Mayo Pond was a prominent Schuylerville, New York resident who served as town supervisor in 1845. Thomas Ustis, age 24, first appears on the 1855 New York State census of Schuylerville working as a servant in the home of Mayo Pond. For the next three decades, Mayo Pond figured prominently in the affairs of the Eustis family as employer and estate administrator. The following is what we know of Mayo Pond.

On the 3rd of July 1827, Mayo Pond, Charles Morgan and John T. Morgan became incorporated by the name of the Amoskeag Fire Engine Company No. 1 in Goffstown, New Hampshire. The company was allowed to hold real and personal estate to the value of $1,000.

At an unknown date, prior to 1836, Mayo Pond had relocated to Schuylerville, Saratoga County, NY. He was named Captain of the village’s earliest fire department. Prior to 1836, fires were fought with a “bucket brigade.” Each citizen owning a house worth $500 or more was required to keep two buckets bearing their initials in a convenient place in the home. When an alarm was given each householder was required to appear at the scene of the fire with his buckets filled with water. The village of Schuylerville purchased a fire engine in 1836. William Carroll was one of 32 firemen listed on the roster of the first fire company. Source: The Story of Old Saratoga (1901). William Carroll was married to two different women named Bridget Eustace; his second wife being a niece of the first Bridget. When William Carroll died at Schuylerville in 1856, Mayo Pond was one of two men responsible for his estate.

In 1845, Mayo Pond was supervisor of the town of Saratoga, commonly known as Old Saratoga, to distinguish it from the larger and better known town of Saratoga Springs. Mayo Pond died at Schuylerville on April 17, 1860.

Dates from Register prepared by Mrs. Henry Conklin (in possession of George Kahnle of Black Shutters, Victory Mills NY in October 2000, obtained from the John & Frances Ostrander family)