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GEORGE REED, son of John Reed and Bethiah Frye

SARAH WHITMARSH (b.1701), daughter of Samuel Whitmarsh and Hannah Pratt

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George Reed, the son of John and Bethiah Reed, married Sarah Whitmarsh, the daughter of Samuel and Hannah Whitmarsh. [1][2]

Sarah, the daughter of Samuel and Hannah Whitmarsh, was born on 6 March 1701. [1][3][4]

Sarah's father called her Sarah Reed in his will of 8 July 1718. [5]

Children of George Reed and Sarah Whitmarsh:

i. George Reed was born on 31 August 1718 in Dighton. [2] He died on 6 May 1727. [2]

ii. Avis Reed was born on 5 September 1720 in Dighton. [2][6] She died there on 7 July 1755. [6] She married John Palmer on 18 January 1736/7 in Dighton. [2, 27 January][6] John, the son of John and Mary (Hilliard) Palmer and grandson of John and Elizabeth (Richmond) Palmer, was born on 30 October 1712 in Little Compton. [6]

iii. Hannah Reed was born on 21 May 1722. [2] She married Reuben Clemens in 1743. [2]

iv. John Reed was born on 30 March 1724. [2] He married Miriam Talbot on 11 May 1749. [2] She died on 11 December 1749. [2]

v. Samuel Reed was born on 29 November 1725. [2] He married Rachel Williams in 1748. [2]

Samuel and Loved Reed were shoemakers in Upper Dighton. [7, 22]

vi. Ruth Reed was born on 3 November 1727 in Dighton. [2][8] She married first Joshua Williams. [2] She married second James Macomber. [2] She married third Ebenezer Myrick. [2]

vii. Rebecca Reed was born on 16 July 1729 in Dighton. She married first John Coleman. She married second Sylvester French.

viii. Sarah Reed was born on 6 December 1734 in Dighton. [8] She apparently died young.

ix. Sarah Reed was born on 22 January 1739. [2] She married John Gilmore. [2][8]

x. Loved Reed was born on 26 February 1741. [2] Loved of Dighton married Charity Phillips of Berkley after 15 August 1763 in Berkley. [9, 31] Perhaps he is the Loved who married [second] Mary French of Berkley after 16 September 1786 (intention) in Berkley. [9, 128]

Loved was a constable in Dighton in 1782. [7, 128]

Mary Reed, widow, posted bond on 7 April 1815. On 11 April 1815 inventory was taken on the estate of Loved Reed, yeoman of Dighton. On 12 May 1815 Mary Reed, administratrix, made oath to it. [10]

xi. Mary Reed was born on 3 February 1743/4 and died on 18 May 1745. [2][8]

xii. Jonathan Reed was born on 13 October 1745. [2][8]

Endnotes:

1. Newton Whitmarsh Bates, Genealogy of the Descendants of John Whitmarsh of Weymouth, Mass. (Ashtabula, OH: P.H. Fassett, 1916), 18.

2. Jacob Whittemore Reed, History of the Reed Family in Europe and America (Boston: John William and Son, 1861), 388–9. This does not seem to be a terribly reliable sourse.

3. Vital Records of Weymouth, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 , vol. 1, vol. 2 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1910).

4. History of Weymouth, Massachusetts. Weymouth, Mass., vol. 4 (Weymouth: Weymouth Historical Society, 1923), 761.

5. "Massachusetts, U.S. Wills and Probate Records, 1635–1991," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/9069) > Probate Docket, Vol 31, 1915; Probates, Vol 3, 1710-1720, images 291–5.

6. Victor Grant Hilliard, Jr., "William Hilliard of Duxbury, Mass.," Mayflower Descendant 50 (2001): 139.

7. Helen H. Lane, History of the Town of Dighton, Massachusetts (Dighton: the town, 1962).

8. "Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620–1850," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org > Dighton.

9. Scott Andrew Bartley, "Berkley, Mass., Vital Records, Book 1," Mayflower Descendant 51 (2000), 25–48, 130–3.

10. "Bristol County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1686–1880," database with images, AmericanAncestors.org., case 21106 (Loved).

 

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