Ebenezer Reed (1690-1767) is number 532 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandfather, who married #533 Huldah Blodgett (1689-1777) in 1714 in Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
I am descended through:
* their son #266 Nathan Reed (1719-1802) who married #267Susanna Wood (1724-1780) in 1743.
* their son #132 Simon Gates (1739-1803) who married #133 Susannah Reed (1745-1833) 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: Ebenezer Reed[1–6]
* Sex: Male
* Father: George Reed (1660-1756)
* Mother: Abigail Pierce (1660-1719)
2) INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Birth: 6 March 1689/90, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1–2]
* Deed: 11 March 1716 (age 26), bought land from Samuel Blodgett Jr.; Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3]
* Deed: 1 March 1719 (age 28), father gave land to Ebenezer Reed; Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[4]
* Deed: 3 September 1743 (age 53), gave land to son Nathan Reed; Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[5]
* Death: 9 July 1767 (age 77), Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1,6]
3) SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Spouse 1: Huldah Blodgett (1689-1777)
* Marriage 1: about 1714 (about age 24), probably Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1]
* Child 1: Ebenezer Reed (1715- )
* Child 2: Huldah Reed (1717-1775)
* Child 3: Nathan Reed (1718-1802)
* Child 4: Abigail Reed (1721-1806)
* Child 5: George Reed (1723-1804)
* Child 6: Eliphaz Reed (1726-1776)
4) NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
Jacob Whittemore Reed's book, History of The Reed Family In Europe and America, has a brief sketch of Ebenezer Reed of Woburn, Massachusetts[1].
Ebenezer Reed was born 6 March 1689/90 in Woburn, Massachusetts, the son of George and Abigail (Pierce) Reed of Woburn[1-2].
He married Huldah Blodgett (1689-1777) in about 1714, probably in Woburn, but there is no marriage record available[1,6]. She was the daughter of Samuel and Huldah (Simonds) Blodgett. They had six children, all recorded in the Woburn town records:
* Ebenezer Reed (1715-1789), married 1777 to Ruth Snow (1735-????)
* Huldah Reed (1717-1775).
* Nathan Reed (1719-1802), married 1743 Susanna Wood (1724-1780).
* Abigail Reed (1721-1806), married 1752 Aaron Mason (1717-1799).
* George Reed (1723-1804), married 1746 to Mary Wood (1726-1775).
* Eliphaz Reed (1726-1776), married (1) 1747 Elizabeth Perry (1729-1752), (2) 1753 to Sarah Newell (1732-1777).
On 11 March 1716, Ebenezer Reed bought 3 acres of meadow land in Woburn from Samuel Blodgett, Jr. for 12 pounds[3].
On 8 December 1719, George Reed, yeoman, gave his loving and dutiful son Ebenezer Reed, yeoman, a deed for his 40 acre farm, dwelling house and barn in Woburn[4].
In 1724, John and Elizabeth Hall sold 9 acres of meadow in Woburn to Ebenezer Reed, yeoman, for 42 pounds; Jacob Kendall sold Ebenezer Reed, yeoman, about 8 acres of land in Woburn with a dwelling house and barn for 140 pounds; Samuel Walker sold Ebenezer Reed, yeoman, 3 acres in Woburn for 20 pounds; George Reed, sold Ebenezer Reed, yeoman, 9 acres of land in Woburn for 55 pounds. These parcels were adjacent to or near Ebenezer's land in Woburn.
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. 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[5].
Ebenezer Reed died 9 July 1767 in Woburn, Massachusetts[1,6]. There is no burial record available for him or Huldah. There are no probate records available for him or Huldah.
5. SOURCES
1. Jacob Whittemore Reed, History of The Reed Family In Europe and America (Boston, Mass. : John Wilson and son, 1861), page 105, Ebenezer Reed sketch.
2. Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths [5 Volumes], (Woburn, Mass.: The News Print, 1893), Volume 1, Births, page 204, Ebenezer Reed birth entry, 1690.
3. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org) Middlesex County, Volume 21, page 11, Samuel Blodgett Jr. George Reed to Ebenezer Reed, 11 March 1716, recorded 8 December 1719.
4. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Middlesex County, Volume 21, page 10, George Reed to Ebenezer Reed, 1 March 1716, recorded 8 December 1719.
5. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Middlesex County, Volume 43, page 513, Ebenezer Reed to Nathan Reed, 3 September 1743, recorded 19 September 1748.
6. Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Marriages and Deaths [5 Volumes], Volume 2, Deaths, page 154, Ebenezer Reed death entry, 1767.
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