MEDAD POMEROY, third son of Eltweed and Margery Rocket, was baptized in Windsor, Connecticut on August 19, 1638. arrived in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1659 at 21 years of age, and was warmly greeted as a man of great skill in smithing (acquired from his father), particularly gun-smithing, and was granted a chest of tools and some land. It is presumed he went to work for John Webb, the first smithy of Northampton.

In 1665 Medad was chosen as selectman and he was re-elected 27 times. He was six times elected as Deputy to the Colonial Congress. In 1698 he was elected as Town Treasurer and was re-elected several times until his death. He often held six town offices at a time, and was much admired as a man of honor. He was Clerk of the Writs, Registrar of Deeds, and Associate Justice for Hampshire County. It has been argued whether he was a lawyer by degree or by self-training.

Medad had extensive land holdings in Northampton, and his son, Ebenezer held 12 acres in the very center of town. He is called a man of strong common sense, rough in manner, just in all of his dealings, conscientious in the discharge of every duty, strong of will, and dominating of presence.
He was not an innkeeper but was allowed to sell wine for medicinal purposes out of charity.

He had a great respect and love for his parents, and in 1672, brought his aged father from Windsor to Northampton. His mother had died in 1655.
He was a Deacon of his church from 1675 until his death. On May 19, 1696 he participated in the fight with the Indians at Turners Falls, Massachusetts and was possessed of a large estate. He died on December 30, 1716 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts. (Trumbull)

Sources: Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley. Volume III. New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company. 1913.(GFH)
Pomeroy, Albert A., History and Genealogy of the Pomeroy Family. Collateral Lines in Family Groups. Normandy, Great Britain, America. Comprising the Ancestors and Descendants of Eltweed Pomeroy from Beaminster County Dorset England 1630, Copyright 1912. The Franklin Printing and Engraving Company, Toledo, Ohio. (AAP)
Rodman, William Woodbridge, A.M., M.D., Eltweed Pomeroy of Dorchester, MASS, and Windsor, CONN and Four Generations of His Descendants. Boston: Press of David Clapp & Son. 1903.(WWR)
Rodman, William W., A Study in Heredity:-The Pomeroys in America., From The New Englander and Yale Review, September 1889.(WWR2) Trumbull, James Russell, History of Northampton, Genealogies.

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