Martin Reese

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Martin Rees BIRTH 1745 Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA DEATH 21 Aug 1832 (aged 86–87) Warren, Warren County, Pennsylvania, USA BURIAL Pioneer Cemetery Warren, Warren County, Pennsylvania, USA PLOT Potters Field MEMORIAL ID 46131581 · View Source

MARTIN REES

was born in 1745 in New Jersey, New Jersey, the only child of Martin and Elizabeth. He married Isabell Jane Hudson in 1763 in his hometown. They had 13 children in 30 years. He died on August 21, 1832, in Warren, Pennsylvania, having lived a long life of 87 years, and was buried there.

Spouse: Isabell Jane Hudson 1746-1794

Children: Catherine Rees 1764-1864 Mary Rees 1768 Michael Rees 1770-1830 Ann Rees 1772 Tobias Rees 1775 Elizabeth Rees 1776-1854 Eve Rees 1780-1809 Martin Rees 17831861 Nancy Rees 1784 Sarah Sally Rees 1790-1888 Margaret Peggy Rees 1792-1860 John Rees 1794-1852

Moving to Warren, Pennsylvania

When James Morrison, jr., accompanied by his brother-in-law, Galen Murdock, arrived on the site of Warren in June, 1798, the only evidences of civilization and improvement to be seen here were the Holland Land Company's unoccupied storehouse, and a small abandoned improvement near Reig's old tannery, made by George Slone, a blacksmith, afterwards a wellknown resident of the Beech Woods settlement. Morrison and Murdock came from Lycoming county, and accomplished the journey by pushing a canoe up the Sinnemahoning and the Drift Wood Branch until the immense piles of driftwood prevented their further progress by water. Leaving their canoe,they packed their effects on their backs, and a little more than one day's walk brought them to the waters of the Allegheny. There they felled a large pine tree, made a commodious canoe, and continued their way to Warren. From that time the place where they embarked on the Allegheny was known as "Canoe Place," and many other early adventurers pursued the same route and plan in journeying from the West Branch of the Susquehanna westward. In 1800 James Morrison, sr., a soldier of the Revolutionary War, his brother Jeremiah, and several others of the Morrison and Murdock families, eight or ten men in all, besides women and children, came on from Lycoming county overthe route previously described, and settled on the outlots below Warren. At about that time, too, Martin Reese, Sr., and family settled in the same locality. In 1804 James Morrison (whether father or son is not known) built a house of hewn timbers on the site of the pipe line office, below R. P. King's residence. During the same year, however, a majority of that family perhaps all of them removed to the Kinzua valley and located there permanently..

Henry Dunn, who at an early day was connected with Hackney & Harriott in their lumbering operations on the Conewango, came here from Meadville and became a permanent resident about the year 1815. For a number of years he kept tavern in a house said to have been erected by Martin Reese about 1812. This building, of hewn timbers, stood upon the grounds now occupied by the First National Bank. Dunn's Tavern was a popular resort,and at one time he entertained as a guest the notorious Aaron Burr, who,being storm-bound, was compelled to tarry here several days while en route down the river to the home of Blennerhasset. Subsequently Dunn built quite a pretentious hostelry on the northwest corner of Second and Liberty streets, afterwards known as the Hackney House and the Russell House corner.

Danna_S. originally shared this to Sanders Family Tree 18 Feb 2013 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46131581/martin-rees