Josiah Reed (abt. 1768 - 1859)

Born about 1768 in VA

Ancestors

Died 2 May 1859 at about age 91 in Melvin, Clinton Co., OH

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Biography

This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import.^[1] It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.

Name

Name: Josiah /REED/

Given Name: Josiah

Surname: REED

Name: Joseph //

Given Name: Joseph

Surname: ^[2]

Found multiple versions of NAME. Using Josiah /REED/.

Birth

Birth:

Date: Abt 1768

Place: VA^[3]

Death

Death:

Date: 2 May 1859

Place: Melvin, Clinton Co., OH^[4]

Burial

Burial:

Place: Richland Methodist Church Cemetery, Clinton Co., OH^[5]

Event

Event:

Type: Court

Date: 14 Jun 1823

Place: Bourbon Co., KY

Note: Dispute over estate of Samuel HORNBACK.^[6]

Event:

Type: Court

Date: Aug 1823

Place: Bourbon Co., KY

Note: Dispute over ownership of slaves.^[7]

Event:

Type: Court

Date: 13 May 1824

Place: Bourbon Co., KY

Note: Dispute over division of John REED's estate.^[8]

Event:

Type: Court

Date: 25 May 1826

Place: Bourbon Co., KY

Note: Division of estate.^[9]

Event:

Type: Court

Date: Aug 1829

Place: Bourbon Co., KY

Note: Dispute over settlement of John REED's estate.^[10]

Event:

Type: Court

Date: 5 Apr 1831

Place: Bourbon Co., KY

Note: Dispute over division of John REED's estate.^[11]

Event:

Type: Court

Date: 27 May 1831

Place: Bourbon Co., KY

Note: DIspute over settlement of John REED's estate.^[12]

User ID

User ID: 345CDF51022247A4ADBF334EA11055BA7C7C

Data Changed

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Date: 4 Mar 2005

Time: 19:22

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Note

Note: #NI1538^[13][14]

Sources

1. ↑ Reed-6743 was created by Bernie Cinkoske through the import of tayloy=only.ged on Sep 13, 2014. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.
2. ↑ Source: #S177 Page: 17TJ-DZC Quality or Certainty of Data: 3
3. ↑ Source: #S177 Page: 17TJ-DZC Quality or Certainty of Data: 3
4. ↑ Source: #S790 Quality or Certainty of Data: 3 Data: Text: Lists date of birth as 30-Mar-1837.
5. ↑ Source: #S790
6. ↑ Source: #S372
7. ↑ Source: #S371
8. ↑ Source: #S373
9. ↑ Source: #S331
10. ↑ Source: #S378
11. ↑ Source: #S380
12. ↑ Source: #S384
13. ↑ Source: #S393
14. ↑ Source: #S681 Page: bk 25, LDS #0183177 Quality or Certainty of Data: 3

