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From: "Molly Sharp" <>
Subject: Re: [MEADOWS] books
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:10:56 -0400
In-Reply-To: <462D1218.000007.02948@GEORGE>


Janet,
Thomas Meades/Meador may be often mis-spelled, but he is not the Thomas
Meares of Lower Norfolk that you found on pg 56 and 58. In Lower Norfolk,
Thomas Meares's patent bordered that of Bartholomew Hoskins and he married
Bartholomew's daughter. Their eldest son, Bartholomew Meares, was the
subsequent owner of Hoskins and Meares patents, so that lineage is easier to
trace.
Molly

From: "Janet" <>
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>Subject: Re: [MEADOWS] books
>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:07:52 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)
>
>I never said Mead family is our but they are not
>Meades,Meader/Meador and Meadows is
>Janet
>
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>
>From: Janean
>Date: 04/23/07 10:22:11
>To:
>Subject: Re: [MEADOWS] books
>
>In reading the recently posted document of Robert Sison and seeing "Ye olde
>handwriting" WOW, this makes it even more of a reason for all of us to
>have
>a copy of the actual document to decipher ourselves and communicate between
>us the interpretations of dates, spellings of names etc.
>
>Most of this stuff we get has been passed on and retyped. All it takes is
>one typo and we have an entirely new questions or family.
>
>The difference between Meers, Meare, Mead/e/s, Meador/Mador, Meadows etc.
>is all up to one man's interpretation of the handwriting in the document
>the
>transcribing thereof. Especially where dates are concerned.
>
>What IF for instance there was a Thomas Mead whose last name was truly Mead
>and was not related at all to our Meador family? I am a question kinda gal
>and don't believe anything even an abstract of something out of a book
>until
>I see the actual document myself.
>
>I have a friend who is a long time transcriber and does a meticulous job.
>She spends weeks and months writing her own books of abstracts etc. and has
>probably about 50-70 books under her belt. She just got done with one
>microfilm that was previously recorded and published by someone else that
>she showed me the HUGE mistakes and omissions this other person had made.
>She said she will NEVER trust this persons work again.
>
>So while Books are important key....... they are not gospel no matter who
>writes them so send away for the documents.
>
>I have begun a list of my own every time I see a document that has been
>sourced as to its Deed Bk # and page #. I learned in doing my Mayflower
>that having these documents IN HAND is worth everything.
>
>My 2 cents. Janean
>
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>
>Robin Connors has post most of this on Meadow Crossing site but here for
>all
> I am not on Meadow Crossing and copy from there. I am on HeritageQuest
>on
>line reading books there
>
>Seventeenth century Isle of Wight County, Virginia : a history of the
>county
>of Isle of Wight, Virginia, during the seventeenth century, including
>abstracts of the county records" Boddie, John Bennett,
>Chicago: Chicago Law Print. Co., 1938, 771 pgs.
>
>
>page 294
>
>"Richard Bennett patented 300 acres in Isle of Wight, 2 Mar 1638, due by
>right of transportation of 6 persons by John Miles
>150 acres were upon the bay behing Ambroes Meders Point."
>
>page 446
>
>"In 1638 John Moon received a grant of 400 acres on the South Side of
>Warwickqueicke River North upon Thomas Davis's land and in 1638 Richard
>Bennett received a grant of 600 acres upon the bay behind Ambrosse Meders
>Point"
>
>page 514.
>
>"Thomas Davis of Warwicksquacyk to Ambrose Meader and John White of the
>Pagan Shore. was given to said Davis by Patent 6 day of March 1633
>next date mention is 18 july 1636 this be are record date?
>
>Many years later Thomas Orphan Meador son John married Elizabeth White
>daughter of Richard White. Wonder if John White and Richard are related?
>
>page 531
>
>"Ambrose Bennett, 29 years of King Charles, sells to Ralphn Warrener 200
>acres part of a pat of 1100 acres date 23 June 1641, between Ambrose Meador
>on one side and John Motley and Thomas Turner on the other
>9 April 1649. Ambrose Bennett sells a Ambrose Meader 300 acres of same
>patent between Warriner and Christopher Reynolds"
>
>Is Ambrose Bennett the son of Richard Bennett?
>
>Christopher Reynolds is brother to Cornelius Reynolds his line later on has
>Susannah Reynolds, she married Thomas Meadows the son of John Meador and
>Jane Combs. John son of John is son of Ambrose and brother to Thomas
>
>page 658
>
>"Peter Johnson, 600 acres 1 June 1636"
>"That of one servt., 150 due by surrender from Ambrose Meader for per adv.
>of himself, wife and one servant"
>
>Ambrose Meador give 150 acres to Peter Johnson for the Meador Headrights
>
>Could the following be our Thomas Meader with mispelled last name.
>page 56
>
>Mentions Thomas Meare story about Richard Bennett date 1635-1640 was
>granted
>2000 acres
>
>page 58
>
>Henry Sewell and Thomas Meeres were Justices in Lower Norforlk, 1640s
>
>page 59
>
>In 649 the County Court of Lower Norfolk entered the following order
>"Whereas, Mr Thomas Meeres and Edward Lloynd together with Edward Selby,
>Richard Day, Richard Owens, Thomas Marsh and John Norwood.
>
>page 79
>
>Among those who joined the Isle of Wight emigrants on their way to Maryland
>was Thomas Meers, a Justice of Upper Norfolk in 1645 and also a
>Churchwarden
>of the Puritan Church
>John Norwood, a Nephew of Edward Bennett's wife
>Is Edward Bennett related to Richard Bennett?
>Look here
>Governor Richard Bennett married Mary Anne widow or daughther of Captain
>John Utie of Ultimara, York County, Virginia
>Richard had son Richard but drowned
>His other son Richard never married said died as very rich man in Maryland
>
>Susan Bennett married a Lowe
>
>The Bennett are related Lee family of Robert E Lee. I wonder how because I
>am Lee too
>
>
>page 80
>
>George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, visited the Old Puritan settlements
>of
>Maryland and Virginia in 1672 and converted in the Puritans to his faith.
>Most of Puritan families heretofore mentioned joined the Quakers
>Among those individuals who joined was a Thomas Meers. The family in
>Virginia, the remaining Puritans were absorbed by the Quakers
>
>I wonder if we could find more of this family in Quakers records?
>
>
>
>What do all think about this
>
>Janet
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