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Residing in Arizona in 1898.
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died age 31.
3rd cousins once removed
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married 2nd (before 1696) Ann Freebury, probably widow of Nicholas Freeby whom Savage mentions as being at Casco about 1680, or of Richard Friebury Sr. who was taxed at Pemaquid in 1687 (Register Vol. 32-314).
No record of her marriage or death is found except in the court records at Boston which give much information on her life in Mendon and the violent domestic quarrel with Ferdinando Thayer and his sons to whom he deeded his property, partly at least to prevent her from acquiring it. (See Records of Supreme Court of Judicature #4657,4845,4703,4727, in Suffolk Co. Court House, Boston).
Ann Freeberry (or Freebury) was an "eastern woman", that is, from Maine, probably driven here by the Indian Wars; she was born about 1648 according to her own deposition.
She departed from Ferdinando Thayer after 1700, when he made an agreement "to be shaft of her" after she testified he and his sons sold liquor to the Indians and that he had deserved to have his house burnt by the Indians during the War and that it would occur again if he did not stop trafficking with them, that he had tried to starve her by not providing food in the house, etc.
Ferdinando Thayer was one of the original grantees and proprietors of Mendon to which he removed in 1663 but was forced to return to Braintree for several years during King Philip's War (where he and son Jonathan Thayer took the oath of allegiance about 1678 (Vol.29 - Boston Rec. Com. Rep.) when Mendon was abandoned and his house there burnt as we learn from the court records.
He was selectman in Mendon 1667-70, 1672,1674, perhaps in 1675, in 1680,1685,1686,1688, surveyor of highways 1682-3,1687. According to the Preserved Smith Thayer Mss. now in possession of a relative in Worcester, his house lot of 40 acres was a little south of the residence (1859) of Alexander H. Allen. It was bounded east on Muddy Brook, south on house lot of John Rockwood, west on house lot of Samuel Hayward, north on house lot of John Gurney. His son Benjamin received all his lands that he had not previously deeded to his other sons, Jonathan, Thomas, Samuel, and Isaac.
Ann Thear deposed in court July 1696 aged 48 years (court Rec. #4342) that she saw Ebenezer Thear sell "two quarts od sider" to an Indian.
On May 7,1700 "Ferdinando Thear" complained of "the wild words, carriages and actions of my wicked disposed and perverse wife Ann Thear formally an Eastern woman and until my unhappy marriage with her known by the name of Ann Freeberry who hath been endeavoring to ruinate me in respect to my person, name, and estate either by fire in burning my house over my head as she hath lately threatened in so much that I am afraid to live with her", etc., "and that none of my children durst live with me, and I am unable to help myself being almost 80 years old, and by reason of her private conveying of things out of the house my house is left almost destitute of outwards comforts", etc. Depositions were also made by Ebenezer Thayer aged 26, and Martha his wife a.25, and Benjamin Thayer a.20, William Howard a,32, John Rocket a.59, John Bridges a.52, Peter Holbrook a.41.
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Resided in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio in 1898, a widow.
(W. Stockbridge V.R.)
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?? huen Frances Thayer
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Living 1947 at Brookline.
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He was a Revolutionary soldier and was an officer during that war, after which he became a Brigadeer General in the Militia and was the only Braintree native to become a general in the army, except Gen. Sylvanus Thayer in the nineteenth century. Gen. Ebenezer Thayer lived on the homestead of Rev. Samuel Niles, his grandfather, next east of the First Church on Elm St., at the east corner of Stedman St. This property was sold to him Feb.5,1778 by his father Ebenezer Thayer Sr., 8 acres, house and barn "where Ebenezer Thayer Jr. now lives." (S.D.136-82).
This family and those of his brothers had a mania for changing their names as seen by the records of their children.
He left a will dated May 27,1809, proved Aug.1,1809 giving to wife Rachel all the estate for life except as hereafter given, and to sons Ebenezer F. and Samuel N. Thayer certain real estate already deeded to them, and at her decease to grandsons Elisha Niles Thayer and Ebenezer Coddington Thayer, children of son Elisha deceased 1/5 of all real estate, and the remainder of it in four parts to his four sons Gideon Latimer, Nathaniel Frederick, Ebenezer Francis, and Samuel Niles Thayer. (N.P.17-226 & 7)
The widow Rachel died intestate and her estate was said to be insolvent (N.P.33-168, 33-459).
A division of his real estate was made Jul.2,1824, a very detailed and complicated work (N.P.43-285).
at Boston "Ebenezer Thayer 3rd of Braintree" & Rachel Thayer of Boston", his cousin,