Margaret Ann McBride

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1 Jun 1792
• Alternate birth: 1 Jun 1794, Chester, Washington, New York

Notes:

Baptized into the LDS, along with her husband and some of their children, 16 Apr 1833 in Villanova, New York. [Our Crandall and Beckstead Ancestors]

The baptisms were performed by Amasa M. Lyman and William F. Cahoon. [David Crandall]

In 1842, her sister Martha McBride became one of the plural wives of Joseph Smith.

Margaret married David Crandall about 1810. David (son of Pardon Crandall and Susannah Wells) was born in 1789 in Hebron, Washington, New York; died on 12 Mar 1861 in La Harpe, Hancock, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Myron Nathan Crandall was born on 17 Aug 1818 in Genesee, New York; died on 4 Aug 1860 in Springville, Utah, Utah.

Notes:

He was an itinerant Pre-Campbellite minister, according to the Wikipedia article about his daughter Martha McBride.

Daniel married Abigail Mead in 1787 in Stillwater, Saratoga, New York. Abigail (daughter of Gideon Mead and Martha Fiske) was born on 29 Jan 1770 in Nine Partners, Dutchess, New York; died on 12 Mar 1854 in Ogden, Weber, Utah; was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Utah. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 13 Mar 1854, Ogden, Weber, Utah

Notes:

"Daniel McBride married Abigail Mead, who was born in 1770 in Dutchess County, New York. She descended from the Quaker Mead and Fiske families of Fairfield County, Connecticut. Abigail joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1833, almost 10 years after Daniel's death, as did most of their 9 children, and, after living in Kirtland, Ohio and Nauvoo, Illinois, emigrated to Utah in 1847, one of the oldest persons to cross the plains to Utah in that first settlement year." [Our Crandall and Beckstead Ancestors]

It's notable that Abigail Mead was descended from Meads on both sides -- her father was a Mead, and her mother's mother was one as well.

Out of all of TNH's Mormon pioneer ancestors, she may or may not have been the first to be baptised into the church, but born in 1770, she was certainly the oldest. She was born before the Revolution and lived to see the Salt Lake Valley.

From Our Crandall and Beckstead Ancestors:

About 1829, Abigail heard of the mysterious visions of the Prophet Joseph Smith, and wholly believed in them. She was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on June 25, 1833. The entire family also joined the church.

In the spring of 1835, they sold their farms at great sacrifices and traveled to Kirtland, Ohio to be with the rest of the Saints. The trip was made by stagecoach and canal boat, which took about six days.

They donated liberally to the building of the city of Kirtland and to the temple. With six of her children, Abigail enjoyed the heavenly manifestations given at the dedication of the Kirtland Temple on March 27, 1836. Her son, Reuben, became the custodian of the Kirtland Temple.

She received her patriarchal blessing from Joseph Smith, Sr. on June 8, 1836. The following is the body of the blessing:

"My aged sister, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Redeemer of the world, and by the power and authority of the Priesthood, I lay my hands on thy head; and on the heads of thy posterity, confer a blessing. Thou hast had sorrow and affliction out of which the Lord is delivering thee. He has established thy faith. Thou has obeyed the Gospel of the Savior. Thy name is been written in the Lamb's Book of Life. Thou art of the lineage of Abraham. If thou holdest on thy way, the time will come when thou, like Job, shall see God, in the flesh, standing upon the earth. Thou shalt see angels and receive the communication of the Holy Ghost. Thy children shall stand in the covenant, by the power of God, thou shalt go to Zion, and be in good health. Thy mind shall be strong and rejoice in thy God. Thou shalt not want for the things of this life. Give up thyself to God and thou shalt see they redeemer, who thou desirest to know. Thou shalt be a member of the Celestial World. I seal these blessings upon thy head. I seal these things up to eternal life. Amen and amen."

Abigail endured the persecutions attending the twelve thousand members of the church in their migration to Nauvoo, Illinois. [...]

Abigail assembled with the huge crowd when Joseph led his famous Nauvoo Legion, in their elegant uniforms with their plumed hats, through the streets of Nauvoo for the last time. She heard his famous farewell address, with unsheathed sword, pointing heavenward in defense of his followers, from the top of an unfinished building.

Shortly after the Prophet was martyred, with deepest sorrow, she was able to view his remains, along with thousands of tear-stained companions. [...]

