Elizabeth (Mayo) Howes (abt. 1637 - abt. 1700)

Born about 1637 in England

Ancestors

Descendants

Died about 12 Mar 1700 at about age 63 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Elizabeth (Mayo) Howes immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Elizabeth (Mayo) Howes migrated from United Kingdom to Barnstable, Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Mayo was born in England by about 1637 (assuming aged 20 at marriage), the daughter of Rev. John Mayo and his first, unknown wife. (See Research Notes for an alternate theory regarding her mother and birthplace.)

She, along with her parents and siblings (Hannah, Samuel, Nathaniel, and John) emigrated to New England in 1638, according to Savage ^{[citation needed]} Robert Charles Anderson in his Concise Compendium "The Great Migration Directory" indicates the family's migration was 1640.^[1]The name of the ship on which they came is not known. The amount to pay for a family of this size to cross the Atlantic at that time would have been about L30.

They settled in Barnstable where her father, Rev. John Mayo, was the teaching elder and Rev. Joseph Hull was the pastor. There her sister Hannah married Nathaniel Bacon in December 1642. In 1866 most of the family moved to Eastham and her father became that town's religious teaching pastor; her brother Samuel stayed in Barnstable; was a mariner and married William Lumpkin's daughter Thomasine of Yarmouth. Her brother Nathaniel married Hannah Prence; John Mayo, Jr. married Hannah Ricroft.^[2]

Elizabeth Mayo married Joseph Howes of Yarmouth by 1657.^[3][2][4]

Death

Elizabeth died on March 16, 1701, in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, at the age of 63.

Probate

The will of Elizabeth Howes of Yarmouth, relict of Joseph Howes was dated 7 February 1694/95 and proved on 1 April 1701 in Barnstable. She mentioned her sons, Nathan, Thomas, Amos, Samuel, and Joseph. She implies other children besides those she named. Her inventory was taken on 26 March 1701 in Yarmouth.^[5]

Children

1. Samuel born about 1653, married his first cousin Rebecca Howes
2. Mary born 1659, married John Hallett
3. Joseph born 1660, married Mary Vincent and Hannah Snow
4. John born 1664, married Elizabeth Paddock and Mary Matthews
5. Nathaniel born 1671, married Esther Ryder
6. Amos born about 1672, married Susannah Hedge
7. Elizabeth born about 1675, married Joseph Merrick
8. Hannah born about 1676, married William Matthews
9. Thomas born about 1680, married Content Smith

Research Notes

Alternate theory for birth and mother: Jean Mayo-Rodwick has asserted that Elizabeth was the daughter of John Mayo and Thomasine Brike who married in Leiden in 1618, and that Hannah was also born in Leiden. ^[6] A full discussion of this theory is on her father's profile, see John Mayo: "Wife or Wives?"

Esitmated birth date. This profile originally used probable birth dates and birth order of the Mayo siblings are extrapolated from numerous sources. See the Mayo-Rodwick book cited for details. Elizabeth's birth date has been adjusted based on an average age of 20 at marriage.

Unproven birthplace:That Elizabeth was born in Norfolk, England is undocumented nor did her parents ever live in Norfolk, they were of Northamptonshire.

Arrival Savage and NEHGR place the arrival in the colonies of the Mayo family in 1638, Hotten places it in 1635.

Great Migration Directory: All sources from Anderson's "The Great Migration Directory" on p. 224, name: John Mayo, Oxford, Oxfordshire were reviewed in search for information about his daughter Elizabeth.

Elizabeth Mayo in the U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s^[7]

Name: Elizabeth Mayo

Arrival Year: 1638

Arrival Place: Barnstable, Massachusetts

Family Members: Child Hannah; Child Samuel; Child Elizabeth; Child :Nathaniel; Child John

Source Publication Code: 3230.10

Primary Immigrant: Mayo, John

Death Place: Yarmouth, MA

Death Date: 16 Mar 1700

Children: Hannah Howes; Joseph Howes; Nathanial Howes; Thomas Howes

Military

Elizabeth Mayo in the U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970

Name: Elizabeth Mayo

Death Date: 1700

SAR Membership: 35714

Role: Ancestor

Application Date: 8 Aug 1921

Spouse: Joseph Howes

Children: Amos Howes

Name: Elizabeth Howes

Death Date: 12 Mar 1701

Death Place: Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA

Children: John Howes

Samuel Howes

Sources

1. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson. "The Great Migration Directory, Immigrants to New England 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium." New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA. (2015) p. 224.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) Philip Tillinghast Nickerson. "Rev. John Mayo, First Minister of the Second Church in Boston, Mass. pp 39-49.[The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) subscription]
3. ↑ New England Marriages to 1700. (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. Vol. 2, p. 802.subscription needed
4. ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) David Hamblen. "The First Settlers of Eastham, Mass."Vol. 6, p. 168.subscription needed
5. ↑ "Probate records v. 1-3 1686-1747" database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YB-N926 : 22 April 2024), Film# 00770540, Barnstable, Massachusetts, image 141-142, Vol 2, Page 121-123.
6. ↑ Mayo-Rodwick, Jean, Rev John Mayo and his Descendants, 6th Edition (2010) is available in its entirety here [1]
7. ↑ U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Annotation: Date and port of arrival or date and place of will administration or other mention in the New World. Extracted from four series of abstracted English records appearing in the The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record between 1903 and 1916. Much HOFF, HENRY B. English Origins of American Colonists, From The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1991. 287p. Page: 82

see also sources from New England Marriages: Warmer-Harrington 336; Briggs-DeGroff 175; Barnstable Co. Prob 2:68; MD 2:207, 23:68; Cape Cod Lib 31:132, 33:29, 36:13, 53:2; Reg 95:48; Booth (1923) 62; Howes (1892) 10; Mayo (ms) 6; Fish Anc 62; Griswold etc. 25; Hamlin 54; Merrick 18; Barnstable Fam 2:222; Bassett-Preston 150.

• (cites "Savage" regarding immigration.) The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) Philip Tillinghast Nickerson. "Rev. John Mayo, First Minister of the Second Church in Boston, Mass." Vol 95 (1941) p. 41.subscriber$

• James W. Hawes, Esq., Cape Cod Library, Vol. 1, Thomas Howes of Yarmouth, Mass, and Some of His Descendants. (Copyright, 1917, by C. W. Swift) pg. 453

• Ancestry.com. U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2012. Original data: Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. Ancestry.com

• Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Vol. 179. Original data: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls. Ancestry.com

• Ancestry.com. Global, Find A Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

• US and International Marriage Records 1560-1900 about Joesph Howes

• http://massandmoregenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/10/joseph-howes-ca-1630-1695-and-elizabeth.html

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to all who contributed to this profile, including Wilfred Vasile, Mike Walton, Merryann Palmer, Kim Baltz, JD Wilson and others.