William Reed and Rebecca [Unk]

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Husband William Reed ^{1 2 3}

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Wife Rebecca [Unk] ^{2 3}

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1 M Alexander B. Reed ^{3 4 5 6}

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           Born: 1786 - Lancaster Co, PA 4
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         Spouse: Rachel Read (1792-1875) 3 7
           Marr: 1815 3 4

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2 F Isabella Reed ^{1 3}

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3 F Jane Reed ^{1 3}

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4 F Sally Reed ^{1 3}

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5 M James Reed ^{1 3}

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         Spouse: Margaret Jordan (      -      ) 3

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6 M William Reed ¹

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7 F Mary "Polly" Reed ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 4 Feb 1793 - Lancaster Co, PA 2
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           Died: 6 Dec 1873 - Lawrence Twp, Clearfield Co, PA 8
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         Spouse: John Ross Read (1789-1858/1861) 2 3 9
           Marr: 26 Dec 1816 2

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8 F Elizabeth "Betsey" Reed ^{1 3}

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         Spouse: Alexander Read, Jr. (1783-1843/1853) 3 10
           Marr: 1815 3

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General Notes: Husband - William Reed

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He was a Revolutionary soldier and a pioneer settler of Pike township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. He came to Clearfield County in 1813 [from Northampton County?].

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General Notes: Wife - Rebecca [Unk]

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The following is an exact copy of a letter written by Esther Reed to her children, John and Elizabeth Watson. She was born August 6, 1776, and when writing this was in her eighty-fourth year. Esther Reed was the wife of Thomas Reed, brother of Rebecca Reed, who was the mother of Mary Reed, who was the mother of Jane (Read) Caldwell, who was the mother of Mrs. W. S. Port:

. Your grandfather, William Reed, was born in Donegal, Ireland, came to America at 7 years of age with his mother, she was a widow, had 2 sons and three daughters. Her maiden name was Polly Setson. She bought a farm in the state of Dela-ware. Her oldest daughter married a man by the name of Thos. Brown. Her oldest son married, had 2 sons, one was a doctor and lived in Phila-delphia, the other a Presbyterian minister and he lived and died in Wilmington, Del. Your grandmother Reed's maiden name was Jane Mitchell. Her father came from Ireland in an early day. He bought a farm in the state of Delaware. He had 6 daughters and one son, the son had no children. Your grandfather, William Reed raised 5 sons and 5 daughters-Took this information from your grandparents. I lived in the house with them from I was married till they died. Your grandfather Wm. Reed came to Clinton Co. in 1772, it was then Northumberland Co. his two sons John and William Reed joined the army in 1776, in 1778 your grandfather, grandmother and the rest of the family fled from the Indians, returned to Chester Co. they remained there until 1784 then returned. Your grandfather grandmother three daughters and two sons, the daughters never married, your father and mother lived in the house with his family until the family all died. Your grandmother Jane Reed died in Sept. 1802. Your aunt Margaret fifteen days later. Your uncle James Reed died in 1806, your aunt Anne Reed May 16, 1821 aged fifty years. His oldest sister Rebecca Reed-Alex B. Reed's mother-died in Clearfield in 1824. Your aunt Jane died Mch. 10, 1851 aged ninety-three. Thomas Reed, your father died Sept. 5 1851 aged eighty four. Your father's oldest brother John Reed married in Chester Co. & went to Kentucky. Wm. Reed your uncle lived and died in Northumberland Co. Your father was the youngest son of the family. The venerable Dr. Thomas Read of Wilmington Del. was his full cousin. They were brother's children. Your fathers second brother and youngest sister Alexander and Sarah died with smallpox the year of the war.

. Dr. Read died in Wilmington, June 14, 1823, his remains were laid to rest in the center aisle of the First Church-afterward removed to the burying ground of that church. Dr. Read's first wife was Mary Stanley, daughter of Valentine Stanley, one of the first potters of Philadelphia. Her mother was Susanna Chevalier, daughter of Peter, granddaughter of John Chevalier, one of the French Huguenots, banished from France, went to England, then came to America prior to 1700. His second wife was Mary Stuart, daughter of Alexander Stuart, of Bohemia Manor, Maryland.
. Thomas Read, the seventh minister of the Old Drawyers Church, was born March, 1746. He was the son of John and Eleanor (Ross) Read, who came to this country from Ireland, their son Thomas being born soon after their arrival and settlement in Chester county, Penn-sylvania. He was educated at the Pennsyl-vania Academy, now the University of Penn-sylvania. His first appointment seems to have been at Drawyers in 1768. In 1773 the present edifice was dedicated. He remained there for thirty years, from 1768 to 1798. He was inti-mate with General Washington and it is said, assisted the General in laying plans for the battle of Brandywine. In 1796 he received the degree of D. D. from Princeton College; Au-gust 7. 1797, he was chosen pastor of the Sec-ond Presbyterian Church of Wilmington, Delaware, at the southwest corner of Fifth and Walnut streets, at that time the leading Pres-byterian church in Wilmington. He remained here for nineteen years. He completed his three score and ten years of life when he re-tired from the Second Church. In 1817 he accepted a call to the First Presbyterian Church of Wilmington, at the corner of Tenth and Market streets. He remained pastor here until a short time before his death.

1 Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 84.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 811.

3 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 9.

4 Lewis Cass Aldrich, History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1887), Pg 83.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 903.

6 William C. Armor, Lives of the Governors of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: James K. Simon, 1873), Pg 415.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 615.

8 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 904.

9 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 647, 903.

10 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 615, 647, 660.