Samuel
May
Born about in England
Son of John May
and Unknown (Unknown) May
Brother of
John May
Husband of
Abigail (Stansfield) Johnson
— married
7 Jan 1657 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
Descendants 
Father of
Abigail (May) Johnson, Samuel May, Jonathan May, Joanna (May) Farrow, Eleazer May Sr, John May, Gideon May and Experience May
Died
at about age 44
in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Profile last modified
| Created 8 Jul 2011
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Biography
Samuel May immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
SAMUEL MAY “MAYES” was born around 1633 in Mayfield, Sussex, England. He was the son of John May. His father brought the family to America around 1635 on the ship “James,” and settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
He married Abigail Stansfield (1638-1714), daughter of Gideon Stansfield and Grace Eastwood, on 1/7/1657 in Roxbury. It is unknown when Abigail came to America, but her parents did not come to the colony. Samuel and Abigail had 8 children:
- Abigail Johnson (1659-1745)
- Samuel
- Jonathan
- Joanna
- Eleazer
- John
- Gideon
- Experience.
Samuel joined the Church in May, 1659, and became a freeman in 1660. His father’s Will, created in 1670, gave Samuel all the land, minus a half lot given to his older brother John. Samuel’s land was were noted in a land sale by his neighbor in 1676. Samuel died on 7/17/1677 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Abigail remarried to Humphrey Johnson and had 3 children with him: John (died in infancy); John; and Deborah. Abigail’s daughter Abigail would later marry her new step-son Nathaniel Johnson. Abigail died on 5/24/1714 in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Sources
- See also:
- Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (1985) Pg. 499
- Suffolk Deeds, Vol. 9, Pg. 430
- Father’s Will- Suffolk Co., Massachusetts, Probate, #904, 12:19, 161 (FHL #584130)
- Walton, Dawes-Gates, Ancestral Lines (1943) Vol. 1, Pg. Pg. 413-14, 694
- Thwing, History of the First Church of Roxbury (1908) Pg. 60
- Vital Records of Roxbury, Vol. 1, Pg. 237-40
- Records of Massachusetts Bay, Vol. 4, Part 1, Pg. 461
- "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKR-C2RZ : 13 December 2015), Samuel May, 1677; Burial, , , ,, ; citing record ID 55567515, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
- "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHZ9-WNB : 5 November 2017), Samuel Mayes and Abigaile Stansfull, 07 Jan 1657; citing Marriage, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 741,320.
- "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ6Q-H8Y : 10 February 2018), Samuell May in entry for Samuell May, 16 Dec 1661; citing DEDHAM,NORFOLK,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 0874254 IT 3.
- "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4LL-CPN : 5 November 2017), Samuel May in entry for Experience May, 28 Aug 1673; citing Birth, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 741,320.
- "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4LL-HF4 : 5 November 2017), Samuell Mayes in entry for John Mayes, 17 Jun 1670; citing Birth, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 741,320.
- "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH58-P31 : 5 November 2017), Samuel Mays, 17 Jul 1677; citing Death, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 741,320.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Samuel by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Samuel:
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I think it unlikely that the family were from Mayfield.
Ann