• Source: S177 Media: Church Abbreviation: Ancestral File Title: Ancestral File, computer Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
• Source: S331 Media: Court Abbreviation: Bourbon Co., KY Circuit Court File #96 Title: REID Heirs vs REID Heirs Author: Bourbon Co., KY Circuit Court Publication: KY State Library & Archives, Frankfort, KY Text: Division of John REID's estate of 625 acres, including 165 acres dower to Elizabeth REID, wife and division of slaves by Commissioners appointed by Court. CONT CONT Commissioners: James LAMME, Rubin S. CLARKSON and Thomas WORRALL. CONT CONT Points mentioned in deed: Paris to Winchester road, Strodes Creek and road to Lixington. Widow HORNBACK's spring branch empties into Strodes Creek, corner to Daniel THATCHER, line of John, Rubin & James HUTCHCRAFT, Robert HUME line, Matthew HUME in BRESTON's line, line of Sally RITCHIE, mill. CONT CONT Notice that there is a problem with title to 100 acres purchased from John HORNBACK and his wife's dower. CONT CONT Slaves: Moses - 5, Noah - 5, Henry - 0, Nancy - 0, Patience - 0, Rachel - 0, Nepton - 5, Garrad 0- 0, Winney - 5, Washington - 0, Amelian - 0, Shelby - 5 and Juda - 5. Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
• Source: S371 Media: Court Abbreviation: Bourbon Co., KY Circuit Court File #559 Title: George REID vs. Elizabeth REID Author: Bourbon Co., KY Circuit Court Publication: KY State Library and Archives, Frankfort, KY Text: #559 - George REID vs. Elizabeth REID Aug-1823 CONT Appears to be statement by George: Mr. FRENCH, please ask George SKINNER about sale of land in 1793 to George HARNESS, also purchase of land of father when he died. Also, island place of 20 acres, purchased after father's death and place called Stohers Lick of 100 acres purchased from Andrew WODROW . Also ask Isaac CUNINGHAM. CONT CONT William GIPSON, Randolph Co., VA to Elizabeth REID of Hardy Co., VA, 200lbs 12-Nov-1792 and 100lbs 12-Nov-1794. Witnesses: William STEENBERGER, Jacob MEANS, and GEORGE REED. CONT CONT 17-Oct-1811, Clarke Co., KY - Eliz. REID to George REID - witnesses: Richard CURTRIGHT, Thomas LMOHARD, Richard M. TANNER and Matthew DUKE - Cyrus, son of Whinney, slave to serve son, George, during his lifetime, if George dies before Cyrus is 25, he is to serve George's heirs. CONT CONT George REID vs. Elizabeth, John, Josiah and Daniel REID for possession of 5 slaves: Patience, Burr, Garrard, Whinney and Allan. CONT CONT Witnesses: Abel SEISMORE - Hardy Co., VA, Richard CURTRIGHT - Hardin Co., KY, Samuel CURTRIGHT, Thomas BARBER, John CURTRIGHT, Jacob TEVEBOUGH and Thomas MORROW - Bourbon Co., KY and John HUME, Maft & Hetty HUME - Clarke Co., KY, Richard CURTRIGHT - Elizabeth Co., KY. CONT CONT 15-Mar-1814 - Elizabeth REED to George REED - Cyrus to serve George, James RENNICK and John REED, witnesses. CONT CONT 25-Jun-1 816 - John REED to hold bill of sale for Patience till Elizabeth TAFFE gives up and sold, by Elizabeth REED, James RENICK, witness. CONT CONT 1- Jul-1816 - Elizabeth TAFFE of Clarke Co., KY & IN Territory, sold to John REID of Bourbon CONT Co., KY a slave by the name of Patience she had from her mother Elizabeth REID. Witnesses: John REED, Jr., and GEORGE TAFFE. CONT CONT 22-Jul-1816, Clarke Co., KY - Elizabeth REID to Elizabeth TAFFE, Patience, daughter of Whinney, witnesses: John REID, George RENNICK. CONT CONT 23-Jul-1816, Clarke Co., KY - Elizabeth REID to Elizabeth TAFFE, daughter, transfer Patience, daughter of Whinney, witnesses: Richard M. TANNER, George REED, Matthew DUKE, Thomas LYNCHAND, Richard CURTRIGHT and John REED. CONT 17-Oct-1816 - James TAFFE to Elizabeth REID, witness Elizabeth MORROW. CONT 4-Oct-1820 - James TAFFE to Elizabeth REID, witness HACKMAN. CONT 14-Jul-1823 - George REED going to the house of Abel SENIOR, Hardy Co., VA, near Moorefield to take statements. CONT CONT 11-Jul-1823 - deposition of Able SEYMOUR, Hardy Co., VA - in 1793, John MARSH and others who had purchased Lord FAIRFAX's South Branch manner came to Moorefield to sell out reservations to the tenants holding same . George REID purchased 135 acres plus back rents due from 1783. Mother to have a life rent. Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
