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William Mayo b. 4 Nov 1684 Frome, Somerset, England, United Kingdom d. 21 Oct 1744 Goochland, Goochland, Virginia, United States

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  • Name  William Mayo 
    Born  4 Nov 1684  Frome, Somerset, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened  4 Nov 1684  Poulshot, , Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender  Male 
    Died  21 Oct 1744  Goochland, Goochland, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried  Goochland, Goochland, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID  I1359  Kull Family
    Last Modified  10 Apr 2013 

    Father  Joseph Mayo,   b. 17 Aug 1656, Poulshot, , Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Nov 1691, Poulshot, , Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother  Elizabeth Hooper,   b. Abt 1662, Frome, Somerset, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 May 1740 
    Family ID  F675  Group Sheet

    Family  Frances Gold,   b. Abt 1686, Of Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. , , Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  11 Dec 1709  , , Saint Michael, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Joanna (Anne) Mayo,   b. 27 Aug 1712, , , , Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Feb 1785
     2. Ann Mayo,   b. 1712, , Henrico, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Feb 1785
    >3. Sarah Mayo,   b. 1714, , , , Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Mary Mayo,   b. 1716, , , , Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Hester Mayo,   b. 1718, , Henrico, Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     6. Elizabeth Mayo,   b. Abt 1720, Bridgetown, , Saint Michael, Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     7. William Mayo,   b. Abt 1722, Of Barbados Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Last Modified  2 Jul 2009 
    Family ID  F673  Group Sheet

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    Link to Google MapsBorn - 4 Nov 1684 - Frome, Somerset, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChristened - 4 Nov 1684 - Poulshot, , Wiltshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 11 Dec 1709 - , , Saint Michael, Barbados Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 21 Oct 1744 - Goochland, Goochland, Virginia, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Goochland, Goochland, Virginia, United States Link to Google Earth
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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.

  • Sources 
    1. [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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