Ralph Thacher

1647 - Aft 1711  (> 64 years)

• Name	Ralph Thacher  [1, 2]
  Birth	1 Jan 1647	Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft Jun 1711	Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts   [4]
  Alternate death	6 Jul 1733	Groton, New London, Connecticut   [3]
  Person ID	I14521	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	1 Sep 2020

  
  

  Father	Rev. Thomas Thacher,   b. 1 May 1620   d. 5 Oct 1678, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 58 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Partridge,   b. Bef 9 May 1619   d. 2 Jun 1664, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age > 45 years)
  Marriage	11 May 1643  [5, 6, 7, 8]
  Family ID	F9053	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ruth Partridge,   b. Abt 1645, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. 30 Oct 1717, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut (Age ~ 72 years)
  Marriage	1 Jan 1670	Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [2, 4]
  Children	1. Peter Thacher,   b. 17 Aug 1686   d. Feb 1766, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F9052	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 May 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Rhodolphus, Rodolphus. From his Find a Grave page: He was a constable at Duxbury in 1678 and served as the town's clerk from 1685 to 1694. In April of 1694 Rhodolphus and wife Ruth conveyed land at Duxbury to their son Thomas. Two months later in June 1694, Rhodolphus and wife Ruth, formerly of Duxbury now of Chilmark, Mass., conveyed land at Duxbury. In 1697 Rhodolphus was installed pastor of the Cong. Church at Chilmark, Mass. on the western end of Martha's Vineyard. He served that church until 1714, when he was succeeded by Rev. William Homes. Some of his children had moved from Chilmark to Lebanon, Conn. before 1705 and Rhodolphus and Ruth followed in 1715. ----- Genealogical note on the above: The Rev. William Homes (1663-1746), mentioned above, was a Gx7-grandfather of TWK. The reverend's son Robert Homes married Mary Franklin, sister of Benjamin Franklin; their granddaughter Sarah Holmes (1748-1826) was the mother of Benjamin Tappan, senator from Ohio 1839-45. The Rev. William Homes's wife, Katherine Craighead (1673-1764) was a Gx4-granddaughter of the Scottish king James V, father of Mary, Queen of Scots.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1998] Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England: Some Descendants of the Immigrants, Captain John Sherman, Reverend John Sherman, Edmund Sherman and Samuel Sherman, and the Descendants of Honorable Roger Sherman and Honorable Charles R. Sherman by Thomas Townsend Sherman. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1920. [S3918] The Ancestry and Allied Families of Nathan Blake 3rd and Susan (Torrey) Blake, Early Residents of East Corinth, Vermont by Almira Torrey Blake Fenno-Gendrot. Boston: Stanhope Press, 1916. [S2079] Find a Grave page for Rev. Rhodolphus Thacher, Sr. [S2078] Genealogy and Biographical Sketches of the Descendants of Thomas and Anthony Thacher by David W. Allen. Vineland, New Jersey: Independent Printing House, 1872. [S2084] Find a Grave page for Elizabeth Partridge Thacher. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011., year only. [S6053] Leslie Mahler, "The English Ancestry of Patience Bathurst, Wife of Rev. Ralph1 Partridge of Duxbury, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 86:81, Jul-Oct 2012. [S545] Magnalia Christi Americana: The Ecclesiastical History of New England by Cotton Mather. London: Thomas Parkhurst, 1702.