Ferdinando* Thayer
Bef 1625 - 1713 (> 87 years)-
Name Ferdinando* Thayer Born Bef 18 Apr 1625 Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England Gender Male Birth 18 Apr 1625 St.Mary's, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England Emigration 1639 Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England Died 28 Mar 1713 Mendon, Worcester Co, Massachusetts Notes - Birth: Source, Gen. & Personal Memoirs of Worcester Co., by Ellery Bicknell
Crane. One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families, by John Osborne Austin.
Thayer's Family Memorial, pp 136-153.
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Suffolk County Wills- Abstracts of the Earliest Wills Upon Record in the County of Suffolk, MA:
Ferdinando second son of Thomas and Margery Thayer, m Huldah Hayward, of Braintree, Jan 14, 1562. "He lived in Braintree, until after his father's death," says Dr. Thayer, "when he removed to Mendon, Mass. with a colony from Braintree and Weyuth, where many of his descendants are living at this day." Fernandando and Huldah Thayer had 12 children, five or six born in Braintree, the others in Mendon. The names of the children were Sarah, Huldah, Jonathan, David, Naomi, David, Thomas, Samuel, Isaac, Josiah, Ebenezer, Benjamin. Huldah died at Mendon, Sept 1, 1690; Ferdinando d March 28, 1713.
He lived first in Braintree and then moved to Mendon Mass. in 1664 where he was one of the founders of the town along with John Thomson and others. He was chosen as Selectman in 1667 and was a messenger to the General Court in 1660. His home was located a short distance south of the center of town on Providence Road. He was regarded as a man of wealth and was an extensive land owner and dealer acquiring valuable land through allotment and much through purchase.
After Huldah died in 1690 he remarried Anna Freeburg in Mendon.
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from: alicep@ma.ultranet.com (Alice Palladini)
Reply-to: Aldrich_NAA@onelist.com
FERDINANDO Thayer:
He spelt & signed with two small ff 's ffardinando ?? :) why no one
knows,,
However in the early " Mendon Annals" his name is first spelt, FARDINANDO.
But Ferdinando is the name used.
He was not Spanish as many thought, because of his first name,
They say probably he was named after Ferdinando Gorges.
However . the connection between Thayers and Gorges is not known.
Person ID I2296 Roots Last Modified 10 Feb 2011
Father Thomas* Thayer, I, b. 16 Aug 1596, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England , d. 2 Apr 1665, Braintree, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts (Age 68 years) Mother Margery* Wheeler, b. 25 Apr 1600, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England , d. 11 Dec 1672, Braintree, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts (Age 72 years) Married 13 Apr 1618 Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England Family ID F1115 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Huldah* Hayward, b. 7 Oct 1636, Stephney, London, Middlesex, England , d. 1 Sep 1690, Mendon, Worcester Co, Massachusetts (Age 53 years) Married 14 Jan 1652 Braintree, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts Children 1. Sarah Thayer, b. 12 Mar 1654, Braintree, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts , d. 27 Aug 1695, Braintree, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts (Age 41 years) + 2. Huldah* Thayer, b. 16 Jun 1657, Braintree, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts , d. Aft 1707, Braintree, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts (Age > 51 years) + 3. Jonathan Thayer, b. 18 Jan 1659, Braintree, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts , d. 1690, Mendon, Worcester Co, Massachusetts (Age 30 years) 4. David Thayer, b. 20 Apr 1660, Braintree, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts , d. 1 Jun 1674, Braintree, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts (Age 14 years) 5. Naomi Thayer, b. 28 Nov 1662, Braintree, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts , d. 1718 (Age 55 years) + 6. Isaac Thayer, b. 14 Feb 1664, Braintree, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts , d. Dec 1754, At Sea, Near Cape Ann, Massachusetts (Age 90 years) + 7. Thomas Thayer, b. 14 Feb 1664, Braintree, Norfolk Co, Massachusetts , d. 1 May 1738, Mendon, Worcester Co, Massachusetts (Age 74 years) + 8. Samuel Thayer, b. 15 Nov 1666, Mendon, Worcester Co, Massachusetts , d. 19 Dec 1721, Mendon, Worcester Co, Massachusetts (Age 55 years) 9. Israel Thayer, b. 1668, Mendon, Worcester Co, Massachusetts , d. Aft 1669 (Age > 2 years) 10. Josiah Thayer, b. 14 Jan 1670, Mendon, Worcester Co, Massachusetts , d. 1728, Mendon, Worcester Co, Massachusetts (Age 57 years) 11. Ebenezer Thayer, b. 1672, Mendon, Worcester Co, Massachusetts , d. 13 Jun 1695 (Age 23 years) 12. Benjamin Thayer, b. 1674, Mendon, Worcester Co, Massachusetts , d. 1728, Mendon, Worcester Co, Massachusetts (Age 54 years) 13. David Thayer, b. 17 Sep 1677, Mendon, Worcester Co, Massachusetts , d. 29 Aug 1678, Mendon, Worcester Co, Massachusetts (Age 0 years) Last Modified 10 Feb 2011 Family ID F1105 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Anna Freeburg, b. Abt 1645, d. Aft 1691 (Age ~ 47 years) Married Aft 1690 Mendon, Worcester Co, Massachusetts Last Modified 10 Feb 2011 Family ID F1114 Group Sheet | Family Chart
- Birth: Source, Gen. & Personal Memoirs of Worcester Co., by Ellery Bicknell
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