OF THE MEAD FAMILY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT FROM A.D. 1180 TO 1900 BY SPENCER P. MEAD, LL.B. MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK BAR, SONS OF THE REVOLUTION, AND PREFACE. N compiling the present volume, the author feels a deep sense of appreciation and gratitude to the late Rev. J. H. H. DeMille for the extensive researches made and the data collected by him concerning the Mead family, not only in this country, but also abroad, from which he has secured much valuable information, especially the genealogy, in the compilation of which the Rev. Mr. DeMille spent upwards of twenty years of his life, and this volume is published to perpetuate his memory among the different members of the family. The author has also made reference to the History of the Norman People, published by King & Co., London, England; History of Essex County, England, by Thomas Wright, Esq., of Trinity College, Cambridge, England; Old Colonial Records at Fairfield, Connecticut; History of Dorchester, Massachusetts; Huntington's History of Stamford, Connecticut; Mead's History of Greenwich, Connecticut; Colonial Records of the New Haven Colony; Trumbull's Colonial Records of Connecticut; Hoadley's Colonial Records of Connecticut; Hurd's History of Fairfield County, Connecticut; Beer's History of Fairfield County, Connecticut; Military and Naval Service of Connecticut Men, by Johnson; Scharf's History of Westchester County, New York; Bolton's History of Westchester County, New York; Larned's History for Ready Reference; History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania; Colonial and Revolutionary articles published in the Greenwich Graphic, Greenwich, Connecticut (1897-1898), and the Tribune-Republican, Meadville, Pennsylvania (in 1888); publications of the New York Historical Society; publications authorized by the General Assemblies of the States of Connecticut, New York, Vermont, and Pennsylvania; New York in the Revolutionary War, by the Board of Regents of the State of New York, and by the Hon. Jas. A. Roberts, Comptroller; History of the Tenth Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, by Brevet Brigadier-General John L. Otis; Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia, by Bishop Meade; Hugh's American Ancestry, and Burke's Armory; and has made extensive researches himself at the State Library at Hartford, Connecticut; Greenwich Library, Greenwich, Connecticut; the Astor and Lenox Libraries, and the Historical Society, New York City. He is especially indebted to the secretaries of the Society of Colonial Wars, and the Sons of the Revolution, for the many courtesies extended and valuable data furnished by them. In collecting data for the present volume the author has in every instance selected the most reliable authorities and the best authenticated records and has endeavored to set forth a true statement of the facts as they existed in early days; but as there exists among the different branches of the family various traditions as to the progenitor of the family in this country and his immediate descendants, and as those traditions are at variance with historical facts, it is to be hoped that the family will not be too severe in their criticisms on learning that many of those traditions are mere fiction. NEW YORK, November 12, 1901. IV. THE FAMILY IN NEW YORK STATE-DUTCHESS, SARA- LAWRENCE COUNTIES V. THE FAMILY IN VERMONT and St. Lawrence County, VII. THE FAMILY IN MILITARY AND CIVIL AFFAIRS DURING XI. THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865 XII. THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, 1898 XIII. IN MEMORIAM GENEALOGY. INDEX TO HISTORY INDEX TO INTERMARRIAGES 26 |