Jeremiah MEACHAM, EMIGRANT
President J. Arthur Meacham of the Mecham Family Organization stated, "Considerable data furnished me by Justus R. Moll - 735 W. Scott St., Springville, Missouri, his authority for data follows: 8 Essex Autianarian 31 - 2 Perley's Salem 391 - 28 New England Register 53 - Pope's Pioneers 309 - Austin's Allied Fam. - 3 Savage Dictionary 190 - 2 Essex Inst. Col. 298 - 6 Essex Antiquarian 148 - Allen's Enfield - Salem Marriage Record 299 - Salem Vital Record of Births 69 - 2 Beverly Vital Rec. 210 and New Salem V.R. 32,33. DEATH: Age 81 at death. Will dated 12 Apr 1694; proved 18 Nov 1695. Corrected record from New York Gen.& Biog. Record Vol. 69-1938 p.32. Also Mary Lovering Holman in N.Y. Gen.& Biog. Mag. Jan 1938. Records of L.DeVon Mecham & Lillie Dunford Mecham, Family Historian, 72 E. 200 S., Logan, Utah.
NAME: Larned Everett Meacham of LeGrange, Illinois, established name of "Prisse." This, too, is probably by Justus Moll.
Records of L. DeVon Mecham and Lillie Dunford Mecham, Mecham Family Historian, of Logan, Utah. Children 3-5-7-8 were added & submitted by Dora M. Curtis Taylor with all the sealing for entire family redone 4 Nov 1963 in the Salt Lake Temple. Still another complete sealing was 27 Mar 1945 in S.L. Temple. (It seems that child #8 is a duplicate of child #4 with different dates but the temple work was done under both dates separately.)
He married Margaret Prisse at England . Margaret Prisse was born at of Somerset, England Abt 1615 .
They were the parents of 7
children:
Jeremiah Meacham
born 3 Jan 1644.
Sarah Meacham
born Abt 1646.
Hannah Meacham
born Abt 1648.
Isaac Meacham
born 1643.
Bethia Mecham
born 1650.
Rebecca Meacham
born 1653/55.
Rhoda Meacham
born 1660/61.
Jeremiah Meacham, Emigrant died 11 Nov 1695 at Salem, Essex, Massachusetts .
Margaret Prisse died 1679 .