Abner Mead (abt. 1747 - abt. 1815)

Born about 1747 in Fairfield County, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Mercy (Hazen) Mead — married about 1770 in Frederickstown, Dutchess County, New York [uncertain]

Descendants

Died about 1815 at about age 68 in Roxbury, Delaware County, New York, United States

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Biography

Abner Mead

Disputed Parents

Please see G2G question for further discussion of the question.

According to Doherty, Abner was a son of Amos Mead and Mary (____). Abner was in Connecticut a short time, as the family removed to what is now Putnam County, New York, and then to Dutchess County, New York by 1750.^[1]

According to Tracy E. Hazen and Donald Lines Jacobus, Abner was married to Mercy Hazen and was a son of Amos Mead.^[2]

According to Ann S. Lainhart and Jane F. Fiske, Abner's father was Silas and his mother as Sarah. History of the town of Greenwich by Daniel Mead and CT town records both indicate that Silas's wife was Mary. Sarah was too young to be Silas' wife and Caleb's mother.^[3]

Origins

Abner was born ca 1747 at Fairfield County, Connecticut.^[1]

Residence

Abner was taxed from 1770 to 1779 at Southern and Fredericksburgh Precincts.^[1] This was about forty miles from his place of birth.

Marriage

Abner married in ca 1767, possibly at Southern, Dutchess County, New York to Mercy Hazen, (born 1747 Carmel, Putnam, NY she died 1819 Middletown, NY).^[1][2]

Children:^[1]

1. Sarah mar David White
2. Amos
3. Ruth
4. David
5. Caleb
6. James
7. Martha
8. Eli (AKA Levi) b May 3, 1791 mar Juda Jenkins (daughter of Nathaniel Jenkins and Elizabeth Robinson)
9. Eleazer b 1793, Frederickstown, NY, mar Elizabeth Parker

Revolutionary War Service

Private Abner Mead served with 7th Regiment, Dutchess County Militia, New York Militia during the American Revolution.

Abner Mead is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A076624.

Abner served as a private under Captain Hezekiah Mead and Colonel Henry Ludington. He also served in the Seventh Regiment, Dutchess County, New York Militia.^[4]

Death and Legacy

Abner died ca 1815 at Roxbury, Delaware County, New York, USA.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Doherty, Frank J., The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, V.1-8 : The Mead Family (Vol 8, Page 725) New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors, accessed 8 March 2016.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Hazen, Tracy Elliot., and Jacobus, Donald L., The Hazen family in America, a genealogy (Page 100) Thomaston, Conn., R. Hazen 1947., accessed online July 15, 2014
3. ↑ Ann Smith Lainhart & Jane Fletcher Fiske FASG, Compilers, Mayflower Families Thourgh Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in December 1620, volume twenty-three part three (Plymouth Massachusetts 02360: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2012), pg. 153.
4. ↑ Roberts, James A., New York in the revolution as colony and state. These records were discovered, arranged and classified by comptroller, in 1897. (Page 150) Albany: Weed-Parsons, 1897, Web accessed July 16, 2014

• "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKP-9CB : accessed 23 April 2021), Abner Mead, Fredericksontown, Dutchess, New York, United States; citing p. 14, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 6; FHL microfilm 568,146.

• WikiTree profile Mead-864 created through the import of Michael Robbins GEDCOM.ged on Nov 9, 2011 by Michael Robbins.