Born circa 1712 Margaret Floyd married James Reed/Reid circa 1830. From available material, the couple had seven sons and two daughters. Because wife Margaret Reed was mentioned in her husband’s will of 1796, perhaps she died sometime during or after that year. At one source, a short biography on her son James R. Reid, Mrs. Reed's maiden name was given as Ramsey: JAMES R. REID, THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, 1787-1788, BY WILLIAM H. EGLE, M.D.
Birth, marriage, death dates, and all remain speculative. Marriage year of 1730 was provided by Geneva Hunt, FIND A GRAVE ID 46628365.
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The article REMINISCENCES and supporting letters of Mr. William B. Reed, provided by Geneva Hunt, support burial of Mrs. Reed nee Floyd in Lower Marsh Creek Cemetery.
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THE FLOYD LINE
It can hardly be called a line, except as it runs through her descendants from Margaret, wife of Col. James Reed. For it is a short and tragic story. Her father had settled and built a home for his wife and five children; James, the oldest, was twelve, and Margaret seven when in the blackness of a dark night, the terrible war-whoop was heard. She remembered her father putting her on a horse behind her brother, James, telling them to ride for their lives, as he gave the horse a cut with his whip. He turned back to get his wife and the other children. Alas! too late. Every one was massacred by the Indians.
Except as she appears in the Record of Deeds in York Co., Pa., we know only her marriage to James Reed and the reverence and love in which her children bore her memory. Her brave heart spoke its God-speed to her husband, Col. Reed, her seven sons, five of them officers in the Continental Army; she committed them to God's care and told them, ?Never come home to me with a bullet in your back.?
The desire and effort to discover something of her brother, James, and his descendants has never been successful. The Floyds who were Governors of Virginia seems [sic] to have come into Virginia another way (Kith and Kin -RICHMOND, VA. - THE WILLIAM BYRD PRESS, INC., 1922).
THE REED LINE
Quite a colony of Reeds came together to ?Penn's Manor? before 1730, Scotch people from Ulster. Their names had been found as ?Landholders? on the Hamilton estate, and May 23, 1683, among ?Presbyterians of importance to be moved from Ulster to Munster because of political opinions,? we find James Reed, Andrew Reed, Sr., and Andrew Reed, Jr. It may have been this James Reed's sons, Samuel, Joseph and Wm., who came forty years after, tired of being ?moved? and otherwise harassed as ?Presbyterians of importance.? They decided to do the moving themselves! Samuel Reed and his wife, Sarah, had a son, James, who married Margaret Floyd; they had seven sons and two daughters. James was Colonel in the Revolutionary War, and had in his regiment his seven sons and two sons-in-law, James Stephenson and Wm. McKesson. We children always glowed with pride when told how Mother Margaret blessed her sons in farewell and told them ?never to come to her with a bullet in the back!? The Spartan mother was nothing in our comparison. The sons were James, Joseph, Benjamin, John, Samuel, Thomas, William; five were officers. Lieut. Samuel was afterwards Colonel in the War of 1912 [1812]; he married Anna Kennedy, and they are my great grandparents. When my father and I went to visit our relatives at Mifflintown, Pa., in 1896, my mother said, ?Stop at York and look up my Reed records.? So we spent the night at the big new Colonial Hotel with its diningroom on the roof, and a beautiful view from its windows on every side. Our arrival was rather amusing. A just married couple boarded the train we were leaving, racing at full speed across the wide platform to escape the merry crowd showering them with rice. Entering the hotel Father took off his hat, and the rice flew far and wide; the clerk insisted on his taking the ?bridal suite?! The next morning we went to the Court House and there found all our people in innumerable deeds conveying land, a few of which I noted. I asked the clerk if there were any of the descendants of these numerous Reeds still about. ?Yes,? he said, ?I think there are quite a few over in Paradise? (which proved to be a village not far away). ?Oh, certainly,?
I replied, ?I am sure there are many of them in Paradise!? This he thought an immense joke, and to everybody who came in he would whisper it, with smiles in our direction.
