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Timothy “Fat Timothy” Mead, III
Birth 	20 Nov 1755
Amenia, Dutchess County, New York, USA
Death 	22 Jul 1828 (aged 72)
Honeoye, Ontario County, New York, USA
Burial 	
Pitts Cemetery
Honeoye, Ontario County, New York, USA
Memorial ID 	79513327 · View Source

Fought in Revolutionary War with his father & grandfather. All three of
them were in Ira Allen's Regiment of Manchester, Vermont.

Apparently a large man weighing about 300 to 500 lbs.

Played the violin.

During the New England Vampire Panic in 1793, at his brother Jacob's
blacksmith forge in Manchester, Vermont, Timothy officiated at a public
heart-burning ceremony. This was the heart of Captain Burton's dead first
wife. A Vampire Demon was supposedly sucking the blood from Captain Burton's
second wife and needed to be appeased.

In search of better farming conditions, the family travelled from Vermont
to Canandaigua, New York in about 1811. Timothy purchased land in Honeye,
New York in 1812.

Innkeeper, (Owner) of Mead's Hotel in Canandaigua, NY circa 1824. Important
meetings with regard to decisions on the building of the Erie Canal were
held here. Hotel was run by Amos, his son, probably because Timothy's
obesity disabled him.

When Amos left in 1824 to pursue his Michigan land grant, the Hotel was
sold. His brother Samuel also left for Michigan at that time. It is an
educated guess that Timothy & wife then went to live with one of their other
children who stayed in New York. Eventually most of family went to Farmington,
Oakland, Michigan after Timothy & Phoebe died.

Family Members
Parents

    Timothy Mead
    1724–1802

    Phebe Palmer Mead
    1733–1780

Spouse

    Phoebe Crippen Mead
    1753–1829 (m. 1773)

Siblings

    Rachel Mead Gale
    1749–1797

    Philip Mead
    1751–1821

    Truman Mead
    1753–1822

    Jacob Mead
    1762–1822

    Adelia Mead Curtis
    1766–1848

    Phebe Mead Gale
    1768–1856

    Israel Mead
    1775–1838

Children

    Jared Mead
    1774–1776

    Jebesh Mead
    1776–1796

    Amos Mead
    1778–1865

    Jared Mead
    1780–1782

    Lewis Timothy Mead
    1782–1862

    Rachel Mead Waite
    1784–1859

    Laura Mead Chipman
    1786–1864

    Pharma Mead Watson
    1788–1874

    Samuel B. Mead
    1790–1837

    Sally Sarah Mead Giddings
    1792–1878

    Delia Mead (Henderson) Van Riper
    1794–1842

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