{"id":65155,"date":"2021-02-19T10:27:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T15:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=65155"},"modified":"2021-02-25T11:49:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T16:49:45","slug":"genealogy-exploration-the-gilman-family-line-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/genealogy-exploration-the-gilman-family-line-part-ii.html","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy Exploration: The Gilman Family Line, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction:<\/em><\/strong> In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her story showing how paternity cases affected life in the 17th century Massachusetts Bay Colony \u2013 and, in particular, describes the Gilman family line. Melissa is a genealogist who has a blog, <\/em>AnceStory Archives<\/em><\/a>, and a Facebook group, <\/em>New England Family Genealogy and History<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Author\u2019s Note:<\/em><\/strong> My last story covered the Gilman brothers, Ephraim and Zadock<\/a>, descendants of Joseph Mayo and Sarah Short of Newbury, Massachusetts. Mayo had two paternity cases and fathered two daughters with two unwed women from Newbury\u2019s most prominent pioneer families. He married one of the mothers, Sarah Short (daughter of Henry Short and Sarah Glover). The children bred by Mayo make up several generations of the sons and daughters of Old Newbury. A living descendant, Barbara Anne Waite<\/a>, has shared some of her family relics and photographs.<\/p>\n

Their family line went this way: Ephraim and Zadock, sons of Eliphalet and Joanna (Louge) Gilman; grandsons of Revolutionary soldier Captain Jonathan Gilman and Elizabeth Sanborn; and great grandsons of Maverick Gilman and Sarah Mayo (daughter of Joseph Mayo and Sarah Short). The Gilman brothers were wealthy merchants who moved down South and their families left many descendants.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a>
Photo: locket containing a miniature of Malvina Amanda Gilman. Credit: Barbara Anne Waite.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For example, Ephraim\u2019s daughter Malvina Amanda Gilman (1810-1891) married Rev. Alonzo Hayes in May 1843.<\/p>\n

\"Wedding<\/a>
Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, Virginia), 5 May 1843, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Newbury line of Mayo connects again through this marriage. Hayes\u2019 mother Mary Hale was a great great granddaughter of Rev. John Hale of Beverly and a direct descendant of Mary Cutting Moody Lunt \u2013 who was the mother of Joseph Lunt, who married Joanna Adams, the illegitimate daughter of Hannah Adams and Joseph Mayo (the first of Joseph\u2019s two paternity cases).<\/p>\n

Genealogy of Alonzo Hayes (1810-1858):<\/p>\n