Elizabeth MEAD

Family/Spouse: Theophilus PECK. Theophilus was born in 1702; died on 7 Nov 1783; was buried in Peck Cemetery, Greenwich, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Eunice PECK was born on 9 Apr 1735 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 9 Jul 1828 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Knapp Cemetery, Greenwich, Fairfield Co. Connecticut.

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Benjamin Mead was an officer in the local militia and served a term as Surveyor for Fairfield County. Reports of his action in the French and Indian War are misleading, as he died before the Seven Years' War war started. That said, that global war was only part of an ongoing conflict in Europe from 1689-1763 that had combat ramifications in North America on at least 4 occasions when wars were officially declared. In addition to having names these wars also had numbers under the rubrique of "Intercolonial Wars," much as we have numbered "World Wars"-- since the individual wars had different names in Britain than on the Continent, the numbering system helped keep things (somewhat) straight. Finally, the Intercolonial Wars, as they were called in Europe, were called the French And Indian Wars in North America.
Benjamin Mead was old enough to have fought in any of the first three of these, King William's War or War of the League of Augsburg (1st Intercolonial) and Queen Anne's War or War of the Spanish Succession (2nd Intercontinental) being the most likely. So in this sense, any action he saw during those wars makes him a veteran of the French and Indian Wars.

Benjamin married Sarah WATERBURY on 15 May 1700 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Sarah (daughter of Jonathan WATERBURY and Eunice BUXTON) was born on 05 Aug 1677 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 27 Feb 1745 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Old Burying Ground, Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 15 Aug 1677, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
• Death: Bef 1708

John married Hannah BROWN on 10 Jul 1657 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Hannah (daughter of unknown BROWN) was born in 1638; died on 13 Nov 1700 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Tomac Burying Ground, Greenwich, Fairfield Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Connecticut Ancestry": Jonathan Waterbury was born probably at Stamford about 1651, and died there on 4 or 14 January 1702/03.

Although his wife is often called "Youne" or "Euni" in the surviving records, her name was Eunice (?) as given in at least one land record, and she also named a daughter Eunice. Most researchers believe that she was Eunice Buxton, daughter of Clement Buxton and his wife, also named Eunice (?). Youne Waterbury married Richard Higginbotham at Stamford on 11 December 1707, as his second wife and she died there on 24 May 1710.

The widow "Unice" Waterbury (her X mark) made an agreement with her son Jonathan Waterbury on 26 July 1707, in which she promised to "build and completely finish for her sd son a dwelling hous at Noroton so called fourty foots in length & twenty foots in breadth & ten foots between the Joints...," in return for his assignment to her of certain rights to his father's estate.

After their father's death, two of the sons in this family, Jonathan Waterbury and Joseph Waterbury, witnessed a deed of 9 January 1712/13 in which Clement Buxton Sr. sold land west of the Mill River to Joseph Smith. Since the designation "senior" was used this was probably the Clement Buxton who lived from 1647 to 1724, probably their mother's brother.

Many of the children of this family joined as grantors in a deed to Nathan Selleck on 6 January 1724, in which they conveyed a 1 1/2 acre lot in the "Renkon Hooge" (Runkinheage) division that had been their father's Jonathan Waterbury deceased. the grantors were: Jonathan Waterbury, John Newman and Abigail his wife of Stamford, and Benjamin Mead, Moses Ferris and Eunice his wife of Greenwich.

Jonathan married Eunice BUXTON about 1676. Eunice (daughter of Clement BUXTON and Unica ?) was born about 1648; died on 24 May 1710. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]