When Benjamin Mead was born on 18 March 1701, in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Lieutenant Benjamin Mead, was 33 and his mother, Sarah Waterbury, was 23. He married Martha Ferris about 1728, in Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 22 October 1783, in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Mead Plot, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States.
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English:
topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow, from Middle English mede ‘meadow’ (Old English mǣd), or a habitational name from one or more of the many places so named, such as Meads in Harford (Devon).
perhaps from Middle English mede ‘mead, alcoholic drink of fermented honey and water’, possibly denoting one who was fond of the drink or who made or sold mead. Compare Meader .
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