Abigail was present on August 8, 1844, when the mantle of Joseph Smith fell upon Brigham Young. She heard Brigham Young's declaration that he was the rightful leader of the Saints and would lead them safely to the tops of the Rocky Mountains, as predicted by the martyred Prophet.

Abigail was endowed on January 28, 1846, in the Nauvoo Temple. She was among the Saints expelled from Nauvoo, who made their homes in tents, covered wagons, and hurriedly erected log cabins across the Mississippi River.

She joined the first emigrant company to follow Brigham Young, leaving Elk Horn on June 17, 1847. She endured the inconveniences of the long trek in this huge company of fifteen hundred men, women, and children, who were in five hundred sixty wagons, with five thousand head of stock. They traveled between four to eleven miles a day, taking turns by the hundreds in leading the caravan.

On September 4, 1847, they rejoiced in meeting Brigham Young and his party, who had come to lead them into the Salt Lake Valley. Three days later, a great feast was arranged, concluding with a dance; an Indian attack followed. It was the latter part of September when they arrived in the Salt Lake Valley.

Abigail was described as a short, rather stout, fine old lady with a square face and a fair complexion.

Notes:

According to Virginia McBride (citation details below), he and his wife emigrated from Ireland before 1766 to Saratoga County, New York.

Samuel married Margaret Brown. Margaret was born about 1744 in Saratoga, Saratoga, New York; died after 1794. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"By tradition, Margaret's maiden name was Brown." [Virginia McBride, citation details below.]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1743, Nine Partners, Dutchess, New York
• Alternate birth: Bef 1750
• Alternate death: 27 Sep 1814, Chester, Warren, New York

Notes:

He and his wife were second cousins once removed, by virtue of him being a great-great grandson of John Mead and Hannah Potter while she was a great-granddaughter of the same couple.

Gideon married Martha Fiske about 1768. Martha (daughter of Jonathan Fiske and Abigail Mead) was born between 1745 and 1750 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 13 Oct 1813 in Chester, Warren, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1750, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut

Notes:

"Clues to the identity of Martha, the wife of Gideon Mead (Enos, Jonathan, John, John), may be found in the journal of her grandson, Reuben McBride, now available in the L.D.S. Library in Salt Lake City; leading to the conclusion that Martha was a daughter of Jonathan and Abigail (Mead) Fiske of Greenwich, Connecticut. Among the relatives listed in Reuben McBride's journal are his great-uncles and great-aunts, i.e. brothers and sisters, with their spouses, of his four grandparents: Samuel and Margaret McBride, who emigrated from Ireland before 1766 to Saratoga County, New York, and Gideon and Martha Mead. By tradition, Margaret's maiden name was Brown, leaving only Martha's surname in question. Two of the great-uncles were Jonathan and David Fisk, which suggests that they were related by blood rather than by marriage, and just might be brothers of Martha. Gideon Mead, born about 1744, belonged to the Greenwich, Connecticut, family, and finding a Fisk family of the same period and area, with children named Jonathan, David and Martha, was not difficult. They were among the six minor children named in the will of Jonathan Fiske who died in Greenwich in 1756, their mother being Abigail Mead, a daughter of David and Abigail (Leosee) Mead. Although there is no birth record or marriage record for Martha, she was a minor in 1756 and apparently of legal age when she sold her inheritance in 1767, signing the documents with her mark. With the sale of her property, Martha Fiske disappears from the genealogical scene, but three years later, Martha, wife of Gideon Mead, gave birth to her second child Abigail in Nine Partners, Dutchess County, New York. Logically, the sale of Martha's property might well have coincided with her marriage to Gideon Mead and their removal to a new home in Nine Partners." [Virginia McBride, "Martha Fiske, the Wife of Gideon Mead." The American Genealogist, July 1969.]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 19 Dec 1774, Stillwater, Saratoga, New York

Notes:

He owned a substantial amount of land in Dutchess County. His birth year given here is a guess based on the known birth years of evidently adjacent siblings.

