Individual Details
William May
(21 Oct 1740 - 22 Aug 1812)
From Amherst vital records-- http://dunhamwilcox.net/ma/amherst_m12a.htm
William(perhaps?), and Sarah Williams, d. Joseph & Ruth (Grow)
William,resident of Amh. 1773; militia soldier at Cambridge for 11 days in 1775 on Lexington Alarm; farmer at Amh. 1776; in August 1777 spent 4 days on militia duty at New Providence; was at Stillwater September 1777; and perhaps Sarah Williams, d. Joseph, ___ __, ____. [JAS]
William(perhaps?), and Sarah Williams, d. Joseph & Ruth (Grow)
William,resident of Amh. 1773; militia soldier at Cambridge for 11 days in 1775 on Lexington Alarm; farmer at Amh. 1776; in August 1777 spent 4 days on militia duty at New Providence; was at Stillwater September 1777; and perhaps Sarah Williams, d. Joseph, ___ __, ____. [JAS]
Events
| Birth | 21 Oct 1740 | Roxbury, Massachusetts |  | ||
| Marriage | Abt 1776 | Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts - Sarah Williams |  | ||
| Death | 22 Aug 1812 | Homer, Cortland, New York |
Families
| Spouse | Sarah Williams (1750 - 1808) |
| Child | Eleazer May (1776 - 1867) |
| Child | Abigail May (1779 - ) |
| Child | William May (1781 - 1839) |
| Child | Sarah May (1784 - ) |
| Child | Mary Sabin May (1786 - 1848) |
| Child | Dolly May (1788 - 1858) |
| Child | Bela May (1790 - 1870) |
| Child | Lorin Ruel May (1794 - 1879) |
| Father | Eleazer May (1705 - 1783) |
| Mother | Dorothy Davis (1710 - 1750) |
| Sibling | Dorothy May ( - 1779) |
Notes
Marriage
https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?surname=may&birth_year_from=1776&birth_year_to=1800&father_givenname=william&mother_givenname=sarah&record_country=United%20States&record_subcountry=United%20States%2CMassachusetts&count=20Link to children
Endnotes
1. Ancestry.com, North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016), Book Title: A genealogy of the descendants of John May who came from England to Roxbury in America, 1640.