Person:Mercy Thacher (7)

Name	Mercy Thacher
Gender	Female
Alt Birth^[3]	7 Feb 1702/03	Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Birth^[2]	7 Feb 1703/04	Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	15 Jan 1737	Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USAto James Harris
Death^[1]	Aft 1772	Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States

References

↑ White, Elizabeth Pearson. John Howland of the Mayflower: The First Five Generations. (Rockland, Maine: Picton Press, 1990-2008)
28,135.
↑ Yarmouth, Mass., Vital Records, in Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Descendant: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy, History and Biography
13:221.

Col John Thacher & mis Lydiah Thacher were Joyned in marige the 1st day of January in the year of our lord : 1683
...
Beniamin Thacher was borne the 25th day of July 1702 :
marcy Thacher was borne the 7th day of february : 1703/2
[Ed. note: "sic". One would be tempted to interpret 1703/2 as 1702/3, but that would put Mercy's birth only 6.5 months after Benjamin. Given the odd syntax of the double dating, it is likely that this date was meant to be 7 Feb 1703/4. Then there would be no conflict with either Benjamin nor with the following birth of Thomas in April 1705. Not only can you not use 1702/03 without causing a conflict with Benjamin, you cannot use 1701/02 for the same reason.]
↑ Totten, John R. "Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy", in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society)
42:270.

Mercy Thacher [p. 42:83: 3rd daughter of this name], d/o John Thacher and 2nd wife Lydia Gorham, b. Yarmouth 7 Feb 1702-3 [but see disucssion here ], d. ---, m. "in her 36th year" James Harris [so about 1738].