACHER1, b. Aft. 15881; d. Unknown.

                 iv.    THACHER1, b. Aft. 15881; d. Unknown.

                  v.    THACHER1, b. Aft. 15881; d. Unknown.

 

 

Generation No. 2

 

2.  PETER2 THACHER, 2ND (PETER1)1 was born Bet. 1587 - 1588 in Queen Camel, County Somerset, England1, and died 16 Feb 1641 in Wilts, County Salisbury, England1.  He married ANNE ALLWOOD1,2 Bef. 16153.  She was born Abt. 1603 in Salisbury, County Wiltshire, England4, and died 26 Mar 1634 in Salisbury, County Wiltshire, England4,5.

 

More About PETER THACHER, 2ND:

Appointed: 20 Mar 1613, A Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford5

Burial: Unknown, St. Edmunds Church, Wilts, County Salisbury, England6

Elected: 19 Jul 1603, Disciple of Scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on the Somerset foundation7

Graduation: 04 Feb 1608, With his B.A. from Queens College, County Oxford, England7

Matriculated: 06 May 1603, Queens College, County Oxford, England at the age of 157

Occupation: Bet. 1622 - 1641, Rector of St. Edmunds Church, Wilts, County Salisbury, England7

Residence: Bet. 1615 - 1616, Oxford, England7

 

More About ANNE ALLWOOD:

Ancestral File Number: 1WT6-D1K

Burial: 26 Mar 1634, St. Edmunds Church, Salisbury, County Wiltshire, England8,9

       

Children of PETER THACHER and ANNE ALLWOOD are:

                   i.    JOHN3 THACHER9, b. 15 Jun 16159; d. Unknown.

3.               ii.    REV. THOMAS THACHER, b. 01 May 1620, Milton Clevedon, County Somerset, England; d. 15 Oct 1678, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

 

 

Generation No. 3

 

3.  REV. THOMAS3 THACHER (PETER2, PETER1)10 was born 01 May 1620 in Milton Clevedon, County Somerset, England11, and died 15 Oct 1678 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts12,13.  He married (1) ELIZABETH PARTRIDGE14 11 May 164315, daughter of RALPH PARTRIDGE and PATIENCE.  She was born  in Duxbury, County Kent, England15, and died 02 Jun 1664 in Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts15.  He married (2) <UNNAMED>15 Aft. 166415.  She died Unknown.

 

Notes for REV. THOMAS THACHER:

Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W S Tyler, DD,LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), page 248.

"President Stiles calls him "the best Arabic scholar known in the country." He prepared a Hebrew lexicon which was never printed, and his Brief Rule, etc., in the Small Pox and Measles (1677) is said to be the first medical tract published in New England. The sketch of his life is one of the best in Mather's Magnalia."

Ancestral File Number: 3792-1X

Burial: Unknown, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts16

Christening: 1622, Parish Church, Sarum, County Wiltshire, England16

Education: Studied theology under Rev. Charles Chauncey, later 2nd president of Harvard College17

Emigration: 04 Jun 1635, Arrived in New England from England because he did not want to attend an English university as his father desired17

Occupation: Bet. 1670 - 1678, Pastor of the Old South Church, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts17

Ordination: 16 Feb 1670, First minister of the Old South Church, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts18

Religion: Was early converted to Puritanism19

Residence: Bet. 1645 - 1664, Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts19

       

Child of THOMAS THACHER and ELIZABETH PARTRIDGE is:

4.                i.    REV. PETER4 THACHER, b. 18 Jul 1651, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts; d. 17 Dec 1727, Milton, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

 

 

Generation No. 4

 

4.  REV. PETER4 THACHER (THOMAS3, PETER2, PETER1)20 was born 18 Jul 1651 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts20, and died 17 Dec 1727 in Milton, Suffolk County, Massachusetts20.  He married THEODORA OXENBRIDGE20 21 Nov 167720, daughter of JOHN OXENBRIDGE and FRANCES WOODWARD.  She was born 25 Jul 165921, and died 18 Nov 169722.

