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Supply Reed was born 9 September 1754 at Middlesex, Massachusetts, a son of Captain John Reed(e) born 1712 at Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts; and Mary Pierce, born 1692, at Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts. John Reed married Susanna Byam 7 June 1781, at Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Susanna was born 18 March 1760 at Middlesex, Massachusetts.
Supply Reed and Susanna Byam Reed had the following children: Supply III (1784-1789), John William (1783-1846), Susanna Roys (1785-1845), Tillison (1787-1836), Judith (1789-1845), Patty (1793-1866), Mahala (1795-1795), Sally (1797-1815), Mahala Currier (1795-1872), Mahala (1798-1872), Lucinda (1801- ), and Parker Reed (1803-1803).
Supply Reed’s military service was at the state of Massachusetts. In 1775, he was a Private in Colonel Moses Parker’s Regiment, and marched on the Alarm of 19 April 1775 to Lexington. Lexington and Concord were the first battles of the Revolution. Records show Private Reed, from Acworth, was assigned to Captain Pollard and Colonel Jackson of the Massachusetts Regiment. In 1777, Reed was assigned to Captain John Ford’s Company of Volunteers in Colonel Johnathon Reed’s Regiment. This Company was most likely created at Dracut, Chelmsford and Dunstable, and marched to reinforce the Northern army. All three of these towns were located at Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Supply Reed was on the six months’ list of men who were received and returned by Justin Ely, Commissioner, from Springfield. He was also on the six months’ list of men to reinforce the Continental Army, received by Brigadier General John Glover, at Springfield in 1780. He represented the Town of Chelmsford, and marched to camp in 1780 under the command of Ensign Bancraft. He received Revolutionary War Pension *S17043, and records identify a Notice of Return dated 9 January 1777, of the Corps of Artificers, Continental Troops, from Chelmsford.
At the conclusion of his military service, in 1780-1781, Supply and Susanna moved to Acworth, New Hampshire. Their children were born at New Hampshire. Acworth, New Hampshire is approximately 25 miles east of the Vermont-New Hampshire border, and 45 miles south of Hanover, New Hampshire. Supply Reed would build a saw-mill on the Cold River, which his son, Supply Reed, Jr., would later own. The Cold River is a 22 mile tributary of the Connecticut River at New Hampshire.
Jacob Whittemore Reed would write the following passage in his book titled The Reed Family in Europe and America, describing the founding men of Acworth, Middlesex County, Massachusetts: “Whatever may be said of their imperfections, or faults, no town was ever settled by a more intelligent, industrious, energetic, patriotic, virtuous class of men than they.” Among the list of men included in this description was Supply Reed.
Supply Reed died 18 March 1847 at Sullivan, New Hampshire, and was buried at Acworth Cemetery, Acworth, New Hampshire. Susanna Byam Reed died 26 December 1831 at Sullivan, New Hampshire and is buried at Acworth Cemetery, Acworth, New Hampshire.
References:
1. Massachusetts Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850.
2. Fold3.
3. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War, Vol. 13, Pg. 94.
4. Fold3, Revolutionary War Pension *S17043.
5. Fold3, Corps of Artificers, Continental Troops for Supply Reed.
6. Reed, Jacob Whittemore (1861). The Reed Family In Europe and America. John Wilson and Son. Boston.
7. New Hampshire, Death and Disinterment Records, 1754-1947.
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