Person:Joseph Mayo (2)

Name	Joseph Mayo
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	1654	Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York, United States
Marriage	29 May 1679	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Sarah Short
Death^[2]	12 Aug 1712	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Burrage, Henry Sweetser; Albert Roscoe Stubbs; and George Thomas Little. Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, c1909)
1780.

5. Joseph, s/o Rev. Samuel Mayo and Thomazine Lumpkin, born at Oyster Bay, Long Island, 1654-5.
↑ Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Mass.: The Essex Institute, 1911)
2:657.

Mayo, Joseph, [died] Aug. 12, 1712, in his 73d y.
[Age 72, so birth calculates to about 1640? However, a book called Daughters of Eve by Else L. Hambleton, publ. 2004, about women in colonial times, says Joseph was 29 in 1679. (Since the topic is a suit between Henry Short and Joseph Mayo, I suspect the original source is a deposition.) This suggests a 10 year error in math and suggests the age at death was probably 62, so born about 1650.]
GenForum
http://genforum.genealogy.com/mayo/messages/4631.html.

Citing Source:William Brewster of the Mayflower : and his descendants for four generations, says that in a Oyster Bay deed dated 5 Mar 1701/02, "Joseph Mayo of Newbury" identifies himself as eldest son [true eldest son Samuel had died by then] and heir of Samuel Mayo of Eastham and brother of John Mayo of Hingham.