Mead Family Materials

This material is comprised of several different object types spanning over 200 years. The majority of the collection is comprised of real property deeds and mortgages, mostly from the mid-1700s to the late 1800s, although there are a few that go into the early 1900s. In the 1800s materials there are also large groups of correspondence, several diaries, store ledgers, and school books. There is also an entire subseries of legal documents relating to a court case over an assault that occurred, and apparently those two families later came together through marriage according to the inquiry made by a mead family member in the 1950s that refers to both of the men involved as his grandfathers. The 1900s material is mostly related to Livingston Disbrow and his wife, Myrtilla Disbrow nee Mead, and her father, Silas D. Mead, a South Greenwich farmer and lifelong resident, a supporter of temperance and active member of the South Greenwich Sabbath School.