Moses Reed (1749 - 1839)

Born 31 May 1749 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Whittemore) Reed — married 23 Apr 1770 in Lexington, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 27 Jan 1839 at age 89 in Waterbury, Vermont, United States

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Biography

Private Moses Reed served with 6th Massachusetts Bay Provincial Regiment (1775), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Moses Reed is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A094598.

Moses Reed is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: P-276807
Rank: Private

He is the son of Samuel Reed and Eunice Stone born May 31, 1749; married Sarah Whittemore, daughter of Jacob Whittemore of Lexington, April 23,1770; and settled, with his father Whittemore, on the farm in Lexington, known of late years as the Finney Place. Was executor of the will of his father Whittemore, dated June 16, 1780. .He was a Private in Capt. Mungo's company on the Lexington Alarm. He served from 1818-1832.He died on January 27, 1839, in Waterbury, Vermont, at the age of 89 years.

Children, born in Lexington, — Whittemore, Feb. 16, 1771, was killed by the falling of a tree in Bridgeton, Me., where he was preparing to settle; Moses, Aug. 10, 1773; Sarah, April 1,1775 ; Abel, May 8,1777; Elizabeth, Feb. 17, 1779, married Philip Mason of Grafton, N.H., and now lives, a widow, in Fisherville; Eliab, born in 1781; Jacob, 1783; Samuel, 1787; Abigail, 1789, married a Skinner of Chelsea, Vt.

A portion of the British troops marched by their house at the time of the Lexington Fight. Their daughter Sarah was then eighteen days old. There was just time enough, after the alarm that the regulars were approaching, to take up the bed on which Mrs. Reed was lying, and put her and the children into a cart which was at the door. The inmates hastened to a wood near by. The troops fired into the house as they passed, but did no further damage. Mr. Reed sold the farm in Lexington, and bought the farm in Burlington now owned by Mr. Wood, where they kept a publichouse; and afterwards exchanged the farm in Burlington with Mr. Wood of Grafton, N.H., for a tavern stand and farm in Grafton, and moved to Grafton. She died in Waterbury, Vt., Nov. 2, 1830: he died in Waterbury, Jan. 27, 1839, in his ninetieth year.

Sources

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• Reed, Jacob Whittemore. History of the Reed Family in Europe and America (John Wilson and Son, Boston, 1861); p. 139

• Johnson, Edward F. Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages . (Woburn, Massachusetts: Andrews, Cutler & Co., 1890-1919), Vol. 1, p. 206.

• REED, Micah [sic, Micah also listed in 1746], s. Samuel and Eunice, [born] May 31, 1749.

• History of the Town of Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts: Geneologies Charles Hudson Houghton Mifflin, 1913 - Lexington (Mass. : Town)

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 15 August 2018), memorial page for Moses Reed (31 May 1749–27 Jan 1839), Find A Grave: Memorial #175537325, ; Maintained by Lynn McGee (contributor 48537653) Unknown.

• "Massachusetts, Revolutionary War, Index Cards to Muster Rolls, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSQZ-D834-L?cc=2548057&wc=QZZQ-M4V%3A1589088691 : 27 January 2017), Reed, Adam - Rhodes, George > image 1154 of 2860; Massachusetts State Archives, Boston.

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