Rebecca
Mead
Born in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut
Ancestors 
Daughter of Caleb Mead
and Hannah (Rundle) Mead
Sister of
Caleb Mead, Hannah Mead, Stephen Mead, Deborah Mead, Elkanah Mead, Jonah Mead, Mary (Mead) Reynolds, Abel Mead, Zadock Mead and Jemima Mead
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 31
in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 29 Apr 2015
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Biography
Rebecca Mead was born on February 18, 1744 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut. Her parents were Caleb Mead and Hannah Rundle.
Rebecca married Nathaniel Reynolds and together they had 3 children: Nathaniel Reynolds, Jr 7 Sep 1772 - 4 Apr 1838 m. Elizabeth Banks Zadock Reynolds 6 Feb 1774 - 25 Aug 1805 Rebecca Reynolds 4 Jul 1776 -13 Nov 1846
She died on July 15, 1776 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut. [1]
Research Notes
Spencer gives a death date of 6 Jun 1822, but that is actually the date of her husband's death.
Sources
- ↑ Familysearch:Hale Collection, Cemetery inscriptions of Goshen, Granby and Greenwich. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89F5-37SD?i=525
- 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.Spencer Mead New York: Knickerbocker, 1901, pg 275 https://archive.org/details/historyandgenea00meadgoog/page/274/mode/2up?
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rebecca by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rebecca:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rebecca by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rebecca:
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~0.78%
Carol (Mead) Walsh
:
23andMe
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~0.78%
James Kitchen :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T984290 [compare], FTDNA kit #193185
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Rejected matches › Rebecca J. Mead
Rebecca is 13 degrees from Maria Mitchell, 24 degrees from Carl Sagan, 17 degrees from Tycho Brahe, 28 degrees from Nicholaus Copernicus, 23 degrees from Eise Eisinga, 19 degrees from Caroline Lucretia Herschel, 22 degrees from Thomas Maclear, 12 degrees from Simon Newcomb, 15 degrees from Isaac Newton, 24 degrees from Pierre Henri Puiseux, 19 degrees from Beatrice Tinsley and 14 degrees from Edith Woodward on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.