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Chiefly materials collected by May while doing research for his book the House of May (1984), tracing descendants of John May, shipmaster and early settler who emigrated from Sussex, England to Roxbury, Mass., in 1640, and descendants such as Elisha May and Hezekiah May. Includes photographs of family members, headstones, and sites associated with the family; copies of legal documents such as wills and land grants; genealogy charts and information on the May and affiliated families such as Brown, Carpenter, Cooper, Opper, Smith, Walker, Goret, Loucks, Reynolds, and Griggs; correspondence with other genealogists and May family researchers; information on various locations associated with the family's history such as Barrington, R.I., Woodstock, Conn., and Strafford, Vt.; and biographical data collected by Sandra Tellvik on Harvey Griggs, of Fremont, Ohio, a collateral May descendant.