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     Nancy DuBose Maxwell was born on 28 July 1920 in Boston, Massachusetts.¹ She married Lt. Col. Osgood Tower, son of Gilbert Sanders Tower and Elizabeth Osgood Collier, in 1946.² Nancy DuBose Maxwell died on 13 October 1998 in Annandale, Fairfax Hills, Fairfax County, Virginia, at the age of 78.¹ Her ashes were scattered at sea off Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.¹

     Sir William Maxwell 3rd. Bart. married Magdalen Blair.

     Abigail May was born on 8 October 1800 in Boston, Massachusetts.¹ She was the daughter of Colonel Joseph May and Dorothy Sewall. Abigail May married Amos Bronson Alcott on 23 May 1830 in King's Chapel, Boston.² Between 1832 and 1834 Abigail May was living in Germantown, Pennsylvania.³ In 1834 Abigail May was living in Boston.³ In 1840 Abigail May was living in Concord.³ She died on 25 November 1877 in Concord, Massachusetts, at the age of 77 of dropsy.⁴

     Catherine May was born on 30 December 1786 in Boston, Massachusetts.² She was the daughter of Colonel Joseph May and Dorothy Sewall.¹ Catherine May married Dr. Charles Williams Windship on 10 April 1808 in Boston.³ Catherine May died on 14 March 1815 at the age of 28.⁴

     Charles May was born on 19 March 1788 in Boston, Massachusetts.² He was the son of Colonel Joseph May and Dorothy Sewall.¹ Charles May married Caroline M. Dodge on 11 February 1845 in Lynn, Massachusetts.³

     Charles May was born on 2 November 1785.¹ He was the son of Colonel Joseph May and Dorothy Sewall.¹ Charles May died on 16 April 1786.¹

     Edward May was born in 1795. He was the son of Colonel Joseph May and Dorothy Sewall. Edward May died circa 1802 killed by a penetrating wound to the chest after falling on a post.

     Elizabeth Sewall May was born on 5 December 1798 in Boston, Massachusetts.¹ She was the daughter of Colonel Joseph May and Dorothy Sewall.² Elizabeth Sewall May married Benjamin Willis Jr. on 19 September 1817 in Boston, Massachusetts, the ceremony being conducted by the Rev. Dr. Freeman.³ Elizabeth Sewall May died in 1822.⁴

     Colonel Joseph May. A merchant.² He was born on 25 March 1760 in Boston.³ He was the son of Samuel May and Abigail Williams.¹ Colonel Joseph May married Dorothy Sewall, daughter of Samuel Sewall and Elizabeth Quincy, on 28 December 1784 in Boston, Massachusetts.^3,4 Colonel Joseph May died on 27 February 1841 in Boston at the age of 80.³

     Julia May married Henry Oelrichs.¹

     Lilian Marie May married Sir William Bagot, Bart. 4th Baron Bagot of Bagot's Bromley on 25 July 1903.²

     Louisa May was born on 31 December 1792 in Boston, Massachusetts.² She was the daughter of Colonel Joseph May and Dorothy Sewall.¹ Louisa May married Deacon Samuel Greele, son of Samuel Greele and Olive Read, on 19 October 1823 in Boston they has a son and a daughter.³ Louisa May died on 14 November 1828 at the age of 35.³

     Samuel May married secondly Abigail Williams.¹ A descendant of John May, Roxbury, 1640.

     Rev. Samuel Joseph May was born on 12 September 1797 in Boston, Massachusetts.² He was the son of Colonel Joseph May and Dorothy Sewall.³ Rev. Samuel Joseph May married Lucretia Flagge Coffin, daughter of Peter Coffin and Anne Martin, on 1 June 1825.² He graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1817, A.M. and B.D., 1820. He was ordained to the Unitarian ministry, March 14, 1822 at Boston, Mass., and became pastor of the First Ecclesiastical Society of Brooklyn, Conn., March 17, 1822. In January, 1823, he established The Liberal Christian, in whose pages he made explicit statements of Unitarian doctrine. He wrote and preached as an advocate of total abstinence and in opposition to slavery as early as 1826; was burned in effigy at Syracuse, N.Y., in 1830, and was mobbed several times at Rutland and Montpelier, Vt., and at Haverhill, Mass. He was a member of the first New England anti-slavery society in 1832, and in 1833 befriended Prudence Crandall. He helped to organize a National Antislavery society in Philadelphia in 1833 and signed the "Declaration of Sentiments." He was general agent of the Massachusetts Anti-slavery society, 1835-53. He was pastor of the Unitarian church at South Scituate, Mass., 1836-42; was principal of the Girls' Normal School, Lexington, Mass., 1842-44; pastor at Syracuse, N.Y., 1845-67, and did missionary work in central New York, 1867-71. He did much to improve the public-school system of Syracuse, and was president of the board of education of that city at the time of his death. He is the author of: Education of the Faculties (1846); Revival of Education (1855); and Recollections of the Anti-Slavery Conflict (1868). G.B. Emerson, Samuel May, and T. J. Mumford edited: Memoir of Samuel Joseph May (1873).² Rev. Samuel Joseph May died on 1 July 1871 in Syracuse, New York, at the age of 73 sometime after 10pm when he was taken very ill.^2,4 He was buried on 6 July 1871 in Oakwood Cemetery.⁵

