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Jason was born in 1786 or 87 in New Hampshire. Arrived in Huron County with his brother Ziba in late 1817 or early 1818. Boarded with Captain Husted.
In 1822, he was appointed to be an Overseer of the Poor. (He may have been living in New York for a while at the age of 39. This is yet to be ascertained.) There is a son Layayete L. Thayer attributed to him in 1824 2 years before he married Tamar Ann. Mother unkn. He was married to Tamar Ann Milliman (b. 2 Aug 1799-13 d. Aug 1830) at the age of 40. She is listed in his household in the 1930 Census when he is 44. They had two Children: Mary Jane Thayer (1827-1909) and Laura Mae Thayer (1829-?).
Sometime after 1833, Jason and wife Abigail moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana. Some of the children who are not listed in the Firelands and Township documents below were born there. He must have returned with at least the three youngest children. Elias/Eri died in Wakeman and the 2 youngest girls were adopted by their uncle Hiram Abbot of Wakeman. Their mother did not die until 1860, ten years later. Died 14 December 1850 at the age of 64 in the home of his daughter, Mary Jane Thayer Simons. (Elizabeth Thayer sent me an email saying she had a record that said he "died of a fit". Her source was under usgenweb.org for Ohio under Huron Co.) Anecdotal Evidence: A living daughter of Josephine Webster Thayer remembers her mother telling her the family "used to be Shaker or Quaker". This would be congruent with the supposition that Cornelius Thayer is Jason's father. We do have strong evidence that Cornelius Thayer Jr. had been part of a Shaker community. Although the Shaker religion asked it members to be celibate, parents often entered with their family. Family were separated. Children grew up in a common building separate from the main house. Women lived on one side of the house, men on the other.
Jason was among the early settlers of Huron County. From the 'History of Wakeman Township Week's, Pages 171-180,: THAYER, Jason, with his twin brother, Ziba, came to Clarksfield in the last days of the year 1817, and boarded with Capt. Husted. In the account book of Capt. Husted, Jason THayer is charged with "3 parts candles for school," on Jan. 4, 1818, indicating that he might have attended some sort of night school, although he was 32 years of age at that time, but this supposition is improbable, as there were only two or three families in the vicinity at that time. Jason was said to have been very slovenly in his habits and to have had a large mouth,and the story is told that a wag once carved an "epitaph" on the bark of a sycamore tree, something like this: "Here lies the body of Jason Thayer, who never washed his face or combed his hair...Here he lies beneath the sod. If he opens his mouth, you're gone, by G--." In 1825 or 26, he married Tamor Ann Milliman, widow of Henry Christian Westfall, who had died in northwest Townsend in 1824. She had come to Townsend with her parents and husband in 1816. Her eldest son, George Westfall was the first white boy born in Townsend, in November or December, 1816. She had other Westfall children, John, Frederick Henry, J. Nicholas and Tamor Ann. J. Nicholas was a Wakeman resident, whose history appears later. She died in August 1830. Mr. Thayer married 2nd., Mrs. Abby Thurston, a sister of Hiram Abbott of Wakeman. Jason removed to Ft. Wayne, Ind. some time after 1833, but returned lived in Berlin, possibly, but died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Simon, in Wakeman, Dec. 14, 1850 at the age of 64. His son, Eri, had died just a month before, at the age of six years. By the second wife, Thayer had two daughters, Josephine and addie, who were adopted by Hiram abbott after the death of their father. Josephine married Warren Smith and died in Clarksfield, Dec. 24, 1884, at the age of 38. Addie went to Pennsylvania, married and died there." From "The Firelands Pioneer", Volume 1, Firelands Historical Society, 1900 http://books.google.com/books?id=EqM-AAAAYAAJ&dq=ziba+thayer&output+text&source=gbs_navlinks_s Eli Seger and his family came with Cpt. Husted. An old account book shows that they came by the way of Pittsburg, Petersburg, Canfield, Rocky River, Ridgeville and Black River. Husted charged Seger fourteen dollars for carrying a chest three hundred miles. Seger died in 1822, but his family continued to liver here for a few years. The family settled on a farm a half mile north of Clarksfield village, on the road toward Wakeman. The children were Alfred and Albert, twins, Mary Ann, Amarillas, Lucy Ephraim. Ephraim was bitten by a rattlesnake in August, 1818, and this was the first death in the township. Early in 1818, or possibly late in 1817, Jason and Ziba Thayer, twin brothers, came here and boarded with Capt. Husted - they were single men. After a time they bought a farm on the east side of the road leading to Wakeman next to the north line of the township. After a number of years they moved away. The Pioneer History of Clarksfield, Weeks, Frank Edgar (1908) confirms and adds to the above account: (http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924028849036)- Jason and Ziba Thayer were twins and came here soon after Mr. Husted, for we find an account they boarded with him in January, 1818. They were evidently single men at that time, for they boarded with Husted and others for some time. They afterward owned a farm on the north line of the township northeast of the Hollow. Jason died in Wakeman township in 1850 at the age of 64. Ziba Thayer died in Townsend township". Overseers of the Poor and Fence Viewers Pioneer History of Clarksfield, Weeks, Frank Edgar (1908) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924028849036 In April, 1822 we have the first record of an election of township officers. Some of the offices were different from any of the present time and have been discarded and the duties performed by other officers. The election was as follows; Levi Barnum, Clerk: Aaron Rowland, Josiah Kilburn and Benjamin Carman, Trustees: Jason Thayer and William Howard, Overseers of the Poor; Ziba Thayer and James White, Fence Viewers; Eli Seger and Smith Starr, Appraisers and Listers; Ephraim Webb, Treasurer, Eli Barnum, Ira Peck, Stephen Post, Smith Starr and Allen Blackman, Supervisors of the Highway. It will be remembered that Clarksfield and Hartland were together at this time. Kilburn, Howard, White, Minor and Osyer lived in Harland. References
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