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Macdonald, John. Interview with Weed, Jacob T., b.c.1804; (1850-10-16). John M. McDonald Interviews, 1844-1851, WCHS item 1614. Westchester County Historical Society. Transcribed by history.croton.news April 2026.

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152 1018 [margin: PARIS] Octr. 16th Jacob T. Weed, of Horseneck Village, Inn Keeper, &c "Horseneck Meeting-house 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 guard -house about 200 - probably 300 yards. The road…
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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 grand father's papers, but not one of that Mead family, or ever has been military, or fond of war. Andrew and Richard Mead were of a different family. Mrs. Elizabeth Mead Bloomer of No. 100 Norfolk S…
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