Jeremiah Meacham

Abt 1613 - 1695  (~ 82 years)

• Name	Jeremiah Meacham  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1613	England   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	Between 12 Apr 1694 and 18 Nov 1695	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts   [2]
  Death	11 Nov 1695	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts   [3, 4, 5]
  Person ID	I17462	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of BAM, Ancestor of BJS
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2021

  
  

  Family 1	Margaret   d. Aft 16 Apr 1679, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
  Children	+ 1. Capt. Isaac Meacham,   b. Abt 1642   d. 29 Apr 1715, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut (Age ~ 73 years) + 2. Jeremiah Meacham,   b. Abt 1644   d. 14 Apr 1743, Windham, Windham, Connecticut (Age ~ 99 years)
  Family ID	F10718	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 May 2020

  
  

  Family 2	Alice Dutch   d. Bef 4 May 1704, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts
  Marriage	Aft 1684  [2]
  Family ID	F21520	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2021

  
  

• Notes

  He was a weaver. First seen in Salem, then Southhold, Long Island, then in East Hampton by 1653, where he was constable in 1661. Moved back to Salem, Massachusetts in 1667 or 1668. Possibly a son of Ambrose Meacham of Crewkerne, Somerset, whose 1613 will names a son "Jere:" who is unmentioned in any subsequent records.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1331] The Ancestry of Nicholas Davis, 1753-1832, of Limington, Maine by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Anthoensen Press, 1956. [S2280] The Granberry Family and Allied Families, Including the Ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry based on data compiled by and for Edgar Francis Waterman and compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus. Hartford, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman, 1945. [S3296] Mary Lovering Holman, "The Correct Ancestry of Jemima Meacham." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 69:32, Jan 1938. [S3295] James W. Greene, "The Meacham Family of Early Colonial Times." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 65:107, Apr 1934; 65:205, Jul 1934; 65:380, Oct 1934; 66:32, Jan 1935. [S3310] Family Book of Remembrance, with Allied Lines by Leonidas DeVon Mecham. Salt Lake City, 1952.