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He died at Yarmouth, May 3, 1676, and was buried at Barnstable. His widow Tamsen died February 3, 1682. While living in Bos- ton, Mr. Mayo owned a house lot and house on Middle (now Hanover) street, thirty-eight by one hundred twenty feet, selling it in 1672 for 210 pounds to Abraham Gording. A horse belonging to him was killed in the ex- pedition against King Philip at Mount Hope, in 1675. He must have been born as early as 1590, for his son Samuel at least was of age in 1640. A committee was appointed by the court to settle his estate upon his wife and children, June 7, 1676. The inventory was presented by his widow Thamasin, not in- cluding goods she brought at marriage. The division of the estate was agreed upon be- tween the widow, the son John, Samuel, Han- nah and Bathsheba, children of son Nathaniel, deceased; Joseph Howes; daughter Hannah Bacon.
Children, all born in England: I. Samuel, mentioned below. 2. Hannah, married Decem- ber 4, 1642, Nathaniel Bacon. 3. Elizabeth, married Joseph Howes, and died in 1701. 4. John, married, January 1, 1651, Hannah Rey- croft, of Lecroft; had eight sons, of whom Daniel lived at Wellfleet; children, born at Eastham: i. John, December 15, 1652; ii. William, October 7, 1654; iii. James, October 3, 1656; many descendants at Eastham; iv. Samuel, August 2, 1658; v. Elisha, November 7, 1661 ; vi. Daniel, January 24, 1664; vii. Na- thaniel, April 2, 1667; viii. Thomas, June 24, 1670, died young ; ix. Thomas, July 15, 1672.
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5. Nathaniel, married February 13, 1650, Han- nah Prence, and he died in 1661; children : Samuel, Hannah, Bathsheba.
(II) Rev. Samuel, son of Rev. John Mayo, was born about 1615, in England. He was ordained a teaching elder (minister) April 15, 1640, at Barnstable, and was associated with his father there. His name does not appear in the settlement of his father's estate, but he probably had sold his interest to one of the other heirs. At any rate he was then living on Long Island, at a great distance. All au- thorities agree that he was the son of ; Rev. John. He followed the sea, and became mas- ter mariner; bought a large tract of land of the Indians at Oyster Bay, in 1653, and went thither about 1654. Four years or so later he settled in Boston, Massachusetts, where he died in 1663. He married Thomazine (same as Tamsen, etc.) Lumpkin, daughter of Will- iam and Thomasine Lumpkin. His wife joined the church at Barnstable, January 20, 1649. His name is one of the list of those able to bear arms in 1643. Children: I. Mary, born at Barnstable, 1645. 2. Samuel, born at Barn- stable, 1647; baptized with Mary, February 3, 1649. 3. Hannah, born at Barnstable, 1650, baptized October 20, 1650. 4. Elizabeth, born at Barnstable, 1653, baptized May 22, 1653. 5. Joseph, born at Oyster Bay, Long Island, 1654-55. 6. John, born 1656-57; mentioned below. 7. Nathaniel, born at Boston, 1658. 8. Sarah, born at Boston, 1660.
(III) John (2), son of Samuel Mayo, was born in Oyster Bay, Long Island, 1656-57, He settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, and removed later to Harwich, now Brewster, Massachusetts, where he died February 15, 1744. He was elected the first representative to the general court from Harwich after it was incorporated, and served several years after- ward. He held many other important offices. A monument was erected on his grave in Brewster, and is still standing. He married, April 14, 1681, Hannah Freeman, born 1665, died February 1, 1756, daughter of Major John and Mercy ( Prence) Freeman. Her father was born in England, in 1628, and died at Eastham, October 28, 1719; her mother, Mercy Prence (or Prince), was born at Plymouth, in 1631, died at Eastham, Sep- tember 28, 1711; married, February 13, 1649- 50, Major John Freeman. She was daughter of Governor Thomas Prence, who was born in England, in 1600, and died at Plymouth, March 29, 1673; married, August 5, 1624, Patience Brewster, who was born in England, and died at Plymouth in 1634, daughter of
Elder William Brewster, born at Scrooby, England ; married Mary ---; died at Ply- mouth about April 18, 1643, one of the most distinguished Pilgrims who came in the "May- flower" in 1620. All the descendants of this generation of the Mayo family are entitled to be classed as Mayflower descendants. Chil- dren of John and Hannah (Freeman) Mayo : I. Hannah, born January 8, 1682. 2. John, 1683. 3. Samuel, July 16, 1684; mentioned below. 4. Mercy, 1688. 5. Rebecca, 1690. 6. Mary, 1694. 7. Joseph, 1696. 8. Elizabeth, 1706.
