Abraham Mead appears in the 1810 Census with his wife Susannah Preston, sons Henry & Jesse, and daughters Farinda and Catherine. The census establishes his birth between 1765 and 1784. Presuming he was married and at least age 20 by the time his son Henry was born, we can presume he was born between 1765 and 1780.
Name: Abraham Mead
Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Knox, Kentucky
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 2 b 1800-1810 (Henry b 1801, Jesse b 1803)
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44 : 1 b 1765-1784 (Abraham Mead)
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 3 b 1800-1810 (Farinda b 1808, Catherine b 1810)
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1 b 1784-1794 (Susanna Preston)
The Johnson County Kentucky history describes the Moses Preston family and cites his daughter Susan as the wife of Abraham Meade.
Abraham died before Feb 1825 per Lawrence County Court Record Book 5 page 144, at which time Susan Mead was allowed 100 acres of land agreeable to an act passed by the General Assembly for the benefit of poor widows.
Reid, Mary Ellen Beulah Greene, Stephanie A. Adkins, compilers. Lawrence County, KY Cemeteries Volume 3. Louisa, Kentucky: n.p., 1997
Hall, Mitchel. Johnson County, Kentucky: a history of the county, and genealogy of its people up to the year 1927. 1928. Digital images. Ancestry.com. p 378-379, Moses Preston Sr genealogy.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Abraham by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Abraham: