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Samuel Reed

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Cindy Crawford — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 376 
  • Father:
  • Ezekiel Reed 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Beal   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Dec 1756 
  • Birth Location:
  • Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Apr 1826 
  • Death Location:
  • Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Cemetery, Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Betty Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Jun 1781 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Joseph Reed (Ahnentafel No:188 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

    D.A.R. #A094664

    S.A.R. #66684

    Samuel Reed was among those who marched on 20 April 1775 from Abington and Bridgewater to Marshfield in response to the Battles of Lexington and Concord the day before, engagements that sparked the start of the Revolutionary War. Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem "Concord Hymn" referred to this as "the shot heard round the world."

    Copies of some records left by Samuel's son Daniel Reed to his daughter Ellen included a story about Samuel that while being "out on scout with twelve others they suddenly came upon a company of Red Coats who fired upon them. Some threw down their arms and fled. Grandfather ran but the strap of his knapsack caught in a bush. While trying to disentangle himself the bullets flew thick around him. He thus became separated from his comrades and it was several weeks before he could find his command, as they had moved and he could get no trace of them in that sparsely settled country."

• Sources for Samuel Reed

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A094664.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/25/2020).
  • ³ History and Genealogy of the Families of Chesterfield, Massachusetts, 1762-1962, Northampton, Massachusetts: Gazette Printing Co., Inc. (1962), 296-297, 332, gives Samuel's death date as 25 APR 1826.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Chesterfield, Birth record for son Joseph Reed.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Abington, Vol. 1, p. 191, Birth record for Samuel Reed.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Chesterfield, Vol. 2, p. 92, Death record for Samuel Reed.
  • ⁷ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Chesterfield, Vol. 1, p. 117, Marriage record for Samuel Reed and Betty Smith.
  • ⁸ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, S.A.R. #66684, Membership application for Paul Marion Reed.
  • ⁹ Phillips, Vernon S., Francis Nash of Braintree, Mass. and 1550 of His Descendants, Akron, Ohio: Typed manuscript (1933), 30.
  • ¹⁰ Reed, John Ludovicus, The Reed Genealogy: Descendants of William Reade of Weymouth, Massachusetts From 1635 to 1902, n. p.: n. p. (1902), 61, 110-112.
  • ¹¹ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 572.

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