(IV) Samuel (2), son of John (2) Mayo, was born in Harwich, July 16, 1684. He lived in the easterly part of Harwich, now the southerly part of Orleans, near which many of his descendants now reside. He married (first) Abigail Sparrow, (second) Mercy Snow. Children, all born at Harwich, by first wife (mentioned in will dated April 16, 1759) : I. Thomas, mentioned below. 2. Sam- uel, died young. 3. John, died young. 4. Samuel. 5. Rev. John.
(V) Thomas, son of Samuel (2) Mayo, was born in Harwich, Massachusetts, about 1720. He settled in South Orleans, on or near the homestead, and was a farmer. He died at Orleans in 1794. He married (first) Feb- ruary 28, 1745; (second) October 27, 1757, Sarah Higgins, widow. Children: I. Thom- as. 2. Samuel, died young. 3. John, died young. 4. Samuel. 5. Rev. John. 6. James, mentioned below.
(VI) James, son of Thomas and Sarah (Higgins) Mayo, was born June 16, 1761. He lived in Orleans until after his marriage about that time, then settled in Hampden, Maine, probably just after the revolution. He was a soldier in the revolution, in Captain Isaiah Higgins' company, Major Zenas Wins- low's regiment, at the alarms at Bedford and Falmouth, on Cape Cod, 1778. He married, and among his children was Joseph, mentioned below.
(VII) Joseph, son of James Mayo, was born in Hampden, Maine, about 1790-1800. He was educated in the public schools, and learned the trade of cooper in his native town, Hampden. He married and had Leonard, mentioned below.
(VIII) Leonard, son of Joseph Mayo, was born in Hampden, Maine, and died at Hodg- don, Maine. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, where he also learned his trade as cooper. He was called to the ministry and studied divinity, was or- dained a Baptist minister at St. George, Maine,
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and for many years followed the profession as minister of the gospel in North Haven, Surry, Deer Isle, Sherman and Hodgdon, Maine. He finally settled upon a farm that he bought in Hodgdon, and remained there the remainder of his life. He was a Republican in politics until his last years, when he voted the Prohibitionist party ticket. He married Nancy Wythington, born at Camden, Maine, died at Hodgdon. Children: I. Joseph S. 2. Emma. 3. Lizzie. 4. Edward Payson, men- tioned below. 5. William. 6. Harriet.
(IX) Edward Payson, son of Leonard Mayo, was born at North Haven, April 9, 1853. He received his education in the pub- lic schools of Hodgdon and in Houlton Acad- emy. He then began to work as an appren- tice in the office of the Portland Daily Press, and was promoted step by step until he be- came the city editor. In 1878, after ten years on this newspaper, he purchased an interest in the Somerset Reporter, a weekly newspaper published in Skowhegan. He was in partner- ship in this venture with J. O. Smith. After seven years the firm was dissolved, and Mr. Mayo purchased the Fairfield Journal. A short time afterward he admitted W. S. Ladd to partnership in the business, and five years later he sold his interest to his partner. He then became the Boston and New York repre- sentative of the Lewiston Journal for one year, resigning to become manager and editor of the newspaper, Turf, Farm and Home, pub- lished at Auburn, and afterward was elected treasurer of the company. In 1894 the com- pany moved its plant to Waterville, and con- tinued to publish their newspaper under more favorable conditions. Mr. Mayo has been an important factor in the success of this well- known publication.
