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     Elizabeth Sewall May was born on 5 December 1798 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.¹ She was the daughter of Colonel Joseph May and Dorothy Sewall.² Elizabeth Sewall May married Benjamin Willis Jr. on 19 September 1817 in Boston, Massachusetts, the ceremony being conducted by the Rev. Dr. Freeman.³ Elizabeth Sewall May died on 5 March 1822 in Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, at the age of 23⁴ and is buried in Eastern Cemetery, Portland, Cumberland County, Maine.⁴

     Colonel Joseph May. A merchant.¹ He was born on 25 March 1760 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.² He was the son of Samuel May and Abigail Williams.³ Colonel Joseph May married firstly Dorothy Sewall, daughter of Samuel Sewall and Elizabeth Quincy, on 28 December 1784 in Boston, Massachusetts.^2,4 Colonel Joseph May married secondly Mary Ann Atkinson on 12 October 1826.⁵ Colonel Joseph May died on 27 February 1841 in Boston at the age of 80² and is buried in Central Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.⁶

     Joseph Sewall May was born on 21 May 1855.¹ He was the son of Charles May and Caroline M. Dodge.¹

     Julia May married Henry Oelrichs.¹

     Lilian Marie May married Sir William Bagot, Bart. 4th Baron Bagot of Bagot's Bromley on 25 July 1903.² Lilian Marie May died on 21 February 1958.³

     Louisa May was born on 31 December 1792 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.^2,3 She was the daughter of Colonel Joseph May and Dorothy Sewall.¹ Louisa May married Deacon Samuel Greele, son of Samuel Greele and Olive Read, on 19 October 1823 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.^4,5,6 Louisa May died on 14 November 1828 at the age of 35.^4,7

     Louisa May was born on 11 September 1789.¹ She was the daughter of Colonel Joseph May and Dorothy Sewall.¹ Louisa May died on 21 July 1791 at the age of 1.¹

     A descendant of John May, Roxbury, 1640. Samuel May was born on 17 February 1723.¹ He married secondly Abigail Williams on 4 October 1753.^2,1 Samuel May died on 9 August 1794 at the age of 71.¹

     Samuel Joseph May was born on 10 August 1794.¹ He was the son of Colonel Joseph May and Dorothy Sewall.¹ Samuel Joseph May died on 28 December 1795 at the age of 1.¹

     Rev. Samuel Joseph May was born on 12 September 1797 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.^2,3,4 He was the son of Colonel Joseph May and Dorothy Sewall.⁵ Rev. Samuel Joseph May married Lucretia Flagge Coffin, daughter of Peter Coffin and Anne Martin, on 1 June 1825.² He graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1817, A.M. and B.D., 1820. He was ordained to the Unitarian ministry, March 14, 1822 at Boston, Mass., and became pastor of the First Ecclesiastical Society of Brooklyn, Conn., March 17, 1822. In January, 1823, he established The Liberal Christian, in whose pages he made explicit statements of Unitarian doctrine. He wrote and preached as an advocate of total abstinence and in opposition to slavery as early as 1826; was burned in effigy at Syracuse, N.Y., in 1830, and was mobbed several times at Rutland and Montpelier, Vt., and at Haverhill, Mass. He was a member of the first New England anti-slavery society in 1832, and in 1833 befriended Prudence Crandall. He helped to organize a National Antislavery society in Philadelphia in 1833 and signed the "Declaration of Sentiments." He was general agent of the Massachusetts Anti-slavery society, 1835-53. He was pastor of the Unitarian church at South Scituate, Mass., 1836-42; was principal of the Girls' Normal School, Lexington, Mass., 1842-44; pastor at Syracuse, N.Y., 1845-67, and did missionary work in central New York, 1867-71. He did much to improve the public-school system of Syracuse, and was president of the board of education of that city at the time of his death. He is the author of: Education of the Faculties (1846); Revival of Education (1855); and Recollections of the Anti-Slavery Conflict (1868). G.B. Emerson, Samuel May, and T. J. Mumford edited: Memoir of Samuel Joseph May (1873.)² Rev. Samuel Joseph May died on 1 July 1871 in Syracuse, New York, at the age of 73 sometime after 10pm when he was taken very ill.^2,6 He was buried on 6 July 1871 in Oakwood Cemetery.⁷

     Emma Cornelia Mayfield was born on 3 June 1884.¹ She married Ernest John Banta. Emma Cornelia Mayfield died on 15 October 1968 in Texas at the age of 84.¹

