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Rebecca Thacher (Winslow)

Also Known As: "Thatcher"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Marshfield, Plymouth Colony, Colonial America
Death: July 15, 1683 (40)
Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Plymouth Colony, Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Josias "Josiah" Winslow and Margaret Winslow
Wife of Hon. Col. John Thacher
Mother of Peter Thacher, I; Josiah Thacher; Rebecca Lewes; Bethiah Paine; John Thacher and 5 others
Sister of Elizabeth Winslow; Jonathan Winslow; Margaret Miller; Hannah Sturtevant; Mary Tracy and 1 other

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About Rebecca Thacher

The six children of Josiah Winslow and Martha Bourne, born at Marshfield, were:

iv. Rebecca b. 15 Jul 1643, in Marshfield. m. John Thatcher by 1665 and had eight children.

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Winslow-488

Colonel John Thacher married (first) at Marshfield, Massachusetts, November 6, 1661, Rebecca Winslow, of that place. She was born there, July 15, 1643, and died at Yarmouth, July 15, 1683. She was the daughter of Josiah Winslow (born at Droitwich, Eng land, February 11, 1606, died December 1, 1674), a brother of Governor Edward Wins low, and of his wife, Margaret Bourne, who was buried at Marshfield, October 2, 1683. By this first marriage he had nine children.

He married (second) at Yarmouth, Massa chusetts, January 1, 1684, Lydia Gorham, of Barnstable, Massachusetts.


Otis, Horatio. The Thatcher Family, No. II. Descendants of Anthony Thatcher, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1860) Vol. 14, Page 11 < Archive.Org >

6. Hon. John2 Thatcher, of Marshfield, was much esteemed and honored ; a major in the militia; for more than twenty years one of the council of war, and for five years one of the governor's aids ; an assist- ant in the government of Plymouth Colony, and a councillor in that of Massachusetts. He d. 8 May, 1713, and, like his father, was " buried under arms," and the gravestones erected to his memory, — the first, with an inscription, ever used in Yarmouth, — were brought from England. He m. 1st, Rebecca Winslow, 6 Nov. 1664, by whom he had 8 ch.; m. 2d, Lydia, fifth dau. of Col. John Gorham, of Barnstable, 1 Jan. 1684, O. S.

Children by first wife:

  • (9) Peter3, 26 April, 1665, m. Thankful Sturgis,
  • (10) Josiah3, b. 26 April, 1667, m. Mary Hedge;
  • (11) Rebecca3, m h 1 June, 1669, m. James Sturgis;
  • (12) Bethiah3, b. 10 July, 1671 ;
  • (13) John3, b. 28 Jan. 1674, m. widow Desire Dimmock, a sister of James Sturgis above ; was a colonel, register of deeds, judge of C. C. Pleas,
  • (14) Elizabeth3, b. 19 June, 1677;
  • (15) Hannah3, b. 19 Aug. 1679, d. 1689;
  • (16) Mary3, b. 3 Aug. 1682, d. young.

References

  • Otis, Horatio. The Thatcher Family, No. II. Descendants of Anthony Thatcher, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1860) Vol. 14, Page 11 < Archive.Org >
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Rebecca Thacher's Timeline

1643
July 15, 1643
Marshfield, Plymouth Colony, Colonial America
1665
May 20, 1665
Yarmouth, Cape Cod, Plymouth Colony, Colonial America
1667
April 26, 1667
Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony
1669
June 1, 1669
Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Plymouth Colony, Colonial America
1671
January 28, 1671
Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony
1671
Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony
1677
June 19, 1677
Yarmouth, Cape Cod (Present Barnstable County), Plymouth Colony (Present Massachusetts)
1679
August 19, 1679
Yarmouth, Cape Cod, Plymouth Colony
1682
August 3, 1682
Yarmouth, Cape Cod, Plymouth Colony