     Eliza Mayhew was born on 8 April 1824 in Chesterville, Maine.² She married Deacon Calvin Davenport Sewall, son of Deacon Oliver Sewall and Betsey Sylvester, on 1 January 1847 in Chesterville, Franklin County, Maine.³ Eliza Mayhew and Deacon Calvin Davenport Sewall appear on the census of 1 June 1860 at Chesterville, Maine, where his land is valued at $1000 and personal propery at $500.⁴ Eliza Mayhew died on 8 January 1873 in Farmington, Maine, at the age of 48.^5,6

     Mehitable Mayhew married Captain David Holmes, son of Deacon David Holmes and Bathsheba (Unknown), seven children.¹ Mehitable Mayhew died before 1761.¹

     Charles Maynard was born on 3 March 1811.¹ He married Harriet Atwood Fairbanks, daughter of Franklin Fairbanks and Hannah Sewall Cushing, on 1 April 1852.¹ Charles Maynard died on 19 December 1859 at the age of 48.¹

     Mary Frances Maynard was born on 10 April 1853.¹ She was the daughter of Charles Maynard and Harriet Atwood Fairbanks.¹

     Elizabeth Mayo married William Gerrish on 20 March 1712 in Newberry.

     Thomas Mayo M.D.. President of the Royal College of Physicians.¹ He married Susan Mary Briggs, daughter of Rev. John Briggs, on 6 November 1861 in All Saints', Knightsbridge, London.¹

     Mary Caroline McAllister. Of St. Andrews, New Brunswick.¹ She married Horatio Gates Quincy, son of Horatio Gates Quincy and Polly Pettis, on 31 July 1828.¹

     Calista McCabe was born circa 1868 in Ohio.¹ She was the daughter of Prof. Lorenzo Dow McCabe and Harriet Clarke.¹

     John J. McCabe was born circa 1859 in Ohio.¹ He was the son of Prof. Lorenzo Dow McCabe and Harriet Clarke.¹

      Professor of Mathematics and Mechanical Philosophy at Ohio Wesleyan University. Prof. Lorenzo Dow McCabe was born on 7 January 1817 in Marietta, Ohio.¹ He was the son of Robert McCabe and Polly McCracken.¹ Prof. Lorenzo Dow McCabe married, as his first wife, Martha E. Sewall, daughter of Daniel Sewall and Martha Tolman, on 28 July 1845 in Wesley Chapel, Washington, District of Columbia.^1,2 Prof. Lorenzo Dow McCabe married secondly Harriet Clarke in 1857 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.¹ Prof. Lorenzo Dow McCabe died on 18 June 1897 in Delaware, Ohio, at the age of 80.¹ Dr McCabe was one of the most genial, deservedly popular, and influential men in the Methodist Episcopal church and in educational circles. In 1838 he entered the Ohio University, at Athens, and graduated from there in 1843 under Dr. Wm. H. McGuffey ; he immediately joined the Worthington Circuit, and in 1844 was elected Professor of Mathematics of the Ohio University ; in 1845, he was elected to a chair in the Ohio Wesleyan University, at Delaware, and in 1860 was elected Professor of Philosophy in the the same institution; he has been Vice President of the Wesleyan University since 1860, and, during this period, has served five years as President of the institution He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Allegheny College in 1885, and Doctor of Laws from Syracuse University in 1875. Besides valuable contributions to church periodicals, Dr McCabe has written several books such as The Philosophy of Holiness, The Foreknowledge of God and Cognate Subjects and the Divine Nescience.¹

     Robert McCabe married Polly McCracken.¹

     Robert R. McCabe was born circa 1864 in Ohio.¹ He was the son of Prof. Lorenzo Dow McCabe and Harriet Clarke.¹

     August H. McCallum was born in 1889 in Texas.¹ He married Mary E. Sewall, daughter of Francis Lewis Sewall and Janie Gillispie Thompson.¹ Farmer in 1920 at Texas.¹

     Janine Frances McCallum was born on 16 September 1916 in Texas.¹ She was the daughter of August H. McCallum and Mary E. Sewall.² Janine Frances McCallum died on 30 July 1960 in Jacksonville, Cherokee County, Texas, at the age of 43.¹

     Jennie May McCallum was born between 1888 and 1890 in Canada.^2,3 She married Frederick William Sewell, son of Frederick Henry Sewell and Martha Marig Hudson, in 1908 in Great Falls, Montana.¹ Jennie May McCallum and Frederick William Sewell appear on the census of 1910 at Great Falls, Montana, the census records them as having been married for a year, the baby Fred is at that time still un-named.⁴ Jennie May McCallum and Frederick William Sewell appear on the census of January 1920 at Great Falls, Montana, Frederick William Sewall's occupation is given as sewing machine agent.⁵ She is robably the Jennie May McCallum who died on 25 September 1959 in Yellowstone County, Montana, her home was in Carbon County.⁶

     Margaret McCarl was born in 1894.¹ She married Theodore Paul Wright, son of Phillip Green Wright and Elizabeth Quincy Sewall, in 1918.¹ Margaret McCarl died in 1971.¹