John Mead

Abt 1658 - 1693  (~ 35 years)

• Name	John Mead
  Alternate birth	Abt 1657  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1658	Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	1691  [6]
  Death	12 May 1693	Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut   [1, 7, 8, 9, 10]
  Siblings	2 siblings
  + 1. John Mead ,   b. Abt 1658, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut d. 12 May 1693, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut  (Age ~ 35 years) ▻ Ruth Hardy ,  m. 27 Oct 1681 + 2. Ebenezer Mead ,   b. 1663, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut d. 1728, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut  (Age 65 years) ▻ Sarah Knapp ,  m. 1691 + 3. David Mead ,   b. Abt 1665, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut d. Feb 1727, Bedford, Westchester, New York  (Age ~ 62 years) ▻ Abigail Leane ,  m. 16 Dec 1707
  Person ID	I6463	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2021

  
  

  Father	John Mead,   b. Abt 1628, England d. 5 Feb 1699, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut (Age ~ 71 years)
  Mother	Hannah Potter,   b. 9 Sep 1634, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. Aft 13 Nov 1700, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut (Age > 66 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1656  [6, 10]
  Family ID	F757	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ruth Hardy,   b. 18 Nov 1660, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut d. Bef 20 Nov 1727, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut (Age < 67 years)
  Marriage	27 Oct 1681	Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut   [1, 3, 4, 11, 12, 13]
  Notes	Their marriage on 27 Oct 1681 is the earliest surviving vital record of Greenwich
  Children	+ 1. Jonathan Mead,   b. 1684, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut d. Nine Partners, Dutchess, New York
  Family ID	F1081	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2021

  
  

• 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]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1112] Paul W. Prindle, "Some Early Finch-Mead Problems." The American Genealogist 48:93, April 1972. [S397] History and Genealogy of the Mead Family of Fairfield County, Connecticut, Eastern New York, Western Vermont, and Western Pennsylvania from A.D. 1180 to 1900 by Spencer P. Mead. New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1901. [S399] The Settlers of the Beekman Patent by Frank J. Doherty. Ongoing multivolume series begun in 1990., year only. [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., year only. [S5951] Mead-Clark Genealogy by Eva Mead Firestone. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1946., year only. [S399] The Settlers of the Beekman Patent by Frank J. Doherty. Ongoing multivolume series begun in 1990. [S397] History and Genealogy of the Mead Family of Fairfield County, Connecticut, Eastern New York, Western Vermont, and Western Pennsylvania from A.D. 1180 to 1900 by Spencer P. Mead. New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1901., date only. [S396] Belnap Family Organization. [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., date only. [S5951] Mead-Clark Genealogy by Eva Mead Firestone. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1946. [S397] History and Genealogy of the Mead Family of Fairfield County, Connecticut, Eastern New York, Western Vermont, and Western Pennsylvania from A.D. 1180 to 1900 by Spencer P. Mead. New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1901., year only. [S396] Belnap Family Organization., "Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut". [S5951] Mead-Clark Genealogy by Eva Mead Firestone. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1946., year and place only.