Joseph Mead and Hannah Boone
Husband Joseph Mead 1 2 3
Born: 25 Jan or 25 Jun 1772 - Northumberland Co, PA 1 2 Christened: Died: 3 Mar 1846 - ? Warren Co, PA 2 4 5 Buried:
Father: Darius Mead (1728-1791) 6 7 8 9 Mother: Ruth Curtis (1734-1794) 7 9
Marriage: 1794 3
Wife Hannah Boone 2 3
Born: 7 Oct 1778 2 10 Christened: Died: 25 Feb 1856 - ? Warren Co, PA 10 Buried:
Father: John Boone (1701/1702-1785) 11 12 Mother: Mary [Unk] ( - ) 11
Children
1 F Eva Mead 3 11 13
Born: 22 Apr 1795 11 13 Christened: Died: Apr 1873 11 Buried:Spouse: Unknown ( - )
2 M Benjamin Mead 3 11 13
Born: 5 Oct 1796 - Warren Co, PA 11 13 Christened: Died: 1891 11 13 Buried:Spouse: Almena Stebbins ( - ) 3 11 Marr: 13 Mar 1820 4
3 F Ruth [1] Mead 11 13
Born: 15 Sep 1798 11 13 Christened: Died: 3 Jul or 18 Jul 1801 11 13 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
4 M David Mead 1 3 11
Born: 18 Jun 1800 - Brokenstraw Twp, Warren Co, PA 11 13 Christened: Died: 14 Nov 1856 or 8 Nov 1862 5 11 Buried:Spouse: [Unk] Owens ( - ) 11Spouse: Martha Tuttle ( - ) 13 14 Marr: 31 Jul 1828 5
5 M John Mead 3 11 13
Born: 18 Nov 1802 11 13 Christened: Died: 5 May 1857 11 13 Buried:Spouse: Katharine Ford ( - ) 11Spouse: Evaline A. Stevens (1807-1885) 15
6 F Ruth [2] Mead 11 13
Born: 22 Apr 1804 11 13 Christened: Died: 16 Jul 1878 or 7 Jul 1879 11 13 Buried:Spouse: Aaron Owens ( - ) 11Spouse: Dudley Magee ( - ) 11
7 M William Mead 11 13
Born: 7 Feb 1806 11 13 Christened: Died: 16 Nov 1850 or 19 Nov 1857 11 13 Buried:Spouse: Mary McKinney ( - ) 11
8 F Sarah Mead 11 13
Born: 4 Mar 1807 11 13 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Joel Whitney ( - ) 11
9 M Darius Mead 11 13
Born: 4 Feb 1810 11 13 Christened: Died: 27 May 1845 11 13 Buried:Spouse: [Unk] Ditmars ( - ) 16
10 F Mary "Polly" Mead 11 13
Born: 7 Dec 1811 11 13 Christened: Died: 26 Sep 1851 11 Buried:Spouse: William Smith ( - ) 11
11 M Goodwin Mead 11 13
AKA: Gooding Mead 3 4 Born: 30 May 1814 11 13 Christened: Died: 15 Dec 1890 11 Buried:Spouse: Harriet [Unk] ( - ) 11
12 M Boone Mead 11 13
Born: 27 Feb 1816 11 13 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Medora Reese ( - ) 11
13 F Elizabeth Mead 11 13
Born: 13 Dec 1818 11 13 Christened: Died: 12 Sep 1892 11 Buried:Spouse: Stephen Critchlow ( - ) 11
14 F Abigail Mead 11 17 18
Born: 20 Mar 1820 11 13 Christened: Died: 15 May 1889 11 Buried:Spouse: David Beaty (1811-1889) 18 19 Marr: 16 Nov 1843 19
General Notes: Husband - Joseph Mead
He was born January 25, 1772. [BOB37JD, 459]
He settled in Meadville, Pennsylvania, in 1793(?), moving there with his father and siblings from the Susquehanna river in what is now Lycoming County. In 1799 he and his brother Darius went to Warren County, Pennsylvania, and Joseph settled at Big Brokenstraw, one mile west of Youngsville. Darius died in 1813 and Joseph moved three miles west of Warren.
He came from Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, and settled in Brokenstraw township, Warren County, in 1799, where he engaged in farming and lumbering; later he moved to Conewango, purchased Mead Island (a place which bore his name), and died on the farm later owned by James Mead.
In 1793 Darius Mead, with his sons David, John, Darius, and Joseph, and two daughters, emigrated from the Susquehanna River in what later became Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, to the tract of land now embracing Meadville, from whom it took its name. By reason of the hostile demonstrations of the Indians they removed to Franklin, where was a fort and United States garrison. After the subsidence of the Indian troubles, David and John Mead returned to Meadville. In the spring of 1799 Joseph and Darius removed to Warren County with their families, the former settling on the Big Brokenstraw, where Mead's mill would later stand, about a mile west of Youngsville. Darius located on the farm later owned and occupied by Captain James Bonner. In a year or two, however, he joined his brother, and with him built a grist-mill and two saw-mills. This was the first grist-mill in Warren County, there being at that time no mill within a radius of thirty miles.
In 1813 Joseph Mead removed to a farm on the Allegheny River, three miles below Warren, including the island which bore his name, and passed the remainder of his life there. He and his wife were the parents of fourteen children, eleven of whom were living at the time of their mother's death. After the death of Darius Mead the mill came into the hands of his nephew, John Mead, who had labored in them since 1807, as a hired man. He rebuilt the Mead mills several times. Before his death his son Darius operated the mills for some time, and finally sold the saw-mill to Mad. Alger and the grist-mill to H. T. Marshall.
He was at one time a resident of the neighborhood of Philadelphia, and was a friend and relative of the pioneer hunter, Daniel Boone, besides being intimately acquainted with the family of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania. Joseph left eastern Pennsylvania and went to Warren County, locating first in Brokenstraw and later in Conewango township, where he took up government land and also purchased from the Seneca Indians (whose chief was the celebrated "Cornplanter") Mead Island, the largest island in the Allegheny River. Joseph Mead's treatment of the Indians was always generous, and it was largely due to his personality and influence that a good feeling always prevailed between them and the white people.
General Notes: Wife - Hannah Boone
She was a niece [or cousin] of the famous pioneer Kentuckian, Daniel Boone.
1 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 459, 479.
2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 723.
3 Spencer P. Mead, History and Genealogy of the Mead Family (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1901), Pg 316.
4 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg lxvi.
5 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 480.
6 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 62.
7 Samuel P. Bates, LL.D., Our County and Its People, A Historical and Memorial Record of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (W. A. Fergusson & Co., 1899), Pg 135.
8 Spencer P. Mead, History and Genealogy of the Mead Family (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1901), Pg 306.
9 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 728.
10 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 405.
11 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 724.
12 Rev. P. C. Croll, D.D., Annals of the Oley Valley in Berks County, PA (Reading, PA: Reading Eagle Press, 1926), Pg 23.
13 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 459, 480.
14 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 392.
15 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 906.
16 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 424.
17 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 194, 459, 480.
18 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 242.
19
John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 722.
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