1Unrecorded Barnstable County Deeds, The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 14, p. 79 (1912).
"[THOMAS MAYO, SR., TO HIS FIVE SONS]
"I Thomas Mayo Seenior of the Town of Eastham . . . . yeoman: for many good Causes & Considerations me here unto moving: Especially in Consideration of that Parentall Love good will & affection which I have & do Bear towards my Beloved sons Named as followeth viz: Thomas Mayo Junior Theophilus Mayo Judah Mayo Richard Mayo & Israel Mayo: all of the Town of Eastham & the Town of Chatham . . . . yeomen: . . . . give graunt confirm & deliver unto my said sons . . . . & to each of them In Equall proportion . . . . all that my Right Interest & propriety which I have or of Right ought to have to the Timber fencing stuff fire wood pine: knots yurbeg grassing or any other previledg whattsoever that of right Is belonging to me: on a parcell of land laying within the Township of Harwich . . . . between the Bounds of the Town of Eastham & the clift pond & long pond & potamomacut so Called which is specifyed & mentioned In a deed under the hands & seals of John Sipson & Thom Sipson Indians & duly executed: unto my self In partnership with Nathanll Mayo Samuel Mayo & Joshua Hopkins: Bearing date the :22 : day of aprill anno Domini : 1695 ; that Is to say the fourth part or Moyety of the previledges specifyed & mentioned In the afore said deed I give unto my above named five sons & to each of them In Equall proportion"
The deed was dated 7 December, 1724; witnessed by John Brown and Mary Freeman; and was acknowledged 30 December, 1724, by "Thomas Mayo Seenr before Nathaniel Freeman, Justice of the Peace. It was recorded 20 January, 1724/5, in Barnstable County Deeds, Book 12, folio 254, by John Thacher, Register, and has not been re-recorded since the fire.".