Truro, Massachusetts, church records, in The Mayflower Descendant

Baptisms and admissions of the Truro church, printed in The Mayflower Descendant and checked against the page images. Includes “Sarah Datr of Danll Mayo of Eastham,” baptized 6 June 1725 (MD 9:77). Sarah was not baptized with Daniel and Samuel on 15 Sept 1723, which suggests she was born between then and June 1725.

For the Mulford family:

• Thomas Mulford was one of the seven male members who formed the church when Rev. John Avery was ordained, 1 Nov 1711 (MD 9:55).
• On 30 Nov 1726 the church asked “whether it was not according to Gospell Rule to chuse Ruleing Elders, according to the Practice of the Presbiterian churches in Scotland”; on 11 Jan 1726/7 it chose “Mr Thos Mulford Mr Constant Freman and Mr John Snow … Presbiterian Ruleing Elders” (MD 9:175). Mulford and Freeman were ordained 24 Mar 1727/8; Snow “never served in the office but was discarded for suspected Adultery” (MD 9:243).
• 15 Sept 1723: “Mary wife of Danll Mayo” admitted, and her sons Daniel and Samuel baptized; “Dismist” was later added beside her entry (MD 9:76-77).
• 1734: “Coffe negro servant to Elder Mulford Adult” baptized and admitted (MD 10:150-151).