Jane (Galland) Mayhew (bef. 1602 - bef. 1682)

Born before 2 Nov 1602 in Wantage, Berkshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Paine Sr. — married 15 Oct 1620 in Wantage, Berkshire, England

Wife of Thomas Mayhew Sr. — married before 1632 in England

Descendants

Died before Mar 1682 at about age 79 in Martha's Vineyard, Dukes, Massachusetts

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Biography

Origins

That Thomas Mayhew's second wife, Jane, was widow of Thomas Paine/Payne, is supported by an entry in the 1639 notebook of Thomas Lechford, dated 8 Sep 1639:

"To all Christian people to whome these presents shall come Wee Thomas Mayhew of Watertowne in New England merchant and Jane Mayhew wife of the said Thomas Mayhew sometimes wife of Thomas Payne late of London merchant guardians & tuitors of Thomas Payne an infant of the age of seaven yeares or thereabouts sonne of the said Thomas Payne and Jane Mayhew...". The Mayhews appointed attorneys ( Richard Payne of Abingdon (England), and others in Totnester, Yambrook and Wanting/Wantage) to look after the interests of young Thomas who inherited lands in England from his father.^[1]

Charles Bank's History of Martha's Vineyard notes the tradition that Jane's maiden name was Gallion (and also notes that the name Gallyon (Gallion) was very uncommon in England and may be Scotch).^[2]

The International Genealogical Index reveals a marriage between Thomas Paine and Jane Galland at Wantage, Berkshire, 15 Oct 1620. Review of parish registers in Wantage reveals relationships that support the theory that Jane was the daughter of Edward Galland.^[3]

Jane Galland was baptized at Wantage, Berkshire, on 2 Nov 1602, dau of Edward Galland and Agnes Wilmot.^[3]

Marriages

Jane married (1) at Wantage, Berkshire, 15 Oct 1620 Thomas Payne, probably a London merchant, who predeceased her. Thomas died by 1632 when Jane arrived in New England with her second husband. ^[3]

She married (2) Thomas Mayhew by whom she had three daughters,

She is said to have returned to England to fight a court case for a large sum of money for her Payne children (plural?).^{[citation needed]}

Death

She was living as late as 1666 in Edgartown, Dukes, Mass., but died before her husband Thomas Mayhew who died at Martha's Vineyard 25 March 1682.^[3]

Burial in Tisbury Village Cemetery, Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts

Children

1. Mary Payne, bp Wantage 20 Sep 1621
2. Thomas Payne. According to the statement written above Thomas was about age 7 in 1639, which makes his birth circa 1632. born London?
3. Hannah Mayhew in Medford, Middlesex, Mass.
4. Bethiah Mayhew b. 6 Dec 1636;
5. Mary Mayhew b. 14 Jan 1639/40
6. Martha Mayhew b. say 1641

There is no evidence that Thomas Payne and Jane Galland had a daughter named Jane who married her step-brother Thomas Mayhew, Jr.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Edward Everett Hale ed., Note-Book Kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq., Lawyer, in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, from June 27, 1638, to July 29, 1641, American Antiquarian Soc. Trans. and Coll., 7 (Boston, 1885):184-86... See also Aspinwall Notarial Records from 1644-1651, published in 1903, which also makes reference to these relationships. p. 184-186 Lechford's Note book
2. ↑ Charles Edward Banks. History of Martha's Vineyard. Boston: George H. Dean, 1911.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Leslie Mahler, "The English Origins of Jane (Galland) Paine), wife of Thomas Mayhew of Martha's Vineyard," in The American Genealogist, 76(2001):95, citing Wantage Berkshire parish registers.
4. ↑ Anderson: Great Migration "Thomas Mayhew"

• Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 volumes (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), Vol II, page 1244
• TAG 61:256: Mention of marriage of daughter Bethia (Mayhew) Harlock, widow of Thomas Harlock, to Richard Way, son of Henry, as Richard's 2nd wife. Link at AmericanAncestors ($)
• Lechford 184-86, 240.