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- ↑ Bowman, George Ernest, and Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Vital Records of the Town of Truro, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1933)
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John Mayo Jr son of John & Hannah Mayo & Mary A. F. Nye Daughter of [blank] & Mary Nye both of the Town of Truro were Married August 12th 1838 by Revd Charles Boyter
[Also, same page: John Mayo Jr Son of John & Hannah Mayo and Mary A F Nye Daughter of Widow Mary Nye both of the Town of Truro were Published July 22'd 1838.]
- Identification of Mary's mother as Widow Mary Nye is reminiscent of the marriage record of John's brother Alfred. In that case, Alfred's wife Hester Nye turned out, with good supporting evidence, to be the daughter of Isaiah Nye and Keziah Rider of Chatham, who both died in 1836, and widow Mary was apparently an assumption by the town clerk. Unfortunately, in this case, the death record of Mary does not identify her parents, though it does give her birth place as Chatham. It would be natural to assume she was Hester's sister. However, Rev. Isaiah Nye had no known daughter named Mary and if the calculated birth date of about 1811 is accurate, there is no real gap for her to fit in between the other children. There may have been two widow Mary Nye's in Truro, but the daughter Mary, of the widow of Silvanus Nye, died in 1817. This leaves Mary (Paine) Nye, the widow of Samuel Nye of Sandwich and Chatham. She was his 2nd wife, married in 1809, so the birth of a daughter named Mary in 1811 appears to fit well into this family even though she is not listed in Source:Nye, George Hyatt. Genealogy of the Nye Family, p. 1:197. Samuel Nye was appointed first Keeper of the Chatham Lights in 1808, accounting for Mary's death certificate giving her birth in Chatham. This would also explain why John and Mary named their first son Samuel Nye Mayo.
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