I copied the following for its curious phrasing: ?June 2, 1796, Charles, Absolute Lord and Proprietor of Maryland and Avalon, Lord of Baltimore did grant and confirm 100 Acres then, Oct. 25, 1731, in Baltimore Co. now in Chanceford Township Pa. to Joseph Reed and conveyed Jan. 19, 1777 to John Hooper by Joseph Reed's heirs.? The ones that concern us are from Samuel Reed and Sarow, his wife, 100 acres in Chanceford Township to David Crawford, June 21, 1765. On April 14, 1789, James Reed, of Hamilton Bann Township, and Margaret, his wife, 175 acres to Benj. Reed, the same date, 175 acres to Wm. Reed, 175 acres to Thomas Reed, to John Reed 212 acres. We wonder why John got more. Three years later Wm. and ?Agness, his wife, called Nancy? deed ?the same property conveyed by James Reed and Margaret, his wife, April 14, 1789,? to Patrick M'Sherry. Samuel must have had his share before he moved to Martinsburg in Virginia, where he practiced law many years. My mother was told how he would come home from various courts with his saddle bags full of money! There were few banks in those days, and almost no roads. He was ?called out? as Colonel commanding troops in the ?Whiskey Rebellion? in 1794.
There were three daughters: Maria, the oldest, named for her Grandmother Kennedy, was much older than the others, and after her mother's early death, took charge of her father's household and ?raised the other two.? She married Alexander Cooper. They gave the land and much of the money to build the Presbyterian Church in Martinsburg. Mr. Cooper and Samuel Baker, who married her sister, Eliza, were the Elders.
When the church was rebuilt fifty years after their death, the church?not her relatives, none were left there?put in a large memorial window in remembrance of their loyal service. We only heard of it when it was all done. It is an honor I have never known duplicated. She was like a grandmother to my mother who was named for her. She had a great antipathy to cats, impossible to overcome. She was living at my grandmother's the winter my mother started to school. One day the teacher gave the child a kitten, to her great delight. ?But,? said her mother, ?you know Aunt Cooper cannot have a cat in the house.? ?Oh,? said little namesake, turning to the one who loved her so, ?O Aunt?but it is a little P'esbytemun tat?! She remembered the loss as the only hardship, from those dear hands always busy with kindness and indulgence to her. At the time of Cleveland's election, the Pantops Boys said to Baby Merle, ?You're a Democrat, aren't you?? ?No, Sir, I'se a P'esbyteyan.?
The second daughter, Eliza, married to Samuel Baker, was my grandmother. The third daughter was Margaret married to her cousin, James Brown?from her descend the ?Cousin E? of your childhood (Miss Eliza Watson Brown) the Youngs of Washington and the Taliaferros.
Wm. Reed and Nancy Miller had six children: Mary, the youngest, married James Wilson; her daughter, Jane, married Dr. John Paxton, of Princeton, their granddaughter is the wife of her cousin, Rev. James Paxton, D. D., of Lynchburg. The oldest of Wm. Reed's children was Judge John Reed, of Carlisle, Pa. A few months after my father was married, his mother went to visit her cousin, Mrs. John Reed, at Carlisle. Answering their interested inquiries about Edgar's bride, they found with pleasure that while Mrs. Reed was first cousin to the bridegroom's mother, Judge Reed was first cousin to the bride's mother. Already under the Brysons I have told of their granddaughter, Sarah Watts Rose. Her interest in family matters was ceaseless, and she gathered an immense quality of data. A visit I had once in her charming home in Mechanicsburg near Harrisburg, Pa., is an agreeable memory; and her daughter, Mrs. Cohen's cordial help in my own effort. I did not see Cousin Sarah's children: Mary Lee was married and at her own home, and Wm. Watts at West Point. He was a colonel in the World War. Another son of Wm., James Reed, married Eliz. Houston, from them the Whitakers of Wheeling, Merle's delightful hosts in her College days; and Mabel Brown, the brilliant lecturer in Woman's Clubs of Norfolk and Richmond.
From Mary Reed and James Stephenson are the Leverings, Boyds, Gillettes, Comptons and others.
From Sarah (grandmother Reed's namesake) and Wm. M'Kesson are the Taylors and Greenways of Baltimore, some of whom I used to meet in Washington at the D. A. R. Congress.
[1 tree]
a source for Floyd and Reed lines: KITH AND KIN, WRITTEN, AT THEIR URGENT REQUEST,
FOR THE CHILDREN OF MR. AND MRS. JOHN RUSSELL SAMPSON
BY THEIR MOTHER, RICHMOND, VA...THE WILLIAM BYRD PRESS, INC.
1922
http://people.virginia.edu/~rtg2t/kin/data/Kith.and.Kin.txt
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son Capt William Reed (1739-1813): Find A Grave Memorial# 70750722
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Descendants and/or DNA must clarify all.
Birth, marriage, death dates, and all remain speculative. Marriage year of 1730 was provided by Geneva Hunt, FIND A GRAVE ID 46628365.
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The article REMINISCENCES and supporting letters of Mr. William B. Reed, provided by Geneva Hunt, support burial of Mrs. Reed nee Floyd in Lower Marsh Creek Cemetery.
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THE FLOYD LINE
It can hardly be called a line, except as it runs through her descendants from Margaret, wife of Col. James Reed. For it is a short and tragic story. Her father had settled and built a home for his wife and five children; James, the oldest, was twelve, and Margaret seven when in the blackness of a dark night, the terrible war-whoop was heard. She remembered her father putting her on a horse behind her brother, James, telling them to ride for their lives, as he gave the horse a cut with his whip. He turned back to get his wife and the other children. Alas! too late. Every one was massacred by the Indians.
Except as she appears in the Record of Deeds in York Co., Pa., we know only her marriage to James Reed and the reverence and love in which her children bore her memory. Her brave heart spoke its God-speed to her husband, Col. Reed, her seven sons, five of them officers in the Continental Army; she committed them to God's care and told them, ?Never come home to me with a bullet in your back.?
The desire and effort to discover something of her brother, James, and his descendants has never been successful. The Floyds who were Governors of Virginia seems [sic] to have come into Virginia another way (Kith and Kin -RICHMOND, VA. - THE WILLIAM BYRD PRESS, INC., 1922).
THE REED LINE
Quite a colony of Reeds came together to ?Penn's Manor? before 1730, Scotch people from Ulster. Their names had been found as ?Landholders? on the Hamilton estate, and May 23, 1683, among ?Presbyterians of importance to be moved from Ulster to Munster because of political opinions,? we find James Reed, Andrew Reed, Sr., and Andrew Reed, Jr. It may have been this James Reed's sons, Samuel, Joseph and Wm., who came forty years after, tired of being ?moved? and otherwise harassed as ?Presbyterians of importance.? They decided to do the moving themselves! Samuel Reed and his wife, Sarah, had a son, James, who married Margaret Floyd; they had seven sons and two daughters. James was Colonel in the Revolutionary War, and had in his regiment his seven sons and two sons-in-law, James Stephenson and Wm. McKesson. We children always glowed with pride when told how Mother Margaret blessed her sons in farewell and told them ?never to come to her with a bullet in the back!? The Spartan mother was nothing in our comparison. The sons were James, Joseph, Benjamin, John, Samuel, Thomas, William; five were officers. Lieut. Samuel was afterwards Colonel in the War of 1912 [1812]; he married Anna Kennedy, and they are my great grandparents. When my father and I went to visit our relatives at Mifflintown, Pa., in 1896, my mother said, ?Stop at York and look up my Reed records.? So we spent the night at the big new Colonial Hotel with its diningroom on the roof, and a beautiful view from its windows on every side. Our arrival was rather amusing. A just married couple boarded the train we were leaving, racing at full speed across the wide platform to escape the merry crowd showering them with rice. Entering the hotel Father took off his hat, and the rice flew far and wide; the clerk insisted on his taking the ?bridal suite?! The next morning we went to the Court House and there found all our people in innumerable deeds conveying land, a few of which I noted. I asked the clerk if there were any of the descendants of these numerous Reeds still about. ?Yes,? he said, ?I think there are quite a few over in Paradise? (which proved to be a village not far away). ?Oh, certainly,?
I replied, ?I am sure there are many of them in Paradise!? This he thought an immense joke, and to everybody who came in he would whisper it, with smiles in our direction.
I copied the following for its curious phrasing: ?June 2, 1796, Charles, Absolute Lord and Proprietor of Maryland and Avalon, Lord of Baltimore did grant and confirm 100 Acres then, Oct. 25, 1731, in Baltimore Co. now in Chanceford Township Pa. to Joseph Reed and conveyed Jan. 19, 1777 to John Hooper by Joseph Reed's heirs.? The ones that concern us are from Samuel Reed and Sarow, his wife, 100 acres in Chanceford Township to David Crawford, June 21, 1765. On April 14, 1789, James Reed, of Hamilton Bann Township, and Margaret, his wife, 175 acres to Benj. Reed, the same date, 175 acres to Wm. Reed, 175 acres to Thomas Reed, to John Reed 212 acres. We wonder why John got more. Three years later Wm. and ?Agness, his wife, called Nancy? deed ?the same property conveyed by James Reed and Margaret, his wife, April 14, 1789,? to Patrick M'Sherry. Samuel must have had his share before he moved to Martinsburg in Virginia, where he practiced law many years. My mother was told how he would come home from various courts with his saddle bags full of money! There were few banks in those days, and almost no roads. He was ?called out? as Colonel commanding troops in the ?Whiskey Rebellion? in 1794.
There were three daughters: Maria, the oldest, named for her Grandmother Kennedy, was much older than the others, and after her mother's early death, took charge of her father's household and ?raised the other two.? She married Alexander Cooper. They gave the land and much of the money to build the Presbyterian Church in Martinsburg. Mr. Cooper and Samuel Baker, who married her sister, Eliza, were the Elders.
When the church was rebuilt fifty years after their death, the church?not her relatives, none were left there?put in a large memorial window in remembrance of their loyal service. We only heard of it when it was all done. It is an honor I have never known duplicated. She was like a grandmother to my mother who was named for her. She had a great antipathy to cats, impossible to overcome. She was living at my grandmother's the winter my mother started to school. One day the teacher gave the child a kitten, to her great delight. ?But,? said her mother, ?you know Aunt Cooper cannot have a cat in the house.? ?Oh,? said little namesake, turning to the one who loved her so, ?O Aunt?but it is a little P'esbytemun tat?! She remembered the loss as the only hardship, from those dear hands always busy with kindness and indulgence to her. At the time of Cleveland's election, the Pantops Boys said to Baby Merle, ?You're a Democrat, aren't you?? ?No, Sir, I'se a P'esbyteyan.?
The second daughter, Eliza, married to Samuel Baker, was my grandmother. The third daughter was Margaret married to her cousin, James Brown?from her descend the ?Cousin E? of your childhood (Miss Eliza Watson Brown) the Youngs of Washington and the Taliaferros.
Wm. Reed and Nancy Miller had six children: Mary, the youngest, married James Wilson; her daughter, Jane, married Dr. John Paxton, of Princeton, their granddaughter is the wife of her cousin, Rev. James Paxton, D. D., of Lynchburg. The oldest of Wm. Reed's children was Judge John Reed, of Carlisle, Pa. A few months after my father was married, his mother went to visit her cousin, Mrs. John Reed, at Carlisle. Answering their interested inquiries about Edgar's bride, they found with pleasure that while Mrs. Reed was first cousin to the bridegroom's mother, Judge Reed was first cousin to the bride's mother. Already under the Brysons I have told of their granddaughter, Sarah Watts Rose. Her interest in family matters was ceaseless, and she gathered an immense quality of data. A visit I had once in her charming home in Mechanicsburg near Harrisburg, Pa., is an agreeable memory; and her daughter, Mrs. Cohen's cordial help in my own effort. I did not see Cousin Sarah's children: Mary Lee was married and at her own home, and Wm. Watts at West Point. He was a colonel in the World War. Another son of Wm., James Reed, married Eliz. Houston, from them the Whitakers of Wheeling, Merle's delightful hosts in her College days; and Mabel Brown, the brilliant lecturer in Woman's Clubs of Norfolk and Richmond.
From Mary Reed and James Stephenson are the Leverings, Boyds, Gillettes, Comptons and others.
From Sarah (grandmother Reed's namesake) and Wm. M'Kesson are the Taylors and Greenways of Baltimore, some of whom I used to meet in Washington at the D. A. R. Congress.
[1 tree]
a source for Floyd and Reed lines: KITH AND KIN, WRITTEN, AT THEIR URGENT REQUEST,
FOR THE CHILDREN OF MR. AND MRS. JOHN RUSSELL SAMPSON
BY THEIR MOTHER, RICHMOND, VA...THE WILLIAM BYRD PRESS, INC.
1922
http://people.virginia.edu/~rtg2t/kin/data/Kith.and.Kin.txt
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son Capt William Reed (1739-1813): Find A Grave Memorial# 70750722
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Descendants and/or DNA must clarify all.
