Isaac Mayo
| Commodore Isaac Mayo | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1794 |
| Died | May 18, 1861 (aged 67) Anne Arundel, Maryland |
| Allegiance |
 United States of America
|
| Service/branch |
 United States Navy
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| Years of service | 1809-1861 |
| Rank | Commodore |
| Commands held |
USS Poinsett USS Mississippi USS Constitution Africa Squadron |
| Battles/wars |
War of 1812 |
War of 1812
Second Seminole War
Suppression of the Slave Trade
Mexican-American War
Commodore Isaac Mayo (1794 – 18 May 1861) was a United States naval officer who served in the War of 1812, Second Seminole War, and Mexican War. Mayo is credited with influencing the location of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis and is noted for his controversial resignation and Presidential dismissal from the service at the start of the Civil War.
Isaac Mayo was born in 1794 in Anne Arundel County Maryland. He was the nephew of United States Navy Admiral Joseph Mayo. He married Sarah Battaile Fitzhugh Bland, daughter of Theodoric Bland, a federal judge and Chancellor of Maryland, and Sarah Glen in 1835. They had one daughter, Sarah
The Mayos resided in historic Gresham house at Mayo’s Neck plantation, parts of which had formerly been known as Cotter’s Desire, Love’s Neck, and Selby’s Marsh. The plantation had previously been owned by the pirate William Cotter and wife Jane Gassaway, who purchased it two years after the death of Jane’s father Colonel Nicholas Gassaway (Mysteriously, the Colonel's and his son's gravestones were both found there in different centuries, though both had lived and died at the Love's Neck residence while Gresham house was still owned and occupied by Greshams on rented land). Commodore Mayo also owned a farm in Elkridge and Sarah inherited Blandair from her father in 1846.
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