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MAYARA MAYEYE 



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Mayaguaci.— Fontiineda (1675) in Doe. Ined., v, 

 544, 1866. Mayajuaca.— Fontaneda in Teinaux- 

 Compans,Voy.,xx,26,1841. Nayajuaca.— Ibid., 35. 



Mayara. A Timucuan chief, said to 

 have been "rich in gold and silver," and 

 also the name of his town on lower St 

 Johns r., Fla., in the 16th century. 

 Maiera.— De Bry, Brev.Nar., ii, map, 1591. May- 

 ara,— Laudoimiere (1564) in French. Hist. Coll. 

 La., 2i2, 1869. Mayrra.—Laudonniere, Hist. No- 

 table, 88, 1853. 



Maycock. A sort of squash or pumpkin. 

 According to Scheie de Vere (American- 

 isms, 60, 1871 ) it is still found in Virginia. 

 Trumbull (Sci. Pap. Asa Gray, i, 336, 1889) 

 cites as early forms macocks (Smith, 

 1606-08), macock gourd (Strachey, 1610), 

 marokoi^ (Strachev), and macocqirer 

 (L'Ecluse, 1591-1605). Beverley (Hist. 

 Va., 124, 1705) identifies the mai/cock 

 with the squash of New England. Smith 

 (Arbered., 359, 1884) describes inacock.t 

 as "a fruit like unto a muske mellon, 

 butt lesse and worse." The word is de- 

 rived from a form of mahawk, 'gourd', 

 in the Virginian dialect of Algonquian, 

 cognate with the Delaware madigachk, 

 'pumpkin.' See Macocks. (a. f. c. ) 



Mayes, Joel Bryan. A prominent 

 mixed-blood of the Cherokee tribe and 

 twice principal chief of the nation. He 

 was born Oct. 2, 1833, in the old Chero- 

 kee Nation, near the present Cartersville, 

 Ga. His father, Samuel Mayes, was a 

 white man from Tennessee, while his 

 mother, Nancy Adair, was of mixed 

 blood, the daiighter of Walter Adair, a 

 leading tribal officer, and granddaughter 

 of John, one of the Adair brothers, 

 traders among the Cherokee before the 

 Revolution. The boy removed with the 

 rest of his tribe in 1838 to Indian Ter., 

 where he afterward was graduated from 

 the male seminary at Tahlecjuah. and 

 after a short experience at teaching 

 school, engaged in stockraising until the 

 outbreak of the Civil war in 1861, when 

 he enlisted as a private in the First Con- 

 federate Indian Brigade, couiing out at 

 the close of the war as quartermaster. 

 He returned to his home on Grand r. 

 and resumed his former occupation, but 

 was socn after made successively clerk 

 of the district court, circuit judge (for 

 two terms of 10 years in all), asso- 

 ciate justice, and chief justice of the 

 Cherokee supreme court. In 1887 he 

 was elected principal chief of the Cher- 

 okee Nation, succeeding D. W. Bushy- 

 head, and was reelected in 1891, but 

 died in office at Tahlequah, Dec. H of 

 that year, lieing succeeded by Col. C. J. 

 Harris. Chief Mayes was of tine phy- 

 sique, kindly disposition, and engaging 

 personality. He was three times mar- 

 ried, his last wife having been Miss Mary 

 Vann, of a family distinguished in Chero- 

 kee history. (j. m.) 



Mayeye. A former Tonkawan tribe 

 which, in the first half of the 18th cen- 

 tury, lived near San Xavier r., Tex., ap- 

 parently either modern San Gabriel or 

 Little r. Joutel in 1687 (Margry, Dec, 

 III, 288, 1878) heard of the Meghey n. of 

 Colorado r., somewhere near where the 

 Spaniards later actually found the May- 

 eye. Rivera (Diario, leg. 2062, 1736) in 

 1727 met them at springs called Puente- 

 zitas, 15 leagues w. of the junction of the 

 two arms of the Brazos and 35 leagues 

 from the Colorado. In 1738 they were' 

 mentioned with the Deadoses (q. v.) of 

 the same locality (Orobio y Basterra, let- 

 ter of Apr. 26, Archivo General, MS.). 

 About 1744 Fray Mariano Francisco de 

 los Dolores visited a rancheria of May- 

 eyes, Yojuanes, Deadoses, Bidais, and 

 others near San Xavier r. ( Arricivita, 

 Chronica, pt. 2, 322, 1792). In 1740 it had 

 lieen planned to take this and the Sana 

 ( Zana) tribes toSan Antonio (Descripcion, 

 1740, Mem. Nueva Espana. xxviii, 203, 

 MS. ), where a few of the Sanas and Er- 

 vipiames had already been gathered. As 

 a result of the efforts of Father Dolores, 4 

 chiefs of the "YojUanes, Deadoses, Mai- 

 eyes, and Rancheria Grande" went to 

 San Antonio to ask for a mission (Des- 

 patch of the Viceroy, Mar. 26, 1751, Lamar 

 Papers, MS.), and about 1747 the San 

 Xavier group of missions was founded for 

 them. When the site was abandoned, 

 "notwithstanding the tenacity with 

 which the Mayeyes especially had always 

 clung to the district of San Xavier," some 

 of them were moved to the Guadalupe, 

 where an abortive attempt was made to 

 reestablish them (Arricivita, op. cit., 

 337 ) . Some of the Mayeye who had been 

 baptized at San Xavier entered San An- 

 tonio de \'alero mission at San Antonio, 

 and were living there as late as 1769 (MS. 

 Burial records). The Mayeye and their 

 relations were bitter enemies of the 

 Apache, and in the middle of the 18th 

 century, when the Comanche forced the 

 Apache southward, theMayeyeand other 

 Tonkavvans were apparently pushed to 

 the s. E. , where they mingled with the Ka- 

 raukawan tribes, 'in 1772 Mezieres (In- 

 forme,July4, 1772, MS.) said the Mayeye 

 wandered with the Tonkawa and Yojuane 

 between the Trinity and the Brazos; and 

 in the same year Bonilla, quoting Me- 

 zieres, associated them with the same 

 tribes, all of whom, though in alliance 

 with the Wichita and their congeners, 

 were despised by the latter as vagabonds. 

 Such has been the usual attitude of other 

 tribes towai'd the Tonkawa ever since. 

 While Bucareli existed on the Trinity, 

 from 1774 to 1779, the Mayeye visited it. 

 In 1778 Mezieres (Carta, Mar. 18, MS.) 

 reported 20 families of Coco and Mayeye 

 apostates opposite Culebra id., in the 



