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- The following material is extracted from History and Genealogy of the Mead Family of Fairfield County, Connecticut, Eastern New York, Western Vermont and Western Pennsylvania, from A.D. 1180 to 1900, by Spencer P. Mead, LL.B, Published by The Knickerbocker Press, New York, 1901
The name "Mead" alledgedly is the English version of the Norman name of "de Prato".
William Mead is believed to be the brother of Goodman "Gabriel" Mead. [Proof cited was the fact that the "coats of arms of the two are identical."] Both came from England on the ship Elizabeth (Captain Stagg) which sailed from Lydd, County Kent, England, to Massachusetts in 1635. Gabriel was born in 1587 and died March 12, 1666.
Gabriel Mead remained in Massachusetts and is the ancestor of the Massachusetts Meads. William, however, followed the tide of emigration, which at that time was toward the Connecticut Valley. The first English settlement of Connecticut was made at Windsor in October, 1633, and another settlement was made at Wethersfield soon after where William Mead probably first settled, and in 1641, he removed to Stamford with several others from Wethersfield.
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The CT Mead family is decended from William Mead, who is said to have been a brother of Gabriel [ Goodman ] Mead, the ancestor of the Mass. family, and it is supposed that these two brothers with their families sailed from Lydd, Co. Kent, England, in the ship Elizabeth, Capt. Stagg, April 1635, for Mass. Bay Colony, where they arrived in the summer of that year. William seems to have settled at W ethersfield, CT in 1641, and on Dec. 7, 1641 was assigned a homelot and five acres of land at the latter place, as appears from the Stamford Town Records.
- Hist. and Genealogy of the Mead Family by Spencer Mead p. 124
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1600 - 1663 (63 years)
