Deacon John Mayo

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: 30 Mar 1679, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; He joined the First Church in Roxbury.
• Married: 8 Jul 1685, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; Sarah Buden Her last name was also spelt "Birden". She joined the church on 28 October 1688 in the First Church, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. She died on Sunday 7 February 1734 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Issue: 1. Rebecca Mayo (1686-____) 2. baby boy Mayo (1687-1687) 3. Sarah Mayo (1688-1688)
• History: 16 Feb 1693; John was appointed guardian to Thomas Mayo by the court.
• Ordained: Before 1711; John was ordained a Deacon in the First Church in Roxbury. He is recorded a second time as having joined the Church in April 1689. Possibly this was when he was made a Deacon.
• Offices Held: 1711; He was on a committee to by a new bell of "300 lbs. weght at least" They appointed William Clarke, and gave him £10 and 300 pounds of bell metal. William Clarke[sailed to England on The Norwich 16 December 1711 with the bell metal on board.
• Offices Held: 1716; He was on a committee to draw up the plans for a new meeting house.
• Offices Held: say 1717, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; He was a Trustee of the Roxbury Latin School.
• Will: 21 May 1723, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; He mentions his wife, Sarah, and his son, Joseph.
• Inventory: 30 Mar 1733, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; His estate was valued at £1785 19/.
• Probate/Proved: 2 May 1741, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

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Christened:
He was christened by by the Apostle Eliot.

Buried:
Here lyes buri'd
y^e body of Deacon
John Mayo Aged
74 years who
died Febr^y 25
1732
3

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 20 May 1630, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; He sailing on board The William and Francis with a group lead by the Rev. Thomas Welde. Their arrival was recorded as 20 (3) 1632.
• History: 1641; A power of attorney was written to take care of the property that John had inherited from his father. It reads: "Robert Gamlyn, and to sell the same, etc."
• Land/House: 1657, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; He purchased land near Spring Street.
• Will: 09 Feb 1687/88, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; He mentions his wife, Hannah, and his children: John, Hannah, Joseph, Mehitable, and Thomas.
• Inventory: 23 May 1688, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; His estate was valued at £508 15/.
• Probate/Proved: 11 Jun 1691, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

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Name:


Buried:
Here lyeth Iohn
Mayo aged 58
year, Departed this
life the 28^th of
Apirel 1688

Pope (1900) gives his burial as one day earlier.

John married Hannah Graves on 24 May 1654 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of John Graves and Judith Alward) was born on 8 Sep 1636 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; died on 5 Oct 1699 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; was buried in Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 1 Nov 1644, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; She is mentioned in her father's will.
• Will: 14 Jan 1653, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; She is mentioned in the will of her mother's second husband.
• Religion: Apr 1689, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; Hannah was received into full communion in the First Church Roxbury.

Notes:

Buried:
Hannah Mayo
y^e wife of John
aged 63 years
died October
y^e 5^th 1699

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Married:
Their marriage date was recorded as 24 (3) 1654.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 1 Nov 1617, West Malling, Kent, England; He is mentioned in his father's will.

Thomas married Elizabeth about 1629 in England. Elizabeth died in 1681 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 20 May 1630; Robert and Elizabeth sailedg on board the William and Francis with a group lead by the Rev. Thomas Welde. Their arrival was recorded as 20 (3) 1632.