Mead-Clark Genealogy (citation details below) reports, on page 5 of the Mead section, the following list of the children of Jonathan Mead and Esther Butler:

Hannah 9-2-1712 of Saratoga Springs, New York
Jonathan 11-10-1716 m. Sarah Guernsey
Michael 9-4-1718 of Saratoga Springs, New York
Enos 11-17-1721 m. Melasen
Nehemiah 8-8-1723 m. Sarah
Israel 4-5-1728 of Saratoga Springs, New York
Nathaniel 6-11-1726 of Saratoga Springs, New York
Sarah 5-6-1735/6 m. Simeon Newcomb

But on page 83 of the same section we see an amendment:

Births of seven children are recorded in Greenwich, Conn. Hannah, Sept. 2 (probably 1714); Jonathan --10-1715; Michael Sept. 4, 1718; Enos and Nehemiah (twins) Nov. 17, 17--; Nathaniel and Israel (twins) June 11, 17--; This leaf of the town record is worn and the lower half missing; probably here was recorded the births of his younger children. It is said that Darius born 3-28-1728; Eli b. about 1730; Eldad b. about 1733, were sons of Jonathan and Esther Butler Mead.



Will of Enos Mead:

In the Name of God, amen. I Enos Mead of Charlotte Precinct in the county of Dutches and Province of New York, Being in good health and perfect memory (Blessed be God therefore) do this nineteenth day of December, in the fifteenth year of the Reign of the Lord, George the third of Great Britain france and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith &c. and in the year of our Lord Christ, one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy four, make and Publish this my last will and testament, in manner and form following (that is to say) Imprimis, I commend my Soul into the Hands of almithy God, who gave it me; and my body to the earth from whence it came, in hopes of a joyfull Resurrection, through the Merits of my Saviour Jesus Christ; and as for that worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me I dispose thereof as follows. I give and dispose thereof as follows, and first it is my will and I do hereby order and direct that my Executors hereafter named do in the first place pay off and discharge all my Just debts & funeral Expences out of my Personal Estate, and in case my personal estate should be insufficient to discharge the Same then and in sutch case it is my will that my Executors Should Sell and Dispose of so much of my land at or in Charlotte County within this Province, as to make up the Same, and as to the Remainder of my Estate I Dispose thereof as follows viz: I give to my Loving wife Melasen in Lew of her dowry & thirds, one fether ber bedstead beding and furniture thereunto belonging, also the one-third part of the Remainder of my personal Estate to her and her assigns. I also give to my said wife the one third part of all my Real Estate during her natural life. Item. I give and devise to my Son Gideon, Eighty acres of Land off of my homestead farm Bounded Easterly by Land of Capt Moses Harris, South by Land of Thomas wolsey, north & west by other lands of mine, comprehending the South Lott commonly called the South Meadow also two Lotts North of said lot and South of the lot whereon Said Gidion now Dwelse, also two and a half of the lot Said Gidion now lives on at the East End to include his house, also two Lotts north of Said last mentioned Lott and if the aforesaid Described Lotts Encluding the wood Land on the East of them should not contain Eighty Acres then to ad to the North- ernmost Lott with a parrallel line on the North Side as much as to make up the Eighty acres. I also give and Devise to my Said Son Gidion one certain lott of land lying in Charlotte County in Somerestt Township No. I also give & Devise to my said Son Gidion Six hundred acres of land out of my Right to land I have on the west Side of Delaware River as yet undevided to him his heirs and assigns. I give and Devise to my Son Michael 100 acres of land being a part of the farm I live on Bounded Northerly by the line called Bushes line west by Land of James Winans South by Lott No. 19 of the great division of the great nine partners or the line called Edsalls line and East by other land of mine So far east as to confain Eighty acres with a line parrallel with the west Side. I also give and Devise to my Said Son Michael as Much Land in Somerseth Township in the County of Charlotte and of my Right on the west Side of Delaware River, as I hereinbefore have given to my son Gidion, to be holden to my Said Son Michael his heirs and assigns. Item. I give to my Daughter Melasen the wife of Israel Thompson four hundred acres of Land out of my Right in the aforementioned tract of land on the west Side of Delaware River to her her heirs & assigns. I also give to my Said Daughter Melasen fifty Pounds Currency. Item. I give to Lockwood Smith who late had my Daughter Nancy to wife four hundred acres of land out of my aforeSaid Right to land on the West Side of Delaware River to him his heirs and affigns. Item. I give the Remainder of My Estate Boath Real and Personal to my two Sons William and Levy Mead to them their heirs and assigns to be equally divided between them they first paying my Just debts & the Legacy to my Daughter Malasen and lastly I do hereby nominate, constitute and appoint my beloved Sons William and Levy Mead and my Trusty friend Enos Thompson Executors of my last will and Testament Hereby Revoking disalowing and annuling all and Every other will and wills Testament and testaments by me here to fore made Declaring this and none other to be and contain my last will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto Sett my hand Seal the day and Year first abovewritten. Enos Mead (L. S.) Signed Sealed published and declared by the said Enos Mead as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us whose Names are hereunder written, who Subscribed our names as witnesses at his Request and in his prefence. Ann Bockee Mary Salkeld Abraham Bockee

Enos married Millicent. Millicent was born on 17 Jan 1724 in Milan, Dutchess, New York; died after 19 Dec 1774 in Washington County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Called "Melasen" in Enos Mead's will.

