The Thayer quarterly : a quest for your heritage
(Periodical)

Quarterly

Quarterly, published in winter (February), spring (May), summer (August), and fall (November or December), with only two issues in 1993.

Vol. 1, no. 1 (May 1993) -

Editor: Raymond "Rick" A. Thayer; Patricia Thayer Muno (cumulative index 1993-1998); Rodney Lee Thayer.

Some pages have copies of original documents that are faded, shaded or have bleed-through. Best copy available.

A copy of vol. 1 no. 2 "Thayer newsletter" came with winter issue (Feb 1995) "The Thayer quarterly.".

Some issues lack volume and issue number designations.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Thayer (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, Ireland, and Sweden. Many ancestors came from Thornbury, England. Immigrant ancestors include (but are not limited to) the brothers, Thomas and Richard Thayer who settled Braintree, Massachusetts; their nephew, Nathaniel Thayer who settled in Taunton, Massachusetts; John and Agnes (Thayer) Briggs who also settled in Taunton; James and Cecily (Thayer) Davis who settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts; Thomas Thayer (1596-1665) and his wife, Margery Wheeler; and Richard Thayer (1601-1664) and his wife, Dorothy Mortimer. In the 1700s, some families settled in Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Virginia. During the 1800s, Thayers moved to Ontario and Quebec (Canada), and to Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Washington, Washington D.C., and West Virginia. Some served in the military, and were missing in action or buried overseas in Belgium, England, France, Italy, North Korea, and the Philippines. Later descendants also lived in Nova Scotia (Canada), Chile, Japan, Thailand, and in Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and elsewhere.

Title varies: Thayer Families Association newsletter; Thayer newsletter; The Thayer quarterly.

The Thayer Family Association was founded in January 1991 by Philip Standish Thayer, Sr. (d. 1993) at Braintree, Massachusetts, which is the ancestral home of Thayer families in America. In September 1993, the name of the Association was changed to Thayer Families Association, and it was incorporated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. For membership, to view their valuable on-line resources and data bases, and other information, see their Web site.

Includes a cumulative index for 1993-1998 issues. Subsequent cumulative indexes are also available in CD-ROM from editor. Their Web site also includes an on-line table of contents for each issue, an indexes by article titles, and an index by personal names for finding biographies.