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Billy Mitchell

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Seth Reed

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• • Great-grandfather of Billy Mitchell — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 10 
  • Father:
  • Willard Read 
  • Mother:
  • Olive Minot   
  • Birth Date:
  • 24 Jul 1781 
  • Birth Location:
  • Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 Jul 1848 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Summit Cemetery, Summit Corners, Waukesha, Wisconsin 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Rhoda Finney
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Mar 1804 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Harrison Reed

  Martha Reed (Ahnentafel No:5 )

  • Notes: 

  • Seth Reed's surname is also seen as Read.

• Sources for Seth Reed

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/13/2019).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Littleton, Vol. 1, p. 178, Birth records for children of Seth and Rhoda Reed.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westford, Vol. 1, p. 226, Marriage record for Seth Read and Rhoday Fenny.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westford, Vol. 1, p. 96, Birth record for Seth Read.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Littleton, Vol. 1, p. 465, Lineage branch of Reed family of Weymouth.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westford, Vol. 1, p. 94, Baptism record for daughter Martha Read.
  • ⁷ Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin at Its Fifty-Second Annual Meeting Held October 27, 1904, Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society (1905), 131.
  • ⁸ Logan, Mrs. John A., The Part Taken by Women in American History, Wilmington, Delaware: The Perry-Nalle Publishing Co. (1912), 526.
  • ⁹ Reed, Jacob Whittemore, History of the Reed Family in Europe and America, Boston: John Wilson and Son (1861), 277, 279.
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia, "Harrison Reed (politician)", (accessed 11/13/2019).