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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Derivative sources.
- The descendents of this Thomas were taken from the gedcom file of T Patton Biddle
- The WFT #468 file also includes another daughter, Dorothy (b 1654) married to Richard Awbry.
- "Burgess' TX-MO" AFT:
1. has daughter Dorothy and son Thomas listed
2. Thomas born in Northumberland Co., VA
3. Thomas died 1660 in Lancaster Co., VA
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Meador, Daniel Burton. Genealogical Records of Some Members of the Meador Family.
from: Grants in Land Office, Virginia -
- from Sir William Berkeley, Knight, Governor of Virginia to Thomas Meader, 320 acres of land situated on the south side of Hoskins Creek toward the head thereof in the County of Rappahannock, with neighbors inc. John Gillet, John Gregory, for transportation of seven persons, dated 3 June 1663
- from Sir William Berkeley, Knight, Governor of Virginia, to Thomas Meader Orphan, 450 acres of land in Lancaster County on the South side of the head of Hoskins Creek, land first granted to Thomas Browning by patentent date 13 November 1657 and by him assigned to John Cooke and by Cooke assigned to Thomas Meader, Deceased and by his will given to the said Thomas Meader etc., dated 9 April 1664
- ↑ Land Grants - John and Thomas Meador, June Bork, 18 Feb 2001, in RootsWeb Archiver, MEADOWS > 2001-02 > 0982507632
accessed 23 Sep 2014.
>From "Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, , Vol. 2: 1666-1695," Virginia State Library, Richmond, Va, 1977:
"Beginning on South side of the old Beverday Southwest, near an Indian path; to a small island & etc.,
450 acres granted Thomas Browning, 30 Nov 1657;
assigned to John Cook, 4 May 1659;
assigned to THOMAS MEDORS, 7 Aug 1659; & granted him 9 April 1664;
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Meador, Victor P. (Victor Paul). Meador families of Virginia : and points west. (Independence, Missouri: V.P. Meador, c1989).
- Thomas Meador, son of Thomas Meads, b. ca 1635-8, Virginia
- 5 March 1654 - Will of Thomas Meads: I do give to my two sons Tho. & John Meads all the land that is on the west side of the Creek provided that they pay unto my two Daughters Margaret & Joyce out of the s. land two thousand pounds of tob. & cask at their day of marriage, and in case either of the[m] die that the sd. tob. to belong to the survivor.
- Thomas Meador died by April 1662, VA
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Meador, Victor P. (Victor Paul), and Bernal M. Meador. Our Meador families in colonial America: as found in the records of Isle of Wight, Lancaster, (old) Rappahannock, Richmond, Essex and Caroline Counties, Virginia. (Independence, Missouri: V.P. Meador, 1983).
Thomas Meador was able to make a deed in 1658 (at least age 21), so would have been born by 1636 or 1637
- 1658 sold 25 acres of land, "part of the land given unto me by my father, Thomas Meades deceased, and to my brother [name missing]." Thomas' signature was a unique mark, a cross with barred ends, not found anywhere else in records
- the grant of land for 450 acres (originally made to Thomas Browning in 1657, assigned to John Cook in 1659, assigned to Thomas Mead(or)s in 1659 and granted 1664) remained in the Meador family for several generations - passing to Thomas Mead's grandson John, his son Richard, then to his son William, confirming the family lineage.
- Hanks, Patrick (editor). Dictionary of American family names. (New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).
Meader Name Meaning
topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow, from Mead 1 + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant. occupational name for a brewer or seller of mead, Middle English med(i)er (see Mead 2).
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