Ebenezer Mead (1663 - 1728)

Born 1663 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Knapp) Mead — married 1691 in Stamford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut

Descendants

Died 1728 at about age 65 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Biography

This profile is part of the Mead Name Study.

Ebenezer Mead (John, William) was born about 1663.^[1] He was a son of John Mead and Hannah Potter.^[1] Ebenezer inherited from his father "a persale of meadow in ye Hosack Meadow estimated two acres and a half."^[1]

Ebenezer Mead was born in Greenwich in 1663, the fourth child of John Mead and Hannah Potter (or Browne).

The first time he appears in the records is in 1684, when he was granted a home lot in Greenwich. In 1686 he bought almost the last acre of land still owned by the Indians in the town of Greenwich. The land was at the mouth of the Mianus River, on the western bank. He appears on a list of landowners of May 1688.

In 1691, he married Sarah Knapp, the daughter of Caleb Knapp. They had nine children: Ebenezer, Caleb, Sarah, Hannah, Jabez, David, Abigail, Susanna, and Jemima.

On a tax list for the town of Greenwich in 1697, his taxable property was worth £103 and 10 shillings, the highest value of any Mead's and the 6th highest in the town.

In 1696 Ebenezer Mead was appointed by the town to keep "a place of public entertainment for man and beast." The old tavern stood on the same site for nearly two hundred years. On September 27, 1700, Ebenezer Mead "manifested his desire to lay down his keeping of a house of publick entertainment" and Robert Lockwood look his place.

Ebenezer actively took part in the public life of the town of Greenwich. He was the Justice of the Peace for Fairfield County in 1703, 1705 to 1709, and 1714 to 1728, and was a deputy to the assembly for Greenwich eleven times between 1694 and 1716.

Family

In 1691, he married Sarah Knapp of Stamford in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut.^[2][1]

They had nine children:^[3]

1. Ebenezer Mead II b October 25, 1692
2. Caleb Mead b 1694
3. Sarah b 1696
4. Hannah Mead b 1698
5. Jabez Mead b 1700
6. David b 1702
7. Abigail Mead b 1704
8. Susanna Mead b 1706
9. Jemima Mead b 1708; m Moses Knapp

He died in 1728.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Doherty, Frank J., The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, V. 8 "The Mead Family" New England Historic Genealogical Society, AmericanAncestors.org accessed 12 June 2016 (Vol 8, Page 698).
2. ↑ Yates Publishing U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900|U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} 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. (Page 222) New York: Knickerbocker, 1901, Web accessed May 22, 2014

• Mead, Spencer Percival. Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich (Knickerbocker Press, Greenwich, Conn., 1911), page 589