|
|
Facts and Events
Confusing Parentage
There were two contemporary Matthew Meads, almost identical in age, and both in Fairfield County, CT:
1. The Matthew Mead who married Phebe Whelpley was son of Jeremiah Mead and Hannah St. John, b 20 Aug 1736 Norwalk, CT. Sources:
- St. John Genealogy.
- The Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, CT.
- Joseph Mead, inventory taken 9 Apr 1714, Filed 5 Aug 1720, page 311, from an Abstract of Probate Records at Fairfield, County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut, by Spencer P. Mead, L.L.B. Volume 5, 1702-1750. Page 197.
- Spencer P. Mead, LL.B., 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 (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1901). Page 84: Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Mead... his father was Jeremiah and his mother was Hannah St. John, of Norwalk, Connecticut. He was born in Norwalk, August 20, 1736, and married February 1760, Phebe Whelpley, and died February 26, 1816. He enlisted in the army September 8, 1755, as private in Captain Samuel Hanford's company, French and Indian War, served in the expedition against Crown Point; in 1758 was commissioned Quarter master of the fourth regiment in the expedition against Crown Point and Ticonderoga... At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, he received a commission as Captain in the fifth regiment of Connecticut... See also p. 145. This is the descendancy line of JOSEPH MEAD.]
2. The Matthew Mead who married Mary Bush was son of John Mead and Elizabeth Lockwood, b. abt 1734; d. 1811; m abt 1759. See History and Genealogy of the Mead Family, chapter on JOHN MEAD.
.
|
|
