William Mead

Bef 1592 - Aft 1657  (> 65 years)

• Name	William Mead
  Birth	Bef 27 Dec 1592	Watford, Hertfordshire, England   [1, 2]
  Baptism	27 Dec 1592	Watford, Hertfordshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 19 Sep 1657	Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut   [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 d. Bef 8 Aug 1606, Watford, Hertfordshire, England (Age < 58 years)
  Mother	Dorothy Grey   d. Bef 5 Feb 1634, Watford, Hertfordshire, England
  Marriage	11 Oct 1579	Watford, Hertfordshire, England   [1]
  Family ID	F1624	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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

  
  

• Photos

  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

  [S398] Gordon L. Remington, "The English Origin of William Mead of Stamford, Connecticut." The American Genealogist 73:1, January 1998. [S399] The Settlers of the Beekman Patent by Frank J. Doherty. Ongoing multivolume series begun in 1990., year and place only. [S399] The Settlers of the Beekman Patent by Frank J. Doherty. Ongoing multivolume series begun in 1990., year only.