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Descendants of William Mead
			
	1  	William Mead	
.		+?elizabeth	- 1747
........	2  	Robert Mead	
........	2  	Rachel Mead	
............		+William Carter	1707 -
........	2  	Sarah Mead	
............		+Richard van Blunk	
........	2  	John Mead	1700 - 1754
............		+Mary Abrell	
...................	3  	Abrell Mead	
...................	3  	William Mead	1727 - 1805
.......................		+Ann Haile	1732 - 1769
...................		*2nd Wife of William Mead:	
.......................		+Martha Cowles	1749 - 1804
...................	3  	Robert Mead	1743 - 1825
.......................		+Hannah Rhodes	1750 -
..............................	4  	Samuel Mead	1769 - 1828
..................................		+Catherine (Gutbrodt) Goodbread	1772 - 1850
..............................	4  	John Mead	1770 -
..............................	4  	Benjamin Mead	1772 - 1821
..................................		+Elizabeth Brown	1773 - 1851
..............................	4  	Reuben Mead	1774 -
..............................	4  	William Mead	1775 -
..................................		+Elizabeth "Betsy"	
..............................	4  	Robert Mead	1775 -
..............................	4  	Abagail Mead	1778 -
..............................	4  	Rhodes J. Mead	1780 - 1843
..................................		+Priscilla Newlon	1781 - 1865
..............................	4  	Edy Mead	1784 -
..................................		+Christopher Toler	1770 -
..............................	4  	Moses Mead	1787 - 1864
..................................		+Mary "Polly" Hackworth	1793 -
..............................	4  	Eli Mead	1788 -
..................................		+Priscilla (Siller) Akers	
..............................	4  	Matilda (Mattie) Mead	1793 - 1846
..................................		+Soloman (Acres) Akers	1785 - 1876
..............................	4  	Kate (Kitta) Mead	1795 -
..................................		+Jonothan Akers	1788 -
........	2  	Samuel Mead	1708 - 1787
............		+Mary Downey	1715/16 -
........		*2nd Wife of Samuel Mead:	
............		+Margaret Mead	
........	2  	William Mead	1708 - 1784
............		+Ellen Worrell	1712 - 1787
........	2  	Pleasant Mead	1716/17 - 1787
............		+William Satterthwaite	1709 - 1787




Report on Descendants of William Mead


Generation No. 1

1.  WILLIAM1 MEAD.  He married ?ELIZABETH.

Notes for WILLIAM MEAD:
WILLIAM MEAD IS THE FIRST KNOWN FOREFATHER OF OUR MEAD FAMILY.
THERE ARE MANY AGE APPROPRIATE WILLIAM MEADS IN THE DESIGNATED AREA T HAT
MAY BE THE IDENTIFIED FOREFATHER:THE WILLIAM MEAD OF CECIL COUNTY, MA RYLAND, WHO SIGNED MANY MARYLAND GOVERNMENT MEMORANDUM OR THE WILLIA M MEAD OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA; WILLIAM,WHO IN 1693 WAS NOTE D IN THE LIST OF PERSONAL TAX RATEABLES AND FOR WHOM JOHN CHILDE PAI D 6 SHILLINGS; OR MORE SPECIFICALLY, THE WILLIAM MEAD WHO APPEARS I N BUCKS COUNTY SIGNING DEEDS WITH HIS MARK.
THE MEAD FAMILY HISTORY REPORTS A STRONG LINK EXISTS BETWEEN WILLIA M MEAD (1628-1713) AND WILLIAM PENN WHO WERE TWO DISTINGUISHED MEMBER S OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS IN ENGLAND WHO WERE INSULTED BY THE COUR T AND ARRESTED FOR THE CRIME OF BEING NONCONFORMISTS IN 1670. THE FOR EFATHERS OF THE SOULBURY, BUCKS, ENGLAND, WILLIAM MEAD, WHOSE FOREFAT HERS  SETTLED IN ESSEX IN THE REIGN OF WILLIAM VI, MARRIED SARAH FELL , STEPDAUGHTER OF GEORGE FOX, THE
FOUNDERS OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. SINCE WILLIAM AND SARAH HAD ONL Y ONE SURVIVING SON OF THE CORRECT AGE, NATHANIEL, IT DOES NOT APPEA R THERE IS A DIRECT CONNECTION WITH OUR FAMILY.
IN THE LATE 1800'S IS WAS REPORTED THAT OUR WILLIAM WAS RELATED TO MA TTHEW MEAD, A PROMINENT NONCONFORMIST MINISTER.  MATTHEW MEAD WAS EJE CTED FROM THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND FOR LIBERAL IDEAS.  IN 1663, HE WAS A PPREHENDED ON SUSPICIAN OF COMPLICITY IN THE RYE HOUSE REBELLION.  H E WAS CHARGED BUT WAS ABLE TO DEFEND HIMSELF SO THE CHARGES WERE DROP PED.  EITHER THE CONVENTICLE ACT OR THE FIVE MILES ACT WHICH CAME INT O OPERATION IN 1666, DROVE HIM TO HOLLAND.  IN 1669, HE RETURNED AN D WAS ASKED TO USE HIS GIFTS AS ASSISTANT TO GREENHILL AT THE STEPNE Y CHURCH IN LONDON.  MATTHEW MARRIED ELIZABETH WALTON IN ST. MARY WOO LNOTH CHURCH IN LONDON ON JANUARY 3, 1654. HE WAS LISTED FROM SOLBER , BUCKS AND ELIZABETH FROM ALLHALLOWS, LOMBARD STREET.  THEY BECAME T HE PARENTS OF FIFTEEN CHILDREN; WILLIAM BORN 18 DAY OF FIRST MONTH 16 58; REBECCA CHRISTENED 1 OCT 1660; RICHARD, CHRS. 22 AUG. 1673; JAME S BORN 23 APR. 1675 AND ELIZABETH, BORN 5 JAN. 1679. ALL RECORDED I N BULL LANE INDEPENDENT CHURCH, STEPNEY, LONDON, ENGLAND.
OTHER POSSIBLE LINKS OF HERITAGE ARE:WILLIAM MEADE OF MIDDLESEX CO. , AGE 27, WHO WAS ASSIGNED TO JOHN SMITH OF LONDON, MERCHANT, GOING T O VIRGINIA FOR 4 YEARS "BOUND".  HE LEFT ON THE "MARY" UNDER CAPT. TI PPETT.  THE INDENTURE WAS SIGNED 12 NOV 1683.  JOHN INGRAM, WITNESS.
THE WILL OF MARY MARSHALL OF LONDON WIDOW, 16 JAN 1715 AND PROVED 1 5 JUN 1716
CITE THESE FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS...TO MY COUSINS, MATHHEW, SAMUEL, ROB ERT,
FRANICIS, REBECCA AND MARY MEAD, SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF MY LATE UNCL E RICHARD
MEAD...TO SIR NATHANIEL MEAD, AND TO DR. RICHARD MEAD...MY COUSIN MAR Y MEAD,
WIFE OF ROBERT MEADE, SON OF MY UNCLE MATTHEW MEADE, MY LOVING COUSIN , WILLIAM MEADE OF AYLISBURY BUCKS, GENTLEMAN...
THERE WAS ALSO A WILLIAM AND GABRIEL MEAD, BROTHERS, OF BOSTON,MASSAC HUSSETS,
WHOSE ANCESTORS HEAVILY POPULATED MASSACHUSSET, VERMONT, CONNECTICUT , NEW YORK AND OTHER STATES.
WE HAVE ATTEMPTED TO DETERMINE THE LINEAGE OF OUR "WILLIAM MEAD" AN D HIS CROSSING TIME FROM THE OLD WORLD WITHOUT SPECIFIC EVIDENCE .                   OF WILLIAM MEAD IN AMERICA WE HAVE THESE RECORDS:
WILLIAM MEAD WITNESSED A DEED OF LOWRY PAXSON IN 1703 AND JAMES VERRI E DEED OF 1704.  THE  LOWRY PAXSON DEED OF BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA ...
YEOMAN...BEGINNING AT CORNER LATE OF JOHN WHITE...BY THE LAND OF GEOR GE
WHITE..., PART OF 500 ACRES THAT WAS CONVEYED TO WILLIAM CARTER OF PH ILADELPHIA COUNTY UNDER THE HANDS OF JAMES CLAYPOOLE AND ROBERT... TH E 9TH DAY OF 1686 AND AFTERWARDS CONVEYED UNTO ROBERT MEAD, SOMETIM E OF THE AFORESAID COUNTY OF BUCKS...CONFIRMED UNTO WILLIAM BILES , A DMINISTRATOR UNTO EDWARD CARTER, SON OF ROBERT CARTER, BY ROBERT ROWL AND, JOHN CARTER, LOWRY BOWEN AND JANE, HIS WIFE...FIVE HUNDRED POUND S CURRENT MONEY PAID BY JAMES VERIER OF BURLINGTON, IN THE PROVINCE O F NEW JERSEY...WITNESSED BY GEORGE LANGHORNE AND WILLIAM MEAD. (SIGNE D WITH HIS MARK)
THE NAMES LISTED IN THE DEED ARE NOTED TO PRESENT IN MANY DEEDS, MARR IAGES AND WILLS IN THE MEAD FAMILY.
BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA SOURCE RECORDS: QUARTER SESSIONS PAGE 50 8 IN 1712.
WILLIAM MEAD DEF VS. JOHN ROWLAND.  THE CASE EVENTUALLY DISCONTINUED.
QUAKER RECORDS:BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA: FALLS M.M.:WITNESSED MARRI AGE OF GEORGE HAWAORTH OF THE TOWNSHIP OF MAKEFIELD, WEAVER AND SARA H SCARBOROUGH, DAUGHTER OF JOHN OF THE TOWNSHIP OF SOLEBURY ON 28 DA Y OF 9TH MONTH 1710.
FALLS M.M.: WITNESSED MARRIAGE OF DANIEL LEE AND MARY ASHTON ON 29 DA Y OF
7TH MONTH 1719 WITH ANN MEAD, AND JAMES DOWNEY, JOHN NEELD, AND OTHER S.
AT THE TIME THE MARRIAGE OF HIS SON, JOHN MEAD, TO MARY ABRELL, WILLI AM
THE FATHER,  WAS FROM "CECIL COUNTY, MARYLAND".



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Record Change: September 27, 1999

Notes for ?ELIZABETH:
WE HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO IDENTIFY, WITH CERTAINTY, THE WIFE OF WILLIA M MEAD.
IT IS SUGGESTED THAT HER NAME IS ELIZABETH, AS THAT NAME IS PRESENT AT
MARRIAGES OF OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS LISTING HER AS A WITNESS.
BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLANIA SOCIETY OF FRIENDS: ELIZABETH WITNESSED AN D SIGNED IN PARENTS AREA OF THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE AT THE MARRIAG E OF RACHEL MEAD TO WILLIAM CARTER. WILLIAM AND SAMUEL MEAD WERE PRES ENT WITH HER AT THIS MARRIAGE IN 1729.
REQUEST FOR CERTIFICATE OF REMOVAL FROM MIDDLETOWN MM TO FALLS MM WA S DATED
FOR AN ELIZABETH MEAD ON 4/1735.
SHE IS ALSO NOTED ON THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE OF PLEASANT MEAD TO WIL LIAM SATTERTHWAITE IN 1736.
IN A LETTER FROM SONS, WILLIAM AND SAMUEL, IN VIRGINIA, TO PLEASANT M EAD SATTERTHWAITE, DATED 1747, THE SONS INQUIRE ABOUT THEIR "MOTHER" .  THE MOTHER OF THE FAMILY AND THE PARENTAGE OF THIS WOMAN REMAINS U NCERTAIN.



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Record Change: July 15, 1997
	
Children of WILLIAM MEAD and ?ELIZABETH are:
	i.	ROBERT2 MEAD.

Notes for ROBERT MEAD:
IN A LETTER FROM WILLIAM MEAD, SON OF WILLIAM MEAD, TO A COUSIN IN LO UDOUN
COUNTY, VIRGINIA, HE MENTIONS A BROTHER, "ROBERT".
PENNSYLVANAIA GAZETTE:
ROBERT MEAD, MERCHANT AT ISAAC NORRIS ALLEY, 13 MAY 1742.RUNAWAY FRO M THE PLANTATION OF HIS MASTER, ROBERT MEADE IN NORTHERN LIBERTY OF P HILADELPHIA 22 JAN 1745.
NOVEMBER 13M 1746:TRACT OF 200 ACRES IN THE NORTHERN LIBERTIES, ABOU T 4 MILES FROM PHILADELPHIA AND 2 MILES FROM GERMANTOWN, OFFERED FO R SALE, APPLY TO ROBERT MEAD.
NOV 27, 1747:HUSBAND AND WIFE, RUNAWAY SLAVES FROM ROBERT MEADE OF
PHILADELPHIA.
A ROBERT MEAD HAD LAND IN NORTHERN LIBERTY TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA WHI CH HE
PURCHASED FROM DR. BROWN IN 1746.  A SAMUEL WAS NOTED IN THE 1790 CEN SUS
RECORDS AS FROM THERE. I QUESTION IF IT IS THE SON OF ROBERT MEAD A S HE WOULD
APPEAR TO BE THE RIGHT AGE AND IS IN THE CORRECT LOCATION WITH A NAM E THAT
REPEATS ITSELF.



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Record Change: July 05, 1998

	ii.	RACHEL MEAD, m. WILLIAM CARTER, July 17, 1729, Falls M.M., Bucks County.

Notes for RACHEL MEAD:
BELIEVED TO BE THE DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM MEAD.  AT HER MARRIAGE TO WILL IAM
CARTER OF BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, AT THE FALLS M.M., WILLIAM, SAM UEL, ELLEN, ELIZABETH MEAD, ROBERT AND MARTHA CARTER WERE PRESENT.  T HE MARRIAGE WAS WITH THE CONSENT OF PARENTS AND RELATIVES. RACHEL I S LISTED FROM BRISTOL
TOWNSHIP, BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. OTHER PEOPLE ATTENDING INCLUDE : GRACE CARTER, MARY DENO, SAMUEL COMBE, JOSEPH DENO, BENJAMIN COMBE , HANNAH COMBE, WILLIAM PAXSON JR., WILLIAM CARVER 2ND, RUTH BIDGOOD , BENJ. LINTON, THOMAS STACKHOUSE, JOHN HEADLEY, SAMUEL BUNTING, WILL IAM BIGOOD, CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL, JOSEPH WHITE AND DANIEL HEADLEY, CH RISTIAN CLOWS, JOSEPH KIRKBRIDE, MARTHA NEELD, AND OTHERS. NOTE: MEA D SPELLED MEAD AND MOAD.
RACHEL CARTER OF MIDDLETOWN MM REQUESTED CERTIFICATE TO NOTTINGHAM M M 2/9/1756.



Notes for WILLIAM CARTER:
1ST M 1729: FIRST INTENTION OF MARRIAGE BETWEEN WILLIAM CARTER AND RA CHEL
MEAD.
WOMENS' MINUTES: 3RD M. 1729: WILLIAM CARTER AND RACHEL MEAD, SECON D INTENTION OF MARRIAGE.
WOMENS' MINUTES:5M 1729, WILLIAM CARTER AND RACHEL MEAD PROPOSE THEI R INTENTION OF MARRIAGE.
MARRIED AT THE FALLS MONTHLY MEETING WITH CONSENT OF PARENTS AND RELA TIVES.
1729: WHEREAS WILLIAM CARTER, MIDDLETOWNSHIP IN THE COUNTY OF BUCKS , IN THE
PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA AND RACHEL MEAD OF BRISTOL TOWNSHIP IN THE C OUNTY
AFORESAID HAVING DECLARED THEIR INTENTION OF MARRIAGE BEFORE SEVERA L MONTHLY
MEETINGS OF THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS IN THE FALLS TOWNSHIP OF COUNTY
AFORESAID, HAVING CONSENT OF PARENTS AND RELATIVES CONCERNED THEIR PR OPOSAL OF MARRIAGE WAS ALLOWED AT THE FALLS MEETING....SEVENTH MONT H IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY NINE , THEY THE SAID WILLIAM CARTER AND RACHEL MEAD APPEARED IN A PUBLIC A SSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLE...
WITNESSES: ROBERT CARTER, GRACE CARTER, MARY DENO, MARTHA CARTER, WIL LIAM MEAD, SAMUEL MEAD, SAMUEL COMBE, JOSEPH DENO, BENJAMIN COMBE, EL IZABETH MEAD, HANNAH COMBE, ELIN MEAD, WILLIAM PAXSON JR. 2ND, WM. CA RVER, RUTH BIDGOOD, DOUGLAS LINTON, THOMAS STACKHOUSE, JOHN HEADLEY , SAMUEL BUNTING, WILLIAM BIDGOOD, CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL, JOSEPH WHITE , DANIEL HOADLEY, HANNAH HEADLEY, MARY PAXON, PRISCILLA BUNTING, MAR Y CLARK, MARY PAXON, JR., JANE MARYNM, MARTHA NIELD, HANNAH BIDGOOD ,  BENJAMIN LINTON,  WILLIAM CARTER JR., THOMAS STACKHOUSE, JOHN HEAD LEY, DANIEL HEADLEY, JOSEPH KIRKBRIDE, WILLIAM PAXON,
SOLOMAN HOADLEY, HENRY ADINGTON, THOMAS WATSON, BONON, GREG, SAMUEL C OMBES JR., MARK WATSON, PAUL WILMORTEN, JOSEPH HEADLEY, JOHN WH..., R OBERT SOLSHOR, ROBERT WHITE, JOHN WATSON AND SAMUEL BUNTING.



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Record Change: May 16, 1998

	iii.	SARAH MEAD, m. RICHARD VAN BLUNK.

Notes for SARAH MEAD:
IT IS REPORTED THAT SARAH WAS MARRIED TO A MR. VAN BLUNK.



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Record Change: November 25, 1997

Notes for RICHARD VAN BLUNK:
IT IS REPORTED THAT SARAH MEAD MARRIED RICHARD VAN BLUNK AND THAT THE Y HAD
"MANY RELATIVES IN PENNSYLVANIA".



