Mehitable May Dawes
(1751-1793)
BIRTH
August 6, 1751
PLACE
DEATH
October 28, 1793
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Samuel May
(1723-1794)
HUSBAND
William Dawes
(1745-1799)
CHILDREN
William Mears Dawes
(1771-1855)
CHILDREN
Mehitable May Dawes
(1774-1776)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Mehitable May Dawes (1751–1793 or 1794) was William Dawes’s first wife and the daughter of Samuel May and Catherine Mears. They married in Boston in May 1768, before his warning ride to Lexington in April 1775. A son was William Mears Dawes. A portrait of Mehitable survives with her husband’s likeness. Family genealogies give her death as October 28, 1793, while some biographies give May 19, 1794. That conflict remains unresolved, and no exact death day is asserted.
EARLY LIFE
Mehitable May was born on Aug 6, 1751. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Mehitable May is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Mehitable May died on Oct 28, 1793. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Mehitable May died on Oct 28, 1793. Mehitable May Dawes was William Dawes’s first wife and the daughter of Samuel May and Catherine Mears. They married in Boston in May 1768, before his warning ride to Lexington in April 1775. A son was William Mears Dawes. A portrait of Mehitable survives with her husband’s likeness. Family genealogies give her death as October 28, 1793, while some biographies give May 19, 1794. That conflict remains unresolved, and no exact death day is asserted. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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