1Braintree, MA: Vital Records, 1643-1793, pp. 94, 97, 106.
"BLANCHARD Hannah Blanchard the Daughter of Nathaniel Blanchard and Dorathy his wife was born ye 14 March 1709/10.
BLANCHARD Mary the daughter of Nathaniel Blanchard and Dorathy his wife was born ye 22d. February 1713.
BLANCHARD John the son of Nathaniel Blanchard & Dorathy his wife was born the 22d. Day of March 1715.".
1Braintree, MA: Vital Records, 1643-1793, pp. 168, 181.
"BLANCHARD Nathaniel Blanchard & Hannah Thayer 14th. April 1724. * These 6 following were married by the Rvd. Mr. Samuel Niles.
BLANCHARD Ephraim the son of Nathaniel Blanchard and Hannah his wife was born ye 18th March 1724/5.".
1James Bowen Johnson, The Johnson Memorial: Jeremiah Johnson and Thomazin Blanchard Johnson, His Wife, pp. 21-22 (1895).
This source says Nathaniel Blanchard (b. 19 May 1701, son of John Blanchard and Abigail) married Hannah Thayer while another source (George Thomas Little, Henry Sweetser Burrage, and Albert Roscoe Stubbs, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, Vol. 1, p. 284 (1909)) says he married Hannah Shaw.
"THIRD GENERATION FROM JOHN ALDEN
HANNAH THAYER.
Hannah Thayer, fourth child of Ephraim and Sarah (Bass) Thayer, of Braintree, was born Jan. 13, 1698, married Nathaniel Blanchard, also of Braintree, in 1724. He was born May 19, 1701. His grandfather, Nathaniel, was born in London, in 1636, came to Boston when three years old, with his father, Thomas Blanchard, "in the ship Jonathan," in 1639, settled in Braintree in 1646, went to Charlestown in 1651 and purchased 200 acres of land on the Mystic river, dying there in 1654. Nathaniel married Susannah Bates, Dec. 16, 1658, in Charlestown, removed to Weymouth, and died there Aug. 1676. He had two sons, John and Nathaniel. John settled in Abington, Nathaniel in Braintree. As long as the family remained in Braintree there was a Nathaniel in the family. His father was John Blanchard and his mother Abigail --------.
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The original Thomas Blanchard was a Huguenot, and fled from Paris to London in 1630 to escape persecution. He was a direct descendant of Alain Blanchard, who was put to death in 1418 by the British at the capture of Rouen, France. The Blanchard family was ennobled in Lorraine, France, in 1609, and granted a coat of arms. Several of the family attained the dignity of Marquises.
The last one died at Nantes in 1825, in the person of Francois Wrisin Gabrielle Blanchard, Marquis du Bois de la Musse. Thomas, the immigrant was a Protestant, and was obliged to leave France in 1630, when he came to London. His wife, Agnes Bent Barnes, her infant daughter, and her mother, died on the passage in the ship "Jonathan" and were buried at sea.
Nathaniel died May, 1765, They (Nathaniel and Hannah) had seven children. Nehemiah, the sixth child, was born in Braintree, Feb. 10, 1736.
After the death of her husband Hannah married William Noyes."
However footnote 2 says that Nathaniel, son of John, marrying Hannah Thayer is incorrect.2Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, ed. , Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1640-1850. Including the Modern Towns of Randolph & Holbrook ..., 1983.
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This source says Nathaniel, son of John, is the true husband of Hannah Shaw.