Elizabeth Mead

Family (REV. MATTHEW MEAD) Married Elizabeth Walton 3 January 1653/4 at St. Mary Woolnoth Church in London. Elizabeth was from Allhallows, Lombard Street. (THEY) had thirteen children, of whom the physician Richard Mead was the eleventh. An elder son, Samuel, was a fellow-student with Calamy at Utrecht in 1687; published at Utrecht a ‘Disputatio,’ 1686, an ‘Exercitatio,’ 1687, and an ‘Oratio,’ 1689; in 1694 he was an evening lecturer at Salters' Hall, but was not ordained, and became a chancery practitioner.(FROM WIKIPEDIA)

From “Mead Family History” < link >

12. MATTHEW MEAD (RICHARD, RICHARD, RICHARD, WILLIAM, RICHARD) was born 1629 in Soulbury, Bucks.. He married ELIZABETH WALTON 1654 in St. Mary Woolnoth, London.

Notes for MATTHEW MEAD:

In 1648 he was elected scholar and on 6th August 1649 admitted a fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He resigned in 1651. He then became morning lecturer at St. Dunstan's Church, Stepney. He resided in Gracechurch Street. In 1656 he became a member of the Congregational church formed at Stepney by Greenhill in 1644. In 1658 he was appointed by Cromwell to the "new chapel" at Shadwell (St.Paul's). From Shadwell, as from his lecturership, he was displaced by the Restoration, but obtained a lecturership at St.Sepulchre's, Holborn, from which he was ejected by the Uniformity Act of 1662. In 1663 he was living at Worcester House, Stepney. Either the Conventicle Act or the Five Miles Act, which came into operation in 1666, drove him to Holland. He seems to have been in London during the great plague of 1665. In 1669 he became assistant to Greenhill in Stepney and after Greenhill's death succeeded him as pastor. In 1674 a meeting house was built for Mead at Stepney.

Children of MATTHEW MEAD and ELIZABETH WALTON are:
i. MATTHEW MEAD, b. 1655.
ii. ANNA MEAD, b. Abt. 1656; m. JAMES ROLLESTON, 1676.
iii.WILLIAM MEAD, b. 1658, Stepney, London [Buried 21 September 1659 at St. Dunstan, Stepney]
iv.SAMUEL MEAD, b. 1660; d. 1733, Lincolns Inn, London.
v. REBECCA MEAD, b. 1662, Stepney, London; d. 1734; m. EPAPHRAS SHRIMPTON. [Emigrated to Boston]
vi.ROBERT MEAD, b. Abt. 1664; d. 1762; m. MARY GIDEON.
vii.JOHN MEAD, b. Abt. 1668.
viii.RICHARD MEAD, b. 1673, Stepney, London; d. 1754; m. (1) RUTH MARSH; m. (2) ANNE ALSTON. Notes for RICHARD MEAD: Physician to His Majesty, George II. Buried in Middle Temple, Temple Church with his brothers. There is a memorial to him, with a bust, in Westminster Abbey. On the memorial is his Coat of Arms: the Mead Coat of Arms (a chevron between three pelicans) flanked by the Coats of Arms of his two wives.
ix. JAMES MEAD, b. 1675, Stepney, London; d. 1763, Middle Temple, London.
x. ELIZABETH MEAD, b. 1679, Stepney,

His will

Mead family history: Will of Matthew Mead of Stepney, 1699, PCC“ < link > (scroll down to the last Will)

Children named in this order:

• eldest son Matthew Mead (10 pounds and no share of estate)
• son Samuel Mead (land in Soulbury, Bucks; 700 pounds)
• son Robert Meade (10 pounds; already paid his portion)
• son Richard Mead & intended wife Ruth (house where I know dwell)
• son James Mead (950 pounds)
• daughter Elizabeth Mead (900 pounds at 20 years or marriage))
• daughter Rebecca Shrimpton, now in New England (10 pounds and no more, already paid at marriage)
• daughter Anna Rolleston

Also named:

• son [in law] James Rolleston
  • grandson Matthew Rolleston and granddaughter Deborah Rolleston
• granddaughter Elizabeth Shrimpton
• grandson Matthew Mead

Legacies to:

• manservants and maids (40 shillings each)
• Mr Thomas Simonds (my assistant in the ministry my Calvin's works in nine volumes in folio being gilt on the back)
• my most faithful friend Madam Elizabeth Sheppard (one guinea to buy a ring to wear for my sake)
• my loving brother James Blaicon (twenty shillings to buy a ring to wear for my sake)

Eizabeth Mead, wife, sole executor

Disputed Children

William Mead, Sr. Has been speculated as his son, but there is no evidence to support it; and Matthew Mead’s son William died young. William Mead, Sr. was disconnected 7 October 2022.