• Source: S372 Media: Court Abbreviation: Bourbon Co., KY Circuit Court File #604 Title: Adam HORNBACK vs. Jno. REID & Others Author: Bourbon Co., KY Circuit Court Publication: KY State Library and Archives, Frankfort, KY Text: #604 - Adam HORNBACK vs. Jno. REID & Others 14-Jun-1823 CONT Adam HORNBACK, for himself and as committee for John HORNBACK, Adam ALKIER and wife Margaret HORNBACK, (Samuel, Adam, William and John HORNBACK, Dorothy HORNBACK HAWKINS, Sally HORNBACK, Sabina HORNBACK THACHER, Jemima HORNBACK - children of Daniel HORNBACK, dec.) who was one of Samuel HORNBACWS, dec. children. Samuel left a considerable quantity of land situated on Strode's Creek and sundry negro slaves. CONT CONT Since the death of their ancestor, a certain John REID, Sr., who has since departed this life, possessed himself of about 45 acres of land left to be divided by said heirs, as well as an additional .40 acres of land and negros: Nancy, Sarah, Mahala, Nepp and Washington. Having possessed himself of said land & negros, he would not suffer your complts to enter into and enjoy the same nor would he pay them any portion of the negros hire or any part of the rents and profits of said land, nor divide the negros between himself and your complainants. Nor would his children & heirs since his demise: John REED, Jr.*, Josiah (Jonathan)*, Samuel, Cyrus, Absolam*, George* and Daniel* REID, Hannah & Isaihah WILSON, Dorothy & Lewis THOMAS, Sally & Wm. BUCHANAN*, Elizabeth & Daniel THATCHER*, heirs of John REED (* in Bourbon Co., KY, 9-Jun1823, others out of Co.). CONT CONT John REED took the slave Nancy by force. CONT CONT 16-Oct-1792 - deed B302 - John REED, Bourbon Co., KY sold to Samuel HORNBACK, for 110 pounds money of VA, a tract of land containing 205 acres, part of the preemption granted to Peter CASEY, heir to Benjamin CASEY and a patent from the Registers Office. The transfer contained a clause stating that John REED would compensate Samuel HORNBACK if any of the land had a bad title. Witnesses: Boon INGLES and Weathers SMITH. CONT CONT REED's answer: They deny bill. The slave, Nancy, was given many years ago by Samuel HORNBACK, dec. to the mother of your respondents, who was the wife of John REED, dec., daughter of Samuel HORNBACK, as part of marriage portion. On 29-Jan-1813, said Samuel, entered a common law complaint, an action of detinue, to recover Nancy and her daughter, Sarah (other slaves named in suit born since then, Charles is dead). The Nov-1813 Term of the Court decided slaves were the property of Jno. REID, Samuel had no title to them. They also claimed the statute of limitations. Also states that Samuel had but 5 children: John, Adam, Daniel, Margaret (m. Adam ALKIRE) and Elizabeth (m. John REID) HORNBACK. Samuel gave 100 acres of land, conveyed by deed to John HORNBACK. Also gave Adam HORNBACK 78 acres by deed, heirs of Daniel HORNBACK, dec. 78 acres by deed, Wm. ALKIRE, the husband, Samuel gave 50 acres. Afterwards, by some arrangement, Samuel purchased back same 50 acres. Samuel never gave any land to his daughter, Elizabeth, their mother, in his lifetime. However, Samuel, during his lifetime, made about an equal distribution to his other children. CONT CONT Samuel made his last will and testament on 8-Oct-1812, devised to his daughter, Elizabeth REID, the respondent's mother, a full share of his estate at this death. Samuel departed this life a few years later. Will recorded & administered in May-1816 term. CONT CONT Some years ago in the lifetime of their ancestor Samuel HORNBACK, he and a certain John REED, Jr. undertook to build and erect a sawmill & water gristmill on Strodes Creek in Bourbon Co., KY. Operated some long time until whole milling establishment caught fire and the gristmill was consumed and burnt to ashes. John