St. Edmund's Parish, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England: 1634, April 27: Benjamin, son of Anthony and Mary Thatcher, born on Sunday, the 13th day, between the hours of one and two in the morning, and baptized the 27th of the same month.
[p. 32] Children by first wife: William born bef. 1620, Mary, Edith, Peter, Benjamin. Infant Benjamin was left behind in England where he d. 1639. Other children died in a shipwreck as Thacher went to Marblehead. A description of this shipwreck by Thacher himself in a letter to his brother Peter in England is printed pages 27-31, mentioning the children by name. Of his family, only he and his second wife survived.