Mr. Mayo is a Republican in politics. By appointment of Governor Hill he is state in- spector of prisons and jails. He was formerly president of the Central Maine Fair Associa- tion, and is an institute speaker. He is sec- retary of the Maine Conference of Charities and Correction, and member of Cascade Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, Oakland, and of Unity Lodge, Odd Fellows, Portland.
He married, October 9, 1877, Fannie L. Higgins, born February 27, 1857, daughter of Henry D. and Helen (Dudley) Higgins. To them two children were born: Grace E., born June 27, 1879, and Marion D., born January 12, 1886. Grace E. married William A. Ar- cher, of Fairfield, October 9, 1901, and they have two children: Wesley Mayo Archer, born November 3, 1902, and Edward Mayo
Archer, born August 23, 1904. Marion D. was married, April 2, 1907, to George W. Powers, of Plattsburg, New York, and has one child, Gertrude Mayo Powers, born Octo- ber 29, 1908.
ROGERS The list of the passengers of the
"Mayflower" as preserved by
Governor Bradford and given at
the end of his history, cannot be overestimated by the genealogist. In this "List of May- flower Passengers," he gives :
(I) "Thomas Rogers, and Joseph, his sone. His other children came afterwards." And thirty years after this record he writes: "And seeing that it hath pleased him to give me to see thirty years completed since these begin- nings; and that the great works of his prov- idence are to be observed, I have thought it not unworthy my pains to take a view of the decreasings and increasings of these persons, and such changes as hath passed over them & theirs, in these thirty years. It may be of some use to those who come after, but however I shall rest in my owne benefite. I will there- fore take them in order as they lye." Against the name of Thomas Rogers he numbers the living persons "6," and records: "Thomas Rogers dyed in the first sickness, but his sone Joseph is still living and is married and hath 6 children. The rest of Thomas Rogers (children) came over and are married & have many children." He was the eighteenth signer to the compact in the "Mayflower," No- vember II, 1620, and died in Eastham in 1678.
(II) Lieutenant Joseph, probably eldest son of Thomas, the "Mayflower" passenger, was also a passenger with his father, and lived for some time in Duxbury, then in Sandwich, Plymouth Plantations, but removed to East- ham after 1654. He had two lots in the division of the lands of the Plantation, "on the south side of the brook, to the baywoods" in 1623, he probably having been granted one lot on account of his father, who died within the first six months of the existence of the colony. In the division of the cattle that had been imported, especially the "great white back cow that had been brought over on the ship Ann," he was made a shareholder in her yearling calf, a heifer, the ownership in which priceless property was shared by thir- teen of the "passengers," including the Gov- ernor. This division was made in 1627. Con- stance Southworth, Samuel Nash, Frances Sprague, William Peabody and Christopher Wadsworth were with Governor Bradford
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and Joseph Rogers, the first settlers of Sand- wich, which became Duxbury upon its incor- poration as a town in 1637, and here Sarah, oldest child of Joseph and Hannah Rogers, was born, August 6, 1633, and died soon after. Their second child and first son, Joseph (2), was born in Sandwich, July 20, 1635, and married, April 4, 1660, Susannah, daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth (Ring) Deane. Stephen Deane was one of the pilgrims or "first com- ers," and arrived at Plymouth Plantation as one of the passengers of the "Fortune," the second vessel to arrive, making landing No- vember, 1621, being made up mostly of pas- sengers left behind when the "Speedwell," the companion vessel to the "Mayflower," was abandoned. He set up the first corn mill in the plantation, having been granted an ex- clusive right by the colony court in 1632, to erect a pounding mill. He married, as late as 1627, Elizabeth, daughter of Widow Mary Ring, but whether Ring was her maiden name or the name of her mother's first husband, whose name is not recorded, it is impossible to ascertain. Stephen Deane died in Septem- ber, 1634, and his son-in-law, Joseph (2) Rog- ers, December 27, 1660. Thomas, third child of Joseph (1) Rogers, was born at Sandwich, March 30, and baptized May 6, 1638; Eliza- beth, fourth child, was born September 29, 1639; John, fifth child, April 3, 