Mead, Calvin
John M. McDonald interview — 1845-11-14
Calvin Mead (1760-1847) recalls an incident in 1779 when British Colonel Banastre Tarleton unsuccessfully attempted to surprise Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Walton White of the 4th Continental Light Dragoons near Round Hill in Greenwich, Connecticut. When Tarleton withdrew his men, White sent a force under Lieutenant Erasmus Gill to pursue and draw Tarleton into an ambush, but the American force took the wrong road. Mead concludes by noting that Captain Samuel Kipp of DeLancey’s Refugees unsuccessfully tried to talk American Lieutenant William Mosier into surrendering his force at Mosier’s Fight in present-day Rye Brook on December 2, 1781.
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Calvin Mead or his son Marcus Mead of Round Hill on Quaker's Ridge — Purchase Post Office.
Levi Mead of Quaker Ridge near Round Hill: " My father's family moved to Salem during the war and lived there about three years. Captain Theall was originally from Rye and belonged I believe to DeLancey's. He came up with a party and made an incursion into Connecticut as far as Stenwich where he collected a great number of cattle and horses &c. and then made for Morrisania, but was way= laid by Mosier with a party of levie's and militia, near my house, surprised and killed, some of his men made prisoners, and the cattle &c. all taken. Colonel Mead commanded a regiment of Connecticut militia and Major Fitch was his adjutant.