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WILLIAM REED (d. 1658)
AVIS CHAPMAN (d. aft. 1670)
William Reed died between 11 January 1657/8 and 6 April 1658 in Weymouth. [1][2] He married Avis Chapman of Knole on 26 October 1635 in Long Sutton, Somersetshire. [1][2][3]
William Reed of Weymouth was made a freeman on 18 May 1653. [3]
Avis Chapman was apparently living on 19 December 1670.
Another William Reed, with a first wife Susan and second wife Ruth, was an earlier arrival in Weymouth. [4]
On 6 April 1658 the townsmen granted Widow Reed a garden plot before her house. [3] Since her husband was an inhabitant when swamp lots were allocated, the widow Avis Reed was granted a swamp lot on 6 February 1659/60. [3]
A 19 December 1670 deed mentions widow Avis Reed's land. [3]
Children of William Reed and Avis Chapman:
i. Margaret Reed was baptized on 20 January 1635/6 in Long Sutton. [5] She died on 6 July 1659 in Weymouth. [5] She married John Vining on 11 May 1657. [3][4, 11 May 1658]
ii. Hannah Reed married Nicholas Whitmarsh.
iii. Mary Reed died on 16 April 1655 in Weymouth. [3][5]
iv. William Reed was probably born before 1650. [3] He died between 26 October 1705 and 12 September 1706. He married Esther Tomson in 1675. [3] Esther, the daughter of Lieutenant John and Mary (Cooke) Tomson of Middleborough and granddaughter of Francis Cooke of the Mayflower, died between 26 October 1705 and 12 September 1706. [3]
William made his will on 26 October 1705; it was probated on 12 September 1706. He left bequests to his wife Esther; his sons William, John, and Jacob Reed; his daughters Bashna Porter, Mercy Whitmarsh, Mary Reed, Esther Reed, and Sarah Reed. [3]
v. Ruth Reed died in 1663. [3] She married John Whitman, Jr. of Weymouth on 19 December 1662 in Weymouth. [3][5]
vi. Sergeant Thomas Reed was born about 1645. [3] He died on 14 November 1719 in Weymouth. [3] He married Sarah Bicknell about 1670. [3] Sarah, the daughter of John and Mary (Shaw) of Bicknell, was born about 1651 and died on 21 August 1719 in Weymouth. [3]
Thomas Reed made his will on 27 October 1719; it was probated on 30 November 1719. He left bequests to the children of his deceased son Thomas Reed; his sons John, Samuel, and William Reed; his daughters Mary Lovell, Sarah Stockbridge, Ruth White, Hannah Hunt, and Elizabeth Hunt. [3]
vii. John Reed was born about 1649. He married Bethiah Frye.
viii. James Reed was probably born about 1657 in Weymouth. [3][5]
James was a soldier in King Philip's War. [3]
Endnotes:
1. Robert Charles Anderson, "Ancestry of President Calvin Coolidge," The American Genealogist 53 (1977): 65–74, 160–167.
2. Donald Lines Jacobus, The Granberry Family and Allied Families: Including the Ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry (Hartford, CT: E.F. Waterman, 1945), 301.
3. History of Weymouth, Massachusetts. Weymouth, Mass., vol. 4 (Weymouth: Weymouth Historical Society, 1923), 568–9.
4. "Great Migration 1634–1635, R–S," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume VI, R–S (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009), 24–30.
5. Richard van Deusen, The Damon Family (Salem, MA: Higginsin Book Co., reprinted n.d.), 149–50.
Last revised: 11-Dec-2023