![]() He surveyed the island in 1717-21 and the map he drew is on file in the King’s College Library. William was a prominent surveyor and cartographer. Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via daughter Martha Shepherd (born Mayo) by SmartCopy: Sep 30 2015, 15:02:22 UTC.Rest of estate to my son Daniel, Wife Ann to be Executrix.įrom "Virginians - The Family History of John W. Samuel Allen’s debt for the land and £40. My executors can sell this land with Hutchins Burton having 400 acres if he pays £6. To my son Joseph, Tarlton Fleming, and Stephen Hughes, my land on and above Soak Arse Run and Crooms Quarter Branch, equally, when Joseph is 21. Some slaves to be divided among my sons Daniel, John and Joseph after my wife’s death and some as decided by her. Also to her my mill called Bide Mill on Peterville Chapel Branch, with 400 acres, also my household goods, tools and store goods. Robert, Little Inan, Kate, Annie, Dick and Ned. To wife Ann, for life, my house and my lots at the Capitol landing and my 2,400 acres at Fine Creek in Goochland, and uses of slaves: Mamoe, Fatima, Jenny, Turpin, Congo, Awhey, Jollof, Cudgeo, Maddy, Harry, Rose, Pompey, Brissey, Shaty, Philip. Also to her 3 slaves: Hannah, Venus and Matt. To my daughter Rebecca Mayo, 1,850 acres, being south part of my land at Peterville Chapel Goochland next to Joel Chandler. on Fine Creek, after death of my wife also, 3 slaves: Scipio, Phoebe and Jolar. To on Joseph, all my lands adjacent to Fluvanna River above Buffalo Island in Goochland reversion of 2,400 acres with houses in Goochland Co. To son John, all my lands in North Carolina, also 1,000 acres on Deep Creek in Goochland Co., adjoining John Perratt, with mill and plantation, also the rest of the land adjoining Edmund and Mary Gray on both sides of Angola Creek across Great Guinea Creek among branches of Willis River in Goochland, also 3 slaves: Hercules, Flora and Will. To Joseph Scott and Sarah, his wife, 200 acres adjoining my own land. Also to Edmund and Mary Gray, 1,000 acres on both sides of Angola Creek, adjoining John Pleasants. If she has no issue, then to George Carrington and Joseph Scott. ![]() adjoining lands of Adkins and Towns, with 3 female salves: Chloe, Silvia, and Lucy daughter of Chloe. To daughter Mary, wife of Edmund Gray, 200 acres in Amelia Co. He died October 20, 1744.Įncyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I He married (second) Anne Perratt, about the year 1732. He married here Frances Gould and went with her to Virginia in 1723 qualified in 1728 as one of the first justices for Goochland in 1730 appointed major of militia in 1729 one of the surveyors to run the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina made in 1737 a map of the Northern Neck surveyed Richmond in 1737 in 1740 colonel of the Goochland militia. Mayo served as the chief civil engineer in Virginia until his death in Richmond in 1744.Ī noted surveyor, was son of Joseph Mayo and Elizabeth Hooper, his wife, of Poulshot, county Wilts, England, and was baptized at Poulshot, Novemhe first emigrated to Barbadoes, of which he made a survey. In 1737, Mayo laid out the city of Richmond, Virginia. One of the rivers intersecting the line was named the Mayo River in his honor. Together with Professor Alexander Irvin, Mayo was also responsible for setting the boundary between Virginia and North Carolina. 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. 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. Finally, in 1723, with his own family and the families of two brothers and a cousin, he arrived in the Virginia. 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. Mayo remained in the West Indies for ten years. ![]() The map also gained him election to membership in the Royal Society of London. 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. ![]() There he established himself as a surveyor. 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. William Mayo was the eldest child of the well-to-do family of Joseph and Elizabeth (Hooper) Mayo. ![]()
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