1642; Mary, sixth, September 22, 1644; James, October 18, 1648. According to Bradford's History, six of these children were living in 1650, and the eighth child, Hannah, was born August 18, 1652. The father of these children gained his rank of lieutenant in the militia enrolled for protection against the Indians, and Lieutenant Joseph Rogers, the younger immigrant, died at Eastham, in the winter of 1677-78. He married his wife Hannah before 1631, and she was still living in that town January 12, 1678. In 1640, when Governor Bradford, on March 2 of that year, surrendered to the freemen the patent to the colony which right to ownership had been taken in his name, Joseph Rogers was one of the "old comers" to share with the twenty-one others these lands which were divided in lots and assigned to each as his or her portion. Lieutenant Joseph Rogers gained his title from his prominence in the militia, which was made up of every able-bodied man in the colony. He had a brother John, of Marshfield, who became a noted man in the colony ; and a brother William, who settled in Hempstead, Long Island, in 1647. William had a son Noel, who removed from Hemp- stead to Branford, Connecticut. These chil-
dren of Thomas came over in one of the many vessels that carried numerous Pilgrims to the shores of America between 1620 and 1645, and as they were not in company, John may have come to Plymouth as a servant in some family, and William must have left the colony shortly after arriving and found an abiding place across the sound on Long Island, where his widow, Ann Rogers, died in 1669, and his son Noel removed to Branford, Con- necticut, about the same time, and there mar- ried, April 8, 1673, Elizabeth, daughter of Micall and Elizabeth Taintor, her father being a wealthy coaster trading on the New Eng- land coast. William Rogers may have come over in the ship "Increase," with James Rog- ers, possibly another son of Richard. The "Increase" left England April 15, 1635, and James lived in Stratford and Milford, Con- necticut colony, and in 1658 settled perma- nently in New London, where he was counted as a man of wealth and power. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Rowland, of Stratford, and had children: Samuel, John, Bathsheba, James, John and Elizabeth. Lieu- tenant Joseph Rogers made his will Wednes- day 2, 12, January 1677-78; the day on which the inventory of his estate was made was Tuesday 15, 25, January, 1677-78, and he died probably a few days after the will was made. At this time the oldest surviving son, Thomas, was made executor of the estate, and his youngest son, James, was also living. Both of these sons died before October 30, and on November 9, 1678, Captain John and the only surviving son, John Rogers, were made ad- ministrators of the estate which was inven- toried as worth 56 pounds 9 shillings II pence. In his will he named his wife Hannah, his daughter Elizabeth, wife of Jonathan Higgins, and their son Benjamin Higgins, who was given two separate bequests, one on condition that he "the said grandson, Benjamin Hig- gins, continued to his grandfather until he dies."
(III) James, youngest son of Lieutenant Joseph and Hannah Rogers, was born in East- ham, Plymouth Colony, October 18, 1648. He married, January 11, 1671, Mary, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Snow) Paine, grand- daughter of Nicholas and Constance (Hop- kins) Snow, and great-granddaughter of Stephen Hopkins, a passenger on the "May- flower," 1620. James Rogers was the owner of the homestead by the will of his father. James and Mary (Paine) Rogers had three children born in Eastham: James and Mary (twins), October 30, 1673, and Abigail,
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March 2, 1677-78. He was an officer in the militia with the rank of lieutenant, and died in Eastham, Plymouth Colony, April 13, 1678, and his widow subsequently married Israel Cole, the wealthiest man living in Eastham.
(IV) James (2), eldest child and only son of James (I) and Mary (Paine) Rogers, was born in Eastham, October 30, 1673. His par- ents named him Samuel, but his father having died when he was five years old, his mother desired to perpetuate the name of her husband, and caused him to be baptized in 1680 as James. He married, February 17, 1697, Su- sannah Tracy, and they lived in that part of Eastham now known as East Orleans. James Rogers died September 8, 1751. Their chil- dren were: Mary, born November 20, 1698; Isaac, December 8, 1701; Susannah, January 19, 1703-04; James (3), May 2, 1706; Abigail, August 3, 1708, and Thomas, October 2, 1710.