REID was indebted to said Samuel for money advanced by him for use and benefit of the said REID of at least ,000. Some time after they commenced building the mill, Samuel became insane, infirm and wholly incapable of transacting any business and was given to frequent intoxication. After mill was burnt, REID, finding Samuel of unsound mind (even in his best health the said Samuel was a meek minded man), REED gave out in speeches that HORNBACK was indebted to him in the sum of 50 pounds. John REED, Sr. and Jr. got Samuel drunk, drew up a note payable by Samuel to John REED and proceeded to execute it in the foiling fake & scandalous manner. That John REED, Jr. took the old man's hand (who was 85 years of age and lying dead drunk) into his hand and thus with his own exertion, fraudulently procured the old gentleman's name on the note. REID received judgement on the debt and kept it secret from HORNBACK's heirs. CONT CONT REID's answer: Mills built by John & Samuel in partnership and continued until fire. Deny Samuel owed John nothing (as stated by complainants) and that John owed Samuel ,000. They state that Samuel had some kind of fit by which his mind for some time appeared to be impaired, but he was not insane or incapable of transacting business. He was toward the close of his life and a little intemperate in the use of ardent spirits. The debt was arbitrated by two millwrights chosen by John and Samuel and they judged in John's favor. Samuel made his mark as he was illiterate. CONT CONT 26-Jul-1824 - Depositions taken from Mary & Jemima HORNBACK and Mason SEAMONDS. SEAMONDS called to value some millwrights along with Jacob WIRT on 12-Dec-1814. They judged HORNBACK owed REED 211 pounds 1 0 shillings. HORNBACK did not appear satisfied. Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
• Source: S373 Media: Court Abbreviation: Bourbon Co., KY Circuit Court File #649 Title: REID Heirs vs. REID Heirs Author: Bourbon Co., KY Circuit Court Publication: KY State Library and Archives, Frankfort, KY Text: #649 - REID Heirs vs. REID Heirs 13-May-1824 CONT John REID, Daniel & Elizabeth THATCHER, Wm. & Sarah BUCHANAN, Josiah, Daniel and George (under 21 years old) REID, all heirs of John REID, dec. John REID lived in Bourbon Co., KY, died some years since and owned land around county. Other heirs: Samuel, Absalom and Cyrus REID, Lewis & Dorothy THOMAS, Josiah & Hannah WILSON, state John owned about 500 acres. Widow, Elizabeth, the defendant, still living at time suit filed. CONT CONT All defendants, except Hannah WILSON, reside out of state. Suit to divide land. CONT CONT Adam HORNBACK states: sale of land by John REED to Samuel HORNBACK, dated 16-Oct-1792 of 205 acres, a part of Peter CASEY's preemption. Adam in Nicholas Co., KY on 28-Nov-1831. CONT CONT Hannah WILSON in Mason Co., KY on 28-Apr-1825. Josiah WILSON died between 17-Jun-1824 and 2-Jul-1825. CONT CONT 2-Jul-1825 - commission appointed to divide land: Zachariah EASTIN, James LA and Rueben L. CLARK. Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
• Source: S378 Media: Court Abbreviation: Bourbon Co., KY Circuit Court File #29 Title: REID Heirs vs. REID Heirs Author: Bourbon Co., KY Circuit Court Publication: KY State Library and Archives, Frankfort, KY Text: #29 REID Heirs vs. REID Heirs Aug-1829 CONT George REID and Hannah WILSON state that their father, John REID, d. in 182?, intestate with a considerable estate, including 625 acres on Strodes Creek. The widow, Elizabeth, is since deceased. 