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George, b. June 19, 1829 ; m. Abbie Mott, Nov. 3, 1851 ; ch., (1) Eva ; (2) Ithamar ; (3) Charlotte ; re. to Penn- sylvania.
Fanet, b. Oct. 24, 1831 ; m. Edward S. Cutter, May 21, 1850 ; r. Amherst ; she d. 1873, æ. 42 yrs.
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JAMES W. SWAN. He lived and d. on a farm north of the Gen. David Steele place. He m. Agnes Nancy Blair, April 6, 1815 ; she d. April 7, 1845, æ. 56 yrs. He d. Dec. 30, 1824, æ. 32 yrs.
William, b. Dec. 6, 1815 ; m. Frances Kemp, Sept. 26, 1844 ; d. June 5, 1866, æ. 50 yrs., 6 mos.
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t James, b. July 9, 1816 ; m., Ist w., Elizabeth P. White ; 2d w., Mary W. Grant.
Anna, b. 1821 ; d. Jan. 10, 1853, æ. 32 yrs. Mary, b. -; m. John Kelso White ; r. Hanover, Ill.
CHARLES A. SWAN m. Maria L. Hill, Charlestown, N. H. She d. Jacksonville, Ill., Oct. 31, 1871.
Mary A., b. Charlestown, Nov. 12, 1849; m. Alonzo M. Hannaford, Feb. 20, 1868.
Maria L., b. Charlestown, April 21, 1851. Charles A., b. Charlestown, Jan. 2, 1854. Carrie f., b. Norwalk, O., Nov. 22, 1855. Arabella F., b. Norwalk, O., Aug. 14, 1857.
William H., b. Cleveland, O., September, 1859.
JAMES SWAN m., Ist w., Elizabeth P. White, dau. of John S. White, March 17, 1846 ; she d. Oct. 14, 1856, æ. 39 yrs., 3 mos. ; m., 2d w., Mary W. Grant, Jan. 30, 1862. He re. to Hanover, Ill., in 1867 or '68; Ist w., three ch .; 2d w., one ch.
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Fames W., b. Jan. 18, 1849 ; d. Sept. 12, 1850, æ. I yr. Anna y., b. April 30, 1853 ; d. April 10, 1863, æ. 10 yrs. Elizabeth P., b. June 5, 1856. Nancy L., b. Nov. 26, 1862.
THE TAGGART FAMILY.
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JOHN TAGGART came to town with Deacon William McNee and William Ritchie, with his family, about May I, 1752, and occupied the place purchased of Joseph Caldwell, "the George Shedd farm." He came from Roxbury, Mass., his first five ch. being b. there. He m. Barbara -; he d. 1813, æ. 92 or 93 yrs.
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Margaret, b. Sept. 17, 1740 ; m. William McClary ; r. New Ipswich.
Fames, b. May 11, 1742 ; m. Elizabeth Nay ; re. to Dub- lin, 1788; ch., (1) Barbara ; (2) William ; (3) Eliza- beth ; (4) Margaret ; (5) Rebecca; (6) James ; (7) John ; (8) Washington.
Sarah, b. Feb. 26, 1745 ; m. John Swan.
Catharine, b. June 14, 1747 ; m. Daniel Cleary ; r. New Ipswich.
5 4 6 Fohn (Ensign), b. Feb. 11, 1750; m. Anna Eames ; re. to Dublin, 1797; ch., (1) Jacob; (2) David ; (3) John ; (4) Sally ; d. Nov. 15, 1832, æ. 82 yrs., 9 mos.
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Mary, b. June 23, 1752 ; m. Samuel Hogg, name changed to Shepherd.
Rachel, b. in Peterborough, Feb. 26, 1755 ; m. Hugh Gregg.
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William, b. in Peterborough, Dec. 28, 1761 ; m. Hannah Barnes ; ch., (1) William ; (2) John ; (3) Abner ; (4) Sally ; (5) Hannah ; (6) Betsey. He d. March 9, 1844, æ. 82 yrs., 2 mos. She d. Oct. 13, 1857, æ. 91 yrs. ; r. Sharon.
ALBERT TAGGART, son of Washington Taggart, of Sharon, b. Nov. 30, 1828 ; m. Mary E. Gowing, dau. of Moses and Mary J. Gowing, July 30, 1849.
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Florence M., b. April 19, 1850 ; a teacher in Maryland ; m., July 25, 1876, John Doyen ; r. Winona, Minn. Sophia Adelia, b. June 6, 1856.