Jonathan married Abigail Mead on 23 Apr 1738 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut. Abigail (daughter of David Mead and Abigail Leane) was born on 17 Jul 1710 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Referred to in some sources as "Charity Mead," but probably erroneously.

Notes:

Spencer P. Mead's History and Genealogy of the Mead Family (1901) states that this Jonathan Mead died unmarried in 1712. In 1915, after further research, Mead announced that this was incorrect; the Jonathan Mead who died in 1712 was this Jonathan Mead's uncle Jonathan Mead, b. 5 Jan 1667 to John Mead and Hannah Potter.

He was a cooper.

"He is alleged to have come to Crum Elbow and to have died in Dutchess County 13 May 1754 but we have not seen any proof." [Settlers of the Beekman Patent, citation details below, vol. VIII.]

Jonathan married Esther Butler on 7 Dec 1713 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her name was sometimes spelled "Easter" or "Hester."

Samuel married Elizabeth Brown on 5 Dec 1699 in Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Josiah Brown and Mary Fellows) was born on 27 Jun 1671 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 21 Jul 1721 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 27 Jun 1678, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1670, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut

Notes:

"He settled early in the Town of Bedford in the Province of New York, and was one of the resident proprietors of Bedford in 1692. On the eighth day of April, 1704, a Royal Patent, from the Governor-General of New York, was granted for the Town of Bedford, in which David Mead was mentioned as one of the original grantees." [History and Genealogy of the Mead Family, citation details below.]

David married Abigail Leane on 16 Dec 1707 in Bedford, Westchester, New York. Abigail was born about 1670 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called by the first name "Leosee."

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1657
• Alternate death: 1691

Notes:

"In 1687 John Mead was elected constable [of Stamford], then the most remunerative as well as the most important office in the gift of the townsmen." [History and Genealogy of the Mead Family]

John married Ruth Hardy on 27 Oct 1681 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut. Ruth (daughter of Richard Hardy and Ann Husted) was born on 18 Nov 1660 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut; died before 20 Nov 1727 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Their marriage on 27 Oct 1681 is the earliest surviving vital record of Greenwich

Walter married Rebecca Reynolds. Rebecca (daughter of Jonathan Reynolds and Rebecca) was born about 1657; died on 3 Jun 1730 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her parentage is not perfectly proven, but Donald Lines Jacobus argued (in "Walter Butler of Greenwich, Conn." and "Walter Butler, Penoyer, and Reynolds", citation details below) that she was probably a daughter of Jonathan and Rebecca Reynolds. In deeds at Greenwich after the death of her husband Walter Butler, her name is generally written "Clapman." Peter Clapham, a widower with one daughter, married a second wife Rebecca about 1694. By her he had three children and died 18 Feb 1698. His widow married, by 1717, a man named Brown, and died in Fairfield, where her oldest married Clapham daughter was living, and where her stone says that she died 3 Jun 1730 in her 75th year, placing her birth near 1655.

The inventory of the estate of Jonathan Reynolds, taken 23 Jan 1674, lists daughter Rebecca "about sixteen years of age", which would place her birth about 1657. Assuming this is the woman buried at Fairfield in 1730, as argued above, this would make her a sister-in-law of Joshua Knapp (husband of her sister Elizabeth Reynolds), who was her co-administrator on the estate of her first husband Walter Butler, and also a sister of Jonathan Reynolds who with Jonathan Knapp was, after the death of Peter Clapham, guardian of the Clapham children.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 5 Feb 1728, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts

Deacon married Sarah Kilham on 15 Jan 1663 in Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Augustine Kilham and Alice Corbel) was born on 4 Jan 1642 in of Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 26 Jan 1737. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 4 Jan 1643, of Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts
• Alternate birth: 14 Jan 1643, of Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts
• Alternate death: 26 Jan 1738

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 29 Jan 1691, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Josiah married Mary Fellows on 23 Feb 1667 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of William Fellows and Mary) was born about 1645; died between 1690 and 1699. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1650, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1634, Greenwich, London, England

Notes:

Freeman of Greenwich in 1670. In 1672 he was among the 27 purchasers of the land to the west of the original Greenwich settlement on Elizabeth Neck, then called Miosehasseky (Horseneck), now Greenwich Borough, i.e., the modern town center. Member of the Connecticut assembly for Greenwich in 1679, 1680, and 1686.

