Fifth Generation

564. Mary BROWN⁷⁹ was born on 27 May 1722 in Hampton Falls, Rockingham, New Hampshire.⁷⁹ She died on 26 January 1805 at the age of 82.⁷⁹

The will of Jacob Brown, dated 6 April 1761, proved 26 May 1762, left his daughter Mary Thresher, 80 pounds old tenor.
Mary's mother is also listed as Jerima.

Mary BROWN and Henry THRASHER were married on 3 September 1747 in Hampton Falls, Rockingham, New Hampshire.⁷⁹ Henry THRASHER⁷⁹, son of Joseph THRASHER and Mary WATSON, was born about 1720 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.⁷⁹ He died on 18 December 1791 at the age of 71 in Raymond, Rockingham, New Hampshire.⁷⁹

According to History of Cornish, the first of the name known to Cornish descendants was Henry Thrasher, b about 1720, who married Mary Brown. They lived in Hampton Falls nearly thirty years.
Henry and Mary Thresher lived on Thresher's Lane. After 1768 this was in Seabrook. In 1776 they moved to Raymond, New Hampshire. The widow Thresher died 26 January 1805, so Henry must have died before this time.

According to History of Hampton Falls, Henry Thresher lived on the road leading from the Line meetinghouse to Fogg's corner. This road was called Thresher's Lane.His house was very near where the Abbott house is now located. On the early records this road was called Thresher's Lane. He, and his sons who were minors, polled into Seabrook in 1768. About 1776 he and his family removed to Raymond.

At the time that Seabrook was established, it appeared to have been the idea that Hampton Falls would always remain under the parish church system, and be governed by the rules of the Congregational church, and that Seabrook would always be a Presbyterian parish and be governed by the laws of that church. The polling off was a thing in the interest of religious freedom, giving those in either town who hld opinions not in accord with the church established there the liberty to pay their taxes in the other town, with whose church government they were in sympathy, and not be compelled to help support preaching they did not believe in. Whether all those who polled from one town to the other were wholly governed by religious motives in their choice we have no means of knowing, but we have some reason to believe that this was not in every case the sole cause. Among the citizens of Hampton Falls who polled into Seabrook were Henry Thresher and minors Jacob, Joseph, and David Thresher. - taken from History of Hampton Falls

Mary BROWN-29180 and Henry THRASHER-28864 had the following children: