Notes:

Archive rec Mrs. Richard LeRoy Meacham; L. Derek Maude.

Benjamin married Barnes, Rhoda in 1771 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Rhoda was born in 1746 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Archive rec Mrs. Richard LeRoy Meacham; Meacham/Mecham Book of Rem- Leondis Devon Mecham 1949; TIB MT no. 24973 bk A2 p 942; Rec of L. Derek Maude.

http://www.concentric.net/~Ssbray/mechsam.htm 9 Aug 2004:

"SAMUEL MEACHAM I was born in 1712 and died sometime after 1754. He married Bethia Pease (1709-1778), the daughter of Robert Pease (1669-????) and Hannah Warriner (1674-1774). Hannah was the daughter of Joseph Warriner (1645-1697) and Mary Montague (1649-1689). (The Montague or De Montacute family was descended from royalty, and had a genealogy claimed to be traced back to Adam and Eve -- given in the Mecham Family Book of Remembrance). Mary Montague was also descended from families Downing, Allen, Bullock, Cotton, Malthus (Malthouse), Kingsmill, Bloise, Norris, Gifford, and Nottingham.
The 9 children of SAMUEL MEACHAM I and BETHIA PEASE were:
1.MARY (md. ELIAS RANDALL);
2.ZEBAH (md. ELIZABETH PEMBESTON or PENDLETON);
**3.SAMUEL II (md. PHEBE MAIN);
4.BETHIA (md. JOSIAH PHELPS);
5.JEREMIAH (md. 1-RHODA BARNES and 2-MARY BARTHOLOMEW);
6.DEBORAH (md. EZEKIEL MAIN);
7.BENJAMIN (unmarried);
8.SETH (md. LOIS PRINDLE); and
9.NEHEMIAH (prob. died young).

SAMUEL MEACHAM II (son of Samuel Meacham I and Bethia Pease) was born Nov. 15, 1739, in Norwich, Connecticut and married Phebe Main March 31, 1763 at Stonington, New London, Connecticut. She was the daughter of Thomas Main and Anna Brown, born Nov. 16, 1747 at Stonington, New London, Connecticut. Samuel II moved from Connecticut to New Hampshire, where he was one of the original grantees of Canaan, New Hampshire, in 1761. (Canaan, New Hampshire is only 25 or 30 miles from Sharon, Vermont, where the prophet Joseph Smith was born in 1805).
Samuel Meacham II served in the Revolutionary War, in Captain John Welles' Company, Colonel Chase's regiment of Militia, which was called out in response to the alarm of Oct. 20, 1780.
According to Polly Derby Mecham,
"Samuel's joining with the soldiers of the Revolution was very sudden. He left his family home for the purpose of gathering up some firewood in the adjoining forest, telling his family that he would be right back. While in the forest a group of men came dashing towards him, telling him that they were in urgent need of his services, and to join them immediately. This he did, not having time to tell his family of his whereabouts. At the finish of his service in the army (months or years later), he came by the forest, gathered up some firewood, and took it home just as if he hadn't been gone at all."
Samuel Meacham II and Phebe Main Meacham were the parents of 17 children, all of whom reached their maturity, married, and raised large families. The children were
1.PHEBE (md. EZEKIEL WELLS);
2.SAMUEL (md. PHEBE HASKALL);
3.POLLY (MARY) (md. WILLIAM BRADBURY);
4.Dr. THOMAS (md. 1-SARAH BOND or CAULEY and
2-REBECCA SANFORD);
**5.JOSHUA (md. PERMELIA CHAPMAN);
6.JEREMIAH (md. ABIGAIL DAVIS);
7.ELAM (md. MARY WILLIAMS;
8.JOSEPH (md. 1-SARAH BASFORD and
2-LUCINA HARMON);
9.BETHIAH (md. MOSES WORTHEN);
10.ANDREW (md. ABIGAIL EASTMAN);
11.OLIVE (md. AMOS WORTHEN);
12.SARAH (md. 1-ANDREW MAIN,
2-MOSES FALL, and
3-JAMES WORTHEN);
13.ANNA (md JOHN GARDNER);
14.OLIVE (md. 1-JAMES STREATOR and
2-DAVID BRADBURY);
15. ? - female (married JAMES KIDDER);
16.MIRIAM (md. ASA KIMBALL); and
17.TEMPERANCE (md. JUDAH WELLS).
(Three of these brothers, Joshua, Elam, and Joseph Mecham, and most of their adult children and families, joined the LDS Church around 1836 and moved to Iowa, across the river from Nauvoo. These three and their descendants changed the spelling and pronunciation of their surname from Meacham to Mecham, "and have almost created or originated a new family" according to one Meacham family researcher in the eastern states. Some descendants of another of the brothers, Dr. Thomas Meacham, joined the Church later in New York state, but kept the spelling of their surname as Meacham).
All of Samuel's children were born in Canaan, Grafton County, New Hampshire, with the exception of the oldest daughter Phebe. She was born in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, where her mother had gone home to her family for the first confinement. Samuel's sons Joseph, Joshua, Elam, and son-in-law James Kidder together with their families moved to Mercer, Erie County, Pennsylvania; while Dr. Thomas, Jeremiah, Andres, and Samuel together with their families moved to St. Lawrence County, New York (near Meacham Lake). The lake was named by Dr. Thomas Meacham, and it is located in the Adirondacks. Dr. Thomas became a frontier physician of some repute. He was skilled in the used of herbs, and avoided the practice of drawing blood from the sick which was customary in those days. He also became a successful trapper in the Adirondack Mountains. Some of his children later joined the LDS Church and joined their cousins in the west.
It must have been difficult for the parents Samuel and Phebe Main Meacham to see their children and families load their belongings and start on their various journeys to far-away places. It was, however, a general practice among the settlers of their day to move on to new land as the old lost its productive value. No doubt, Samuel and Phebe were comforted with the thought that their children would improve their economic conditions as they moved to new areas. After the general exodus of their family, Samuel and Phebe stayed and lived out their days in Grafton County, New Hampshire. Samuel Mecham II died Jan. 22, 1811, at the age of 71. Mother Phebe Main Meacham died around 1845, at the age of 98."

