Hawes, Thomas Howes of Yarmouth ... with the Rev. John Mayo (1917)

Compiled genealogy of the Howes family, with an account of Rev. John Mayo. Prints the will of Jeremiah Howes (pp. 23-25), says Jeremiah’s daughter Sarah “m. Daniel Mayo of Eastham” (p. 22), gives Sarah Prence’s mother as “Mary² (William¹) Collier of Duxbury, her father’s second wife” (p. 19), and puts John Mayo’s death “before Oct. 28, 1706, at Eastham” (p. 32). Paraphrases the 1680/1 Yarmouth whaling agreement (p. 20).

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• Thomas Howes (pp. 1-3): first recorded at Salem on 25 Sept 1638, as a planter of Lynn who lost trespass suits over damage done by his horses (citing Essex Inst. Hist. Colls. 7:187-188); one of the three “committees” (original proprietors) of Yarmouth with Anthony Thacher and John Crow; foreman of the grand jury in 1646 and a deputy for six years from 1652. His widow Mary’s 1676 war rate, as Prence’s widow, was £1 3s 4d (p. 2). Hawes adds to Swift’s note that Mary Prence died in 1695 “at the house of her son-in-law Jeremiah Howes”: “He was also her own son” (p. 1).
• Jeremiah Howes (pp. 19-20): his gravestone, and Sarah (Prence) Howes’s, in the old Howes burying ground at Dennis; the Yarmouth town records give Sarah’s death as 3 Mar 1703/4, but Hawes judged the stone “no doubt the better evidence” (p. 19). In King Philip’s War on Yarmouth’s council of war (Feb 1675/6), constable (June 1676), and rated £7 14s “towards the charges of the late war” (citing Swift). The Mocoy suit, nonsuited because Mocoy’s letter of attorney to Elisha Hedge “was found to be illegall.” His tenth lot in the Titicut purchase near Bridgewater, bounded 24 Dec 1686, and his purchase in 1702 of land in South Harwich from “John Skinnaquit, an Indian.” The sale of 10 June 1676 by Gov. Prence’s heirs, among them “Jeremiah Howes and his wife Sarah” and “the widow Mary Prence” (p. 20, citing the Supplement to Pope’s Pioneers).
• Rev. John Mayo (pp. 28-29): Lothrop’s record of Barnstable’s thanksgiving of December 1639, when the congregation “divided into three companies to feast together, some at Mr. Hull’s, some at Mr. Mayo’s, some at Brother Lombard’s, Senior”; and the Second Church record, in Increase Mather’s hand, of his infirmity (1672) and his removal on 15 April 1673 “from Boston to reside with his daughter in Barnstable.”
• John Mayo of Eastham: overseer of the will of Nicholas Snow, 14 Nov 1676 (p. 32).