THACHER, James. 1754-1844. Surgeon, diarist, b. Barnstable, Mass.
Sugeon, Continental Army, 1775-1783; author of "A Military Journal During the American Revolutionary War," a valuable historical source, and of many books on medicine.
I am not related to this person, I am just passing on this information, which comes from a book titled "People & Events of the American Revolution" by Dupuy/Hammerman. R.R. Bowker Company, 1974. pg.413.
Joyce