He married Hannah Chase Roberts on 1 Jan 1809. They were the parents of four children: Sarah Ann Weed, Erastus Smith Mead, James Newcomb Mead, and Cornelia Mead.
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Smith Mead was one of the early pioneers of this county. He was the tenth child of Nehemiah Mead and Sarah Newcomb, his wife. He came to this county, in 1807, from Washington Co., NY. He was of Quaker descent. He married Hannah, daughter of John Roberts, of South Plattsburgh, an old Revolutionary soldier and pensioner, Jan. 1, 1809.
For many years Mr. Mead lived in West Plattsburgh, and during the war of 1812 he owned and occupied the farm on the Saranac River Plank Road, now known as the Dr. Bidwell farm. At the battle of Plattsburgh, and the skirmishing prior to the battle, the subject of thisa sketch was a member of Capt. Baker's company, and a very active one. He was engaged in the skirmishing in Beekmantown; then went to his farm, took his wife and child (his daughter Sarah) in an ox cart, and took them across the river to John Roberts', in South Plattsburgh, and was back with his company in the fight at the old bridge, at the head of the Indian Rapids (the abutment near the cemetery in Plattsburgh village), where they successfully repulsed the British column.
Mr. Mead was appointed under-sheriff, and moved into Plattsburgh village in 1824. He was afterwards elected county clerk, and held other places of trust at the hands of the people.
He was a friend and associate of such men as Reuben H. Walworth, Azariah C. Flagg, M.M. Standish, W.C. Watson, and William Swetland. Mr. Mead resided in Plattsburgh until his death which occurred Marcg 8, 1875. He had by his first wife four children, Sarah A., wife of Roswell A. Weed; Erastus Smith Mead, who afterwards became and is now a promint citizen of Clinton County, and has been largely identified with the interests of both Clinton and Franklin Counties; James Newcomb Mead, a very promising young man, who died in 1839 in the twenty-third year of his age; Comelia, wife of John H. Sanborn, who died Aug. 20, 1872.
Mr. Mead was a man of great reading and intelligence, a strong mind, honest and upright, universally respected and beloved by all.
In the year 1854 he married for a second wife, Mary P. Roberts, daughter of Gen. Roberts, of Manchester, VT, and a cousin of his first wife.
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Smith Mead was one of the early pioneers of this county. He was the tenth child of Nehemiah Mead and Sarah Newcomb, his wife. He came to this county, in 1807, from Washington Co., NY. He was of Quaker descent. He married Hannah, daughter of John Roberts, of South Plattsburgh, an old Revolutionary soldier and pensioner, Jan. 1, 1809.
For many years Mr. Mead lived in West Plattsburgh, and during the war of 1812 he owned and occupied the farm on the Saranac River Plank Road, now known as the Dr. Bidwell farm. At the battle of Plattsburgh, and the skirmishing prior to the battle, the subject of thisa sketch was a member of Capt. Baker's company, and a very active one. He was engaged in the skirmishing in Beekmantown; then went to his farm, took his wife and child (his daughter Sarah) in an ox cart, and took them across the river to John Roberts', in South Plattsburgh, and was back with his company in the fight at the old bridge, at the head of the Indian Rapids (the abutment near the cemetery in Plattsburgh village), where they successfully repulsed the British column.
Mr. Mead was appointed under-sheriff, and moved into Plattsburgh village in 1824. He was afterwards elected county clerk, and held other places of trust at the hands of the people.
He was a friend and associate of such men as Reuben H. Walworth, Azariah C. Flagg, M.M. Standish, W.C. Watson, and William Swetland. Mr. Mead resided in Plattsburgh until his death which occurred Marcg 8, 1875. He had by his first wife four children, Sarah A., wife of Roswell A. Weed; Erastus Smith Mead, who afterwards became and is now a promint citizen of Clinton County, and has been largely identified with the interests of both Clinton and Franklin Counties; James Newcomb Mead, a very promising young man, who died in 1839 in the twenty-third year of his age; Comelia, wife of John H. Sanborn, who died Aug. 20, 1872.
Mr. Mead was a man of great reading and intelligence, a strong mind, honest and upright, universally respected and beloved by all.
In the year 1854 he married for a second wife, Mary P. Roberts, daughter of Gen. Roberts, of Manchester, VT, and a cousin of his first wife.
