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Family of Josiah Jr THAYER and Avis HAYWARD

Josiah Jr THAYER b. 1752 Jan 282852 at Braintree, MA2852. d. 1814 Feb 9840. bd. West Cem., Amherst, MA840.
Avis HAYWARD b. 1752 Nov 212852 at Braintree, MA2852. d. 1795 Mov 29840. bd. West Cem., Amherst, MA840.

Married2852 1771 Dec 282852 at Braintree, MA2852. Bates2852, p 877 (page [259] of original records,) has Josiah Thayer "Jun'r." and Avis Hayward, "both of this Town," married Dec 28, 1771.

Sprague841 has Josiah a Revolutionary soldier 1775; removed to Amherst in 1784; purchased 100 acres there (Old Hampshire Deeds 22:491) Mar 23, 1784.

Josiah Thayer appears in the Mass. And Maine 1798 Direct Tax (AmericanAncestors.org) in Amherst, owner of 1 dwelling (on 1 acre), and two lots, one of 114 acres, another of 28? acres, for which he was assessed $1490.80(!?).

Thayer Mem.4822, p 68, lists 14 children and their birthdates for Josiah and Avis, as does Sprague841, referencing the Thayer Genealogy. Thayer provides no source and Sprague notes that there appears to be no records. Sprague concludes, apparently assuming the birthdates from Thayer, and Josiah's removal to Amherst in 1784, that the oldest 12 of the children were born in Braintree; the youngest 2 in Amherst.

The will of Josiah Thayer (Mass. Wills and Prob. Recs. 1635-1991, www.ancestry.com) "of Amherst," dated Feb 9, 1814, mentions wife Lois; son Sever; daughter Sally Dodge (mentioned elsewhere as Salome, wife of Zebulon Dodge); son Charles; son Hosea's child Susanna; son Josiah; son Stephen; son Nathan; son Zedock; heirs of son Jacob "deceased": Maria, Jacob and Mary; son Joseph; daughter Mary Draper (wife of Frost Draper); son Asahel; son Martin; and son Luther - accounting for the children listed. Son Asahel Thayer was to be appointed executor.

The headstone840 for Avis Thayer reads: "In memory of Avis Thayer wife of Mr Josiah Thayer who died November 29 1795 in the 44. year ---"

As her headstone indicates she was born about 1751, Avis is likely the daughter2852 of Joseph and Sarah Hayward, born in Braintree, MA, November 21, 1752.

840. Gravestone inscriptions - www.findagrave.com
841. Genealogy of the Families of Braintree, Mass. 1640-1850, Waldo Chamberlain Sprague - CD, NEHGS, Picton Press
2852. Massachusetts, Braintree Records, Samuel A Bates, Esq., Town Clerk of Braintree, Mass., Daniel H Huxford, Printer, Randolph, Mass: 1886; www.archive.org
4822. Thayer, Memorial of the Thayer name, from the Massachusetts colony of Weymouth and Braintree ...; Bezaleel Thayer, Braintree Hist. Soc., Braintree, MA: 1987