Samuel married Pease, Bethia on 11 Jan 1734 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Bethia (daughter of Pease, The Latter Robert and Warriner, Hannah [Royal Line]) was born on 21 Nov 1709 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; died on 1 Jan 1778 in Harwinton, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States; was buried in Jan 1778. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Archive Record of William F. Edwards; Pease Gen; Warriner Family; History of Enfield;
TIB NZ194318; Archive Record of Mrs. Richard LeRoy Meacham.

Notes:

Arch rec Lucian Mormon Mecham Jr; Rec of L. Derek Maude.

Jeremiah married Browne, Deborah on 25 May 1693 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Deborah (daughter of Browne, John and Makepeace, Esther Hester) was born on 20 Apr 1673 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; was christened on 7 Dec 1731 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States; died on 20 Dec 1731 in Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Rec Naoma Perry Jolley 1988; Savage Dist V 1 pp 270-271; Mecham Book-Betty
Saum p 36; Arch rec Lucian Mormon Mecham Jr; Rec of L. Derek Maude.

Robert married Warriner, Hannah [Royal Line] on 24 Dec 1691 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Hannah (daughter of Warriner, Joseph and Montague, Mary) was born on 10 Sep 1674 in Hadley, Hampton, Massachusetts, United States; died on 30 Dec 1774 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Archive Record of William F. Edwards;
Savage Dist V 4 p 428;
Mecham Book-Betty Saum p 428; (Archive Record shows place of birth Enfield, Hartford, CT);
TIB AZ no. 28304 bk 3 p 159;
Archive Record of Mamie P Rogers;
Warriner Family by Rev. Edwin Warriner p 26;
IGI CT mg. batch 7018128 46 & A458623 0299; TIB AZ no. 28304 bk 3 p 159.

Notes:

Rec of L. Derek Maude 1988.

