Born about 1598 in Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, England [uncertain]

Husband of Unknown (Unknown) Maynard — married about 1625 in England [uncertain]

Husband of Mary (Unknown) Maynard — married 14 Jun 1646 in Sudbury Middlesex County Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 10 Dec 1672 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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MERGE WARNING: There were THREE men in colonial New England by the name of John Maynard. Please be careful not to merge them!

1. John Maynard of Hartford, CT (no children)
2. John Maynard of Duxbury, MA; m1 Mary, dau of Comfort Starr (she died by 1659); m2 Elizabeth Wight
3. John Maynard of Sudbury/ Marlborough (This one); m. Mary _____ (some say Rice); she survived him (he died in 1672).

Biography

John Maynard came from England to Massachusetts. These sources don't provide specific birth information or parents.

He was in Sudbury in 1640, and is listed as one of the original 1644 proprietors, accepted as a freeman in 1644, and appeared on the petition for the founding grants of Marlborough in 1656^[1]

His first wife is not known ^[2], but his eldest son came with him from England:

1. John, the eldest son^[3], who lived in Marlborough, married Mary Gates^[4], and died December 22, 1711^{[5] [1]}

On June 16, 1645, he married Mary Unknown, the widow of Thomas Axtell^{[4] [1] [2]}, and their children included:

1. Zachariah, born June 7, 1647^{[6] [1]}, who married Hannah Goodridge^[7], and was the executor of his father's estate^[3]
2. Elizabeth, born May 26, 1649^[8], who married Joseph Graves^{[3] [9] [1]}
3. Lydia, born circa 1651, the wife of Joseph Moore^{[3] [10] [1]}
4. Hannah, born Sept 30,1653^{[11] [1]}, who was not mentioned in her father's will^[1], and who married John Hayden of Charlestown^[12],
5. Mary, born August 3, 1656^{[13] [1]}, the youngest daughter^[3], who married Daniel Hudson^{[4] [14]}

John died December 10 1672 in Sudbury^{[15] [1]}, and his estate was administered on April 1, 1673^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9} Savage, James A., |A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston: Little, Brown, 1860–62)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Torrey's New England Marriages to 1700 Volume 2, page 1019. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015, suggests the following references MAYNARD, John1 (-1672) & 1/wf ____ ____; in Eng, ca 1629?; Sudbury {Maynard (ms); Newton (,4) 65; Ashburnham 811; Warner-Harrington 444} and adds MAYNARD, John (-1672) & 2/wf Mary (____) AXDELL/AXTELL, w Thomas; 16 Jun 1646; Sudbury {Axtell (1943) 18; Hale (1952) 554; Reg. 53:359; Maynard (ms); Newton (,4) 48; Starkey 113; Framingham Hist. 634; Ashburnham 811; Utah Gen. Mag. 20: 110, 112; Warner-Harrington 444}
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5} John Maynard, case #14851 Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org)
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Massachusetts Vital Records Sudbury V1, page 233, also found in NEHGS, which states MAYNARD (see Maynerd)
   • John and Mary Axdell, June 16, 1646
   • John and Mary Gates, Apr. 5, 1658
   • Mary and Daniel Hudsun, July 21, 1674
5. ↑ Charles Hudson, The History of Marlborough (1862), p. 413
6. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Sudbury V1, page 90, also found in NEHGS, which states MAINARD (see Mainerd, Mainord, Maynard, Maynerd), Zachry, s. John and Mary, June 7, 1647.
7. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Sudbury V1, page 234, also found in NEHGS, which states MAYNARD (see Maynerd) zachariah and Hannah Goodridge, July 15, 1678.
8. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Sudbury V1, page 85, also found in NEHGS, which states MAINARD (see Mainerd, Mainord, Maynard, Maynerd), Elizabeth, d. John and Mary, May 26, 1649. M.R.
9. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Sudbury V1, page 232, also found in NEHGS, which states MAYNARD (see Maynerd) Elizabeth and Joseph Graves, Jan. 15, 1665
10. ↑ Lydia Maynard, the wife of Joseph Moore by Neil D. Thompson published in Volume 60, page 53 of The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .)
11. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Sudbury V1, page 88, also found in NEHGS, which states MAYNARD (see Mainard, Mainerd, Mainord, Maynerd) Hannah, d. John and Mary, Sept 30, 1653
12. ↑ Wyman, Thomas Bellows. The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown (D. Clapp, Boston, 1879) see Volume 1, page 488 for Hayden, and Vol 2 page 662 for Maynard
13. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Sudbury V1, page 89, also found in NEHGS, which states MAYNARD (see Mainard, Mainerd, Mainord, Maynerd) Mary (Maynar), d. Jo[h]n and Mary, Aug. 3, 1656.
14. ↑ Daniel Hudson's English Origin published in Volume 56, page 27 of The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .)
15. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Sudbury V1, page 315, also found in NEHGS, which states MAYNARD (see Mainerd, Maynerd) John, Dec. 10, 1672

See also:

• Frederick C. Warner, The ancestry of Samuel, Freda and John Warner (1949) - referred to by Torrey as "Warner-Harrington" Volume 3, p. 444
• Carson Axtell, Axtell Tercentenary 1643 to 1943 (Darwin Press, New Bedford, Mass., 1943), p. 42.
• Alfred S. Hudson, Annals of Sudbury, Wayland, and Maynard (1891), p. 70
• Middlesex County Probate (First Series Docket 14851), 4:24, 4:27, research by Mike Roman.
• Maynard, Carl W. Jr , Colonial Maynards. Wilmington Del; Salt Lake City: 1982 Microfiche Filimed by the Genealogiical Society of Utah,1983.

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