THE TAYLOR FAMILY.
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ISAIAH TAYLOR lived on the Jabez Carley farm, which he purchased of George Duncan, Sen., of Londonderry, in 1778, and probably came to town to live about that time. He m. Mary -. He d. Nov. 1, 1801, &. 74 yrs. ; she d. July 7, 1803, æ. 74 yrs.
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Betsey, b. -; m. Alexander Scott. Polly, b. -; m. James Smith ; they lived on the same farm of (Isaiah Taylor) many years ; re. to New Ips- wich.
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Charles, b. 1762 ; m. Betsey Whittemore ; ch., (1) Jo- seph ; (2) Charles ; he d. Nov. 20, 1800, æ. 38 yrs. Nabby, b. -; m. James Stroud, Canada.
THE TEMPLETON FAMILY.
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MATTHEW TEMPLETON and his brother James came to America from Ireland when young. They came to Peterborough from where Matthew m. Jennie Harkness, at precisely what time we cannot determine. It was probably as early as 1770, near the time of his marriage, for we find that he was chosen tithing-man in 1771, treasurer in 1776, and one of the Committee of Safety in 1778. He began his farm in the east part of the town, the same now owned by Caleb Wilder. Here he lived and died.
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Matthew Templeton was one of the striking characters among our early settlers. He made a deep impression upon the people of his time, and I well recollect in my early years that no name was more frequently on the lips of his descendants and successors than his. His eccentricities and peculiarities have come down to us, marking a strong-minded, wilful, and obstinate man. He was most notorious for his hostility to any - the least -innovation in the mode of public worship. He was eminently a religious man, but stern and austere, re- minding one of the old Scotch Covenanters, who feared neither man, flesh, nor the devil. Many of the old Pres- byterians of that day were as fixed in their religious notions as the Medes and Persians, -they knew no change.
This is somewhat facetiously, but well, illustrated in the prayer of the Scotch elder, who besought the Lord that he might always be right, adding, "for thou know- est, Lord, that I am very hard to turn," or as expressed in the Scottish dialect, "ye ken, Lord, that I am unco hard to turn."
They had no idea that there could be any true worship but what was similar to theirs ; what they did not under- stand, they took on assumption, taking care always to believe enough, - living and showing to the world more of the type of a Jewish than a Christian community. It is very little we know of the domestic character of Mr. Templeton ; his family government must have been patri- archal and after the model of the old Testament; kind in his way, but little amenable to the teachings of the new dispensation, in which love, forbearance, kindness, and forgiveness are so prominent. He was esteemed a pious man, and no doubt that family and .daily worship was set up in his house, the Scripture read and ex- plained, his children catechised, and all with great sin- cerity and propriety ; and if music was ever introduced, it was only of the voice that was tolerated ; for though David played on the harp, and stringed instruments were used in the worship of the Jews, yet Mr. Templeton con- sidered all instrumental music as coming from the devil. It was a great trial and abomination to him when a bass- viol was carried into the meeting-house, and he is said to have gone out, with great indignation against those who would bring in Dagon for the worship of God. The following anecdote, has been furnished me by Deacon Samuel Weston : He was displeased with their using musical instruments in the church, so that on one Sab- bath he thought he would go to Greenfield to meeting, where he should not be annoyed with Dagon ; but to use
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his own words, he says: "When I got in sight of the meeting-house, there was a man with a goon (bassoon), and Dagon was there too, and I jist got on to mee ould meer and cum home." He even indulged in a spite against so innocent and necessary an instrument as the pitch-pipe ; and it is related that on one occasion, when the singers did not get the right pitch on the tune, the old gentleman, who had a seat just back of the singers, cried out audibly, so as to be heard all over the house, " Try the whostle agen."
When Mr. Dunbar was settled, Mr. Templeton was among the remonstrants on that occasion ; and always adhered to his Presbyterianism ; and yet I suppose that he used to go to meeting. I imagine that he entertained no personal hostility to Mr. Dunbar. He makes a record on the church-book as follows, June 2, 1809 : " Attended the funeral of Mr. Matthew Templeton, aged seventy-four years ; a member of the Presbyterian com- munion, who died after a long decline and much distress and darkness, but I hope is gone to a better world. Though opposed to my settlement, he exhibited many proofs of friendship to me of late years, and called for me to visit him in his sickness."
