"Mr. Meacham, with his wife and three children, came from Williamstown, Mass., either in the fall of 1779 or the spring of 1780, and built him a log-house on the west side of the road, a little south from where Myron D. Barnes resides. His fourth child, Esther Meacham, born Apr. 23, 1780, it is claimed was the first child born in the town.
"Mr. Meacham appears to have been an acquaintance and friend of Col. Lyon in Massachusetts, and he is said to have worked with Richard Beddow at nail-making in a shop which stood on the hill-side east of Mr. Kidder's barns. He was a poor man and had a large family, which necessitated assistance from the town and the apprenticeship of his eldest son, John, afterwards a merchant in Castleton, by the authorities of the town, during his minority. Mr. Meacham was one of the members of the first board of selectmen chosen at the organization of the town in Aug., 1783, and was one of the committee chosen by the citizens in Sep., 1784, to draw up a remonstrance against the doings of a County convention. He removed from Fair Haven to Galway, N.Y., in 1794, and thence to Benson in 1800, where he carried on a brick yard, and was so injured by the caving in of earth, he survived but one week, and died in 1808 or '9, aged 58 years. His children were Sarah, John, Rhoda, Esther, Jacob, Joel, James, Eliza, Isaac and Rebecca."
