Friday, August 11, 2017

52 Ancestors - Week 187: #266 Nathan Reed (1719-1802) of Woburn and Marlborough, Massachusetts

Nathan Reed (1719-1802) is #266 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandfather, who married #267 Susannah Wood (1724-1780)  in 1743 in Boston, Massachusetts.


I am descended through:

*  their daughter, #133 Susanna Reed (1745-1833) who married #132 Simon Gates (1739-1803) in 1766.
*  their son #66 Nathan Gates (1767-1830)  who married #67 Abigail Knowlton (1774-1855)  in 1790.
*  their daughter #33 Abigail Gates (1797-1867) who married  #32 Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825) in 1817.
*  their son #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) who married #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884) in 1851.
*  their son #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) who married #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) in 1874.
*  their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
   
*   Name:                     Nathan Reed[1–14]    
*  Sex:                         Male   

*  Father:                     Ebenezer Reed (1690-1767)   
*  Mother:                   Huldah Blodgett (1689-1777)  

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*   Birth:                    3 January 1718/9, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1]    
*  Deed:                     3 September 1743 (age 24), received land in Woburn from his father; Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[4]   
*  Deed:                     11 March 1744 (age 25), Josiah and Ruth Wood children sold estate of Josiah and Ruth Wood to Edward Wood and Solomon Wood for £315; Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[5]   
*  Deed:                     21 February 1746 (age 27), Nathan Reed sold land in Woburn to George Reed for £220; Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[6]   
*  Deed:                     24 February 1746 (age 27), Nathan Reed sold 2 parcels of land in Woburn to Eliphaz Reed for £260; Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[7]   
*  Deed:                     30 March 1747 (age 28), Nathan Reed bought 4 parcels of land in Marlborough from Lydia How, et al for £600; Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[8]   
*  Deed:                     13 April 1752 (age 33), Nathan Reed sold 10 acres of land to Joseph Stow Jr. in Marlborough for £13 6s 8d; Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[9]   
*  Deed:                    17 April 1753 (age 34), Nathan Reed sold 3 acres in Marlborough to Benjamin Taynter for £22 6s; Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[10]   
*  Deed:                    18 March 1754 (age 35), Nathan Reed sold 10 acres of land in Marlborough to Ebenezer Dexter for £34; Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[11]   
*  Deed:                    15 July 1760 (age 41), Nathan Reed bought 7 acres of land in Marlborough from John Gould for £29 6s 8d; Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[12]   
*  Deed:                    3 April 1762 (age 43), Nathan Reed bought a piece of land in Marlborough from Eliakim How for £; Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[13]   
*  Death:                  8 October 1802 (age 83), Washington, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States[14]   
*  Burial:                 after 8 October 1802 (after age 83), Old Cemetery, Washington, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States[14]  

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*   Spouse 1:           Susannah Wood (1724-1780)    
*  Marriage 1:         9 February 1742/3 (age 24), Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States[2–3]   
*  Child 1:               Nathan Reed (1744-    )   
*  Child 2:               Susanna Reed (1745-1833)  

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):


Nathan Reed was born 3 January 1718/9 in Woburn, Massachusetts, the third child of Ebenezer and Huldah (Blodgett) Reed of Woburn[1]

He married Susannah Wood, daughter of Josiah and Ruth (Walker) Wood of Woburn,  on 9 February 1742/3 in Boston, Massachusetts[2-3].  They had two children in 1744 and 1745.

On 3 September 1743, Nathan Reed of Woburn, husbandman, received two parcels of land in Woburn, valued at £50, from his father, Ebenezer Reed of Woburn, yeoman, for love, good will and fatherly affection[4].  One parcel was 1/2 acre with a house, bounded by a road, the brook and a wall.  The second parcel was 5 acres of land bounded by the road, a wall, and a fence.  The deed was recorded 19 September 1748.

On 11 March 1744, Ruth Wood (the wife and guardian of her husband, Josiah Wood), John Wood, Nathan and Susanna Reed, all of Woburn, Benjamin and Ruth Nutting of Medford, and Joseph Wood of Lunenberg, deeded the whole personal and real estate of Josiah and Ruth Wood to Edward Wood and Solomon Wood, both of Woburn, for £315[5].  No information about the bounds, the size of the property, the size of the estate, or the distribution of funds was included.  The deed was recorded on 6 July 1747.  Nathan and Susannah (Wood) Reed probably received one fourth (four children as grantors) of two thirds (the wife probably received one third) of the proceeds from this deed, or about £52 10s. 

 On 21 February 1746, Nathan Reed of Woburn, yeoman, sold the "Slowe Ground" in Woburn to George Reed for £220[6].  The land was bounded by a country road, a stone wall and land of Nathan Reed, George Reed, and Ebenezer Reed.  The deed was recorded 17 March 1746.

On 24 February 1746, Nathan Reed of Woburn, yeoman, sold two parcels of land in Woburn to Eliphaz Reed of Woburn, husbandman., for £260 old tenor[7].  One parcel was one half acre bounded by a country road, a stone wall, and another road.  The second parcel was half acre bounded by a country road, and lands of George Reed, Ebenezer Reed, and grandfather George Reed.  The deed was recorded 17 March 1746.

