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Pvt Gideon Thayer

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Pvt Gideon Thayer Veteran

Birth
Smithfield, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
Death
20 Feb 1836 (aged 82)
Silver Springs, Wyoming County, New York, USA
Burial
Gainesville, Wyoming County, New York, USA Add to Map
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR, Service Description: 1) CAPT PETER PENNIMAN, LCOL NATHAN TYLER.

Parents:
Father: Thomas Thayer
Mother: Huldah (Thayer) Thayer
Husband of Maribah (Wilcox) Thayer. Marriage: 10 JUN 1776.

SOURCE: Biographical Review of the Leading Citizens of Livingston and Wyoming Counties New York
Boston, Biographical Review Publishing Company, 1895

Gideon THAYER, a great-grandson of Captain Thomas, son of Ferdinando and Huldah THAYER was born in 1753 in Smithfield, R.I., ,in which place he married Miss Meribah WILCOX, January 10, 1776. He was a soldier during the Revolutionary War, and was one of the first who received a pension. His hatred to the Tories was very bitter; and it is related of him that, when eighty years old, he administered a caning to one of the obnoxious party. After peace was declared, he settled in Oswego, ,N.Y. and from there came to Lima, where he died aged eighty-four years.
CONTINENTAL LINE
REVOLUTIONARY WAR, Service Description: 1) CAPT PETER PENNIMAN, LCOL NATHAN TYLER.

Parents:
Father: Thomas Thayer
Mother: Huldah (Thayer) Thayer
Husband of Maribah (Wilcox) Thayer. Marriage: 10 JUN 1776.

SOURCE: Biographical Review of the Leading Citizens of Livingston and Wyoming Counties New York
Boston, Biographical Review Publishing Company, 1895

Gideon THAYER, a great-grandson of Captain Thomas, son of Ferdinando and Huldah THAYER was born in 1753 in Smithfield, R.I., ,in which place he married Miss Meribah WILCOX, January 10, 1776. He was a soldier during the Revolutionary War, and was one of the first who received a pension. His hatred to the Tories was very bitter; and it is related of him that, when eighty years old, he administered a caning to one of the obnoxious party. After peace was declared, he settled in Oswego, ,N.Y. and from there came to Lima, where he died aged eighty-four years.


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