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Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: He was a cow leech, that is veterinarian.
• Immigration: Mar 1633; After the death of his first wife, possibly on board the Mary and Jane with his five children, John, Samuel, Jonathan, Sarah, and Mary. From the Rev. John Eliot's Reccord of Church Members: John Graves - he arrived in the 3^d month. 1633. he brought 5 children John. Samuel. Jonathan. Sarah. Mary, his wife quickly dyed, &, he maryed Judith, a maid servantt, by whom his first child Hanah was borne about the end of the 7^th month. 1636.
• Freeman: 18 Apr 1637, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; On 18 April 1637 in Roxbury, Massachusetts he was admitted as a freeman.
• Land/House: Between 1638 and 1641; John Graves of Roxbury, N. E., makes Robert Wood of Harlow and Nicholas Campe of Nasing, co. Essex, attorneys to receive rents from his sister, the widow Lydia Ford of Nasing. from between 1638 and 1641.
• Will: 1 Nov 1644, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; Iohn Grave. November (1) 1644. John Grave late of Roxbury. Vnto sonne John the ten Acre lott containing six Acres more or lesse. Also my two Oxen & the vse of halfe the barne during the time of his mothers life & then the barne to be divided as his mothers land is, one halfe vnto him. Also my best suite & the bed that he lyeth vppon. John shall pay vnto dau. Mary sixe pounds at the age of twenty-one years —but in case she dye before, John to pay his brother Samuell & Jonathan fourty shillings apiece. Also vnto sonne Samuell my lot called the four acre lott, the lott of goodman Lewis between the land of Robert Seaver & the land of goodman Lewis, vnto him, &c. vnto Jonathan my son that lott lying on the great hill of 5 Acres —if my two frends, Phillip Eliot & Will^nj Heath exchange it for land more convenient & vsefuli for my son, I give them full power so to doe. Also my lot of Comon w^ch was last divided vnto me by the towne, I give to my foresaid three sonns equally to be divided — wife to haue free liberty to fetch fyre wood. To dau. Many the bed & all that belongeth thereto w^ch her grandmother now lyeth vppon. If wife liue fyve years after the death of my mother, then she shall pay vnto my daughter Hanna six pound —if she dye before, then Iohn & Samuell & Jonathan to pay vnto her fyve pound. Testifyed before the Court Phillip Eliot. William Heath. Increase Nowell sec^r — Iohn Grave. 26 (9) 1645. John Grave late of Roxbury. My land to be sould.—Vnto my brother Samuell Sixe pound, to brother Jonathan four pounds. —to sister Saiah three pound — to ray sister Hanna three pound—to sister Marah sixe pound w^ch I was to giue vnto her by my ffathers will—to be paid her at the age of one & twenty—vnto Georg Brand what he doth owe vnto mee —vnto my Mother all my wearing apparell—vnto Phillip Eliot what he doth owe mee, whom I doe make mine Executor. What is left to be divided between my Executor & my mother. What I was to haue by my ffathers will, after the death of my mother my two brethren, Samuett & Jonathan shall ^njoy it equally. They to pay sister Sarah five pound, & to sister* Marah three pound, & to sister Hanna three pound. The testimonies of Robert Pepper, Widdowe Grave & John Hansett. See in the book of affidavits,* fol. 43.
• Last Full Review: 26 Sep 2020

Notes:

Immigration: The date in the record is 1633, however Anderson (2003) uses 1635 because of the dates placement. I have chosen to use 1633.

Death: His death was recorded as 4 (9) 1644.

Name:


Died:
The Rev. John Eliot, said of him in in journal, "Iohn Graues, a godley brother of the church, he took a deep cold, which sweld his head with rhume and ouercame his heart."

John married Judith Alward in Dec 1635 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Judith was buried on 10 Oct 1683 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: About 1643, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; About 1643 she was admitted to the Roxbury Church.
• Will: 1 Nov 1644, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; She is mentioned in her husband's will of 1 November 1644.
• Will: 14 Jan 1653, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; She is mentioned in the 14 January 1653 will of her second husband, William Potter.
• Last Full Review: 26 Sep 2020

Notes:

Buried:
Her burial date was recorded as 10 (8) 1683.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 1 Nov 1617, West Malling, Kent, England; He mentions his wife, Rebekah, and his son, Thomas.
• Probate/Proved: 11 Dec 1617, Rochester, Kent, England

John married Rebekah Stoughton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 1 Nov 1617, West Malling, Kent, England; She is mentioned in her husband's will.