Rev. John MAYO

1597 - 1676  (79 years)

• Name	John MAYO  [1]
  Prefix	Rev.
  Birth	2 Apr 1597	Farthinghoe, Northamptonshire, England   [1]
  Christening	10 Oct 1597	Farthinghoe Parish, Northamptonshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Education	28 Apr 1615  [2]
  	Entered Oxford
  Emigration	1618	Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands   [2]
  Name	Jan MEYER  [2]
  Residence	Jan 1644	Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America   [2]
  	List of the Townsmen of Barnstable Jan. 1643-4.
  Occupation	1654  [2]
  	Pastor in Eastham
  _FSFTID	LYT4-N3S
  _FSLINK	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LYT4-N3S
  _UID	BAC02F84369F4C87AEB268198D8D8AAF0913
  Death	3 May 1676	Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America   [1]
  Burial	3 May 1676	Cove Burying Ground, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America   [1]
  Person ID	I594770302	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	15 Feb 2023

  
  

  Father	John MAYO,   b. Abt 1570, Northamptonshire, England d. Bef 20 Mar 1630, Thorpe Mandeville, Northamptonshire, England (Age ~ 60 years)
  Mother	Katheryn /DEVIES DEUYES   d. Abt 1633, Thorpe Mandeville, Northamptonshire, England
  Marriage	Bef 1595	of Northamptonshire, England   [3]
  Family ID	F536729640	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Thomasine BRIKE,   b. 1597, Colchester, Colchester Borough, Essex, England d. 26 Feb 1683, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	21 Mar 1618	Leiden, Holland, Netherlands   [2]
  Children	1. Hannah MAYO,   b. 1621   d. Yes, date unknown   2. John MAYO,   b. Abt 1623, Leiden, Holland, Netherlands d. 4 Nov 1706, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America (Age ~ 83 years)   3. Samuel MAYO,   b. 1625, East Malling, Kent, England d. 26 Apr 1664, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America (Age 39 years)   4. Nathaniel MAYO,   b. 1627, East Malling, Kent, England d. 24 Feb 1661, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America (Age 34 years)
  Family ID	F536729638	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 Feb 2023

  
  