2.	iv.	JOHN MEAD, b. 1700, Cecil County, Maryland; d. 1754, Bedford County, Virginia.
	v.	SAMUEL MEAD1, b. Abt. 1708, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; d. Bef. June 12, 1787, Pittsgrove, Salem County, New Jersey; m. (1) MARY DOWNEY, May 25, 1734, Falls M.M., Bucks County, Pennsylvania; m. (2) MARGARET MEAD, March 10, 1745/46, Falls M.M., Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Notes for SAMUEL MEAD:
SOURCE RECORDS: SOCIETY OF FRIENDS MINUTES IN FALLS, BUCKS COUNTY, PE NNSYLVANIA;FAIRFAX, FAIRFAX CO., VIRGINIA.; GOOSE CREEK, LOUDOUN COUN TY, VIRGINIA;  AND SALEM M.M., IN SALEM COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.
FALLS M.M.:SAMUEL WITNESSED MARRIAGE OF RACHEL MEAD TO WILLIAM CARTE R IN 1729;(THIS WOULD AFFIRM HIS BIRTH AT 1708 OR EARLIER); BENJAMI N BROLSSFORD TO MARTHA NEEL ON 3 OCTOBER 1731; JOHN ROSS TO LYDIA HOL LINGSWORTH, DAUGHTER OF STEPHEN ON 11 DAY, 10TH MONTH, 1735; JAMES NE ALD (SP) OF MAKEFIELD TO RACHEL GREGORY ON 3 JANUARY 1737; JOHN HEADL EY TO SARAH BIDGOOD 1738 (WITH WIFE, MARY DOWNEY).
MARRIAGE TO MARY DOWNEY FALLS M.M. QUAKER RECORDS:...PAGE 185" WHEREA S SAMUEL
MEAD OF FALLS TOWNSHIP IN THE COUNTY OF BUCKS AND PROVINCE OF PENNSYL VANIA AND MARY DOWNEY OF MAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP IN THE COUNTY AFF. HAVIN G DECLARED THEIR INTENTIONS BEFORE SEVERAL MONTHLY MEETINGS OF THE PE OPLE CALLED QUAKERS
ACCORDING TO THE GOOD ORDER...AMONGST THE WHOSE PROCEEDINGS THERIN AN D HAVING
CONSENT OF PARENTS, RELATIVES, ...WERE ALLOWED OF BY THE SAID MEETING ....
THEIR SAID INTENTIONS OF THE TWENTY FIFTH DAY OF THE EIGHT MONTH 1737 ...TAKING THE SAID MARY DOWNEY BY THE HAND DID IN A SOLOMN MANNOR O F ONLY DOCLARE THAT HE TOOK HER TO BE HIS WIFE AND PROMISING THROUG H THE LORDS ...TO BE A LOVING AND TRUTHFUL HUSBAND UNTILL DOATH SHOUL D SOPORATE THEM ...
SIGNED: SAMUEL AND MARY MEAD (SIGNED MOAD-ALL"O'S" APPEAR TO BE AN "E " IN  OLD SCRIPT.)
WITNESSES: JAMES DOWNEY, ANN HUPHMAN, WILLIAM MEAD, HANNAH AND JAME S DOWNEY,
THOMAS LARAMER, HANNAH, WILLIAM, MARGARET AND MARY BIDGOOD, RACHEL WR IGHT,
ELIZABETH WARDER, WM. HAWKINS, MARTHA WORRELL, RACHEL JANNEY, HANNA H AND
DEBORAH WATSON, MARGARET COME, JANE AND FRANCIS HAGUE, RICHARD HOUGH , JOSEPH
WHITE, JOSHUA GORE, JONOTHAN PALMER, MAHLON KIRKBRIDE, HENRY PAXSON A ND OTHERS.
LISTED IN COLONIAL SOLDIERS OF THE SOUTH UNDER MAJOR LAWRENCE WASHING TON'S DISTRICT COPY OF POLL RECORDS JUNE 13, 1748 AND IS LISTED UNDE R VIRGINIA MILITIA.
QUAKER RECORDS FROM VARIOUS MEETINGS:
FALLS QUAKER MEN'S MINUTES, 4/10/1758: LETTER TO FRIENDS IN VIRGINI A STATES SAMUEL MEAD, WHILE WITH FALLS MONTHLY MEETING LOST HIS WIF E AND SOON WENT
OUT IN MARRIAGE WITH ANOTHER; ENLISTED IN THE SERVICE OF THE KING I N THE LAST SPANISH WAR AND CONTINUED A SERIES OF FOLLY AND VICE.H
FALLS M.M. 1758 PAGE 288-289, "THE FRIENDS APPOINTED TO WRITE TO FRIE NDS IN
VIRGINIA RESPECTING SAMUEL MEAD REPORT THEY HAVE DONE SO, AND SENT TH EIR
LETTER BY A FRIEND OF THE MEETING WITHIN THE COMPANY OF WHICH HE RESI DES...A
COPY OF WHICH LETTER BEING PRODUCED WAS READ AND IS AS FOLLOWS, VIZ.. .WHEREAS
FRIENDS OF VIRGINIA HAVE DESIRED SOME COMMENT OF THE BEHAVIOR AND CON DUCT OF
SAMUEL MEAD WHILST AMONG US...THESE MAY INFORM YOU THAT HE SERVED HI S ....A
FRIEND AND DURING HIS APPRENTICESHIP AND SOME...BEHAVED ....OUR RELIG IOUS
MEETINGS AND WAS ADMITTED TO MARRY AMONG FRIENDS AND FOR SOME SMALL T IME AFTER MARRIAGE BEHAVED ORDERLY BUT SOON FOUND THE WAY OF TRUTH TO O STRAIT FOR HIM AND GAVE HIMSELF A LARGE LIBERTY IN THE FOLLYS AND V ICES OF THE WORLD.  HE LEFT HIS WIFE AND SOON WENT OUT IN MARRIAGE WI TH ANOTHER.  HE ENLISTED IN THE  SERVICE OF THE KING IN THE LAST SPAN ISH WAR AND HIS WHOLE CONDUCT AFTER SEEMED TO BE A CONTINUED SERIES O F FOLLY AND VICE, ALTOGETHER INCONSISTENT WITH THE PROSESSION HE MADE ; FOR WHICH HE DESERVED THE CENSURE OF FRIENDS BUT WITH HIS SPEEDY RE MOVAL FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER, PREVENTED THEIR DEALING WITH HIM I N A REGULAR MANNER... THEREFORE, AS HE IS SETTLED AMONGST YOU, IF H E CONTINUES THE SAME DISORDERLY PRACTICE, I WILL NOT REFORM TO MAKE P ROPER...FOR HIS MISCONDUCT AND SINCE HE CAME AMONGST YOU IT IS THE MI ND OF FRINENDS THAT HE BE TESTIFIED AGAINST, AND NOT RETURNED AS ON E OF OUR RELIGIOUS SOCIETY...SIGNED BY ORDERED IN BEHALF OF OUR MONTH LY MEETING AT THE FALLS THE 6TH DAY OF 1758 MAHLON KIRKBRIDE AND JAME S MASON.
31ST OF 3RD MO.1759: "SAMUEL MEAD HAVING RESIGNED WITHIN THE VERGE O F THIS
MEETING FOR MANY YEARS PAST AND IN SOME DEGREE APPEARED AS A FRIEND , THOUGH
HIS COMMON CONDUCT AND CONVERSATION HAVE BEEN INCONSISTANT WITH FRIEN DS
PRINCIPLES, BOTH HERE AND IN THEIR PARTS AS WELL AS IN PENNSYLVANIA W HICH HAS
BEEN SIGNIFIED BY FRIENDS OF THE FALLS MONTHLY MEETING(PA.)BY LETTE R TO THIS,
IN WHICH THEY REQUEST THAT WE SHOULD TESTIFY AGAINST HIM, WHICH ADVIC E HAS BEEN SIGNIFIED TO HIM, BY FRIENDS HERE, AND HE HAD NOTHING TO O BJECT AGAINST THE SAME, BUT ALLOWED IT REASONABLE.  THEREFORE THIS ME ETING APPOINTS FRANCIS HOGE AND JOHN HOUGH TO DRAW A TESTIMONY AGAINS T HIM:".
ON 28 APRIL 1759, SAMUEL WAS DISOWNED FROM THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS .." FORMERLY OF FALLS BUT NOW OF GOOSE CREEK" FOR DISUNITY.
30TH OF 6 MONTH 1759: FRIENDS APPOINTED HAVE PRODUCED A TESTIMONY AGA INST
SAMUEL MEAD WHICH WAS READ HERE AND SIGNED.  ISRAEL THOMPSON AND JACO B JANNEY
ARE APPOINTED TO SHOW HIM THE SAME AND GIVE A COPY IF HE DESIRES IT".
28TH OF JULY 1759:THE FRIENDS APPOINTED TO SHOW SAMUEL MEAD A TESTIMO NY AGAINST HIM, REPORT THEY HAVE, WHICH HE HAD NO OBJECTION AGAINST . THE SAME IS ORDERED TO BE READ AT THE CLOSE OF SOME PUBLIC MEETIN G OF WORSHIP AT GOOSE CREEK BY JACOB JANNEY.
24 IF 9TH MONTH 1759: THE TESTIMONY AGAINST SAMUEL MEAD WAS READ. SAM UEL'S WIFE MARGARET AND HIS CHILDREN; SARAH, RICHARD, SAMUEL, RUTH, M ARGARET JR., CONTINUED TO BE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY AND HIS SON, BENJ AMIN MEAD LEFT AND RE-ENTERED THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS IN VIRGINIA.
SURVIVING CAMERON PARISH RECORDS: TITHABLE LIST OF 1765;PAGE 16, SAMU EL MEAD,
4 TITHABLES.
LOUDOUN CO., TAX ROLLS. 1761, 1769, 1771, AND 1772.
PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE, MARCH 21, 1765. ITEM 35424. A LARGE AND VALUABL E PLANTATION, CONTAINING ABOUT 2000 ACRES OF LAND, WELL WATERED, SITU ATE ABOUT 12 MILES FROM LEISBURG.  ALSO ANOTHER PLANTATION WHEREO N I RESIDE, SITUATE ABOUT 4 MILES FROM LEISBURG, CONTAINING ABOUT 18 0 ACRES, 50 OF WHICH IS WINTER GRAIN; THERE ARE SUNDRY OTHER IMPROVEM ENTS ON SAID PLACE, BESIDES A GOOD WELL ACCUSTOMED TANYARD, TO BE SOL D AT REASONABLE RATES, FOR READY MONEY OR SHORT CREDIT, BY SAMUEL MEA D, ON THE LAST MENTIONED PREMISES IN LOUDOUN CO., VIRGINIA.
COURT RECORDS OF NEW JERSEY AND VIRGINIA FIND SAMUEL TO BE AN ACTIVE , TRAVELING MAN.
NEW JERSEY: HUNTERDON COUNTY. 6 APR 1730, WAS A WITNESS FOR TIMOTHY B AKER'S
WILL AS WAS HIS SISTER, HANNAH CARTER.
FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA: BOOK A PP.11-15, WITNESSED DEEDS OF JOHN ME AD 17
SEPT. 1742...BOOK A PP.198-200, ON 17 MAY 1744, SAMUEL MEAD TO JOHN P OULTNEY,
SOLD CATTLE.
BOOK A 15 OCT.1745, GEORGE GRIFFITH TO SAMUEL MEAD, TANNER,...CATTL E AND FARM
EQUIPMENT.
BOOK B: P.280, ON 7 OCT 1747, WITNESSED INDENTURE BETWEEN JOHN COLVIL LE AND JOHN HOUGH.
APPOINTED OVERSEER OF THE ROADS FROM THOMPSONS ACCORDING TO THE ACT O F THE
ASSEMBLY. FAIRFAX C.O.B. 1749:163 DATED 9/24/1751.
BOOK C: P. 329-333; 17 JUN 1752, BETWEEN EDWARD HARDIN AND MAHLON KIR KBRIDE.
WITNESS.TRURO PARISH, VIRGINIA: PAGES 503-4;APRIL 1, 1752: THOMAS EVA NS INVENTORY: SIGNED BY THOMAS MCGEACH, SAM.MOBLEY AND SAMUEL MEAD.
PAGES 512-3: APRIL 15, 1751; BILL OF SALE OF ESTATE OF RICHARD SHORE S INCLUDE
SAMUEL MEAD, FRANCIS HOGUE, JOHN HOUGH, FRANCIS HAGUE AND SAMUEL MEAD.
PAGES 113-122: LAWRENCE WASHINGTON ACCOUNTSS OF 1752...SAMUEL MEAD....
BOOK D: P.128-130, AN INDENTURE BETWEEN FRANCIS WILKS, FATHER,  AND J OHN WILKS, SON, ...LAND BOUGHT OF THOMAS CLOWES...WITNESS SAMUEL MEAD . 19 AUG. 1755.
LISTED ON SEPTEMBER 13, 1757, BK.A PAGE 15, AS A TANNER. LOUDOUN RECO RD.
TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF ALEXANDRIA VIRGINIA, SOLD ONE LOT FORMERLY CO NVEYED TO SAMUEL MEAD ON 20 MAR 1753,...HE NOT BUILDING ACCORDING T O ACTS, REVERTED BACK TO TRUSTEES.  1761.
NOVEMBER 12, 1761, LOUDOUN CO.:SAMUEL MEAD, SOLOMON HOGE, WILLIAM WIL DMAN,
WILLIAM HATCHER, FRANCIS AND SAMUEL WILKS ET AL..PETITION FOR A ROA D TO BE
OPENED "FROM JACOB JANNEY'S TO ANDREW ADAMS'S MILL ON SEKOLON." BK. A , P.538.
LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA:BOOK D:PP 95-96. INDENTURE MADE BETWEEN SAMU EL MEAD OF COUNTY OF LOUDOUN, TANNER AND FRANCIS WILKS, JACOB JANNEY , THOMAS CLOWS, THOMAS GORE, SOLOMAN HOGE, SAMUEL COOMBS, ETC...WITNE SSETH THAT SAMUEL MEAD IN CONSIDERATION FOR THE ESTEEM HE BEARS FO R A SCHOOL AND GOOD WILL TO HIS NEIGHBORS,...HATH GRANTED ONE ACRE O F LAND BEGINNING AT A POPLAR IN EDMOND PHILLIPS LINE CORNER TO SAID M EAD AND COOMBS LAND BOUGHT OF BYRAN FAIRFAX... SET MY HAND AND SEAL T HIS 13 DAY OF DEC.1763.
FEBRUARY 14, 1764, BOOK B. PAGE 271. SAMUEL MEAD ACKNOWLEDGES A DEE D OF TRUST
WHEREIN HE CONVEYS LANDS TO THE USE OF A QUAKER MEETING, WITH FRANCI S WILKS, JACOB JANNEY, THOMAS CLEWS, THOMAS GORE, SOLOMON HOGE, WILLI AM MORLAND, SAMUEL COMBS, RICHARD WHITE, WILLIAM HOLMES, AND JEREMIA H FAIRHURST AS THE TRUSTEES OF THE PROPERTY.
BOOK D: PART II PAGES 548-552...INDENTURE MADE 7/8TH DAY OF AUGUST 17 65 BETWEEN SAMUEL MEAD AND MARGARET HIS WIFE, OF LOUDOUN, OF ONE PAR T AND WILLIAM HOLMES...PART OF A LARGER TRACT OF LAND CONVEYED BY BYR AN    FAIRFAX...DEED BEARING DATE OF 13 OCT 1761 AND RECORDED IN COUN TY CLERK'S OFFICE LIB. C. FOLIO 54 SALE OF 180 ACRES OF LAND.
DEED I 141: SAMUEL MEAD OF LOUDOUN CO. 195 ACRES ON KITTOCITON MT. AN D SECOLIN BRANCH  IN SAID CO. SURVEYED BY JOHN HOUGH.  ADJ ROBERT CAR TER, THOMAS KELLY, EDWARD EMS, BRYAN FAIRFAX 24 AUG. 1765. (?IF ROBER T CARTER AND THOMAS KELLY WERE RELATIVES...SISTER MARRIED A WILLIAM C ARTER AND HANNAH MEAD MARRIED THOMAS KELLY OF PENNSYLVANIA).  IT IS T HIS LAND I BELIEVE THAT WAS BEQUEATHED TO HIS SON, BENJAMIN MEAD.
LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA, RENT ROLLS FOR 1761,1769,1771 AND 1772.R54
THERE ARE INNUMERABLE RECORDS OF COURT ACTIONS INVOLVING SAMUEL MEA D AS DEFENDENT OR AS PLAINTIFF IN THE FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA COURTH OUSE.
APRIL 11, 1764:LOUDOUN CO., VA: BOOK B.PAGE 339:SAMUEL MEAD AND FRANC IS WILKS
WHO SEEM TO HAVE MOVED ARE REFERRED TO AS "OF FAIRFAX COUNTY".
THERE IS A LICENSE AS FERRY OPERATOR/OWNER 1753-1754 FOR TENDING TH E GOOSE CREEK FERRY AND FOR BEING KEEPER OF AN ORDINARY 1754 AT THE P UBLIC FERRY
CROSSING AREA. HE WAS LICENSED IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
ADMINISTRATOR OF ESTATES, AND BAILSMAN AND JUROR. HE WAS A DEFENDEN T IN A
TRESPASSING CASE AND OTHER A PARTICIPANT IN VARIOUS LEGAL ACTIONS.
LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA: BOOK E, PP.283-284, SAMUEL MEAD, RESIDING I N NEW
JERSEY, GIVES POWER OF ATTORNEY TO JOHN WILKS (HIS SON IN LAW) AND WM . BAKER
ON 16 DEC. 1766 AND RECORDED "TO ASK, DEMAND, AND RECEIVE ALL DEBTS D UE AND
DEMANDS THAT SHALL BE DUE TO ME".
HE IDENTIFIED BENJAMIN MEAD AS HIS SON IN A LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINI A DEED:
BOOK G: PP 232-233...MEAD TO MEAD GIFT; ...BETWEEN SAMUEL MEAD SR. O F SALEM
COUNTY, PROVINCE OF WEST NEW JERSEY, FARMER, AND BENJAMIN MEAD, HIS S ON FOR
THE LOVE AND AFFECTION SAMUEL MEAD BEARS HIS SON AND FOR THE BETTER S UPPORT AND MAINTENANCE  6 MAR 1770.
NEW JERSEY: SALEM COUNTY; SAMUEL MEAD EXCUSED FROM GRAND JURY ON SEPT EMBER
1768.
7 OCT 1768: WICKES, JONAS OF HUNTINGTON L.I. FELLOWBONDSMAN BENJAMI N ABIT,
ABDOM ABIT OF PITTSGROVE.  INVENTORY 1769 BY SAMUEL MEAD AND BURROUGH S ABIT.
LIBER 13, PAGE 476.
19 JULY 1773: INVENTORY FOR SAMUEL JOHNSON...LIBER 23 PAGE 367. WIFE , JEMIME,
DAUGHTERS, PHEBE; ELIZABETH; RHODA; NANCY; LYDIA; AND SON, SAMUEL. EX C.
BROTHER, JOHN AND WIFE.  (NOTE JOHN JOHNSON JR. WAS GUARDIAN OF SAMUE L MEAD JR. SON, JOHN MEAD).
NEW JERSEY RATEABLES SAMUEL MEAD WAS LISTED AS HAVING 125 ACRES AN D 3 HORSES IN 1775.
2 NOV 1776; MURPHY, JOHN  OF PITTSGROVE, SALEM COUNTY, NEW JERSEY WIL L. INVENT.BY SAMUEL MEAD SR.
PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE: SEPTEMBER 25, 1782.  TO BE SOLD IN THE TOWNSHI P OF PITTSGROVE AND COUNTY OF SALEM IN THE WESTERN DIVISION OF THE ST ATE OF NEW JERSEY, A TRACT OF LAND, CONTAINING 147 ACRES WITH GOOD IM PROVEMENT ON IT AND TANYARD, IN A GOOD PART FOR GETTING BARK WITH GOO D MEADOW MADE, CONSIDERABLE MORE MAY BE MADE.  ANY PERSON INCLINABL E TO PURCHASE, MAY KNOW THE TERMS BY APPLYING TO SAMUEL MEAD ON THE P REMISES.  IF THE SAID TRACT IS NOT SOLD BEFORE THE 29TH OF OCTOBER NE XT, IT WILL THAT DAY BE PUT UP FOR PUBLIC SALE.
30 NOV.  1782; WILLIAM LOPER'S WILL...INVENTORY BY SAMUEL MEAD SR. AN D JR.
HE HAD NO IDENTIFIED WILL BUT THERE IS A RECORDED INVENTORY OF HIS ES TATE IN
TRENTON NEW JERSEY ARCHIVES DATED 12 JUN 1784.  IT IS ALSO RECORDED I N LIB. N. NUMBER 26, PAGE 100...WEARING APPAREL, FURS, HORSE, BRIDLE , SADDLE, SILVER
SHOE BUCKLES WHICH TOTALED 129 POUNDS.
SAMUEL MEAD, THE ADMINISTRATOR WITHIN NAMED BEING DULY SWORN ON THE H OLY EVANGALIST OF ALMIGHTY GOD DID DISPOSE AND SAY THAT SAMUEL MEAD W ITHIN NAMED DIED WITHOUT A WILL AS FAR AS HE KNEW AND THIS WAS SWOR N AT SALEM ON 17 JUN 1784.



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Notes for MARY DOWNEY:
MARY IS NOT LISTED IN HER FATHER'S WILL DATED IN 1761.



