Rev Experience Mayhew

• BIRTH 5 Feb 1673
• DEATH 29 Nov 1758 (aged 85)
• BURIAL Abel Hill Cemetery, Chilmark, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA, MEMORIAL ID 102016156, Photos by Willy Barnes

Biography

Experience Mayhew was b. 5 Feb. 1673, res. C., clergyman. The life and services of this celebrated missionary to the Indians has been set forth at length in this history (Vol. I, pp. 249­254), and it will not be necessary to repeat the details of his public career. [*His published works include Massachusetts Psalter (Indian) 1709; Sermon (1724), Indian Converts (1727); Letter on the Lord's Supper (1741); Grace Defended (1744). He engaged in numerous theological controversies, one with Rev. Jonathan Dickinson, President of Princeton College, in 1743, during which he argued in favor of human liberty. He also wrote strictures on the conduct and preaching of Whitfield (by E.C. Nickerson about this Ancestor)

Genealogy

Parents
John Mayhew 1651–1688
Elizabeth Hilliard Mayhew 1653–1746

Spouses
Thankfull Hinckley Mayhew 1671–1706 (m. 1695)
Remember Bourne Mayhew 1683–1722 (m. 1711)

Siblings
John Mayhew unknown–1736
Benjamin Mayhew 1679–1717
Deborah Mayhew Norton 1681–1772
Simon Mayhew 1687–1753

Children
Reliance Mayhew Adams 1694–1730
Nathan Mayhew 1712–1733

References

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102016156/experience-mayhew

https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LCQN-8PZ/experience-mayhew-16...