"John Mead was somewhat irascible. Spencer P. Mead, following De Mille, related a traditional anecdote from John's later years of how he threw a Quaker who had offended him into the Mianus River. In the mid-1650s, he was chastised by the court for various misbehaviors, including slander and making a false accusation against Richard Law, constable of Stamford; the court stated that 'they did not remember that they mett wth such a case since they say as a court, wherin their hath bine so much mallic(e) and bitterness of spirit...'" ["The English Origin of William Mead", citation details below.]

From History and Genealogy of the Mead Family by Spencer P. Mead, citation details below:

The following anecdote, which has been preserved by tradition, shows his character: One day when he was quite an old man, as he was going for his grist on horseback to the mill at Dumpling Pond, before he reached the Mianus River he overtook an old Quaker jogging slowly along, loaded with a heavy budget. In a real spirit of kindness he offered to take the Quaker's load upon his horse, and thus give him a lift on his journey. "No," replied the Quaker, "thee don't get my bundle, for I can read men's thoughts. Thee wants to get my bundle, and then thee'll run off. Thee don't get my bundle." "Very well," was the simple reply, and so they went slowly on together. At last they came to the brink of the Mianus River. Here the Quaker was really in trouble. How to cross a river, two or three feet deep, dry shod, was quite a puzzle. But he gladly accepted a second offer of assistance from the horseman. The bundle was mounted in front, John in the middle, and the Quaker behind. Arriving at the centre of the river, in pretending to adjust his stirrup John caught the Quaker by the heel and gave him a gratuitous bath. Such treatment was too much, even for Quaker forbearance, and the victim, with his hands full of pebbles, would have taken summary vengeance, had not the other party threatened to put the bundle under a similar course of treatment. This threat, and the lecture following it, gradually cooled off the Quaker's anger. John informed him that all had been done for his good, to teach him a lesson. And the lecturer said he hoped the stranger would never again profess to read men's thoughts. "For," said he, "I asked you to ride, kindly in the first place, when you refused; but at the second time of asking, I really intended to do as I have just done." So saying, and tossing the bundle back, he rode on, leaving his companion to apply the moral as he thought best.

John married Hannah Potter about 1656. Hannah (daughter of John Browne and Dorothy) was born on 9 Sep 1634 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died after 13 Nov 1700 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The model of Hannah Potter's origins shown here rests on some assumptions. John Brown of Watertown "is identified as the passenger on the Lyon because he was the only John Brown in Massachusetts Bay at this time, and because some other passengers on that ship also settled at Watertown." [The Great Migration] The ancestors shown for John Brown are those given by Mead Family Genealogy. It is not certain that the Hannah Potter who was in fact born to a John Brown (who may have been the 1632 immigrant) and his wife Dorothy was the Hannah Potter who later married John Mead. And while (as The Great Migration puts it) it's probable that William Potter of Watertown did in fact marry this same Dorothy after the death of John Brown, adopting her children and giving them his surname, much about this sequence of events is suppositional. William Potter did in fact sell his Watertown land in 1645 and move to Stamford. Concludes The Great Migration: "When [William Potter] wrote his will in 1685 the only relatives named were son-in-law John Mead (and his eleven children); there is no record for the marriage of this John Mead, but he and wife Hannah started having children about 1656, in which year Hannah [dau. of John Brown] would have been twenty-two."

Even if these assumptions turn out to false, TNH is also descended on a different line from Edmund Browne and Mary Cramphorne, given here as Hannah Potter's paternal grandparents.

Reassuringly, it's clear from The Great Migration that this William Potter is entirely unrelated to, and separate from, the William Potter who arrived in 1635 on the Abigail, was admitted to the New Haven church in 1641, and who, on 6 Jun 1662 at New Haven, was executed for bestiality.