Sarah (Bass) Thayer (1672 - 1751)

Born 29 Mar 1672 in Braintree, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, New England

Ancestors

Wife of Ephraim Thayer — married 7 Jan 1692 in Braintree, Suffolk County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 19 Aug 1751 at age 79 in Braintree, Suffolk County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, New England

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Biography

Sarah Bass, daughter of John Bass and Ruth (Alden) Bass, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts "1 mo. 29, 1672" (old calendar),^[1] which converts to March 29, 1672 (new calendar).^[2]

Sarah married Ephraim Thayer in Braintree on January 7, 1691/2.Bates, "Braintree Records," p 720^[2]

Sarah and Ephraim had the following children, all born and baptized in Braintree:^[3][4][5]

1. Sarah, b. February 5, 1691/2, m. August 4, 1715 Seth Dorman in Braintree,^[6] d. June 12, 1753 in Braintree^[7][8]
2. Ephraim, Jr., b. July 8, 1694, m. April 1, 1718 Mary Copeland in Braintree,^[9] d. about February 1780 in Braintree^[10]
3. Philip, b. April 14, 1696, m. April 1, 1718 Mary Wilson in Braintree,^[9] d. November 3, 1758 in Norton, Massachusetts^[11]
4. Hannah, b. January 13, 1697/8, m. 1st April 14, 1724 Nathaniel Blanchard in Braintree,^[12] m. 2d int. May 8, 1765 William Noyes in Braintree,^[13] d. after March 1768^[14]
5. Joseph, b. July 28, 1699, m. 1st December 16, 1725 Sarah Faxon in Braintree,^[12] m. 2d November 16, 1738 Eunice Ludden in Braintree,^[15] d. January 8, 1778^[16]
6. Shadrack, b. April 18, 1701, m. 1st May 2, 1723 Rachel White in Braintree,^[12] d. Februeary 17, 1783 in Braintree^[17]
7. Christopher, b. March 4, 1702/3, m. September 29, 1735 Mary Morse in Norton, Massachusetts,^[18]d. December 10, 1787 in Peterborough, New Hampshire^[18]
8. Ruth, b. April 1, 1704, m. September 20, 1722 John Capen in Braintree,^[12][19] d. after 1748^[20]
9. Esther, b. July 24, 1705, m. December 24, 1730 Moses French in Braintree,^[21] d. December 13, 1800 in Braintree^[22]
10. Napthali, b. January 30, 1706/7, m. February 3, 1731/2 Bathsheba Bass in Braintree,^[21] d. 1760 in Braintree^[23]
11. Peter, b. July 12, 1708, m. June 1, 1732 Anna Porter in Braintree or Norton,^[21] d. September 27, 1798 in Peterborough, New Hampshire^[24]
12. Priscilla, b. March 7, 1709/10, m. 1st July 11, 1732 Elijah Hayden in Braintree,^[21] m. 2d March 27, 1735 Joseph Ford in Weymouth,^[25] m. 3d June 8, 1708 William Spear in Braintree,^[26] d. October 20, 1794 in Dorchester^[25]
13. James, b. March 16, 1711/2, m. December 6, 1748 Deborah Arnold in Braintree,^[27] d. June 19, 1790 in Braintree^[28]
14. Abigail, b. November 15, 1713, m. November 21, 1734 Benjamin Richards in Braintree,^[29] d. March 10, 1765 in Weymouth^[30]

The 1716 will of her father, John Bass, provided that Sarah Thayer and her sister Mary Copeland were each to get an acre of Salt Meadow during their natural life and, after their decease, their children were to receive five pounds to be distributed equally.^[31]

Sarah died August 19, 1751 in Braintree. She was buried in the Elm Street Cemetery in that town. Her gravestone reads: "Here lyes ye body of Mrs. Sarah Thayer wife to Mr. Ephraim Thayer aged 79 years & 5 months Dec'd August the 19 1751 Her offspring was in number 170."^[32][2] (The reference to her offspring presumably refers to the number of her offspring alive at her time of death, which given her 14 children, all of whom themselves had children, is plausible.)

