0020. Daniel Meader (1718 – a.1758)

Daniel Meader, son of Nicholas Meader (c. 1683-1767) [0007] and Lydia (  –  ), was born in Durham, NH November 6, 1718. He married Mary Meserve [or Harvey], daughter of Daniel and Deborah Meserve, on February 22, 1743. She was baptized January 8, 1720.

The Meserve or Messervey family flourished on the Isle of Jersey, especially in the Parish, of St. Martin [ed: may be confused, I find a St. Martin’s on Guernsey, none on Jersey], as early as the beginning of the fourteenth century. [According to one source, Meserve or Messervey, when pronounced with the French intonation, "Mesarvey," changed to Harvey.]

The young couple settled at Dover Neck, NH. He is recorded as living in Madbury in 1758 [History of Durham, I, 28].

The children of Daniel Meader and Mary Harvey were:
1327 i. Nicholas Meader. He married a Sarah Lamos.
0049 ii. Samuel Meader, born in 1745 and died in 1800.
1328 iii. Deborah Meader. She married Nathaniel Brock.
1329 iv. Elizabeth Meader.
1330 v. Mary Meader, twin to Martha.
1331 vi. Martha Meader, twin to Mary. She married a Follett.
0050 vii. Daniel Harvey Meader, born May 10, 1749 and died October 17, 1819.
0051 viii. Mark Meader, born about 1750 and died about 1797.
1332 ix. John Meader, born about 1751. He married Mehitable Ewers.
1333 x. Keziah Meader, born about 1752. He married.