Meacham, Samuel II b. 15 Nov 1739 Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA d. 22 Jan 1811 Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA: WETZEL Extended Family & More

Meacham, Samuel II

1739 - 1811 (71 years)

Name	Meacham, Samuel
	SAMUEL MEACHAM I & II SAMUEL MEACHAM I was born in 1712 and died sometime after 1754. He married Bethia Pease (1709-1778), the daughter of Robert Pease (1669-????) and Hannah Warriner (1674-1774). Hannah was the daughter of Joseph Warriner (1645-1697) and Mary Montague (1649-1689). (The Montague or De Montacute family was descended from royalty, and had a genealogy claimed to be traced back to Adam and Eve -- given in the Mecham Family Book of Remembrance). Mary Montague was also descended from families Downing, Allen, Bullock, Cotton, Malthus (Malthouse), Kingsmill, Bloise, Norris, Gifford, and Nottingham. . The 9 children of SAMUEL MEACHAM I and BETHIA PEASE were: 1.MARY (md. ELIAS RANDALL); 2.ZEBAH (md. ELIZABETH PEMBESTON or PENDLETON); 3.SAMUEL II (md. PHEBE MAIN); 4.BETHIA (md. JOSIAH PHELPS); 5.JEREMIAH (md. 1-RHODA BARNES and 2-MARY BARTHOLOMEW); 6.DEBORAH (md. EZEKIEL MAIN); 7.BENJAMIN (unmarried); 8.SETH (md. LOIS PRINDLE); and 9.NEHEMIAH (prob. died young). Samuel Mecham 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.. It must have been difficult for the parents Samuel and Phebe Main Meacham to see their children and families load their belongings and start on their various journeys to far-away places. It was, however, a general practice among the settlers of their day to move on to new land as the old lost its productive value. No doubt, Samuel and Phebe were comforted with the thought that their children would improve their economic conditions as they moved to new areas. After the general exodus of their family, Samuel and Phebe stayed and lived out their days in Grafton County, New Hampshire. Samuel Mecham II died Jan. 22, 1811, at the age of 71. Mother Phebe Main Meacham died around 1845, at the age of 98. Eric Atkissonadded this on 16 Oct 2009. JimMcCullough44 JimMcCullough44 originally shared this to McCullough, Rinear, Eldridge, Kluttz Family Tree ?08 Mar 2010 LPaiyou LPaiyou added this to LPaiyou Family Tree ?27 Mar 2013
Suffix	II
Birth	15 Nov 1739	Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA [1]
Gender	Male
War, Revolutionary	SAMUEL MEACHAM I & II SAMUEL MEACHAM I was born in 1712 and died sometime after 1754. He married Bethia Pease (1709-1778), the daughter of Robert Pease (1669-????) and Hannah Warriner (1674-1774). Hannah was the daughter of Joseph Warriner (1645-1697) and Mary Montague (1649-1689). (The Montague or De Montacute family was descended from royalty, and had a genealogy claimed to be traced back to Adam and Eve -- given in the Mecham Family Book of Remembrance). Mary Montague was also descended from families Downing, Allen, Bullock, Cotton, Malthus (Malthouse), Kingsmill, Bloise, Norris, Gifford, and Nottingham. . The 9 children of SAMUEL MEACHAM I and BETHIA PEASE were: 1.MARY (md. ELIAS RANDALL); 2.ZEBAH (md. ELIZABETH PEMBESTON or PENDLETON); 3.SAMUEL II (md. PHEBE MAIN); 4.BETHIA (md. JOSIAH PHELPS); 5.JEREMIAH (md. 1-RHODA BARNES and 2-MARY BARTHOLOMEW); 6.DEBORAH (md. EZEKIEL MAIN); 7.BENJAMIN (unmarried); 8.SETH (md. LOIS PRINDLE); and 9.NEHEMIAH (prob. died young). Samuel Mecham 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.. It must have been difficult for the parents Samuel and Phebe Main Meacham to see their children and families load their belongings and start on their various journeys to far-away places. It was, however, a general practice among the settlers of their day to move on to new land as the old lost its productive value. No doubt, Samuel and Phebe were comforted with the thought that their children would improve their economic conditions as they moved to new areas. After the general exodus of their family, Samuel and Phebe stayed and lived out their days in Grafton County, New Hampshire. Samuel Mecham II died Jan. 22, 1811, at the age of 71. Mother Phebe Main Meacham died around 1845, at the age of 98. Eric Atkissonadded this on 16 Oct 2009. JimMcCullough44 JimMcCullough44 originally shared this to McCullough, Rinear, Eldridge, Kluttz Family Tree ?08 Mar 2010 LPaiyou LPaiyou added this to LPaiyou Family Tree ?27 Mar 2013
Name	Samuel* Mecham [1]
_MILT	1758	Connecticut, USA [1]
	Fought with the 3rd Connecticut Militia during the French & Indian War
_MILT	1759	Connecticut, USA [1]
	Fought with the 4th Connecticut Militia during the French & Indian War
_MILT	1761	Connecticut, USA [1]
	Fought with the 2nd Connecticut Militia during the French & Indian War
_MILT	1762	Connecticut, USA [1]
	Fought with the 2nd Connecticut Militia during the French & Indian War
Residence	1776	Enfield, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA [1]
Residence	1790	Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA [1]
Residence	1800	Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA [1]
Residence	1810	Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA [1]
Death	22 Jan 1811	Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA [1]
	Age at Death: 71
Burial	Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA [1]
Person ID	I37958	WETZEL-SPRING

