William Mayo[1]
1684 - 1744 Submit Photo / DocumentSet As Default Person
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Name William Mayo Born 4 Nov 1684 Frome, Somerset, England, United Kingdom Christened 4 Nov 1684 Poulshot, , Wiltshire, England Gender Male Died 21 Oct 1744 Goochland, Goochland, Virginia, United States Buried Goochland, Goochland, Virginia, United States Person ID I1359 Kull Family Last Modified 10 Apr 2013
Father Joseph Mayo, b. 17 Aug 1656, Poulshot, , Wiltshire, England , d. 10 Nov 1691, Poulshot, , Wiltshire, England Mother Elizabeth Hooper, b. Abt 1662, Frome, Somerset, England, United Kingdom , d. 20 May 1740 Family ID F675 Group Sheet
Family Frances Gold, b. Abt 1686, Of Barbados , d. , , Virginia, United States Married 11 Dec 1709 , , Saint Michael, Barbados Children 1. Joanna (Anne) Mayo, b. 27 Aug 1712, , , , Barbados , d. 15 Feb 1785 2. Ann Mayo, b. 1712, , Henrico, Virginia, United States , d. 15 Feb 1785 > 3. Sarah Mayo, b. 1714, , , , Barbados , d. Yes, date unknown 4. Mary Mayo, b. 1716, , , , Barbados , d. Yes, date unknown 5. Hester Mayo, b. 1718, , Henrico, Virginia, United States , d. Yes, date unknown 6. Elizabeth Mayo, b. Abt 1720, Bridgetown, , Saint Michael, Barbados , d. Yes, date unknown 7. William Mayo, b. Abt 1722, Of Barbados , d. Yes, date unknown Last Modified 2 Jul 2009 Family ID F673 Group Sheet
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Notes - William Mayo was the eldest child of the well-to-do family of Joseph and Elizabeth (Hooper) Mayo. At the age of twenty-five he left England, accompanied by his younger brother Joseph, to seek his fortune in Barbadoes, where a cousin had settled some time earlier. There he established himself as a surveyor. In 1717 Mayo received a commission to make a map of Barbadoes, which he accomplished with such skill that Governor William Tryon (North Carolina) urged the English Board of Trade to purchase it and to grant Mayo a patent enabling him to sell his map on a commission basis. The map also gained him election to membership in the Royal Society of London.
Mayo remained in the West Indies for ten years. It was in about 1719 that Mayo, now nearly forty years of age, with his wife and four daughters and with his fortune already made and assured, began to consider moving permanently to Virginia. Finally, in 1723, with his own family and the families of two brothers and a cousin, he arrived in the Virginia.
In 1736, a commission of six men sent a surveying party under Mayo's leadership to explore Lord Fairfax's territory (Virginia), one of three such parties outfitted at that time. This first survey of Fairfax's domains provided the first useful map of the region, and Mayo's journal provided most of the knowledge available to first settlers who were then breaking through the Blue Ridge gaps into western Virginia territory.
Together with Professor Alexander Irvin, Mayo was also responsible for setting the boundary between Virginia and North Carolina. One of the rivers intersecting the line was named the Mayo River in his honor.
In 1737, Mayo laid out the city of Richmond, Virginia.
Mayo served as the chief civil engineer in Virginia until his death in Richmond in 1744.
- William Mayo was the eldest child of the well-to-do family of Joseph and Elizabeth (Hooper) Mayo. At the age of twenty-five he left England, accompanied by his younger brother Joseph, to seek his fortune in Barbadoes, where a cousin had settled some time earlier. There he established himself as a surveyor. In 1717 Mayo received a commission to make a map of Barbadoes, which he accomplished with such skill that Governor William Tryon (North Carolina) urged the English Board of Trade to purchase it and to grant Mayo a patent enabling him to sell his map on a commission basis. The map also gained him election to membership in the Royal Society of London.
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Sources - [S2] Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).
- [S2] Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).
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