Sarah (Howe) Mead (1741 - 1785)

Born 9 Jan 1741 in Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Jonas Mead — married 8 Dec 1779 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Descendants

Died 30 Mar 1785 at age 44 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA

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Biography

Origins

Sarah was born January 9, 1741, a daughter of Captain Isaac Howe and Keziah Mead.

Family

Married on December 8, 1779, as his 2nd, to Jonas Mead.^[1]

Children with Sarah Howe:^[1]

1. Noah b 1781
2. Mark (Rev.) b 1782^[2] mar Hannah, daughter of Zacheus Mead
3. Jonas (Deacon) b 1784 mar 1) Hannah, daughter of Nathaniel Hebbard; 2) Hannah, daughter of Jared Mead

Death and Legacy

Sarah died March 30, 1785

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Mead, Spencer P. 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. (Pages 240-49) New York: Knickerbocker, 1901, accessed online April 28, 2014.
2. ↑ The Mead genealogy misprints Mark's birth as 1762, but a census confirms he was born in the 1780s, as befits his parents' marriage date. "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHRS-VLC : 13 December 2017), Mark Mead in entry for Jonas Mead, 1860.

• findagrave
• Mead, Spencer Percival. Abstracts of Records and Tombstones of the Town of Greenwich (1913) Page 71
• Daniel Wait Howe, Howe Genealogies, NEHGS, Boston, 1929, Vol. 2, page 420