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About Richard Thayer, III, immigrant
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9129674/richard-thayer
Exerpt from Pioneers of Massachusetts by CHARLES HENRY POPE Pioneers of Massachusetts, A DESCRIPTIVE LIST, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches, and other Contemporaneous Documents. BY CHARLES HENRY POPE, PASTOR FIRST CHURCH, CHARLESTOWN, BOSTON, COMPILER OF THE DORCHESTER POPE FAMILY, THE CHENEY GENEALOGY, ETC BOSTON, MASS. PUBLISHED BY CHARLES H. POPE, 221 Columbus Ave., 1900. Copyrigrht 1900, by Charles H. Pope THAYER, TAYER, TARE, Richard, [shoemaker,] probably bro. of Thomas, folg., and bapt. at Thornbury, Eng. April, 1601. He came in 1641, bringing 8 children. [Depos. of son Richard,] Set- tled at Braintree. Sold land to son Richard in 1648. Rem. to Boston. He m. at Thorn- bury 5 April, 1624, Dorothy Mortimore; ch. Richard bapt. Feb. 10, 1024-5, Cornelius, De- borah bapt. Feb. 1629-30. (m. 11 April, 1653, Thomas Faxon,) Jael, (m. 17 March, 1654, John Harbour, Jr.) Sarah, (m. 20 July, 1651, Samuel Davis.) Hannah, (m. 28 May, 1664, Samuel Hayden,) Zachariah, (d. 29 July, 1693, and est. admin, by bro. Richard.) Na- thaniel, [Abigail d. 6 Aug. 1717, ae. 66 years.] He m. 2, Jane, widow of John Par- ker; joined her in conveyance of land to her Parker children in 1652. He d. before 1668. [Suff. De. V, 446.]
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- Name: Richard Thayer , Jr. 1
- Sex: M
- Birth: ABT 1624 in Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England
- Death: 27 AUG 1695 in Braintree, Norfolk, Ma
- Baptism: 10 FEB 1624/25 St. Mary's Ch., Thornbury, England
- Burial: 1695 Hancock Cemetery, Quincy, Norfolk, Ma
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died age 71yrs., gs. No settlement of his estate is recorded, but he was an extensive land speculator and from his claims and rebuttals we know much about him. He was one of the eight children who came over with his father early in 1641; in 1648 he purchased his father's homestead in Braintree and added to it in 1661, 1663, 1667 and in 1668 mortgaged his lands and became involved in a law suit because his title was not clear to some of them and was in turn forced to sue for some of the Iron Works land that had been sold to him without clear title. He became involved in other land deals, having leased in 1657 a large tract of land at present Canton from Capt. Roger Clapp, and in 1692 sued Clapp's heirs but lost the case. About 1680 he returned to England and made claims for land which so alarmed the Braintree inhabitants that they sent a petition to the throne in England in rebuttal (Mass. Archives 3-34 & 1-87). In 1685 he again laid claim to large tracts of the Iron Works land. He only succeeded however in obtaining the remaining estate of Increase Robinson of Taunton, the administrator of the estate of John Payne of Boston who had sold him by defective title a small piece of land belonging to the creditors of the Iron Works Co. in Braintree. He also became in litigation from a contract for building a vessel at Braintree in 1688 (Suffolk Court Rec. #1342 & #947). In 1658 he was fined by the General Court for selling liquor contrary to law (Mass. Colony Rec. Vol.4, p.1?). During the litigation and afterwards he occupied the lands he had mortgaged to Simon Lynde, as a tenant and in the settlement of Lynde's estate in 1689 his son Benjamin Lynde received lands and estate at Braintree in the occupation of Richard Thayer. Richard Thayer or his heirs eventually recovered some or all of these lands, probably by repayment of the mortgage. His well preserved gravestone would indicate he had some estate at his decease, though none is of record. (See Pattee's History of Quincy pp. 40-54 for details of some of the lawsuits, also Suffolk Court Rec. #1885,2053,2508, also Suffolk Deeds 5-446, 7-236, 11-309, 16-42, Bristol Deeds 1-224, 6-307, etc.) He also was in Barbados in 1660 with his father, and probably stayed there some time as no children are of record between 1658 and 1670. Source Link: https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000175875635822label=@S151@
Son of Richard Thayer and Ursula Alice Dimery. Husband of Dorothy Mortimer. ∼
Immigrant to New England in 1641. See Life Sketch in FamilySeach.org Tree page LR5Y-T2J for biography.
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Richard, Boston 1640. Richard, son of the preceeding, lived in Braintree, where he married Dorothy Pray, 24 Dec 1651, and had, Richard b. 31 Aug. 1655; Nathaniel, b. 1 Jan 1658<sup>1</sup>
Thayer, Cornelius(1670-) and Abigail (Hayden)?/Copeland? (-1731); b. 1696? b. 1695?; Braintree
<b>3</b>- Thayer, Richard 9 (-by 1668) & 1/wf Dorothy Mortimer (-1640-1; Thornbury, England, 5 Apr 1624; Braintree
<b>4</b>- Thayer, Richard (1625-1705) & Dorothy Pray (1634-1705); 24 Dec 1651; Braintree
(other Thayers listed; check against family tree)<sup>2
</sup>Family Memorial: (no references given)
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Richard Thayer, III, immigrant's Timeline
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February 10, 1625
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Uffington, Berkshire, England (United Kingdom)
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February 10, 1625
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St. Mary’s Church, Thornbury, England
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| 1653 |
January 30, 1653
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Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
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1654
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New Castle County, Delaware Colony
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| 1655 |
August 31, 1655
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Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, American Colonies
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| 1658 |
January 1, 1658
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Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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1660
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Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1661 |
February 10, 1661
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Braintree, Norfolk, MA, USA
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