Person:John May (72)

"In 1641 we have record of his membership in the church of which John Eliot, 'the Apostle" was pastor....."The wife who came from England with him had died in 1651, as Eliot records with a high tribute to her character, and he had married again.."..... "This day died sister Mayes a very gracious and savaoury Christian.«/i»" (Genealogy of the Descendants of John May. 1878. pp iv & v)

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 John May, in Ferris, Mary Walton. Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes; and A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Mary Beman (Gates) Dawes. (Milwaukee, WI: Cuneo Press, 1931-1943)
   413.

   JOHN MAY, born about 1590, emigrated from England with his unamed wife and their two sons by or before 1640.

2. ↑ John May, in Ferris, Mary Walton. Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes; and A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Mary Beman (Gates) Dawes. (Milwaukee, WI: Cuneo Press, 1931-1943)
   p.414.

   John died on April 28, 1670, four days after making this nuncupative will, being "aged about eighty"

3. ↑ Deaths, in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1925-1926)
   v.2 p.591.

   MAYS, John [May. C.R.1. = First Religious Society (Unitarian)], sr., [died] Apr. 28, 1670 [a. abt. 80y. C.R.1.]