Antony Thacher (abt. 1593 - 1667)

Born about 1593 in Queen Camel, Somerset, England

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (UNKNOWN) Thacker — married 1619 in Of, Queen Camel, Somerset, England

Husband of Elizabeth (Jones) Thacher — married Feb 1635 in England

Descendants

Died 22 Aug 1667 at about age 74 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts

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Antony Thacher migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Great Migration (Series 2), by R. C. Anderson, vol. 7, p. 14) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Name Note

Thacher is the only way Antony spelled his name in all known documents penned by him. Thatcher is included in the "other names" box for merging purposes, though the name remained Thacher in following generations.

Biography

Name

Anthony Thatcher^[1][2]

Anthony was born about 1593, based on his first marriage and the age of his oldest son.^[3] He was the son of Peter Thacher of Queen Camel, Somerset.^[4] Queen Camel is a village and civil parish, on the River Cam and the A359 road, in the South Somerset district of Somerset, England. It is about 7 miles north of Yeovil. According to the 2011 census it had a population of 908. The parish includes the hamlet of Wales. ^[5]The available parish register on ancestry.com begins 1639 for Queen Camel.

He married first Mary (Unknown), and they had at least five children. Mary was buried on July 26, 1634. He married, second, Elizabeth Jones, and the marriage supposedly took place "about six weeks before the date of his sailing for New England."^[6]

He emigrated to the colonies on the ship James, in April 1635,^[7] with his second wife Elizabeth and four of the children of his first marriage. Baby Benjamin was left behind in England with Anthony's brother Peter. They went to Newbury after arrival, but, on August 11, 1635, Anthony's entire family and the family of Anthony's "cousin" Joseph Avery embarked at Ipswich on a pinnace sent to take them to Marblehead. On the fifteenth, they were shipwrecked on an island off of Cape Ann, and all four children were drowned. Anthony and Elizabeth survived.^[8]As "Anthony Thetcher" he is listed among the inhabitants of Marblehead in the 11th month of 1637.^[9]

Anthony and Elizabeth had three children: John, Judah, and Bethiah. Anthony passed away in 1668.^[10]

His death date, 22 August 1667 is recorded in the heading of his inventory which was taken on 13 December 1667 in Yarmouth and recorded in Plymouth.^[11]

Estate of his cousin Joseph Avery

"There is administration granted [Sept. 1, 1635] to Mr Anthony Thacher of the goods & chattells of Mr Joseph Avery, disceased, wch hee is to inventory, & returne the same into the nexte Court; & the said goods are to remaine in his hands till further order be taken therein. " An Inventory of the Goods and chattells of Joseph Avery, deceased. li 8 d Due to him from John Emery, carpenter, 07 00 00 ; It : from Robte Andrewes, of Ipswich, wch he confesseth to be due, & to be p d f orthw th , 02 00 00; It : from M r Willm Hilton, 02 16 00 or a sowe & piggs to that valewe. Testis, Rich : Kent. From Rich : Kent, of Ipsw cb , ten bushels of Indian corne, which hee acknowledged. " John Emery denyes his debt ; but Richard Knight, Nicholas Holte, & John Knight, all three of Newberry, can & will testify & prove it to be due, onely hee was, by condition, to pay the 7 11 in his worke, w ch he was to doe so soon as Mr Auery did call vpon him for it out of w ch said 7 U there is something paide in lab r already, as hee can make to appeare. " p me, Anthon y Thacher." ^[12]

Estate of brother Peter Thatcher

Thatcher, Peter, clerk of New Sarum, Wiltshire, brother Anthony Thatcher in New England. Probate to relict Alice. August 1641.^[13]

Sources

1. ↑ Otis, Amos. Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families (F.B. & F.P. Goss, Barnstable, Mass., 1888-1890), Volume 2, Page 49.
2. ↑ Snow, Snow-Estes Ancestry v1, Page 494 Citing Austin's One Hundred And Sixty Allied Families, pp. 137-139. The American Genealogist, v. 14:214-5. The Mayflower Descendant, v. 2:118
3. ↑ Anderson, Great Migration, vol VII Page 18
4. ↑ Great Migration 1634-1635, T-Y. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011
5. ↑ Wikipedia.
6. ↑ NYGBR: John R. Totten, Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy v 42(Jan 1911):58-81, at 58
7. ↑ Anderson, Great Migration, vol VII, Page 18
8. ↑ NYGBR: John R. Totten, Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy v42 (Jan 1911):79-81
9. ↑ Martha O. Howes, Sidney Perley. "Town Records of Salem, Massachusetts." The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass. (1634) p. 63.see at archive.org
10. ↑ Anderson, Great Migration, vol VII, Page 19
11. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G97D-VQHF : 8 March 2023), Wills 1633-1686 vol 1-4 > image 251 of 616; State Archives, Boston.
12. ↑ Mass. Bay Colony Records, vol. 1, page 154.https://archive.org/stream/probaterecordsof01dowg/probaterecordsof01dowg_djvu.txt
13. ↑ "English Estates of American Colonists 1610-1699" compiled by Peter Wilson Coldham, Baltimore 1980, from will and admin in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. available on ancestry.com by subscription.

• Great Migration 1634-1635, T-Y. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011. Pages 14-22

• The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. New York, NY: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1870-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.)

• Snow, Nora Emma. The Snow-Estes Ancestry (1939) Page 494 http://archive.org/details/snowestesancestr01snow. In two volumes
• Austin's One Hundred And Sixty Allied Families, pp. 137-139.
• The American Genealogist, v. 14:214-5.
• The Mayflower Descendant, v. 2:118
• Thacher Family
• Ancestry Tree
• Otis, Horatio. The Thatcher Family, No. II. Descendants of Anthony Thatcher, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1860) Vol. 14, Page 11
• Winsor, Justin. Abstract of the Earliest Wills in the Probate Office, Plymouth, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1853) Vol. 7, Page 177