Thacher, Peter (3)
Thacher, Peter (1)
a Congregational minister, was born at Salem, Mass., in 1651, and was the son of Rev. Thomas Thacher, first pastor of the Old South Church, Boston. He graduated at Harvard College in 1671, and was tutor there for several years following. He then went to England to prepare himself more fully for his profession, but his friend Samuel Danforth dying shortly after, Mr. Thacher returned to America. He refused several tempting offers to enter the Established Church; and in September, 1681, was ordained pastor of the Church in Milton, Mass. Here he labored effectively until a week before his death, which occurred Dec. 17,1727. He was a person of eminent sanctity, of a most courteous and complaisant behavior, cheerful, affable, humble, and free of speech to the meanest he met. He published- several theological treatises and single sermons (1708-23), for a list of which see Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 1, 196.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Thacher, Peter (2)
a Congregational minister, the son of Thomas Thacher, Jun., and grandson of Thomas Thacher, the first minister of the Old South Church, was born in Boston in 1677. He graduated at Harvard in 1696, and immediately after his graduation began to teach at Hatfield, and is supposed to have studied divinity under the Rev. William Williams of that place. On Nov. 26, 1707, he was ordained pastor of the Church at Weymouth, where he remained between eleven and twelve years. In January, 1720, he returned to Boston and was installed pastor of the New North Church as colleague with Mr. Webb. Here he labored until his death, Feb. 26,1738. Mr. Thacher published an Election Sermon (1726), and a Sermon on the Death of Mrs. Gee (1730). See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 1, 266.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Thacher, Peter (3)
a Congregational minister, was born in 1688, and graduated at Harvard College in 1706. He was ordained pastor of the Church in Middleborough, Mass., in 1709, and died there April 22, 1744. He published an account of the revival of religion in Middleborough, in Prince’s Christian History. See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.