Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

220 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
mainder of his life. He was elected, with Shearjashub Bourne, a
delegate to take into consideration the proposed constitution of
the United States, and died Feb. 11, 1788, leaving no issue.
From Prince, fourth son of Benjamin, Ist, was Nympbas, who
graduated at Harvard 1807, and after service as Senator, and Judge
of Probate, died May 2, 1864. Few men have enjoyed a greater
degree of popularity and influence than Judge Marston, and his
success as an advocate was something marvelous. His brother
Charles also filled many high and responsible' posts—Representative,
Senator, Executive Councillor and Sheriff. Charles's son,
Hon. George, whose recent lamented decease is fresh in the recollection
of this generation, was in his day Representative, Judge
of Probate and Attorney General of Massachusetts.
MAYO.
REV. JOHN MAYO.
Although this is an Irish name, the subject of the following
sketch was born in England and graduated from an English uni-
versity. He came over probably about 1638, and in 1639 was in
Barnstable, where he was ordained a teaching elder in connection
with Rev. John Lothrop. He was a freeman in 1640. In 1646
he removed to Eastham and subsequently took charge of the
church in^hat town, where he continued until 1655, when he was
settled over the second, or North, church in Boston. In 1673 in
consequence of advanced age and infirmities, he went again to
Barnstable, and there and at Eastham and Yarmouth passed the
remainder of his life with his children, dying at the latter place in
May, 1676. He was a man of prominence as a minister, and in
1658 preached the annual election sermon. His vrife was named
Tamosin, or Tamsin ; she died in Yarmouth in 1682. His chil-