Source: Greenwich Time. June 19, 1975. Page 15, column 6.
One of Greenwich's historic homes will be opened to the public Friday and Saturday for the sale of items that have been in the family of Edgar and Emily Mead, Jr., for generations. The house is at 560 North Street.
The sale will begin at 10:00 a.m., and will include farm tools that date back 200 years, an Isaac Mead desk, Washington pictures, a trundle bed, 18th century chairs and a Potter Mead jar.
The house itself has been rebuilt and modernized by each generation of the Mead family, so much so that its exact origins are lost in the blurred history of the early 18th century.
Historians and visitors have often been misled by a plaque bearing the numbers "1796" over the front door. It is now evident that the was merely another periodic date of reconstruction. At least two other dates may be found scratched in stone by later remodelers.
According to a book written in 1971 by Edgar and Emily Mead, Jr., 'The House on Lot and Drake's Corner,' the history of the Mead family in this area began when John Mead, son of William Mead, and grandson of Thomas, came from Hempstead, L.I., in 1660 at the age of 16. He purchased land near what is now Greenwich Point from Richard Crab.
After the Mead's settled in Old Greenwich, they spread out to other parts of the area, all playing an important role in the history of Greenwich.