Notes for MARGARET MEAD:
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS: FALLS M.M., PENNSYLVANIA: 1746.  MARGARRET MEAD S ENT A  FEW LINES SIGNIFYING HER SORROW ON THE ACCOUNT OF HER DISORDER LY MARRIAGE AND
DESIRED SHE MAY BE FAVORED WITH A FEW LINES BY WAY OF A CERTIFICATE T O THE
FAIRFAX MONTHLY MEETING IN VIRGINIA.
10 MARCH 1746: MARGARET REPORTED TO HAVE MARRIED CONTRARY TO DISCIPLI NE,
POSSIBLY A COUSIN.
2 JULY 1747: THE FRIENDS APPOINTED TO MAKE INQUIRY CONCERNING MARGARE T MEAD
REPORT THAT THEY MADE INQUIRY AND FIND NOTHING TO HINDER HER HAVING A
CERTIFICATE AND THEREFORE ONE WAS DRAWN AND SIGNED.
VIRGINIA:30 AUGUST 1747: MARGARET WAS RECEIVED ON CERTIFICATE DATE D 7 FEBRARY 1747 FROM FALLS M.M. IN PENNSYLVANIA TO FAIRFAX M.M. IN V IRGINIA.
29 APRIL 1758: THE WOMEN'S MEETING INQUIRED TO MARGARET MEAD " HOW SH E STANDS
CLEAR OF HER DAUGHTER'S OUTGOING IN MARRIAGE.
29 JULY 1758: THE COMMITTEE REPORTS MARGARET MEAD IS "CLEAR ON HER DA UGHTER'S
MARRIAGE OUT OF UNITY".
QUAKER MEETING RECORDS: MARGARET MEAD, WIFE OF SAMUEL MEAD, RECEIVE S ON CERTIFICATE FROM FALLS MONTHLY MEETING DATED 2 JUL 1747 ON 30 AU GUST 1747.  A COMMITTE INQUIRES AS TO HOW MARGARET MEAD STANDS CLEA R ON HER DAUGHTER GOING OUT IN MARRIAGE, 29 APRIL 1758.  AS OF 29 JU L 1758, MARGARET MEAD STANDS CLEAR OF HER DAUGHTER'S MARRIAGE OUT O F UNITY.
AUGUST 8, 1765, MARGARET MEAD IS IDENTIFIED ON A DEED AS THE WIFE O F SAMUEL
MEAD. LDCODB, BK.D, PAGE 548. LOUDOUN CO., VIRGINIA.
26 OCTOBER 1765: MARGARET MEAD, THE WIFE OF SAMUEL AND THREE OF HER M INOR
CHILDREN, RUTH, RICHARD, AND MARGARET JR. WERE GRANTED CERTIFICATES T O SALEM
M.M. IN NEW JERSEY.
SALEM MM IN NJ:  MARGARET MEAD, WIFE OF SAMUEL MEAD FROM FAIRFAX, LOU DOUN CO., VIRGINIA FOR HERSELF AND THREE CHILDREN; RICHARD, RUTH, AN D MARGARET DATED 26D 10MONTH 1767.


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	vi.	WILLIAM MEAD, b. Abt. 1708, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; d. Abt. 1784, Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia; m. ELLEN WORRELL, 1729, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Notes for WILLIAM MEAD:
BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA: WILL BOOK #1 PAGE 182 132: MARTHA DARKE O F FALLS
TOWNSHIP, WIDOW: 7 MARCH 1725-1726. PROVED 26 DEC 1732. FRIEND SAMUE L BEAKES,
EX. BROTHER JOHN WORRALL OF COUNTY OF CHESTER 30 F. MARY DARKE 20F. C OUSINS
(NIECES) ELLIN, ELIZABETH AND MARTHA, DAUGHTERS OF THOMAS WORRALL, 15 0F. MARTHA DAUGHTER OF ROBERT THOMAS OF NORTH WALES 10 F.  MOST OF ES TATE LYETH IN THE HANDS OF OTHERS.  WITNESSES: HENRY MARGERUM, SAMUE L COOMB, JANE MARGERUM, TRUSTEES. LETTERS GRANTED TO WILLIAM MEAD.  W ILL SEALED AND DELIVERED IN THE PRESENCE OF WILLIAM FRY AND MS. LANGH ORNE.  SIGNED BY
WILLIAM MEAD WITH HIS MARK "O" BY MARY DARK WITH HER "X" AND JAMES DO WNEY
BY HIS SIGNITURE .                                                             BUCKS C O., PA., CORONERS RECORDS: 3 JUNE 1726. PARTICIPATED IN JURY AT
MAKEFIELD, PA. ABOUT DROWNING INCIDENT.  OTHER PARTICIPANTS IN JURY I NCLUDED
JOHN NEELD, THOMAS STACKHOUSE, HENRY JANNEY AND OTHERS.  CORONER WA S JONOTHAN
WOOLSTON. IF THIS WAS WILLIAM JR. HE WOULD BE OF LEGAL AGE IN 1705.
WILLIAM WAS A RESIDENT IN BUCKS COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA AS NOTED IN THE D EED FOR
HE KNOWLES TRACT, UPPER MAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP.    A DEED OF ANDREW ELLET , LATE OF MAKEFIELD, BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA DATED JULY 22, 1744 , CONVEYED TRACT TO WILLIAM MEAD ON JULY 22, 1744. WILLIAM PENN HAD C ONVEYED THE 320 ACRES 93 FR. IN MAKEFIELD ON SEPTEMBER 20, 1701. THI S INDENTURE WAS WITNESSED BY ANDREW ELLET, THE YOUNGER, TO WILLIAM ME AD IN CONSIDERATION OF 400 POUNDS FOR 220 ACRES IN MAKEFIELD ON 14 MA Y, 1747.
NOTE: HANNAH MEAD MARRIED ANDREW ELLET IN 1706...? THE RELATIONSHIP.
MM 1734, PAGE 49:WILLIAM MEAD DESIRE TO BE JOINED WITH FRIENDS.  THER EFORE THIS MEETING APPOINTS JAMES DOWNEY AND MAHLON KIRKBRIDE TO ENQU IRE HOW WILLIAM HATH BEHAVED HIMSELF TO MAKE REPORT TO NEXT MEETING.
RELIGION: APPLIED FOR MEMBERSHIP INTO SOCIETY OF FRIENDS AND "BEHAVE D HIMSELF
ACCORDINGLY...ENTERED INTO MEMBERSHIP AT FALLS MONTHLY MEETING DATE D 5 JAN 1735.
HE WITNESSED MARRIAGE OF JOSEPH WARDER AND ELIZABETH WORRELL, HIS SIS TER IN LAW, WITH HIS WIFE, ELINOR (ELLEN) MEAD, ON AUGUST 1735.
5/12/1746/7 FALLS QUAKER MEN'S MINUTES: WILLIAM MEAD COMPLAINS AGAINS T BENJAMIN COMBE FOR KEEPING HIM OUT OF SOME MONEY DUE HIM.
2/2/1746: WILLIAM MEAD REQUEST CERTIFICATE FOR HIMSELF, WIFE, AND FAM ILY TO VIRGINIA.
WILLIAM MEAD, BROTHER OF JOHN MEAD, ASSIGNEE OF SAMUEL PEDRICK OF PRI NCE
WILLIAM FOR WHOM SURVEYED 19 JUNE 1741...ON BRANCE OF TUSKORORA CC... MARKER
JOHN MEAD.
GRANTED LAND IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA SURVEY F-175, "WILLIAM MEA D OF PENSYLVANIA 640 A IN FAIRFAX COUNTY. SURVEYED BY AMOS JANNEY FO R SAMUEL PENDRICK. ADJ TUSKARORA, WILLIAM CHANDLER, WILLIAM NORRIS. 2 2 JUNE 1744.
IN 1745 HE MADE COMPLAINTS AGAINST JOHN MEAD IN FALLS M.M., PENNSYLVA NIA.
ON 4 APRIL 1746, HE REQUESTED CERTIFICATES OF REMOVAL FROM FALLS M.M . IN PA. TO VIRGINIA FOR HE AND HIS FAMILY.  WILLIAM AND HIS FAMILY B ECAME RESIDENTS OF LOUDOUN COUNTY.
26 DEC. 1749, HE WAS PAID 200 POUNDS OF TOBACCO FOR KILLING TWO WOLVE S.
24 SEPT. 1752 ORDERED WITH JOSEPH MCGEACH, SAMUEL MEAD, AND SAMUEL MO BLEY, TO
INVENTORY AND APPRAISE THE ESTATE OF THOMAS EVANS, DECEASED.
1752 WAS DEFENDENT AND CODEFENDENT IN VARIOUS COURT ACTIONS.
WITNESSED DEED FAIRFAX COUNTY BOOK D: PAGES 115-119...BETWEEN JOHN KE NNEDY AND ANN HIS WIFE AND FRANCIS HAGUE DATED 3RD MAY 1753.
FAIRFAX VA. PAGES 124-128: INDENTURE 30 MARCH 1755 BETWEEN WILLIAM SH REVE OF
EAST NEW JERSEY AND WILLIAM HOLMS OF THE COUNTY OF FAIRFAX, MILLRIGHT , PRESENCE OF WILLIAM MEAD AND MOSES RHODES.
JUNE 14, 1764, LOUDOUN CO., VIRGINIA:MARY CONNER, "AN ORPHAN OF ELEVE N YEARS
OLD THAT 26TH DAY OF DECEMBER LAST (1763) IS BOUND TO WILLIAM MEAD .  BOOK B,
PAGE 373.
WITNESSED MARRIAGE OF WILLIAM BAKER TO MARY JANNEY AT FAIRFAX MM, VIR GINIA IN APRIL 1765.  HE ALSO WITNESSED MARRIAGE OF JOSEPH PARKER T O ELISAH EBLEN AT FAIRFAX MEETING IN APRIL 1765 WITH WILLIAM MEAD JR , ELIZABETH, SARAH, BENJAMIN. MEAD
WITNESSED DEED LOUDOUN COUNTY BETWEEN JASON MORLAND AND CHARLES BINN S IN BOOK
"C" PAGES 164-165. 30 DAY 1769 AND RECORDED 15 AUG. 1769.
OCCUPATION: FARMER . LOUDOUN BOOK E. PAGE 272-273...KNOW ALL MEN
THAT I, MAHLON KIRKBRIDE, OF LOWER MAKEFIELD, IN COUNTY OF BUCKS AN D PROVINCE
OF PENNSYLVANIA, YEOMAN, FOR DIVERS GOOD CAUSES AND CONSIDERATION THE REUNTO
MOVING HAVE MADE AND IN MY PLACE DEPUTED MY FRIEND WILLIAM MEAD, OF C OUNTY,
LOUDOUN, YEOMAN, MY TRUE AND LAWFUL ATTORNEY TO LET ANY PART OF MY LA ND IN
SAID COUNTY FOR LEASE FOR ANY NUMBER OF YEARS NOT EXCEEDING FIFTEEN Y EARS..
POWER OF ATTORNEY WAS PROVED AND ORDERED TO BE RECORDED.
FAMILY: LETTERS FROM WILLIAM MEAD AND SAMUEL MEAD TO PLEASANT SATTERT HWAITE
DATED 31ST OF ELEVENTH MONTH OF 1747/8 DIRECTED TO WILLIAM SATTERTHWA ITE AND
SIGNED...AFFECTIONATE BROTHER...LOVE TO THEE AND MOTHER...I REMAIN TH Y LOVING
BROTHER.
CAMERON PARISH RECORDS:TITHABLE RECORDS, PAGE 15, WILLIAM MEAD, 3 TIT HABLES.
MAY 12, 1766, LOUDOUN CO., VIRGINIA:IS APPOINTED AS SURVEYOR OF THE R OAD ALONG THE CAROLINA ROAD FROM LEESBURG SOUTH TO THE "SICOLAN" REPL ACING FRANCIS ELGIN.  BOOK C. PAGE 77.
TO WILLIAM MEAD TO LEARN THE TRADE OF A "MALSTER".
RESIDENCES:PENNSYLVANIA AND VIRGINIA.  WAS ON TITHABLE LIST 1771 FO R SHELBURNE LOCATED IN LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA AND THE TAX LISTS O F 1782-1787 OF LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
D.A.R. RECORD NUMBER 127512: "WILLIAM MEAD WAS A PATRIOT AND A MEMBER
OF THE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY OF BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA, WHERE HE DIED .  HE WAS BORN IN WALES".  (I HAVE QUESTION OF HIS BIRTHPLACE).
WILLS: RECORDED IN LOUDOUN COUNTY, BOOK 31 PAGE 23...ACKNOWLEDGES WIF E, ELLEN; LEAVING HER " USE OF THE TRACT OF LAND WHERE I NOW LIVE EXC EPT FOR THE PART THAT I SHALL LEAVE TO MY DAUGHTER MARY BROWNE HEREAF TER... TO HOLD TO HER MY SAID WIFE TOGETHER  WITH THE USE OF ALL MY P ERSONAL ESTATE DURING HER NATURAL LIFE...TO MARY BROWNE THAT TRACT O F LAND WHERON MOSES RHODES DIED AND WHICH WAS SURVEYED FOR HER BY JOH N HOUG CONTAINING ABOUT TWO HUNDRED ACRES ADJOINING THE KITTOCKTAN MO UNTAINS ...AFTER HER DECEASE I GIVE AND DEVISE THE SAID TRACT TO SONS , WILLIAM AND THOMAS RHODES OR THEIR HEIRS...THEY PAYING THEIR BROTHE R JOSEPH, THE SUM OF TEN POUNDS...GIVE DAUGHTER MARY ONE FEATHER BE D AND FURNITURE, ONE LARGE SILVER SPOON TO BE DELIVED HER AFTER THE D ECEASE OF HER MOTHER...TO DAUGHTER, HANNAH THOMAS, ONE FEATHER BED AN D FURNITURE, ONE LARGE SILVER SPOON AND ONE NEW ONE TO BE DELIVERED A FTER THE DECEASE OF HER MOTHER, DAUGHTER ANN THOMAS ONE BED AND FURNI TURE WHICH IS NOW IN HER POSSESSION AND AT HER MOTHER'S DEATH, ONE LA RGE SILVER SPOON AND SET OF SMALL SPOONS...DAUGHTER MARTHA WRIGHT...O NE LARGE SILVER SPOON AND ONE NEW ONE AFTER THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER , ONE FEATHER BED AND FURNITURE, NOW IN HER POSSESSION, ELIZABEH POTT S, ONE LARGE SILVER SPOON AND SET OF SMALL ONES TO BE DELIVERED TO HE R AFTER THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER. ETC...I GIVE  AND DEVISE UNTO MY SO N WILLIAM MEAD (AFTER HIS MOTHER'S DEATH) THE PLANTATION NOW IN HER P OSSESSION, TO HIM, HIS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS FOREVER, ONE FEATHER BED AN D FURNITURE, THE RESIDUE OF MY SILVER SPOONS, MY SHORT GUN AND MY SIL VER WATCH...HE IS TO PAY MY GRANDSONS WILLIAM WRIGHT AND JOSEPH THOMA S, THE SUM OF TWENTY POUNDS EACH UPON THEIR ARRIVING AT 21 YEARS OF A GE...ALL THE RESIDUE OF MY ESTATE AND MONEY TO EQUALLY DIVIDED AMON G MY FOUR DAUGHTERS; HANNAH, ANN, MARTHA, AND ELIZABETH, OR IN ANY CA SE OF EITHER OF THEIR DEATHS TO THEIR LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES; BUT MY W ILL IS THAT THE SHARE DEVISED TO MY DAUGHTER HANNAH, IN THIS CASE NO T IMMEDIATELY TO BE PAID TO HER BUT SHALL BE RETAINED IN THE HANDS O F MY EXC. AND DELIVERED TO HER IN PORTIONS AS SHE MAY STAND IN NEED T HEREOF.
LEGENDS OF LOUDOUN BY HARRISON WILLIAMS:  A WAR IN 1732 BETWEEN THE C ATAWBAS OF THE CAROLINAS AND THE DELAWARES RESULTED IN A TERRIBLE TOL L AMONGST BOTH TRIBES AT THE TIME OF A LOCAL BATTLE. THE DELAWARES WE RE TOO FAR FROM THEIR HUNTING GROUNDS SO THEY BURIED THEIR DEAD AND E RECTED MOUNDS OVER THE DEAD.  THE MOUNDS AND MANY HUNDRED ACRES OF SU RROUNDING LAND WERE ACQUIRED BY THE MEAD FAMILY WHO LATER BUILT GREEN WAY, THE FAMILY HOMESTEAD.  THE FAMILY LEGEND STATES THAT ON THE ANNI VERSARY OF THE BATTLE A BAND OF INDIANS CAME THROUGH THE FOREST AND C ONDUCTED WEIRD MOURNING RITES AND OFFERED FOOD AND ARROWS FOR THEIR S LAIN COMPANIONS.  OVER THE YEARS THE MOURNING RITES CONTINUED UNTIL O NLY ONE WARRIER CAME TO PAY HIS RESPECTS.  THE MEAD FAMILY TRADITIO N ALSO STATED THAT ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE, SOUNDS OF CONFLI CT CAME FROM THE INDIAN MOUNDS ALTHOUGH NO ONE COULD BE SEEN.



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Notes for ELLEN WORRELL:
SOURCES: QUAKER RECORDS OF FALLS M.M., PENNSYLVANIA AND LOUDOUN COUNT Y,
VIRGINIA.
PHILADELPHIA COUNTY,PA.:DEED RECORDED G.C.P478 ON APRIL 20, 1737:JOSE PH
WARDER AND WIFE, WILLIAM MEAD AND WIFE, AND MARTHA WORRALL, DAUGHTE R OF
THOMAS AND MARY WORRALL, WIDOW OF THOMAS, CONVEY TO SAMUEL COOPER OF
PHILADELPHIA CO., PA., YEOMAN, 400 ACRES OF LAND IN BUCKS COUNTY.
DEEDS LOCATED IN BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA AND LOUDOUN COUNTRY, VIRG INIA.
INDENTURE BETWEEN MAHLON KIRKBRIDE OF LOWER MAKEFIELD, IN COUNTY OF B UCKS AND
PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA, YEOMAN AND MARY HIS WIFE...10 JUNE 1765...I NDENTURE
AND RECEIPT UNDERWRITTEN AND PROVED BY AFFIRMATIONS OF WILLIAM MEAD A ND ELLEN
MEAD (QUAKERS) AND ORDERED TO BE RECORDED.
RESIDENCES: FALLS, BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA AND LATER LOWER MAKEFIE LD, BUCKS ON TRACT PURCHASED FROM ANDREW ELLET.  ELLEN AND WILLIAM MO VED TO VIRGINIA AFTER CITING COMPLAINTS AGAINST JOHN MEAD AND BENJAMI N COMBE IN QUAKER MEETING.
WILL: DATED 5 DEC 1785 AND PROBATED 10 APRIL 1787 AND RECORDED IN LOU DOUN
COUNTY, VIRGINIA WILL BOOK  "C" PAGE 268..."I ELLEN MEAD, OF THE COUN TY OF
LOUDOUN, COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, MAKE THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAME NT...I
GIVE UNTO MY FIVE DAUGHTERS HANNAH THOMAS, MARY BROWN, ANN MEAD, MART HA WRIGHT,AND ELIZABETH POTTS ALL MY LAND IN PENNSYLVANIA WHICH FEL L TO ME BY THE DEATH OF MY SISTER, MARY BROWN TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED B ETWEEN THEM.  MY WILL AND DESIRE IS THAT MY DAUGHTER, ANN MEAD HAVE O NE LARGE HOG, FIVE BUSHELLS OF WHEAT, FIVE BUSHELLS OF RYE FOR HER MA INTENANCE AND SUPPORT. LASTLY I NOMINATE AND CONSTITUE MY DAUGHTER AN N MEAD AND MY SON IN LAW EZEKIAL POTTS, EXC. OF MY LAST WILL AND TEST AMENT.



	vii.	PLEASANT MEAD, b. March 22, 1716/17, Pennsylvania; d. Aft. 1787, Pennsylvania; m. WILLIAM SATTERTHWAITE, February 15, 1735/36, Middletown M.M.., Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Notes for PLEASANT MEAD:
DATA NOTED FROM THE TEXTS "MEAD FAMILY" BY PRITCHARD AND THE SATTERTH WAITE GENEALOGY IN ADDITION TO DATA FROM BUCKS COUNTY COURT SYSTEM.
MOTHER IS NOTED TO RESIDE WITH HER IN 1747 AS NOTED IN A LETTER FRO M HER
BROTHERS WILLIAM AND SAMUEL, INQUIRING ABOUT THEIR MOTHER.
     Dear Brother, if thee has inclination of buying land here, tha t piece
     of land of Cox  which thou came down in order to buy is now at l iberty
     and to be disposed of and I have it engaged for thee such time t hat I         can hear from thee for there is several others wanted t o get it  but
     Ratlif hath the disposal of it and he hath given me his word t o keep
     it till I can have an answer from thee therefore if thou ever de sign
     to buy land here know to have thee to embrace this opertunity an d if
     desire thee not to fail sending me thy mind about it by the firs t             oportunity for fear some other body should get it.  I h ave nothing to         say in praise of it for though has already see n it thyself and therefore
     let it  prais it self.
     Our children hath all had the measels and are all got well.....
     Give  our love to thee and all they family and with mother and
     desire thee if thou see any of our friends at the fals let the m know          that we are all well. I Remain thy affectionate broth er, William Mead
     William Williams is of the mind of selling his land but David Po tts
     will sel his if he can get a ...more.  My love to the and they f amily
     and to mother....Well and remain thy loving brother Saml Mead

PLEASANT'S  MARRIAGE TOOK PLACE IN MIDDLETOWNSHIP IN BUCKS COUNTY, PE NNSYLVANIA, AT THE MIDDLETOWN M.M.  1736. ON THE CERTIFICATE, WHERE A LL THE WITNESSES SIGN THAT THEY WITNESSED THE MARRIAGE, ELIZABETH MEA D SIGNED IN THE PLACE USUALLY DESIGNATED FOR PARENTS.  WILLIAM'S PARE NTS WERE IN ENGLAND AND DID NOT ATTEND.



