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William Reed

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Grandma Moses — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 164 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1605 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 11 JAN 1657/1658 to 06 APR 1658 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Avis Chapman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 26 Oct 1635 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Long Sutton, Somersetshire, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Hannah Reed

  William Reed Jr. (Ahnentafel No:82 )

  Thomas Reed

  John Reed

  James Reed

  • Notes: 

  • There were two William Reeds who resided at Weymouth about the same time. This William Reed should not be confused with the William Read who married, first, Susanna Haym, and second, Ruth Crooke. Many published genealogies confuse the two men including those by Savage and Pope, and a Reed genealogy published in 1861 is considered useless by most genealogists.

• Sources for William Reed

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1989, Vol. 6, p. 64.
  • ² Somerset Marriage Index, Marriage record for William Reeds and Avis Chapman.
  • ³ The Mayflower Descendant, 1990, Vol. 40, p. 124.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 28, 30.
  • ⁵ Chamberlain, George Walter, History of Weymouth Massachusetts, in Four Volumes, Vol. 4, Genealogy of Weymouth Families, Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society (1923), 568-569.
  • ⁶ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 1988, Vol. 21, p. 387.
  • ⁷ Hollick, Martin E., New Englanders in the 1600s: A Guide to Genealogical Research Published Between 1980 and 2010, Expanded Edition, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2012), 196.
  • ⁸ Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Granberry Family and Allied Families: Including the Ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry, New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company (1945), 301-302.
  • ⁹ Reed, John Ludovicus, The Reed Genealogy: Descendants of William Reade of Weymouth, Massachusetts From 1635 to 1902, n. p.: n. p. (1902), 1-5.
  • ¹⁰ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 96.