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William Mead

William Mead

Male Bef 1592 - Aft 1657  (> 65 years)

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  • Name William Mead 
    Birth Bef 27 Dec 1592  Watford, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Baptism 27 Dec 1592  Watford, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death Aft 19 Sep 1657  Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3
    Person ID I10461  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
    Last Modified 1 Mar 2020 

    Father Pricilla Mead,   b. Bef 22 Jul 1548, Watford, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 8 Aug 1606, Watford, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 58 years) 
    Mother Dorothy Grey   d. Bef 5 Feb 1634, Watford, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 11 Oct 1579  Watford, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F1624  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Philip   d. 19 Sep 1657, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Abt 1620  Watford, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
    +1. John Mead,   b. Abt 1628, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Feb 1699, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 71 years)
    +2. Martha Mead,   b. Abt 1630   d. Bef 20 Nov 1695, Westchester County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 65 years)
    Family ID F4193  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Sep 2015 

  • Photos
    TNH at the Mead memorial stone
    TNH at the Mead memorial stone
    TNH, 22 May 2020 (thus the pandemic facemask), at the Mead memorial stone at Tomac Cemetery, Old Greenwich, Connecticut. The only correct date on this stone is that of William Mead's arrival in the New World, 1635. Of course the heraldry is entirely fanciful; the Mead family was not armigerous.

  • Notes 
    • Arrived in Massachusetts 1635; in 1641, removed to Wethersfield, Connecticut and then to Stamford.

      His wife's death record calls her the wife of William Mead, not his widow, indicating that she died before he did.

  • Sources 
    1. [S398] Gordon L. Remington, "The English Origin of William Mead of Stamford, Connecticut." The American Genealogist 73:1, January 1998.

    2. [S399] The Settlers of the Beekman Patent by Frank J. Doherty. Ongoing multivolume series begun in 1990., year and place only.

    3. [S399] The Settlers of the Beekman Patent by Frank J. Doherty. Ongoing multivolume series begun in 1990., year only.