Person:Jeremiah Mead (4)

Watchers
m. 1753
  1. Jeremiah Mead1754 - 1840
m. 17 Feb 1779
  1. Rachel Mead1780 -
  2. Polly Mead1781 -
m. 6 Oct 1784
Facts and Events
Name Jeremiah Mead
Gender Male
Birth[1] 2 Nov 1754 Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Reference Number 31240
Martha St. John
Marriage 17 Feb 1779 Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United Statesto Rachel Smith
Marriage 6 Oct 1784 Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States[3rd wife]
to Betty Whitney
Death[1] 24 Nov 1840 Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Phœnix, S. Whitney (Stephen Whitney), and D. Williams (David Williams) Patterson. The Whitney Family of Connecticut and Its Affiliations: Being an Attempt to Trace the Descendants, as Well in the Female as the Male Lines, of Henry Whitney, from 1649 to 1878; to Which is Prefixed Some Account of the Whitneys of England. (New York: Privately Printed by Bradstreet Press, 1878)
    56, 115.

    I. Betty Whitney, b. in Ridgefield, Conn., 30 Ap. 1756; married, 6 Oct. 1784, in Ridgefield, as his third wife, Jeremiah Mead, a shoemaker, son of Jeremiah and Joanna (Scribner) Mead, of Ridgefield, where he was born 2 Nov. 1754. They settled in West Lane, Ridgefield, and died there; she, 11 May 1832; he, 24 Nov. 1840. They were buried in Titicus Cemetery, where her gravestone calls her age 77 years and 11 days.

    His first wife was ___ St John  ; his second marriage was with Rachel Smith, of whom we shall give an account at number 421. ...

    ... He served as a private in the Revolutionary War.