Friday, August 18, 2017

52 Ancestors - Week 188: #267 Susanna (Wood) Reed (1724-1780) of Woburn and Marlborough, Massachusetts

Susanna (Wood) Reed (1724-1780) is #267 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandmother, who married #266 Nathan Reed (1719-1802) 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:                    Susanna Wood[1–4]
*  Alternate Name:     Susanna Reed[5–7]  

*  Sex:                         Female
*  Father:                    Josiah Wood (1687-1753)
*  Mother:                  Ruth Walker (1692-1752)  
 
2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                     6 March 1724, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1]   
*  Deed:                     11 March 1744 (age 20), Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[5]
*  Death:                    16 October 1780 (age 56), Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[6–7]    
*  Burial:                    after 16 October 1780 (after age 56), Spring Hill Cemetery, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[6]   
  
3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):   
  
*  Spouse 1:               Nathan Reed (1718-1802)   
*  Marriage 1:            9 February 1742/3 (age 18), Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States[2–4]   
*  Child 1:                 Nathan Reed (1744-    )   
*  Child 2:                 Susanna Reed (1745-1833)   
  
4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):   

Susanna Wood was born 6 March 1724 in Woburn, Massachusetts, the seventh child and second daughter of Josiah and Ruth (Walker) Wood of Woburn[1].

She married Nathan Reed on 9 February 1742/3 in Trinity Church in Boston, Massachusetts[2-4].  Susanna and Nathan had only two children, Nathan and Susanna, born in 1744 and 1745.

Susanna's father, Josiah Wood, was declared non compos mentis in 1736.  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 estate, both personal and real, of Josiah and Ruth Wood to Edward Wood and Solomon Wood, both of Woburn, for £315[5].  Edward and Solomon Wood were brothers of Susanna (Wood) Reed.

The Nathan Reed family resided in Woburn until about 1747 when Nathan Reed bought land in Marlborough, Massachusetts.

Susanna (Wood) Reed died 16 October 1780 in Marlborough[7].  She is buried in Spring Hill Cemetery in Marlborough[6].  The gravestone inscription says:

Susanna Reed
wife of
Mr. Nathan Reed
died Oct 16 1780
in the 57th year
of her age.

5)  SOURCES  

1. Edward F. Johnson,  Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths [5 Volumes], (Woburn, Mass.: The News Print, 1893), Births, page 280, Susanna Wood entry.

2. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Boston > Church Marriages, 1751-1761, image 29 of 61, Nathan Reed and Susanna Wood marriage entry, 1742.

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 Susanna Wood entry.

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

5. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org :, 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. Jim Tipton, indexed database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com), Spring Hill Cemetery, Marlborough, Mass., Susanna Reed memorial #33408874.

7. Franklin P. Rice (editor), Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Boston, Mass. : Franklin P. Rice ,1908), Deaths, page 383, entry for Mrs. Susanna Reed, wife of Nathan, in 57th year.

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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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