Thomas Mayhew, Governor of Martha's Vineyard

Bef 1593 - 1682  (> 88 years)

• 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 | Ancestor of TSW
  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

  
  

• 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

  
  

• Sources

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