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  • Mildred Reade's bequest to her nephew Thomas Mayhew the younger, 1630

    From Johnny Brananas@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 17 15:23:22 2022
    I'll stress heavily that I think this probably does not actually connect to the Mayhews of Martha's Vineyard.

    Banks's _History of Martha's Vineyard_ mentions in passing that there was a "Thomas Mayhowe" baptized August 1617 at St. Martin's in the Fields, London, and that "[t]he will of Mildred Reade of Linkenhurst, Co. Hants, widow, dated Aug. 15, 1630, mentions
    her nephew "Thomas Mayhew the younger."

    https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002001112078&view=1up&seq=127&skin=2021&q1=mildred

    The place name is given wrongly; Linkenhurst should be "Linkenholt" ... this is actually Mildred (Windebank) Reade, an ancestor of President George Washington.

    The will of Mildred is on the web and states: "I bequeath to my nephew Thomas Mayhew the younger, one cow and six ewes." Also ... "In witness whereof I have to these present set my hand and seale this 15 August in the sixth year of the reign of Our
    Sovereign Lord Charles etc A.D. 1630 in the presence of Henry Reade and Thomas Mayhew."

    This could be taken to possibly indicate an underage nephew "Mayhew the younger," with his father, also named Thomas Mayhew, as a witness.

    http://www.thehennesseefamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I35805&tree=hennessee

    Or, I suppose, "nephew Thomas Mayhew the younger" could also be the same witness.

    A very long account of the Reade family of Faccombe, Hampshire, is given here:

    https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Athenaeum/VapOAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22andrew+hanwell%22&pg=PA378&printsec=frontcover

    Notice particularly the one paragraph which reads:

    "Robert Read, the second son, is mentioned in the will of his grandfather. There are also mentioned Margaret, Mildred (who married Thomas Mahew, of county Suffolk), and Anne, named after her grandmother, who married John Helyar, of Hasborne."

    https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Athenaeum/vYE3AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22godson+andrew+hanwell%22+mildred+mahew&pg=PA378&printsec=frontcover

    The rambling narratives makes it a little hard to place Mildred (? Reade) Mahew "of Suffolk," but at least seems to indicate she was a Reade, not a Windebank.

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