Ferdinando THAYER

  General Notes:

8th grt- grandfather

Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Ferdinando Thayer Name: Ferdinando Thayer Year: 1645 Place: America Source Publication Code: 178 Primary Immigrant: Thayer, Ferdinando Annotation: Date and port of arrival or date and place of first mention. Date and place of birth and death, port of embarkation, name of ship, occupation, acreage owned and other information may also be provided. Only those persons documented to have been born overseas were indexed. Source Bibliography: AUSTIN, JOHN OSBORNE One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families. Salem, MA: n.p., 1893. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1977. Page: 242

Ferdinando Thayer immigrated from England with his parents, Thomas and Margery Thayer, and his two brothers, Thomas and Shadrick. HIs parents settled in a town now called Braintree, in colonial Massachusetts. He married Huldy Haywood of Braintree, Massachusetts on 14 Jan 1652. Ferdinando resided with his parents in Braintree. After his father's death in 1665, Ferdinando and his family moved with a colony from Braintree and Waymouth to a new plantation, called Nipmug, afterwards called Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts. He was one of the founders of Mendon and many of his descendants still live in Mendon. Ferdinando 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 Phillip's War, where he and his son Jonathan Thayer took the oath of allegiance about 1678 (Vol 29 - Boston Records) when Mendon was abandonded and his house burnt as we learn from court records. Ferdinando was one of the largest landowners in Mendon; his residence or homestead was a little south of the present center of town, on the Providence Road. He held many offices of honor in his town and commonwealth. He was a selectman in Mendon 1667-70, 1672, 1674, and perhaps 1675. He was selectman again in 1680, 1685, 1686 and 1688. He was surveyor of highways 1682-3, and 1687. He was a man of wealth of his day and age in the world. His sons were all provided farms by him, and several of his sons became extensive land dealers, and many of his descendants occupy those farms to this day and have never changed names in the title for over three hundred years. Six of his children were born in Mendon. The town records were destoryed during King Philllips' War from 1666 to 1680. Mendon was first settled as a plantation in 1662 and continued in that union until 1667, when it was invested with town privileges by the general court of the commonwealth, and so remained until the breaking out of the Indian hostilities in 1675, when the settlement was broken up, the settlers fled to Braintree and Waymouth, where they stayed until 1679 or 1680 to 3 Jan 1680, after which there was no interruption up to the present time. Written in 1873 by Alexandria H. Allen, Town Clerk of Mendon. Ferdinando married second (before 1696) Ann Freebury, probably widow of Nicholas Freebury. No record of her marriage or death is found except 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 Jurdicature #4657, 4845, 4703, and 4727 in Suffolk County Court House, Boston). Ann Freebury (or Freeberry) was an "eastern woman" that is, from Maine probably driven to Mendon 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 that Ferdinando and his sons sold liquor to the Indians and that he deserved to have his house burnt by Indians during the War and that it would occur again if he did not stop trafficking with them, and that he had tried to strave her by not providing food in the house, etc. Ann Thear deposed in court July 1696 aged 46 years (court Record #4342) that she saw Ebenezer Thear sell "two quarts of cider" to an Indian. On 7 May 1700, Ferdinando Thear complained of "wild words, carriages, and actions of my wicked disposed and perverse wife Ann Thayer formally an Eastern woman and until my unhappy marriage with her known by the name Ann Freeberry who hath been endeavoring to ruinate me in respect to my person, name and estate either by 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 my house my house is left almost destitute of outwards comforts," etc. Depositions were also made by Ebenezer Thayer aged 26 and his wife Martha his wife age 25, Benjamin Thayer age 20, William Howard age 32, John Rocket age 59, John Bridges age 52, and Peter Holbrook age 41.

(II) Ferdinando Thayer, son of Thomas Thayer (1), was born at Thornbury/England, in 1625, baptized April 18. He resided with his parents in Braintree, Massachusetts, until after the death of his father, when he and others removed to a new plantation called Nipmug, afterwards named Mendon, Worcester county, Massachusetts. He was one of the largest proprietors of the new township. His home lot and house were on the Providence road, a little south of the present centre of the town. He held many offices of trust and honor in the town and state. He was a man of wealth in his day and he provided each of his sons with a farm. Several of the sons acquired much land and dealt freely in real estate. Some of this property has been held in the family to the present day. This branch of the family, descendants of Ferdinando, have settled chiefly in and near Mendon, except in the past fifty years. Six of his twelve children were born in Mendon. He was driven from home during King Philip's war, 1675, and probably returned to Mendon about 1680. His wife Huldah died at Mendon, September 1, 1690; he died March 28, 1678. Their children were: Sarah, born May 12, 1654; Huldah, June 16, 1657; Jonathan, born in Braintree, March 18, 1658; David, born at Braintree, June 20, 1660, died August 1, 1674; Naomi, born at Braintree, January 58, 1662-3; Thomas, born in Mendon; Samuel, born in Mendon; Isaac, born in Mendon; Josiah, born in Mendon; Ebenezer, born in Mendon; Benjamin, born in Mendon; David, born in Mendon, baptized September 17, 1677, died August 29, 1678.

Memorial of the Thayer name: from the Massachusetts colony of Weymouth and ... By Bezaleel Thayer

Note.-Ferdinando Thayer, second son of Thomas and Margery Thayer, resided with his parents in Braintree, Mass., until after the death of his father, when he and others removed to a new plantation, called Nipmug,afterwards called Mendon, Worcester County, Mass. He was one of the largest proprietors of the said township ; his residence or homestead was a liitle south of the present center of the town, on the Providence Road ; held many offices of honor in his town and commonwealth ; was a man of wealth in his day and age of the world, and his sons were all provided with farms by him, and several of his sons became extensive land dealers, and many of their descendants occupy those farms to this day, and have never changed names in title for over two hundred pears; six of his children born in Mendon, Mass., the records of which were destroyed by King Phillips war from 1666 to 1680, which is lost by that war-Preserved Smith Thayer. Mendon was first settled by the whitesasa plantation in 1662, and continued in that union until 1667, when it was invested with town privileges by the general court of the commonwealth, and so remained until the breaking out of the Indian hostilities in 1675, when the settlement was broken up, the settlers flying to Braintree and Weymouth, where they staid till 1679 or '80, to January 3d, 1680, after which date there is no interruption up to the present time.-Alexander H. Allen, Town Clerk of Mendon.

Ferdinando married Huldah HAYWARD, daughter of William HAYWARD and Margery KNIGHT, on 14 Jan 1653 in Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. (Huldah HAYWARD was born on 7 Oct 1636 in Stephney, England and died on 1 Sep 1690 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts.)

  Marriage Notes:

U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
about Ferdinando Thayer Name: Ferdinando Thayer
Gender: Male
Birth Place: EN
Birth Year: 1625
Spouse Name: Huldah Hayward
Spouse
Birth Place: MA
Spouse Birth Year: 1622
Marriage
Year: 1652
Marriage State: MA
Number Pages: 1

American Marriages Before 1699
about Ferdinand Thayer Name: Ferdinand Thayer
Spouse: Huldah Hayward
Marriage Date: 14 Jan 1653
Marriage Place: Braintree, Mass.