Weed, Jacob T., b.c.1804
John M. McDonald interview — 1850-10-16
Jacob T. Weed discusses several notable Revolutionary War locations and roads in Horseneck in Greenwich, Connecticut. He notes that it was the Reverend Jonathan Murdock of the Second Congregational Church of Greenwich who was taken prisoner by DeLancey’s Refugees on May 22, 1780. Weed concludes by suggesting the names of several people familiar with the Revolutionary War in Greenwich whom he feels John Macdonald should contact.
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Octr. 16th Jacob T. Weed, of Horseneck Village, Innkeeper, &c. “Horseneck Meetinghouse stands very nearly in the same spot as the old building in the Revolutionary war. Matthew Mead’s house is about a mile and a little more from Horseneck Meeting House. In May, 1780, the sentinel at the stone house was distant from the guardhouse about 200 – probably 300 yards. The road that comes in from the North, at the stone house branches off a mile or two up, leading to Pecks land and North Street. A short lane leads from this north road westerly to Thomas Hobby’s, afterwards Zac. Mead’s farm house in the fields which is little more than a quarter of a mile from the sentinel’s post, near the stone-house. The clergyman taken off by the British on the 22d of May, 1780, was, I believe, the Revd. Mr. Murdock, and not
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Knapp as Rivington says. This was, probably, the time that Colonel Mead hid a field piece in a field of wheat for safety. The two swells or eminences in the Turnpike or main street at Horseneck, one of which is where the church stands, and the other westerly towards Byram river, are about one hundred rods or a quarter of a mile apart. Chimney corner is in Indian Harbor and is about a mile and a half from Horseneck Meeting House in a southerly direction. Mr. Theodore Mead is intelligent and obliging, and I think will let you see his grandfather’s papers, but not one of that Mead family is, or ever has been military, or fond of war. Andrew and Richard Mead were of a different family. Mr. Elizabeth Mead Bloomer of No. 100 Norfolk Street, New York, will know where Mrs. Elizabeth Lyon, widow of Lyon is to be found. I think she
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resides at 65 Stanton St, but am not certain. She is a daughter of Jabez Sherwood of the Log-Bridge over the Byram, is about 80 years old, and must know the Revolutionary transactions of her native neighborhood.