• Battle of Ticonderoga American Revolutionary War Matthew Mead (August 20, 1736 – February 26, 1816) was a Lieutenant Colonel who served on George Washington's staff in the American Revolutionary War.
[5] Mead enlisted in the army on September 8, 1755, as a private in Captain Samuel Hanford's Company, French and Indian War.
[5] In 1773 he was commissioned Captain of the Wilton company in the Norwalk, Connecticut Militia.
At the outbreak of the Revolution he was commissioned Captain of the 5th Regiment of Connecticut, Continental Line.
He resigned his commission on 25 May 1778 after the winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge, where he was quartered with his Regiment and was on the staff of General Washington.