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Mayhew, Thomas

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Mayhew, Thomas (1593–1682)

English-born American Protestant missionary and colonist. He settled in Medford, Massachusetts, c. 1632 and purchased Martha's Vineyard in 1641, establishing his son as head of a colony there, and Nantucket in 1659. After his son was lost at sea in 1657, the elder Mayhew continued and expanded his son's missionary work among the American Indian people. As governor of Martha's Vineyard he was a benevolent dictator; a grandson succeeded him as missionary and chief magistrate of the island. Mayhew was born in Wiltshire, England.



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