(V) James (3), second son of James (2) and Susannah (Tracy) Rogers, was born in Eastham, Massachusetts, May 2, 1706. He married, May 21, 1730, Hannah Godfrey, of Chatham, Massachusetts, and settled in Or- leans, then a part of Eastham, where he died in February, 1759. The children of James and Hannah (Godfrey) Rogers were: Lydia, born April 9, 1731; James, December 21, 1732; Silvanus, May 14, 1736, died young ; Prince, June 29, 1738; Samuel, August 7, 1740; Silvanus, December 22, 1742; Susan- nah, October 19, 1748; Jonathan, August 3, 1750. Prince Rogers removed to Hampden, Maine, about 1780, but soon after returned to Eastham, Massachusetts, and later his son Prince removed to Maine and his descendants settled in Orrington and Brewer.
(VI) Samuel, fourth son of James (3) and Hannah (Godfrey) Rogers, was born August 7, 1740. He was of a roving disposition and his successive places of residence after he left Orleans were Orrington, Maine; Eastham, Harwich and Nantucket, Massachusetts; El- lington, Connecticut; Castine, Orrington and Hampden, Maine. He married (first) De- borah Basset, of Chatham, November 12, 1762, and their children were: Lydia, born in East- ham, April 10, 1763 ; Deborah, June 27, 1765; Samuel, date of birth unknown; James, June 24, 1767; Nabby, July 23, 1780. He and his wife Deborah were members of the South Church, Eastham, before 1772, and some years after 1775 went to Orrington, Maine, where they resided for several years, returning to Orleans after selling their land in Maine to Jesse Rogers. He married (second) Amy, daughter of Elnathan and Hannah (Allen)
Wing, of Harwich, Massachusetts, and widow of William Cooper, and while they lived at Ellington, Connecticut, their only child, Allen, was born, February 21, 1786. His wife died in Orleans, Massachusetts, in 1804, and in 1814 he was at Castine, when the British at- tacked that place, and he removed up the river to Hampden, where he died September 5, 1825. His brother Silvanus married Pricilla Young, and was living in Hampden, Maine, about 1780, when his brother Prince was there, and they lived in lot No. 40, where their son Isaac and two daughters, their only children, were born.
(VII) Allen, only child of Samuel and Amy (Wing) Rogers, was born in Ellington, Con- necticut, February 21, 1786. He lived with his half-sister, Cynthia (Cooper) Wing, at Livermore, Maine, until he was twenty-one years of age, and then removed to Mt. Vernon, Maine, where he studied medicine with Dr. Quimby, a physician of wide reputation, and on being admitted to practice he settled in Or- rington, Maine, removing in a few years to Hampden, Maine. He married (first) Mary Wyman, born January 14, 1786, died May 18, 1858; children: Lucinda, born December 30, 1804, died June 3, 1887; Cynthia, November 29, 1806, died July 28, 1808; Samuel, March 27, 1809, died February 10, 1889; Allen (2), June 7, 18II, died July 8, 1860; Cynthia, Au- gust 7, 1813, died June 9, 1816; Mary, Feb- ruary 3, 1816, died June 27, 1875; William W., February 12, 1817, died September 7, 1896; Franklin, February 5, 1819, died May 18, 1842; Eliza, May 16, 1821, died June 29, 1829; Lovina, August 1, 1823, died April 15, 1835; Andelusia, March 7, 1826, died July 29, 1830. The mother of these children died May 18, 1858, and Dr. Allen Rogers married (sec- ond) Sarah (Wood) Quimby, who had no children by this second marriage. Dr. Rogers died July 28, 1864.
