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Lydia married John Wilcott on 30 Aug 1741. John and died. [Group Sheet]

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Benjamin Hamlin was a mariner engaged in whale fishing; was instantly killed while engaged in assisting in the capture of a whale early in July, 1737, and Sept. 7, 1738, his widow married William Graham of Boston.

Benjamin married Anne Mayo on 25 Oct 1716 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Anne (daughter of Samuel Mayo and Sarah Canterbury) was born on 16 Jun 1684 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died in 1735 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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Eleazer married Lydia Sears on 12 Apr 1688 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Lydia (daughter of Capt. Paul Sears and Deborah Willard) was born on 24 Oct 1666 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died in 1748 in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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Samuel married Sarah Canterbury about 1683 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Cornelius Canterbury and Anna) was born in 1660 in Hingham, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 31 Dec 1750 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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It is supposed that he was bom in England and baptized in the parish of St. Lawrence, Reading, Berkshire, England, April 10, 1686; that he came over with his mother prior to 1642, and resided at Barnstable, first, at his ``Coggin´s Pond lot, until 1702; when he removed to Hamblin´s Plains, West Barnstable; where his son Ebenezer occupied the old homestead, which he afterwards sold to Col. John Gorham.
Mr. Gustavus Hinckley, of Barnstable, writes in 1894, that the site of his house on his father´s Coggin´s Pond lot is well known; it having been owned and occupied by three generations of Gorham; a modern house was built about forty years ago over the old cellar. Mr. Otis says, that he lived all his life in Barnstable; but David Hamblen says, he died in Tisbury, May 3, 1718. He was a farmer, an exemplary member of the church and a good citizen. He married Mary Dunham, November 20, 1662. She was born 1642. Otis says, she was probably the daughter of Dea. John, of Plymouth; but Prof. Charles E. Hamlin, who gave considerable attention to this branch of the family, and from which he descended, says: she was daughter of John, of Martha´s Vinyard. Perhaps Otis and Prof. Hamlin referred to the same individual. Mr. Hinckley says, her grave is about sixty rods distant from the site of the house, on their Coggin´s Pond lot, and the slate headstone bears the inscription: ``Mary, wife of James Hamlin, died April ye l9th 1715, in ye 73d year of her age.´´
James Hamblen is expressly named in his father´s will, dated January 13, 1683. David Hamblen states that his children, Mary, Eleazar and Experience,, are expressly referred to in his will, as being then deceased in 1717; and infers that his children Elisha; John and Benjamin were also dead, from the fact that neither of them, nor any child of theirs is mentioned in the will.
His name frequently appears in the Colonial records: May 29, 1670, James Hamblen, Juni., in list of Freemen. June 5, 1671, James Hamblen, Juni., app. to inspect the Ordinaries (Taverns) in Barnstable. June 6, 1682, James Hamblen, Junir., Member of Grand Enquest.
- History of the Hamlin Family - with genealogies of early settlers of the name in America. 1639-1894, Franklin Andrews
Gravestone Inscription: "Here Lyeth Ye Body Of Mr. James Hamlin Late of Barnstable Who Died At Tisbury May Ye 3D 1718 In Ye Year 82 Of His Age"

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James married Mary Dunham on 20 Nov 1662 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of John Dunham and Mary) was born about 1642 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 19 Apr 1715 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts; was buried in Lothrop Hill, Cemetery,. [Group Sheet]

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Otis called her a daughter of Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth. Prof. Charles E. Hamlin said she was a daughter of John Dunham of Martha's Vinyard. Andrews says perhaps they both referred to the same person. Various reports say she died at age 72, age 73, or in her 73d year. Andrews says "Mr. Hinckley says her grave is about sixty rods distant from the site of the house, on their Coggin's Pond lot, and the slate headstone bears the inscription: 'Mary, wife of James Hamlin, died April ye 19th 1715, in ye 73d year of her age.'"

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SP May, p 41- Paul Sears took the oath of "Fidellyte" in 1657, held a commission as a captain in the militia, and made claim for a horse lost in Narragansett war, but I find no record of his services. October 30, 1667, he was one of the grand jury, in an inquest held on the child of Nicholas Nickerson. He was one of the original proprietors of lands in Harwich, between Bound and Stony brooks, known as "Wing's Purchase," as appears by deed of John Wing et als., to Paul Seers et als., dated April 16,1677, recorded at Plymouth.
The early town records of Yarmouth were destroyed by fire at the burning of the town clerk's house in 1674, and from the succeeding volume the first twenty-six pages are gone, and others mutilated and worn. The names and dates of birth of his children have been supplied from various sources, and are believed to be correct.
I annex copies of the will and inventory of Paul Sears;- the will is signed with his mark, as is also the inventory of John Burge's estate, rendered by him and recorded Barns. Rec II, 1701, p130. He left property valued at L 467 03 03, to his "loving wife Deborah," and to his sons, "Samuel, Paul and John;" that to his sons being charged with a payment to "their brothers, Richard and Daniel, towards their purchase of lands at Manamoy;" having given to his daughters, (whose names are unfortunately omitted) "such parts or portions as I was able or thought fitt."
In the ancient cemetery in Yarmouth lies a stone slab, removed from its place to make room for the granite monument to the Searses, which bears the following inscription, surmounted by a cherub's head and scroll work: Here lyes the Body of Paul Sears, who Departed this life February ye 20th 1707, in ye 70th year of his age." It is the oldest dated memorial in the cemetery. His wife was doubtless laid by his side, but there is no stone to her memory.
George Willard, the father of Paul Sears' wife, was the son of Richard and Joane (Morebread) W., of Horsmonden, Kent, Eng., where he was bap. Dec. 4, 1614. He settled at Scituate for a time, removing thence it is said to Maryland or Gorgeane Maine. There is some reason to believe that his wife was Dorothy Dunster, dau. of Henry D., of Baleholt, near Bury, Lanc., sister to Eliz'h D., who m. his bro. Simon Willard; and to Rev. Henry D., Pres. of Harvard College. [See Willard Mem., 1858, p. 339]
Paul Sears was the first to adopt the present spelling of SEARS.
In the name of God, Amen, the Twentieth Day of February, 1707-8. I, Paul Sears, Senr. of Yarmouth, in ye County of Barnstable, in New England, being at this time ill and weak in body but of Disposing mind and memory, Praised be God, Do make, Constitute, ordain and Declare this my Last Will and Testament, in manner and form following:
First, and principally. I Comitt my soul to God, most humbly depending upon the gracious Death and merits of Jesus Christ my only Lord and Saviour for Salvation, and to the free pardon of all my sins. And my Body to the Earth to be buryed in such Decent Christian manner as to my Executors hereafter named shall be thought fitt. And as for my outward Estate, as Lands, Chattels and Goods, I do order Give and Dispose in manner and form following;
First, - I will that all those Debts and Duties that I owe in Right or Conscience To any person whatsoever shall be truly paid in convenient time, after my Decease by my Executors hereafter named, out of my movable Estate.
Item,- I do give and bequeath to my eldest son Samuel Sears, all that my land and meadow in the township of Harwich upon part whereof his house now stands as is comprehended within and between the boundaries now following: (that is to say ,) bounded on the east by Kenelm Winslows Land at ye known and accustomed bounds and on the west side beginning at a remarkable rock, (lying about four Rods eastward from Yarmouth bound Rock at bound brook,) and from the sd Remarkable Rock the line runs Southerly over the Swamp and up ye hill to a great Pine tree marked in sd Yarmouth line: and thence up ye same straight line Southerly to the highway: and thence eastward as the way runs to ye said Winslows Land, (the sd highway being the bounds on ye south side) And the beginning again att ye sd Remarkable Rock the line runs northerly to a stone sett in ye ground: and thence easterly to the edge of ye marsh by a straight line to another stone sett in to the ground, and so bounded by the marsh to another stone sett in the ground northerly on a straight line to a bend of ye main Creek at a stone sett in the Maresh, and on the north side tis bounded by the known and accustomed bounds and of my interest in the undivided lands in sd Harwich, viz.: that is my sd son Saml. shall sixteen acres to himself in ye next Division (ye proprietors make of the undivided Lands) and the one half of all the rest of my interest there. All which sd Lands and Meadows shall be to my sd son Samuel Sears, and to his heirs and assigns forever, he yielding to his mother, my wife, one third part of ye proffits thereof during her natural life, and also paying to his two brothers Richard and Daniel, forty and two pounds in money towards the paying their purchase at Manamoy. I do give him my Try pott and Kettle.
It.- I do give and bequeath to my son Paul Sears and to his heirs and assigns forever, one piece of fresh meadow called the Green Meadow which lyeth on the north side of my old house and is bounded eastward at ye Well or Spring, then westward taking in all ye Marsh or ground to ye old cartway (which leads into ye neck) on Joseph Sears fence: thence northeastward as the old sd cartway and fence runs to Zachariah Paddocks fence or line which is ye bounds on ye north side to bound brook, the sd bound brook and well or spring being the bounds on the east side, and also one quarter part of my interest of the undivided Lands in sd Harwich (besides the above sd Sixteen acres given to my son Samuel,) and for the rest of my son Pauls land is in ye neck where he now dwells, and by me confirmed by Deed of Gift formerly, and my Will is that he shall yield to his mother, my wife, one third of the proffits or income of all I have given him, during her natural life, and that he shall pay to his two brothers Richard and Daniel, forty and four pounds in money towards the paying their purchases att Manamoy.
My will further is that the Ditch which hath been the accustomed bounds in the marsh betwixt my son Paul, and my kinsman Josiah Sears shall remain forever; beginning southerly att ye upland and running straight northerly to the Creek which did run on ye north side of ye island, which creek shall be the north bounds:
And my Will is, and I do give all that slip of meadow on the West side of ye sd ditch unto the said Josiah Sears, his heirs and assigns forever.
It.- I do give and bequeath unto my son John Sears, and to his heirs and assigns forever, all the rest of my Homestead, both housings, lands and meadows, also one quarter part of all my interest in the undivided lands in ye sd Harwich, excepting the sixteen acres before given to my son Saml.-he my sd son John allowing and yielding to his mother, my wife, the one third part of my Housing, and the third of the proffits of ye lands during her natural life, and he paying to his two brothers Richard and Daniel, forty and four pounds in money towards their purchase att Manamoy.
It.- I do give and bequeath all my movable Estate as Cattle, sheep, horses, swine and household stuff &c, unto my loving wife Deborah, (my Debts and Funerall charges being first paid.) She shall have the rest for her comfort while she lives: and what she leaves at her death to be equally divided amongst my daughters to whom I have each of them given such parts or portions as I was able or thought fitt.
Lastly,- I do nominate and appoint my sd son Saml Sears and my Loving Wife Deborah executors to this my last will and testament.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto sett my hand and seal ye day and year in ye other side first above written.
Signed, sealed & declared in The mark and seal of presence of Paul (=) Sears, Senr. (seal), John Thacher, Zachariah Paddock, Samuel Howes
- The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass., 1638-1888

Capt. married Deborah Willard in 1658 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Deborah (daughter of George Willard and Dorothy Dunster) was born before 14 Sep 1645 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 13 May 1721 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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John was the third and youngest son of Rev. John Mayo. He is supposed to have come to Eastham in 1644, living there until his death.
His name appears upon the records of that town, the first record being that of his marriage in 1650/51. On 22 May 1655 he was on the list of legal voters. “John Mayo of ye town of Eastham” yoeman, for 53 sh. sold to “Jona Sparrow Jr. of ye town of Eastham all my marsh and sedge ground within ye town of Eastham.” This land was partly bounded by land of James Mayo. Witnessed by Thomas Mayo and John Mayo Jr., dated 14 August 1703.
From the oldest Eastham Town book we find “April 27, 1659. A parcel of land granted to Mr. Richard Higgins near Youngs Cove (commonly so-called) near Mr. Southworth’s and Mr. John Mayo’s,” also “a parcel of meddow granted to the mill possessed by Richard Higgins, lying in a place commonly called Billingsgate meddow lying next to John Mayo.”
He was appointed 3 June 1656 surveyor of highways, constable in 1658 and 1671. In 1657 he was on the list of those who took the “Oath of Fidelite.”
At the Court of June 9, 1665 he is charged with two gallons of the liquers brought into Eastham on the 28th of Sept. 1664. In 1667 and again in 1676 he served on a coroner’s inquest. The Court of June 10, 1662 sentenced an Indian from Nantucket named Tetannett, to be publicly whipped for stealing from “John Mayo of Eastham.”
Together with Samuel Freeman he was appointed on 14 Nov. 1676 to oversee the will of Nicholas Snow, deceased.
John Mayo was interested both in fish and fish oil as the following indicates. First at the court of Oct. 1686 John Mayo, thru his attorney, Captain Jonathan Sparrow, defended his interests in the mackeral which had been caught with “saine at Cape Cod” as contrary to the order of the Court in that case provided and which had been seized as by order of the Court-and second, a letter dated Boston, Jan. 6, 1689/90 from Samuel Sewell to John Mayo:
“When you were last att my house you spoke of returning hether this winter Laden with oyll if the Ice did not hinder; and the season has been such with us that we conjucture you allso have your freedom in that respect. And if so, I would Intreat you to make what hast you Conveniently can to me. If the winter prevent you, of your Loading of Oyll be not to be had before Spring, please to signifie so much to me by the first opportunity of writing. My famyly in health. Govr Bradstreett is pretty well ffreed of his tormenting paines, takes his rest, We hope in order to Recovery. My service to your self and Mr. Treat. Sir, your friend and servtt”
He undoubtedly made frequent trips to Boston as he receipted at various times for the regular payments which the Second Church at Boston made to his father between the time the latter gave up his ministry in 1673 until his death in 1676.
He took part in the Colonial Wars and was a soldier in King Phillip’s War under the command of Captain Samuel Moseley, from December 20, 1675, probably riding his (father’s) horse which was killed. (New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 36: 182) - Rev. John Mayo and his Descendants, Jean (May) Mayo-Rodwick 6th ed.

John Mayo died in 1706, his will was dated June 1702. The bequests were as follows:
“to my loving wife Hannah Mayo my whole estate both real and personall during her widowhood toward her maintenance after debts & Legasys are paid onely my Housing & lands not to be sold but for Nessessity when other estate is gone: and if nessessity Require for to sell ye Housing & Lands for my wives maintenance, then my will is that my son Thomas Mayo shall have ye Refusel of sd Housing and Lands, further my will is that after my decease my son Thomas shall have that small Pcell of Land which I bought of Thomas Cole. Furthermore If by the Providence of God my wife should marry again then my will is that she shall have a third part of my movable estate as it then is & no more. Furthermore my will is that my Grandchild John Mayo that has lived along with me shall have one Cow and one horse that is now in his possession. Further my will is that my Grandchild Thankful Mayo shall have one heifer of two years old. Furthermore my will is that my Grandchild Mary Mayo ye daughter of my son Thomas Mayo shall have a wine cup that my Father gave me.
“Item I give my Grandchild Sarah Mayo the daughter of my son Daniel one silver spoon. Further my will is that ye Rest of my Grandchildren shall have twelve pence apeice by my Executors out of estate. Further my will is that after my wives decease or marriage what estate is then left either Real or Personall shall be equally divided unto all my sons now living or to their children. Furthermore I do appoint my loving wife Hannah Mayo and my son Daniel Mayo for to be my true and lawful executors Joyntly to see after the true performance of this my will as witness my hand & seal day of June one thousand seven hundred and two John Mayo (Seal)”
The value of the estate, according to the inventory taken by Sam’l Freeman Jr., Jere. Bigford, Elisha Eldredge and Joseph Atkins on 28 Oct. 1706 amounted to 64 pounds, 3 shillings and 8 pence and consisted of cattle 5 pounds, 10 shillings, debts 35 pounds and household effects and clothes. Daniel Mayo, as executor, pronounced the inventory correct.34
- Rev. John Mayo and his Descendants, Jean (May) Mayo-Rodwick 6th ed.

Lt. married Hannah Leycroft on 1 Jan 1651 in Eastham, Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Willam Leycroft and Hannah) was born before 1 Jan 1629 in St. Stephen Walbrook, London, England; died in 1702 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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• Arrival: 1653, Hingham, Massachusetts

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Canterberry or Canterbury or Cantlebury, Cornelius, came to Hingham as early as 1639 and lived first on Town (North) St., within a short distance of what is now Thaxter's Bridge. May 3, 1649, he sold his dw.-house, with two acres of land adjoining to Samuel Lincoln "mariner," "bounded south with the swamp; & the highway on the north, east, & west," etc. Was by occupation a "cooper; " constable in 1672; and late in life resided in the middle ward. The Chris. name of his w. was Anna. She outlived him, and d. 20 Dec. 1710. He d. 21 Oct. 1683.

Cornelius married Anna. Anna and died. [Group Sheet]

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• Arrival: 1639, Barnstable, Plymouth, Massachusetts

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James Hamblen, so far as hias been ascertained, was the first of the name who settled in America. He came from London and settled in Barnstable, Massachusetts, in the Spring of 1639. Of his earlier life very little has been learned; records exist, however, from which some traces of him are supposed to have been discovered.
The late David Hamblen, Esq., of Boston, the first to investigate his history about 1849, caused research to be made in England for the pedigree, which without citing the place where the record was found, he gives as follows:
JOHN HAMELYN of Cornwall, living 1570 Married Amor, daughter of Robert Knowle, of Sarum.
GILES HAMELIN - Son (of John) and heir County Devon. Married daughter of Robert Ashley.
THOMAS HAMELIN - (son of Giles) Gentleman, London 1623
JAMES HAMELIN (son of Giles).
From which it is understood that he was brother of Thomas, gentleman, of London, living in 1623; sons of Giles, of Devonshire; son of John, of Cornwall, England, who was living in 1570.
- History of the Hamlin Family - with genealogies of early settlers of the name in America. 1639-1894, Franklin Andrews

The records of the baptisms and burials of some of his children are supposed to have been found in the parish register of St. Lawrence, in Reading, Berkshire, England; extracts from which are taken: BAPTISMS. Hamlin James, son of James, Oct. 81, 1630. Hamblin Sarah, dau Sept 6, 1632, Hamlin Mary, July 27, 1634, James, son April 10, 1636. BURIALS. Hamlin James, Oct. 24, 1638. From these records it is apparent that the eldest child, James, died in England before the birth of the second James. It will be subsequently noticed that it was the custom of the family to baptize the children on the day of birth, if possible; so that the dates of baptisms are supposed to be about the dates of births.
Mr. Otis, the genealogist of the first settlers of Barnstable, says: that the baptism of his children, James and Hannah do not appear on the records of Barnstable, that it is probable they were born in England and that neither they nor their mother came over so early as the father, a common occurrence in those early times; the record of the birth or baptism of Hannah has not been found in England; perhaps owing to the troubles to be related, no public record of it was made there. It will be observed that their first child born in America, was Bartholomew, born April 20, 1642. Hannah may have been born about 1638.
An approximate idea of the time when the members of the family left England may be ascertained from these dates. Mr. Otis does not appear to have any knowledge of the English records referred to, and does not mention the children, Sarah and Mary; as they had another Sarah born in Barnstable in 1647 it is supposed the Sarah born 1682 had died before they came to America. An account of Mary will be given in its proper order later.
While no express record of the fact has been discovered, it is not improbable that James Hamblen may have been obliged to leave his family and fly (flee) from England on account of religious persecution; he was a Puritan and a member of Mr. Lothrop´s church after the latter came to Barnstable.
An account of the troubles of the congregation of Mr. Lothrop in England will be of interest, and may in future lead to information concerning our ancestor.
Rev. John Lothrop was pastor of an Independent or Congregationalist Society, at Southwalk, London. April 29, 1682, forty-five members of this church were apprehended for unlawful meeting, eighteen of whom escaped. Some were confined in the Clink, New Prison, and the Gate House, for about two years, and then released on bail; except Mr. Lothrop, for whom no favor could at first be obtained. There is some question as to the terms of his release, but the fact remains that these people caused the English government no little trouble; religion was regulated by law at that period; and this society were non-conformists. That they believed they were right does not alter the fact. The exact date of their release is not given, but on Sept. 18, 1634 The Griffin and another ship arrived in Boston with passengers, among whom were Mr. Lothrop and thirty of his followers. It is not supposed Hamblen was with them. Soon after Mr. Lothrop and most, if not all those who came with him, went to Scituate, Massachusetts, where there was a small settlement of his old friends, whom he had known in England, and who invited him to become their pastor. There were nine of these families then at Scituate who had previously come from England, settling tirst at Plymouth; and Mr. Lothrop gives a list of ``The Houses in ye plantation of Scituate att my Comeing hither, onely these wch was aboute the end of Sept. 1634, - all wch small plaine palizadoe Houses.´´ The name of James Hamblen is not in the list, nor does it appear there down to the date of removal of Mr. Lothrop and his church to Barnstable hereafter related.
Mr. Lothrop and his church came (to Barnstable) Oct. 21, 1639, New Style. The town had been incorporated, many houses built and a civilized community were dwelling among the Indians. Mr. Hull and the other settlers welcomed them to their homes, assigned them lands and assisted them in putting up their first rude cabins. It turned out that Mr. Lothrop´s church constituted a majority of the people, who preferred their own pastor, with whom they had suftered persecution in England. Mr. Dimmock and others of the first settlers preferred to sit under his preaching, rather than Mr. Hull, in consequence of which the latter left the town. The dwellings are thus described: ``The walls were made of poles filled between with stones and clay, the roof thatched, the chimney to the mantle of rough stone, and above of cob work, the windows of oiled paper and the floors of hand sawed planks. Mr. Lothrop called such structures ``booths,´´ and says: ``They were open and cold, and in winter a high piled fire was constantly to be kept burning. All the houses in the village were alike - there was no opening for pride to claim a supremacy.´´ Mr. Otis says there had thirteen settled in the town when it was incorporated June 4, 1639, among whom was James Hamblen. In a list of the inhabitants of Barnstable made on January 5, 1643-4, the sixteenth name is ``James Hamblin, London, of B(arnstable) spring of l639. These accounts show conclusively that he settled in Barnstable independently from Mr. Lothrop and his church. There is no proof that he was or was not a member of Mr. Lothrop´s church in London, or that he suffered any persecution; but the facts that he was a puritan; the unrecorded birth and baptism of his daughter Hannah; that he came from London without his family; and united with the church in Barnstable, whose members had suffered persecution; leads to the inquiry whether he might not have been a member of that church in London, which suffered persecution as related.
His house lot, containing eight acres, was at Coggin´s Pond, and was one of those presumably laid out under the authority of Mr. Callicut. It was bounded northerly by the lot of Gov. Hinckley; easterly by the Commons, (now the ancient graveyard); southerly by the Commons; and westerly by the highway, which at that time, after crossing the hill on the west, turned to the north on the borders of the pond, to Gov. Hinckley´s old house, which stood near the pond; and thence turned easterly, joining the present road at the head of Calve´s Pasture Lane. In 1680 the present road was laid out through Hamblen´s lot, and leaving a triangular shaped portion of it on the north of the road; afterwards, in 1693, the location of the road having been changed, the Hamblens were allowed to enclose that part of the old road situated between their land and the pond, adjoining Gov. Hinckley´s. The westerly portion of the road which was discontinued, opposite the south end of the pond, was reserved as a watering-place, and is so occupied to this day. His other lands were six shares, and six acres of upland in the Calve´s Pasture; twenty acres of upland, and the meadow on the north, bounded easterly by the land of Henry Bourne, and westerly by the land of Dea. John Cooper; his great lot of fifty acres was bounded southwesterly by the Great Indian Pond; southerly by the lot of Thomas Lothrop; and northerly by the Indian Pond lots, on which his son John built a house. The Hamblens were among the first settlers in that part of town; and that region of country is now known as ``Hamblin´s Plains.´´ In 1686 his house was described as standing on his twenty-acre lot, on the north side of the highway, between the houses of Mr. Russell, (known in modern times as Brick John Hinckley´s,) and Dea. John Cooper, owned by William Hinckley and others.
The name of Mr. Hamblen appears frequently in the records of Plymouth Colony. The first mention is ``March 1, 1741-2. James Hamblen was propounded for Freeman; ``Before Willm Bradford, gent. Gou. (and other members of the court named) James Hamlen (was appointed) Constable for Barnstable.´´; March l5, 1657, James Hamblen served on inquest on the body of a child, Simeon Davis. June 3, 1657; James Hamblen was sick and could not serve on the Oraud Enquest; The name of James Hamblen appears in the list of Freemen of Barnstable in 1658; June 7, 1670, James Hamblen served on Grand Enquest, same day he was member of a trial jury; May 29, 1670, James Hamblen, Juni, and James Hamblen, Seni, in list of Freemen; March 6, 1671, James Hamblen served on a jury; June 3, 1679, James Hamblen served on a jury in the case between Capt. John Williams and Edward Jenkins; July 7, 1681, James Hamblen served on juries; July 6, 1682, James Hamblen summoned to serve on a jury, and served; In the list of Freemen of Barnstable for 1689, among others appear the names of James Hamblen, James Hamblen, Jr., John Hamblen, Eleazar Hamblen.
"Goodman Hamblen was not much in public life. He was an honest man, a good neighbor and a sincere Christian; he was industrious and prudent in his habits and brought up his children to walk in his footsteps. His descendants have, with few exceptions, inherited the good qualities of the ancestor."
The correct spelling of his name is a question of doubt. As a matter of fact people in those times were not particular, and the same individual did not spell his own name uniformly, in many instances; there was no standard of English orthography then. In the foregoing pedigree the name is spelled Hamelyn and Hamelin, in the record of baptisms, Hamblin and Hamlin; in the colonial records, Hamlene, Hamlen and Hamblen. His pastor. Rev. Mr. Lothrop wrote the name uniformly, Hamling. Rev. Mr. Russell, a successor of Mr. Lothrop, wrote it Hamblin. His sons and descendants for the first four generations, generally wrote it Hamblen; but assigned to his will, it is spelled Hamlin. The descendants spell the name variously: Hamlin, Hamlen, Hamline, Hamblin and Hamblen.
- History of the Hamlin Family - with genealogies of early settlers of the name in America. 1639-1894, Franklin Andrews

Will Of James Hamblen. Recorded Vol 1, Page 37. Barnstable Co., Mass., July 21, 1888. True Copy From The Records-Attest Freeman H. Lothrop, Reg. Of Probate Court. The last Will and Testament of James Hamlin Senr. of Barnstable: I being weake in body but throu ye mercy of God of good and dis~ posing mind and memory, and calling to mind ye uncertainty of this transitory life, and being willing to sett things in order as there may be peace and good agreement between my children after my decease, I do make and delare this my last will and testament in manner and forme hereafter mentioned viz: -
Imprimis: I will and bequeath my soul to (God who gave it through Jesus Christ, my deare and only Saviour and Redeemer and my body to decent burial as to my Executrix hereafter named shall seeme meete and convenient, and as for my outward estate which God hath been pleased to lend me, my will is that all my debts which are in right or conscience due to any person shall be first duly satisfied and contented. And then my will is that Anne, my loving wife shall have and enjoy all the rest of my estate in whatsoever it be during her natural life for her supporte and livelyhood, and my will is that after her decease in as much as my son James hath had ten pounds already of me, and my son Bartholemew five pounds, and my daughter Hannah„ five pounds (according to ye desire of my mother) so my will is that ye rest of my children shall have each of them five pounds apeace made up to them out of my estate, viz: to my son John five pounds my little feather bed bolster and rugg belonging to it, to be in part or whole thereof as it shall be appraised; and to my daughter Sarah five pounds, in ye great fether bed I lye on with ye bolster and rugg belonging thereunto as it shall be appraised; And to my son Eliazer four pounds, and five shillings out of my estate which with ye fifteen shillings he owes me on account makes up five pounds to him, And to my son Israel three pounds and eighteen shillings to make up ye bed and coverlett he hath five pounds to him.
Item. My will is that my daughter Sarah shall, have two of my platters which shee shall chose. And my will is that Israel shall have one of my pewter platters as my sons and daughter already married have had each of them one. And my will is that whatsoever of my estate shall remaine after my foresd legacies shall be paid shall after my wifes decease be equally divided amongst all my children unless my wife shall see cause to will any part or parts unto any of my sd children as shee shall see fit to those that are most dutyful unto her, unto whose liberty my will is it shall be left.
As also to nominate an executor to take place after her decease to see this my last will performed, And here in case shee make any will to dispose of ye overplus as aforesd.
Item. It is my will that Anne my wife be sole Executrix of this my last will and testament so long as shee lives.
In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seal this 23 of January Anno Dom´ 1683. JAMES HAMLIN [seal.] In presence of THOS. HINCKLEY, Gov. JONATHAN RUSSELL.
Gov, Hinckley and Jonathan Russell witnesses to this will, made oath in Court October ye 22th 1690, that they saw ye above sd James Hamlin deceased signe seal and declare this to be his last will and testament as attest.
- History of the Hamlin Family - with genealogies of early settlers of the name in America. 1639-1894, Franklin Andrews

James married Ann Scott on 19 Apr 1632 in Exeter, St Paul, Devon, England. Ann was born in 1610 in St. Lawrence, Reading, Berkshire, England; died in 1690 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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John 2 Dunham would have been about 15 years old if he came to Plymouth with his family in 1629-30. While it is not known which ship brought the Dunham family to Plymouth, it is possible that they arrived with those last English residents of Leyden who came to Plymouth in 1629. A possible ship may have been the Mayflower (not the original ship), which left Gravesend in March with thirty-five passengers, mostly from Leyden. She arrived 15 May 1629 with thirty-five passengers, only 23 of whom are definitely known.[5] He probably married his wife Mary about 1640 when he would have been 25 years old. He was probably the John Dunham on the "Able To Bear Arms" list of 19 May 1643 in Plymouth. John Dunham, the father, was still living, but at age about 54 years may have been excused.
John 2 Dunham has often been given a wife, Dorothy. The book, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence Almon Torrey, p. 229 lists John Downham & 1st wife Dorothe --?--, and a child b. 14 March 1643 in Braintree, Massachusetts. This John Downham is a separate family, and in fact John and Dorothy Downham had children recorded in Braintree at the same time that John and Mary Dunham were having children in Plymouth.[6]
Known as John Dunham, Jr,. he was listed in Records of Plymouth Colony Vol. 1, p. 36-37, March 1651, with the names of those “that have interest and proprieties in the Townes land at Punckateesett over against Road Island.” Page 53 notes “the bounds of John Dunham, Junior: his grant of forty acres of land on the southwest on Colchester is bounded . . .,” and pages 57 & 99 refer to land of John Dunham Junior at Winnatuxett. In 1665 he was granted lot number 7 lying on the west side of Nemassakett River (Middleboro).[7]
From Plymouth County Land Record 4:67, dated 8 June 1664, a statement shows that Anthony Snow, Ensign Mark Eames, Joseph Warren, Richard Wright, William Harlow, Nathaniel Morton, Ephraim Morton, William Paybody, JOHN DUNHAM, JR. & John Rogers "have liberty to look out land for accommodations."[8]
There are no land records that show that John 2 Dunham ever lived in Barnstable, but there must have been some close association with the people who lived there. His oldest daughter, Mary, 3 married 20 November 1662 James Hamblen, Jr., and his next daughter, Susanna 3 Dunham born say 1654 married in Barnstable 20 January 1673 Bartholomew Hamblen. Both James Hamblen, Jr. and Bartholomew were sons of James Hamblen one of the earliest settlers in Barnstable.[9] His oldest son John 3 also married in Barnstable 1 March 1679/80 Mary Smith, daughter of Rev. John and Susanna (Hinckley) Smith.
In the will of John Dunham Senior of Plymouth dated 25 January 1668 he states, “As for my son John Dunham whoe is my eldest sonne I have given him his portion alreddy both in land and other things to what I was able and beyond my abilitie.”[10]
The will of John 2 Dunham of Plimouth was dated 2 February 1691/2, and proved 16 April 1692.[11] To “wife Mary Dunham and to my Daughter Mercy Dunham my house I now dwell in with all” personal property except as specified, “Also...all my land about two miles off from my now Dwelling house and the orchard there it all Containing About” 16 acres, “Also...one acre of meadow lying at Doties meadows” in Plymouth, also 40 acres “at Colchester in the Township of Plimouth aforesaid I give to my said wife and daughter Mercy to be equally divided betwixt them But...if my wife need her share of the land for her Support she may sell it...which land I value at” £10; but, if she does not sell it, “after her decease my son John Dunham” to have one half of it, “hoping he will be tender and Carefull to help his mother while she lives” [John Jr. died before his mother; see more under Mercy.] To “my son John Dunham my Best Cloth Coat hereby Signifying he hath already Received his full portion” To “my Son Bartholomew Hamlin and my daughter Susanna his wife I Give all the Rest of my wearing Cloaths both linnen and woollen from head to foote” To “my son James Hamlin one shilling and to my daughter Mary his wife one shilling:” To “my son Robert Barrow one shilling and to my daughter Lidia his wife and to the heirs of her Body for Ever thirty acres of land which I have lying at Monponset in...Plimouth.” “my wife & Daughter Mercy to be Executrixes” and “my loving friends Isaac Cushman and Ephraim Morton junr to be overseers” of the will. The witnesses were John Cotton and Samuel Sturtevant. “Mr Jno Cotton one of the witnesses” made oath to the will at Plymouth, 16 April 1692, before “William Bradford Esqr Dept Governr and Mr Ephraim Morton Associate.”
- http://dunham2000.ipower.com/Generation-2-John(2)Dunham.html

John married Mary about 1642. died on 20 Mar 1698 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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The name of Richard Seer is first found upon the records of Plymouth Colony, in the tax-list of March 25, 1633, when he was one of fourty-four, in a list of eighty-six persons, who were assessed nine shillings in corn, at six shillings per bushel, upon one poll. [Hand notes] His name is not in tax list of 1634 or in list of freemen 1633.
He soon after crossed over to Marblehead, in Massachusetts Colony, where Richard Seers was taxed as a resident in the Salem rate-list for January 1, 1637-8, and on October 14, 1638, was granted four acres of land "where he had formerly planted." [This would seem to indicate that he had then some family.
What his reasons were for removing can now only be conjectured. It has been suggested that he sympathized with Roger Williams and followed him in his removal, but this is improbable. It may be that he wished to be near friends, former townsmen, or perhaps relatives.
Antony Thacher, and his wife who was sister to Richard Sares wife, was then living in Marblehead, and this fact probably influenced his removal to that place [changed to reflect hand notes]
The early settlers of Marblehead were many of them from the channel islands, Guernsey and Jersey, and in these places the family of Sarres has been established for several centuries, and is still represented in Guernsey under the names of Sarres and Serres.
[The next supposition was struck from the original book by May] Early in the year 1639, a party under the leadership of Antony Thacher crossed the Bay to Cape Cod, and settled upon a tract of land called by the Indians, "Mattakeese," to which they gave the name of Yarmouth. With them went Richard Sares and family, accompanied probably by his wife and infant sons, Paul and Silas. [handnotes] He took up residence on Quivet Neck between Quivet and Sesuit creeks [in what became East precinct of Yarmouth now Dennis], where in September of the same year their daughter Deborah was born, perhaps the second white child, and the first girl born in Yarmouth; Zachary Rider being supposed to have been the first boy.
In 1643, the name of Richard Seeres is in the list of those between the age of 16 and 60 able to bear arms. (In Williamsburg we learned that the requirements were, male, able bodied and with at least two teeth, one top and one bottom to pull the cap off the powder horn)
Oct 26, 1647, the commissioners on Indian affairs were appointed to meet at the house of Richard Sares at Yarmouth, when he entered a complaint against Nepoytam Sachumus, and Felix, Indians.
Oct 2, 1650, he with sixteen others, complained of William Nickerson for Slander, damage 100 pounds; and at the same term of court, we find his name with seventeen others, against Mr John Crow, William Nickerson and Lt William Palmer for trespass, damage 60 pounds.
Jun 3, 1652, Richard Seeres was propounded to take up Freedom.
Jun 7, 1652, Richard Sares was chosen to serve on the Grand Inquest.
Jun 7, 1653, Richard Sares took the Oath of Fidellyte at Plimouth, and was admitted a Freeman.
Mar 1, 1658, Richard Seares was chose on the committee to levy the church tax.
Jun 6, 1660, Richard Sares was chosen Constable.
Jun 3, 1662, Richard Saeres was chosen Deputy to the General Court at Plymouth.
Nov 23, 1664, Richard Sares, husbandman, purchased of Allis Bradford widow of Gov William Bradford, (who signed the deed with her mark,) a tract of land at Sesuit, for 20 pounds.
10(3)1667, Richard Sares made his Will, to which Feb 3, 1676, he added a codicil. Both documents are signed with his mark, (RS) and in witnessing various deeds at previous dates, he always made his mark, a by no means unusual thing to do in those days.
Mr H G Somerby in his manuscript collection in the library of the Mass Hist So, Boston, mentions a tradition that he held a commission in the militia, and lost his right arm by a gun-shot wound in a fight with Indians in 1650, but neither fact is recorded, nor is any such tradition known to the Cape antiquarians.
Jun 30, 1667, the name of Richard Sares is signed with fourteen others to a complaint against Nicholas Nickerson for slander of Rev Thomas Thornton. His signature is well and plainly written, on the original document in the possession of Hon H C Thacher of Boston, (of which a copy much reduced may be seen in Swift's "Hist of Old Yarmouth," 1884) but it is not certain that it is his autograph, (and no other is known,) as it and several others may have been written by the same person, and probably the one who procured the signatures to it.
I have followed the spelling of Richard Sears name as found on the records, which is probably the clerk's phonetic rendering; I have been told by aged members of the family, that when they were children, early in the 19th century, the name was written Sears, but pronounced by old people, Sares [ed. this is born out by the fact that in our recent visit to the Bahamas, our surname was noticed and the comment was "Where did you get a good old Bahama name like Say'-ers?" two syllables, accent on the first]
- Samuel P. May as republished in From The Descendants of Richard Sears of Yarmouth, Mass pub by Joel Munson's Sons, 1880

In his will, dated 10 May 1667, with a codicil dated 3 February 1675/6, and proved 5 March 1675/6, 'Richard Sares of Yarmouth' bequeathed to 'Sylas Sares my younger son . . . all my land, that is allthe upland upon the Neck where his house stands in which he now dwells . . . after mine and my wife's decease,' provided that 'my son-in-law Zachery Paddock' shall have the house where he dwells and two acres within the above tract 'during the life of Deborah his now wife'; also to 'the said Sylas Sares' a tract of meadow and half of 'my land called Robins as in undivided'; to 'my elder son Paule Sares all the rest and remains of my lands whatsoever', to 'Dorothy my wife' all lands and goods during her natural life, she to be sole executrix, and 'do entreat my brother Thacher with his two sons as friends in trust' as overseers; to 'my son-in-law Zachery Paddock' two acres from land called Robins before it is divided between Silas and Paul Sears, and this two acres, along with the two acres mentioned above, to go to Ichabod Paddock, son of Zachary, at the death of Zachary's wife; witnessed by Anthony Thacher and Anthony Frey; in the codicil, dated 3 February 1675/6, Richard Sears bequeathed to 'my eldest son Paul Sares .. . the house which I now live in' and various moveables; witnessed by John Thacher and Judah Thacher; on 5 March 1675/6 deposed that he and his brother witnessed the codicil,a nd that when 'my uncle signed this appendix,' he asked him [John Thacher] to redraw the will and 'to leave out of the new draft the legacy of land that is given to Ichabod Paddock, for saith he I have answered it in another way,' but Thacher never did produce this new draft [PCPR 3:2:53-54]. The inventory of the estate of 'Richard Sares,' taken 8 October 1676 and presented at court on 15 November 1676 by 'Dorethy Sares the relict of Richard Sares and Paul Sares his eldest son,' was untotalled and included 'his house and lands,' valued at £220
"Between the two creeks whose Indian names we have given above, there was a tongue of land called 'Quivet Neck,' made up in part of alluvial deposits, and forming therefore the best and most fertile soil. Richard Sayer purchased the greater part of this neck of land, and built his house upon it. On this gentle swell he could hear the crooning of the two brooks on either side of him s they wound through the meadows, and he could look over the green interval into the broad blue ocean, always sounding with the march and countermarch of its waves. After two hundred years, the house which he built had disappeared; but the precise spot is still to be seen where his household gods found undisturbed repose. . . Nothwithstanding his peace-loving habits, the Pilgrim, as tradition says, head a military office, and lost an arm by a gun-shot would in some conflict with the Indians. He also appears on the records as constable of Yarmouth, and once on some committee in ecclesiastical affairs. . . Richard Sayer lived to be the patriarch of the little colony of Sursuit, and to see his children and his children's children settled aroungd him. . . Richard sayer was once or twice summoned from his seclusion, as Deputy to the Colony Court at Plymouth. . . .He lived to a green and honored old age, and died in 1676. . . His ashes repose in the old Yarmouth churchyard, where one of his descendants, with filial reverence and affection, has erected a costly monument to his memory."
"In 1668, there was exchanging and buying of upland and meadow abetween Quivet Creek and Sauquatuckett River or as it was now often called 'Stoney Brook.' On January 17, an agreement was made between 'Richard Sears of Yarmouth and John Dillingham about an exchange of meadow lying between Bound brook and Stoney brook.' By this 'agreement' it appears 'Richard Sears fully and readily' accepted 'all right that John Wing and John Dillingham' had 'in all the meadows commonly called the Nooks - for all the right that Richard sears had in that meadow lying and being against Mr. William Bradford's two lots sold to said Richard Sears,' and 'his in the great division of broken meadow.' At the same date Richard Sears sold to 'John Dillingham, his heirs and assigns, all the land lying and being below the path commonly known as the path from Sesuit to the mill, with all the dead timber about the path forever.'

Richard married Dorothy Jones in 1632 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Dorothy was born in 1603 in Somerset, England; died on 19 Mar 1679 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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George married Dorothy Dunster. Dorothy and died. [Group Sheet]

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• Baptism: 10 Oct 1597, Farthinghoe, Northamptonshire, England
• Arrival: 1638, Barnstable, Plymouth, Massachusetts

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John Mayo of Northamptonshire, a commoner’s son, was one of 504 students who matriculated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford University in 1615. He came to New England in 1638 but the ship that the Mayo family crossed in is unknown. In order to travel, the harassed clergy had to disguise themselves and use assumed names. His wife was named Tamsen but we don’t know where or when they were married. John Mayo was in Barnstable by 1639, where he was ordained a minister on April 15, 1640. Governor William Bradford, Thomas Prence, and Captain Myles Standish were in attendance when Mr. John Mayo of Barnstable was admitted as a Freeman by the court of Plymouth on March 3rd in the 13th year of his Majesty’s Reign, 1640. In 1646 he moved to the newly settled town of Nausett (Eastham), where he served as the minister until 1654. He became the first pastor of the Second Church of Boston (today called the “Old North Church”) on November 9, 1655. The city of Boston was growing rapidly and had more people than all of Plymouth Colony. While in Boston, he served as an overseer of Harvard College and the Boston Latin School. His contemporaries included John Endecott and Governor John Winthrop. He owned a house and lot on Middle Street (now Hanover Street), which he sold to Abraham Gording in 1673 for 200 pounds. Rev. John Mayo died in Yarmouth on May 3, 1676 without a will.
Mr. Mayo was in Barnstable in 1639, and became ‘teaching elder’ in the church of which Mr. Lathrop was pastor. His relation to the church here is said to have been that of “religious teacher” -- perhaps implying that he was not invested with the pastoral office. In Boston, he was inducted to the pastorate Nov. 8, 1655, and continued in office until 1673. They Plymouth record says, “Growing aged and unable to carry out his office, he removed again into this Colony, and lived near Yarmouth, and not long after fell asleep in the Lord.” Rev. Increase Mather, who succeeded him in Boston, has, with greater particularity furnished us with the following record: “1672, in the beginning of which year, Mr. Mayo, the pastor, likewise grew very infirm, insomuch as the congregation was not able to hear and be edified; whereupon, the brethren, the pastor manifesting his concurrence, desired the teacher to take care for a supply of the congregation that the worship of God may be upheld among us.” Again, “on the 5th mo. 1673, Mr. Mayo removed his person and goods to reside with his daughter in Barnstable, where, and at Yarmouth since, he hath led a private life, as not being able, through the infirmities of age, to attend to the work of the ministry. The -- day of May 1676, he departed this life at Yarmouth, and was there buried.” Mr. Mayo preached the annual Election Sermon, June 1658. He, with his entire family, came from England. His wife Tamsen d. at Y. a wid. Feb. 26, 1682. Their children were Samuel, Hannah, Nath’l, Elisa., John, and Bathsheba. Hannah m. Nath’l Bacon of Be., and Elisa. m. Joseph Howes of Y. - History of Cape Cod: Annals of Barnstable County (1862)
Reverend John Mayo ca 1598-1676 England-Eastham-Boston-Yarmouth
Although Mayo is an Irish name, this family was from England. Reverend John Mayo was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, the son of a commoner. He came to Boston 1638 and was in Barnstable in 1639, where he was ordained a teaching elder to assist Rev. John Lothrop. He was a freeman in 1640.
John Bakke wrote in 2009 that John was in Holland in 1618, where he married Tamisen Brike, a native of Leiden. He returned to England from Leiden, where he was ordained in the Church of England but he preached according to Puritan beliefs for nearly two decades. At that point it became too difficult or dangerous to continue, so he immigrated to the new world.
John and Tamesin’s children were all born England: Hannah, Samuel, John, Nathaniel, and Elizabeth. None of his sons became ministers.
He took charge of the Eastham Church in 1646 and continued until 1655, when he went to Second Church in Boston (later called Old North Church). The first meetinghouse in Eastham was 20 foot square, with a thatched roof and holes on all sides for firing muskets. It was located near the old burial ground in Eastham. John may have left because of a fledgling town lacking the ability to support a minister. Soon after John left Eastham for Boston, the Congregational leadership in New England implemented a policy discouraging the theft of the most promising pastors from small, rural parishes to larger, wealthier, urban ones.
In Boston he was likely overshadowed by Increase Mather, who worked there as a teacher. Mather was assertive and slightly obsessive, while Mayo was a mild-mannered, peace-loving man who was loathe to split hairs. John was the first pastor there and served until 1673, when at an advanced age he went to Barnstable and spent time there, Eastham and Yarmouth for the remainder of his life. Of course the original Second Church building does not survive, but the current church was built in 1723 is the oldest surviving church building in Boston. It is famous for its role in history--on the eve of the American Revolution in 1775 the church sexton held two lanterns in the steeple as a signal from Paul Revere that the Red Coats were coming by sea to march on Lexington and Concord.
In Boston he lived in a house owned by Bart. Bernard on the south side of Fleet Street and then bought a house on the west side of Hanover (Middle) Street between Parmenter and Prince Streets. He also served as an overseer of Harvard College.
From The Old North Church records (in the handwriting of Increase Mather) in the beginning of 1672: “Mr. Mayo, the Pastor, likewise grew very infirm, insomuch as the congregation was not able to hear and be edified.” The congregation therefore desire a new minister and he consented. “On the 15th of the 2d month (April) 1673, removed his person and goods also, from Boston to reside with his daughter in Barnstable where (and at Yarmouth) since he hath lived a private life, as not being able through infirmities of old age to attend to the word of the ministry. The day of the 3d (May) month 1676 he departed this life at Yarmouth, and was there buried.”Mather’s unpublished diaries show how much Rev. Mayo influenced him.