Born circa 1712 Margaret Floyd married James Reed/Reid circa 1830. From available material, the couple had seven sons and two daughters. Because wife Margaret Reed was mentioned in her husband’s will of 1796, perhaps she died sometime during or after that year. At one source, a short biography on her son James R. Reid, Mrs. Reed's maiden name was given as Ramsey: JAMES R. REID, THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, 1787-1788, BY WILLIAM H. EGLE, M.D.
Birth, marriage, death dates, and all remain speculative. Marriage year of 1730 was provided by Geneva Hunt, FIND A GRAVE ID 46628365.
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The article REMINISCENCES and supporting letters of Mr. William B. Reed, provided by Geneva Hunt, support burial of Mrs. Reed nee Floyd in Lower Marsh Creek Cemetery.
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THE FLOYD LINE
It can hardly be called a line, except as it runs through her descendants from Margaret, wife of Col. James Reed. For it is a short and tragic story. Her father had settled and built a home for his wife and five children; James, the oldest, was twelve, and Margaret seven when in the blackness of a dark night, the terrible war-whoop was heard. She remembered her father putting her on a horse behind her brother, James, telling them to ride for their lives, as he gave the horse a cut with his whip. He turned back to get his wife and the other children. Alas! too late. Every one was massacred by the Indians.
Except as she appears in the Record of Deeds in York Co., Pa., we know only her marriage to James Reed and the reverence and love in which her children bore her memory. Her brave heart spoke its God-speed to her husband, Col. Reed, her seven sons, five of them officers in the Continental Army; she committed them to God's care and told them, ?Never come home to me with a bullet in your back.?
The desire and effort to discover something of her brother, James, and his descendants has never been successful. The Floyds who were Governors of Virginia seems [sic] to have come into Virginia another way (Kith and Kin -RICHMOND, VA. - THE WILLIAM BYRD PRESS, INC., 1922).
THE REED LINE
Quite a colony of Reeds came together to ?Penn's Manor? before 1730, Scotch people from Ulster. Their names had been found as ?Landholders? on the Hamilton estate, and May 23, 1683, among ?Presbyterians of importance to be moved from Ulster to Munster because of political opinions,? we find James Reed, Andrew Reed, Sr., and Andrew Reed, Jr. It may have been this James Reed's sons, Samuel, Joseph and Wm., who came forty years after, tired of being ?moved? and otherwise harassed as ?Presbyterians of importance.? They decided to do the moving themselves! Samuel Reed and his wife, Sarah, had a son, James, who married Margaret Floyd; they had seven sons and two daughters. James was Colonel in the Revolutionary War, and had in his regiment his seven sons and two sons-in-law, James Stephenson and Wm. McKesson. We children always glowed with pride when told how Mother Margaret blessed her sons in farewell and told them ?never to come to her with a bullet in the back!? The Spartan mother was nothing in our comparison. The sons were James, Joseph, Benjamin, John, Samuel, Thomas, William; five were officers. Lieut. Samuel was afterwards Colonel in the War of 1912 [1812]; he married Anna Kennedy, and they are my great grandparents. When my father and I went to visit our relatives at Mifflintown, Pa., in 1896, my mother said, ?Stop at York and look up my Reed records.? So we spent the night at the big new Colonial Hotel with its diningroom on the roof, and a beautiful view from its windows on every side. Our arrival was rather amusing. A just married couple boarded the train we were leaving, racing at full speed across the wide platform to escape the merry crowd showering them with rice. Entering the hotel Father took off his hat, and the rice flew far and wide; the clerk insisted on his taking the ?bridal suite?! The next morning we went to the Court House and there found all our people in innumerable deeds conveying land, a few of which I noted. I asked the clerk if there were any of the descendants of these numerous Reeds still about. ?Yes,? he said, ?I think there are quite a few over in Paradise? (which proved to be a village not far away). ?Oh, certainly,?
I replied, ?I am sure there are many of them in Paradise!? This he thought an immense joke, and to everybody who came in he would whisper it, with smiles in our direction.