(VIII) William Wyman, third son and seventh child of Dr. Allen and Mary (Wy- man) Rogers, was born in Hampden, Maine, February 12, 1817. He began his active busi- ness life as a sailor, and became master of a vessel, and later was engaged with his brother Allen as a dealer in ship stores and groceries at Hampden Corners. He was next at Ells- worth, Maine, where he was in the mill busi- ness and a furniture dealer. When his father gave up his drug business, William returned to Hampden and took the drug store owned by his father, and subsequently engaged in the coal and hay business. He married (first) Mary Stubbs; children: William, born July
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23, 1840; Franklin G., June 10, 1844; George, March 14, 1845, died April 23, 1858; Henry, October 9, 1849, died August 10, 1881 ; Clara, June 28, 1850, died September 5, 1855; Eliza E., January 18, 1853; Allen E., April 21, 1855. He married (second) Eunice Staples, widow of William Berry, of Stockton, Maine.
(IX) Franklin Green, second son of William Wyman and Mary (Stubbs) Rogers, was born in Hampden, Maine, June 10, 1844. He was an apothecary in the drug store of his father, and when the civil war broke out he went as master's mate in the ship "Union," in the United States navy, and at the close of the war went to sea as master of a ship. After one or two voyages he returned home, took the drug store of his father, and was married December 1, 1867, to Georgiana, daughter of Abisha and Mary Garland Higgins, and their three children were born in Hampden, as fol- lows: Clara, September 30, 1869; Franklin G., November 7, 1873, died December 25, 1874; Allen, May 22, 1876.
(X) Allen, youngest son of Franklin Green and Georgiana (Higgins) Rogers, was born in Hampden, Maine, January 22, 1876. He was prepared for college at Hampden Acad- emy, and was graduated at the University of Maine, B. S., 1897, and at the University of Pennsylvania, Ph. D., 1902. He served as an instructor in chemistry in the University of Maine, 1897-1900; was a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, 1900-02; sen- ior fellow of the University of Pennsylvania, 1902-03; instructor in chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 1903-04; research chemist, Oakes Manufacturing Company, New York City, 1904-05; instructor in industrial chem- istry, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, since 1905. His university affiliations were with the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and the Sigma Xi honorary society. His professional affiliations are membership in the American Chemical Society, the Society of Chemical In- dustry, the American Leather Chemical Asso- ciation, the American Electro-Chemical Soci- ety, and he is a member of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, and the Chemists Club. His church affiliation is with the Universalist denomination. He was mar- ried, in Hampden, Maine, December 25, 1897, to Maude Florence, daughter of Charles E. and Margaret (Wheelden) Couillard, of Hampden, Maine. Charles F. Couillard was a soldier in the civil war, and on returning from the war he married Margaret Wheelden, and their children are: Alice, Charles, George, Elvira, and Maude Florence, who was born
in Hampden, Maine, April 14, 1878. The marriage of Dr. Allen and Maude Flor- ence (Couillard) Rogers was blessed on October 19, 1904, by the birth of a son, Allen Ellington Rogers.
HIGGINS It has been asserted that the name of Higgins was origin- ally Higginson, but informa- tion derived from a careful study of the origin of English surnames makes it quite evident that Higgins and not Higginson was the par- ent name. The name is doubtless of Celtic or Irish origin and was Anglicized from Hu- gonis. Freeman's "Cape Cod Families" states that the latter name existed in England in the reign of Richard the Second. The first of the name in America was Richard Higgins, and the Charlestown family now in hand is the posterity of that immigrant. The Hig- ginses were enrolled among the patriots in the American revolution.
(I) Richard Higgins, the ancestor, was of Celtic origin, but seems to have emigrated to America from the south of England, though some of his descendants claim that he came from the north of Ireland. By trade he was a tailor. He was a man of great strength and integrity of character. His name appears in the Plymouth records as early as 1633, and he was one of the original settlers at East- ham, Cape Cod, in 1644. He married (first) November 23, 1634, Lydia Chandler ; married (second) October, 1651, Mary Yates. Chil- dren of first marriage : I. Jonathan, born July, 1637. 2. Benjamin, born July, 1640. Children of second wife: 3. Mary, born September 27, 1652. 4. Eliakim, born October 20, 1654. 5. William, born December 15, 1655. 6. Judah, born March 5, 1657. 7. Zerma, born June, 1658. 8. Thomas, born June, 1661. 9. Lydia, born July, 1664.
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