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• Birth	18 Feb 1686	Enfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Died	15 Sep 1752	Coventry, Windham, Connecticut
  Person ID	I80146	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	27 May 2001 00:00:00
  Father	Isaac MEACHAM, I, b. 1642, Massachusetts?, England?
  Mother	Deborah BROWNING, b. 31 Jan 1646, Salem, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F19375	Group Sheet
  Married	21 Jun 1715	Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F34989	Group Sheet

• Notes

  !NOTES: Rev. Meacham was one of the founders of the Shaker religion. H.C. 1710, the first minister of Coventry 1713. He was educated at Harvard College where he received the degree of A.M. in 1710. He became a minister of the gospel at the First Church of Coventry, Windham, CT, in 1713; ordained 18 October 1714; and where he remained in charge until 1752. Some sources list his birth as Connecticut--boundary changes: Enfield became part of Connecticut in 1750. REF: 1685/6, IGI Birth files 1715, IGI marriage files "Book of Remembrance" by Leonidas D. Mecham