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Notes for WILLIAM SATTERTHWAITE:
MIDDLETOWN MM. 7TH MONTH, 1734:
AT THIS MEETING WILLIAM SATTERTHWAITE, A YOUNG MAN LATELY FROM SWARTH MORE MM IN LANGINSHIRE, RECCOMMENDING HIM AS A YOUNG MAN OF ORDERLY C ONVERSATION AND IN MEETING IS SATISFIED AND ORDERLY AND THAT IS TO B E DEPT WITH SUCH MEETING
PAPERS.
4TH MONTH 1735:AT THIS MEETING WILLIAM SATTERTHWAITE AND PLEASANT MEA D APPEARED AND DECLARED THIER INTENTION OF MARRIAGE, EACH WITH EACH O THER FOR THE FIRST TIME, THEREFORE IN ORDER FOR THEIR FURTHER PROCEED INGS, JOHN STACKHOUSE AND WILLIAM BRIGGS APPOINTED TO MAKE INFORMATIO N OF HIS CLEARENCE WITH OTHERS AND WHAT ELSE MAY BE NEEDFUL AND REPOR T TO NEXT MEETING.
WILL AND TESTAMENT OF WILLIAM SATTERTHWAITE PROVED FEB. 8, 1788 IN M
BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. WILL BOOK NUMBER 5 AND PAGE 7 #2150.
"I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY SON WILLIAM SATTERTHWAITE ALL MY LAND AN D PLANTATIONS THAT I PURCHASED OF SAMUEL GARY AT SUNDERY TIMES AND O F JOHN PALMER AND DANIEL WEST WITH ALL THE BUILDINGS, WOODS, AND WATE RS THEN UNTO BELONGING ALL LYEING AND BEING IN THE TOWNSHIPS OF LOWE R MAKEFIELD, FALLS AND MIDDLETOWN ALL IN THE COUNTY OF BUCKS AND PROV INCE OR STATE OF PENSYLVANIA FOR TO HOLD TO HIM, HIS HEIRS AND ASIGN S FOR EVER HE... AND PAYING UNTO HIS MOTHER THE BEFORE NAME ARTICLE S TO BE PAID YEARLY AND EVERY YEAR UNTO HER DURING HER NATURAL LIFE O R WIDOWHOOD.  I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY SON WILLIAM SATTERTHWAIT E A CERTAIN TENEMENT OR DWELLING HOUSE AND SHOPS, ANN AND ALL OTHER A PPORTENCOUS THERE UNTO BELONGING THE LOTT WHEREON THE HOUSE IN THE CI TY OF LONDON FOR THE KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITTAIN FOR TO HOLD TO HIM HI S HEIRS AND ASSIGNS FOR EVER, HE ALLOWING UNTO MY FIVE DAUGHTERS BEFO RE NAMED OR THEIR SURVIVING CHILDREN FIVE YEARLY RENTS WHEN...IS TAKE N OUT... TO BE PAID AS CAN BE OBTAINED AND I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO M Y SON WILLIAM SATTERTHWAITE THE CLOCK AND THEREUNTO BELONGING TO HI M HIS HEIRS AND ASIGNS FOR EVER AND THE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM PENN COMM ONLY CALLED WILLIAM PENN'S HISTORY ...ONE HUNDRED POUNDS OF THE MONE Y THAT HATH IN ABEL JAMES HANDS TO PAY FOR THAT LAND COMMONLY KNOWN B Y THE NAME OF MENAGE FIELDS AND RUTHER WITH WILL AND MIND THAT ANY O F MY BEFORE NAMED DAUGHTERS SHOULD DIE BEFORE THAT THEIR LEGACY CAM E DUE THEN IT SHALL BE GIVEN TO THEIR SURVIVING CHILDREN, SHARE AND S HARE ALIKE...



Generation No. 2

2.  JOHN2 MEAD (WILLIAM1)2 was born 1700 in Cecil County, Maryland, and died 1754 in Bedford County, Virginia.  He married MARY ABRELL March 02, 1725/26 in New Garden M.M., Chester Co., Pennsylvania, daughter of RICHARD ABRELL and ELIZABETH.

Notes for JOHN MEAD:
QUAKER RECORDS: "AT A MONTHLY MEETING HELD AT NEW GARDEN ON THE 31S T 10TH MONTH 1726, JOHN MEAD AND MARY ABRELL, BOTH OF NOTTINGHAM, APP EARED AND SIGNIFIED THEIR INTENTION OF TAKING EACH OTHER IN MARRIAGE , IT BEING THE FIRST TIME, THE MEETING APPOINTED JEREMIAH BROWN AND J OHN WHITE TO MAKE INQUIRY CONCERNING THE MAN'S CONVERSION AND CLEARNE SS FROM ALL OTHER WOMEN, AND TO GIVE AN ACCOUNT AT THE NEXT MEETING , THE YOUNG MAN IS DESIRED TO BRING A CERTIFICATE FROM BUCKS COUNTY O F HIS CONVERSION AND CLEARNESS.
AT A MEETING HELD 28 NOV. 1726, JOHN MEAD AND MARY ABRELL APPEARED AND
SIGNIFIED THEIR INTENTION OF MARRIAGE FOR THE SECOND TIME AND THE INQ UIRERS
REPORT THAT THEY FIND NOTHING TO OBSTRUCT THE INTENTIONS AND HE PRODU CED A
PAPER FROM HIS MOTHER AND FATHER OF THEIR CONSENT AND ALSO A CERTIFIC ATE FROM
FRIENDS WHERE HE WAS BROUGHT UP AS TO WHETHER HE IS CLEAR FROM ALL WO MEN THERE-ABOUTS ON THAT ACCOUNT.  THEY ARE LEFT TO THEIR LIBERTY T O ACCOMPLISH THEIR MARRIAGE ACCORDING TO THE TRUTHS ORDER AND JEREMIA H BROWN AND JOHN WHITE ARE APPOINTED TO ATTEND THE MARRIAGE AND GIV E ACCOUNT TO NEXT MONTHLY MEETING AND BRING MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE ALS O TO BE RECORDED.  THE MEETING OF 25 DEC. 1726, THE FRIENDS APPOINTE D TO SEE THE MARRIAGE OF THESE FRIENDS GAVE AN ACCOUNT THAT IT WAS OR DERLY ACCOMPLISHED. (NOTE:ACCORDING TO THE OLD SYLE OR JULIAN CALENDE R, WHICH WAS THE OFFICIAL CALENDER OF THE ENGLISH COLONIES UNTIL 1752 , THE 12TH MONTH WAS MARCH, SO THAT THE MARRIAGE OF JOHN MEAD AND  MA RY ABRELL OCCURRED ON 2 MARCH 1726.)
MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE: SON OF WILLIAM MEAD, MARRIED MARY ABRELL, DAUGH TER OF
RICHARD ABRELL AND ELIZABETH HIS WIFE OF CECIL COUNTY, MARYLAND...ME T TOGETHER IN PUBLIC MEETING PLACE IN NOTTINGHAM, COUNTY OF CHESTER , PENNSYLVANIA, ON 2 MAR 1726.  RECORDED IN NEW GARDEN MONTHLY MEETIN G.
WITNESSES TO THIS MARRIAGE AS NOTED ON THE CERTIFICATE: RICHARD ABREL L, ELIZABETH ABRELL, LYDIA ROSS, MARY BROWNE, MIRIAM COPPOCK, ESTHE R BROWN, ANN DUTTON, MARY WRIGHT, HANNAH CHURCHMAN, ELIZABETH BAYLEY , THOMAS BARRETT, SARAH BAELS, MARY ROSS, JAMES WRIGHT, JOHN ROSS, WI LLIAM BAYLEY, JOSEPH JONES, JEREMIAH BROWN, KATHERINE ROSS AND OTHERS.
JOHN MOVED TO THE FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA, AND DEEDS ARE RECORDED TH ERE
IN THE 1730'S AND ONWARD:  JOHN MEAD AND HIS FATHER IN LAW,RICHARD AB RILL(ALSO SPELLED AVERILL ON SOME DEEDS) SPECULATORS, OBTAINED A WARR ANT FROM THE PROPRIETOR OF THE TRACT OF LAND ON THE SOUTH FORK OF TH E CATOCTIN CREEK. CATSEBY COCKE GOT THE WARRANT FROM THEM AND CASHE D IT IN BY TAKING A LEASE FOR 703 ACRES IN AUGUST OF 1731.  (NORTHER N NECK GRANTS, FOLIO 13-13 A). COCKE SOLD THIS GRANT BACK TO MEAD (PR INCE WILLIAM CO. VIRGINIA: NOVEMBER 20, 1733 BOUGHT 733 ACRES FROM CA TESBY COCKE IN CONSIDERATION OF FIVE POUNDS STERLING. ITS LOCATION WA S ON THE DRAUGHTS OF THE KITTOCKTON...SIGNED IN PRESENCE OF JOHN PEYT ON, WILLIAM BOOKLEY?, AND SAMUEL SMITH.
JUNE 28, 1734 BETWEEN THOMAS THOMS, PLANTER AND JOHN MEAD, CARPENTER,
JOHN MEAD SURVEYED A ROAD TO BE BUILT BETWEEN WHAT WAS LATER KNOWN AS
BEDFORD COUNTY TO WESTERN FRANKLIN CO., VIRGINIA.  HE WORKED WITH WIL LIAM
MORGAN,"FROM THE FISH DAM TO THE BURYING PLACE AT THE END OF THE ROAD , IN THE
AREA OF MAGGOTY CREEK. THIS 703 ACRES OF MEAD'S WAS DIVIDED INTO TW O PARTS, THE SOUTHERN PORTION WAS 400 ACRES, COMPRISING MOST OF PRESE NT DAY WATERFORD AND HOLDING THE PORTENTIAL FOR PLENTY OF WATERPOWER , AND THIS WAS SOLD TO AMOS JANNEY IN 1735-1736. THE SECOND PART OF 3 03 ACRES WAS SOLD IN MARCH OF 1743 TO FRANCIS HAGUE.DEED BOOK A: PAG E 11-13; INDENTURE BETWEEN JOHN MEAD, CARPENTER AND DAVID GRIFFITH O F THE SAME COUNTY, PLANTER...LAND ON BOTH SIDES OF JOSHUAS CABIN BR.1 47 ACRES ...WITNESSED SAMUEL MEAD AND JAMES GREEN.
FAIRFAX CO., VIRGINIA: WITNESSED DEED FOR 23 OCT 1740 BETWEEN EDWAR D SLEATER OF FAIRFAX AND JACOB LASSWELL.  MARY, HIS WIFE ALSO WITNESS ED DEED.
WILLIAM HENRY FAIRFAX, ASSIGNEE OF JOHN MEAD FOR WHO SURVEYED 2 APRI L 1742, 188 ACRES ON BLACK OAK THICKET.  BORDERING JOHN GARRETT, THOM AS GREGG, MARKER
FRANCIS WILKS.
JOHN MEAD TO DAVID GRIFFITH...LEASE 16 FEB. 1742...147 ACRES BRANCH C OMMONLY
KNOWN AS JOSHUAS CABIN BRANCH...PART OF 703 ACRES PURCHASED BY JOHN M EAD FROM
CATESBY COCKE.  WITNESSED BY SAMUEL MEAD.
DEED BOOK A: PART 2; INDENTURE 19TH MARCH 1743 BETWEEN JOHN MEAD AN D FRANCIS
HAGUE...SELLS LAND IN FAIRFAX....CONTAINING 333 ACRES.
AND HENRY BALLINGER OF PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY IN MARYLAND, PLANTER OF T HE OTHER
PART....ONE HUNDRED ACRES TRACT ...LYING IN THE PARISH OF TRURO IN TH E COUNTY
OF PRINCE WILLIAM AND ON THE BRANCHES OF KITTOCKTAN RUN...ADJOINING L AND OF
RICHARD WOOD.  WITNESSES AMOS JANNEY, JOHN GORDON, AND RICHARD ABRIL L DATED 14 NOVEMBER 1744.
NOTED IN MAJOR LAWRENCE WASHINGTON'S COPY OF POLLS IN FAIRFAX CO., V A JUNE 13, 1748 AND IS IDENTIFIED AS BEING IN VIRGINIA MILITIA.
JOHN IS NOTED IN ORANGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA, WITH HIS FATHER IN LAW, RIC HARD ABRILL, WHERE HE PURCHASED CLOTH FROM AN ESTATE.  WILL BOOK I PG .139.
JOHN MEAD AND HENRY BALLINGER...DEED BOOK A: PAGE 272-274; SOLD 100 A CRES
PART OF 600 ACRES GRANTED BY PROPIETOR'S  OFFICE TO RICHARD WOOD, I N FAIRFAX
COUNTY.
JOHN MEAD TO RICHARD POULTNEY...DEED BOOK A: PAGE 198-200; SALE OF CA TTLE
WITNESSED BY SAMUEL MEAD. 17 MAY 1744.
26 MAR.1744: JOHN MEAD AND BALLENGER TO JOSEPH MAGEAH...LEASE 17 MA R 1743.
FAIRFAX DEED BOOK B: PAGE 215-216...INDENTURE NOVEMBER 1746 BETWEEN J OHN MEAD
AND NICHOLAS OSBORN...SELLS 240 ACRES ON SOUTH BRANCH OF KITTOCKTON.
THE MAYO SETTLEMENT IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN MADE BY PENNSYLVANIA SET TLERS
IN WHICH A ROAD WAS ORDERED TO BE BUILT FROM WHAT IS NOW BEDFORD COUN TY
VIRGINIA FROM THE FISH DAM ON OTTER RIVER THROUGH THE MEADOWS ON TO M AGOTTY
CREEK, TO THE BURYING PLACE AT THE END OF THE ROAD...JOSEPH RENFRO, W ILLIAM
MORGAN AND JOHN MEADE WERE APPOINTED SURVEYORS TO LAY OFF AND CLEAR T HE ROAD.
JULY 1754 BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA: ADMINISTRATION OF THE ESTATE OF J OHN MEADE IS GRANTED WM. MEADE WHO MADE OATH ACCORDING TO LAW AND ENT ERED INTO BOND WITH HENRY HAYES ACCORDING TO LAW.
COURT HELD FOR BEDFORD COUNTY AUGUST 26, 1754, ON ACCOUNT AGAINST TH E ESTATE
OF JOHN MEADE DECEASED SWORN TO AND TO BE CERTIFIED.
INVENTORY IS LISTED IN BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEED BOOK 1 PAGES 194 -195.
THE WILL ADMINISTRATOR WAS WILLIAM MEAD.  MENTIONED ARE RICHARD KANNO N,
JOHN THOMPSON, WM. MORGAN, WILLIAM CALLAWAY, AND MATTHEW TALBOT; "B Y THE SALE OF JOHN MEADS ESTATE". RETURNED ON 28 NOVEMBER 1758.
BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEED BOOK 1, PAGE 10. (1754-1762) INVENTOR Y AND
APPRAISEMENT BY HENRY HAYNES, JOHN RICHARDSON AND STEPHEN INGLISH, AP PRAISERS, DATED 19 AUGUST 1754.  LISTED: HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS, LIVES TOCK, FARM EQUIPMENT, AND OTHER TOOLS INCLUDING "TURNER'S TOOLS".
DEED BOOK A: PAGE 194: JOHN MEADE'S ESTATE TO WILLIAM MEAD LISTED TH E OUTLAY OF ESTATE.  AT COURT HELD AT BEDFORD COUNTY, NOV. 28, 1758 . THE ACCOUNT OF
ADMINISTRATION OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN MEADE WAS RETURNED INTO COURT B Y WILLIAM
MEADE THE ADMINISTRATOR.
A QUESTION OF A FOURTH SON NAMED JOHN IS POSSIBLE IN THIS LINE.  LIVI NG IN THE SAME AREA WITH SONS, WILLIAM AND ROBERT IS A JOHN MEAD WH O WAS GRANTED TO KEEP AN ORDINARY IN THE HOME OF JOHN TALBOT WHO GAV E BOND.  (BEDFORD COUNTY COURT DATED MARCH 23, 1762). ALSO, AT A COUR T HEARING IN BEDFORD COUNTY, FEB. 28,1770, " JOHN MEAD CAME INTO COUR T AND TOOK THE USUAL OATHS TO HIS MAJESTY'S PERSON AND GOVERNMENT AN D REPEATED AND SUBSCRIBED AND TOOK THE OATH AS UNDERSHERIFF.  ON AUGU ST 24, 1773, JOHN MEAD WAS GRANTED TO KEEP AN ORDINARY AT THE HOME O F COL. WILLIAM MEAD'S HOUSE IN THE TOWN OF NEW LONDON. THIS JOHN WOUL D BE TOO OLD FOR SON OF COL. MEAD AND INCIDENTS OCCURRED AFTER DEAT H OF THIS JOHN WHO DIED IN 1754. THERE WAS ALSO JOHN MEAD IN HANOVE R COUNTY, VIRGINIA WHO WAS PRESENT IN THE VESTRY PARISH BOOK IN 1759.
 


More About JOHN MEAD:
Burial: Family Cemetary, New London, Bedford County, Virginia
Record Change: September 29, 1999

Notes for MARY ABRELL:
RESIDENCE: MARY ABRELL WITNESSED MARRIAGE OF SAMUEL WHITE OF CECIL CO UNTY,
MARYLAND TO HANNAH PIGGOTT ON 21 FEB. 1726.


	
Children of JOHN MEAD and MARY ABRELL are:
	i.	ABRELL3 MEAD.

Notes for ABRELL MEAD:
MILITARY:BEDFORD CO., VA. 1758.  COL. BYRD CO., 1760, BEDFORD CO., VI RGINIA.
NOTED AS SARGEANT. BROTHER WILLIAM WAS LT. IN SAME CO., BROTHER JOHN , ALSO A
SARGEANT.
LIST OF COLONIAL SOLDIERS OF VIRGINIA:F.I.B W.,2,381; H.S.7,209;V.C.M .,40.
WITNESSED GEORGE GRIFFITH'S WILL ON AUGUST 25, 1777, BEDFORD COUNTY , VIRGINIA.
MAY BE LISTED AS "ABIRT" MEAD IN SURVEY OF HENRY CO., VA.BKS 1 AN D 2 77-1469 WHICH IS DATED JUNE 10, 1780-JUNE 10,1783 FOR 228 ACRES.
LISTED AS TAXPAYER OF HENRY COUNTY, VIRGINIA IN 1787. LISTED AS TAXPA YER
ON EDWARD DOBYNS TAX LIST OF DISTRICT ONE, FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY I N 1793
(WITH SON ABRELL JR.,JESSE, AND SAMUEL).
OF QUESTION IN DATES:WILLIAM HENRY FAIRFAX, ASSIGNEE OF ABRIL MEAD JR .  OF
PRINCE WILLIAM 19 JUNE 1741, 16 DEC 1741, 260 ACRES ON DRAUGHTS OF KI TTOCKTAN
IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, ADJ. RICHARD BROWN, JOHN CRITCHER, CAPT. LEWIS ELI ZEY, AMOS JANNEY. CC MARKER, JOHN MEAD.
MAGAZINE OF VIRGINIA GENEOLOGY: V.24 PAGE 32: MEAD, ABEL 1791-1799:20 0 ACRES
PATRICK CO., VIRGINIA.



	ii.	WILLIAM MEAD2, b. October 10, 1727, Pennsylvania; d. December 13, 1805, Cupbard Place, Augusta, Georgia; m. (1) ANN HAILE, October 10, 1750, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; m. (2) MARTHA COWLES, Aft. 1769, Virginia.

