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| | May Family Collection of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center |
 | | William Allen May (1912 - 2002) was born and reared in Owosso, Michigan. |
 | | William May’s book The House of May (1984) traces the descendants of John May, a ship’s master who moved his family from Mayfield in Sussex, England, to Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1640. |
 | | Among John May’s descendants, who migrated through Vermont, Connecticut, New York, Ohio, and Michigan were Elisha May (1669-1744), a founding father of Barrington, Rhode Island, and Hezekiah May (1736-1819), a member of the Vermont militia during the Revolutionary War. |
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