Rev. John Mayo died in May 1676 in Yarmouth. Amos Otis writes he was a man of prominence as a minister and in 1658 preached the annual election sermon. His wife Tamosin/Tamsen died in Yarmouth in 1682. On 7 June 1676 “Mr. Hinckley, Mr. Freeman and Mr. Huckens are appointed by the Court to take course about the estate of Mr. John Mayo, deceased, to make devision and settlement of the said estate, both with reference unto his wifes pte and amongst his children, and therin to acte, if it may be, be theire satisfaction; and incase they can not, then to make report therof to the next Court, that soe further maybe taken for settlement therof.” (Plymouth Col Records 200)
The inventory of Rev. Mr. Mayo’s personal estate, taken 1 June 1676, by Edmond Hawes and Thomas Huckins, amounted to 111 pounds, 4 shilling, including 10 pounds for books. On 15 June 1676 his heirs settled his estate by agreement, which was signed by Tamsen Mayo, widow, John Mayo, son, Joseph Howes, son-in-law, and by Thomas Huckins in behalf of Hannah Bacon, daughter. John Mayo and Joseph Howes were administrators. There were three grandchildren mentioned: Samuel Mayo, Hannah Mayo and Bathsheba Mayo, children of his son Nathaniel Mayo, deceased.
The sum total of his inventory was somewhat small but equal to the average at that time in the Colony. His widow Tamisen was allowed to keep all of the property she bought into the marriage. - http://massandmoregenealogy.blogspot.com/2011/08/reverend-john-mayo-ca -1598-1676-england.html
Posting from ancestry.com message board:
Mike,
The author of `` Rev. John Mayo and His Descendants `` is my friend, Jean Mayo Rodwick. You can reach her at: jeanrodwick@yahoo.com . She vacations alot but usually checks her e-mails along the way. Her book includes my latest Mayo research in England and in Leiden, Holland. The information that you presently have is outdated and mostly comes from old Mormon Ancestral files.
I have done the research myself and have sources to back up my research:
1. Rev. John Mayo was baptized on Oct. 16, 1597 in Farthinghoe Parish, Northamptonshire, England, son of John Mayo and Katherine ( maiden name unknown ). He married Tamisen ( Tamsen ) Brike in Leiden, Holland on Mar. 21, 1618. They were married in the Dutch Reformed Church. The people believed to be the parents of Rev. John Mayo, John and Katherine Mayo, died in 1629/30 and 1633 respectively. Both are buried in the church yard at Thorpe Mandeville, Northamptonshire, England. I have a copy of this John Mayo´s will dated Jan. 18, 1629/30 and proved Mar. 20, 1629/30.
Known children of John and Katherine Mayo were:
a. Philipa Mayo: born ca. 1595; bapt. in 1595 in Farthinghoe; died Nov. 24, 1627 at age 32 yrs.
b. John Mayo ( believed to be Rev. John Mayo ): was bapt. Oct. 16, 1597 in Farthinghoe.
c. Hannah Mayo: bapt. Mar. 11, 1599 in Farthinhoe; married Daniel Jarvis ( Gervice ); had children: Thomas and Elizabeth Jarvis ( twins ) born in 1631, Daniel Jarvis, born in 1634, John Jarvis, born in 1634, and Ann Jarvis, born in 1634. This family lived in Thorpe Mandeville.
d. Elizabeth Mayo: bapt. Jan. 1, 1601 in Farthinghoe. She was unmarried when her father died in 1629/30.
e. Joyce Mayo: bapt. Aug. 21, 1603 in Thorpe Mandeville. She married Thomas Golbert ( Gilbarde ) there on Jan. 22, 1624. She was not mentioned in her father´s will, but her husband was. Their children were: Elizabeth Gilbert, baptized in Sept., 1626 in Slapton, not too awfully far from Thorpe Mandeville; and John Gilbert, bapt. in 1631 in Slapton. According to Joyce´s father´s will, her husband and children were living in Slapton in 1629/30.
Sources for the above information were:
1. Leiden, Holland City Clerk and the University records in Leiden. 2. Northamptonshire, England County Records Office. 3. Town or church records in Farthinghoe, Thorpe Mandeville, and Slapton in Northamptonshire, England. 4. Parish priest of Farthinghoe, Northamptonshire.
According to Rev. Charles Chauncy´s last living, Rev. John Mayo´s father was of Thorpe Mandeville, before he died. Rev. Chauncy had beed good friends with Rev. John Mayo´s father, when Chauncy was vicar of Marston St. Lawrence, a few miles from Thorpe Mandeville and next door to Farthinghoe.
It is strongly believed that John and Katherine Mayo may have originated in Marston St. Lawrence, but moved next door to Farthinghoe to have their children. There is no marriage record for them in Farthinghoe and the Marston St. Lawrence records of the time period burned, as they did in North Newington, Oxfordshire, England.
According to the Banks Manuscripts, Rev. John Mayo and family came to New England from North Newington, Oxfordshire, England in the Spring of 1638, about the same time that Rev. Charles Chauncy arrived. Rev. John and family are not listed on any existing ships passenger lists.
I talked to some Mayo´s in Northamptonshire, and they told me that Mayo´s in the areas connected to Rev. John Mayo over there originated in the county of Cornwall and had come to Marston St. Lawrence and surrounding towns in the mid-1500´s. They had lived for many earlier generations in Cornwall on land given to Mayo´s for their fighting for Normandy in the Norman Invasion of England.
One further note: According to the Banks Manuscripts, Rev. Charles Mayo came to America from North Newington, Oxfordshire, which is a stone´s throw from Broughton Castle and Lord Saye and Sele, who it was said held special favor with Rev. John Mayo. Rev. Mayo´s friends who later settled Connecticut, held secret Puritan meetings at Broughton Castle with Lord Saye and Sele. Unfortunately, the early records were destroyed by fire in North Newinton. I talked with the present Lord Saye and Sele who still lives in Broughton Castle, and he checked the early family papers but could find no mention of Rev. John Mayo.
One further note: I researched the Cattistocke/Dorset area to death and found that John Mayo, born 1590, son of John Mayo, Rector of Cattistocke, did indeed marry an Elizabeth, but they lived out their lives, bore children, and died and are buried in Dorset, England. He was definitely not Rev. John Mayo.
The birth and baptism records could not be located for the children of Rev. John Mayo in England, nor in Holland. My Leiden sources said that the baptism records for the Dutch Reformed Church of the proper time period have been lost. The North Newington records were burned.
North Newington in Oxfordshire is very close to Thorpe Mandeville and Farthinghoe in Northamptonshire.
Hope that helps some. Good luck with your research, and let me know if I can give you any more info on your Mayo line from Jean´s book.
- Jean Mayo - http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.mayo/4119.2/mb.ashx

Rev. married Tamisen Brike on 21 Mar 1618 in Leiden, Holland. Tamisen was born in 1600 in England; died on 26 Feb 1682 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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Willam married Hannah. Hannah was born in 1605 in London, Middlesex, , England; died on 12 Feb 1692. [Group Sheet]

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