Download or read book Mayhew Family Papers written by Mayhew family and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes manuscripts relating to the Mayhew family of Martha's Vineyard, written in several hands: a 1731 will of Ebenezer Allen (from Chilmark, Massachusetts), with a 1733 statement of probate; a 1741 land grant deed giving Experience Mayhew acres in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, with an undated note in the hand of Jonathan Mayhew; a discourse and a prayer in the hand of Jonathan Mayhew, unsigned and undated; 2 letters from Harrison Gray, Royal collector of the Province of Massachusetts Bay to Miss Elizabeth Mayhew, 1783 and 1790; and other material. Also includes a 1930 letter from the donor, Charles Henry Taylor to Alfred C. Potter of the Harvard College Library.