     Clinton Mayhew married Anna E. Kendall.¹

     Eliza Mayhew was born on 8 April 1824 in Chesterville, Maine.² She married Deacon Calvin Davenport Sewall, son of Deacon Oliver Sewall and Betsey Sylvester, on 1 January 1847 in Chesterville, Franklin County, Maine.³ Eliza Mayhew and Deacon Calvin Davenport Sewall appear on the census of 1 June 1860 at Chesterville, Maine, where his land is valued at $1000 and personal propery at $500.⁴ Eliza Mayhew died on 8 January 1873 in Farmington, Maine, at the age of 48^5,2 and is buried in Riverside Cemetery, Farmington, Franklin County, Maine.²

     Henry Mayhew was born circa 31 October 1799.¹ He married Mary Dunning Cushing, daughter of Martin Cushing and Hannah Sewall.² Henry Mayhew died on 21 February 1867 in Maine.¹ He was buried in New Sharon Village Cemetery, Franklin County, Maine.¹

     Mehitable Mayhew married Captain David Holmes, son of Deacon David Holmes and Bathsheba (Unknown), seven children.¹ Mehitable Mayhew died before 1761.¹

     Percy Clinton Mayhew was born on 15 August 1875.^1,2 He was the son of Clinton Mayhew and Anna E. Kendall.¹ Percy Clinton Mayhew married Fannie Cutler Sewall, daughter of William Ripley Sewall and Mary Jane Fairchild, on 10 September 1902 in Sumner, Oxford County, Maine.¹ Percy Clinton Mayhew died on 9 November 1957 at the age of 82² and is buried in Wayside Cemetery, West Paris, Oxford County, Maine.³

     Charles Maynard was born on 3 March 1811.¹ He married Harriet Atwood Fairbanks, daughter of Franklin Fairbanks and Hannah Sewall Cushing, on 1 April 1852.¹ Charles Maynard died on 19 December 1859 at the age of 48.¹

     Mary Frances Maynard was born on 10 April 1853.¹ She was the daughter of Charles Maynard and Harriet Atwood Fairbanks.¹

     Geraldine Margaret Mayne was born on 1 January 1901 in Chester.² She was the daughter of Rev. John St. Clair Mayne.³ Geraldine Margaret Mayne married Lt. Colonel Shirley Stephen Churchill Sewell, son of Brigadier General Jonathan William Shirley Sewell C.B., C.M.G. and Edith Mary Preston (May) Churchill, on 23 September 1936 in St. Mary Abbot's, Kensington, London.⁴ Geraldine's death was registered in the quarter ending December 1996 in the Oxford registration district.²

     Rev. John St. Clair Mayne was born circa 1874 in County Tyrone.²

     Elizabeth Mayo was born on 8 January 1693 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. She married William Gerrish on 20 March 1711 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.²

     Thomas Mayo M.D.. President of the Royal College of Physicians.¹ He married Susan Mary Briggs, daughter of Rev. John Briggs, on 6 November 1861 in All Saints', Knightsbridge, London.¹

     Michael Twombly McAleney was born on 22 January 1947. He died on 5 August 2015 in South Portland, Maine, at the age of 68.²

     Clarice May McAlister married John Cameron, son of John Cameron and Sarah Annie Lodge, on 4 June 1908 in Marathon, Queensland.²

     Mary Caroline McAllister. Of St. Andrews, New Brunswick.¹ She married Horatio Gates Quincy, son of Horatio Gates Quincy and Polly Pettis, on 31 July 1828.¹

     The marriage of Ethel V. McBride and William Francis Dunne was registered in 1920 in the Rockdale Registration District.¹

     Calista McCabe was born circa 1868 in Ohio.¹ She was the daughter of Prof. Lorenzo Dow McCabe and Harriet C. Clarke.¹

     John J. McCabe was born circa 1859 in Ohio.¹ He was the son of Prof. Lorenzo Dow McCabe and Harriet C. Clarke.¹

     Professor of Mathematics and Mechanical Philosophy at Ohio Wesleyan University. Prof. Lorenzo Dow McCabe was born on 7 January 1817 in Marietta, Ohio.¹ He was the son of Robert McCabe and Polly McCracken.¹ Prof. Lorenzo Dow McCabe married, as his first wife, Martha E. Sewall, daughter of Daniel Sewall and Martha Tolman, on 28 July 1845 in Wesley Chapel, Washington, District of Columbia, conducted by the Rev. Thomas Sewall, of Baltimore.^1,2 Prof. Lorenzo Dow McCabe married secondly Harriet C. Clarke in 1857 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.¹ Prof. Lorenzo Dow McCabe died on 18 June 1897 in Delaware, Ohio, at the age of 80¹ and is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio.³

     Robert McCabe married Polly McCracken.¹