John MEIGS

Male 1612 - 1672  (59 years)


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  • Name John MEIGS  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    Birth 29 Feb 1612  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Gender Male 
    Fact 1657  Freeman Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Death 04 Jan 1671/2  Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7, 8
    Notes 
    • John changed the spelling of the name to Meigs, its present form. He was married in England, and his eldest child, Mary was born there. John resided in Weymouth, Mass. and in New Haven, Conn. in 1647; removed to Guilford, Conn. in 1654, and to Killingworth, Conn, in 1663, where he was made a freeman in 1669. In 1654 he was admitted a planter in that portion of Guilford now included in Madison, upon certain conditions pertaining to the purchase of land there. He is not represented as having been a quiet man, nor Puritanical in his character, for he was sometimes turbulent and given to having litigation with the town authorities. Yet he was public spirited withal, and rendered some good public services.. He was a man of superior intellectual type, as appears by the manuscripts and books mentioned in his will, and he must have been a man of considerable education and culture. He was many times entrusted with public business, serving as Constable, and Representative to Hartford. Was a tanner , had a large estate, and some books, of which one was a Latin and Greek Dictionary. John was a one time, 1648-1658, second owner by purchase of the Cutler lot (SE corner of Chapel and Church streets, New Haven). The deed of conveyance reads: "Wm Jeanes passeth over to John Meigs his house and house lot lying at the corner over against Mr. Gregson's--betwixt the house lot of John Budd and the highway." Col. Return Jonathan Meigs was a descendant, whose son became Governor of Ohio and Postmaster-General of the United States.
      According to Stiles' History of the Regicides, it was John Meigs who rode to New Haven to warn the regicides.
    Person ID I38904  Main Tree
    Last Modified 30 Apr 2022 

    Father Vincent MEIGS,   b. Abt 1583, Dorcetshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 01 Dec 1658, East Guilford, New Haven Co., Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years) 
    Relationship Birth 
    Mother ? CHURCHILL   d. Bef 1634, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship Birth 
    Family ID F04873  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Thomasine FRY,   b. 1610, England Find all individuals with events at this locationbur. Guilford Cementary Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 1630 
    Children 
    +1. Mary MEIGS,   b. 1633, Kenilworth, Warwick, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Apr 1703, Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)  [Birth]
     2. Elizabeth MEIGS   d. 1664/5, Peguonnock, Fairfield Co., Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [Birth]
     3. Deacon John MEIGS, Jr.,   b. 28 Feb 1641, Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 09 Nov 1713, Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)  [Birth]
    +4. Concurrence MEIGS,   b. Weymouth, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 09 Oct 1708, Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [Birth]
     5. Tryal MEIGS,   b. 1646, New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1690 (Age 44 years)  [Birth]
    Family ID F04355  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 30 Apr 2022 

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    Link to Google MapsBirth - 29 Feb 1612 - England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsFact - 1657 - Freeman Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 04 Jan 1671/2 - Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S02968] Rev. John Beach and John Sanford & Their Descendants, pg 186.

    2. [S01871] Bennett and Allied Families, pg 33.

    3. [S01931] Caleb Benton and Sarah Bishop by Charles E. Benton 1906, pg 23 & 53.

    4. [S01986] Connecticut Puritan Settlers, 1633-1845.

    5. [S03444] Professor Reynold Webb Wilcox, The Descendants of William Wilcoxson, Vincent Meigs, and Richard Webb, (Name: Name: New York - T.A. Wright, Publisher and Printer 1893;;).

    6. [S01701] Henry B. Meigs, Record of the Descendants of Vincent Meigs Who Came From Dorsetshire, England to America about 1635.

    7. [S03416] The Barbour Collection Of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Killingworth, Ledyard and Lisbon.

    8. [S01931] Caleb Benton and Sarah Bishop by Charles E. Benton 1906.