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Grandma Moses

American Folk Artist

William Reed Jr.

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Grandma Moses — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 82 
  • Father:
  • William Reed 
  • Mother:
  • Avis Chapman   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Dec 1639 
  • Birth Location:
  • Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 26 Oct 1705 to 12 Sep 1706 
  • Death Location:
  • Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Esther Tomson
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1675 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Bashua Reed

  Mercy Reed

  John Reed

  William Reed

  Mary Reed

  Hester Reed

  John Reed

  Jacob Reed

  Sarah Reed (Ahnentafel No:41 )

• Sources for William Reed Jr.

  • ¹ Chamberlain, George Walter, History of Weymouth Massachusetts, in Four Volumes, Vol. 4, Genealogy of Weymouth Families, Weymouth, Massachusetts: Weymouth Historical Society (1923), 568-569.
  • ² Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 1988, Vol. 21, pp. 386-392.
  • ³ Cutter, William Richard, ed., New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of . . . Volume 4, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1913), 1599.
  • ⁴ Reed, John Ludovicus, The Reed Genealogy: Descendants of William Reade of Weymouth, Massachusetts From 1635 to 1902, n. p.: n. p. (1902), 5-14.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 28.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 249, 479-480.
  • ⁷ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 95-96.