When Nathan Thayer was born on 23 May 1804, in Fairfield, Franklin, Vermont, United States, his father, Stephen Thayer, was 38 and his mother, Anna Twitchell, was 34. He married Dorcus Belknap on 3 February 1826. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 10 September 1862, in Pendleton, Niagara, New York, United States, at the age of 58.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Historical Boundaries 1808: Niagara, New York, United States
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
English (Gloucestershire and Somerset): from Middle English the eir ‘the heir’ with fused definite article. See Ayer .
History: Sylvanus Thayer (1785–1872), military engineer, an early superintendant of the US Military Academy at West Point, was born in Braintree, MA, into a family of English origin.
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