Martha Mead

Abt 1630 - Bef 1695  (~ 65 years)

• Name	Martha Mead  [1, 2]
  Birth	Abt 1630  [3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Bef 20 Nov 1695	Westchester County, New York   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I6444	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2020

  
  

  Father	William Mead,   b. Bef 27 Dec 1592, Watford, Hertfordshire, England d. Aft 19 Sep 1657, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut (Age > 65 years)
  Mother	Philip   d. 19 Sep 1657, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut
  Marriage	Abt 1620	Watford, Hertfordshire, England   [3]
  Family ID	F4193	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Richardson   d. Between 16 Nov 1679 and 24 Jul 1683, West Farms, Westchester, New York
  Marriage	Bef Jan 1654  [3, 5]
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Richardson,   b. Abt 1656   d. Between 9 Oct 1723 and 3 Jul 1725, West Farms, Westchester, New York (Age ~ 67 years)
  Family ID	F3718	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2020

  
  

• Notes

  "Her marriage is proven by a court case wherein she was accused of fornication, though not with her husband John Richardson, and of delivering a bastard child at the house of Joshua Hughes (i.e. Hewes) in Roxbury, Mass., in January 1653/4; the child died shortly after birth. Martha testified that she did not know the father of the child because she 'had bine abused in [a] fainting fitt.' Why she went to the house of Joshua Hewes is a matter for conjecture--he was also of a Hartfordshire family, though his place of origin (Royston) was not close to Watford." [Gordon L. Remington, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S402] Genealogy of a Branch of the Mead Family, With a History of the Family in England and in America and Appendixes of Rogers and Denton families, by Lucius E. Weaver. Rochester, New York, 1911. [S1416] Early Settlers of West Farms, Westchester County, N.Y., copied from the manuscript record of the late Rev. Theodore A. Leggett with additions by A. Hatfield, Jr. New York, 1913., first name only. [S398] Gordon L. Remington, "The English Origin of William Mead of Stamford, Connecticut." The American Genealogist 73:1, January 1998. [S1416] Early Settlers of West Farms, Westchester County, N.Y., copied from the manuscript record of the late Rev. Theodore A. Leggett with additions by A. Hatfield, Jr. New York, 1913. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015., says "by 1656".