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<p> a Congregational minister, the son of [[Thomas]] Thacher, Jun., and grandson of Thomas Thacher, the first minister of the Old South Church, was born in [[Boston]] in 1677. He graduated at Harvard in 1696, and immediately after his graduation began to teach at Hatfield, and is supposed to have studied divinity under the Rev. [[William]] Williams of that place. On Nov. 26, 1707, he was ordained pastor of the Church at Weymouth, where he remained between eleven and twelve years. In January, 1720, he returned to Boston and was installed pastor of the New North Church as colleague with Mr. Webb. Here he labored until his death, Feb. 26,1738. Mr. Thacher published an [[Election]] [[Sermon]] (1726), and a Sermon on the Death of Mrs. Gee (1730). See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 1, 266. </p>

<ref name="term_63192"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/thacher,+peter+(2) Peter Thacher from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>