John Mayo Reverand

  General Notes:

~The Treat Family, p. 167 gives the name Thomasen as the wife of Rev. John Mayo. ⁶⁰⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Emigration: along with his wife and children aboard the "Truelove," 1635, London, England to Boston. ¹⁵³

• Background Information. ¹⁵³
"John Mayowas born while Elizabeth I was Queen, and a boy during the reign of James I, he went to Magdelen College, Oxford University, in 1615, but did not graduate. He wed and had all his children in Northamptonshire. He was a protestant preacher in a time when the harrassed clery were obliged to disguise themselves and to use assumed names. The whole family came to the Colonies in 1635 aboard the "Truelove" from London."

~John Farmer, Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England

• Children. ^62,163
Capt. Samuel [Immigrant, 1635 "Truelove"] Mayo b: abt. 1625 in Northamptonshire, England
Hannah [Immigrant, 1635 "Truelove"] Mayo b: England; m. 1642, Nathaniel Bacon
John [Immigrant, 1635 "Truelove"] Mayo b: 1623 in Northamptonshire, England; d. 1706; m. 1 Jan 1651, Hannah Reycroft
Nathaniel [Immigrant, 1635 "Truelove"] Mayo b: 1625 in Northamptonshire, England
Elizabeth Mayo b: Abt 1631 in Eastham, Massachusetts; m. Joseph Howes

• Background Information. ⁶²
Mayo is an Irish name, but Rev. John Mayo was born and educated in England. He was ordained a teaching elder in connection with Rev. John Lothrop in Barnstable, Massachusetts. He was made a freeman in 1640, and moved to Eastham. He took charege of the church there until 1655. From 1655 to 1673, he was at the North church in Boston. Due to old age, he returned to Eastham and Yarmouth to be with his children inhis later years. He died at Yarmouth, May 1676.

~Anthon Genealogy. p. 99

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁷
Rev. John Mayo, emigrated to Barnstalbe in 1639. He was a teacher there until 1644, when he moved to eastham, where he was the Pastor there until 1655. Next, he was the pastor of the second church in Boston until 1673, when he was discharged on account of old age. He died in Yarmouth, 1676. His children who were born before they immigrated to the Americas were:

Samuel, married Thamisine
Hannah, who married Nathaniel Bacon of Barnstable, 1642
Nathaniel, married Hannah Prence in 1650, and died in 1662
John, married Hannah Lacraft in 1651, and died about 1766
Elixsabeth, married Joseph Homes of Yarmouth in 1701

~ The New England Historical and genealogical Register, Vol. VI, p. 168

John married Thomasen.⁶⁰⁰