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Jabez Mead

Male 1700 - 1769  (68 years)


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  • Name Jabez Mead 
    Born 10 Jun 1700  Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died From 27 Feb 1769 to 3 Apr 1769  Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2945  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Sarah Mills,   b. Abt 1704, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Apr 1787, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 83 years) 
    Married Bef 6 Feb 1730  of Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1573  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. NEHGS Register, vol. 156, April 2002:
      "Samuel Mills3, Sadler, of Jamaica, New York, and Greenwich, Connecticut" Helen Schatvet Ullmann (Helen Schatvet Ullmann, CG, is Associate Editor of the Register. She may be reached at hsu@world.std.com or 713 Main Street, Acton, MA 01720-4802.) The following is a partial excerpt of the full transcript in the notes of Samuel Mills:
      "...Children of Samuel and Sarah (Denton) Mills: (46)..
      iii. Sarah MILLS, b. ca. 1704; d. 4 April 1787 age 83, bur. Union Cemetery, Greenwich; (71) m. by 6 Feb. 1730 (72) JABEZ MEAD, b. Greenwich 10 June 1700 (73), son of Ebenezer Mead (74). Jabez Mead's will, dated 27 Feb. 1769 and proved 3 April 1769, named his wife Sarah, mentioned land which he had purchased of his father-in-law Samuel Mills, deceased, and gave bequests to numerous nephew (75). Sarah's own will, dated 28 June 1786 and proved 3 May 1787, names a long list of kinsmen, kinswomen, nieces and nephews which confirms that she was a daughter of Samuel3 Mills (76)...
      Footnotes...
      46. See Close's article in "Connecticut Ancestry" [note 14] for information on many grandchildren and great-grandchildren...
      71. Charles R. Hale, "Charles R. Hale Collection [of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices of Marriages and Deaths]," (1933-34), Greenwich, 199, at the Connecticut State Library.
      72. Mead, "Abstract of Church Records" [note 58], 9.
      73. Barbour Collection, from Greenwich Land Records 1:450 and "Book of Early Records" [note 53], 144.
      74. Ebenezer Mead's wife is shown as Sarah Knapp in several sources cited here, but she is not mentioned in Knapp, "Knapp" [note 55].
      75. Stamford District Probate, 3:354.
      76. Stamford District Probate, 7:8."