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John Reed
Member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
from Norwalk
In office
May 1715 – October 1715Serving with John Betts
Preceded byJoseph Platt,
Samuel Comstock
In office
October 1717 – May 1718Serving with Samuel Hanford
Succeeded byJohn Bartlett,
Samuel Marvin
Personal details
Born1633
Wendron, Cornwall, England
Died1730 (aged 96 - 97)
Stamford, Connecticut Colony
Resting placeReed's Farm, Rowayton, Connecticut
Spouse(s)Anne Samson Derby (widow of Francis Derby) (m. 1652, Providence, Rhode Island), widow Scofield of Stamford
ChildrenJohn Reed, Jr., Thomas Reed, William John Reed, Mary Reed Tuttle, Abigail Reed
Residence(s)Providence, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,
Rye, Province of New York (1684–1687),
Norwalk (present day Rowayton), Connecticut Colony (1687)
OccupationLawyer
Military service
AllegianceRoundhead
RankColonel
UnitArmy of the Protector
Battles/warsEnglish Civil War,
Corfe Castle (1649)

John Reed (1633 – 1730) was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk, Connecticut Colony in the May 1715 and October 1717 sessions.

He was the son of James Reed.

He was an officer in Oliver Cromwell's army, and a soldier from the age of sixteen. When Charles II of England was restored to the throne, Reed left for America. He settled first in Providence, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. In Providence, he married Anne Samson Derby. He later moved to Rye, Province of New York, in 1684, where he lived for three or four years. He then established himself in the western part of Norwalk, at a house he built on the eastern side of the Five Mile River, north of the Old Post Road and nearly two miles from the Long Island Sound at a place called Reed's Farms. His name is found among the records of the town of Norwalk in 1687. John Reed was admitted to the bar in 1708 in Norwalk, Connecticut. His house was used for a meeting place for some years. His wife died and he married again to the Widow Scofield from Stamford.

He died in Norwalk, in the ninety-eighth year of his age, in 1730, and was interred in a tomb on his own farm.

Notable descendants

References

  1. Nathaniel Bouton (1851). An Historical Discourse in Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Norwalk, Ct., in 1651: Delivered in the First Congregational Church in Norwalk, July 9, 1851. S.W. Benedict. pp. 78–.
  2. ^ "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/SGBJ-BYR : accessed 2014-05-17), entry for John /Reed/.
  3. ^ Jacob Whittemore Reed (1861). History of the Reed family in Europe and America. pp. 445–.
  4. ^ Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island: Genealogical Records and Historical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and of Many of the Old Families ... J.H. Beers & Company. 1908. pp. 618–.
Preceded byJoseph Platt
Samuel Comstock 		Member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
from Norwalk
May 1715–October 1715
With: John Betts 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
from Norwalk
October 1717–May 1718
With: Samuel Hanford 		Succeeded byJohn Bartlett
Samuel Marvin
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