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John Reed

Also Known As: "John Joseph Reed"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: [uncertain], Hopewell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey
Death: May 09, 1749 (35-43)
Augusta County, Virginia
Immediate Family:

Son of Joshua Reed and Jane Reed
Husband of Hannah Reed
Father of John Reed; Eldad Reed; Moses Reed; Elizabeth Johnstone; Sarah Davis and 5 others
Brother of George Reed and Eldad Reed

Managed by: Charles Alan Waller
Last Updated:
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Immediate Family

About John Reed, of the Jersey Settlement

Not the same as John Reed. Birth date seen as May 05, 1710.


John Reed

  • Birth: ABT 5 May 1710 in Hopewell, Hunterdon County, New Jersey
  • Death: ABT 1749 Virginia or maybe North Carolina.
  • married Hannah Davis in Piscataway, Middlesex, NJ Hannah was born in New Jersey and she died in the Jersey Settlement, North Carolina.

Children

  1. John Reed b: 1735 in Hopewell, Hunterdon, New Jersey
  2. Madad Medad Reed b: ABT 1737 in Hope Twp., Nj
  3. William Eldad Reed b: 28 NOV 1738 in ,,New Jersey
  4. Moses Reed b: ABT 1739 in , , Probably, Nj.
  5. Elizabeth Reed b: ABT 1741 in , , Probably, Nj.
  6. Sarah Reed b: ABT 1742 in , , Probably, Nj.
  7. Hannah Reed b: ABT 1744 in , , Probably, Nj.
  8. Rachel Reed b: ABT 1746 in , , Probably, Nj.
  9. Mary Reed-Reid b: 31 OCT 1748 in , , Probably, Nj. c: 12 SEP 1764 in Rowan, North Carolina
  10. Anna Reed b: ABT 1749 in , , Probably, Nj.

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

John Reed married Hannah Davis, of unknown parentage, probably in the early 1730s. By the early 1740s, George and Eldad were living in Augusta Co., VA, where they were members of the Virginia militia. John and Hannah may have been in Virginia at that time also. they had ten children: John, Jr., Eldad, Medad, Moses, Elizabeth, Sarah, Hannah, Rachel, Mary, and Anna. John, Sr., died about 1749. About 1755, Hannah and her ten children moved to Rowan Co., N.C. to the eara east and north of the Yadkin River, which later became Davidson and other counties.

A different (and apparently unrelated) [??] Reed family moved from New Jersey to Jersey Settlement: Eldad, Medad, Moses and John Reed, sons of John and Hannah (Davis) Reed. [Bible records of Eldad Reed, Jr. b 1767 Jersey Settlement, grandson of John and Hannah (Davis) Reed whom he said "emigrated from New Jersey to Carolina about 1755."]

John Reed, Sr., of English descent, was born ca. 1710-1715, possibly in New Jersey. The evidence is inconclusive, but he may have been a grandson of William E. (Eldad?) Reed and Elizabeth Smith Reed through their son Joshua. William and Elizabeth are believed to have moved to the Ewingville Road area of Hopewell, N.J. from Newton, Long Island, N.Y in the early 1730s. They may have had two other sons, Eldad and George.

Disputed origins

Father: William Eldad Reed
Father: Joshua Reed b: ABT 1686 in <England>
Father: John Reed

Disputed marriage dates
Marriage 1 Hannah Davis b: ABT 1715 in , , Probably, Nj. Married: 1 APR 1725 in Piscataway, Nj 2 3


ID: I100237
Name: John Reed 1 2 3
Sex: M
Birth: 5 MAY 1710 in England 2 3
Death: 1749 in , Augusta, Virginia 2 3
Burial: 1749 Age 34 2
Change Date: 28 JUN 2005
Note:
REFN: I844
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> B60F-TT
[Johnne~1.ged]


Info from:Clyde W. Butler, P.O. Box 261, Raceland,LA 70394 9/27/1994. and Oct 1994. See S#73 in Reed Notebook.
Sources he used: Nila Bake, 925 Ruth St., Prescott, AZ 86301 Copy of Bible

Records
Mary Lee Germann, 211 Hemphill Ave., Chattanooga, TN 37411, Copy of Bible
Records of William E. Reed's, copied by Louise Perkinson.

