Lieutenant Zebulon Mead

A Patriot of the American Revolution for VERMONT. DAR Ancestor # A076831

From Descendants of William Mead: Working file of Mary Lou Cook, updated 4 June 2011

http://collectornuts.com/mead.pdf

Zebulon Mead (Oct. 5, 1729 - Jan. 26, 1797), son of Timothy, grandson of Jonathan, great grandson of John, second great grandson of William, was said to be born in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut Colony, and died in Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont.

Asserted to have married firstly Anna Thompson (c1730 - bef. 1760) around 1751, and Mercy Cary (Aug. 23, 1731 - Feb. 3, 1811) around 1761. Mercy was said to be born in Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut Colony, and died somewhere in Vermont at age 76.

Zebulon is said to have migrated from the Nine Partners Grant to Rutland in the New Hampshire Grants (present Vermont) in 1774, after purchasing land in December 1773 from Simeon Wright (whose daughter would marry his eldest son, Zebulon, by the end of the decade). He remained in Vermont for the remainder of his days, except during the days of crisis during and following the Battle of Hubbardton, when Gen. Simon Fraser of Balnain invaded into Vermont while trying to catch the rear guard of American rebel forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga. During this period, Zebulon's family fled south.

A few years before his death, Zebulon is said to have deeded his farm west of Otter Creek on today's West Proctor Road to his son Henry in 1788. Both Zebulon and Henry are buried in the Pleasant Street Cemetery in West Rutland.

From Lance Mead wrote in 2005, "Zebulon's brick house was built next to the original log cabin site in the part of town of Pittsford that is now called Proctor."

Children with Anna Thompson asserted to be:

• 1. Zebulon Mead, Jr. (Mar. 14, 1753 - Feb. 27, 1827) born in Dutchess County, Province of New York, married Anna Wright (Mar. 9, 1761 - Oct. 31, 1826)

Children with Mercy Cary asserted to be:

• 1. Henry Mead (July 29, 1762 - June 5, 1839) born in the Nine Partners Patent of Dutchess County, Province of New York and died at his son Joel's house in Rutland.
• 2. Mary Mead (b. 1764, sic: actually is Cary Mead, a son)
• 3. Martin Mead (Mar. 17, 1767 - May 6, 1850) born in the Nine Partners Patent, died in Underhill, Chittenden County, Vermont, at age 83.
• 4. Abigail Mead (b. 1769) who married a Mr. Boardman.
• 5. Phebe Mead (b. Feb. 13, 1774) who married James Hewitt.
• 6. Beth Mead (b. 1776) who married James Ross. (Possibly Seth Mead who married Jane Ross?)

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From his Find A Grave page:

Capt Zebulon Mead

• Birth: Oct. 5, 1729 - Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
• Death: Jan. 26, 1797 - West Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA

I need to confirm that Zebulon is buried here...his 2nd wife (Mercy Cary Mead) is and I have other unsubstantiated info that he is as well.

Family links:

Spouse:

• Mercy Mead (____ - 1811)

Burial: Pleasant Street Cemetery, West Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont, USA

• Created by: Stephen Payne
• Record added: Apr 18, 2013
• Find A Grave Memorial# 108729175

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Ben M. Angel notes: Not exactly the greatest source, but it's a good guideline for more substantial research in the future:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~healey/Mead/pafc0...

Zebulon MEAD

1Ancestry.com / data files / Colonial Families in the U.S., Internet.

"IV. ZEBULON, b. 5th October, 1727, of whom later.

ZEBULON MEAD, of Nine Partners, Dutchess County, New York;

• b. there 5th October, 1728;
• d. 26th January, 1797;
• 15th July, 1755, was Second Lieutenant Capt. Peter VANDERBURGH'S Company of Foot, of Dutchess County; was First Lieutenant in same Company from 11th to 31st July, 1755; served in August and September, 1755, in same company, Col. William Cockroff's Regiment;
• m. (firstly) Anna THOMPSON;
• m. (second) Mercy CARY, b. 1731, d. December, 1811."