1William B. Trask, Abstracts from the Earliest Wills on Record in the County of Suffolk, Mass., NEHGR Vol. 13, pp. 336-337 ( Oct. 1859).
Documents descendants of Thomas Thayer.
"THOMAS THAYER. I, Thomas Tayer* of Brantrey, in Suffolke,in the Massachusetts Colonie, of New England, Shoemaker, 24th June 1664, doe make this my last will.
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*"Old Thomas Thayer dyed 2d. 4 mo. 1665. Margery Thayer dyed 11 d. 12 mo. 1672." -- Thayer's Family Memorial, from Braintree Records.
Children:-- Thomas2 Thayer, Jr., was probably married in England, to Hannah or Anna -----. They had eight children, viz: Thomas, Elizabeth, Isaac, John, Experience, Isaac, Ebenezer, Deborah. He died Aug. 9, 1663, at the age of more than 70; his wife, Anna, deceased Feb. 7, 1698, a. at about 73. Ferdinando2 second son of Thomas1 and Margery Thayer, m. Huldah Hayward, of Braintree, Jan. 14, 1652. "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 Weymouth, where many of his descendants are living at this day." Ferdinando 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. Shadrach2 youngest son of Thomas1 and Margery, m. Mary Barrett, 1, 1, 1654, and settled in Braintree. Shadrach2 and Mary had two children, Racbel and Tryall. She died 2. 2. 1658. The second wife of Shadrach2 was Deliverance Priest. By this connection he had seven children, viz: Freelove, Mary, Timothy, Samuel, Ephraim, Hannah, William. He died Oct. 19, 1678. Deliverance, his widow, d. Jan. 17, 1723, a. about 79 years. -- Thayer's Family Memorial, pp. 136-153."