William Mead

From Mead Family Ancestry by Jim German

http://www.mead-family.net/histories/Mead_Family_Ancestry.pdf

William Mead, another son of Enos and Millicent Mead, moved to Stillwater, Charlotte County, New York where he married Hannah Palmer, the daughter of early pioneer George Palmer who bought the land the village of Stillwater was built on in 1763. William Mead owned the first wayside inn and tavern to be built in Stillwater, New York. It was in William Mead’s Inn that the first town meetings of Stillwater were held. William was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War. The 1790 census lists one slave owned by him in Stillwater, New York. That slave was not listed on any other census. Slave holding in these northern states was common but not condoned by the majority, so many of them through community pressure, were given their freedom.