Gathered here is the most comprehensive repository of materials on the life of Gideon Mead, shared great grandfather of Adaline Knight and Henrietta McBride (wives of Utah Pioneer Gilbert Belnap). Click on the links below to access biographical and historical information about Gideon Mead:
Biographies and Related Materials
- Belnap, Flora, comp. Pioneer Incidents of Rev. Daniel McBride and Abigail Mead-McBride and Their Children of Utah, Michigan and New York (1952)
- Dotson, Flora Belnap. “Analysis of the Pedigree of James McBride and Betsy Mead, My Great Grandparents”
- Doherty, Frank J. Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Dutchess County, New York: An Historical and Genealogical Study of All the 18th Century Settlers in the Patent, vol. VIII (____), pp. 697-738
Census Records
- 1790 U.S. Federal Census, Saratoga, Albany, NY (1790)
- 1800 U.S. Federal Census, Greenwich, Fairfield, CT (1800)
- 1810 U.S. Federal Census, Chester, Washington, NY (1810)
Death Records
- Will of Gideon Mead, dated Nov 1813; proved 29 Sep 1814 (Warren Co., NY Wills, FHL #441,851, vol. A, pp. 30-32)
Photographs and Images
Spouse
Children
- Abigail Mead (1770-1854)
- Millicent Mead (1772-unknown)
- Nancy Mead (about 1774-about 1775)
- Nancy Mead (1775-1838)
- Fanny Mead (1777-unknown)
- Hannah Mead (1780-1826)
- Lydia Mead (about 1783-unknown)
- Gideon Mead (1786-1870)
Parents
Last update: 16 Jun 2020