He d. May 30, 1809, æ. 73 yrs. She d. Nov. 9, 1780, æ. 43 yrs.
Betsey, b. 1770 ; m. John Holmes ; re. to Montpelier, Vt. t Samuel, b. March 30, 1772 ; m. Jane Miller.
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Anna, b. 1774 ; m. Hugh Miller.
Sally, b. 1776 ; m. Reuben Robbe ; never lived with him. Jennie, b. 1778 ; unm. ; d. Feb. 19, 1849, æ. 71 yrs.
SAMUEL TEMPLETON succeeded his father on the home- stead. He m. Jane Miller, dau. of James Miller. He d. Oct. 8, 1832, æ. 60 yrs. She d. June 18, 1840, æ. 66 yrs.
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d. Oct. 8, 1806, æ. 14 dys. Harkness, d. May 30, 1818, æ. 12 yrs. Catharine, b. Oct. 22, 1811 ; m. Caleb F. Wilder.
JAMES TEMPLETON was a brother to Matthew Temple- ton, and came at the same time to town with him, and occupied a farm adjoining his, now constituting the Edes farm and that of William S. Treadwell. He re. to Montpelier in 1800, and d. there in 1807. Hem. Jennet
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Agnes, b. Sept. 24, 1758. (II) Mary, b. April 10, 1760. William, b. Oct. 24, 1762 ; m. Mary Moore, of Sharon. John, b. Nov. 14, 1764.
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THE THAYER FAMILY.
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CHRISTOPHER THAYER (Dea.) was the son of Christo- pher and Mary Morse Thayer, and grandson to Ephraim and Sarah Bass Thayer, of Braintree, Mass .; the wife of Ephraim Thayer, his grandmother, was a third descendant direct from John Alden, the pilgrim. One of Deacon Thayer's sisters, Ruth, b. July 1, 1752, m. John Field, who came to town at the same time he did. Her father, Christopher Thayer, came late in life to Peterborough, and d. here, Dec. 10, 1787, æ. 84 yrs. Mr. Thayer was out in the French war when he was sixteen years of age, and was at Cape Breton in 1757. He subsequently served in the Revolutionary War, but when and where we have no means of determining. He lived on a farm north of the Gordon place, which had been improved some years when he came to town. He emigrated here from Braintree in 1786.
He m. Bethiah Hunt, and the children were all born before he moved to town. He was b. in Braintree, April 27, 1741 ; d. at Peterborough, Sept. 28, 1823, æ. 82 yrs. She was b. Nov. 30, 1744 ; d. Feb. 28, 1817, æ. 73 yrs. He was a deacon in the Presbyterian Church.
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t William, b. Nov. 25, 1767; m. Abigail Wyman, of Ashby, Mass.
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Mary, b. July 8, 1771 ; d. in infancy.
t Eber, b. Aug. 17, 1773; m., Ist w., Elizabeth Jaquith ; 2d w., Sarah Everett.
Christopher, b. Dec. 28, 1776 ; an imbecile ; d. May 12, 1818, æ. 41 yrs., 4 mos.
Sarah, b. Feb. 12, 1779 ; m. Elihu Penniman, Jr. ; d. March 10, 1807, æ. 28 yrs.
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Joseph A., b. May 18, 1781 ; d. Aug. 18, 1803, æ. 22 yrs. t Elihu, b. May 1, 1783 ; m. Susan Everett.
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WILLIAM THAYER. He died suddenly at Amherst, of injuries received in a playful and innocent scuffle with Mr. Cushing, editor of the Farmer's Cabinet. He then carried the mail, on contract, from Brattleboro, Vt., to Portsmouth, once every week, and was on his return when the accident occurred. He was the first mail-con- tractor in town. His routes were made on horseback,
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the roads being too rough for any kind of a carriage. His successor, Mr. Gibbs, also carried the mail in this manner many years. It is singular that both of these early contractors for carrying the mail should have come to a violent death. It will be remembered that Mr. Gibbs lost his life by being thrown off the great bridge in 1824. He m. Abigail Wyman, of Ashby, b. Sept. 6, 1774. She d. July 11, 1818, æ. 43 yrs., 10 mos. He d. Aug. 6, 1807, æ. 39 yrs., 8 mos.
Abijah Wyman, b. Jan. 5, 1796 ; m. Susan Bradley. Cephas P., b. Sept. 6, 1797 ; m. - ; r. Cambridge ; is a printer.