Note, comments and conclusions by Ethel Stroupe Vochko, 30322 Benecia Ave., Laguna Niguel, CA 92677. Version of June 8, 1991. Copy errors were made when Louise made these entries: Mixed records for William father andson William, both B. 1738 and death dates reversed. This type error, once recognized is easy to correct.

An old Whitaker Bible corrects the name of Eldad's wife from Jean to Jane. Spelling errors are usually of no importance, but changing Jane to Jean caused one 1920's researcher , whose work was widely recopied, to mistankenly identify Eldad's wife as Jean Pendleton. Eldad's wife was apparently called Jean by her in-laws, but in her own family's bible and in quaker records, her name is given as Jane Whitaker, dau. of Wm. and Eliz. Carleton Whitaker of PA and Jersey Settlement. E.S.V

The exactness of this date: Sunday, Nov. 29, 1738 for birth of Wm. Eldad Reed's birth is vitally important, because it tends to show the source, although not identified, really was aother old Bible record. E.S.V. A minor variance between these two sets of Bible records actually tends to strengthen both: shows two different persons acting independently, recording
events close to time of occurence, but making very small and normal human errors. E.S.V.


BIOGRAPHY: Origins of the Jersey Settlement of Rowan County, North Carolina

First Families of Jersey SettlementBy Ethel Stroupe 1996

(Reprinted by permission of the author from vol. 11, no. 1, February 1996, Rowan County Register, PO Box 1948, Salisbury, NC 28145)) http://dl.tamu.edu/Projects/sodct/mckstmerjersey.htm

BIOGRAPHY: New Jersey historians wrote of Hopewell and Carolina historians wrote of Jersey Settlement. Nobody wrote about how, when and why North Carolina's Jersey Settlement grew out of (and interacted with) its parent community, Hopewell, New Jersey, nor why so many of old Hopewell's solid citizens fled to North Carolina. To satisfy her curiosity, the author mined facts with the help of librarians, genealogical societies in both places, and other descendants. Eventually, a story emerged of the Settlement's origins: it was older than expected, and its first settlers were Hopewell citizens who migrated after being swindled by Proprietors and royal Governors, especially Dr. Daniel Coxe and his son Col. Daniel Coxe, two powerful and greedily villainous Proprietors, in "The Coxe Affair." What these Jersey men endured in Hopewell directly affected the Yadkin's Revolutionary generation, explaining why Jersey Settlement had reacted so violently against N.C.'s corrupt Gov. William Tryon's sticky-fingered royal officials, John Frohock, Rowan Court Clerk and Edmund Fanning, King's Attorney, whose thievery and injustices caused the 1771 Regulator War (considered by historians the first true battle of the American Revolution), and caused Charles Lord Cornwallis to call central North Carolina "a hornet's nest of rebellion."

BIOGRAPHY: The earliest families of Jersey Settlement came from Hopewell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, where some had been members of Pennington's Presbyterian Church, and others were Quakers and Baptists who baptized their children in St. Mary's Episcopal church for practical, political reasons. The earliest families identifiedin Jersey Settlement c1745 were those of Jonathan Hunt, Thomas and Rebecca (Anderson) Smith, Robert Heaton, and John Titus. (Hunt and Titus were married to Smith's nieces.) Others from Hopewell, e.g., Cornelius Anderson, came in this first party or soon followed. They were founding th


References

  1. https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~janet/genealogy/Reed.html
  2. Title: Ancestral File (R) Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
  3. Title: Debbie Miranda via DAMiranda @aol.com Author: found informant on GenForum.com - Higgins Family Forum Note: Subject: Re: John NEWTON Rickman, b 1852, NC Source Media Type: Electronic Title: 2168699.ged Note: Source Media Type: Other
  4. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Mary_Reed_%2839%29
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John Reed, of the Jersey Settlement's Timeline

1710
May 5, 1710
[uncertain], Hopewell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey
1735
1735
Hopewell, Hunterdon, NJ, USA
1737
November 28, 1737
Burlington County, Province of New Jersey
1739
1739
1741
1741
1742
1742
Monmouth, New Jersey, Colonial America
1744
1744
1746
1746
1748
October 31, 1748
Hopewell, Cumberland, New Jersey, United States
1749
May 9, 1749
Age 39
Augusta County, Virginia