Ancestry of
Sam Waterston

Stage, TV and Movie Actor

Ebenezer Thayer

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Sam Waterston — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 434 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Thayer 
  • Mother:
  • Anna -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Sep 1665 
  • Birth Location:
  • Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 11 Jun 1720 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Elm Street Cemetery, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ruth Neale
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Aug 1688 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Rachel Thayer

  Ruth Thayer (Ahnentafel No:217 )

• Sources for Ebenezer Thayer

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/12/2019).
  • ² Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for Ebenezer Thayre [sic].
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for daughter Rachel Thayer.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Taunton, Vol. 2, p. 469, Marriage record for Ebenezer Thayer and Ruth Neal.
  • ⁵ Penniman, Rev. George Wallace, The Penniman Family, 1631-1900, Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. (1981), 43.
  • ⁶ Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations . . ., Vol. 3, Boston: Little, Brown and Company (1861), 264.
  • ⁷ Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations . . ., Vol. 4, Boston: Little, Brown and Company (1862), 275-276.
  • ⁸ Sumner, Edith Bartlett, Ancestry and Descendants of Samuel Bartlett and Lucy Jenkins, Los Angeles, California: Unknown (1951), 76.
  • ⁹ Vinton, John Adams, The Vinton Memorial Comprising A Genealogy of the Descendants of John Vinton of Lynn, 1648, Boston: S.K. Whipple and Company (1858), 361.

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