Name:   Rev. Thomas MAYHEW , Jr., 4328 [9th G grandfather]
Birth:        1620/1621       , , England
Death:       Feb 1657        "at sea" on a voyage to England
Father: "Governor" Thomas MAYHEW , of Martha's Vineyard, 4337 (<1593-1682)
Mother:       ? (?) (perh) Abigail PARKHURST, 5996 (~1600-1621)

Misc. Notes
1 (3:301) Came to NE in 1631 and resided at Medford and Watertown until his removal to the Vineyard in 1642. (see Vol 1:127-30 et seq.) He married his step-mother's daughter Jane. [sic]
2 Thomas b say 1620 m by about 1648 Jane ___ [Martha's Vineyard His 3:301-2; see COMMENTS Below].

Comments:
... Lechford records several documents in which Thomas Mayhew and his wife Jane Mayhew, formerly the wife of Thomas Paine of London, act as guardians for Thomas Paine, Jane's son with her first husband [Lechford 184-86, 240]. Savage introduced confusion by stating that the widow Paine bore the Christian name "Grace" rather than Jane [Savage 3:185]. It may be this confusion that led him to state that the wife of the younger Thomas Mayhew was Jane Paine, allegedly daughter of this non-existent Grace and therefore his stepsister.
Edward Everett Hale, Jr. Lechford's editor, showed that Grace did not exist, and also that, based on the documents in Lechford, there is no evidence that the younger Thomas married a stepsister named Jane Paine [Lechford 184].

Research
1 (3:301) #20
Thomas Mayhew, Jr., dedicated himself to converting the Wampanoags to Christianity. He founded churches in Gay Head and Christiantown and trained converts to preach. On a voyage to England, he was lost at sea. A book about his work, Missionary to the Indians was written in the 19th century. I am very interested in knowing of any libraries where this book is housed.
cooper@fastq.com

Spouses
1:       Jane ? [probably not PAINE], 4996
Birth: abt 1625        London, London, England
Death:   aft 1670
Marriage:       abt 1647        , Dukes, MA
Marriage Memo:       alt. abt 1625 [sic]

Children:    Matthew, 4327 (1648-1710)
       Thomas, 4340 (1650-1715)
        John, 35867 (1652-1689)
Jerusha, 6773 (~1654-?)
Jededah, 6775 (~1656-?)
"Abiah", 6777 (<1658-?)

Sources
1. ref 17 Banks, Charles Edward (M.D.). History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts. Edgartown, MA: Dukes Hist.Soc., 1966. (3 vols)
2. 448 Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins; Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. Boston: New England Historic Genealogoical Society, 1995. (3 vols.) Typing contributed by: Tish Gardner, 145 West Street, Hyde Park, MA 02136 GardGen GardGen@aol.com (617) 364-7275
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Name:    Jane ? [probably not PAINE], 4996
Birth: abt 1625        London, London, England
Death:   aft 1670

Research
1 (3:301)

Spouses
1:      Rev. Thomas MAYHEW , Jr., 4328
Birth:    1620/1621       , , England
Death: Feb 1657        "at sea" on a voyage to England
Father: "Governor" Thomas MAYHEW , of Martha's Vineyard, 4337 (<1593-1682)
Mother:       ? (?) (perh) Abigail PARKHURST, 5996 (~1600-1621)

Comments:
... Lechford records several documents in which Thomas Mayhew and his wife Jane Mayhew, formerly the wife of Thomas Paine of London, act as guardians for Thomas Paine, Jane's son with her first husband [Lechford 184-86, 240]. Savage introduced confusion by stating that the widow Paine bore the Christian name "Grace" rather than Jane [savage 3:185]. It may be this confusion that led him to state that the wife of the younger Thomas Mayhew was Jane Paine, allegedly daughter of this non-existent Grace and therefore his stepsister.
Edward Everett Hale, Jr. Lechford's editor, showed that Grace did not exist, and also that, based on the documents in Lechford, there is no evidence that the younger Thomas married a stepsister named Jane Paine [Lechford 184].

Marriage: abt 1647 , Dukes, MA
Marriage Memo: alt. abt 1625 [sic]

Children:    Matthew, 4327 (1648-1710)
       Thomas, 4340 (1650-1715)
        John, 35867 (1652-1689)
Jerusha, 6773 (~1654-?)
Jededah, 6775 (~1656-?)
"Abiah", 6777 (<1658-?)

2:       Richard SARSON, 5074
Birth:      1637
Death:      23 Oct 1703     Edgartown, Dukes, MA
Father:     Richard SARSON, 8551 (1607-?)
Marriage: abt 1667        Edgartown, Dukes, MA

Children: Samuel, 6738 (1667-1703)
Methitable, 6739 (~1670-<1736)

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Created: 11 Apr 2000
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