Mary (Snow) Mayo (1674 - bef. 1703)

Born 17 Oct 1674 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, New England

Ancestors

Wife of Nathaniel Mayo — married 1697 (to before 1703) in Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died before 28 Oct 1703 before age 29 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay, New England

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Biography

Mary Snow, daughter of Joseph Snow and his wife, Mary (Unknown) Snow, was born on 17 October 1674 in Eastham, Barnstable county, or in Marshfield, Plymouth Colony, New England. Plymouth Colony joined Massachusetts Bay in 1691/92. ^[1]

Mary Snow married Nathaniel Mayo (b. 2 Apr1667) in Eastham, Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, in about 1695 at Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony. No official marriage record has survived.

Mary & Nathaniel Mayo had 3 children: ^[2]

1. Rebecca (Mayo) Hamilton, b. Apr 1697 in Eastham, Barnstable, Plymouth Colony;
2. William Mayo, b. Aug 1699 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass. Bay;
3. Robert Mayo, b. June 1701 in Eastham, Barnstable, Mass. Bay.

Rebecca Mayo's birth record on 17 April 1697, gives just "Mary" as her mother' name, without any maiden name. Rebecca Mayo later was married on 3 May 1716 to Thomas Hamilton. The same is true for her 2 brothers: William Mayo, born August 1699, and Robert Mayo, born June 1701; neither birth record mentions the maiden name of their mother "Mary". However, Joseph Snow's 1723 Will names "Rebecca Hamilton," as his grand-daughter. Given who was then alive at that time & place, she could only have been Rebecca (Mayo) Hamilton. This primary document establishes that Nathaniel Mayo's 1st wife was Mary Snow, daughter of Joseph Snow. This filiation has been accepted by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants who acknowledge Mary (Snow) Mayo's line as bona-fide Mayflower descendants because Mary (Snow) Mayo was a direct descendant of Constance (Hopkins) Snow, a 1620 Mayflower passenger.

Nathaniel Mayo remarried "Mary Brown," on 28 October 1703; therefore Mary (Snow) Mayo passed away between June 1701 and October 1703.

Sources

1. ↑ American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI). Text: "Name: Mary Snow; Birth Date: 1674; Birthplace: Massachusetts; Volume: 163; Page number: 450; Reference: A genealogical dict. of the first settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May 1692. By James Savage. Boston. 1861. (4v.)v.4:138 Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 19 Apr 1915, 8751; 9 Apr 1928, 6849"
2. ↑ John D. Austin, F.A.S.G. (2001), Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol. 6: Stephen Hopkins (3rd ed.) (Plymouth, MA :General Society of Mayflower Descendants)

• John D. Austin, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol 6, Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001 [3rd edition], Pages 15, 51-52.

• Barnstable Co Probate Records Vol. 4:101-3 (Joseph Snow) (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YY-L74R?i=55&cat=43935)

• Barnstable Co Probate Records Vol. 3:473-5 (Nathaniel Mayo) (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YB-N8C?i=463&cat=43935)

• ↑ "Eastham and Orleans, Mass., Vital Records", in Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Descendant: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy, History and Biography, 8:90.

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Snow-355 was created through the import of greenwald-millerGEDCOM.ged on 27 September 2010.