Person:Margaret Webb (20)

"(Margaret Webb) was baptized [at Salisbury, Wiltshire] 25 September 1625. … Margaret remarried about 1665 to the widower Reverend Thomas Thatcher who was born 1 May 1620 at Melton, Clevedon, Somersetshire, and grew up in Salisbury. She died 29 February 1693/4 at Boston.

[Her first husband] died 22 March 1658/9 and was buried in King's Chapel Burial Ground under a table tomb. The inscription is as follows, placed there by his son-in-law Robert Gibbs:

HERE LYETH INTERD THE

BODY OF JACOB SHEAFE OF

BOSTON WHO FOR SVME

TIME LIVED AT CRANBROOK

IN KENT IN OVLD INGLAND

HEE DECEASED THE 22 OF

MARCH 1658 AGED 42 YEARS

On the same stone is also the following inscription:

Here Lyeth jnterred ye body of

Mrs Margaret Thacher formerly wife

of Mr Jacob Sheafe & lately wife

of the Reverend Mr Thomas Thacker

aetat 68 obit 29 February 1693"^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Threlfall, John B. (Brooks). Twenty-Six Great Migration Colonists to New England & their Origins. (Madison, Wisconsin: J.B. Threlfall, 1993)
   256-257.
2. ↑ Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699 (A Report of the Record Commissioners): Document 130. (Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States: Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1883)
   212.

   Margaret Thatcher Died Febr. 23 (1693).