David Mead

Abt 1665 - 1727  (~ 62 years)

• Name	David Mead  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1665	Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	1670	Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut   [3]
  Death	Feb 1727	Bedford, Westchester, New York   [3, 4]
  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	I7273	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	17 Sep 2018

  
  

  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  [1, 5]
  Family ID	F757	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Abigail Leane,   b. Abt 1670, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut
  Marriage	16 Dec 1707	Bedford, Westchester, New York   [2]
  Children	1. Abigail Mead,   b. 17 Jul 1710, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut
  Family ID	F3389	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Jul 2015

  
  

• 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.]

  
  

• Sources

  [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. [S396] Belnap Family Organization. [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., month and year only. [S5951] Mead-Clark Genealogy by Eva Mead Firestone. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1946.