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 BURGESSES AND OTHER PROIMINENT PERSONS

Meade, David, was the son of Andrew Meade (born in the county of Kerry, Ire- hmd) and Mary Latham, his wife. David Meade, in 1729 or 1730, married Susanna, daughter of Sir Richard hLverard, governor of North Carohna, and Susannah Kidder, his wife, eldest daughter of Dr. Richard Kidder, bishop of Bath and Wells. He re- sided in Nansemond county, and died there in 1757. in his forty-seventh year.

Meade, David, son of David Meade and Susanna Everard, his wife, was born July 29, 1744. He was a burgess for Nansemond county in 1769, but in 1774 removed to "Maycox," on James River in Prince George county. In 1796 he removed to Jessamine county, Kentucky, where at a very old age he died at his beautiful residence "Chau- miere des Prairies." He married Sarah Waters, daughter of William Waters, of Williamsburg, and left issue.

Meade, Richard Kidder, son of David Meade (q. v.) and Susanna Everard, his wife, was born in 1750, in Nansemond county. During the American revolution he was first captain of a company in the Second Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel William Woodford, and afterwards was aide-de-camp to General Washington. He married (first) Jane Randolph, aunt of John Randolph, of Roanoke, and (second) Mary Grymes, daughter of Benjamin Grymes. He was father of Bishop William Meade.

Meares, Thomas, patented 300 acres in the Upper county of New Norfolk in 1637; was burgess for Lower Norfolk in Febru- ary, 1645, October, 1646, and November, 1647. He was a Puritan and removed to

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Maryland in 1O49. and in 1654 was a resi- dent at I'rovidence or Annapolis. He was horn in i02.

Meiling, William, came from England to \'irginia before 1636, when he obtained a grant for 100 acres in Accomac. He was a member of the house of burgesses from Northampton, July, 1653, and March, 1657- 58. There is a notice June 28, 1661, in the Northampton records of "William Mellings, late of Virginia, now resident in London, gentleman."

Mercer, George, eldest son of John Mer- cer, of "Marlborough," was born June 23, 1733, was educated at William and Mary College ; was lieutenant and captain in Washington's First Virginia Regiment in the French and Indian war, and later lieu- tenant-colonel of Colonel Byrd's Second Virginia Regiment; aide-de-camp to Wash- ington, and was wounded at Fort Neces- sity. July 3, 1754. In 1761-63 he was bur- gess for Frederick county, and in 1763 v;ent to England as agent for the Ohio Company. While there he was appointed stamp distributor and was given charge of the stamps for Maryland and Virginia. When he reached Virginia and learned of the feeling among the people, he resigned his office and, entrusting the stamps to Cap- tain Sterling, commander of his majesty's shij), Raiiibo:^'. he returned to England. He married, on August 18, 1767, at Scarboro, England, Mary Neville, daughter of Chris- topher Neville, of Lincoln. He was later appointed lieutenant-governor of North Carolina, but he did not ever act as gov- ernor. He died in London, April, 1784.

Mercer, James, younger brother of John