Father	Meacham, Samuel Sr., b. 12 Jul 1712, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, USA d. 22 Jan 1811, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (Age 98 years)
Relationship	natural
Mother	Pease, Bethia, b. 21 Nov 1709, Enfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA d. 1 Jan 1778, Harwinton, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 68 years)
Relationship	natural
Family ID	F11380	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Main, Phebe, b. 16 Nov 1747, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA d. 1845, New London, New London, Connecticut, USA (Age 97 years)

Marriage 31 Mar 1763 Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA [1]

SAMUEL MEACHAM I & II
SAMUEL MEACHAM I was born in 1712 and died sometime after 1754. He married Bethia Pease (1709-1778), the daughter of Robert Pease (1669-????) and Hannah Warriner (1674-1774). Hannah was the daughter of Joseph Warriner (1645-1697) and Mary Montague (1649-1689). (The Montague or De Montacute family was descended from royalty, and had a genealogy claimed to be traced back to Adam and Eve -- given in the Mecham Family Book of Remembrance). Mary Montague was also descended from families Downing, Allen, Bullock, Cotton, Malthus (Malthouse), Kingsmill, Bloise, Norris, Gifford, and Nottingham. .

The 9 children of SAMUEL MEACHAM I and BETHIA PEASE were:
1.MARY (md. ELIAS RANDALL);
2.ZEBAH (md. ELIZABETH PEMBESTON or PENDLETON);
**3.SAMUEL II (md. PHEBE MAIN);
4.BETHIA (md. JOSIAH PHELPS);
5.JEREMIAH (md. 1-RHODA BARNES and 2-MARY BARTHOLOMEW);
6.DEBORAH (md. EZEKIEL MAIN);
7.BENJAMIN (unmarried);
8.SETH (md. LOIS PRINDLE); and
9.NEHEMIAH (prob. died young).

Samuel Mecham
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..

It must have been difficult for the parents Samuel and Phebe Main Meacham to see their children and families load their belongings and start on their various journeys to far-away places. It was, however, a general practice among the settlers of their day to move on to new land as the old lost its productive value. No doubt, Samuel and Phebe were comforted with the thought that their children would improve their economic conditions as they moved to new areas. After the general exodus of their family, Samuel and Phebe stayed and lived out their days in Grafton County, New Hampshire. Samuel Mecham II died Jan. 22, 1811, at the age of 71. Mother Phebe Main Meacham died around 1845, at the age of 98.

