When Rachel Thayer was born on 5 March 1700, in Mendon, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Benjamin Thayer, was 27 and her mother, Sarah Hayward, was 27. She married Eleazer Taft on 15 December 1720, in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1759, in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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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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