Admiral Meade was the Deputy-Governor of the District of Columbia
Society.
_Ancestors._ 1) Maj. Simon Willard, born 1605, died 1676. (Son of
Richard Willard, of Horsemonden, Kent, Esquire.)
Simon Willard emigrated from England to America in 1634, and in 1635 was
one of the founders of Concord in the colony of Massachusetts Bay;
deputy to the General Court, 1636–54; assistant to governor and a
councillor from 1654–76; commander-in-chief of the expedition of the
United Colonies against Ninigret, Sachem of the Nyantics, 1655; led the
heroic relief against the Indians at the battle of Brookfield; commanded
the Middlesex Regiment of Massachusetts troops in King Philip’s War; a
magistrate of Salem.
2) Capt. Janna Meigs, born 1672, died 1739. (Son of John Meigs, 2d, of
Guilford.) Served in the Queen Anne Wars as lieutenant and captain of
the Guilford Company; deputy to the General Court of the Province of
Connecticut in 1717–26.