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I have not been able to find proof of who his parents were or who he was married to, but he was
probably the same Daniel Mead, who enlisted on 22 April 1760 in Capt. DuBois’ Company; he was age 17, born in Dutchess County, had brown hair and fair complexion. This would place his birth at about 1743, at which time there were only two Meads listed in Dutchess County tax lists: Daniel and Joseph. Of these, Daniel, who is probably the most likely candidate for the younger Daniel’s father, was on the lists for Beekman Precinct, from 1743/44 through 1769, and then in Pawling (which had been formed from Beekman), on the 1770 and 1771 lists, after which time he no longer appears. This older Daniel was probably the same Daniel who was brother of Joseph-6 (Elisha-5, Joseph-4, William-3, Priscilla-2, Richard-1), who was listed in the tax records for Southern Precinct from 1742 through 1766, and must have died by the following year, when “Joseph Meade’s farm” appears instead. Among Joseph’s sons were at least Lewis and Jacob (see Ancestry of Margaret (Fritchey) Trahan, Dr. John A. Fritchey II, 1969, pages 88-89).
The younger Daniel Mead was in possession of 50 acres in Pawling which was part of the land of Loyalists Beverly Robinson and Roger Morris, which had been confiscated and was to be auctioned 29 Aug. 1788. [Settlers of the Beekman Patent, I:63,64, Frank J. Doherty]. Daniel appears in census records at Pawling: 1790, 2-4-2; 1800, 011001-00001; and 1810, 00001-00001.
According to a descendant of Daniel’s daughter Mercy (Mead) Denton, she was part Indian. Also, there is a tradition passed down in Daniel’s son Moses’s family about “Ox” Mead who married an Indian. There was a Wappinger settlement in the area between Farmers Mills and Meads Corners in what is now the town of Kent, Putnam Co.
The children of Daniel Mead of Pawling were:
Nathaniel Mead, b. 4 April 1768, m. Mary Turner, b. 12 March 1772. Census records: 1810, Pawling, Dutchess Co., 1820, 1830, Northampton, Montgomery Co., N.Y., 1840, Northampton, Fulton Co., N.Y. Nathaniel died 3 Feb. 1841. Mary d. 23 July 1854. They were buried in Dentons Corners (a.k.a. Osborne Bridge) Cemetery in Northampton. Their Children included: Daniel, Nathaniel (m. Electa ---), Alexander Allen (m. Laura ---) Justus (m. Betsey ---), Hiram (m. Phebe ---), Andrew P., Mary (m. Ebenezer Silas Woodworth).
Mercy Mead, b. 1770, m. David Denton, b. ca. 1765, son of Solomon and Judith (Husted) Denton. Census records: 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, Pawling. David d. 26 March 1847 and Mercy d. 7 April 1848 according to gravestone, Whaley Lake Baptist Cemetery, Pawling (or 26 March 1848, age 76, according to her death record). Children: Daniel, Judith (m. Riley Sellick), Solomon D. (m. Thirza Wixom), Rhoda (m. Sewell White), David (m. Belinda Spencer), Hannah (m. Horace Spencer), Abigail, Jonathan (m. Hannah Davis).
Francis C. Mead, b. ca. 1773, m. Hannah Campbell, b. ca. 1778. Census records: 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, Pawling, Dutchess Co., N.Y., 1850, Burlington Twp., Bradford Co., Pa., 1860, W. Burlington Twp. His wife died between 1850 and 1860, and he d. after 1860. Children include: Francis C., Jr., Lydia Ann (m. Horace Wright), Daniel Dykeman (m. Amelia Ann Keithline), Eli Ketchum (m. Sarah Denton), William (m. Martha Davis), Elizabeth (m. John Horton Gustin), Hannah* (m. Joel Dibble), Charles Allen (m. Mary Barnes).
Daniel Mead, Jr. b. ca, 1774, m. Bestey Peck, b. ca. 1780, daughter of Abel and Hannah (Davis) Peck. Census records: 1810, 1820, 1830, Fishkill, Dutchess Co. He d. 19 May 1834, Fishkill. His widow m. 29 Feb. 1840, Kent, Putnam Co., N.Y., John Shenton, b. ca. 1790, England (census records: 1840, Fishkill, 1850, E. Fishkill). Daniel and Betsey had no surviving children.
Estate file 1541 names the following heirs of Daniel Mead in the petition for probate: “Betsey Mead his Widow of Fishkill, Nathaniel Mead of Mayfield, N.Y., Francis Mead, Moses Mead, Mercy wife of David Denton, and Sarah Penney of Pawling in Dutchess County, his Brothers and Sisters.”
Dated 30 Sept. 1834, signed by Betsey Mead and her brother Davis Peck.
Also, from Dutchess County Deeds, Volume 76, page 33: 10 Nov. 1834, David Denton and Mercy his wife, Francis C. Mead and Hannah his wife, Moses Mead and Martha his wife, and Sarah Penney, all of Pawling, quitclaimed to Davis Peck of Fishkill, land in Fishkill, forty acres, that had been owned by Daniel Mead, late deceased. Bounded by William Russell, Samuel Stevens, Davis Peck, William Homan.
Volume 76, page 34: 20 Nov. 1834, Nathaniel Mead and Mary his wife of Northampton, Montgomery Co., N.Y., to Davis Peck of Fishkill, same property as described in above deed.
Sarah Mead, b. ca. 1778-1780, Dutchess Co., m. Benjamin Penney (1810 census, Pawling). Children included: Miranda (m. Albert Burtch), Andrew, Harrison B. (m. Sarah E. ---). Sarah was listed in census records at Pawling, 1850, 1860, 1865.
Moses Mead, b. 1782, m. Martha Bennett, b. ca. 1784, daughter of Nathan Bennett by his first wife. Census records: 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, Pawling. He d. 11 May 1854, Pawling, Martha was still living in 1865 in Pawling. Estate file No. 2336. The probate petition, dated 7 Aug. 1854, named his widow Martha Mead, children Moses Mead, Jr., Daniel Mead, Jessie Mead and Mary Penney, all of Pawling, Clarissa, wife of Philo Baker, of Beekman, Nathan Mead of Lyster [Leicester], Livingston Co., N.Y., and Van Rensaellar Mead of Watertown, Wisc. Children: Van Renselaer (m. Margaret Marshall, Caroline Sturm), Mary Penny (m. Sanford Dibble), Nathan B. (m. Ruth ---), Clarissa (m. Philo Baker), Daniel H. (m. Sybil Davis), Jesse (m. Lavina Davis), Moses (m. Jane Elizabeth Brownell).
William Mead, b. 1784-1794, m. --- --- and appears in the 1810 census in Pawling, next to Moses Mead. If he was a son of Daniel, he must have died between 1810 and 1834, as he is not named among the heirs of Daniel [Jr.]. He was probably the William Mead who died 4 April 1812 [Doherty, VIII:738].
*My descent is from Hannah Mead, b. 18 July 1821, daughter of Francis C. and Hannah (Campbell) Mead. She m. 6 March 1845, Joel Dibble, b. 12 July 1824, son of Sanford and Phebe (Denton) Dibble. They moved in 1847 from Pawling to Burlington Twp., Bradford Co., Pa. , where Hannah d. 14 Feb. 1856, and Joel m. 16 Dec. 1857 to her sister Lydia’s daughter Elizabeth Wright. After Joel’s parents Sanford and Phebe (Denton) Dibble split up, Sanford had a second wife, Polly Penney Mead, daughter of Moses and Martha (Bennett) Mead.
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