 

Notes for REV. PETER THACHER:

Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W S Tyler, DD,LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), page 249.

"From the seal which his father used in sealing his letters to his son, at this period, the coat-of-arms was taken which is now held by the descendants."

"His watch is now in the rooms of the Boston Society at the Old State House."

Graduation: 1671, Harvard College, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts22

Occupation: Managed his wife, Theodora's property22

Ordination: Jun 1681, First minister at Milton, Suffolk County, Massachusetts22

Publishing: Bet. 1708 - 1723, He was prominent as a preacher and published sundry sermons and theological treatises22

Residence: Bet. 1676 - 1677, London, County Middlesex, England23

Will: 12 Feb 1721, Sealed with the Oxenbridge family coat of arms and now in the Suffolk Registry, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts24

 

More About THEODORA OXENBRIDGE:

Property: Received a large estate from her parents25

       

Children of PETER THACHER and THEODORA OXENBRIDGE are:

                   i.    OXENBRIDGE5 THACHER25, b. Bef. 168825; d. Unknown.

More About OXENBRIDGE THACHER:

Property: Received the larger part of the estate was bequeathed to his eldest son, Oxenbridge Thacher25

5.               ii.    REV. PETER THACHER II, b. 06 Oct 1688, Milton, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; d. 22 Apr 1744, Middleboro, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

 

 

Generation No. 5

 

5.  REV. PETER5 THACHER II (PETER4, THOMAS3, PETER2, PETER1)25 was born 06 Oct 1688 in Milton, Suffolk County, Massachusetts25, and died 22 Apr 1744 in Middleboro, Plymouth County, Massachusetts25.  He married MARY PRINCE25 24 Jan 171125, daughter of SAMUEL PRINCE and MERCY HINCKLEY.  She was born 08 Jan 1689 in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts25, and died 01 Oct 1771 in Middleboro, Plymouth County, Massachusetts25.

 

More About REV. PETER THACHER II:

Graduation: 1706, Harvard College, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts25

Religion: Bet. 1709 - 1744, Pastor at Middleboro, Plymouth County, Massachusetts25

       

Child of PETER THACHER and MARY PRINCE is:

6.                i.    REV. PETER6 THACHER III, b. 25 Jan 1716, Middleboro, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; d. 13 Sep 1785, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

 

 

Generation No. 6

 

6.  REV. PETER6 THACHER III (PETER5, PETER4, THOMAS3, PETER2, PETER1)26,27 was born 25 Jan 1716 in Middleboro, Plymouth County, Massachusetts28, and died 13 Sep 1785 in Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts29.  He married BETHIAH CARPENTER30 30 Nov 1749 in Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts31, daughter of OBADIAH CARPENTER and BETHIAH CARPENTER.  She was born Bet. 06 Dec 1729 - 173032, and died 27 Jan 1793 in Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts32.

 

More About REV. PETER THACHER III:

Graduation: 1737, Harvard College, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts33

Residence: 03 Nov 1748, Settled over the parish at Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts34

       

Children of PETER THACHER and BETHIAH CARPENTER are:

7.                i.    DEA. MOSES7 THACHER, d. Unknown.

8.               ii.    MERCY THACHER, b. 27 Dec 1752, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts; d. 14 Jan 1835.

 

 

Generation No. 7

 

7.  DEA. MOSES7 THACHER (PETER6, PETER5, PETER4, THOMAS3, PETER2, PETER1)35,36 died Unknown.

       

Child of DEA. MOSES THACHER is:

9.                i.    SARAH8 ATHERTON, d. Unknown.

 

 

8.  MERCY7 THACHER (PETER6, PETER5, PETER4, THOMAS3, PETER2, PETER1)37 was born 27 Dec 1752 in Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts38, and died 14 Jan 183539.  She married DEA. JOHN TYLER, JR.40 Jun 1768 in Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts41, son of JOHN TYLER and ANNA BLACKINGTON.  He was born Bet. 25 - 26 Apr 1746 in Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts41, and died 27 May 1822 in Ararat, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania41.