I copied the following for its curious phrasing: ?June 2, 1796, Charles, Absolute Lord and Proprietor of Maryland and Avalon, Lord of Baltimore did grant and confirm 100 Acres then, Oct. 25, 1731, in Baltimore Co. now in Chanceford Township Pa. to Joseph Reed and conveyed Jan. 19, 1777 to John Hooper by Joseph Reed's heirs.? The ones that concern us are from Samuel Reed and Sarow, his wife, 100 acres in Chanceford Township to David Crawford, June 21, 1765. On April 14, 1789, James Reed, of Hamilton Bann Township, and Margaret, his wife, 175 acres to Benj. Reed, the same date, 175 acres to Wm. Reed, 175 acres to Thomas Reed, to John Reed 212 acres. We wonder why John got more. Three years later Wm. and ?Agness, his wife, called Nancy? deed ?the same property conveyed by James Reed and Margaret, his wife, April 14, 1789,? to Patrick M'Sherry. Samuel must have had his share before he moved to Martinsburg in Virginia, where he practiced law many years. My mother was told how he would come home from various courts with his saddle bags full of money! There were few banks in those days, and almost no roads. He was ?called out? as Colonel commanding troops in the ?Whiskey Rebellion? in 1794.
There were three daughters: Maria, the oldest, named for her Grandmother Kennedy, was much older than the others, and after her mother's early death, took charge of her father's household and ?raised the other two.? She married Alexander Cooper. They gave the land and much of the money to build the Presbyterian Church in Martinsburg. Mr. Cooper and Samuel Baker, who married her sister, Eliza, were the Elders.
When the church was rebuilt fifty years after their death, the church?not her relatives, none were left there?put in a large memorial window in remembrance of their loyal service. We only heard of it when it was all done. It is an honor I have never known duplicated. She was like a grandmother to my mother who was named for her. She had a great antipathy to cats, impossible to overcome. She was living at my grandmother's the winter my mother started to school. One day the teacher gave the child a kitten, to her great delight. ?But,? said her mother, ?you know Aunt Cooper cannot have a cat in the house.? ?Oh,? said little namesake, turning to the one who loved her so, ?O Aunt?but it is a little P'esbytemun tat?! She remembered the loss as the only hardship, from those dear hands always busy with kindness and indulgence to her. At the time of Cleveland's election, the Pantops Boys said to Baby Merle, ?You're a Democrat, aren't you?? ?No, Sir, I'se a P'esbyteyan.?
The second daughter, Eliza, married to Samuel Baker, was my grandmother. The third daughter was Margaret married to her cousin, James Brown?from her descend the ?Cousin E? of your childhood (Miss Eliza Watson Brown) the Youngs of Washington and the Taliaferros.
Wm. Reed and Nancy Miller had six children: Mary, the youngest, married James Wilson; her daughter, Jane, married Dr. John Paxton, of Princeton, their granddaughter is the wife of her cousin, Rev. James Paxton, D. D., of Lynchburg. The oldest of Wm. Reed's children was Judge John Reed, of Carlisle, Pa. A few months after my father was married, his mother went to visit her cousin, Mrs. John Reed, at Carlisle. Answering their interested inquiries about Edgar's bride, they found with pleasure that while Mrs. Reed was first cousin to the bridegroom's mother, Judge Reed was first cousin to the bride's mother. Already under the Brysons I have told of their granddaughter, Sarah Watts Rose. Her interest in family matters was ceaseless, and she gathered an immense quality of data. A visit I had once in her charming home in Mechanicsburg near Harrisburg, Pa., is an agreeable memory; and her daughter, Mrs. Cohen's cordial help in my own effort. I did not see Cousin Sarah's children: Mary Lee was married and at her own home, and Wm. Watts at West Point. He was a colonel in the World War. Another son of Wm., James Reed, married Eliz. Houston, from them the Whitakers of Wheeling, Merle's delightful hosts in her College days; and Mabel Brown, the brilliant lecturer in Woman's Clubs of Norfolk and Richmond.
From Mary Reed and James Stephenson are the Leverings, Boyds, Gillettes, Comptons and others.
From Sarah (grandmother Reed's namesake) and Wm. M'Kesson are the Taylors and Greenways of Baltimore, some of whom I used to meet in Washington at the D. A. R. Congress.
[1 tree]
a source for Floyd and Reed lines: KITH AND KIN, WRITTEN, AT THEIR URGENT REQUEST,
FOR THE CHILDREN OF MR. AND MRS. JOHN RUSSELL SAMPSON
BY THEIR MOTHER, RICHMOND, VA...THE WILLIAM BYRD PRESS, INC.
