![]() This type of African American cemetery is common, but very difficult to locate because of the small number of burials and the lack of any historic or geographic record of its location. Thus it is difficult to locate the inscribed stones, let alone any unmarked graves. ![]() Many of the stones are in disarray and the iron fence that once surrounded the burial ground is scattered in pieces (see the photo below for an overview of the cemetery as it appears today). Unfortunately, the cemetery was partially bisected by a 20th Century road that leads to a modern housing development. The cemetery is included here because oral history reveals that their slaves were buried in or adjacent to this cemetery. This cemetery contains the marked graves of the Mayo Family (their son's gravestone is illustrated at theleft, with the optimistic hand pointing to heaven). They farmed and operated several businesses, most likely passed down from father to son. The surname Mayo is still well represented on Cape Cod through descendants of his sons Samuel, Nathaniel, and John.The Mayo Family lived in Earlysville Virginia (near the modern-day airport off Route 29). He the first pastor of the church, and finally transferred to Boston to become the first minister of the Second Church (the “Old North Meeting House”). John Mayo brought his family toNew England in 1640. Robert Gamblin and Elizabeth Mayo Gamblin (the widow of John Mayo) came to the colonies on the ship William and Francis in early 1632 with Elizabeth's son from her first marriage. U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700ġ citation provides evidence for Name, Death, Birth, Marriage and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900ġ citation provides evidence for Name, Birth, Marriage and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900sġ citation provides evidence for Name, Arrival Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988ġ citation provides evidence for Name, Death "The Heath Connection: English Origins of Isaac and William Heath of Roxbury, Massachusetts, John Johnson, Edward Morris, and Elizabeth (Morris) Cartwright", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume CXLVI (1992).Īncestry of Robert Roy and Related Families linkĪll of the Above I By Richard Baldwin Cook link American Marriages Before 1699 1 citation provides evidence for Name, Marriage "Inscriptions from the Old Burial Ground, Roxbury, Mass.", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume XIV (1860). "Early Records of Boston", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume XI (1857).Īnonymous. Oxford, Massachusetts: by the author, 1892. History of the Town of Oxford, Massachusetts. Reprint Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1981.ĭaniels, George F. John Mayo of Roxbury, Massachusetts 1630-1688 A Genealogical and Biographical Record of His Descendants. ![]() The New England Historical and Genealogical Register for the year 1860. = Sources = Find A Grave Memorial# 11019097 link Web: Massachusetts, Find A Grave Index, 1620-2013 1 citation provides evidence for Name, Death, Birth, Burial Mayo aged 58 year, Departed this life the 28th of Apirel 16885,1Ĭhildren of John Mayo and Hannah Graves Hannah Mayo1,2 ( - Sep 1658) Deacon John Mayo+1,2 ( - /33) Hannah Mayo1,2,6 (/61 - ) Rebecca Mayo1 ( - ) Joseph Mayo+1,2 ( - ) Mehitable Mayo+1,2,6 (/69 - 1722) Thomas Mayo1,2 ( - ) Benjamin Mayo1,2 ( - ) Thomas Mayo+2,1,3 ( - ) Their marriage date was recorded as 24 (3) 1654.4,1 He purchaced land near Spring Street in Roxbury in 1657.1 John Mayo left a will on 9 February 1687/88 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.1 He died on Wednesday, 28 April 1688 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, at age 59 years.5,1 He was buried on 29 April 1688 in Eliot Street Burying Ground, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Pope (1900) gives his burial as one day earlier.1,2 John's estate was inventoried on in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, valued at £508 15/.1 His estate was probated on 11 June 1691 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.2 John's gravestone inscription in Eliot Street Burying Ground, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, reads: It reads: "Robert Gamlyn», and to sell the same, etc.».1 On John, married Hannah Graves, at age 17, daughter of John Graves and Judith Allard, in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. In 1641, a power of attorney was written to take care of the property that John had inherited from his father. John Mayo left a will on 9 February 1687/88 at Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. John married Hannah Graves, daughter of John Graves and Judith Allard. John Mayo arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony on on the ship William and Francis in the company of his mother Elizabeth and her second husband Robert Gamlyn, Jr. He was the son of Thomas Mayo and Elizabeth Wing. From Linda Runyon's and Roland Baker's research: Biography
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