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1739 - 1811 (71 years)

Name	Meacham, Samuel
Born	15 Nov 1739	Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States
Gender	Male
Buried	Jan 1811	West Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States
Died	22 Jan 1811	Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States
Person ID	I19948	USA
Last Modified	4 Jun 2021

Father	Meacham, Samuel, b. 22 Jul 1712, Windham, New London, Connecticut, United States , d. Aft 1754, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (Age > 43 years)
Mother	Pease, Bethia, b. 21 Nov 1709, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States , d. 1 Jan 1778, Harwinton, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States (Age 68 years)
Married	11 Jan 1734	Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Family ID	F7066	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Main, Phebe, b. 16 Nov 1747, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States , d. 1843, New London, New London, Connecticut, United States (Age 95 years)

Married 31 Mar 1763 Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States

Children

	1. Meacham, Phebe, b. 12 Dec 1763, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States , d. 12 Sep 1856, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States (Age 92 years)
	2. Meacham, Samuel, b. 1766, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States , d. 8 Apr 1843, Dickenson, Franklin, New York, United States (Age 77 years)
	3. Meacham, Polly Mary, b. 9 Feb 1768, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States , d. 26 Jun 1836, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 68 years)
	4. Meacham, Doctor Thomas Doctor, b. 1 Jul 1771, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States , d. 7 May 1849, Dickenson, Franklin, New York, United States (Age 77 years)
	5. Meacham, Joshua, b. 12 Apr 1773, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States , d. 8 Oct 1846, Bonaparte, Van Buren, Iowa, United States, United States (Age 73 years)
	6. Meacham, Jeremiah, b. 2 Dec 1774, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States , d. 22 Jan 1834 (Age 59 years)
	7. Meacham, Elam, b. 2 May 1776, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States , d. 4 Mar 1874 (Age 97 years)
	8. Meacham, Joseph, b. 15 Jun 1779, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States , d. 1845, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States (Age 65 years)
	9. Meacham, Bethia, b. 1779, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States , d. 18 Jan 1861, Corinna, Penobscot, Maine, United States, United States (Age 82 years)
	10. Meacham, Andrew, b. 1781, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States , d. 18 Jan 1821 (Age 40 years)
	11. Meacham, Olive, b. 9 Feb 1782, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States , d. 28 Aug 1872 (Age 90 years)
	12. Meacham, Sarah, b. 1784, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States , d. 28 Aug 1872, Enfield, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States (Age 88 years)
	13. Meacham, Anna, b. 1786, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States
	14. Meacham, b. 1790, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States
	15. Meacham, Miriam, b. 14 Jun 1794, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States
	16. Meacham, Temperance, b. 1795, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States

Last Modified 5 Aug 2021

Family ID F7062 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

Archive Record of Lillie Dunford Mecham; New York Genealogical & Biographical Magazine V 65, pp 387-388;
Archive Record of Mrs. Richard LeRoy Mecham;
TIB MT no. 25150 bk A-2 p 948; IGI CT 1984 p 9,103;
L. Derek Maude Records.

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

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