Notes for WILLIAM MEAD:
FREEHOLDERS COUNTY TAX DEC 11, 1755, POLLED BY G.W. FAIRFAX. WILLIA M MEAD.
LETTER FROM WILLIAM MEAD TO MATTHEW TALBOT GOOSE CREEK, VA., MAY 8, 1 758.
LETTER FROM PINKNEY HAWKINS TO COL. CLEMONT READ, BEDFORD, MAY 10, 17 58;
MENTIONS CAPTAIN MEAD.  LETTER FROM MATTHEW TALBOT TO CLEMONT READ, M AY 10, 1758, AGAINS MENTIONS CAPTION MEAD, COL. HOWARD.
ADMINISTERED TO FATHER'S ESTATE (LETTERS OF ADM. GRANTED 19 AUG 1754 ; BOOK
A PAGE 10. ACCOUNT DATED 28 NOV 1785, WAS RECORDED IN BOOK A PAGE 194 .  HE WAS INCORPORATOR OF TOWN OF NEW LONDON, NEAR BEDFORD SPRINGS, V IRGINIA
WITH BENJAMIN HOWARD AND RICHARD CALLOWAY...NOVEMBER 1761...HENNING S STATUTES,VOLUME 7 CHAPTER 7 PAGE 478.
TRUSTEES TO BUMPASS DEED FROM BEN HOWARD, WM. MEAD AND RICHARD CALLAW AY, TRUSTEES OF BEDFORD CITY.  MAY 26, 1761, PAGE 446.
BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA: COURT SESSION DATED 22 SEPT 1755, WM. CALLO WAY, WM.
MEAD, CAPT RICHARD CALLOWAY, AND OTHERS  TOOK THE OATHS TO HIS MAJEST Y'S
PERSON AND GOVERNMENT AND THE ABJURATION OATH AND REPEATED AND SUBSCR ED THE
LAST MENTIONED OATH.  COURT HELD NOVEMBER 28, 1758, WILLIAM CALLOWAY,
SAMUEL HAIRSTONE, JEREMIAH EARLY, RICHARD CALLOWAY, WM. MEADE, MAJO R AND OTHERS OF THE MILITIA IN THIS COUNTY TOOK THE OATHS OF THE GOVE RNMENT AND
SUBSCRIBED THE TESTS ETC.
WORKING WITH MR. STITH, THE SURVEYOR, HE ACCUMULATED 40,000 ACRES O F LAND
IN VIRGINIA AND KENTUCKY WHICH INCLUDED ABOUT 12,800 ACRES IN BEDFOR D AND HENRY CO., VIRGINIA.
BEDFORD CO., VIRGINIA:POWER OF ATTORNEY: NICHOLAS HAILE AND WIFE RUTH , APPOINT WILLIAM MEAD THEIR ATTORNEY TO ACT AND DO AS IF NICHOLAS HA ILE WAS
PRESENT.
DEED: BEDFORD CO., VIRGINIA RECORDED AUGUST 26, 1754.  WILLIAM MEAD T O WILLIAM BOYD, PLANTATION, 100 ACRES ON N. BRANCH OF OTTER CREEK O N BOTH SIDES OF MONIKING CREEK, THIS LAND PATENTED TO MEAD SEPTEMBE R 22, 1753.
DEED FROM WILLIAM MEAD TO JAMES AYRES 300 ACRES ON BOTH SIDES OF S. F ORK OF
MILL CREEK ON GOOSE CREEK FOR 14 POUNDS.  INCLUDES BUILDINGS, GARDENS , ORCHARDS, AND WATER WAYS.  23 MARCH 1761.
BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA: FEBRUARY 28, 1764, INDENTURE BETWEEN THOMA S PULLEN
AND WILLIAM MEAD, PLANTERS, JOIN TO BUILD A WATER MILL ON THE SAID PU LLEN'S
LAND AND BOTH HAVE JOINT RIGHTS TITLE. THE MILL IS LOCATED ON THE NOR TH SIDE
OF OTTER RIVER ON THE NORTH SIDE OF ELKS CREEK.
THE VIRGINIA GAZETTE OF 21 OCT 1775, WM. MEAD OF NEW LONDON, BEDFOR D CO., VA.,OFFERED LAND FOR USE IN RETURN FOR QUIT RENTS.
SURVEY OF HENRY CO., VIRGINIA ONE 10 JUNE 1779 TO JUNE 10, 1780 BY JO HN
DICKENSON; 1586 ACRES OF LAND ON DAN RIVER.
CALENDER OF VIRGINIA PAPERS: VOL. 3: P. 411: LIST OF JUSTICES OF PEAC E BEDFORD COUNTY 1778-1883. BROUGHT CHARGES AGAINST JOHN HOOK FOR BEI NG A TRAITOR.
LIST OF BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA TAXPAYERS 1782-1787.
WILLIAM MEAD DEED TO JOHN AYRES; 300 ACRES ON BOTH SIDES OF S. FORD O N MILL
CREEK ON GOOSE CREEK FOR 14 POUNDS. INCLUDES BUILDINGS GARDENS, ORCHA RDS AND
WATERWAYS.  23 MARCH 1761.
LAND SURVEYED ON APRIL 6, 1779 BY MR. DICKENSON FOR WILLIAM MEAD ON B ULLS
RUN. ON DEED OF GEORGE HAIRSTON PAGES 211 AND 212 OF BEDFORD COUNTY D EED BOOK...SHOWS MEAD HAD LAND ON THE BRANCHES OF NICHOLES CREEK, A B RANCH OF THE NORTH SIDE OF IRVIN SMITH RIVER.1779.
SURVEY OF HENRY CO., VA. JUNE 10, 1779: WILLIAM MEAD AND CO. ON DAN R IVER,
1586 ACRES.
BEDFORD COUNTY DEED BOOK PAGES 298-299 AND DATED 18 FEB 1782:
WILLIAM MEAD, ATTORNEY FOR NICHOLAS HAILE, SELLS TO ISHAM BLANKENSHI P FOR THE
SUM OF SIXTY POUNDS THE REMAINDER OF SAID HAILE'S LAND ON FAVL ROUN D BRANCH....BEDFORD COUNTY DEED BOOK: PAGES 125-6 DATED 25 MARCH 1785 :WILLIAM MEAD OF THE COUNTY OF BEDFORD TO JOHN DAVIS OF THE COUNTY O F HENRY FOR THE SUM OF EIGHT THOUSAND POUNDS SELLS SAID DAVID 650 ACR ES OF LAND WHEREON HE NOW LIVES ON SIMMONS RUN, BEGINNING ON BLACKWAT ER RIVER (PROVED IN HENRY COUNTY, VIRGINIA 26 MAY 1785).
BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA DEED BOOK G. PAGE 279: INDENTURE MADE 5TH O F AUGUST IN THE YEAR 1783, BETWEEN WILLIAM MEADE AND MARTHA HIS WIF E OF THE COUNTY OF
BEDFORD OF THE ONE PART AND JOHN HOOK OF THE SAID COUNTY OF THE OTHE R PART,
WITNESSETH THAT THE SAID WILLIAM MEAD AND MARTHA HIS WIFE FOR AND IN
CONSIDERATION OF THE SUM OF EIGHTY FIVE POUNDS CURRANT MONEY OF VIRGI NIA TO
THEM THE SAID WILLIAM MEAD AND MARTHA HIS WIFE IN HAND PAID BY THE SA ID JOHN
HOOK HIS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS AND BY THESE PRESENTS DO BARGAIN, SELL,,, , AND
CONFIRM UNTO THE SAID JOHN HOOK HIS HEIRS ASSIGNS THE RECEIPT WHEREO F THEY THE SAID WILLIAM MEAD AND MARTHA HIS WIFE, DO HEREBY ACKNOWLED GE, HATH BARGAINED, SOLD, ENFEDED AND CONFIRMED UNTO THE SAID JOHN FO REVER A SMALL TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND CONTAINING 61 ACRES MORE OR LES S LYING IN THE ROYAL FOREST, BEDFORD CO.
BEDFORD CO. DEED BOOK G. PAGE 340: APRIL 1784, INDENTURE OF SALE OF 3 30 ACRES OFLAND TO JOHN MURPHY IN BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA ON THE SOU TH BRANCH OF GOOSE CREEK, PART OF THE 4228 ACRES PATENTED TO THE SAI D MEAD.
DEED BOOK G. PAGE 448: 23 NOV. 1784 BETWEEN WILLIAM MEADE AND SKINNE R DUVALL
SOLD SAID SKINNER DUVALL 216 ACRES MORE OR LESS.  SIGNED WILLIAM MEAD E AND
MARTHA HIS WIFE.
DEED BOOK G PAGE 493: 30TH OF NOV. 1784 BETWEEN WILLIAM MEADE AND MAR THA HIS
WIFE SOLD TO JAMES STEPTOE FOR SIX HUNDRED AND TWENTY POUNDS 620 ACRE S OF LAND.
DEED BOOK G. PAGE 498: INDENTURE BETWEEN WILLIAM MEAD AND JAMES CALLO WAY OF THE OTHER PART: WITNESSETH THAT THE SAID WILLIAM MEAD FOR AN D IN CONSIDERATION OF FIVE SHILLINGS TO HIM IN HAND PAID BUT MORE ESP ECIALLY IN CONSIDERATION OF HIS THE SAID JAMES CALLOWAY HAVING ENTERE D SPECIAL BAIL FOR THE SAID WILLIAM MEAD AND FOR JOHN MEAD, HIS SECUR ITY AT THE SUIT OF WILLIAM ROWALD ON AN ACTION OF DEBT COMMENCED AN D NOT DEPENDING IN THE COUNTY COURT OF BEDFORD FOR NEAR FIVTY THOUSAN D POUNDS OF NET CROP TOBACCO OF UPPER JAMES
RIVER INSPECTIONS; AND THE SAID WILLIAM IS DESIROUS AND PROPOSES TO S AVE HIM
HARMLESS FROM ALL INJURY BY REASON THEREOF; NOW THIS INDENTURE WITNES SETH THAT THE SAID WILLIAM MEAD HATH GRANTED, BARGAINED AND SOLD AN D BY THESE PRESENTS DOTH GRANT, BARGAIN AND SELL UNTO THE SAID JAME S CALLOWAY HIS TRACT OF LAND CALLED THE "ROYAL FOREST" IN BEDFORD COU NTY AND CONTAINING 644 ACRES BEING THE PLACE OF HIS PRESENT RESIDENCE ; ALSO ONE OTHER TRACT CALLED MT. PLEASANT CONTAINING 600 ACRES; TO H AVE AND TO HOLD THE SAID TRACTS OF LAND WITH THE PROMISES TO THE SAI D JAMES CALLOWAY HIS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS FOREVER IN FEE SIMPLE, AND TH E SAID WILLIAM MEADE FOR HIMSELF, HIS HEIRS, EXECUTORS AND
ADMINISTRATORS DOTH COVENANT TO AND WITH THE SAID JAMES CALLOWAY HI S HEIRS
ASSIGN THE TITLE OF THE SAID LAND TO WARRANT FOREVER DEFENC BY THES E PRESENTS
OR TRUST.  NEVERLESS, THAT IF THE SAID WM. MEAD SHALL SAVE HARMLESS A ND
INDEMNIFY THE SAID JAMES CALLOWAY FROM ALL INJURY BY REASON OF HIS EN GAGEMENT
THEN THIS WRITING IS TO BE VOID;BUT IF ON THE CONTRARY THE SAID JAME S CALLOWAY BY REASON THEREOF SHALL BE IN DANGER OF INCURRING LOSS AN D DAMAGE IN HIS OWN ESTATE OR PERSON, THEN IT SHALL BE LAWFUL FOR HI M TO SELL THE SAID LANDS ON GIVING ONE MONTHS NOTICE THEREOF FOR AS M UCH AS IT WILL ARRIVE TO AT PUBLIC SALE FOR READY MONEY, AND FOR TH E OVERPLUS IF ANY, SHALL BE PAID TO THE SAID WM. MEAD HIS ATTORNEY, H IS HEIRS OR ASSIGNS.
DEED BOOK G. 498 BEDORD COUNTY: KNOW YOU THAT I WILLIAM MEAD OF THE C OUNTY OF
BEDFORD AND PARISH OF RUSSELL WITH THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, INTE NDING TO
REMOVE TO THE STATE OF GEORGIA , HATH APPOINTED EDMOND WINSTON OF TH E COUNTY
OF CAMPBELL, MY LAWFUL ATTORNEY FOR ME AND IN MY STEAD TO SELL THE FO LLOWING
TRACTS OF LAND, TO WIT, THAT TRACT KNOWN AS THE "ROYAL FOREST", CONTA INING 644 ACRES; THAT TRACT CALLED MILFORD ON OTTER RIVER AND ELK CRE EK CONTAINING 610ACRES; THAT TRACT CALLED MT. PLEASANT CONTAINING 60 0 ACRES ON THE EAST SIDE OF ELK CREEK, SEVERALLY AND ALL BEING AND LY ING WITHIN THE AFORESAID COUNTY OF BEDFORD; ALSO ONE OTHER TRACT OF L AND CONTAINING 1254 ACRES ON OTTER RIVER ABOVE THE TRACT CALLED MILLF ORD; AND IN MY NAME TO EXECUTE DEED OR DEEDS FOR THE NAME IN FEE SIMP LE....DATED 28THE OF MARCH 1785.
ROYAL FOREST HAD AN ORCHARD OF 80 ACRES AND YIELDED PER ANNUM, 1000 G ALLONS
OF BRANDY.
HENRY COUNTY, VIRGINIA: WILLIAM MEAD OF THE COUNTY OF BEDFORD TO JOH N DAVIS OF COUNTY OF HENRY, FOR SUM OF 8,000 POUNDS SELLS SAID DAVI S 650 ACRES OF LAND WHEREON HE NOW LIVES ON SIMMONS RUN, BEGINNING O N BLACKWATER RIVER.  PROVED HENRY CO., VIRGINIA IN 1785 AND SIGNED B Y WILLIAM MEAD.
HENRY COUNTY, VIRGINIA: DEED PAGES 125-126 25 MARCH 1785:WILLIAM MEA D OF
BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA TO JOHN DAVIS OF CO. OF HENRY FOR SUM OF $8, 000 POUNDS SELLS SAID DAVIS 650 ACRES ON LAND WHERE HE NOW LIVES ON S IMMONS RUN BEGINNING ON BLACKWATER RIVER.
DEED BOOK G. PAGE 675:INDENTURE 22 JAN 1787 BETWEEN WM. MEAD OF GEORG IA AND
JAMES CALLOWAY THE ELDER OF THE COUNTY OF CAMPBELL AND STATE OF VIRGI NIA
CONVEYED TO JAMES CALLOWAY, IN FEE SIMPLE HIS TRACT OF LAND TO SETTL E DEBTS
(SEE DEED FOR DETAILS).
12 OCT 1789: ROBERT MEAD, ATTORNEY FOR WILLIAM MEAD OF BEDFORD CO. SE LLS UNTO
CHARLES THOMAS OF HENRY CO., FOR 64 POUNDS, 19 SHILLINGS AND 4 PENSE , 74 ACRES ON POPLAR CAMP CREEK WHICH JOINS HIS OWN LAND.
LAND GRANTS IN GEORGIA:500 ACRES AT MOUTH OF BUFFALO FORK OF REED ISL AND; 500
ACRES ON BUFFALO FORK ABOUT HALF WAY TO THE HEAR; 500 ACRES ON LITTL E REED
ISLAND, BEGINNING AT OLD CAMP; 1000 ACRES INCLUDING THE HEADS OF BUFF ALO FORK
AND LITTLE RIVER; 5000 ACRES ON A SMALL RUN CALLED BY THE HUNTERS, "N ORTH FORK OF CLINCH";10,000 ACRES  ON SAME WATERS INCLUDING OLD INDIA N TOWNS; 10,000 ACRES ON SAME WATERS INCLUDING THE MOUGH OF SPARROW G RASS CREE; 5000 ACRES JOINING CAPT. INGLISH'S SURVEY AT BLUE SPRINGS.
V. 10, PAGE 14: CATTLE BELONGING TO MR. WILLIAM MEAD, TAKEN IN FRENC H INDIAN
WAR.. MR. MEAD PAID. HE SERVED IN THE FRENCH INDIAN AND REVOLUTIONAR Y WAR.
1781-1782: GENERAL WAYNE REPORTS,... 1 MILE WIDE RIVER, BOATS VERY BA D...
ENCAMPED SOUTH SIDE OF MR. MEAD'S FARM...NEXT DAY TO SURRY COUNTY.
OCCUPATIONS: HE MOVED TO BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA AND IN DEED BOOK A : P.6 DATED 2 JULY 1754, HE IS LISTED AS WILLIAM MEAD, CARPENTER AN D ANN, HIS WIFE. WM.BOYD.
SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY, DEPUTY SURVEYOR UNDER RICHARD STITH IN BEDFOR D COUNTY,
VIRGINIA.  HE SURVEYED LANDS IN VIRGINIA IN 1775-1780.(BEDFORD AND HE NRY COUNTY, VIRGINIA).  HE IS NOTED ON A LIST OF THE JUSTICES OF TH E PEACE FOR BEDFORD CO., VA. FROM 1778-1783 AND WAS SHERIFF FOR BEDFO RD COUNTY, VIRGINIA. OCTOBER 23, 1764, MR. WILLIAM  MEAD, GENTLEMAN , PRODUCED A COMMISSION FROM THE GOVENOR TO BE HIGH SHERIFF.
GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE: DECEMBER 9, 1786: MEMBER OF A TOWN COMMITTEE W ITH OTHER PROMINENT CITIZENS OF AUGUSTA WHICH INCLUDED MR. BALDWIN, D R. TODD, COLONEL JACK, MR. COLEMAN, CHARLES SIMMONS AND OTHERS.
RELIGION: MEMBER OF ST. PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA WILL BOOKS:
GEORGE CALLAWAY ACCOUNT, DATED 1773, MENTIONS WILLIAM MEAD.
WM. FERRELL WILL DATED APRIL 1780 MENTIONS NICHOLAS AND WILLIAM MEAD.
STANLEY GOWER: ITEMS PURCHASED FROM ESTATE DATED 10 OCT 1783.
WAS INCLUDED IN PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX OF RUSSELL CO., VIRGINIA IN 179 7 ON
ROBERT TATE'S LIST WITH SAMUEL MEAD.
MILITARY: BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA, 1758.
SERVED AS LT.OF THE COUNTY MILITIA, AND IN OTHER CAPASITIES IN THE MI LITIA AND WAS IN THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE FRENCH AT FT. DUQESNE.  WIL LIAM SERVED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND WAS GRANTED 2,666 ACRES OF L AND FOR THREE YEARS SERVICE IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY AS AN ENSIGN. DA R RECORDS 31-159 AND DAR 57-614.  HE WAS IN THE 8TH CONTINENTAL LIN E 16 FEB, 1776.  WARRANT #3842 PROVIDED LAND IN KENTUCKY.
IN THE WAR WITH THE FRENCH AND INDIANS, WILLIAM RESIGNED HIS COMMISSI ON ON 6
JANUARY 1772 IN THE PRESENCE OF SIX CAPTAINS: FRANCIS CALLOWAY, J. BO STWICK
ISHAM TALBOT, CHARLES TALBOT, ROBERT IRWIN, FRANCIS THORPE, WILLIAM T RIG AND
JOSEPH REMFROE.  HE CONTINUED TO HAVE BUSINESS CONTACTS WITH SOME O F THESE MEN.
RESIDENCES: PENNSYLVANIA, TO FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA TO BEDFORD COUN TY,
VIRGINA, TO GEORGIA.
GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE:DECEMBER 23, 1786:PUBLIC NOTICE OF LOSS OF NOT E FROM
MR. JAMES SIMMONS, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, "TO BE PAID A T THE
RACES", HE STATES NO ONE WAS TO PASS OR RECEIVE IT AS HE HAD RECEIVE D FULL
SATISFACTION FOR IT.
NOTICE:MARCH 10, 1787...WHEREAS A CERTAIN WILLIAM MEAD...LATE OF TH E STATE OF
VIRGINIA, CARRIED OUT OF THE STATE A NUMBER OF SLAVES...WHATEVER FRO M PURCHASING EITHER OF THE FOLLOWING SLAVES OR THEIR INCREASE, VIZ. , JUDY, DOLL, NAN, KATE, MOLL, DORCAS, GRACE, NED, JOE, BOB, SAM, HAN NAH, AGAIE, HARVEY, LEWIS, JESSIE, ANNIKIE, NELLY, BECK, ESTER, PHILL , LUCY, ANDRES CHARKES, SOLOMAN, EMANUEL,ISHAM, TOM, SUKEY, FRANK, AB RAHAM AND STEPSEY.
CENSUS OF 1790 RECONSTRUCTED OF GEORGIA: WILLIAM MEAD OF RICHMOND,
RICHMOND CO., GEORGIA DEED BOOK E. 1794, FOLIO 48, AUGUST 8, 1786.  O F RICHMOND CO., OTHERWISE LATELY CALLED WILLIAM MEAD OF BEDFORD CO. , VIRGINIA AND WILLIAM COWLES OF CHARLES CITY, VIRGINIA, MORTGAGE T O LITTLEBERRY BOSTICK OF RICHMOND CO, 60 ACRES ON CUPBOARD CREEK.  TE ST THOMAS P. CARNES AND WILLIAM STITH.
AUGUSTA COUNTY AS EVIDENCED BY HEADRIGHT AND BOUNTY GRANTS OF 190-179 5.
HE WAS A VESTRYMAN AT RUSSELL PARISH, BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA: HAILE AND MEAD: POWER OF ATTORNEY, NICHOLA S HAILE AND WIFE, RUTH, APPROVE WILLIAM MEAD AS THEIR ATTORNEY TO AC T AND DO AS IF NICHOLAS HAILE WAS PRESENT.
RICHMOND COUNTY, GEORGIA WAS CREATED IN 1777 FROM THE PARISH OF ST. P AUL.
RICHMOND, GEORGIA:OCT 9, 1790: SUPERIOR COURT, WILLIAM MEAD VS. MICHA EL
MONTGOMERY, ATTACHMENT.  MONTGOMERY DEFAULTER.
MEMBER OF THE GRAND JURY OF RICHMOND COUNTY GEORGIA AUGUST 1790. SO N IN LAW
AMBROSE GORDON WAS ALSO NOTED ON JURY.
TYLERS QUARTERLY, VOLUME 29, P. 259: "DIED ON THE 30TH ON HIS PLANTAT ION NEAR
AUGUSTA (CHARLESTOWN COURIER, 1806) IN THE 84TH YEAR OF HIS LIFE.  CO L. MEAD
WAS A NATIVE OF VIRGINIA AND RESIDED IN BEDFORD COUNTY WHERE HE ACTE D AS HIGH
SHERIF AND COMMANDED A REGIMENT OF MILITIA BEFORE HIS REMOVAL TO GEOR GIA.  HE
HE WAS A ZEALOUS AND WARM FRIEND TO THE INDEPENDENCE OF HIS COUNTY AN D TO THE
DOMESTIC WALKS OF LIFE, AN AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND AND INDULGENT FATHER.
DAR RECORDS 124129, 31160, 134033.
SOME RECORDS STATE HE WAS BORN IN WALES, BUT THIS IS INACCURATE AS HI S FATHER
WAS NOTED IN BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA IN 1703.
RICHMOND COUNTY, GEORGIA, DATED 19 FEB. 1805 AND PROBATED JAN. 6, 180 6.
RECORDED IN BOOK OF WILLS A, FOLIO 31,32 AND 33 COURT OF THE ORDINARY.
"I WILLIAM MEAD OF CUPBOARD, COUNTY OF RICHMOND AND STATE OF GEORGIA. ..I
BEQUEATH TO SON NICHOLAS MEAD, ONE GUINES AND NO MORE IN ADDITION T O WHAT HE
ALREADY HAD...ELIZABETH GORDON TEN OR 15 GUINEAS AND A MOURNING RING. ..I GIVE
AND BEQUEATH TO SON MAHLON MEAD AND STITH MEAD AND THEIR HEIRS FOREVE R ALL MY
LANDS IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA UNDISPOSED OF AND REMAINING IN THE HAN DS OF
ROBERT MEAD AND CHARLES TALBOT AND JOHN CALLOWAY TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDE D AMONG
THEM BUT SUBJECT TO BE DISPOSED OF BY STITH MEAD... TO MARTHA MCMILLO N, WIFE OF ALEXANDER MCMILLON, PARCEL OF LAND SHE NOW LIVES ETC...I G IVE AND BEQUATH TO MY DAUGHTER, PRISCILLA SIMS AND HER HEIRS FOREVER. .. TO MY SON COWLES MEAD MEAD ALL THE LANDS WHICH I HAVE ALREADY EXEC UTED A DEED TO HIM, ...TO MY SON MARSTON MEAD, ALL THE LAND I HAVE EX ECUTED A DEED TO HIM... TO MY DAUGHTER CATHERINE JONES AND HER HEIR S ALL THE LAND CONTAINING 365 ACRES...TO MY SON WILLIAM MEAD ALL TH E REMAINING PART OF THE CUPBOARD TRACT OF LAND YET UNDISPOSED OR NO T GIVEN TO MY SONS COWLES AND MARSTON...



