When Ebenezer Thayer was born on 21 August 1737, in Bellingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Ebenezer Thayer, was 38 and his mother, Hannah Green, was 30. He married Martha Thayer on 6 December 1758, in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 30 April 1782, in Bellingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Northwood, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States.
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"First settled in 1763, Northwood was incorporated on February 6, 1773 by colonial governor John Wentworth, when a large tract of land called ""North Woods"" was separated from Nottingham. Around 1800, the Portsmouth to Concord Turnpike was built, and the town began to prosper."
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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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