William Mead

Generation 13 back

In brief

Born December 1592 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England. 1635: Arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He married about 1620 in England. He died 1657/1663 in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut.

Family

Father

Pricilla Mead

no. 59519

Mother

Dorothy Grey

no. 59520

Spouse

Phillipe ___

m. 1620

Children

Mary Mead
b. Abt. March 1621[1622] near Watford, Hertfordshire, England
d. 1626 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England
Joseph Mead
b. Abt. April 1624 near Watford, Hertfordshire, England
John Mead · in this line
b. Abt. 1634, in Watford, Hertfordshire, England
m. Hannah Potter, July 10, 1657, in Stamford, Fairfield County, Connecticut
d. February 5, 1698, in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut

Life story

An Original Proprietor of Stamford

William Mead was born in December 1592 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, and emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, settling first in Wethersfield before moving to Stamford, Connecticut, in 1641 as one of the town's original forty-two proprietors, receiving a five-acre home lot that December. William died in Stamford between 1657 and 1663.

Sources (2)

Estate of Edward Burnice Kipp, “Ancestors of Edward Burnice Kipp”; 2024; pdf publication (http://www.kipp-blake-families.ca/publications/Ancestors%20of%20Edward%20Burnice%20Kipp.pdf : accessed 17 January 2025).
Gordon L. Remington, “The English Origin of William Mead,” The American Genealogist 71 (January 1998): 1-10; image copy, American Ancestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/13133/0/0 : accessed 29 August 2026).