Ancestry of
Nathaniel Philbrick

Author of In the Heart of the Sea

Rhoda Mead

View famous kin of Rhoda Mead

• • 4th Great-grandmother of Nathaniel Philbrick — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 101 
  • Father:
  • Matthew Mead 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Danforth   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Jul 1758 
  • Birth Location:
  • Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  •  
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  • 22 Jan 1825 
  • Death Location:
  • Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  •  
  • Spouse Name:
  • Philemon Munroe
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Sep 1786 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Edwin Munroe (Ahnentafel No:50 )

• Sources for Rhoda Mead

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A081167.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Lexington, Vol. 1, p. 134, Marriage record for Philemon Munro and Rhoda Mead.
  • ³ Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871, Case #15705, Probate records for spouse Philemon Munroe.
  • ⁴ Hudson, Charles, History of the Town of Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts: From Its First Settlement to 1868, Vol. 2 - Genealogies, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company (1913), 135.
  • ⁵ Mackenzie, Alexander, History of the Munros of Fowlis with Genealogies of the Principal Families of the Name, Inverness: A. and W. Mackenzie (1898), 600-601.
  • ⁶ McGuire, Joan S. Guilford, The Monroe Book: Being the History of the Munro Clan From Its Origins in Scotland to Settlement in New England and . . ., Franklin, North Carolina: Genealogy Publishing Service (1993), 71-72.

Nathaniel Philbrick photo by Nathaniel Philbrick (CC BY-SA 3.0)