Thomas Mayhew

1593 - 1682  (88 years)

• Name	Thomas Mayhew
  Born	01 Apr 1593	(bpt) Tisbury,Wiltshire,Eng
  Gender	Male
  Died	25 Mar 1682	Martha's Vineyard,,MA
  Person ID	I874	B03 Thomas Hore, b1649, Chilham, Kent, England
  Last Modified	23 Nov 2018

  
  

  Father	Living
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Living
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F401	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Jane (Gallion) Paine,   b. ENG ,   d. Aft 1666, Martha's Vineyard,,MA
  Children	1. Hannah Mayhew,   b. 15 Jun 1635, Watertown,,MA ,   d. Living in 1713, d. before 1721  [natural]   2. Bethiah Mayhew,   b. 06 Dec 1636, Watertown,,MA  [natural]   3. Mary Mayhew,   b. 14 Jan 1640, Watertown,,MA  [natural]   4. Martha Mayhew,   b. 1641, Watertown,,MA  [natural]
  Last Modified	23 Nov 2018
  Family ID	F400	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Abigail Parkus,   b. 1621, Mar. resided Martha's Vineyard,,MA
  Last Modified	23 Nov 2018
  Family ID	F404	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Source: The Great Migration, NEHGS, Vol. 2, pages 1243-1246: ORIGIN: Tisbury, Wiltshire MIGRATION: 1632 FIRST RESIDENCE: Medford,,MA REMOVES: Watertown by 1634, Martha's Vineyard by 1647 OCCUPATION: Steward. Magistrate. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Watertown church prior to 14 May 1634 implied freemanship. FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 (as "Mr. Tho[mas] Mahewe" [MBCR 1:369]. EDUCATION: His letters to the Winthrops were direct and full of practical business matters [WP 3:169, 6:136]. OFFICES: Watertown selectman, 10 October 1636, 30 December 1637, 10 December 1638, 6 December 1639, 29 December 1640, 21 November 1642 [WaTR 2,3,5,6,8]. Assessor, 20 December 1642 [WaVR 9]. Arbiter, 30 June 1648 [Aspinwall 135]. Appraiser of land, 10 September 1643 [Aspinwall 136]. See Martha's Vineyard History for more details of his life and offices, which are "interwoven with the political and social conditions of the Island," [Martha's Vineyard History 1:104-26, 2:30, 3:299-301]. In his will, dated 16 June 1681 and proved 28 March 1682, "Thomas Mayhew of Edgartown upon the Vineyard in this ninetieth year of my age" divided his extensive lands on Martha's Vineyard and elsewhere among "Matthew Mayhew, my grandson" (with conditional provisions for "Thomas and John Mayhew, Jerusha and Jedidah"), "my daughter Hannah" and "her sons Samuel, John and Joshua Daggett," "my daughter Martha," "Thomas and John Harlock, and their sister at Boston," naming also to "my son Daggett" and 'my son Tupper" [Dukes LR A:326-32]. COMMENTS: The likelihood that Thomas Mayhew came to New England in 1632 raises an interesting possibility, based on an Admiralty suit of that year. In the case of 'Mason v. Gibbs', two sailors testified that the Lyon's Whelp sailed from England in January 1631/2 and arrived at the Isles of Shoals in May 1632, and carried as its only passengers "a man and his wife, their two daughters and their man," and one of the sailors added that this nameless family "were embarked for New England on behalf of Matthew Craddock [English Adventurers 37-38]. Thomas Mayhew is known to have come to New England as Matthew Craddock's steward [Martha's Vineyard History 1:117-26]. In 1901 Charles Edward Banks published the English ancestry of Gov. Thomas Mayhew [Gen Adv 4:1-8]. BONNY - FIND THIS. [Gen Adv - The Genealogical Advertiser, v. 1-4 (Cambridge, 1898-1901; rpt Baltimore, GPC, 1974].