1922
http://people.virginia.edu/~rtg2t/kin/data/Kith.and.Kin.txt
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son Capt William Reed (1739-1813): Find A Grave Memorial# 70750722
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Descendants and/or DNA must clarify all.
Birth, marriage, death dates, and all remain speculative. Marriage year of 1730 was provided by Geneva Hunt, FIND A GRAVE ID 46628365.
-------
The article REMINISCENCES and supporting letters of Mr. William B. Reed, provided by Geneva Hunt, support burial of Mrs. Reed nee Floyd in Lower Marsh Creek Cemetery.
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THE FLOYD LINE
It can hardly be called a line, except as it runs through her descendants from Margaret, wife of Col. James Reed. For it is a short and tragic story. Her father had settled and built a home for his wife and five children; James, the oldest, was twelve, and Margaret seven when in the blackness of a dark night, the terrible war-whoop was heard. She remembered her father putting her on a horse behind her brother, James, telling them to ride for their lives, as he gave the horse a cut with his whip. He turned back to get his wife and the other children. Alas! too late. Every one was massacred by the Indians.
Except as she appears in the Record of Deeds in York Co., Pa., we know only her marriage to James Reed and the reverence and love in which her children bore her memory. Her brave heart spoke its God-speed to her husband, Col. Reed, her seven sons, five of them officers in the Continental Army; she committed them to God's care and told them, ?Never come home to me with a bullet in your back.?
The desire and effort to discover something of her brother, James, and his descendants has never been successful. The Floyds who were Governors of Virginia seems [sic] to have come into Virginia another way (Kith and Kin -RICHMOND, VA. - THE WILLIAM BYRD PRESS, INC., 1922).
THE REED LINE
Quite a colony of Reeds came together to ?Penn's Manor? before 1730, Scotch people from Ulster. Their names had been found as ?Landholders? on the Hamilton estate, and May 23, 1683, among ?Presbyterians of importance to be moved from Ulster to Munster because of political opinions,? we find James Reed, Andrew Reed, Sr., and Andrew Reed, Jr. It may have been this James Reed's sons, Samuel, Joseph and Wm., who came forty years after, tired of being ?moved? and otherwise harassed as ?Presbyterians of importance.? They decided to do the moving themselves! Samuel Reed and his wife, Sarah, had a son, James, who married Margaret Floyd; they had seven sons and two daughters. James was Colonel in the Revolutionary War, and had in his regiment his seven sons and two sons-in-law, James Stephenson and Wm. McKesson. We children always glowed with pride when told how Mother Margaret blessed her sons in farewell and told them ?never to come to her with a bullet in the back!? The Spartan mother was nothing in our comparison. The sons were James, Joseph, Benjamin, John, Samuel, Thomas, William; five were officers. Lieut. Samuel was afterwards Colonel in the War of 1912 [1812]; he married Anna Kennedy, and they are my great grandparents. When my father and I went to visit our relatives at Mifflintown, Pa., in 1896, my mother said, ?Stop at York and look up my Reed records.? So we spent the night at the big new Colonial Hotel with its diningroom on the roof, and a beautiful view from its windows on every side. Our arrival was rather amusing. A just married couple boarded the train we were leaving, racing at full speed across the wide platform to escape the merry crowd showering them with rice. Entering the hotel Father took off his hat, and the rice flew far and wide; the clerk insisted on his taking the ?bridal suite?! The next morning we went to the Court House and there found all our people in innumerable deeds conveying land, a few of which I noted. I asked the clerk if there were any of the descendants of these numerous Reeds still about. ?Yes,? he said, ?I think there are quite a few over in Paradise? (which proved to be a village not far away). ?Oh, certainly,?
I replied, ?I am sure there are many of them in Paradise!? This he thought an immense joke, and to everybody who came in he would whisper it, with smiles in our direction.
