Mehitable (Mayo) Morris (1669 - 1703)

Born 6 Jan 1669 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Morris I — married 1693 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 8 Feb 1703 at age 34 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Mehitable Mayo is the daughter of John Mayo and Hannah (Graves) Mayo. She was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, January 6, 1669 and baptized the 28th of February following, and admitted to full communion in the church October 28, 1699. She died in Roxbury, February 8, 1702-3. The place of her burial is not known, but was most probably in the old burying ground at the corner of Washington and Eustis streets.

Mehitable married Samuel Morris, also of Roxbury, son of Lieutenant Edward Morris. All of the children of Mehitable and Samuel were born in Roxbury:

1. Samuel Morris, born August 13, 1695
2. Benjamin Morris, born October 18, 1696
3. Mehitable Morris, born June 25, 1698, married Philip Newell
4. Rebecca Morris, born September 15, 1699
5. Hannah Morris, born November 9, 1700, married Clement Corbin
6. Dorothy Morris, born February 7, 1701-2, married Samuel Perrin
7. Prudence Morris, born January 31, 1702-3, married Moses Marcy.

By the Will of Mehitable's brother, John Mayo, her children were to receive one-third of his estate after the marriage or death of his wife. Mehitable's daughter, Rebecca, was to have 100 pounds. The reason for this special gift was probably that Rebecca was named for Mehitable and John's sister, Rebecca, perhaps a favorite, who died at the age of twenty-one.

Name

Mehitable /Mayo/^[1]

Residence

United States^[2]

• Fact: Residence (1668) Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
• Fact: Christening (28 DEC 1668)
• Fact: Burial (1702) Eliot Burying Ground, Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S-2090809290 Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=sarmemberapps&h=139277&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: Residence place: United States APID: 1,2204::139277
2. ↑ Source: #S-2090809290 Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=sarmemberapps&h=139277&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 13 June 2022, 16:27), entry for Mehitabel Mayo (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LZXD-CLF ); contributed by various users.
• Biography from A genealogical and historical register of the descendants of Edward Morris of Roxbury, Massachusetts and Woodstock, Connecticut, by Morris, Jonathan Flynt, Published 1887, page 177-178 https://archive.org/details/genealogicalhist00morr/page/176
• S-2090809290: U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
• The New England Historical and Genealogical Register for the year 1860 ...By William B. Trask,Wm. H.Whitmore,John Ward Dean,Editors http://tinyurl.com/lf7jbs3
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73184983/mehitable-morris
• West, Randy A., The English Origin of John¹ Mayo of Roxbury, Massachusetts, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2019) Vol. 173, WN 691, Page 236.