 

More About MERCY THACHER:

Occupation: Chief Physician for all the settlers of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania42

Residence: Bet. Sep - Nov 1794, Removed to Northeastern Pennsylvania where she formed a new settlement43

 

More About DEA. JOHN TYLER, JR.:

Military service: 19 Apr 1775, Private on the Lexington Alarm Roll of Captain Moses Wilmarth's First Company, Col John Daggett's 4th Bristol County Regiment, which marched from Attleboro and served 11 days44

Occupation: Farmer45

Residence: Bet. Sep - Nov 1794, Removed to Northeastern Pennsylvania where he formed a new settlement46

       

Children of MERCY THACHER and JOHN TYLER are:

                   i.    MARY8 TYLER, b. 05 Nov 1769, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts; d. Unknown.

                  ii.    MERCY TYLER, b. 05 Nov 1769, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts; d. Unknown.

                 iii.    POLLY TYLER, b. 15 Sep 1771, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts; d. Unknown.

                 iv.    NANCY TYLER, b. 1773, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts; d. Unknown.

                  v.    JOHN TYLER, b. 22 Feb 1777, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts; d. Unknown.

                 vi.    JOB TYLER, b. 22 Aug 1779, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts; d. Unknown.

                vii.    ACHSAH TYLER, b. 20 Apr 1782, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts; d. Unknown.

               viii.    DEA. JOAB TYLER, b. 23 Jul 1784, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts; d. 11 Jan 1869, Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.

                  ix.    JABEZ TYLER, b. 13 Mar 1787, Attleboro, Bristol County, Massachusetts; d. Aft. 1820.

 

 

Generation No. 8

 

9.  SARAH8 ATHERTON (MOSES7 THACHER, PETER6, PETER5, PETER4, THOMAS3, PETER2, PETER1)47 died Unknown.  She married DEA. JOHN SEYMOUR48 05 Jan 1820 in Harford, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania49, son of JONATHAN SEYMOUR and ABIGAIL HART.  He was born 27 Jul 179149, and died 27 Mar 1881 in Lyme, Sandusky County, Ohio49.

       

Child of SARAH ATHERTON and JOHN SEYMOUR is:

                   i.    SARAH MARIA9 SEYMOUR, b. 03 Jul 1832; d. Unknown.

Endnotes

 

1.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 247.

2.  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R),  (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998), "Electronic."

3.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 247.

4.  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R),  (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998), "Electronic."

5.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 247.

6.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 247, An altar tomb still stands on the north side of the church yard of St. Edmund's bearing this inscription: "Here lyeth the bodye of Mr. Peter Thacher, who was a laborious minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in ye Parish of St. Edmund's for ye space of XIX yeares. He departed this lyfe the Lord's Day at three of the clock ye XVI of Feb. 1640. Let no man move his bones."

7.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 247.

8.  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R),  (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998), "Electronic."

9.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 247.

10.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 248 and 249.

11.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 247 and 248.

12.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 248.

13.  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R),  (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998), "Electronic."

14.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 248 and 249.

15.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 248.

16.  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R),  (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998), "Electronic."

17.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 248.

18.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 247.

19.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 248.

20.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 249.

21.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 251.

22.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 249.

23.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 249, Resisted all temptations to conform to the church of England.

24.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 249, One item of this will was "eight brick houses in London with room for a ninth."

25.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 249.

26.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), page 262.

27.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 6 and 249.

28.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 249.

29.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 6 and 250.

30.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), page 282.

31.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 250.

32.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 256.

33.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 249.

34.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 249 and 50.

35.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 250.

36.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), page 262.

37.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), page 282.

38.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 146 and 245.

39.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 245.

40.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 146.

41.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 245.

42.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 7.

43.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 146.

44.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 245.

45.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 7.

46.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), Page 146.

47.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), page 262.

48.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), page 9 and 262.

49.  Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W. S. Tyler, DD, LLD,  (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), page 262.

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