Tha(t)cher (Y-DNA)
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Status summary
Completed as of March 24, 2021:
- Recruiting additional direct male-line John Tha(t)cher descendants for NGS/WGS SNP testing - anyone interested in submitting their DNA for testing should contact Raymond T. Wing (email: wing.genealogist AT gmail DOT com)
Still to do as of March 24, 2021
- NGS/WGS test multiple Tha(t)cher descendants to firmly place family clade as well as discover any subclades unique to descendants lines
Biography
First Generation
(Col.) John Thacher was born in that part of Salem which later became Marblehead 17 Mar 1638/9, son of (Rev.) Anthony Thacher & Elizabeth Jones. He died Yarmouth 8 May 1713. John married twice, first Yarmouth 6 Nov 1661 Rebecca Winslow (NOT descended from a Mayflower passenger) and second Yarmouth 1 Jan 1683/4 Lydia Gorham. By his second wife, John had twelve children (born Yarmouth): Lydia (1684/5), Mary (1686/7), Desire (1688), Hannah (1690), Mercy (1692-1692), Judah (son, 1693), Mercy (1695-1696), Ann (1697), Joseph (1699), Benjamin (1701), Mercy (1702/3) and Thomas (1705)
Second Generation
Judah Thacher was born Yarmouth 20 Aug 1693 and died there 8 Jan 1775 (buried at the Ancient Cemetery in Yarmouthport). He married Yarmouth 4 Jun 1724 Sarah Crosby and they had at least eight children (born Yarmouth): infant daughter (1725-1725), Joseph (1726), poss. David (1728-1729), David (1729), Josiah (1732), Judah (1734), Sarah (1737), John (1739) and William (1743).
Col. Joseph Thacher was born Yarmouth 11 Jul 1699 and died there 17 Jun 1763 (buried at the Ancient Cemetery in Yarmouthport). He married Yarmouth 27 Jan 1728 Ruth Hawes and they had five children (born Yarmouth): Desire (1729-1729), Desire (1730), Ebenezer (1733), Ruth (1736) and Joseph (1744).
Benjamin Thacher was born Yarmouth 25 Jul 1701[1] and died Harwich in 1768. He married Barnstable 30 Jan 1734/5 Hannah Lumbert and they had eleven children (born Harwich): Jane "Jenne" (1727), Benjamin (1737), Hannah (1739), Sarah (1741), Lydia (1743-1743), Lydia (1744), Jonathan (1746-1746), Jonathan (1748), Temperance (1750-1753), Samuel (1752) and Temperance (1754).
DNA Results TBD
Previous testing
The Thatcher DNA Project currently does not list the Most Distant Known Paternal Ancestor (MDKPA) of project members, so it cannot be determined whether any of the individuals descend from Col. John Tha(t)cher.
NGS/WGS testing
NGS/WGS testing of Tha(t)cher Y-DNA descendants would identify the haplogroup for the family and possibly define subclades for descendants.
