Gabriel Mead

1587 - 1665  (78 years)

• Name	Gabriel Mead
  Birth	1587
  Gender	Male
  Death	3 Mar 1665	Dorchester MA
  	Maybe 1666
  Person ID	I393	Mead Genealogy
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2003

  
  

  Father	Richard Mead(e),   b. 1570, Chinnor, Oxon, England
  Mother	Frances Unknown
  Family ID	F246	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Johanna Bates,   b. 1616, England
  Marriage	1633	Lydd, Kent Co., England
  Children	> 1. Isreal Mead,   b. 1637, Dorchester MA d. 16 Aug 1714 (Age 77 years) > 2. Experience Mead,   b. 1638, Watertown, Ma > 3. Sarah Mead,   b. 1640, Watertown, Ma   4. Lydia Mead,   b. 1643 > 5. Patience Mead,   b. 1646   d. 22 May 1670 (Age 24 years) > 6. David Mead,   b. 7 Jul 1650, Watertown, Ma
  Family ID	F277	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2003

  
  

• Notes

  One of the first of the vamily to emigrate to this country was Gabriel Mead, Sometimes called 'Goodman" Mead, who came in the ship 'Elizabeth' in April 1635, from Kent Co. England, with his wife Johanna Bates. They settled in Dorchester, MA, where he died 1666 leaving his wife and six children. -Mead Clark Genealogy. The Mass. Mead family is decended from Gabriel Mead who was born in 1587, died 12, 1666, aged seventy -nine years. He is probably married twice, his second wife being Johanna, the daughter of James Bates. The latter was born in 1582, died 1655, and sailed from England in the ship Elizabeth, Capt. Stagg, Apr. 1635, and it is said his son-in-law, Gabriel [or Goodman[ Mead, was in the same vessel. Richard Bated [son[ lived at Lydd in Co. Kent, England, from whence the family is supposed to have come. - Spencer Mead, p 123.