On 30 March 1747, Nathan Reed of Woburn, yeoman, bought four parcels of land in Marlborough from Lydia How, Bezaleel How, and Charles How, all  of Marlborough, Joseph and Lucy Hale of Stow, Eliakim How, and Isaac and Prudence How, of Worcester County, for £600 old tenor[8].  The first parcel was 50 acres of land, bounded by lands of John Bruce, Abram Williams, John Gould, and a lane to Gould's house.  The second parcel was 9 acres of upland and meadow, bounded by a ditch, and lands of James Wood, Joseph Taynter and John Gould.  The third parcel was 14 acres of swamp land, bounded by a highway, town land, and land of John Gould.  The fourth parcel was 20 acres of land west of the sawmill, bounded by lands of Nathan Rice, Charles How, common land, and a highway.  The deed was recorded 10 April 1755.

On 13 April 1752, Nathan Reed of Marlborough, yeoman, sold 10 acres of land in Marlborough to Joseph Stow Jr. of Marlborough, yeoman, for £13 6s 8d[9].  The parcel was bounded by the road from Marlborough to Lancaster, and land of Charles How.  The deed was recorded 16 May 1753.

On 17 April 1753, Nathan Reed of Marlborough, yeoman, sold 3 acres and 7 rods of upland and meadow in Marlborough to Benjamin Taynter of Marlborough, yeoman, for £22 6s[10].  The parcel was bounded by lands of Joseph Taynter, James Woods and Nathan Reed.  The deed was recorded 25 March 1754.

On 18 March 1754, Nathan Reed of Marlborough, husbandman, sold 10 acres of land in Marlborough to Ebenezer Dexter of Marlborough, physician for £34 lawful money[11].  The parcel was bounded by the way to Captain Barnard's, lands of Joseph how Jr., Samuel Stevens Jr., Kendall Pearson, Nathan Rice and Andrew Rice.  The deed was recorded 7 March 1759.

On 15 July 1760, Nathan Reed of Marlborough, yeoman, bought 7 acres of land in Marlborough from John Gould of Marlborough, husbandman, for £29 6s 8d[12].  The parcel was bounded by the Indian Land Line, the lands of Nathan Reed, Thomas Joslin, the heirs of Hezekiah Bush, and a Marlborough ministerial lot  The deed was recorded 7 July 1764.

On 3 April 1762, Nathan Reed of Marlborough, yeoman, bought a piece of land in Marlborough from Eliakim How of Marlborough, husbandman, for £25 lawful money[13].  The parcel was bounded by Capt. Barnard's rad, a ditch, Nathan Reed's own land and John Gold's land.  The deed was recorded 7 July 1763.

There are more deeds in Middlesex County, Massachusetts for Nathan Reed in Marlborough after 1780.  

Susannah (Wood) Reed died on 16 October 1780 in Marlborough, and was probably buried there.  

At some time between 1780 and 1802, Nathan Reed removed to Washington, Sullivan county, New Hampshire, where he died on 8 October 1802[14].  

He is buried in the Old Cemetery in Washington, New Hampshire[14].  The gravestone inscription says:

Nathan Reed
died October 8, 1802
aged 84 years
& 9 months

5.  SOURCES
 
1. Edward F. Johnson,  Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths [5 Volumes], (Woburn, Mass.: The News Print, 1893), Volume 1, Births, page 205, Nathan Reed entry.

2. Edward W McGlenen, Boston Marriages from 1700 to 1809 (Baltimore, Md. : Genealogical Publishing Company, 1977), page 342, Nathan Reed and Susannah Wood entry.

3. “Boston Church Records,” online database. American Ancestors (http://www.AmericanAncestors.org), citing The Records of the Churches of Boston. CD_ROM. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002), Trinity Church, page 168, Nathan Reed and Susannah Wood entry.

4. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org), Middlesex County, Volume 43, page 513, Ebenezer Reed to Nathan Reed, 3 September 1743, recorded 19 September 1748.

5. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Middlesex County, Volume 46, page 319, Nathan and Susanna Reed et al to Edward and Solomon Wood, 11 March 1744, recorded 6 July 1747.

6. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Middlesex County, Volume 46, page 162, Nathan Reed to George Reed, 21 February 1746, recorded 17 March 1746.

7. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Middlesex County, Volume 46, page 17, Nathan Reed to Eliphaz Reed, 24 February 1746, recorded 17 March 1746.

8. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Middlesex County, Volume 53, page 154, Lydia How et al to Nathan Reed, 30 March 1747, recorded 10 April 1755.

9. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Middlesex County, Volume 52, page 69,  Nathan Reed to Joseph Stow Jr., 13 April 1752, recorded 16 May 1753.

10. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Middlesex County, Volume 52, page 367,  Nathan Reed to Benjamin Taynter, 17 April 1753, recorded 25 March 1754.

11. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Middlesex County, Volume 55, page 592,  Nathan Reed to Ebenezer Dexter, 18 March 1754, recorded 7 March 1759.

12. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Middlesex County, Volume 62, page 327,  John Gould to Nathan Reed, 15 July 1760, recorded 7 July 1764.

13. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Middlesex County, Volume 62, page 328,  Eliakim How to Nathan Reed, 3 April 1762, recorded 7 July 1764.

14. Jim Tipton, indexed database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com), Old Cemetery, Washington, N.H., Nathan Reed memorial #33676321.

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NOTE:  Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post Challenge:  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2017 to 208 Ancestors in 208 Weeks.


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