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Burial: St. Paul P.E., (Site of), Augusta, Georgia
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Notes for ANN HAILE:
DIED IN CONFINEMENT AFTER BIRTH OF HER DAUGHTER IN 1769



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Burial: Royal Forest, Burying Grounds, Bedford County, Virginia
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Burial: St. Paul Church, Augusta, Georgia

3.	iii.	ROBERT MEAD, b. 1743, Bedford County, Virginia; d. January 1825, Floyd County, Kentucky.


Generation No. 3

3.  ROBERT3 MEAD (JOHN2, WILLIAM1)3,4,5 was born 1743 in Bedford County, Virginia, and died January 1825 in Floyd County, Kentucky.  He married HANNAH RHODES6 December 30, 1769 in Bedford County, Virginia.

Notes for ROBERT MEAD:
ROBERT WAS LISTED AS AN ORPHAN IN BEDFORD CO., VIRGINIA RECORDS OF 17 64.
HE ATTESTED TO BROTHER WILLIAM'S CHARACTER, WITH OTHERS, IN LETTER FO UND IN
STITH MEAD'S MEMOIRS DATED 1773.
NOVEMBER 28, 1764, BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA: ORDERED THAT THE CHURC H WARDENS
BIND OUT ROBERT MEAD, ORPHAN OF JOHN MEAD, ACCORDING TO THE LAW.
JUROR: BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA IN THE CASE OF CAMPBELL VS. BRANCH 2 7 JULY 1779.  THIS JURY SERVICE ESTABLISHES HIS PATRIOTISM AND MAKE S HIS DESCENDENTS ELIGIBLE FOR MEMBERSHIP IN VARIOUS REVOLUTIONARY SO CIETIES.
BROTHER WILLIAM GAVE HIM POWER OF ATTORNEY TO MANAGE HIS ESTATES IN B EDFORD
COUNTY, VIRGINIA AND HE WAS ACTIVE IN BEDFORD COUNTY REAL ESTATE FROM
1785-1801.
LISTED AS TAXPAYER IN BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA in 1778-1780 AND 1782- 1787.
HENRY COUNTY, VIRGINIA: DEED BOOK PAGES 179-180, DATED, 12 OCT. 1789:
ROBERT MEAD, THE ATTORNEY FOR WILLIAM MEAD, OF BEDFORD COUNTY, SELL S UNTO
CHARLES THOMAS OF HENRY COUNTY FOR SIXTY FOUR POUNDS 19 SHILLINGS,
4 PENSE, ...742 ACRES ON ON POPLAR CAMP CREEK WHICH JOINS HIS OWN LAN D.
1787 BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA TITHABLE LIST:
NO MALES BETWEEN 16-21, NO BLACKS THREE HORSES AND 11 CATTLE.
BEDFORD COUNTY DEEDS: SEPT 22. 1794; ROBERT MEAD, ATTORNEY FOR WILLIA M MEAD,
SOLD 1000 ACRES OF LAND ON BEAVER DAM AND CATE'S CREEK BY DEED 9/36 3 TO A.PATE.
WILL OF JAMES AYRES SR. OF BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA, DATED 20 MAY 179 7 ...LAND OF JAMES AYRES ADJOINS LAND OF ROBERT MEAD.
HE IS ON THE 1800 TAX LIST FOR BEDFORD COUNTY CITING 4 MALES OVER 21 , 1 HORSE, 2 TITHABLE SLAVES. HE HAD BOUGHT 1600 ACRES OF LAND IN VIR GINIA FROM HIS BROTHER WILLIAM MEAD FOR 16,000 LBS OF TOBACCO. HIS LA NDS LAY ON GOOSE CREEK OR ITS TRIBUTARIES IN BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
MR. BILLY D. MEADE HAS RECORDS IN FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY, THAT ROBER T WAS IN
THAT AREA ABOUT 1801 IN THE AREA OF BIG MUD CREEK AT THE JUNCTION O F LITTLE MUD CREEK, AT THE AREA WHICH IS NOW HAROLD, KENTUCKY.  ROBER T, A PIONEER OF MUD CREEK, KENTUCKY, BROUGHT A FEW SLAVES FROM BEDFOR D COUNTY, VA., TO WORK ON A CABIN ON OR NEAR THE MOUTH OF LITTLE MU D CREEK.  THESE SLAVES ASSISTED MEAD IN ERECTING THE CABIN AND CLEARI NG A SMALL AREA AROUND IT.  WHEN THE TASK WAS COMPLETED, ROBERT MEA D AND HIS SLAVES RETURNED TO VIRGINIA AND RETURNED WITH IS FAMILY T O THEIR WILDERNESS HOME.
HE WAS APPOINTED SURVEYOR OF THE ROAD IN MAY OF 1810 FROM GRAHAMS SHO AL TO THE GAP OF MUD. SURVEYOR HELPERS INCLUDED ROBERT MEAD JR., ISHA BOD MCBRAYER, JACOB ROBERT JR., MOSES, AND RHODES.
CENSUS OF 1810: FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WITH RHODES, SAMUEL, AND MOSE S.
INCLUDES ONE MALE 16-26; ONE MALE 45 AND OVER; ONE FEMALE UNDER 10; O NE FEMALE 10-16; ONE FEMALE 45 AND OVER.
HE IS NOTED ON THE 1837 FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY, TAX LIST OF 1837, WIT H THOMAS, JACOB SLUSHER, RHODES MEAD, CHRISTOPHER(SON IN LAW) AND ROB ERT TOLER.
OCCUPATION: SURVEYOR, BAPTIST PREACHER, FARMER AND JUSTICE OF THE PEA CE.
RESIDENCE: GOOSE CREEK IN BEDFORD COUNTY AS DESCRIBED IN DEED OF 20 S EPT 1800. LAND CONTAINED 350 ACRES BEGINNING WHERE MEAD'S LINE JOIN S GEORGE CUNDIFF AND ALONG HIS LINE AS IT RUNS TO JAMES AYRE'S LINE T O A DIVIDING LINE THAT IS TO THENCE ALONG SAID DIVIDING LINE TO A DIV IDING LINE BETWEEN SAID
MEAD AND JOHN NEWLON, THENCE WITH SAID NEWLON'S LINE TO THE BEGINNING.
MAY 1810.  HE IS LISTED AS SURVEYOR OF THE ROAD FROM GRAHAMS SHOALS T O THE GAPOF MUD IN KENTUCKY.  HIS ASSISTENTS WERE ICHABOD MCBRAYER, R OBERT AND RHODES MEAD (SONS), JACOB SLUSHER, CHRISTOPHER AND ROBERT T OLER, AND JOHN CASEBOLT.  A TRIBUTORY OF MUD CREEK WAS NAMED FOR CHRI STOPHER TOLER WHO MARRIED ROBERT'S DAUGHTER, EDY MEAD.
DEED: 1795: CONVEYED TO OLDEST SON, BENJAMIN MEAD, 139 1/2 ACRES OF L AND ON
ROCK CASTLE CREEK.
PLEASE NOTE ALL RECORDS FROM THE FORMATION OF FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCK Y IN 1799 TO 1808 WERE DESTROYED AS A RESULT OF A FIRE IN THE COURT H OUSE. THE FIRST COURT BOOK IS AVAILABLE FROM 4 OCTOBER 1808 TO THE 2 7 OF DECEMBER 1813.
HE DISPOSED OF HIS LAND IN BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA IN 1801.
HE DIED INTESTATE IN 1825. JONOTHAN AKERS AND SOLOMAN AKERS, HIS SON S IN LAW,
WERE APPOINTED AS ADMINISTRATORS OF HIS HOLDINGS  WITH THOMAS OWEN , A CLOSE
FRIEND.



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Burial: Mud Creek, Harold, Kentucky
Record Change: July 08, 1999

Notes for HANNAH RHODES:
FAMILY MEMBERS REPORT THAT SHE DIED IN 1855 AND IS BURIED IN SALEM CO UNTY, INDIANA.  THIS HAS NOT BEEN CONFIRMED.  NAME ALSO IDENTIFIED A S "JO".


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Children of ROBERT MEAD and HANNAH RHODES are:
	i.	SAMUEL4 MEAD, b. 1769, Bedford County, Virginia; d. Abt. 1828, Floyd Co., Kentucky; m. CATHERINE (GUTBRODT) GOODBREAD, 1789, Burke County, North Carolina.

Notes for SAMUEL MEAD:
LISTED IN FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY, CENSUS OF 1810 AND 1820.
RAY ASPLIN REPORTED THAT SAMUEL LIVED IN SOUTH CAROLINA FOR A FEW YEA RS BEFORE RETURNING TO KENTUCKY IN 1794. HE MARRIED WIFE IN NORTH CAR OLINA.
CENSUS OF 1810 FLOYD CO., KENTUCKY LISTS TWO MALES UNDER 10; TWO MALES
10-16;TWO MALES 16-26; ONE MALE 27-45; TWO FEMALES UNDER 10; ONE FEMA LE 10-16;AND ONE FEMALE 45 AND OVER.
FLOYD COUNTY COURT RECORDS: MAY TERM OF COURT RECORDS...1810: "ON TH E MOTION OF JOHN HUNT, ORDERED THAT CORNELIUS EASTEPP, WILLIAM BRANHA M, THOMAS OWEN, AND DANIEL OWEN, MARK THE ROAD FROM OWEN OWEN , TO TH E GAP OF ROBINSON THROUGH SAMUEL MEAD'S.
MILITARY:MAY 29,1810: ORDERED ON THE MOTION OF JAMES BROWN, THAT TH E COMMISSION OF RICHARD DAMRON BE STRICKEN AND THAT TANDY STRATTON B E COMMISSIONED IN SAMUEL MEAD'S MILITIA COMPANY.
CENSUS OF 1820, FLOYD CO., KENTUCKY.
INDENTURE: FROM DANIEL OWENS TO SAMUEL MEADE IN THE AMOUNT OF $200. F OR A
20 ACRE TRACT  ON MUD CREEK, FLOYD COUNTY, KY  ON JUNE 10, 1820.
INDENTURE FROM SAMUEL MEADE TO OWEN OWENS IN THE AMOUNT OF $200. FOR A
40 ACRE TRACT ON MUD CREEK. THIS PROPERTY IS THAT ROBERT MEAD, KNOW N AS "BIG
BOB" BOUGHT FROM THE HEIRS IN 1822.
FLOYD COUNTY, KY. DEED BOOK 2, MAY 1815: SAMUEL MEADE, SR. ET AL, ORD ERED TO MARK THE BEST WAY FOR A ROAD FROM WILLIAM NEWLAND'S TO BROOKE R MULLINS.
DEED BOOK C., PAGE 144. FLOYD COUNTY, KY. 24 SEPT 1828...HEIRS OF SAM UEL MEAD
SELL 40 ACRES ON MUD CREEK TO ROBERT MEAD.  GRANTORS: CATEY MEAD SR . SAMUEL
MEAD JR., RHODES MEAD, CATY CADADY, JOHN BALDRIDGE, ELY STURGEON, BLA CKBURN
AKERS, AND THOMAS MEAD.
BILLY MEADE REPORTS THE BELIEF THAT SAMUEL IS BURIED ON MUD CREEK, FL OYD COUNTY AS EVIDENCED BY A DEED FOUND IN FLOYD COUNTY DEEK BOOK C . PAGE 144..".SEPTEMBER 24, 1828, WHEREAS ROBERT MEAD BOUGHT 40 ACRE S LOCATED ON THE MAIN FORK OF MUD CREEK, FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY".  SI GNED BY CATEY MEAD, SR.; SAMUEL MEAD, RHODES MEAD, CATEY CANADY, JOH N BALDRIDGE, ELY STURGEON, BLACKBURN AKERS, AND THOMAS MEAD OF FLOY D COUNTY, KY.  IT IS UNKNOWN WHERE ISABEL THAT MARRIED JOSEPH STALLIN GS WAS LOCATED AT THE TIME OF HER FATHER'S DEATH.



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	ii.	JOHN MEAD, b. October 12, 1770, Virginia.

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Record Change: July 09, 1999

	iii.	BENJAMIN MEAD, b. March 14, 1772, Bedford County, Virginia; d. 1821, Greenup County, Kentucky; m. ELIZABETH BROWN, December 29, 1796, Bedford County, Virginia.

Notes for BENJAMIN MEAD:
MARRIAGE BOND PRESENTED AT BEDFORD COUNTY COURTHOUSE ON 26 DECEMBER 1 796 FOR
BENJAMIN AND ELIZABETH BROWN, DAUGHTER OF DANIEL BROWN.  MARRIED BY A NDERSON
WEEKS ON 29 DECEMBER 1796.
IN DECEMBER OF 1795, ROBERT MEAD, FATHER OF BENJAMIN, CONVEYED 139 AC RES OF
LAND ON ROCK CASTLE CREEK IN BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA, TO BENJAMIN AND
ELIZABETH, HIS WIFE, WHO WAS CALLED BETSEY.  HE  SOLD THIS PROPERTY I N 1811 TO SAMUEL HANCOCK AND MOVED WEST TO (CABELL COUNTY) WAYNE COUN TY, WEST VIRGINIA,AND THEN ONWARD TO KENTUCKY AND TO BIG SANDY RIVE R AND THEREAFTER
TO GREENUP COUNTY, KENTUCKY. HE LIVED IN A HOUSE RENTED FROM JOSEPH P OWELL WHO HAD COME TO GREENUP COUNTY IN 1799. THE HOMESTEAD WAS DEMOL ISHED TO MAKE
WAY FOR THE ASHLAND COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AIRPORT.
CENSUS OF 1810 AND 1820: GREENUP CO. KENTUCKY.



