Usurped hy some Churches (1783): — A Reply to Strict- ures upon the Preceding (1788) : — Memoirs of Dr. Boyh- ton (1789): — and several occasional sermons. See S])rague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, i, 718.
Thacher, Samuel Cooper, a Unitarian preacher and son of Peter (4), was born in liostoii. Mass,, in 1785. He graduated at Harvard College in ISOl, and immedi- ately after his graduation commenced his theological studies under the direction of He v. William E. Chaimiiig. Ill the early part of 1805 ]Mr. Thacher took charge of the Boston Latin Grammar-.school. but in the summer of 1806 was chosen to be the travelling comiianion of Kev. Mr. liuckminster. rictuniiiig in September, 1S07, he was shortly after appointed librarian of Harvard College, and entered on his duties in 1808. He prose- cuted his theological studies at Cambridge, and suc- ceeded Dr. Kirkland as pastor of the New South Church, May 15, 1811. retaining this connection until his death, at Moulins, France, Jan. 2, 1818. His principal publi- cations were, Ajiology for National and Kruiif/eliccd Christianity, a. discourse (Bost. 1815, 8vo) : — Unity of God, a sermon (Liverpool, 1816, 8vo; 2d Amer. ed. Worcester, 1817,8vo) : — Sermons, with a Memoir by Kev. F. W. P. Greemvood (Bost. 1824, 8vo) : — Evidence Nec- essary to Establish the Doctrine of the Trinity (1828, I2mo). See AUibone, Diet, of Brit, and A nier. A uthors, s. V. ; Sprague, .4 nnals ofthe A mer. Pulpit, viii, 435 sq.
Thacher, Thomas, a Congregational minister, was born at Salisbury, England, jNIay 1, 1620. He declined the offer of his father to send him to an Eng- lish university, preferring to emigrate to America. On June 4, 1635, he arrived at Boston, Alass., and soon af- ter entered the family of the Kev. Ciiarles Chauncy, of Scitnate. He was ordained pastor of the Weymouth Church, Jan. 2. 1644, where he labored for more than twenty years. He then removed to Boston, where he preached occasionally, but was j)rincipally engaged in the practice of medicine, till he was chosen first ]iastor of the Third (Old South) Church. His installation took place Feb. 16, 1669, and after a happy ministry he died Oct. 15, 1678. He wrote, A Brief Rule to Cuide the Common People ofXev> England hotv to Order Them- selres and Theirs in the Small Pocks or Measles (Bost. 1677 ; 2d ed. 1702), said to be the first medical tract pub- lished in New England: — A Fast of God's Chusing, a. sermon (1674, 4to; 1678). See Sprague, .4 «««/,< o/' ///e Amer. Puljiit, i, 126.
Thacher, Tyler, a Congregational minister, was born at Princeton, Mass., Sejit, 11. 1801. "His ances- tors for several generations, both in this country and in England, had been Puritan ministers, some of thein of high distinction. Among them were Rev. Peter Thacher, of Salisbury, England ; I!ev. Thomas Thacher, of Boston, Mass.; Rev. Peter Thacher, of ^Milton, ]Mass, ; and Rev. Peter Thacher, of Attleborongh. Mass. In all not less than nine generations of the family have had representatives in the Christian ministry either in Eng- land or in America." The subject of this sketch was a graduate of Brown Universitv in the class of 1824, and was licensed to preach April 26, 1825, and ordained as an evangelist in Wrentham, jMass., Dec. 4, 1827. He did not permanently settle in the ministry until IVIay 14, 1S34, when he became colleague pastor with Rev, .Jonathan (Jraiit over the Congregational Church at Hawley, Mass., where he remained about nine years (1834-43) and then returned to Wrentham. For sever- al years he supjilicd the Church in North Wrentham, until he moved to California in f851. Here he remain- ed the rest of his life, teaching and preaching, and en- .gaged in such employments as suited his tastes. " He was distinguished amfiiig his brethren for his theolog- ical and literary attainments, and even in the wilder- ness where he made his home he kept up his studies in the Hebrew and (ireek languages and in philosophy. He was a man of quiet, scholarly, and devout habits, and much given to the study of nature and the proh-
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loms of theolosv." Mr. Tliacher died at Cache Creek, Cal.. Dec.4,18'Gk (J.C. S.)
Tliacher, 'Washington, a Presbyterian minister, was Inirn at Attleboroiii;h, Mass., Feb. 23. 1794. He re- ceived bis classical education under the Kev. Lyman Richardson ; studied theology under the Kev. John Truair; was licensed to preach by the Otsego Presby- tery in 18-21 ; was ordained in 1822; officiated as stated supply at Morrisv-ille, N. Y., 1822-2G; was pastor of the Church in Jordan, N. Y., 182G-42; resigned his charge on account of ill-health; was afterwards a stated supjily at Eaton, N. Y., three years; was appointed secretary and agent of the Central Agency of the American Home Missionary Society in Jidy, 1847; and died June 20, 1850. He was an eminently devout man and an ear- nest and effective preacher. (J. L. S.)
Thaddaei Acta. The mission of Thaddreus to king Abgar of Kdessa, the correspondence between Christ and Abgar, and the picture of Christ which pur- ports to have been taken for Abgar are very old tradi- tions, first mentioned by Eusebius, Hist. Eccles. i, 13. Whether these Acts formed the basis for these traditions cannot be decided. Tischendorf has published the (ireek text from a codex Paris, of the 1 1th century in his Acta Aposloloriim Apocrypha (Lips. 1851), p.2Gl-265. (B. P.)