Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Thomas Mayhew, Governor of Martha's Vineyard

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Name Thomas Mayhew Suffix Governor of Martha's Vineyard Birth Bef 1 Apr 1593 [1, 2, 3, 4] Baptism 1 Apr 1593 Tisbury, Wiltshire, England [1, 2, 3, 4]
Gender Male Death 25 Mar 1682 Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts [2, 3, 5, 6]
Person ID I15049 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 12 Sep 2020
Father Matthew Maho d. Between 31 Aug 1612 and 27 Jun 1614, Tisbury, Wiltshire, England Mother Alice Barter d. Between 12 Jan 1606 and 24 Jun 1612, Tisbury, Wiltshire, England Marriage 2 Oct 1587 Tisbury, Wiltshire, England [3]
Family ID F9293 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 (Unknown first wife of Thomas Mayhew) d. Bef 1635 Marriage Bef 1620 [2, 7] Children + 1. Rev. Thomas Mayhew, b. Abt 1620 d. 1657, At sea (Age ~ 37 years)
Family ID F15556 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 12 Sep 2020
Family 2 Jane Galland, b. Bef 2 Nov 1602 d. Between 1666 and 25 Mar 1682, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts (Age > 63 years)
Marriage Abt 1632 [1] Children 1. Hannah Mayhew, b. 15 Jun 1635, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts + 2. Martha Mayhew, b. Abt 1641 d. 15 Nov 1717, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age ~ 76 years)
Family ID F9290 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 13 Jan 2019
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Notes - Arrived in New England with his son Thomas in 1632. First at Medford, then Watertown by 1634, and Martha's Vineyard by 1647.
A mixed but interesting figure. His work proselytizing native Americans arouses our natural skepticism about such efforts, but it can be noted that as proprietor of Martha's Vineyard he treated them with more fairness and respect than most 17th-century white settlers. On the other hand, this is also the guy who managed to wangle an honest-to-goodness royal patent making him full-fledged manorial lord of the entire Vineyard, all the other inhabitants to to become tenants subject to his (literally) feudal jurisdiction. This arrangement persisted in the face of many headwinds, even after the Vineyard was reassigned from New York to Massachusetts in 1691, but by the eighteenth century it came to be regarded as a ceremonial fiction. The last quit rents were paid to Mayhew family members in 1732.
Gov. Thomas Mayhew = Jane (2nd wife)
Hannah Mayhew = Thomas Doggett
Jemima Doggett = Thomas Butler
Israel Butler = Elizabeth Blossom
Benjamin Butler = Susanna Whiting
James Butler = Unis Kinsley
Polly Butler = William Alonzo Hickok
James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok (1837-1876)
Gov. Thomas Mayhew = (1st wife)
Thomas Mayhew = Jane
Matthew Mayhew = Mary Skiffe
Paine Mayhew = Mary Rankin
Sarah Mayhew = Abisha Folger
William Folger = Ruth Coffin
Anna Folger = Thomas Coffin
Lucretia (Coffin) Mott (1793-1880), abolitionist and feminist
- Arrived in New England with his son Thomas in 1632. First at Medford, then Watertown by 1634, and Martha's Vineyard by 1647.
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Sources - [S544] Noyes-Gilman Ancestry: Being a Series of Sketches, with a Chart of the Ancestors of Charles Phelps Noyes and Emily H. (Gilman) Noyes, His Wife by Charles Phelps Noyes. St. Paul, Minnesota, 1907.
- [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.
- [S2094] Charles Edward Banks, "The English Ancestry of Governor Thomas Mayhew." The Genealogical Advertiser 4:1, March 1901.
- [S4384] George Eldridge, Hydrographer, and Eliza Jane His Wife: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1982.
- [S2415] Leslie Mahler, "The English Origin of Jane (Galland) (Paine), Wife of Thomas Mayhew of Martha's Vineyard." The American Genealogist 76:94, Apr 2001.
- [S4384] George Eldridge, Hydrographer, and Eliza Jane His Wife: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1982., month, year, and place only.
- [S4384] George Eldridge, Hydrographer, and Eliza Jane His Wife: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants by Henry James Young. Carlisle, Pennsylvania: 1982., "ca1619".
- [S544] Noyes-Gilman Ancestry: Being a Series of Sketches, with a Chart of the Ancestors of Charles Phelps Noyes and Emily H. (Gilman) Noyes, His Wife by Charles Phelps Noyes. St. Paul, Minnesota, 1907.