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Children

	1. Mecham, Uriah, b. 1779, Strafford, Orange, Vermont, USA d. 18 Oct 1841, Kingsville, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA (Age 62 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	2. Meacham, Samuel III, b. 1766, Grafton, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA d. 8 Apr 1843, Franklin, Franklin, New York, USA (Age 77 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	3. Meacham, Temperance, b. 14 Jun 1794, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA d. 28 Aug 1872, Enfield, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA (Age 78 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	4. Meacham, Anna, b. 1786, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA d. 21 Feb 1831 (Age 45 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	5. Meacham, Thomas, b. 1 Jul 1771, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA d. 7 May 1849, Dickinson, Franklin, New York, USA (Age 77 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	6. Meacham, Joseph Andrew, b. 15 Jun 1780, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA d. 9 Jul 1872, Roulette Twp, Potter, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 92 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	7. Meacham, Jeremiah, b. 2 Dec 1774, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA d. 22 Jan 1834, Newport, Orleans, Vermont, USA (Age 59 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	8. Meacham, Elam, b. 2 May 1776, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA d. 4 Mar 1874, Grafton, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA (Age 97 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	9. Meacham, Bethia, b. Jan 1779, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA d. 18 Jan 1861, Corinna, Penobscot, Maine, USA (Age 82 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	10. Mecham, Daughter, b. 1788 d. 1863 (Age 75 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	11. Meacham, Olive, b. 9 Feb 1782, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA d. 28 Aug 1872, Enfield, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA (Age 90 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	12. Meacham, Robert, b. 15 Jun 1777, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA d. 22 Jan 1848 (Age 70 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	13. Meacham, Miriam, b. 14 Jun 1794, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA d. 1850 (Age 55 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	14. Mecham, Mary Polly, b. 9 Feb 1768, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA d. 26 Jun 1836, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 68 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	15. Meacham, Sarah, b. 9 Feb 1782, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA d. 28 Aug 1872, Enfield, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA (Age 90 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	16. Meacham, Phebe, b. 12 Dec 1763, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA d. 12 Sep 1863, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA (Age 99 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
	17. Mecham, Joshua*, b. 12 Apr 1773, Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA d. 8 Oct 1846, Bonaparte, Van Buren, Iowa, USA (Age 73 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]

Family ID F11367 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Event Map

	Birth - 15 Nov 1739 - Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA
	_MILT - Fought with the 3rd Connecticut Militia during the French & Indian War - 1758 - Connecticut, USA
	_MILT - Fought with the 4th Connecticut Militia during the French & Indian War - 1759 - Connecticut, USA
	_MILT - Fought with the 2nd Connecticut Militia during the French & Indian War - 1761 - Connecticut, USA
	_MILT - Fought with the 2nd Connecticut Militia during the French & Indian War - 1762 - Connecticut, USA
	Marriage - 31 Mar 1763 - Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA
	Residence - 1776 - Enfield, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA
	Residence - 1790 - Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA
	Residence - 1800 - Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA
	Residence - 1810 - Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA
	Death - 22 Jan 1811 - Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA
	Burial - - Canaan, Grafton, New Hampshire, USA

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SAMUEL MEACHAM I & II
SAMUEL MEACHAM I was born in 1712 and died sometime after 1754. He married Bethia Pease (1709-1778), the daughter of Robert Pease (1669-????) and Hannah Warriner (1674-1774). Hannah was the daughter of Joseph Warriner (1645-1697) and Mary Montague (1649-1689). (The Montague or De Montacute family was descended from royalty, and had a genealogy claimed to be traced back to Adam and Eve -- given in the Mecham Family Book of Remembrance). Mary Montague was also descended from families Downing, Allen, Bullock, Cotton, Malthus (Malthouse), Kingsmill, Bloise, Norris, Gifford, and Nottingham. .

The 9 children of SAMUEL MEACHAM I and BETHIA PEASE were:
1.MARY (md. ELIAS RANDALL);
2.ZEBAH (md. ELIZABETH PEMBESTON or PENDLETON);
**3.SAMUEL II (md. PHEBE MAIN);
4.BETHIA (md. JOSIAH PHELPS);
5.JEREMIAH (md. 1-RHODA BARNES and 2-MARY BARTHOLOMEW);
6.DEBORAH (md. EZEKIEL MAIN);
7.BENJAMIN (unmarried);
8.SETH (md. LOIS PRINDLE); and
9.NEHEMIAH (prob. died young).

Samuel Mecham
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..

It must have been difficult for the parents Samuel and Phebe Main Meacham to see their children and families load their belongings and start on their various journeys to far-away places. It was, however, a general practice among the settlers of their day to move on to new land as the old lost its productive value. No doubt, Samuel and Phebe were comforted with the thought that their children would improve their economic conditions as they moved to new areas. After the general exodus of their family, Samuel and Phebe stayed and lived out their days in Grafton County, New Hampshire. Samuel Mecham II died Jan. 22, 1811, at the age of 71. Mother Phebe Main Meacham died around 1845, at the age of 98.

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Sources

[S838] Public Member Trees, 201403, Database online.
Record for Samuel* Mecham
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=12544558396&indiv=try

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