John Maylem, Sr.
Son of Joseph Maylem, Sr.

1.  Graduated Harvard College, 1715.  Harvard letter

2.  1729/1731
Tenth Report of the Record Commissioners of Boston
Author: William H. Whitmore Call Number: F73.4.B67xvol.10
This book contains the records of the city of Boston, such as deeds and admissions to the town of Boston.

Israel3 Folsom lived first in Exeter, where he was styled "weaver" and where Dec. 22, 1719, he bought 11 acres of wood and tillage land in Stratham, of Mathew Thompson, also a weaver. This land was at a place called "Jeremy's Pockett." Nov. 12, 1724, Israel Folsom, weaver, of Stratham, bought of Elizabeth and Daniel Rundlett, widow and son of James Rundlett of Stratham, two tracts of land containing 23 acres bounding on Richard & Joseph Hilton & Daniel Ames. Nov. 24, 1724, Israel Folsom, weaver, of Stratham, and wife Joanna, sold the 11 acres of wood and tillage land, which Israel bought in 1719, to Benjamin Norris, of Stratham. In 1729 Joshua Brackett, of Greenland, gave to "Israel ffolsham, of Newmarket, of ye Township of Exeter, labourer, his fulfilling & Settling my Proprietors Share in ye Town of Nottingham according to ye Charter of sd Town which Proprietors Shear was Originally Mr. Wm. Youngs of Boston....two parcels of land in Nottingham....in North Street." In 1731, "Israel ffolsham of Newmarket, yeoman, sold four acres in Nottingham in North Street to John Maylem, of Exeter, for five pounds "current money." In 1736 he sold 54 acres, the balance of his land in Nottingham, to John Coker, of Stratham. In 1736 he bought 5 acres of land from William Hilton, this land adjoining his own. In 1738 he bought of Joseph Smart 30 acres of land, dwelling house and barn, southwest of Francis Durgin's land. In 1738 Israel Folsom and wife Sarah, and other heirs of Francis Durgin, sold their interest in their father's (Francis Durgin) Estate. In 1739 he bought 40 acres of Charles Smart, this land bounded on one side by land of Ephraim Folsom. In 1766 John Burley buys 100 acres of Andrew Folsom and wife Eleanor, this land bounded in part on land of William Folsom and of Israel Folsom. In 1768 John Burley buys 6 acres and a half of Israel Folsom.

In 1755 Israel3 Folsom deeded to his beloved son Israel, 40 acres, "it being part of the whome place whare I now live" with buildings standing on the same, bounded in part by "Ensign Ephraim Folsom." In 1758 he deeded to son Benjamin Folsom, land in Newmarket.

October 19, 1732
History of the Town of Exeter New Hampshire, by Charles H. Bell, copyright 1888.
page 145: "Proceedings to Hasten a Distribution":
...This report was accepted by the town October 19, 1732; and it was voted that Mr. Maylem should draw all the lots for the proprietors, according to the division made by the last appointed committee...  [probably Rev. John Maylem?]

3.  Wills of Joseph Maylem, Sr.  (Will#1? or #2?)
August 17, 1730; Probate: February 13, 1732; Boston, Mass. Bay Colony, New England