Jeremiah Meacham Sr. (1614 - 1695)

Born 6 Mar 1614 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England

Ancestors

Husband of Alice (Dutch) Meacham — married about 1684 in Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 11 Nov 1695 at age 81 in Salem, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Jeremiah Meacham Sr. migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

His son, Isaac, was born in 1642 in Salem, Mass. Apparently, he married Margaret in 1640 in Massachusetts. So Jeremiah arrived before then.

Biography

Note; Some sources indicate that Jeremiah Meacham came to Salem, but was later of Long Island, NY, returning to Salem abt 1666.

The first official record of the Meacham family in America occurs in 1650 at which time Jeremiah Meacham was living at Southhold, Long Island. In 1653 he settled at East Hampton, Long Island, "to do the town's weaving." Jeremiah Meacham returned to Salem in 1666. His first wife's name was Margaret; to this union were born at least seven children. Margaret died in 1679 at Salem. Jeremiah then married a widow, Alice Douch (Dane). Her father was Osman Douch, and her first husband was Dr. John Dane. She died in May 1704 in Salem, Mass. Jeremiah died November 11, 1696 in Salem. ^[1]

Jeremiah Meachum, married, first, Margaret ___; she died before 1694; married, second, Alice in or before 1694; he died in the autumn of 1695; she survived him. ^[2]

Children:

• Jeremiah, eldest son;
• Isaac;
• Rebecca, married John Macarter;
• Bethia married George Hacker;
• Rhoda; married ___ West before 1694;
• Sarah married Joseph Boyce; Hannah married 1st William Gill, 2nd John Priest. ^[2]

1677: 1679: 1680 Grand Juryman ^[3]

Jeremiah Meacham, immigrant ancestor of all the colonial families of this surname, settled in Salem, Massachusetts before 1650, when the records show that he sold a house and land there. He was a clothier or fuller by trade. He married Alice, daughter of Osman and Grace Dutch, who sold property at Bridport, England July 18, 1639.

Jeremiah Meacham died in 1695. In his will dated April 12, 1694 and proved November 18, 1695, he is described as very antient. He mentions his first wife Margaret, and his present wife Alice; daughter Rhoda, deceased, and her son Samuel West; left his fulling mill to his son Jeremiah. The estate was divided by agreement June 26, 1696, the heirs being: Jeremiah and Isaac Meacham; Sarah, wife of Joseph Boyce; Rebecca wife of John McCarter; Bethiah wife of George Hackler: and Hannah Gill, widow. ^[4] Proved 18 Nov. 1695. ^[5]

[NOTE: Alice Dutch 1st married John Newman who died Nov. 1673; she married 2nd John Dane; Jeremiah Meacham was her 3rd husband. CH]

Marriage

Husband: Jeremiah Meacham

Wife: Margaret

Marriage:

Date: 1640

Place: Salem, Essex, Massachusetts

1. Isaac Meacham
2. Jeremiah Meacham
3. John Meacham
4. Sarah Meacham
5. Hannah Meacham
6. Bethia Meacham
7. John Machen
8. Rebecca Meacham
9. Rhoda Meacham

Research Notes

Torrey New England Marriages

NEWMAN, John ( - 1672) & Alice DUTCH ( - 1794) m/2 John Dane by 1676; m/3 Jeremiah MEACHAM ( +1684: b. 1648, b. 1643 Ipswich. (p. 533)

DANE, John ( - 1684) & Alice [DUTCH] [NEWMAN] , w. John; m/3 Jeremiah MEACHAM; 1684 Ipswich. (p. 202)

MEACHAM, Jeremiah (1613-1695) & 2/wf Alice [DUTCH] [NEWMAN] [DANE] (- 1734) w. of John, w. of John; aft. Sept. 1684, Salem. (p. 500)^[6]

MEACHAM, Jeremiah1 (1613-1695) & 1/wf Margaret ____; ca 1642; Salem/Southold, LI/E. Hampton, LI {Granberry 278; NYGBR 69:32, 65:109; Reg. 35:86, 86:339; Bassett-Preston 187; Putnam's Mag. 5:130; Salem 2:391; Middlefield Hist. 545; Fish Anc. 56; Conkling 28; Town Anc 22; Southampton 452 ^[7]

Origins Need Research: Millenium File gives his birth as 6 Mar 1614, Bristol, Somerset, England. As this is an unreliable source and Jeremiah Meacham isn't in the Great Migration Directory, the claimed origins/parents here should be investigated.

Date of Death: An exact date of death of 11 November 1695 is found in many places. I couldn't find an original record to support this date, or a record providing an age at death, although both appear in NYGBR articles first in 1934^[8] and then repeated in a correction article in 1938.^[1] Jacobus does not reference the date in The Granberry Family and Allied Families.^[9] Cole-12288 22:10, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Holman, Mary Lovering, "The Correct Ancestry of Jemima Meacham", The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (NYGBS, 1938) Vol. 69, Page 32.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Perley, Sidney. The History of Salem, Massachusetts (S. Perley, Salem, Mass., 1924-28) Vol. 2 P. 391
3. ↑ History of Salem, Massachusetts Vol. II P. 10
4. ↑ Cutter, William. Genealogical and Family History of Western New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation , (Lewis Hist. Pub. Co., New York, 1912) Volume 3 p. 1449
5. ↑ Essex Co., Probate Records, 305:94
6. ↑ New England Marriages Prior to 1700 By Clarence Almon Torrey, Elizabeth Petty Bentley
7. ↑ Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Com, 1985.
8. ↑ Greene, James W. "The Meacham Families of Early Colonial Times" The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Vol 65 (1934), p 110,FamilySearch Film
9. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Granberry Family and Allied Families (E.F. Waterman, Hartford, Conn., 1945) P. 278

See also:

• A Meacham Families of Ancient New Haven
• New England Marriages Prior to 1700.
• Memorial: "Find a Grave", database, Find A Grave: Memorial #75847641 (accessed 7 April 2024), Memorial page for CPT Jeremiah Meacham Sr. (6 Mar 1614-11 Nov 1695), citing Burying Point Cemetery, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Ro§e❈ (contributor 47359710).