Career
Other sources show his birth date as born February 1610/11. Thorndike was a farmer and cowherd from Great Carlton, Lincolnshire, England. The Thorndikes settled in the area around Ipswich.
They were the parents of seven children including Elizabeth Thorndike, who later became the second wife of John Proctor who was executed as a witch during the Salem Witch Trials.
Herbert Thorndike wrote the Syriac Chapter to Walton"s Polyglot and was a Fellow of Hebrew at Cambridge University. John and Elizabeth Thorndike have many descendants, most of which are in the United States but there are branches of the family tree in Canada, Germany and Argentina.
