About Peter Thacher
Lived 1752 – 1802 (aged 49–50). Peter Thacher was an American cleric.
Peter Oxenbridge Thacher (1752–1802) was a Congregationalist minister in Massachusetts.
Biography
Peter Thacher was born in Milton, Massachusetts on March 21, 1752. His brother was Thomas Thatcher.
He served as pastor in Malden of the First Church (1770–1784) and in Boston of the Brattle Street Church (1785–1802). He actively supported the American Revolution. For about two months, from February 4 to April 1, 1778, he served as a chaplain in a Massachusetts regiment in Rhode Island.
He participated in the drafting of the Massachusetts Constitution in 1780. In 1794, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He belonged to the Massachusetts Historical Society and Massachusetts Humane Society. He was educated at Harvard College, 1765–1769. On October 8, 1770, he married Elizabeth Poole (Hawkes); they had ten children.
Peter Thacher died in Savannah, Georgia on December 16, 1802.
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Congregationalist minister in Massachusetts (1752–1802)
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Peter Thacher was a cleric.
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