Israel Reed

• 'Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the ..., Volume 3 edited by William Richard Cutter, William Frederick Adams Pg.1518
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• (V) William, supposed to be son of Thomas (4) and Mary Reed, of Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire, was born in England 1587 and was the oldest of the immigrants of this surname. He sailed from London in the ship "Defense" July 4, 1635, Captain Edward Fostick, and arrived in Boston October 6, same year, with his wife, who was Mabel Kendall, born 1605. They had with them children: George, born 1629, Ralph, 1630, and Justice (afterward called Abigail), 1633. Reed settled first at Dorchester, Massachusetts. He was admitted a freeman March 4, 1638. In August 1639, he sold his real estate in Dorshester to Thomas Clark, and removed to Scituate where he was constable in 1644. His wife made the journey to Dorchester on horseback in 1644 to have her infant son Israel baptized. William Reed removed to Muddy River (Brookline), having bought of Esdras Reed, said to have been his brother, a farm granted by the town of Boston, and he lived there until 1648. He then bought a farm in Woburn of Nicholas David and removed thither. He is the ancestor of the Woburn, Lexington, Bedford and Burlington Reads, and of most of the Reads in Maine. He returned to England finally and died at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1656. A letter of administration was taken out by his widow under Oliver Cromwell. She returned to America and after adminstrating the estate, married, November 21, 1660, Henry Summers of Woburn. She survived her second husband and lived with her son George at the time of her death, June 5, 1690, in her eighty-sixth year. Children: 1. George, born 1629, 2. Ralph, 1630, married Mary Pierce, daughter of Anthony Pierce, of Watertown. 3. Abigail, 1633, married Francis Wyman. 4. Bethia, born in America, married John Johnson. '5. Israel, 1642, married Mary Kendall, daughter of Francis'. 6. Sarah, married, September 10, 1662, Samuel Walker. 7. Rebecca, married Joseph Winn.
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"ISRAEL, Woburn, by w. Mary, had Mary, b. [p.516] 15 Oct. 1670; Sarah, 29 Aug. 1673; a d. without name on the rec. 2 June, 1679; Eliz. 22 Dec. 1681; Ruth, 6 Jan. 1684; Israel, 17 Mar. 1687; Jemima, 23 July 1689; and Patience, 3 Dec. 1697. ISRAEL, Rehoboth, youngest s. of John the first, m. 6 Nov. 1684, Rebecca, youngest d. of the third John Ruggles of Roxbury, had eleven ch. but my correspond. gives date or name to neither, and he d. 17 Nov. 1732. (Savage)"

ISRAEL REED was the youngest son of William and Mabel Reed. An undated entry in the Dorchester church records suggests that he was born in 1641 or 1642. "Israel Reed: his father sent him by his mother from Situate to be baptized at Dorchester whereof himselfe was a member." This follows an entry dated the 31st of July 1642 and the next is dated the 25th of September the same year. The journey of mother and child must have been made on horseback. Taken to England by his parents and brought back by his mother, Israel was put under the guardianship of his brother George at about seventeen years of age until he should be twenty-one years old. About 1669 he married his cousin Mary Kendall (born January 20, 1650/1, daughter of Francis and Mary (Tidd) Kendall), and for the next forty or more years their home was in Woburn. Israel died June 29, 1711, intestate, and his widow and their only son, Israel, were bonded as administrators of his estate. His widow died January 17, 1721/22, within a few days of her seventy-first birthday.

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• 'The Kendall family in America (1919)
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• Mary Tidd was a daughter of John Tidd. It is claimed that Francis left England against the wishes of his family, using the name of Miles, until he was settled in this country. Francis was admitted freeman 10 May, 1648. He served the town as selectman, held numerous other offices and was looked upon as "a gentleman of great respectability and influence." He owned and operated a corn mill in Woburn, being a miller by trade. The mill now on the old Kendall homestead was built by Samuel Kendall in 1700 and is near the location of the first mill built bv Francis.
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• Francis Kendall died in the year 1708 at the age of 89. His wife Mary Tidd died in 1705. The will of Francis, dated 9 May, 1706, named his sons, Thomas and John, as executors. The son Thomas had a son Samuel who was a very active, public spirited man, engaged in promoting the civil and religious prosperity of Woburn. In 1732 he received a commission as Lieutenant from Governor Belcher and was widely known as Lieutenant Kendall.
  • THE KENDALLS OF WOBURN.
• 1. FRANCIS KENDALL married 24 December, 1644, Mary Tidd. He died Woburn, 1708. She died 1705.
• Children :
  • 2. John, born 2 May, 1646 ; m. three times.
  • 3. Thomas, born 10 Jan., 1648; m. twice.
  • ' 4. Mary, born 20 Jan., 1650; m. Isaac Reed.
  • 5. Elizabeth, born 15 Jan., 1652; m. James Pierce.
  • 6. Hannah, born 26 Jan., 1654; m. William Green, Jr.
  • 7. Rebecca, born 21 March, 1657 ; m. Joshua Eaton.
  • 8. Samuel, born 8 j\Iarch, 1659 ; m. twice.
  • 9. Jacob, born 25 Jan., 1660; m. twice.
  • 10. Abigail, born 6 Aitril, 1666; m. William Reed.
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