Thomas Bose Reid (1791 - 1852)

Born 1791 in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA

Descendants

Died 1852 at about age 61 in Joliet, Will, Illinois, United States

Biography

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Note

Note: #N223

Sources

1. ↑ Reid-4943 was created by Douglas MacNair through the import of McNair_2015-04-19.ged on Apr 19, 2015. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.

Notes

Note N223[hyde.FTW]

From "Compilation of the letters of Samuel B. Reed and notes concerning his life for the use of his family - by Louis Howard Hyde 1895 -

Thomas B. Reid served in the war of 1812 and received a pension for his services. When his company officer made out the pension list, he spelled the name R-e-e-d by mistake; rather than go to the trouble of having this error corrected, Thomas adopted this spelling for the family name.

Thomas' parents on the Reid side had lived for many years at Keen(sic) NH, their family consisted of three sons and two daughters, Samuel was the eldest child. About a year after Samuel was born Thomas B. Reed moved his family to Canada and settled on a farm near Ottawa near his wife's relatives, the Burretts, some of whom had been royalist sympathizers and had previously moved to Canada from the States. Their descendnts still live in Canada.

The Reed family did not find life in Canada very congenial - it was too soon after the war of 1812 - and uncomplimentary allusions to that event were too frequent to permit of much happiness so, before many years they returned to the United States and settled on a farm in Western New York -near Friendship, Allegahny Co.- where they remained a short time and then moved in 1828 to Royalton, NY, 12 miles east of Lockport, NY in Niagara Co. Here they remained until 1844.