[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] were in constant demand as a friendly adviser and arbitrator. He also married very young, wedding, at the age of twenty, Miss Eunice Gilbert, aged nine-teen. The oldest son of this youthful couple, Jacob Gilbert Mead, died at his place, a few hundred yards to the northward, in 1884, at the advanced age of eighty-four. Colonel Solomon, as were his parents and a number of his children, was buri 1 in the fam-ily burying-ground, about one-quarter of a mile south of his former residence. The eastern boundary of the farm was formerly that of Cortlandt Manor,— the so-called twenty-mile line, which divided it from Connecticut; and the rude monument erected by the commissioners in 1734, to mark an angle of the line, is still standing in the stone wall of which it forms a part. The second son, Alfred (or, as he always, for some unaccountable reason, spelled it, Alphred), was estab-lished a little way down the road and before many years eight comfortable houses in succession, on as many flourishing farms, were occupied by members of the family, all bearing the family name, so that the road became known as Mead Street. The first minister of