Person talk:William Mead (1)

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ADDITIONAL MEAD FAMILY COMPILED RECORDS:

Hurd, D. Hamilton. History of Fairfield County, Connecticut. Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co. (1881), p. 396-398. This biography was originally published in 1881 (see above) and does not constitute "proof" of authentic historical fact or early Greenwich, CT or Mead family history.

Mead, Spencer Percival. History and Genealogy of the Mead Family: of Fairfield County, Connecticut … New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1901.

Draper, Cecil Mead. Jonathan Mead of Rensselaerwyk and some of his descendants. With a shorter sketch of a single line of Williams, Mass., Conn. New York. Denver: 1972.

Feltus, Louise Celestia (Mead).Our Two Centuries in Greenwich Conn., 1728-1924. Troy, NY.: R.H. Prout and Co., 1948. .

Parker, C.E. The Mead family of Connecticut. Santa Ana, CA: 1968.

The above sources should be treated with caution.

IMMIGRATION: William and his family sailed in April 1635 from the Kent port of Lydd on the Elizabeth, under Captain Stagg. They settled first in Wethersfield, Conn, and then moved in 1641 to Stamford, where William was granted a home lot and five acres of land. William is the ancestor of the Mead family of Connecticut, New York, Vermont and Meadville, Pennsylvania.

Gordon Remington's 1998 Article contradicts the above origin for the immigrant although he did appear in Stamford in 1641.--jaques1724 03:36, 22 February 2021 (UTC)