Born in Braintree, Suffolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Daughter of Dependence French
and Rebecca (Fenno) French
Sister of
Mary (French) Savil [half], John French, Dependence French, Elizabeth (French) Vinton and Gideon French [half]
Wife of
John Thayer
— married
26 May 1715 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Descendants 
Mother of
Benjamin Thayer, Obadiah Thayer, Micah Thayer, Richard Thayer, Abiah Thayer, Simeon Thayer and Elijah Thayer
Died
at age 68
in Braintree, Norfolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Profile last modified
| Created 7 Jun 2014
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Biography
Rebecca French was born on 13 May 1694 in Braintree, Suffolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay . She was the daughter of Dependence French and Rebecca Fenno. Rebecca French married JohnThayer on 26 May 1715 in Braintree, Suffolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay. She passed away on 30 Oct 1762 in Braintree, Norfolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay.[1]
She passed away in 1762 and is buried at Elm St Cemetery[2]
Sources
- ↑ Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
- ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV2W-6GS3 : 15 July 2020), Rebecca French Thayer, 1762; Burial, http://www.findagrave.com.
- Find A Grave: Memorial #59053400 Rebecca (French) Thayer
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rebecca by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rebecca:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rebecca by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rebecca:
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~0.78%
Linda (Whitney) Cook
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch HY4275912 [compare], Ancestry member LindaMCook
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Sylvia Stetson :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #976191
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~0.39%
Sheila (Farnsworth) King :
23andMe
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~0.39%
Steven Tebbetts :
23andMe
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~0.39%
Ellen Thayer :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
J Holm :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch AC4517354 [compare]
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~0.39%
Don Brown :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Donald_Edward_Brown
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~0.39%
Tom Bates :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A704111 [compare], Ancestry member BackToGeorgia
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Categories: Elm Street Cemetery, Braintree, Massachusetts
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