Darius Mead and Ruth Curtis
Husband Darius Mead 1 2 3 4
AKA: Jonathan Darius Mead 5 Born: 28 Mar 1728 - Greenwich, Fairfield Co, CT 2 4 Christened: Died: 1791 - ? Crawford Co, PA 2 Buried:
Father: Jonathan Mead (Abt 1689- ) 6 Mother:
Father: David Mead (1702- ) 2 Mother:
Marriage:
Wife Ruth Curtis 2 4
Born: 27 May 1734 - Stamford, Fairfield Co, CT 2 4 Christened: Died: 1794 - Meadville, Crawford Co, PA 4 Buried:
Children
1 M Gen. David Mead 7 8
AKA: David Meade 4 Born: 17 Jan 1752 - Hudson, Columbia Co, NY 4 8 Christened: Died: 23 Aug 1816 - Meadville, Crawford Co, PA 4 Buried:Spouse: Agnes Wilson ( -1795) 4 9 Marr: Abt 1774Spouse: Jennette Finney ( -1826) 4 Marr: 1796 4
2 M Asahel Mead 8 11
AKA: Ansel Mead 10 Born: 9 Aug 1754 8 Christened: Died: 3 Jul 1778 - Wyoming, Luzerne Co, PA 8 Buried:
3 M John Mead 2 12 13
Born: 22 Jul 1756 - Hudson, Columbia Co, NY 8 12 Christened: Died: Jun 1819 12 Buried:Spouse: Catharine Foster (1759-1843) 10 13 Marr: 15 Dec 1782 - Northumberland Co, PA 13
4 F Ruth Mead 8
Born: 16 Apr 1761 8 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Hugh Depree ( - ) 14Spouse: John Andrews ( - ) 14
5 M Darius Mead 6 8 14 15 16
Born: 4 Dec or 9 Dec 1764 6 8 15 Christened: Died: 1813 - Meadville, Crawford Co, PA 6 15 Buried:Spouse: Ann Hoffman (Abt 1769- ) 16 Marr: Abt 1784-1793
6 F Elizabeth "Betsey" Mead 8 14
Born: 1 Jun 1769 8 14 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: [Unk] Garner ( - ) 14Spouse: [Unk] Rautsom ( - ) 14Spouse: [Unk] Ray ( - ) 14
7 M Joseph Mead 6 17 18
Born: 25 Jan or 25 Jun 1772 - Northumberland Co, PA 6 17 Christened: Died: 3 Mar 1846 - ? Warren Co, PA 6 19 20 Buried:Spouse: Hannah Boone (1778-1856) 6 18 Marr: 1794 18
General Notes: Husband - Darius Mead
Two different sources give different parents for him.
He was born in Stamford or Greenwich, Connecticut. In the year 1750 he settled in the Upper Hudson Valley at the village of Hudson, New York. About 1770 he removed with his children to the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania, but subsequently followed his sons, David and John, to the new lands on the Venango River, where he was killed by the Indians in 1791.
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, 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. The following spring, while the father was plowing in a field in the vicinity, a party of three Indians came stealthily and suddenly upon him, seized and bound him hand and foot. They took him about twenty miles into the woods westerly from Franklin, where they stopped to encamp for the night. While the Indians were cutting wood for their camp fire, Mead succeeded in extricating one of his hands. As one of the Indians came up with an armful of wood, and was bending over in the act of kindling the fire, Mead stepped up, and drawing a large hunting knife from the Indian's belt, plunged it into his heart. The other two came up at that moment, and a desperate encounter at once commenced. It is supposed that Mead succeeded in mortally wounding one of his antagonists, but he was finally overpowered and brutally murdered, and cut to pieces with a tomahawk.
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.
In 1791, when trouble from the Indians seemed imminent, the people of Meadville, Pennsylvania, sent their women and children to Fort Franklin for shelter and protection. Among those who fled from Mead's settlement to Fort Franklin at that time was Darius Mead, father of General David Mead, the founder of Meadville. He engaged in cultivating a piece of bottom land not far from the fort, and while one day plowing in his field he was taken prisoner by Captain Bull, a Delaware chief, and a companion, who professed to be friendly Indians, and hurried off through the forest. The following day his body, and also Bull's, were found near Shenango creek, in Mercer County, by Conewyando, a friendly Seneca, who sent his daughter to Fort Franklin to notify Mead's family. The officer in command sent two soldiers to bury the body. They found Mead and Bull close together, and from appearances it was believed that during the night Mead got possession of Bull's knife and killed him, and after a fierce struggle was in turn killed by the chief's companion. It was deemed probable that the second Indian was severely wounded from the fact that he left the body of Bull unburied, and it was afterwards learned that he died from wounds received in the fight with the brave old man. [HVC 1890, 62]
During the Indian raid of 1791-92 he was killed, while plowing a field, by a Seneca chief named Conewyando. He had served in the Revolutionary war, as a member of the Pennsylvania militia of Northumberland County. He was the sixth in generation from William Meade, who, with his wife, Ruth Hardy Meade (died 1657) came from England in 1640 and settled at Stamford, Connecticut, and from whom have come an honored people.
General Notes: Wife - Ruth Curtis
She died in the summer of 1794, the first white person to die a natural death in Meadville, PA.
1 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 62.
2 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.
3 Spencer P. Mead, History and Genealogy of the Mead Family (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1901), Pg 306.
4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 728.
5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 868.
6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 723.
7 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 759.
8 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 136.
9 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 134.
10 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg lxvii.
11 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 172.
12 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 174.
13 Spencer P. Mead, History and Genealogy of the Mead Family (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1901), Pg 311.
14 Spencer P. Mead, History and Genealogy of the Mead Family (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1901), Pg 315.
15 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 366.
16 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 178.
17 —, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 459, 479.
18 Spencer P. Mead, History and Genealogy of the Mead Family (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1901), Pg 316.
19 J. S. Schenck, History of Warren County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg lxvi.
20
—, Book of Biographies, 37th Judicial District, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Biographical Publishing Company, 1899), Pg 480.
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