Person:Noah Mayo (1)

Noah Mayo (7), son of Capt. John Mayo and Hannah Rich was born March 15, 1800 at Truro or Provincetown, Massachusetts. Married first at Wellfleet Nov. 3, 1824 Pamelia Atwood. Had several children perhaps five, and 2nd married a widow, Janette McRoberts Eye. He went to sea when fourteen years of age, Embraced the temperance cause in 1828, and his was the first temperance vessel to go out of Boston. After reading to his men "Six sermons on Temperance" by Lyman Beecher, they all agreed not to touch the whiskey barrel which all fishing vessels carried in those days, so when it came back to Boston untouched a great stir was made about it, and accounts came out in the Boston papers. The whiskey was disposed of at a big outdoors religious meeting and the whiskey was emptied into a grave and covered! Both he and Janette were members of the Methodist church, but were expelled from it because of their Advent views.

1. ↑ 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)
   187.

   Noah mayo son of John and Hannah mayo was born in truro march 15 1799.

2. ↑ Massachusetts, United States. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910. (New England Historic and Genealogical Society)
   248:64.

   No: 66
   Date of Death: 1872 October 16
   Name: Noah Mayo
   Sex: Male
   Condition: Husband
   Age: 73 y. 5 m. 1 d.
   Cause: Softening of Brain
   Residence: Amherst
   Occupation: Sea Captain
   Place of Birth: Truro
   Parents: John and Hannah Mayo both of Truro