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He was probably one of the Richard Thayers who were Revolutionary Soldiers in 1775-6.
Resided in Randolph and in 1790 was on present So. Main St. George Odiorne of Boston was made his administrator on Dec.6,1814 and was made guardian of some of the children. His inventory (25-205) shows a homestead of 98 acres, also a house, barn, and land in Stoughton, and other lands, also a pew in the Congregational Meeting house, and a floor and a half of a balcony pew in the Baptist Meeting house.
The division gives to Joel, only son, a farm in Stoughton, to Polly wife of John Odiorne, to Betsey wife of Caleb Thayer, to Sally Thayer, to Lucinda wife of Aminadab Thayer, to Rebecca T. Thayer the deceased's dwelling house, to Katherine O. Thayer , to Maria Thayer.
Many of his children died young: according to Wm. H. Woodman there were 9 by the first wife, 6 by the 2nd wife, and 5 by the 3rd wife, several of them twins who died young.
Children of Richard & Deborah born probably at Randolph (not recorded)
- child "a child of Richard" died Dec.1801, dead born (Rand. Ch.Rec).
- child "a child of Richard" died Jun.5,1803 a.4 days (Rand. Ch.Rec).
He was elected sealer of leather 1784,1791,1792 (So. Precinct) and surveyor of highways 1790 (So. Precinct).
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died a.92 "wanting six days and was the oldest person in town", of old age, (Mar.18,1731 O.S. would be Mar.29 New Style)
He was a farmer, resided on Middle St. at N.W. corner of Union St. Probably he who was fenceviewer 1761,1765, warden 1773 & surveyor of highways 1788 (Middle Precinct).
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died age 71yrs., gs.
No settlement of his estate is recorded, but he was an extensive land speculator and from his claims and rebuttals we know much about him.
He was one of the eight children who came over with his father early in 1641; in 1648 he purchased his father's homestead in Braintree and added to it in 1661, 1663, 1667 and in 1668 mortgaged his lands and became involved in a law suit because his title was not clear to some of them and was in turn forced to sue for some of the Iron Works land that had been sold to him without clear title. He became involved in other land deals, having leased in 1657 a large tract of land at present Canton from Capt. Roger Clapp, and in 1692 sued Clapp's heirs but lost the case.
About 1680 he returned to England and made claims for land which so alarmed the Braintree inhabitants that they sent a petition to the throne in England in rebuttal (Mass. Archives 3-34 & 1-87). In 1685 he again laid claim to large tracts of the Iron Works land. He only succeeded however in obtaining the remaining estate of Increase Robinson of Taunton, the administrator of the estate of John Payne of Boston who had sold him by defective title a small piece of land belonging to the creditors of the Iron Works Co. in Braintree. He also became in litigation from a contract for building a vessel at Braintree in 1688 (Suffolk Court Rec. #1342 & #947).
In 1658 he was fined by the General Court for selling liquor contrary to law (Mass. Colony Rec. Vol.4, p.1?). During the litigation and afterwards he occupied the lands he had mortgaged to Simon Lynde, as a tenant and in the settlement of Lynde's estate in 1689 his son Benjamin Lynde received lands and estate at Braintree in the occupation of Richard Thayer. Richard Thayer or his heirs eventually recovered some or all of these lands, probably by repayment of the mortgage. His well preserved gravestone would indicate he had some estate at his decease, though none is of record.
(See Pattee's History of Quincy pp. 40-54 for details of some of the lawsuits, also Suffolk Court Rec. #1885,2053,2508, also Suffolk Deeds 5-446, 7-236, 11-309, 16-42, Bristol Deeds 1-224, 6-307, etc.)
He also was in Barbados in 1660 with his father, and probably stayed there some time as no children are of record between 1658 and 1670.
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died soon
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Ruth Foster & B.F. have a foot stone (gs. gone) in Elm St. Cem.
m. Aug.22,(Jul.30, Boston Rec.),1747
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(Town rec. calls her Dorcas)
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