Family History - Person Sheet
Family History - Person Sheet
Notes for William Mead
The source notes,
In 1635 there arrived in Massachusetts many ships with passengers from England, and among these arrivals is found the name of Goodman Mead (called Gabriel Mead), who was born in 1587, and died March 12, 1666, aged 79 years. He was probably married twice, his second wife being Johanna, the daughter of James Bates. The latter was born in 1582, and died in 1655. He sailed from Lydd, County Kent, England, in the ship Elizabeth in April 1635. Captain Stagg, and it is supposed his son-in-law, Goodman Mead, was in the same vessel. Richard Bates (son) lived at Lydd, CountyKent, England, from whence the family is supposed to have come.
Gabriel (or Goodman) Mead left surviving him his widow, Johanna, and the following children: Israel, born in 1637, David, Lydia, Experience, Sarah, and Patience.
Recent researched seem to indicate that William Mead, the ancestor of the Fairfield County and the Greenwich, Connecticut, Meads, was a brother of Gabriel (or Goodman) Mead, and that they both came from England on the same ship, Elizabeth, April, 1635; furthermore the coats of arms of the two are identical.
Goodman Mead remained in Massachusetts and is the ancestor of the Massachusetts Meads. William, however, followed the tide of emigration, which at that time was toward the Connecticut Valley. The first English settlement of Connecticut was made at Windsor in October, 1633, and another settlement was made at Wethersfield soon after where William probably first settled, and in 1641, he removed to Stamford with several others from Wethersfield.639
In 1635 there arrived in Massachusetts many ships with passengers from England, and among these arrivals is found the name of Goodman Mead (called Gabriel Mead), who was born in 1587, and died March 12, 1666, aged 79 years. He was probably married twice, his second wife being Johanna, the daughter of James Bates. The latter was born in 1582, and died in 1655. He sailed from Lydd, County Kent, England, in the ship Elizabeth in April 1635. Captain Stagg, and it is supposed his son-in-law, Goodman Mead, was in the same vessel. Richard Bates (son) lived at Lydd, CountyKent, England, from whence the family is supposed to have come.
Gabriel (or Goodman) Mead left surviving him his widow, Johanna, and the following children: Israel, born in 1637, David, Lydia, Experience, Sarah, and Patience.
Recent researched seem to indicate that William Mead, the ancestor of the Fairfield County and the Greenwich, Connecticut, Meads, was a brother of Gabriel (or Goodman) Mead, and that they both came from England on the same ship, Elizabeth, April, 1635; furthermore the coats of arms of the two are identical.
Goodman Mead remained in Massachusetts and is the ancestor of the Massachusetts Meads. William, however, followed the tide of emigration, which at that time was toward the Connecticut Valley. The first English settlement of Connecticut was made at Windsor in October, 1633, and another settlement was made at Wethersfield soon after where William probably first settled, and in 1641, he removed to Stamford with several others from Wethersfield.639