Stephen Wyman, b. Aug. 1, 1801 ; m. -; r. Clyde, N. Y.
Elizabeth S., b. March 23, 1803 ; d. Jan. 18, 1817, æ. 13 yrs.
Abigail S., b. Dec. 3, 1804 ; m. Royal B. Hancock, June, 1832 ; went as a missionary to Burmah and d. on her return passage.
Sarah W., b. July 6, 1806 ; d. Jan. 22, 1807, æ. 5 mos.
EBER THAYER. He m., Ist w., Elizabeth Jaquith, of Washington, b. April 25, 1780 ; she d. Oct. 30, 1805, æ. 25 yrs. ; m., 2d w., Sarah Everett, May 8, 1817 ; b. May 21, 1785 ; she d. Dec. 8, 1866, æ. 82 yrs. He d. Jan. 23, 1849, æ. 75 yrs.
Maria Everett, b. March 10, 1818 ; d. Feb. 11, 1839, æ. 2 1 yrs. Joseph A., b. Nov. 25, 1819 ; m. - Messer ; r. Jaf- frey. Elizabeth }., b. Oct. 21, 1822 ; m. Abner Haggett, June 24, 1845.
Abigail, b. July 27, 1824 ; d. July 12, 1850, æ. 26 yrs.
ELIHU THAYER. He succeeded his father on the home place. Mr. Thayer is a lineal descendant, on the paternal side in the sixth generation, from John Alden, one of the pilgrim fathers. John Alden's youngest dau. m. John Bass, of Braintree, now Quincy, and Sarah, dau. of John Bass, m. Ephraim Thayer, and Christopher, father of Deacon Christopher Thayer, of Peterborough, and father of Elihu, was one of fourteen children of his family. He has always resided in town, a chair-maker and painter by trade. He now survives, at the age of 93 yrs. He m., April 11, 1813, Susan Everett, b. Nov. 3, 1783 ; d. Sept. 20, 1855, æ. 71 yrs.
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Eliza Ann, b. Nov. 4, 1813 ; m. Mark Wilder.
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William, b. March 4, 1815 ; m., Ist w., Sarah Allison ; d. June 18, 1846, æ. 29 yrs., 10 mos. ; m., 2d w., Claris- sa Osgood, of Lawrence ; r. Haverhill, Mass.
Susan, b. April 1, 1816 ; m. Lyman Baker ; r. North- ampton, Mass.
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t Fohn N., b. Aug. 5, 1817 ; m. Loretta H. Thayer.
Sarah P., b. Oct. 10, 1818 ; d. Oct. 2, 1826, æ. 8 yrs.
Martha E., b. July 8, 1821 ; m., Nov. 25, 1847, Allen Buckminster ; ch., (I) Susan A., b. Sept. 24, 1848 ; m., Jan. 15, 1872, Charles W. Holt ; r. Springfield, Mass. ; (2) Mary Emma, b. Sept. 18, 1856; (3) Julia M., b. July 25, 1859.
Mary J., b. Aug. 10, 1822 ; unm. ; r. Manchester.
Charles, b. May 18, 1824 ; d. Sept. 4, 1826, æ. 2 yrs.
Nancy Hunt, b. March 3, 1826 ; d. July 15, 1829, æ. 3 yrs.
George, b. Feb. 16, 1828 ; m. Malvina Kidder ; r. Haver- hill, Mass.
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ABIJAH WYMAN THAYER. His early youth was spent in town, where he enjoyed the limited means of educa- tion afforded by the common schools, till he was fourteen years of age, when he was apprenticed to Lincoln & Ed- munds, of Boston, to learn the printer's trade. Being drafted during his apprenticeship, in the war of 1812, he served three months as a soldier in the fort in Boston Harbor. He was first employed in the book printing- office of Flagg & Gould, of Andover, Mass., but soon bought an interest in the Concord (N. H.) Gazette, when he began his editorial labors. After two years, he re- moved to Portland, Me., where till 1826 he was editor of the Independent Statesman, the only paper of extended circulation which at that time advocated the election of John Quincy Adams to the presidency. He conducted the canvass with great spirit and sagacity, and was mainly instrumental in securing the vote of the State to his can- didate. In 1826, Mr. Thayer removed to Haverhill, Mass., to become the editor of the Haverhill Gazette, which he soon purchased and changed the name to that of Essex Gazette.
The History of Haverhill, published in 1861, makes frequent allusions to Mr. Thayer, and says of him : " From October, 1826, to July, 1835, Mr. Thayer resided in this town, during which time he was one of our most active, useful, and respected citizens. He was one of the first to enlist in the temperance movement ; was the secretary of the first meeting and the first secretary of the first society when organized, in which office he con-
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tinued until he removed from town. He early advocated the cause in his paper, but such was the opposition that in a short time he lost about four hundred subscribers. His Gazette was the first political paper that ever came out in advocacy of total abstinence from intoxicating liquors, and the second of any kind in America, or in the world. When the movement was commenced in Haver- hill, there were twenty-nine places in town where liquors were sold ; but in five years from that time there was not a single place where it was openly sold, and but one where it was supposed to be sold clandestinely. As a political paper, the Gazette was at this time classed among the very first in the county and State."
With the exception of six months in 1830, from January Ist to July roth, when John G. Whittier occupied the edi- torial chair, Mr. Thayer was sole editor, publisher, and proprietor of the Essex Gazette from the time mentioned before till 1835. In that year, he sold out the establish- ment and removed from town. He has since been con- nected with various papers in Philadelphia, Worcester, and Northampton. In 1841, he removed to Northamp- ton, and engaged once more in editorial labor. He continued to reside here till his death in 1864. During the latter years of his life he did business as a broker and insurance and United States claim agent, though he always kept up his habit of occasional writing for the newspapers. Mr. Thayer was a sagacious, enlightened, and public-spirited man, with a kind and generous heart.
The Northampton Free Press in a notice of his death says : "In clearness of style as a writer, Mr. Thayer had few superiors ; he never failed to make his points strongly, and his articles always commanded attention and respect. While editor of the Essex Gazette he ex- ercised much influence in the politics of Eastern Massa- chusetts, and was an intelligent and honorable sup- porter of the Whig party. His knowledge of political history was unsurpassed, and few occupying a similar position had so extensive acquaintance with the dis- tinguished men of the country.
"In 1827, while editor of the Essex Gazette, he came out boldly in favor of the temperance cause, and fought the battle of temperance from that time onward with un- wearied courage and vigor, often at the risk of great personal danger and pecuniary loss. He was also, as editor of the Gazette, one of the earliest advocates of the anti-slavery cause. He maintained to the last his early convictions of the evils of intemperance and slavery, and died regretting that he could not see the war ended,
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and the abolition of slavery finally and completely ac- complished." .
Mr. Thayer m., Nov. 9, 1824, Susan Bradley, dau. Jonathan Bradley, of Andover, Mass., who survives him, and resides in Northampton. He d. 1867, æ. 71 yrs.
Sarah Smith, b. at Haverhill, Oct. 6, 1827 ; r. North- ampton, Mass.
William Sidney, b. at Haverhill, April 15, 1829.
He entered the Sophomore Class at Harvard College in 1847, having prepared himself without the aid of a tutor, and graduated in 1850. After leaving college, he was engaged for some two years in teaching private pupils and reading law at Milton, Mass. But the profession of journalism was more to his taste than that of law, and in 1853 he went to New York City and joined the staff of the New York Evening Post, becoming in a few years its chief officer and editor, and "imparting to its col- umns" (it was said by a contemporary journal) "an in- terest and ability never before or since surpassed." The duties of his profession were arduous, and his health be- came greatly impaired ; and when, in 1861, he received the appointment of Consul-General for Egypt, he gladly availed himself of the opportunity it offered of residence in a milder climate, and entered at once upon the duties of his office, which he discharged with energy and abil- ity. At his instance the rebel flag was excluded from the Egyptian ports, and an abuse inflicted upon the agent of a Christian missionary was not only instantly redressed through his intervention, but was made the occasion of securing for the future a larger toleration for the Christian faith, a service for which he received the marked approval of his own government, and the thanks of large bodies of Christians in England and America.
He was industrious in gathering and transmitting in- formation touching the resources of Egypt, the culture of cotton, and other subjects of interest to the commer- cial world; and the value of his services in these re- spects was shown in the early publication by the State department of portions of his despatches to the govern- ment. His health for a year or two steadily improved, but in the summer of 1863 he was prostrated by severe illness, from the effects of which he never recovered, and he d. at Alexandria, April 10, 1864, æ. 35 yrs.
