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Note: Dutchess county in the first half of the decade of 1750, whereupon he soon met and married the 18 year old Esther Atwater, the daughter of a blacksmith who herself had just moved from the 'big city' New Haven. Mayhew became a blacksmith, and it is even supposed that he may have apprenticed with his father-in-law Caleb Atwater. Caleb had moved to what was known as North East in Dutchess County. The French and Indian War was underway about that time, and there is a record in Williamstown, MA., that lists 'Mayhew Daggitt' as among those who enlisted to fight under Ephraim Williams. At this time the first of 11 children was born to Mayhew and Esther. In the next decades the biography gives the picture of an active and productive family. Children being born, sisters and brothers marrying and having children, all leading up to the Revoluton, in which two of the Daggett's children, Mayhew junior and Thomas fought, as did Esther's youngest brother, Benjamin Atwater. Sometime after the Revolution Esther died and the family moved to Pittstown, Rennsalaer County, NY. In March of 1787 the first records of the newly fellowshipped Baptist Church of Christ list Mayhew Daggett and Naomi Daggett. In the next year or so Mayhew returned to Attleborough where his mother was near the end of her long life. There he remarried Lucy Hadden and they are indicated on the 1790 census of that town. That August his mother died and he continued to live in Attleborough, his second wife dying in January of 1798.Mayhew married the widow Margaret Dale that summer, and then returned to New York, where he is listed on the 1800 census of Pittstown along with his son Thomas Daggett and his sons in law, John Mott, Daniel Higgins and Lewis Finch. (From an extensive Biography written by Kay Lundell of Mayhew Daggett and Esther Atwater)
Note: Born and raised in Attleborough, MA, Mayhew evidently moved to New York State,
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