Elizabeth Thacher

"It was conjectured by John R. Totten (New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 42 [1911] 58, 61, 77-79) that Richard Jones, who settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1635, was probably brother to Elizabeth, wife of Anthony Thacher of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, and Dorothy, wife of Richard Sears, also of Yarmouth. Richard Jones' widow Alice, living in Dorchester, in a deed dated 2 12mo [Feb.] 1642/3, named as a feoffee (trustee) Anthony Thacher of Yarmouth; she also called him 'brother.' Richard and Alice's son, Samuel Jones, in his will dated 28 3rd mo [May] 1661 (Sufolk County Probate 1:409), named 'my sixe coussins at Yarmouth.' Anthony Thacher of Yarmouth had only three children. Totten suggests that the other three 'soussins' were children of Richard Sears (Sares) who also had three children and in his will dated 10 3rd mo. [May] 1667, named 'my brother Thacher.' (The will is quoted in Samuel P. May, The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass. 1638-1888, 1890, p. 37). Old Records state that Richard Jones came from Dinder, England. Extant parish registers of Dinder, in the county of Somerset, begin in 1696, but some earlier bishop's transcripts survive. They confirm the Jones origin (microfilm copy, Genealogical copy, Genealogical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah). Richard was baptized at Dinder in 1598, the son of George. The will of George Jones is recorded in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (154 Hale) and confirms the names of Richard's sisters. Several other same-area Jones wills have been read, without helpful results."567

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Elizabeth Jones Thacher

Birth: 1601, England

Died: Aft 05 Mar 1667/68 [2]

Married: About Feb 1635

They were married six weeks before sailing to America.

Husband: Antony Thacher, b. About 1588, Queen Camel, Somersetshire, England , d. Between 30 Jun 1667 and 22 Aug1667, Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts

Children

1. John Thacher, b. 17 Mar 1638/39, Marblehead, Essex Co., Massachusetts , d. 8 May 1713, Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts
2. Judah Thacher, b. prob 1642, d. 4 Nov 1676, Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts
3. Bethia Thacher, b. About 1645, Yarmouth, Massachusetts , d. 9 Dec 1725, Bristol, Rhode Island

Notes:

	 1667-8. Court of Assistants at Plymouth, March 5th, 1667-8. "Letters of administration were granted to Mistress Elizabeth Thacher and unto John3 Thacher to administer the estate of Mr. Anthony Thacher, deceased."

From which we have recorded evidence that his second wife, Elizabeth (Jones) Thacher, survived [her husband].

When and where Elizabeth (Jones) Thacher, widow of Antony2 Thacher, died and was buried is not a matter of record, but it is almost a certainty that she died in Yarmouth subsequent to 1667-8 and was buried there beside her deceased husband. [4]

Burial:

Thacher Property, Barnstable County, Massachusetts,

Elizabeth died some unknown date after 1667 and was buried next to Antony beside a pear tree probably planted by them in or about 1639. The tree, now gone, was reported to be still living in 1801.

Sources:

1. Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy Yarmouth Branch, Totten, John R., (New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York, 1910), p. 25.
2. Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy Yarmouth Branch, Totten, John R., (New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York, 1910), p. 68.
3. Descendants of Thomas and Anthony Thacher, Allen, D. W., (Independent Printing House, Vineland NJ, 1872), 27.
4. Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy Yarmouth Branch, Totten, John R., (New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York, 1910), p. 82.

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Biography

Elizabeth was born before 1603, as she was baptized at Dinder, Somerset, England, on January 1, 1602/03.<ref>#860 Page 18</ref> She was Anthony's second wife, and the marriage supposedly took place "about six weeks before the date of his sailing for New England."<ref>John R. Totten, Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy NYGBR 42(Jan 1911):58-81, at 58</ref> She and Anthony emigrated to the colonies on the ship James in April 1635, with four of Anthony's children from his first marriage: William, Mary, Edith, and Peter. Baby Benjamin was left behind in Englandwith Anthony's brother Peter. They went to Newbury after arrival. On August 11, 1635, Anthony's entire family, and the family of Anthony's cousin Joseph Avery, embarked at Ipswich on a pinnace sent for them from Marblehead. On the fifteenth, they were shipwrecked on an islandoff of Cape Ann, and, although Anthony and Elizabeth survived, all four children drowned.<ref>John R. Totten, Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy NYGBR 42(Jan 1911):79-81</ref> Elizabeth was the mother of John, Judah, and Bethiah. She died in 1668.

Sources ==* The NewYork Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 43, page 297. (Google eBook). Richard Henry Greene, et al. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1912 - New York (State).

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• The NewEngland Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal: Volume 14- January 1, 1860 S.G. Drake- Publisher.
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• S860 Great Migration 1634-1635, T-Y. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic GenealogicalSociety, 2012.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.
• Austin's One Hundred And Sixty Allied Families, pp. 137-139.
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• S865 The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (NYGBR) New York, NY: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1870-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New EnglandHistoric Genealogical Society, 2011.)

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