Born in Falls Village, Canaan, Litchfield, Connecticut
Ancestors 
Daughter of Stephen Mead
and Mary (White) Mead
Sister of
Stephen Mead, Timothy Mead, Polly Mead, Jane Mead, Hannah (Mead) Hopkins, Sarah (Mead) Hopkins and Mercy (Mead) Hopkins
Wife of
Ebenezer Hopkins
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Josiah D Hopkins and Ebenezer Hopkins Jr.
Died
at age 82
in Welshfield, Geauga County, Ohio, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 16 Feb 2014
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Biography
Rachel was born around 1767. Birth date is an estimate based on younger sibling's birth date and Rachel's marriage date. Daughter of Stephen Mead (1734 - 1820) and Mary White Mead (1737 - 1800)
Family
Rachel married Ebenezer Hopkins on December 2, 1783.[1] They had eight children:[1]
- Josiah D. D. (Rev) b 1786
- Ebenezer b 1787
- Sarah b 1789
- Charlotte b 1790
- Achsah b 1792
- Minerva b 1794
- Matthew b 1796
- Timothy M. (Rev) b 1800
Sources
- ↑ 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. New York: Knickerbocker, 1901, accessed online January, 20, 2014.
- Anderson, Robert C., Great Migration Study Project, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to N.E. 1620-1633 Vols I-III, (Page 669) accessed online at New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors, 12/22/2013.
- Beekman Patent, The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vols. 1-8 [Dutchess Co., NY] "The Mead Family" (Vol 8, Pages 697-738 ) New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors, found online and accessed December, 2013.
- Connecticut Vital Records to 1870 (The Barbour Collection) accessed online at New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors, January 29,2014.
- Dilley, Butler F. Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Chautauqua County New York: 1891, accessed online December 30, 2013.
- Hurd, D Hamilton, History of Fairfield county, Connecticut, J. W. Lewis & co., Philadelphia 1881, accessed online December 30, 2013.
- Mead, Daniel M. A history of the town of Greenwich, Fairfield county, Conn., with many important statistics. New York : Baker & Godwin, 1857, accessed online December 30, 2013.
- Todd, Charles, B. The history of Redding, Connecticut, from its first settlement to the present time New York, the Grafton Press, 1906, accessed online January 20, 2014
- Weaver, Lucius E. Genealogy of a branch of the Mead family with a history of the family in England and in America and appendixes of Rogers and Denton families. Rochester, New York: 1911
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Rachel:
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