Sources

1. ↑ Bates, Samuel A., Records of the town of Braintree, 1640-1793 (Randolph, Mass. : D.H. Huxford, 1886), p 649.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Sarah Bass rootsweb page based on Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, "Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Norfolk, Mass., 1640-1850," pp 347, 4885 (Link via Wayback Machine at Archive.org, capture date 14 Mar 2023.) (Link via Wayback Machine at Archive.org, capture date 15 Mar 2023.)
3. ↑ Woodworth-Barnes, Esther Littleford, edited by Alicia Crane Williams, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, John Alden, Vol. 16, Part 1 (Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2002), p. 147.
4. ↑ Bates, Samuel A., Records of the town of Braintree, 1640-1793 (Randolph, Mass. : D.H. Huxford, 1886), pp. 668, 670, 674-5, 677, 680, 682, 684-87, 689, 692, 697.
5. ↑ Jackson, Edward Evarts, "Records of the First Church at Braintree, Mass.," NEHGR Vol. 59(1904): 273-74, 360, 362-64.
6. ↑ Bates, Braintree Records p. 743
7. ↑ Bates, Braintree Records p. 736
8. ↑ Sarah Thayer rootsweb page based on Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, "Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Norfolk, Mass., 1640-1850," pp 1426, 4887 (Link via Wayback Machine at Archive.org, capture date 15 Mar 2023.)
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} Bates, Braintree Records p. 744
10. ↑ Ephraim Thayer, Jr. rootsweb page based on Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, "Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Norfolk, Mass., 1640-1850," pp 4887, 4896, 5716 (Link via Wayback Machine at Archive.org, capture date 15 Mar 2023.)
11. ↑ Philip Thayer rootsweb page based on Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, "Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Norfolk, Mass., 1640-1850," pp 1139, 4887, 4895 (Link via Wayback Machine at Archive.org, capture date 15 Mar 2023.)
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3} Bates, Braintree Records p. 746
13. ↑ Bates, Braintree Records p. 873
14. ↑ Hannah Thayer rootsweb page based on Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, "Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Norfolk, Mass., 1640-1850," pp 34, 706, 3588, 4887 (Link via Wayback Machine at Archive.org, capture date 15 Mar 2023.)
15. ↑ Bates, Braintree Records p. 752
16. ↑ Joseph Thayer rootsweb page based on Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, "Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Norfolk, Mass., 1640-1850," pp 1592, 3117, 4887, 4898 (Link via Wayback Machine at Archive.org, capture date 15 Mar 2023.)
17. ↑ Shadrach Thayer rootsweb page based on Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, "Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Norfolk, Mass., 1640-1850," pp 4887, 4900, 5459 (Link via Wayback Machine at Archive.org, capture date 15 Mar 2023.)
18. ↑ ^{18.0 18.1} Christopher Thayer rootsweb page based on Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, "Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Norfolk, Mass., 1640-1850," pp 4887, 4901 (Link via Wayback Machine at Archive.org, capture date 15 Mar 2023.)
19. ↑ Charles Albert Hayden and Jessie Hale Tuttle, "The Capen Family: Descendants of Bernard Capen of Dorchester, Mass." 1929, p 29
20. ↑ Ruth Thayer rootsweb page based on Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, "Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Norfolk, Mass., 1640-1850," pp 925, 926, 4887 (Link via Wayback Machine at Archive.org, capture date 15 Mar 2023.)
21. ↑ ^{21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3} Bates, Braintree Records p. 748
22. ↑ Esther Thayer rootsweb page based on Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, "Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Norfolk, Mass., 1640-1850," pp 1775, 4887 (Link via Wayback Machine at Archive.org, capture date 15 Mar 2023.)
23. ↑ Napthali Thayer rootsweb page based on Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, "Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Norfolk, Mass., 1640-1850," pp 353, 4887, 4902 (Link via Wayback Machine at Archive.org, capture date 15 Mar 2023.)
24. ↑ Peter Thayer rootsweb page based on Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, "Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Norfolk, Mass., 1640-1850," pp 3871, 4887, 4903 (Link via Wayback Machine at Archive.org, capture date 15 Mar 2023.)
25. ↑ ^{25.0 25.1} Priscilla Thayer rootsweb page based on Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, "Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Norfolk, Mass., 1640-1850," pp 1730, 2231, 4363, 4887 (Link via Wayback Machine at Archive.org, capture date 14 Mar 2023.)
26. ↑ Bates, Braintree Records p. 883
27. ↑ Jackson, Edward Evarts, "A List of Marriages by Rev. Samuel Niles of Braintree, Mass., 1739-1762, not Entered on Town Records," NEHGR Vol. 60(1906):42
28. ↑ Bates, Braintree Records p. 865
29. ↑ Bates, Braintree Records p. 750
30. ↑ Abigail Thayer rootsweb page based on Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, "Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Norfolk, Mass., 1640-1850," pp 592, 4059, 4887 (Link via Wayback Machine at Archive.org, capture date 15 Mar 2023.)
31. ↑ Will of John Bass, as printed in William Kenneth Rutherford, Genealogical History of Our Ancestors, Volume 1; privately printed, 1977, pp. 30-32, taken from Suffolk County, MA Wills, Case #3785, Boston
32. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16583849/sarah-thayer: accessed 14 March 2023), memorial page for Sarah Bass Thayer (29 Mar 1672–19 Aug 1751), Find A Grave: Memorial #16583849, citing Elm Street Cemetery, Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Marc Thayer, III (contributor 46542959). (Includes gravestone photo.)

See also:

• Sprague, Waldo Chamberlain. Genealogies of the families of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1640-1850 : including the modern towns of Randolph and Holbrook and the city of Quincy, (Boston : NEHGS, 1983) New England Historic Genealogical Society; Quincy Historical Society (Massachusetts)