Col. Joseph Mayo

Other Events and Attributes:

• Moved To: 1772, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts; In 1772 he moved to Warwick, Massachusetts.
• Offices Held: 1774; On the 17th of September 1774, "Joseph Mayo, constable of said town, was directed forthwith to notify the inhabitants thereof to assemble on the 19th instant at three o'clock in the afternoon, to see if the town will vote to choose delegates to represent them in a county congress, to be convened at Northampton on the 22d instant, at nine o'clock in the morning ; also to see if the town will act any thing respecting our public affairs, and choose such committee or committees, and give them instructions as they shall think proper at said meeting."
• Military: 20 Apr 1775; On 20 April 1775, then Sergeant Joseph Mayo marched to Lexington with Captain Eldad Wright's company of minutemen. He later marched with Ethen Allen to Fort Ticonderoga, and was placed in charge of that fort by Ethen Allen.
• Military: 23 Apr 1776; On 23 April 1776 he was commissioned a First Lieutenant in Captain Peter Proctor's 11th Company in the 6th New Hampshire Regiment of the Massachusetts Militia.
• Military: 1787; He was involved in Shay's Rebellion, and this story was told by his son, Joseph: "My father was Colonel of the First Regiment in General Shepard's Brigade when General Shay raised an army of 2,000 or 3,000 men in rebellion against the State laws and turned the Court out of doors. My father was sent with a regiment to Springfield to guard the stores on the hill, the guns and ammunition. Soon (2 Jan 1787) they attempted to march up the hill and General Shepard being there in person, gave orders to my father to fire from the artillery over their heads, then to the right, then to the left, all of which did not check them. He then cried "Give it to them in front, my boys" and then they fired a grist of grape straight among them which scattered them like sheep, made them run and scale the walls, killing three or four, and wounded as many more, and they took to the State of Vermont as fast as possible, past my father's house, and filled it full from top to bottom."
• Occupation: 1805, Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts; In 1805 he was an Inn Holder in Warwick, Massachusetts.
• Moved To: 1806, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; In 1806 he moved to Roxbury, Massachusetts.
• Moved to: Between 1809 and 1810, Orwell, Addison County, Vermont; Between 1809 and 1810 he moved to Orwell, Vermont.
• Obituary: say 22 Apr 1817
• Last Full Review: 31 Aug 2020

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He died from typhus fever.

Joseph married Lucy Richards on 12 Mar 1772 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Lucy was born on 30 May 1752 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; died on 19 Apr 1817 in Orwell, Addison County, Vermont; was buried on 20 Apr 1817 in North Cemetery, Orwell, Addison County, Vermont, U.S.A.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]