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Burial: Tygarts River, Greenup County, Kentucky
Record Change: November 20, 1997

Notes for ELIZABETH BROWN:
MARRIAGE BOND: BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA:
"THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT I, ALDERSON WEEKS, CELEBRATED THE RITE OF MA RRIAGE
...BENJAMIN MEAD AND ELIZABETH BROWN OF BEDFORD COUNTY, THE 29TH DA Y OF DECEMBER 1796...BENJAMIN MEAD AND ELIZABETH BROWN OF BEDFORD CO. , THE 29TH DAY OF DECEMBER 1796.  CERTIFIED UNDER MY HAND THIS 16TH D AY OF JANUARY 1797.
SIGNED: ALDERSON WEEKS        S.M. BOLLINGS, CLERK
CENSUS OF 1830 AND 1840: GREENUP CO. KENTUCKY. CENSUS OF 1850, ELIZAB ETH, AGE
77, BORN IN VIRGINIA, RESIDING WITH DAUGHTER, SOPHIA CHINN, AGE 36.
AFTER THE DEATH OF BENJAMIN, ELIZABETH BOUGHT LAND NEAR THE PRESENT T OWN OF
RACELAND. A HOME SHE BUILT ON POND RUN IS STILL STANDING AFTER ONE HU NDRED
YEARS. SALLIE CHINN HAD THE ORIGINAL DEED GIVEN TO ELIZABETH BY CHARL ES BUFORD, WHO WAS THE ORGINAL OWNER OF FIVE THOUSAND ACRES OF LAND W HICH IS IN THE VICINITY OF THE MEAD, POWELL, AND CHINN LANDS.  ABRAHA M BUFORD RECEIVED A GRANT OF FIVE THOUSAND ACRES OF LAND FROM VIRGINI A FOR HIS SERVICES RENDERED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.  ABRAHAM GAVE T HE LAND TO HIS SON, CHARLES BUFORD WHO SOLD IT IN FARM TRACTS.
WILL OF ELIZABETH BROWN MEAD IS LOCATED IN GREENUP CO., KENTUCKY AN D IS DATED
DECEMBER 1851.
NOTED ON GRAVESTONE..."ELIZABETH, WIFE OF BENJAMIN MEAD, DIED OCTOBE R 19, 1851 AGE 81 YEARS.



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Record Change: August 18, 1998

	iv.	REUBEN MEAD, b. February 17, 1774, Virginia.

Notes for REUBEN MEAD:
REUBAN MEAD PURCHASED LAND THAT FORMERLY BELONGED TO HIS SISTER MATIL DA MEAD
AND HER HUSBAND SOLOMAN MEAD THRU THE SON IN LAW OF MATILDA AND SOLOM AN, HIRAM OWEN.  THIS PLACES HIM IN CASS COUNTY, MISSOURI IN MAY OF 1 858.



	v.	WILLIAM MEAD, b. 1775, Bedford Co., Virginia; m. ELIZABETH "BETSY".

Notes for WILLIAM MEAD:
LISTED IN 1800 TAX LIST FOR BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA, AS HAVING ONE M ALE OVER
21 AND FIVE HORSES.
PRICHARD REPORTS, PG. 25 OF MEAD RELATIONS, "MARY E. MEADE, DAUGHTE R OF ALBERT GALLATIN MEAD, AND GRANDAUGHTER OF BENJAMIN MEADE, WROT E TO COUSIN, MRS. GEORGE B. CLANCY ON 19 FEB. 1915, STATING SHE WAS 8 1 YEARS OLD IN JAN 1915, AND SHE HAD HEARD HER FATHER MENTION, "UNCL E MOSES MEAD AND UNCLE RHODES MEAD'.  WHEN THIS WAS STATED TO HENRY A . MEAD, JR. A BROTHER OF MRS. CLANCY, HE WAS QUITE CERTAIN THERE WA S ANOTHER UNCLE NAMED ELI MEAD.  IN 1917, JOHN P. MEAD OF PRINTER, KY ., WITHOUT BEING ADVISED OF THE FOREGOING, WROTE AS FOLLOWS: " MY GRE AT GRANDFATHER, WHOSE NAME WAS ROBERT MEAD, LIVED IN BEDFORD CO., VA .  iN THAT COUNTY, MY GRANDFATHER SAMUEL MEAD ABOUT 1784 MARRIED KAT Y GOODBREAD AND MOVED TO THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY IN 1794.  THERE WA S ANOTHER FAMILY OF MEADS, WHO WAS COUSINS TO MY FATHER, WHO CAME T O THIS PART OF THE COUNTY FROM BEDFORD CO., VA. ABOUT 1790.  THEY WA S ALL BROTHERS, THERE NAMES WAS RHODES, WILLIAM, AND ELI.  THEIR DESC ENDANTS INTER MARRIED WITH THE HATCHERS, WEDDINGTONS, STONE, FERGUSON S, LAYNES, O'WINES(OWENS), AND RATCLIFFS, AND HOWELLS."
JOHN P. MEAD IS PROBABLY WRONG WITH HIS DATES.  W.G. MEAD OF HAROLD , KENTUCKY ON MAY 1, 1932 WROTE THAT "THE ROBERT MEAD YOU MENTION CAM E FROM BEDFORD COUNTY VIRGINIA AND SETTLED ON BIG MUD CREEK, WAS MY G REAT GRANDFATHER.  I AM A GRANDSON OF HIS SON MOSES, HE CAME HERE I N 1801."  HE MADE FINAL DISPOSITIONS OF HIS LAND IN BEDFORD COUNTY I N 1801.  LATER RESEARCH STATED THAT ROBERT BROUGHT SLAVES TO BUILD HI S CABIN IN 1790'S AND THEN RETURNED TO VIRGINIA TO SELL HIS PROPERT Y THERE BEFORE COMPLETING HIS MOVE TO KENTUCKY.
1820 CENSUS OF FLOYD CO., KY:1 MALE 45 AND UP(WILLIAM BORN 1775, BEDF ORD CO., VIRGINIA.  1 FEMALE 45 AND UP, WILLIAM'S WIFE, ELIZABETH , 3 FEMALES UNDER 10, 1 FEMALE 10-16 AND 1 FEMALE 16-26.
MARRIAGE BOND:"TO THE HONORABLE THE CLARK OF PIKE CO., MR. SPENCE ADK INS, I DO RIGHT TO YOU IN THE HIGHEST ROOLES OF SIVILITY THOUGH ONAQU AINTED WITH YOU THESE____________ TO YOU GREETING HOPEING AND CONFIDI NG IN YOUR GOOD SIRCOMSPECTION AND FIDELLITY TO GRANT TO THE BEARES M IKLE, LISONS FOR HIS SONE JOHN CLINE AND A DAUGHTER OF MINE KEZIA MEA D AND THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT I AM WILLINY GIVEN FREE PRIVILEDG TO TH E MARRIAG AND HEARTO SET MY HAND AND FIX MY SEAL THE 16 DAY OF OCT 18 22.
WRITTEN ON BACK OF THE LETTER: MICHAEL CLINE PERSONALLY APPEARED BEFO RE ME AND MADE OATH THAT HE SAW WILLIAM MEAD SIGN 26 OCT 1822.  LICEN SE ISSUED OCT 26, 1822 FOR MARRIAGE OF JOHN CLINE AND ____MEAD BY SPE NCER ADKINS.
THERE ARE NO FURTHER REFERENCES TO WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH IN FLOYD CO. , KY.
A CERTIFICATE OF LAND GRANT FOR 400 ACRES ON MUD CREEK, MARCH 25, 184 2, WAS RETURNED AS VACANT.(U.K. LIBRARY).
A WILLIAM MEAD IS NEXT FOUND IN GREENUP CO., KY. IN 1830.  HE AND ELI ZABETH MEADE ARE THE ONLY TWO MEAD-ES IN THIS CENSUS.  BILLY D. MEAD E FELT THAT HE WENT TO GREENUP ABOUT THE TIME HIS BROTHER BENJAMIN DI ED.  IN GREENUP CO., MARRIAGES THEOPHILUS GOODWIN AND SOFANA MEAD MAR RIED DATED 8 JAN 1833 AND WAS SHOWN TO BE THE DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM MEAD


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	vi.	ROBERT MEAD, b. December 06, 1775, Bedford County, Virginia.

Notes for ROBERT MEAD:
CENSUS OF FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY 1810 AND 1820.
OCCUPATION: SURVEYOR, WITH FATHER AND BROTHER AT MUD GAP, KENTUCKY I N 1810.
DEEDS: FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY IN BOOKS A AND B. SEPTEMBER 21, 1822 BE TWEEN
SAMUEL MEAD JR. OF FLOYD CO., OF ONE PART AND ROBERT MEAD JR. OF OTHE R PART,
COUNTY OF FLOYD AND MUD CREEK...IN CONSIDERATION OF $250.00.
FLOYD COUNTY, TAX ASSESSNENT 1837.



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	vii.	ABAGAIL MEAD, b. March 21, 1778, Virginia.

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	viii.	RHODES J. MEAD, b. February 28, 1780, Bedford County, Virginia; d. September 15, 1843, Washington Co., Indiana; m. PRISCILLA NEWLON, November 17, 1799, Bedford County, Virginia.

Notes for RHODES J. MEAD:
MARRIAGE BOND AND CONSENT OF FATHER, JOHN NEWLAN, THE FATHER OF HIS B RIDE,
PRISCILLA NEWLAN, FILED IN BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA, COUNTY CLERK'S O FFICE
ON NOVEMBER 10, 1799.
OCCUPATION: 1810 SURVEYED MUD GAP, KENTUCKY, WITH FATHER AND BROTHE R ROBERT.
1810 CENSUS OF KENTUCKY, FLOYD CO. LISTS ONE MALE 16-26.
1820 CENSUS OF KENTUCKY: FLOYD CO.
BAPTIST MINISTER AND FLOYD COUNTY JUSTICE OF THE PEACE ON 24 JAN 1822.
LAND CONVEYED ABOVE THE MOUTH OF MUD CREEK OF SANDY RIVER.
27 DEC 1817. TRUSTEES WHICH INCLUDE RHODES MEAD SOLD SEVERAL TRACTS L AND FLOYD CO., KENTUCKY.  ANOTHER TRACT ALSO SOLD 91 ACRES TO JOHN WI LLIAMS.
TRUSTEES; WILLIAM J. MAYO, RHODES MEAD, JOHN HACKWORTH, TANDY STRATTO N, THOMAS JOHNS, ROBERT BROWN AND MEAL MAYO.
KENTUCKY: FLOYD COUNTY JUSTICE OF THE PEACE RECORDED IN RECORD BOOK " A" PAGE
74 ON  24 JAN 1822.
APPOINTED AS ONE OF THE COMMISSIONERS WHO WOULD DETERMINE SEAT FOR PI KE COUNTY IN 1823. THE COURTHOUSE AND JAIL WERE COMPLETED IN PIKESVIL LE ON THE FORMER PEACH ORCHARD BOTTOM LAND BY MAY OF 1824.
FAMILY: SEE "HISTORY OF KENTUCKY" PRINTED 1888, FOR SKETCH OF ROBER T WEDDINGTON.
MILITARY: COLONEL RHODES MEAD OF THE WAR OF 1812.
RESIDENCES: VIRGINIA, KENTUCKY AND INDIANA.
DEEDS:BOOKS A, B, C, OF FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
17 DECEMBER 1808: DEED BY DAVID MORGAN TO ROADS (SP)MEADE FOR THE SU M OF 47
POUNDS FOR A 50 ACRE TRACT OF LAND ON MUD CREEK.  THE PROPERTY IS BOU NDED BY
CHRISTOPHER TOLLER(SP).
7 MARCH 1815: INDENTURE TO CHRISTOPHER TOLAR FROM THOMAS LONGINO OF S TOKES
COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, IN THE AMOUNT OF $600. FOR 50 ACRES OF LAND O N MUD
CREEK.  ATTESTED: JAMES CURBY AND ROADS MEADE.
10 AUGUST 1816: INDENTURE TO THOMAS OWEN, DAN OWEN, OWEN OWEN, JAME S OWEN, AND WILLIAM BRANNAM FROM WILLIAM NEWLAND IN THE AMOUNT OF $1. 00 FOR 36 ACRES ON MUD CREEK. ATTENSTED BY RHODES MEADE AND LASARUS D AMRON.
27 DEC 1817: INDENTURE FROM WILLIAM JAMES MAYO, RHODES MEADE, JOHN HA CKWORTH,
TANDY STRATTON, THOMAS JOHNS, ROBERT BROWN AND MIAL MAYO, TRUSTEES O F THE FLOYD SEMINARY LAND TO MICAHAH HARRISON IN THE AMOUNT OF $300 . FOR 303 ACRES IN FLOYD COUNTY ON QUICK SAND CREEK.
11 DAY AUG 1821 BETWEEN W.J. MAYO, RHODES MEAD, ET AL TRUSTEES TO TH E SEMINARY LAND, FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
DEED 18 MAY 1829 RECORDED IN FLOYD, CO., OF KENTUCKY, BOOK C. PAGE 13 4.
10 AUG 1830 BETWEEN THOMAS OWEN, OWEN OWENS, JAMES OWEN AND WM. BRANN AN.
WITNESS:; RHODES MEAD.
COUNTY COURT BOOK 1;  FLOYD COUNTY KENTUCKY:
MAY TERM 1810: THE FOLLOWING PERSONS WERE APPOINTED COMMISSIONER OF R EVENUE IN THEIR RESPECTIVE COMPANY OF MILITIA AND ORDERED THEY OBTAI N THE LIST OF
TAXABLE PROPERTY...RICHARD DAMRON IN CAPTAIN RHODES MEADE CO.
ORDERED THAT ROBERT MEAD BE MADE SURVEYOR OF THE ROAD FROM GRAHAM'S S HOAL TO
THE GAP OF MUD.  HANDS TO ASSIST: ICHABOD MCBRAYER, ROBERT MEAD, JACO B SLUSHER, RHODES MEAD, CHRISTOPHER TOLER, ROBERT TOLER AND JOHN CASE BOLT.
JANUARY TERM OF COUNTY COURT BOOK I, FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY: TANDY ST RATTON WAS APPOINTED COMMISSIONER OF REVENUE IN CAPTAIN RHOADS MEADE' S COMPANY.
TUESDAY, FEB. 23, 1813: CHRISTOPHER TOLAR, RHODES MEAD, JOHN HUNT, DA VID
BRANHAM JR., TO APPRAISE THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM JUSTICE.
23 NOV, 1813: RHODES MEAD AND TANDY STRATTON APPOINTED ADMINISTRATOR S OF THE
ESTATE OF RICHARD PREECE, DECEASED.
29 MAR 1814: ON THE MOTION OF ALEXANDER LACKEY ON BEHALF OF THE SHARE HOLDERS OF MOSES PRESTON, ORDERED THAT WILLIAM J. MAYO, HARRY STRATTO N, JOHN HACKWORTH, CHRISTOPHER TOLER, RHODES MEAD, JAMES BROWN AND TH OMAS JOHNS BE APPOINTED COMMISSIONERS TO DIVIDE SAID LANDS BETWEEN TH E SHARE HOLDERS OF MOSES PRESTON.
28 MARCH 1815: COUNTY COURT BOOK 2: TANDY STRATTON AND RHODES MEADE,
ADMINISTATORS OF THE ESTATE OF RICHARD PRIEST.
27 NOVEMBER 1815: RHODES MEADE APPOINTED GUARDIAN OF THE INFANT HEIR S OF THOMAS SWARDS, DECEASED.
24 FEBUARY 1817: FOLLOWING PERSONS RECCOMMENDED AS FIT PERSONS TO FIL L THE
OFFICE OF THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE...JAMES HONAKER AND RHODES MEAD, B OTH
RESIDING ON SANDY RIVER.
COUNTY COURT BOOK 3:
15 MARCH 1819: MOTION OF SALLY STRATTON, WIDOW OF SOLOMAN STRATTON, I T IS
ORDERED THAT ALEX. LACKEY, RHODES MEADE, JAMES HONAKER ARE TO ALLOT A ND CONVEY THE SAID SALLEY HER DOWER IN THE REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE O F THE DECEDENT.
17 MAY 1819:ON THE MOTION OF MATHEW SPURLOCK, ONE OF THE HEIRS OF JOHN
SPURLOCK, DEC., ORDERED THAT RHODES MEADE, HARRY STRATTON, MASON WILL IAMS AND
ALEXANDER DUNBAR BE APPOINTED COMMISSIONERS TO VALUE THE ADVANCEMENT S MADE TO
THE DIFFERANT HEIRS AND REPORT NEXT COURT.
COUNTY COURT BOOK 4:
28 JAN 1822: ISAAC LYKENS AND RHODES MEADE APPEARED AND PRODUCED COMM ISSIONS
APPOINTING THEM AS JUSTICES OF THE PEACE IN THIS COUNTY.
24 JUNE 1822: RHODES MEADE APPEARED IN OPEN COURT AND RESIGNED HIS OF FICE AS
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE OF THIS COUNTY.
27 DEC. 1824: WILLIAM BRANHAM IS APPOINTED ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTAT E OF DAVID BRANHAM, DECEASED. ORDERED THAT JOHN HATCHER, RHODES MEADE , THOMAS
FERROLL AND SAMUEL CLARK ARE TO APPRAISE THE ESTATE.
22 MAY 1825: ON THE MOTION OF THOMAS HOWELL, ORDERED RHODES MEADE, WI LLIAM
BRANHAM, ELISHA BRANHAM AND ELI MEADE TO VIEW AND MARK THE BEST WAY F OR A ROAD FROM THE MOUTH OF TOLARS CREEK TO THE PIKE COUNTY LINE.
26 JUN 1826: RHODES MEADE AND WILLIAM W. SMITH ARE APPOINTED ADMINIST ATORS OF
THE ESTATE OF JOHN R. KEACH, DEC.
MARRIAGE BONDS OF FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY:
BOND DATED 29 SEPTEMBER 1810 BY MOSES MEAD AND RHODES MEAD FOR A MARR IAGE
SHORTLY TO BE HAD BETWEEN MOSES MEAD AND POLLY HACKWORTH.
BOND DATED 13 FEB. 181 BY RICHAR PREECE AND RHODES MEAD FOR A MARRIAG E SHORTLY SHORTLY TO BE HELD BETWEEN RICHARD PREECE AND CATY NEWLAND.
BOND DATED 1 JULY 1818 BY JOHN R. KEACH AND RHODES MEAD FOR A MARRIAG E SHORTLY TO BE HAD BETWEEN JOHN R. KEACH AND HANNAH MEAD.
BOND DATED 19 DEC. 1821 BY JOHN OWENS AND JAMES L. LAYNE FOR A MARRIA GE SHORTLY TO BE HAD BETWEEN JOHN OWENS AND DEBORAH MEADE.  ...TO TH E CLERK OF FLOYD COUNTY, SIR: PLEASE TO ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENCE TO JOH N OWENS AND MY DAUGHTER, DEBORAH MEAD AND OBLIDGE YOURS, DECEMBER TH E 15TH DAY, 1821, RHODES MEAD.
BOND DATED 22 APRIL 1823 BY BLACKBURN AKERS AND RHODES MEADE FOR A MA RRIAGE
SHORTLY TO BE HAD BETWEEN BLACKBURN AKERS AND KEZIAH MEAD.
BOND DATED 22 APRIL 1823 BY RHODES MEAD AND BLACKBURN AKERS FOR A MAR RIAGE
SHORTLY TO BE HAD BETWEEN RHODES MEAD AND POLLY BRANHAM.
BOND DATED 12 APRIL 1824 BY JOHN WILSON AND RHODES MEAD FOR A MARRIAG E SHORTLY TO BE HAD BETWEEN JOHN WILSON AND NANCY MEAD.
BOND DATED 26 JUL 1825: BY ENOCH FARRELL AND JEREMIAH TERRY FOR A MAR RIAGE
SHORTLY TO BE HAD BETWEEN ENOCH FARRELL AND CATHERINE MEAD...JULY TH E 24, 1825.
THIS IS TO SERTIFY THAT I HAVE CONSENTED THAT ENOCH FARRELL SHALL HAV E MY
DAUGHTER CATHARINE. GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL. RHODES MEAD.
BOND DATED 1 MAY 1826 BY ELI STURGON AND RHODES MEAD FOR A MARRIAGE S HORTLY TO BE HAD BETWEEN ELI STURGON AND PRISCILLA MEAD.  TO THE CLER K OF FLOYD COUNTY.
THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT I AM OF LAWFUL AGE INTENDING TO MARY WITH EL I STERGAN
AND WAS SIGNED BY PRISCELLA MEAD.
NOTE: PLEASE BE AWARE OF THE MULTIPLE SPELLINGS OF THE NAME OF RHODE S MEAD(e)
IN ALL THE RECORDS OF FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
CENSUS OF FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY IN 1837.
CENSUS OF FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, WASHINGTON CO., INDIANA IN 1840.
HE WAS REPORTED TO BE THE FATHER OF 16 CHILDREN, TWELVE WHO MOVED T O INDIANA
WITH THEIR PARENTS, TWO DIED IN INFANCY, AND TWO MARRIED AND REMAINE D IN
KENTUCKY.  IT IS REPORTED THAT HE MOVED TO INDIANA BECAUSE HE DID NO T BELIEVE
IN SLAVERY.
WILLIAM G. MEAD IN A LETTER TO WALTER G. MEAD, REPORTS, "AS TO GREAT
GRANDFATHER, RHODES MEAD, HE WAS A MAN OF GREAT STATURE AND WHIPPED E VERY THING IN THE SHAPE OF A MAN THAT EVER TOOK HOLD OF HIM IN THE SA NDY VALLEY AND HAVE THAT THAT HE WHIPPED THE "BULLY" OF INDIANA IN TW O WEEKS AFTER HE ARRIVED IN THAT STATE".
FAMILY BIRTH RECORDS ARE RECORDED IN FAMILY BIBLE.
WILL: WASHINGTON COUNTY, SALEM COUNTY, INDIANA. 21 JUN 1843; PROBAT E BOOK
D PAG 349-350.  THE ESTATE SETTLEMENT IS FOUND IN BOOK F PAGE 13 AN D PROBATE
BOOK 3 PAGES 197 AND 373.
THE HEIRS WERE: HANNAH HOWEL AND FIRST HUSBAND, REV. JOHN KEACH AND 2 ND SETH
HOWELL; DEBORAH RATLIFF AND THOMAS RATLIFF, HER HUSBAND; CATHERINE FE RRELL AND HER HUSBAND ENOCH FERRELL; POLLY WEDDINGTON AND HER HUSBAND , WILLIAM WEDDINGTON; JOHN N.MEAD AND WIFE LUCINDA MOORE; BELINDA WAL KER AND HER HUSBAND, MOSES S. WALKER; RHODES MEAD; ROBERT A. MEAD; MO SES J. MEAD; MATILDA GREEN AND HER HUSBAND , ROBERT GREEN; BENJAMIN M EAD AND HIS WIFE SARAH WILSON, LUCINDA LESLIE AND HER HUSBAND, AMOS L ESLIE, AND HEIRS OF NANCY ANN WILSON, DECEASED AND DAVID MEAD.



