Joseph Thayer1,2

b. 10 March 1734
Last Edited=7 Mar 2010
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5th great-grandfather of Joseph Michael Flint
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     Joseph Thayer was born on 10 March 1734.3 He was the son of Hon. Thomas Thayer and Hannah Holbrook.3

Joseph Thayer married Sarah Brown, daughter of Esek Brown and Patience Cranston, on 19 March 1769 at Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts.4,2,1

Joseph Thayer was enumerated during 1774 on the 1774 Rhode Island Census for Newport as head of family Joseph Tayer. Enumerated in this family were: 1 male above 16, 1 female above 16, 1 female below 16.5

Joseph Thayer was enumerated during 1782 on the 1782 Rhode Island Census for Newport as head of family Joseph Tayer. Enumerated in this family were: 1 male under 16, 2 females under 16, 1 male 22-50, 1 female 22-50.6

Children of Joseph Thayer and Sarah Brown

Citations

  1. Bezaleel Thayer, Memorial of the Thayer name: from the Massachusetts colony of Weymouth and Braintree, embracing geneological [!] and biographical sketches of Richard & Thomas Thayer, and their descendants from 1636 to 1874 (Oswego, New York: R.J. Oliphant, Steam Book and Job printer, 1874), 708, pg 284; digital image, Google Books (https://books.google.com/books?id=kTJWAAAAMAAJ : accessed 19 May 2009), Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison Digitized Jan 18, 2008.
  2. "Vital Records of Swansea, Massachusetts to 1850," New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed 17 May 2009), entry for Tayler; citing Boston, Massachusetts, NEHGS, Vital Records of Swansea, Massachusetts to 1850. Transcribed by H.L.Peter Rounds; edited by Jane Fletcher Fiske and Margaret F. Costello, 1992, Joseph Tayler of Newport and Sarah Brown of Swanzey was married march ye 19:1769 By me Russell Mason Elder of a Church of Christ in Swanzey.
  3. Bezaleel Thayer, Memorial of the Thayer name, 708, pg 252.
  4. Swansea, Massachusetts, Births Marriages Deaths, Vol B 1705-1805: 203, Joseph Tayer and Sarah Brown; FHL microfilm 0903395.
  5. Rhode Island. General Assembly, Census of the inhabitants of the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, taken by order of the General Assembly, in the year 1774; arranged by John R. Bartlett, Secretary of State. (Providence: Knowles, Anthony & Co., state printers, 1858), 33.
  6. Katharine Waterman, "The Rhode Island Census of 1782," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 127 (January 1973: 15; digital image, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (www.AmericanAncestors.org : accessed 1 Aug 2009).
  7. "Vital Records of Swansea, Massachusetts," Tayer, Francis the Dafter of Joseph Tayer and of Sarah his Wife Departed this Life May ye 12:1776 in the fourth year of her age.
  8. Bezaleel Thayer, Memorial of the Thayer name, 708, pg 286.
  9. "Vital Records of Swansea, Massachusetts," Sally Brown, Sally the Dafter of Joseph Tayer and Sarah his wife was Born March ye 29:1777 on the seventh day of the week about one a Clock in the morning. pg 271; Book D: Births and Marriages 1762-1797 [Page 76/73].
  10. "Vital Records of Swansea, Massachusetts," Tayer, Fanny the Dafter of Joseph Tayer and Sarah his Wife was Born October ye 5:1779 on Fryday at Nine a Clock at Night.
  11. Bezaleel Thayer, Memorial of the Thayer name, 708, pg. 284.