He married Hannah Chase Roberts on 1 Jan 1809. They were the parents of four children: Sarah Ann Weed, Erastus Smith Mead, James Newcomb Mead, and Cornelia Mead.
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Smith Mead was one of the early pioneers of this county. He was the tenth child of Nehemiah Mead and Sarah Newcomb, his wife. He came to this county, in 1807, from Washington Co., NY. He was of Quaker descent. He married Hannah, daughter of John Roberts, of South Plattsburgh, an old Revolutionary soldier and pensioner, Jan. 1, 1809.
For many years Mr. Mead lived in West Plattsburgh, and during the war of 1812 he owned and occupied the farm on the Saranac River Plank Road, now known as the Dr. Bidwell farm. At the battle of Plattsburgh, and the skirmishing prior to the battle, the subject of thisa sketch was a member of Capt. Baker's company, and a very active one. He was engaged in the skirmishing in Beekmantown; then went to his farm, took his wife and child (his daughter Sarah) in an ox cart, and took them across the river to John Roberts', in South Plattsburgh, and was back with his company in the fight at the old bridge, at the head of the Indian Rapids (the abutment near the cemetery in Plattsburgh village), where they successfully repulsed the British column.
Mr. Mead was appointed under-sheriff, and moved into Plattsburgh village in 1824. He was afterwards elected county clerk, and held other places of trust at the hands of the people.
He was a friend and associate of such men as Reuben H. Walworth, Azariah C. Flagg, M.M. Standish, W.C. Watson, and William Swetland. Mr. Mead resided in Plattsburgh until his death which occurred Marcg 8, 1875. He had by his first wife four children, Sarah A., wife of Roswell A. Weed; Erastus Smith Mead, who afterwards became and is now a promint citizen of Clinton County, and has been largely identified with the interests of both Clinton and Franklin Counties; James Newcomb Mead, a very promising young man, who died in 1839 in the twenty-third year of his age; Comelia, wife of John H. Sanborn, who died Aug. 20, 1872.
Mr. Mead was a man of great reading and intelligence, a strong mind, honest and upright, universally respected and beloved by all.
In the year 1854 he married for a second wife, Mary P. Roberts, daughter of Gen. Roberts, of Manchester, VT, and a cousin of his first wife.
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Smith Mead was one of the early pioneers of this county. He was the tenth child of Nehemiah Mead and Sarah Newcomb, his wife. He came to this county, in 1807, from Washington Co., NY. He was of Quaker descent. He married Hannah, daughter of John Roberts, of South Plattsburgh, an old Revolutionary soldier and pensioner, Jan. 1, 1809.
For many years Mr. Mead lived in West Plattsburgh, and during the war of 1812 he owned and occupied the farm on the Saranac River Plank Road, now known as the Dr. Bidwell farm. At the battle of Plattsburgh, and the skirmishing prior to the battle, the subject of thisa sketch was a member of Capt. Baker's company, and a very active one. He was engaged in the skirmishing in Beekmantown; then went to his farm, took his wife and child (his daughter Sarah) in an ox cart, and took them across the river to John Roberts', in South Plattsburgh, and was back with his company in the fight at the old bridge, at the head of the Indian Rapids (the abutment near the cemetery in Plattsburgh village), where they successfully repulsed the British column.
Mr. Mead was appointed under-sheriff, and moved into Plattsburgh village in 1824. He was afterwards elected county clerk, and held other places of trust at the hands of the people.
He was a friend and associate of such men as Reuben H. Walworth, Azariah C. Flagg, M.M. Standish, W.C. Watson, and William Swetland. Mr. Mead resided in Plattsburgh until his death which occurred Marcg 8, 1875. He had by his first wife four children, Sarah A., wife of Roswell A. Weed; Erastus Smith Mead, who afterwards became and is now a promint citizen of Clinton County, and has been largely identified with the interests of both Clinton and Franklin Counties; James Newcomb Mead, a very promising young man, who died in 1839 in the twenty-third year of his age; Comelia, wife of John H. Sanborn, who died Aug. 20, 1872.
Mr. Mead was a man of great reading and intelligence, a strong mind, honest and upright, universally respected and beloved by all.
In the year 1854 he married for a second wife, Mary P. Roberts, daughter of Gen. Roberts, of Manchester, VT, and a cousin of his first wife.
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