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Notes for PRISCILLA NEWLON:
DAUGHTER OF JOHN NEWLON, AS NOTED IN MARRIAGE BOND FROM BEDFORD COUNT Y, VA.
LISTED AS AGE 68 IN THE 1850 CENSUS OF INDIANA; FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, WA SHINGTON
COUNTY.
LISTED AS AGE 77 AND RESIDING WITH SON, DAVID L. MEAD, IN THE 1860 CE NSUS OF
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP IN INDIANA.
RESIDENCES: VIRGINIA, KENTUCKY AND INDIANA.
THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS STATE THAT NEWLON, NEWLIN, NEWLAND, ARE INTERC HANGEABLE IN THE RECORDS AND ARE SEEN ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.  THE NEWL ANDS CAME TO CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA IN 1683 FROM MOUNTMELICK FR IENDS MEETING IN QUEENS COUNTY, IRELAND.  NICHOLAS NEWLAND, WITH SON , NATHANIEL AND THEIR DESCENDANTS BECAME MOST PROMINENT FAMILY IN CON CORD MM IN PENNSYLVANIA.  THE NAME OF NICHOLAS WAS LISTED AS NEWLAND , HE SIGNED HIS NAME AS NICHOLAS NEWLIN IN MOST CASES WHERE SIGNITURE S WERE OBSERVED. SEE CERTIFICATE OF NICHOLAS NEWLAND IN BOOK OF IMMIG RATION OF IRISH QUAKERS BY ALBERT COOK MYERS.



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Burial: Mead Cemetary, Washington, Washington Co., Indiana
Record Change: January 15, 1998

	ix.	EDY MEAD, b. October 02, 1784, Bedford Co., Virginia; m. CHRISTOPHER TOLER, January 13, 1801, Bedford County, Virginia.

Notes for EDY MEAD:
EDY RESIDED IN THE BOYD COUNTY/LAWRENCE COUNTY AREA OF KENTUCKY.
IN BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA, ROBERT GAVE CONSENT FOR THE MARRIAGE O F HIS
"DAUGHTER, EDY MEAD" WITH CHRISTOPHER TOLER.  THIS WAS WITNESSED BY R OBERT MEAD AND URIAH LEFTWICH.



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Notes for CHRISTOPHER TOLER:
SEE MEAD RELATIONS BY A.M. PRICHARD. STAUNTON, VIRGINIA 1838.
HIS FAMILY IS RECORDED IN VIRGINIA  IN 1702.
HIS GRANDFATHER WAS WILLIAM TOLER( WILL DATED 8 APR 1791). NAMES SONS , JOSEPH
AND JOSHUA AND DAUGHTERS, LUCY BOWLES AND FRANCES DIXON.
THE FAMILY MOVED FROM BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA TO PITTSLYVANIA CO., V IRGINIA AND ON TO THE HEADWATERS OF THE BIG SANDY RIVER IN FLOYD COUN TY, KENTUCKY IN 1801.
BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA, MARRIAGE BONDS: CHRISTOPHER TOLER TO EDY ME AD ON JAN 13 1801.  EDY IS NOTED AS DAUGHTER OF ROBERT.  MARRIED BY J OHN AYERS.
KENTUCKY DEED BOOK A:
18 AUG. 1808: DEED FROM DAVID MORGAN TO CHRISTOPHER TOLER FOR A 50 AC RE TRACT
OF LAND IN FLOYD COUNTY LOCATED ON MUD CREEK, VALUED IN THE AMOUNT O F $100.
17 DEC 1808: DEED BY DAVID MORGAN TO RHODES MEAD FOR THE SUM OF 47 PO UNDS FOR A 50 ACRE TRACT OF LAND ON MUD CREEK... BOUNDED ON LAND OF C HRISTOPHER TOLER.
7 MAR 1815: INDENTURE TO CHRISTOPHER TOLAR FROM THOMAS LONGINO OF STO KES
COUNTY, N.C., IN THE AMOUNT OF $600.OO FOR 50 ACRES ON MUD CREEEK.  A TTESTED BY JAMES CURRBY AND ROADS MEAD.
MAY 10, 1810: ASSISTED ROBERT MEAD AS SURVEYOR OF THE ROAD.
NOVEMBER TERM OF COURT, 1810: BOOK I OF FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY: WILLI AM J. MAY EXECUTES 10,000 DOLLAR BOND FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. SECURI TIES INCLUDED
CHRISTOPHER TOLER ETC.
MAY 27, 1812: WILLIAM J. MAYO, TANDY STRATTON, JOHN HACKWORTH, RICHAR D PREECE, RHODES MEAD, CHRISTOPHER TOLER AND ROBERT BROWN ARE APPOINT ED TRUSTEES OF THE SEMINARY AND DONATION LAND AND THEIR NAMES ARE T O BE CARRIED INTO THE GRANT. AT THE SAME SESSION, CHRISTOPHER TOLER A ND DAVID MORGAN WERE APPOINTED BONDSMAN.
MARCH 1813: CHRISTOPHER TOLER, RHODES MEAD, JOHN HUNT, DAVID BRANHA M JR. TO
APPRAISE THE PERSONAL ESTATE, EXCEPT SLAVES, OF WILLIAM JUSTICE.
MARCH 1814: ON THE MOTION OF ALEXANDER LACKEY ON BEHALF OF THE SHAR E HOLDERS OF MOSES PRESTON, ORDERED THAT W. MAYO, HARRY STRATTON, JOH N HACKWORTH,
CHRISTOPHER TOLER, RHODES MEAD, JAMES BROWN AND THOMAS JOHNS BE APPOI NTED
COMMISSIONERS TO DIVIDE SAID LANDS BETWEEN THE SHAREHOLDERS OF MOSE S PRESTON.



	x.	MOSES MEAD, b. February 27, 1787, Bedford County, Virginia; d. 1864, Floyd Co., Kentucky; m. MARY "POLLY" HACKWORTH, October 04, 1810, Floyd Co., Kentucky.

Notes for MOSES MEAD:
FLOYD COUNTY KENTUCKY MARRIAGE BOND, DATED 29 SEPTEMBER 1810 BY MOSE S MEAD AND RHODES MEAD FOR A MARRIAGE SHORTLY TO BE HAD BETWEEN MOSE S MEAD AND POLLY
HACKWORTH.  MARRIED TO POLLY HACKWORTH ON 4 OCT 1810 BY SIMEON JUSTIC E.
RESIDENCE: FLOYD COUNTY KENTUCKY CENSUS RECORDS OF 1810.  LISTS ONE M ALE 16-26.
CENSUS: 1820 FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY, TAX LIST OF 1837.
PIKE COUNTY, KY. WAS FORMED FROM FLOYD COUNTY IN 1823.  THE TAX LIS T OF 1823
SHOWS ONE MALE OVER 21 AND TWO HORESES.
CENSUS: 1850 FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY: LISTS MOSES AS AGE 63, FARMER, W ITH
REAL VALUE OF $21,500.  TWO CHILDREN, THEIR SPOUSES, AND GRANDCHILDRE N LIVED
WITH MOSES. SON'S MARRIAGE RECORD ALSO NOTES THAT HIS FATHER WAS A "F ARMER".
TAX RECORD: FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY 1837 FOR 50 ACRES OF LAND ON SAND Y RIVER
WHICH WAS SURVEYED BY GRAHAM AND FOR 75 ACRES ON SANDY RIVER (TWO PAR CELS).
OCCUPATION: FARMER AND LARGE LANDOWNER.  HE PRACTISED FAITH HEALING A ND WAS
ACCLAIMED FOR THIS GIFT.
DEEDS: FLOYD COUNTY KENTUCKY DEED BOOK A AND B.
FEBRUARY 26, 1816, MOSES MEAD AND MICHAEL SPRINKLE OF THE COUNTY AN D STATE SOLD LAND, BILL'S BRANCHY,  BRANCH OF MUD CREEK, A BRANCH O F SANDY RIVER, FLOYD CO., KY., AMOUNT OF $100. FOR 92 ACRES.
COUNTY COURT BOOK 4: MAY TERM 1826; ON THE MOTION OF THOMAS JOHNS, OR DERED THAT MOSES MEADE, JOHN SELLARDS, JESSE MCGUIRE AND STEPHEN HOWE LL TO VIEW AND MARK THE BEST WAY FOR  A ROAD FROM JOHN WILSON'S INT O THE ROAD BELOW THE WIDOW GARRATTS.
WILLIAM G. MEADE TELLS OF HIS GRANDFATHER, MOSES (SUBJECT) "HE CAME T O KENTUCKY IN 1801....PULLLED UP STAKES IN OLD BEDFORD COUNTY, VIRGIN IA, AND SET OUT FOR KENTUCKY...ALL THE ROAD HE HAD TO TRAVEL WAS TH E BUFFALO TRAILS OR TRAILS MAKE BY THE WILD ANIMALS...AS TO THE LOCAT ION THE OLD HOMESTEAD IS EASY...WHEN YOU COME TO FIND THE OLD LOCATIO N, CAME TO HAROLD, KENTUCKY AND INQUIRE FOR EMIL HAMILTON'S PLACE WHI CH YOU CAN EASILY FIND AND THEN YOU HAVE FOUND THE WILDERNESS HOME O F OUR FIRST ANCESTOR TO EVER SETTLE WEST OF THE ALEGHANY MOUNTAINS .  IN 1822, PIKE COUNTY ASSUMED BUSINESS FROM FLOYD COUNTY, AND MOSE S TOOK THE CONTRACT TO CLEAR THE PUBLIC SQUARE FOR THE COURTHOUSE AN D THE JAIL. HE WAS A PROMINENT FARMER AND LAND OWNER.
HE DIED AT MARION RICE'S HOME.


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Burial: 1864, Layne Cemetary, Harold, Kentucky
Record Change: December 13, 1998

Notes for MARY "POLLY" HACKWORTH:
SOURCE: 1850 CENSUS OF KENTUCKY.
1870 CENSUS: WIDOW, RESIDING WITH DAUGHTER, HANNA E. MEADE RICE.


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	xi.	ELI MEAD7, b. November 30, 1788, Virginia; m. PRISCILLA (SILLER) AKERS, November 07, 1811, Floyd Co., Kentucky, Rev.S. Justice.

Notes for ELI MEAD:
lISTED IN FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY, MARRIAGE RECORDS DATED 29 OCT 181 1 BY
SOLOMON ACRES AND ELI MEAD. MARRIED BY SIMEON JUSTICE.
4 MARCH 1819: INDENTURE FROM MICHAEL SPRINKLE TO ELI MEAD IN THE AMOU NT OF
$120. FOR A 92 ACRE TRACT ON BELL BRANCH OF MUD CREEK.
CENSUS OF 1820, FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY SHOWS FOUR MALE CHILDREN UNDE R 10, ONE
MALE OVER 26 BUT UNDER 45, THREE FEMALES UNDER 10 AND ONE FEMALE OVE R 45.
DEEDS: FLOYD CO. BOOK A AND B.
MAY 17, 1823 BETWEEN ELI MEAD, GRANTOR AND PRISCILLA MEAD OF ONE PAR T AND
THOMAS HOWELL, GRANTEE OF BELLS BRANCH, BRANCH OF MUD CREEK, BRANCH O F SANDY
RIVER.  WITNESS; RHODES MEAD AND SAMUEL CLARK.
22 MAR 1826: ON MOTION OF THOMAS HOWELL, RHODES AND ELI MEAD AND OTHE RS TO
VIEW AND MARK BEST WAY FOR A ROAD FROM MOUTH OF TOLERS CREEK TO PIK E CO., LINE.
IT IS FELT THAT ELI WENT BACK TO VIRGINIA UNTIL ABT 1850 WHEN HE IS S HOWN IN
1850 CENSUS OF PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY LISTS ELY (ELI) 57, LIVING WIT H SON REUBON.
RESIDENCE: KENTUCKY AND LATER CABELL COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA.



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Burial: Mud Creek, Kentucky
Record Change: August 16, 1998

	xii.	MATILDA (MATTIE) MEAD, b. July 02, 1793, Bedford Co., Virginia; d. Abt. 1846, Harrisonville, Cass Co., Mo.; m. SOLOMAN (ACRES) AKERS, February 27, 1812, Floyd County, Kentucky.

Notes for MATILDA (MATTIE) MEAD:
MATILDA'S FATHER, ROBERT MEAD, SIGNED MARRIAGE BOND.
MATILDA, CALLED MATTY, AND SOLOMAN JR. SOLD ACREAGE IN KENTUCKY AND T HEY
DO NOT APPEAR IN THE KENTUCKY RECORDS AFTER 1838.  IT IS REPORTED THA T THEY
MOVED TO MISSOURI IN 1840.  ONE OF THEIR CHILDREN, JONOTHAN, BORN 181 4/5
WAS LEFT BEHIND AND MARRIED SALLY HOWELL, THE DAUGHTER OF THOMAS HOWE LL.  THEY LIVED ON TOLER'S CREEK.



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Notes for SOLOMAN (ACRES) AKERS:
BIRTH: BETWEEN 1784-94. CENSUS OF 1810 FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
FLOYD COUNTY KENTUCKY MARRIAGE BOND: 24 FEB. 1812 BY SOLOMAN ACRES AND
JOHN BRANHAM FOR A MARRIAGE SHORTLY TO BE HAD BETWEEN SOLOMAN ACRES A ND
MATILDA MEAD.  ROBERT MEAD STATES, "THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT I AM WILL ING THAT
SOLOMON ACRES AND METILDA MEAD MAY HAVE LICENCE TO BE MARRIED.
RESIDENCE: SOLOMAN AND "MATTIE" WERE NOT NOTED IN THE KENTUCKY RECORD S AFTER
1838 WHEN THEY SOLD THREE TRACTS OF LAND ON MUD CREED TO JAMES MCKINN EY.
THEY MOVED TO MISSOURI IN THE 1840'S PER THE REPORT OF A FAMILY MEMBE R.
MISSOURI, CASS CO. DEED BOOK C PAGE 131: KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESEN TS THAT WE SOLOMAN ACRES AND MATILDA ACRES HIS WIFE OF THE COUNTY O F VAN BUREN AND STATE OF MISSOURI OF ONE PART AND HIRAM OWENS OF TH E OTHER PART ALL OF THE SAID COUNTY AND STATE AFORESAID WITNESSETH TH AT WHEREAS SAID SOLOMAN ACRES AND MATILDA ACRES, HIS WIFE FOR AND I N CONSIDERATION OF THE SUM OF TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS IN HAND PAID THE RE CEIPT WHEREOF IS HEREBY  ACKNOWLEDGED HAVE GRANTED BARGAINED AND SOL D AND DO BY THESE PRESENTS GRANT BARGAIN AND SELL UNTO HIRAM OWENS HI S HEIRS AND ASSIGNS FOREVER THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED TRACT OFLAND...CO NTAINING 160 ACRES MORE OR LESS...7TH DAY OF NOV. 1845. SIGNED BY
SOLOMAN ACRES AND MATILDA ACRES BY THEIR MARKS.
WILL: SEPTEMBER 29, 1842 WILL BOOK B: PAGE 131, CASS COUNTY, MISSOURI (FORMERLY VAN BUREN CO.). I SOLOMAN ACRES OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI I N THE COUNTY OF VAN BUREN DO MAKE THIS MY LAST WILL: FIRST I GIVE AN D DEVISE UNTO MATILDA ACRES, MY BELOVED WIFE OF THE COUNTY OF VAN BUR EN AND STATE AFORESAID DURING HER NATURAL LIFE ....THAT I MYSELF NO W LIVE ON THE WATERS OF THE MIDDLE FORK OF GRAND RIVER...CONTAINING 1 60 ACRES MORE OR LESS...THE SAID MATILDA ACRES AND AT HER DEATH I WAN T THE LAND EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN MY FOUR YOUNGEST CHILDREN, TOWIT;H ULDAH ACRES, HENRY ACRES, LARKING ACRES, SILVESTER ACRES AND ALL TH E BALANCE OF MY PROPERTY EXCEPT ONE DOLLAR EACH OF THE REST OF MY CHI LDREN SHALL BE ENTITLED  TO THE SUM OF ONE DOLLAR EACH.



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Burial: W.Rock Baptist
Record Change: June 13, 1998

	xiii.	KATE (KITTA) MEAD, b. November 25, 1795, Virginia; m. JONOTHAN AKERS, May 19, 1812, Floyd County, Kentucky.

Notes for KATE (KITTA) MEAD:
DISAPPEARS FROM THE CENSUS AFTER 1830.



Notes for JONOTHAN AKERS:
FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY, MARRIAGE BOND: 19 MAY 1812 BETWEEN JONOTHAN A CRES
AND KEETE MEAD.
NOTED IN THE 1820 CENSUS OF FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY, BETWEEN AGES OF 2 6-45,
TWO MALES UNDER 10, ONE MALE 16 TO 26, TWO FEMALES UNDER 10 AND ONE F EMALE
16 TO 26.
CENSUS OF 1830, FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
DEEDS: SOLD 100 ACRES ON MUD CREEK TO WILLIAM JUSTICE ON DECEMBER 8 , 1830 AND
ANOTHER PARCEL ON MUD CREEK TO ELIAS OWENS.  KITTA IS NOT LISTED ON T HE DEEDS. (FLOYD COUNTY DEED BOOK C. PAGE 253 AND 269).
BOUGHT LAND IN PUTNAM COUNTY, INDIANA ON AUGUST 1, 1831 FROM THOMAS E VANS.


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Record Change: November 20, 1997


Endnotes

1.  Abstracted By June Whitehurst Johnson, Cameron Parish Records.
2.  Murtie June Clark, Colonial Soldiers Of The South, Genealogical Publishing Co..
3.  Scalf, East Kentuckian.
4.  Virginia Adkins Hoskins, Robert And Hannah Rhodes Meade, Pioneers Of The Sandy.
5.  Floyd Co. Marriages.
6.  Mrs. Joyce Logan, Portsmith, Ohio., Billy D. Meade.
7.  A.M. Prichard, Mead Family, AM Prichard, Staunton, Virginia.

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