John Mayo
Probably a son of the Rev. John Mayo, and perhaps born in England, he lived at Eastham, where he married Hannah Lecraft on 1 Jan 1650/1. Nine sons were recorded to them there, among them Daniel (b. 1664), whom he named with Hannah as executors of his will in 1702. He probably died at Eastham by 1706.
Life
- c. 1627Born
- 1650Married Hannah Lecraft1 Jan 1650/1, Eastham, Massachusetts
MD 6:205. Plymouth Colony Records 8:26 has the first of January, 1650, and reads the bride's name Reycraft.
- bef. 1706Diedbefore 28 Oct 1706, Eastham, Massachusetts
Hawes, p. 32. His will is dated June 1702 and his inventory was sworn 4 Nov 1706.
Family
- Father
- John Mayo
A John Mayo signed the 1676 agreement on Rev. John's estate as one of his three surviving children (documented); that the signer is the Eastham John is compiled (Pratt, Hawes). His own will leaves a wine cup that my Father gave me.
Pedigree
Notes
“John Mayo and Hannah Lecraft ware Mareid the first Day of Jenuary in the year one thousand Six hundered fifty one” (Eastham records, MD 6:205). Pratt: “1651. Mr. John Mayo, son of the minister, was married to Miss Hannah Lecraft.” He probably came over with his father, about 1638. Their sons are recorded at Eastham: John 1652, William 1654, James 1656, Samuel 1658, Elisha 1661, Danyell 1664, Nathaniel 1667, Thomas 1670 (died 1670) and Thomas 1672. His will (June 1702) made his wife Hannah and son Daniel executors.
In 1662 the Plymouth court sentenced “a sertaine Nantuckett Indian named Tetannett, allis Ned,” to be whipped “for pilfering and stealing sundry thinges from John Mayo, of Eastham” (PCR 4:22). In the account of liquor brought into Eastham in 1664/5: “John Mayo, two gallons of liquor” (PCR 4:100). In 1667 he sat on two Eastham coroner’s juries: the inquest into “the death of a child of Daniell Dones, whoe was drownded in a well” (PCR 4:169-170), and one that found that being “wett, and extream cold” caused a death (PCR 4:176-177). He was surveyor of highways for Eastham on 3 June 1656 (PCR 3:101) and constable on 1 June 1658, “to bee sworne att home” (PCR 3:136), and again on 5 June 1671 (PCR 5:57). He was an overseer of the will of Nicholas Snow, 14 Nov 1676 (Hawes p. 32). The John Mayo whose mackerel, “caught with sains at Cape Cod, contrary to order of Court,” was seized in 1686 (PCR 6:203), and the “Mr. John Mayo at Eastham” to whom Samuel Sewall wrote on 6 Jan 1689/90, “When you were last att my house you spake of returning hether this winter Laden with oyll if the Ice did not hinder” (Sewall Letter-Book, MHS Coll. 6th ser. 1:94-95), could be he or his son John (b. 1652). In the mackerel case Capt. Jonathan Sparrow appeared “as attorney for Saml Smith & John Mayo, of sd Eastham, to defend their interest in sd mackrill.” A John Mayo under Moseley in King Philip’s War (credited 20 Dec 1675) is not proven to be him.
Open questions
- Who was his mother? Rev. John Mayo’s wife is unknown (see his file).
- Read his will and inventory (Barnstable Probate 3:324-326) against the transcript.
Connections
- In his ancestry
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Every notable ancestor and famous relative that John's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to him.
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