165 acres of the earlier division allotted to Elizabeth as dower, the remaining divided equally to the 11 children. Dower included six slaves: Moses, Nancy, Mariah - Nancy's child, Moses Jr., Henry and Patience and a female child. When Elizabeth died, her land and slaves were not divided. CONT CONT Other children mentioned in suit: Daniel, Cyrus, Samuel, Josiah, John and Absalom REID, Dorothy and Lewis THOMAS, Elizabeth & Daniel THATCHER and Sarah BUCKHANAN. CONT CONT Notice of suit published in the Western Citizen for 9 weeks, from 6-Sep-1824 to 1-Nov-1824. CONT CONT Court appointed commissioners to divide land: James LAMME, Rueben L. CLARKSON and Thomas WORNELL. Slaves sold by James LAMME on 11-Jan-1830 under notes due in 12 months: CONT Hannah WILSON purchased Patience and child for 6 CONT John REID purchased Nancy & Mariah for 0, Henry 0 and Moses, Jr. 2 CONT Daniel REID purchased Moses for 7 CONT Josiah REID purchased Judy Ann for 4 CONT CONT Dower land - 166 acres, 2 rods, 22 poles, bounded by corner to Elizabeth THATCHER lot as here to for laid off in a previous division, mouth of Mr. HORNBACK's spring branch, and Lexington Road. Some of the divisions cross Strodes Creek. Divided 5-Jan-1831. CONT CONT Jul-1830 - commission informed by John REED that 28 acres of the 165 acres involved in a suit at the Court of Appeals with HORNBACK. Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
• Source: S380 Media: Court Abbreviation: Bourbon Co., KY Circuit Court File #754 Title: George REID vs. Daniel REED Author: Bourbon Co., KY Circuit Court Publication: KY State Library and Archives, Frankfort, KY Text: #754 - George REID vs. Daniel REED 5-Apr-1831 CONT George REED, Hannah WILSON, Cyrus and Samuel REED, Lewis & Dorothy THOMAS, Daniel and Elizabeth THATCHER, Samuel PIERCE and Sarah (formally BUCKHANAN) (m. bet. 11-Jan1830 and 5-Apr-1831) and Absalom REID vs. Daniel, Josiah and John REID and Samuel LAIRY over 7 owed on purchase of slave Moses. CONT CONT George vs. Josiah 4 Judy Ann CONT George vs. Hannah 6 Patience and child CONT George vs. John 2 Nancy, Mariah, Henry and Moses, Jr., also lists a Jesse REED Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
• Source: S384 Media: Court Abbreviation: Bourbon Co., KY Circuit Court File #851 Title: REID Heirs vs. REED Heirs Author: Bourbon Co., KY Circuit Court Publication: KY State Library and Archives, Frankfort, KY Text: #851 - REID Heirs vs. REED Heirs 27-May-1831 CONT John REID acting as administrator of estate of John REID, who d. 11-Sep-1823. Hannah WILSON, Daniel THATCHER and Samuel PIERCE, co-defendants. CONT CONT Samuel, Absalom, Cyrus, John, Josiah, Daniel & George REED, Hannah and Josiah WILSON, Dorothy & Lewis THOMAS, Sally & William BUCKHANNAN, Elizabeth & Daniel THATCHER, all heirs of John REID, dec. CONT CONT 1825 - Receipt of Ezekiel THURSTON to Capt. John REED. CONT CONT Jul-1827 - Three deeds to Adam HORNBACK and John HORNBACK to Daniel HORNBACK heirs. CONT CONT Oct - 1829 - Hannah REID m. Josiah WILSON, Daniel THATCHER, dec. CONT CONT HORNBACK suit witnesses: John HEDGES, Joseph THOMAS, James DUNCAN, Sarah MECSICK, Malinda BABER, Charles WARREN, Elizabeth MORROW. CONT CONT Cyrus REED - Clynton Co., OH. CONT CONT 21-Nov-1833 - Thomas P. SMITH appointed commissioner to examine and settle dispute of John and Absolom REED as administrators of their father, John REED, dec. His wife, Elizabeth, died later, dead at time of suit. Also mentions Daniel and Josiah REED. Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
• Source: S393 Media: Book Abbreviation: Clark Co., KY marriages Title: Clark Co., KY Marriages 1792-1851 Author: Researchers Publication: Indianapolis, IN Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
• Source: S681 Media: Court Abbreviation: Clark Co., KY deeds Title: Deed books, microfilm, LDS Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y
• Source: S790 Media: Internet Abbreviation: Email RATCLIFF - 2-Mar-2005 Title: Email RATCLIFF - 2-Mar-2005 Author: Kenneth RATCLIFF Publication: kerats@msn.com Italicized: Y Paranthetical: Y

Notes

Note NI1538May have m. Kitty GRIGSBY on 12-May-1811 in Clark Co., KY.

May have m. Amanda DONNALSON on 12-JUn-1823 in Clark Co., KY. This is suppored by the following deed (Clark Co., KY deed bk 25, pg 110-111): 7-May-1831, Josiah & Amanda REED, of Bourbon Co., KY sold to Walter C. DONNALDSON, of Clark Co., KY land from the dower of Eleanor DONNALDSON in Clark Co., KY and on Stodes Creek, for 8, rec. 15-Dec-1823.