• Notes

  There is also a John Mayo in Roxbury who lived in Leiden. John2 Mayo (John1) was born on April 2, 1597 in Farthinghoe Parish, Northamptonshire, England.2 He was baptized on October 10, 1597 in Farthinghoe Parish, Northamptonshire, England.1 He married Tamisen Brike on March 21, 1618 in Leiden, Holland; marriage of Jan Meyer, a baize worker [works with coarse woolen used to make curtains, tablecloths, linings etc.] from England, and Timmosijn Breyck, also from England in the Reformed Church. The witnesses were Timmosijn's mother Susanna Breyck, and her sister, Marytgen Duijck. Jan was accompanied by Thomas Smith [Jan Meyer in Dutch is John Mayo in English; Timmosijn Breyck is Tamisen Brike.].3 He died in May, 1676 in Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Plymouth Rev. John Mayo, Tamsen and the five children were in Barnstable, Massachusetts in 1639 to welcome the last of the Scituate settlers as they arrived in America. Mr. John Mayo, Samuel Mayo and Nathaniel Bacon are on the 1640 list of first settlers of Barnstable, Plymouth Colony. [NEH & GR 2: 64] The Mayo's remained in Barnstable until he moved to Nausett (Eastham), Plymouth Colony, staying there from 1646 to 1654. He was the first pastor of the church there. The original site is located on Highway #6A by the Cove Burying Ground marker of the Congregational Church. A deed by John Morton of Eastham dated May 12, 1655 sells land that partially includes an area just beyond the dwelling house of John Mayo Junior, all of which Morton bought earlier from Mr. John Mayo Senior. (The Mayflower Descendant 9:233, Plymouth Colony Deeds p. 155) By November 9, 1655, Rev. John Mayo's family moved to Boston where he became the first pastor of the "old North Meeting House" on Salem Street, which was the second church in Boston. John Mayo (1597-1676) by Lynn Scott John Mayo was born 1597 in Northamptonshire, England. (1) At 17 he attended Magdalen Hall, Oxford University, but left without taking a degree, probably to escape taking the oath of conformity, which was required to graduate. (2) "In his early 20's he was in Leiden, Holland and married there: Jan Meyer [John Mayo] of England, baize-worker, accompanied by Thomas Smeth [Smith], his acquaintance, was betrothed March 21, 1618 to Timmosijn Breyck [Tamisen Brike] of England, accompanied by Susanna Breyck [Brike], her mother, and Marytgen Duijck [Mary] her sister. A baize-worker works with wool fabric and many Puritans in Leiden had this occupation because of the demand." (3) John apparently went back to England and lived in North Newington, Oxfordshire, which is fairly close to Thorpe Mandeville where he was raised. (4) Throughout the 1630's there was much trouble in England. King Charles I was severely persecuting any person or group that strayed from the Church of England. Never the less, there was much dissent and there was unrest in Parliament. In 1637, and edict forbade anyone from traveling abroad without a license and plague was prevalent in 1638. Around this time, John Mayo decided to leave England and go to America. In spite of restrictions, twenty ships carrying around 3000 passengers left England for Massachusetts Bay that year. (5) John and his family arrived in Cape Cod, Plymouth Colony in the spring of 1638 or 1639. John first settled in Barnstable along with 20 other families where he became a teacher in the church and an assistant of Rev. John Lathrop. (6) He appeared on a list of inhabitants of Barnstable in 1643 and in 1649 contributed fourteen rods of fence at Stony Cove. He and his sons Samuel and Nathaniel were listed in 1643 as being able to bear arms and saw active service in Lieut. Thomas Dymake's Co. In 1646 he removed to Nausett (Eastham) and was pastor of the church there until 1655. (7) At that time the meeting house was but twenty feet square with a thatched roof. In 1655 he accepted a call to Boston as the first pastor of Old North Church. (8) While living in Boston, he owned a house and lot on Middle (now Hanover) Street 38 x 180 feet, selling it for 200 pounds in 1675 to Abraham Bording. (9) The close of the pastorate of John Mayo of the North Church in 1673 is marked in records by Increase Mather: "In the beginning of which year Mr. Mayo, the pastor, likewise grew very infirm in as much as the congregation was not able to hear and be edified. On the 15th day of the 3rd month, 1673, Mr. Mayo removed his person and goods also from Boston to reside with his daughter in Barnstable where since he hath lived a private life." John died in Yarmouth, Massachusetts 3 May 1676. (10) Thomasine died 1683. 1 Memorial for John Mayo (1676), memorial #47987228, Find A Grave.com; "Oxford University Alumni, 1500- 1886," John Mayo, Ancestry.com. 2 Philip Tillingast Nickerson, "Rev. John Mayo, first minister of the Second Church in Boston, Mass.," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 85 (1941), p.41. 3 N.H., Vol. H, fol. 216, reference on Memorial for John Mayo (1676), memorial #47987228, Find A Grave.com. 4 Charles Edward Banks, Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650 (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1976), p. 135, Ancestry.com. 5 Nickerson, "Rev. John Mayo, first minister of the Second Church in Boston, Mass.," p. 42. 6 Nickerson, "Rev. John Mayo, first minister of the Second Church in Boston, Mass.," p. 42. 7 C. F. Swift, Genealogical notes of Barnstable families (Barnstable, MA: F. B. & F.P. Gross Pub., 1890), vol. 2, p. 220. 8 Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Mayflower Families from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1985), Vol. 3, p. 891. 9 Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Deed book 9, p. 39, John Mayo to Abraham Gording, 12 March 1672, image 405, FamilySearch.org. 10 Memorial for John Mayo (1676), memorial #47987228, Find A Grave.com; C. F. Swift, Genealogical notes of Barnstable families (Barnstable, MA: F. B. & F.P. Gross Pub., 1890), vol. 2, p. 220.

  
  

• Sources

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