Jeremiah MEACHAM
1614 - 1696 (82 years)-
Name Jeremiah MEACHAM Born 6 Mar 1614 Bristol, Somerset, England 
Gender Male Died 11 Nov 1696 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Person ID I8679 Patterson & Markham Family Tree Last Modified 17 Mar 2019
Father Ambrose MEACHAM, c. 12 Oct 1567, Crewkerne, Somerset, England Mother Ursula PERRIE, b. 1569 Family ID F3371 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Margaret, b. 1620, of Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States , d. 1679, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 59 years) Children 1. Jeremiah MEACHAM, b. 3 Jan 1644, of Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States , d. 14 Apr 1743, Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States (Age 99 years)2. Isaac MEACHAM, b. Abt 1642, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States , d. 29 Apr 1715 (Age ~ 73 years)3. Sarah MEACHAM, b. 1647, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States , d. Aft 1703 (Age > 57 years)4. Hannah MEACHAM, b. 1649, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States , d. Aft 1707 (Age > 59 years)5. Bethia MEACHAM, b. 1650, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States , d. Aft 1731 (Age > 82 years)6. Rebecca MEACHAM, b. 1655, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States , d. Aft Jul 1702 (Age > 47 years)7. Rhoda MEACHAM, b. 1661, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States , d. Oct 1695 (Age 34 years)8. John MEACHAM, b. 1645, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Family ID F3309 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - !Birth place might only be Somersershire, England. Jeremiah may only be
of Bristol.
!Married (2) Alice Douch/Dutch, widow of Dr. John Dane. Her father was
Osman Douch. She died in May 1704 at Salem, Mass.
!Meacham and Mecham Book of Remembrance, printed in 1949, compiled
by Leondis Devon Mecham.
!Family group record by Mrs. Richard LeRoy Mecham, Bruneau, ID.
!Barlowe, Raleigh. The Curtis connection. 1988 US/Can 929.273 A1
no.5648
!At Salem in 1651
!emigrated to America between 1630-1640
!AF says he was born 1613/1614. Also gave the birth and marriage
places.
!Mecham, Robert. Mecham family history. US/CAN 929.273 M464m
!Jeremiah and Margaret first lived in Salem, Mass., then moved to
Southhold, Long Island, New York (there in 1650), then moved to East
Hampden, Long Island in 1653, returned to Salem in 1666.
!Jeremiah was a weaver.
!Doran, Kenneth. A lineal account of the American ancestry of Charles
Meacham (1837-1896) of Tolland, Connecticut and a limited account of
his descendants. US/CAN 929.273 M46d
!Doran quotes Holman, who said Jeremiah's marriage and the births of
several of his earlier children as "probably in England." However other
authors think Jeremiah came to America when he was 17. This is based
on family tradition starting in 1851.
- !Birth place might only be Somersershire, England. Jeremiah may only be