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Meacham, Samuel

Male 1739 - 1811  (71 years)


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  • Name Meacham, Samuel 
    Born 15 Nov 1739  Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Buried Jan 1811  West Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 22 Jan 1811  Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I19948  USA
    Last Modified 4 Jun 2021 

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

    Family Main, Phebe,   b. 16 Nov 1747, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1843, New London, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 95 years) 
    Married 31 Mar 1763  Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Meacham, Phebe,   b. 12 Dec 1763, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Sep 1856, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 92 years)
     2. Meacham, Samuel,   b. 1766, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Apr 1843, Dickenson, Franklin, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
     3. Meacham, Polly Mary,   b. 9 Feb 1768, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Jun 1836, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)
     4. Meacham, Doctor Thomas Doctor,   b. 1 Jul 1771, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 May 1849, Dickenson, Franklin, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
     5. Meacham, Joshua,   b. 12 Apr 1773, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Oct 1846, Bonaparte, Van Buren, Iowa, United States, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)
     6. Meacham, Jeremiah,   b. 2 Dec 1774, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Jan 1834  (Age 59 years)
     7. Meacham, Elam,   b. 2 May 1776, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Mar 1874  (Age 97 years)
     8. Meacham, Joseph,   b. 15 Jun 1779, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1845, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years)
     9. Meacham, Bethia,   b. 1779, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Jan 1861, Corinna, Penobscot, Maine, United States, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years)
     10. Meacham, Andrew,   b. 1781, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Jan 1821  (Age 40 years)
     11. Meacham, Olive,   b. 9 Feb 1782, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Aug 1872  (Age 90 years)
     12. Meacham, Sarah,   b. 1784, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Aug 1872, Enfield, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years)
     13. Meacham, Anna,   b. 1786, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     14. Meacham,   b. 1790, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     15. Meacham, Miriam,   b. 14 Jun 1794, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     16. Meacham, Temperance,   b. 1795, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    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."