Jeremiah married Trask, Mary Margaret on 11 Mar 1672 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Mary (daughter of Trask, Henry and Southwick, Mary) was born on 14 Aug 1652 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; died before 1683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Rec of L. Derek Maude 1988.

Notes:

Rec of Naoma Perry Jolley; Savage Dist V 1 pp 270-271; Mecham Book-Betty
Saum p 36; IGI 1988 Mass p 5,796 batch (Marriage Esther MAKEPEACE) 7126030 70, etc; Arch rec Lucian Mormon Mecham Jr; DEATH: will probated 20 Nov 1697; Rec of L. Derek Maude 1988.

John married Makepeace, Esther Hester on 24 Apr 1655 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Esther (daughter of Makepeace, Thomas and Mellows, Elizabeth) was born on 21 Jul 1634 in Bristol, Somerset, England; was christened on 21 Jul 1634 in Bristol, Somerset, England; died on 24 Apr 1685 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; was buried in Apr 1685 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Rec of Naoma Perry Jolley 1988; Savage Dist V 1 pp 270-271; Mecham Book-
Betty Saum p 36; IGI 1988 Mass p 26,708 (Marriage John BROWNE) batch 7126030
70 etc; Arch rec Lucian Mormon Mecham Jr; L. Derek Maude 1988; NOTE: name-
Esther or Hester.

Notes:

Great Baddow Parish Register: Robert the sonne of Robert Pease and his wife bap. April 1630.

At the age of 4 (1634) he traveled to Salem on the 'Francis' with his father Robert and his uncle John. Following the death of his father in 1644, the 14 year old Robert lived with his mother for a year, and at the age of 15 was apprenticed to Thomas Root of Salem for a term of five years. When his term expired in 1650 he appears in Edgertown, Mass. where his uncle had taken up residence in 1644. He evidently returned to Salem before 1660 (Banks), where he appears in 1667 with the birth of the first of his children.

He was with the Salem Company during King Philips War of 1676-6. Both he and his wife suffered imprisonment in 1692 when they were suspected of witchcraft. His wife was living in 1704 and he was living in 1713 when he was dismissed from the church in Salem to aid in forming the first church at what is now Peabody, Mass. No further record has been found of them.

NOTE: See Elaine Pease's article on Sarah Pease's 1692 incarceration as an accused Salem witch.

He married Sarah. She died after 1704.

Robert married Sarah in 1652 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Sarah was born in 1631 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; died after 1704 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

NOTE: In 1692 Sarah was incarcerated as an accused Salem witch.

She and Robert Pease had the following children:
Bertha Pease b.11 Apr 1660 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts d.Nov 1667 Salem;
Elizabeth Pease b.20 Jun 1662 Salem (she md. Thoman Venney 23 Oct 1703);
Deliverance Pease b.16 oct 1664 Salem;
Mary Pease;
Robert Pease "The Latter";
Isaac Pease;
Bethia Pease b.18 Jun 1673 Salem;
Nathaniel Pease.

Notes:

Rec (Richard Montague) of Naoma Perry Jolley; Savage Dist V 4 p 428;
Meacham Book-Betty Saum p 41; IGI 1988 Mass p 43,323 batch 7232030 56,
7926013 2, (marriage A170723 1394, 7222242 81); Arch rec Mamie P Rogers;
Warriner Fam by Rev. Edwin Warriner p 26;
Rec L. Derek Maude 1988.

Joseph married Montague, Mary on 25 Nov 1668 in Hadley, Hampton, Massachusetts, United States. Mary (daughter of Montague, Richard and Downing, Abigail) was born in 1642 in Wells, York, Maine, United States; died on 22 Jul 1689 in Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Rec of Naoma Perry Jolley; Mecham Fam Book-Betty Saum p 46; Savage Dist
V 4 p 428; (Marriage IGI 1988 Mass Joseph WARRINER); Arch rec Mamie P Rogers;

Warriner Fam by Rev. Edwin Warriner p 26; Rec L. Derek Maude 1988.