I copied the following for its curious phrasing: ?June 2, 1796, Charles, Absolute Lord and Proprietor of Maryland and Avalon, Lord of Baltimore did grant and confirm 100 Acres then, Oct. 25, 1731, in Baltimore Co. now in Chanceford Township Pa. to Joseph Reed and conveyed Jan. 19, 1777 to John Hooper by Joseph Reed's heirs.? The ones that concern us are from Samuel Reed and Sarow, his wife, 100 acres in Chanceford Township to David Crawford, June 21, 1765. On April 14, 1789, James Reed, of Hamilton Bann Township, and Margaret, his wife, 175 acres to Benj. Reed, the same date, 175 acres to Wm. Reed, 175 acres to Thomas Reed, to John Reed 212 acres. We wonder why John got more. Three years later Wm. and ?Agness, his wife, called Nancy? deed ?the same property conveyed by James Reed and Margaret, his wife, April 14, 1789,? to Patrick M'Sherry. Samuel must have had his share before he moved to Martinsburg in Virginia, where he practiced law many years. My mother was told how he would come home from various courts with his saddle bags full of money! There were few banks in those days, and almost no roads. He was ?called out? as Colonel commanding troops in the ?Whiskey Rebellion? in 1794.
There were three daughters: Maria, the oldest, named for her Grandmother Kennedy, was much older than the others, and after her mother's early death, took charge of her father's household and ?raised the other two.? She married Alexander Cooper. They gave the land and much of the money to build the Presbyterian Church in Martinsburg. Mr. Cooper and Samuel Baker, who married her sister, Eliza, were the Elders.
When the church was rebuilt fifty years after their death, the church?not her relatives, none were left there?put in a large memorial window in remembrance of their loyal service. We only heard of it when it was all done. It is an honor I have never known duplicated. She was like a grandmother to my mother who was named for her. She had a great antipathy to cats, impossible to overcome. She was living at my grandmother's the winter my mother started to school. One day the teacher gave the child a kitten, to her great delight. ?But,? said her mother, ?you know Aunt Cooper cannot have a cat in the house.? ?Oh,? said little namesake, turning to the one who loved her so, ?O Aunt?but it is a little P'esbytemun tat?! She remembered the loss as the only hardship, from those dear hands always busy with kindness and indulgence to her. At the time of Cleveland's election, the Pantops Boys said to Baby Merle, ?You're a Democrat, aren't you?? ?No, Sir, I'se a P'esbyteyan.?
The second daughter, Eliza, married to Samuel Baker, was my grandmother. The third daughter was Margaret married to her cousin, James Brown?from her descend the ?Cousin E? of your childhood (Miss Eliza Watson Brown) the Youngs of Washington and the Taliaferros.
Wm. Reed and Nancy Miller had six children: Mary, the youngest, married James Wilson; her daughter, Jane, married Dr. John Paxton, of Princeton, their granddaughter is the wife of her cousin, Rev. James Paxton, D. D., of Lynchburg. The oldest of Wm. Reed's children was Judge John Reed, of Carlisle, Pa. A few months after my father was married, his mother went to visit her cousin, Mrs. John Reed, at Carlisle. Answering their interested inquiries about Edgar's bride, they found with pleasure that while Mrs. Reed was first cousin to the bridegroom's mother, Judge Reed was first cousin to the bride's mother. Already under the Brysons I have told of their granddaughter, Sarah Watts Rose. Her interest in family matters was ceaseless, and she gathered an immense quality of data. A visit I had once in her charming home in Mechanicsburg near Harrisburg, Pa., is an agreeable memory; and her daughter, Mrs. Cohen's cordial help in my own effort. I did not see Cousin Sarah's children: Mary Lee was married and at her own home, and Wm. Watts at West Point. He was a colonel in the World War. Another son of Wm., James Reed, married Eliz. Houston, from them the Whitakers of Wheeling, Merle's delightful hosts in her College days; and Mabel Brown, the brilliant lecturer in Woman's Clubs of Norfolk and Richmond.
From Mary Reed and James Stephenson are the Leverings, Boyds, Gillettes, Comptons and others.
From Sarah (grandmother Reed's namesake) and Wm. M'Kesson are the Taylors and Greenways of Baltimore, some of whom I used to meet in Washington at the D. A. R. Congress.
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a source for Floyd and Reed lines: KITH AND KIN, WRITTEN, AT THEIR URGENT REQUEST,
FOR THE CHILDREN OF MR. AND MRS. JOHN RUSSELL SAMPSON
BY THEIR MOTHER, RICHMOND, VA...THE WILLIAM BYRD PRESS, INC.
1922
http://people.virginia.edu/~rtg2t/kin/data/Kith.and.Kin.txt
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son Capt William Reed (1739-1813): Find A Grave Memorial# 70750722
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