Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Reed

Not the same as Elizabeth D. Reed

Elizabeth's parentage is unknown. She married William E. Reed, a farmer, and the mother of Amos, William Joshua, Joseph and Eunice (wife of Daniel Furman).

She lived with her family in what is now Lawrence and Ewing Twps., Mercer Co., New Jersey.

There is a degraded gravestone next to William that is marked S R. Perhaps it originally said E R and the E appears now as an S, as there appears to be no children with the name S R.

This info taken from...

GENEALOGY OF EARLY SETTLERS IN TRENTON AND EWING:

William Reed, from whom most of that name in Ewing and Lawrence derive their origin, followed about 1700 the current from Long Island. He purchased of John Brearley, a farm in the western part of the township of Lawrence, near the boundary of Ewing, on which he settled and lived till his death, May 16th, 1762, aged 73, leaving children : Amos; William ; Joshua ; Joseph; and Eunice, married Daniel Furman.

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~janet/genealogy/Reed.html

[In the 1640's, several Reed brothers from England settled on farms at Newton, L.I. where they had large families. In 1656 Thomas Reed was in Middleburg, N.J. when he built a house for the Episcopal minister. Thomas Reed and John Reed lived in Hopewell Twp. between Marshalls Comer and Woodsville and were members of Penningtoes Presbyterian Church. John & Sarah (Smith) Reed are buried in the Hunt graveyard. (Ralph Ege, Pioneers of Old Hopewell, p. 66.). The Burlington and Ewing Reeds descend from William E. Reed (1689-1762), wife Elizabeth Smith. This progenitor of the Reeds of Ewing and Lawrence came c1700 from Long Island, and purchased a farm in west Lawrence. In 1706, while Ewing was still part of old Hopewell Twp., he built a substantial house on Ewingville Rd. & Spruce St. (now a museum), and is buried in Ewing churchyard. (Ibid Lewis, p. 283).

Disproved origins

This Elizabeth Smith married to William Reed is not the daughter of Joshua and Mary Smith. Joshua left a will naming his daughter Elizabeth Attwood.

Birth Date seen as 8 Dec 1691 Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA

References

1. Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Dec 13 2021, 18:22:52 UTC
2. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49082174/william-reed
3. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49082181/elizabeth-reed
4. Genealogy of Early Settlers in Trenton and Ewing, "Old Hunterdon County," New Jersey, by Eli Field Cooley , William Scudder Cooley, Hannah Louisa Cooley (Publication date 1883). Page 203. < Archive.Org >
5. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LZ6G-DQP