Ancestry of
Glenn Close

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Benjamin Mead

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Glenn Close — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 518 
  • Father:
  • John Mead 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Potter   
  • Birth Date:
  • May 1667 
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Feb 1746 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Burying Ground, Fairfield, Fairfield Co., Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Waterbury
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 May 1700 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Elizabeth Mead (Ahnentafel No:259 )

• Additional marriages for Benjamin Mead

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  • Spouse:
  • Rachel Brown
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 or 27 JUN 1716
  • Marriage Location:
  • Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut

• Sources for Benjamin Mead

  • ¹ Biographical History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. 2, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1899), 854.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Greenwich, p. 47, Birth record for daughter Elizabeth Mead.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Greenwich, p. 45, Marriage record for Benjamin Mead and Rachal Brown.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/29/2020).
  • ⁵ Mead, Spencer P., History and Genealogy of the Mead Family: of Fairfield County, Connecticut, Eastern New York, Western Vermont . . ., New York: The Knickerbocker Press (1901), 182, 185.
  • ⁶ White, Lorraine Cook, ed., Connecticut, U.S., Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), originally published as The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 1-55, Marriage record for Benjamin Mead and Sarah Waterbury.

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