Ancestry of
Linda Hunt

TV and Movie Actress

Rachel Thayer

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Linda Hunt — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 377 
  • Father:
  • Ebenezer Thayer 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Neale   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Apr 1698 
  • Birth Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ephraim Arnold
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Feb 1720/1721 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Daniel Arnold (Ahnentafel No:188 )

  • Notes: 

  • Rachel Mekusett's maiden name is also seen as Mackusett.

• Additional marriages for Rachel Thayer

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  • Spouse:
  • Daniel Mekusett
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Jun 1716
  • Marriage Location:
  • Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts

• Sources for Rachel Thayer

  • ¹ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Marriage record for Ephraim Arnold and Rachel Mekusett.
  • ² Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for son Daniel Arnold.
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for Rachel Thayer.
  • ⁴ Quincy, MA: Vital and Church Records, 1672-1870, Marriage record for Ephraim Arnold and Rachel Mackusett.
  • ⁵ Quincy, MA: Vital and Church Records, 1672-1870, p. 17192, Marriage record for Daniel Mekusett and Rachel Thayer.
  • ⁶ Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations . . ., Vol. 4, Boston: Little, Brown and Company (1862), 276, gives Rachel's birth year as 1699.
  • ⁷ Thayer, Elisha, et. al., Family Memorial, Part 1: Genealogy of Fourteen Families of the Early Settler of New England, of the Names . . ., Hingham: J. Farmer, Printer (1835), 51.

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