In a notice of his death, one of many which the event called forth, the Springfield Republican said : "He was a man of rare accomplishments, of wise and various cult- ure, refined tastes and habits, wise without dogmatism, ear- nest without coarseness, witty without vulgarity, practical
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and poetical alike, a model journalist and a lovable man." James Bradley, b. in Haverhill, Jan. 15, 1831.
He entered Harvard College in 1848, having prepared himself mainly without help, and graduated the ninth scholar in his class, in 1852. After leaving college, he taught a private school in Milton, Mass., two years, read- ing law at the same time ; and in 1854 entered the Law School, at Cambridge, where he remained two years, and received the degree of LL.B., securing also the first prize of his class for an essay on the "Law of Eminent Domain," which was afterwards printed in the Law Reporter of that year.
In 1857, he began business in Boston, in partnership with Hon. William J. Hubbard, a connection which he maintained until the death of Mr. Hubbard, in 1864, when by appointment of. Gov. Andrew he succeeded Mr. Hubbard as one of the Masters in Chancery for Suffolk County. In 1865, he became a partner with Hon. Peleg W. Chandler, in the land firm of Chandler, Shattuck & Thayer, and afterwards Chandler, Thayer & Hudson, and in 1873 he was chosen Royal Professor of Law in the Law School at Cambridge, entering upon the duties of the office in 1874. He resided in Cambridge from 1854 until 1861. In April of that year he m. Miss Sophia Bradford Ripley, of Concord, Mass., and removed to Milton, where he remained until the autumn of 1874, when he returned to Cambridge to undertake the duties of the office which he now holds. He has four children. We are in part indebted to an account of Prof. Thayer published in the Harvard Book, from which we have also taken the following paragraph :-
"Mr. Thayer has been a frequent contributor to the columns of the Boston Daily Advertiser, and in former years to those of the New York Evening Post. He has also been a writer in Bouries' Law Dictionary, and in the American Law Review, and other periodicals. He was entrusted with the editing of the twelfth edition of Kent's Commentaries, and had throughout the sole responsi- bility for that work. His happy selection of an associate, however, resulted in reducing his own labors mainly to those of simple revision, and the work appears without the addition of his name."
Susan Bradley, b. in Haverhill, Oct. 7, 1833 ; m. John C. Alexander ; r. New York City.
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JOHN N. THAYER. He has always resided in town ; is a stone-mason ; m., Oct. 15, 1844, Loretta H. Thayer, b. Nov. 10, 1823, of Mansfield, Mass.
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Clara, b. May 2, 1849 ; m. Henry M. Shepard, Aug. 12, 1875 ; r. Boston.
Nellie, b. June 27, 1853 ; m., Dec. 8, 1874, L. C. Taylor, dentist ; r. Hartford, Conn.
Abbie, b. Dec. 19, 1857.
BARTHOLOMEW THAYER, b. July 15, 1757, was son of Dea. Peter Thayer, son of Ephraim Thayer, and brother of Christopher Thayer, father of Dea. Christopher Thayer, of Peterborough. Dea. Peter Thayer d. in Peterborough, 1799, æ. 90 yrs. Bartholomew Thayer came to Peterborough about 1786, and lived on the John Little place while in town. He m. Elizabeth Blanchard, of Braintree, in 1789. Late in life he re. to Ohio, and both he and his w. d. there. He was tithing-man in 1788, '93, 1801, '2. Left town 1802.
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Ephraim, b. -; r. Ohio. Fabez, b. -; d. in childhood.
THE TODD FAMILY.
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ANDREW TODD (Col.). His genealogy does not strictly belong to this town, but his family is so intimately con- nected with many of our early settlers that we have thought best to introduce it here. Col. Todd was b. in Ireland in 1697, and came to Londonderry in 1720, being among the first settlers of that town, and became a lead- ing man. He represented the town in the Provincial Legislature, held a commission in the French war of 1744, and in 1755 he held the rank of colonel in the provincial levies. He was a marked man in those times, having gained a high reputation in these wars. He m. Beatrix Moore, dau. of John Moore, murdered at the massacre of Glencoe, in 1692. He re. to Peterborough toward the close of his life, 1776, to live with his dau., w. of William Miller, Sen., where he d., Sept. 15, 1777, æ. 80 yrs. He was buried in the Old Cemetery. Vide gravestone, Old Cemetery.
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¡Samuel, b. in Londonderry, June 3, 1726 ; m. Hannah Morison ; 2d w., Ann Cochran.
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