Thankful Dyer

Descendant of Giles Hopkins and Stephen Hopkins who were passengers on the Mayflower in 1620.

Thankful Dyer formerly Hopkins

Born 27 May 1709 in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay

Daughter of Caleb Hopkins and Mary (Unknown) Hopkins

Sister of Thomas Hopkins [half], Caleb Hopkins Jr. [half] and Nathaniel Hopkins [half]

Wife of Ambrose Dyer — married 22 Jan 1730 in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Mother of Ambrose Dyer Jr., Thankful (Dyer) Lombard, Hannah Dyer, Abigail (Dyer) Atkins, Napthali Dyer, Mary Dyer, Jerusha Dyer and Reuben Dyer

Died 1 Aug 1783 in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States

Profile last modified 25 Dec 2019 | Created 11 Sep 2010

Biography

Thankful (Hopkins) Dyer was born on 27 May 1709 in Truro, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay, the daughter of Caleb and Mary Hopkins.[1]

Marriage

Date: 22 JAN 1729/1730 Place: Truro, Barnstable, Ma Source: #S64 Page: Vol. 102, Jan.1948, Page 50. Data: Text: Stephen Hopkins and Descendants. Source: #S359 Page: 22, 46 Source: #S549 Source: #S287 Page: 50 Source: #S83 Page: 34 Source: #S101 Page: 1303 Death

Date: 1 AUG 1783 Place: Truro, Barnstable, Ma Source: #S56 Source: #S5 Page: st 157 Source: #S57 Page: 235 Burial

Date: 1783 Place: Old North Cemetery, Truro, Barnstable, Ma Note

Admitted to church in Truro, 19 Aug 1744. She was dismissed from the church in Truro to the First Church in Eastham 21 May 1769. died in 75th yr., on stone with son son Reuben (GS) Sources

↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). Truro Vital Records, Vol. 1:46, citing original records p. 78. "Thankfull Hopkins the Daughter of Caleb and Mary Hopkins was Born in Truroe May ye 27 1709 Recorded Pr Tho Paine Town Clerk" https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9455706/thankfull-dyer Descendants of Edward Small of New England, Vol.3 Author: Lora Altine Woodbury Underhill Publication: Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.: 1934 Truro, Barnstable, Mass., Church Records, The Mayflower Descendant, Vol.XVIII, CD 203 Author: George Ernest Bowman Stephen Hopkins and His Descendants Publication: NEHGR, Vol. 104, July 1950 Vital Records of Truro, Barnstable County, Mass. Author: George Ernest Bowman Gravestone, Old North Cemetery, No. Truro, Barnstable, Ma. Author: Jeanne Gonzales, April 18, 1998 Marriage Index: Massachusetts, 1633-1850, CD 231 Inscriptions from gravestones in the Old North Cemetery, Truro, Barnstable, Mass. 1713-1840 Author: John Bensiah Dyer, b. 1853 Publication: The Advocate Press: H.F. Hopkins, 1897, Provincetown, Barnstable, Mass. Records from Old North Cemetery, Truro. The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. XII John(5) Billings of Deer Isle, Maine Author: Harold Ward Dana, A.B., M.D., of Brookline, Norfolk, Mass Publication: NEHGR, Vol. 97, October 1943 Note: Originally from "Genealogy of William Billings", Frank Billings, M.D., n.d., published about 1931. A Munsey-Hopkins Genealogy Author: Lowell, D.O.S. Publication: Boston: Privately Printed, 1920