Mary Thayer

Source: A Genealogy of the wives of the American Presidents and their first two generations of descent, by Craig Hart, 2004, pp. 38-39

Source: "The Magazine of History with notes and queries, vol. 2, June-Dec 1905", pp. 220-221, quoted here

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French, Poole, Lamb, Thayer— " Octo. 28 [1687]. Thomas Thair was maried to Mary Pool, ye man belonged to Mendam, ye woman to Braintry."— (Register of Marriages in Milton, Mass., from the diary of Rev. Peter Thacher, page 1).

The only Mary Poole known to the genealogists of the Poole families of New England was Mary, daughter of Samuel2 (Edward1) and Mary ______, who was born at Weymouth, Mass., Nov. 20, 1668. (See Poole Genealogy, 1893, p. 9, and N. E. H. G. Register, vol. 20, p. 241).

A paper found in the Suffolk County Probate Files in connection with a marriage contract between John French and Eleanor Veazie of Braintree, filed by " John French & Dependance French Administrators" to the estate of John French late of Braintree deceased their father," shows that the " persons concerned in said estate are John French the eldest son Dependance French, Thomas French, Samuell French, William French the orphan of William French deceased Two daughters, viz. Temperance Bowditch wife of Jn° Bowditch, Elizabeth Wheelock of Mendon; children of Mary Lamb deceased are Mary Poole, Aliis [alias] Thayer by her first husband Poole & John Lamb Samuell Lamb Margarett Lamb, Mary Lamb, Grace Lamb, Hannah Lamb."—N. E. H. G. Register vol. 12, p. 353).

Record of John Lamb's children from Braintree records: By wife Mary:

   John, b. 5 Nov. 1677.

Margaret, b. 26 Feb. 1678.
Mary, b. 15 Oct. 1680.
Grace, b. 15 Oct. 1680.
Hannah, b. 19 Oct. 1683.
Samuel, b. 7 Feb. 1686.
By second wife, Lydia:

   Joseph, b. 25 June, 1690.

Jemimah, b. 14 June, 1693.
It appears from the foregoing that John and Grace French of Braintree had a daughter Mary, not given by Vinton (Vinton Memorial, p. 318), who married first Samuel Poole, son of Edward and Sarah (Pinney) Poole, and second John Lamb.

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  Mary Adams was born in 1663.1 In 1685 in Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts, Mary married Capt. Thomas Thayer, son of Ferdinando Thayer and Huldah Hayward.2,3

Charts

Ancestry of Robert Roy

Children of Mary Adams and Capt. Thomas Thayer

Mary Thayer+2 (19 Jan 1689 - )

Hon. Thomas Thayer+2 (14 Jan 1694 - )

Samuel Thayer+2 (28 Mar 1696 - )

Temperance Thayer2 (7 Jul 1698 - )

David Thayer+2 (8 Feb 1701 - )

Elizabeth Thayer+2 (2 Mar 1703 - a 1745)

John Thayer+2 (17 Sep 1706 - )

William Thayer+2 (22 Jan 1708 - )

Margaret Thayer2 (12 Dec 1710 - )

Jemima Thayer2 (13 Feb 1712 - )

Citations

Ancestral File. Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, 1994.

Thayer, Bezaleel. Memorial of the Thayer Name, From the Massachusetts Colony of Weymouth and Braintree, Embracing Geneological and Biographical Sketches of Richard & Thomas Thayer and Their Descendants, From 1636 to 1874. 1874. Reprint Braintree, Massachusetts: Braintree Historical Society, 1976.

Ojeda, Luis Thayer. Genealogy of the Descendants of William Turpin Thayer of Bellingham. Valparaiso, Chilie: Imprenta Roma, 1933.

Source: Memorial of the Thayer name, by Bezaleel Thayer, pp. 252

Several published books do list Mary Adams as wife of Thomas Thayer, but some do not list a last name for Thomas' wife, and more recent research seems to point to her being Mary Poole. See the profile for Mary Poole and please do not attempt to merge it with this one, since they have different parents.