Peter Thacher

Peter Oxenbridge Thacher (1752–1802) was a Congregationalist minister in Massachusetts.

Peter Thacher
Born	Peter Oxenbridge Thacher (1752-03-21)March 21, 1752 Milton, Massachusetts
Died	December 16, 1802(1802-12-16) (aged 50) Savannah, Georgia
Education	Harvard College
Occupation	Clergyman
Spouse	Elizabeth Hawkes ​ (m. 1770)​
Children	10
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Biography

View of Brattle Street Church and West End, Boston, looking from Cambridge, 1789

Peter Thacher was born in Milton, Massachusetts on March 21, 1752.^[1][2] His brother was Thomas Thatcher.

He served as pastor in Malden of the First Church (1770–1784)^[3] and in Boston of the Brattle Street Church (1785–1802). He actively supported the American Revolution.^[a]

He participated in the drafting of the Massachusetts Constitution in 1780. In 1794, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[6] He belonged to the Massachusetts Historical Society and Massachusetts Humane Society. He was educated at Harvard College, 1765–1769. On October 8, 1770, he married Elizabeth Poole (Hawkes); they had ten children.^[1][7]

Peter Thacher died in Savannah, Georgia on December 16, 1802.^[8]

Notes

1. For example as a young man in 1772 he "went to the Old South meeting & heard Mr. Warren pronounce an oration in commemoration of the massacre perpetrated this day 2 years ago."^[4][5]