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.
3. The Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States of America.
War of Independence.—War with Tripoli.—War of 1812.—War with Mexico.
Admiral Meade was Vice-Commander-General for Pennsylvania.
Hereditary member by right of his father, Richard Worsam Meade, 2d, who served as a lieutenant in the U. S. Navy, during the Mexican War, on board of the U. S. frigate Potomac, Captain Aulick, at Vera Cruz.
Incidentally it may be said that Richard Worsam Meade, 1st, was naval agent of the United States abroad, during the War of Tripoli and War of 1812, and that George Meade (father of R. W. Meade, 1st) was a prominent agitator against the Stamp Act of 1765, and was one of the signers of the non-importation resolutions of merchants of Philadelphia, Oct. 25, 1765, and though a man of wealth, served as a private soldier in 3d battalion of Col. Cadwalader’s regiment. He gave £2000 sterling to the fund for Washington’s suffering army at Valley Forge. Was a member of the Philadelphia “Associators” during the Revolutionary War. Left the city when the British army came in and did not return until Washington’s troops reoccupied it.
4. The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, 1861–65. Pennsylvania Commandery.
Joined 1866, No. 187 on general roll.
5. The Grand Army of the Republic, 1861–65.
Commander of Lafayette Post, No. 140, Department of New York. Reelected December, 1896, for a second term.