Captain Caleb Thayer was the great-grandfather of Adin Thayer, Esquire.

Elijah was grandfather of Hon.

Eli Thayer, member of Congress from the Worcester district, and founder of the Emigrant Aid Society, which had so illustrious a share in saving Kansas from slavery.
Eli Thayer tells me Elijah governed Mendon.

He always carried in town meeting what he wanted to carry, and killed what he wanted to kill.
Caleb Thayer, the father of the Judge, was an early anti- slavery man, and one of the founders of the Free Soil Party.
He was a man of vigorous sense and great public spirit.

He had large interests in Mendon and Blackstone.