Reproductions of the title pages in the Old and New Testament, as they ancestor. This Bible was 6 inches wide. 9 inches long, and 1 inches thick. at one time appeared in the "Great Bible," so called, of Thomas Chaffe, the The binding was originally embossed leather G William Allen of Cazenovia, N. Y., died there, aged seventy-seven years. He married Abigail Dill, who also died there, aged seventy-nine years. Mr. Allen was a small man, while his wife was a large, fleshy woman. During the Revolution they lived in New Jersey, where their home was burned by the British. Their daughter Susan remembered hearing them tell how the British officers broke up their furniture for a fire to cook food. Children: i William Allen, Jr., born in New Jersey, July 15, 1803; died in Cazenovia, November 3, 1865; married, May 12, 1827, Alma Holmes, born March 2, 1796, died April 23, 1864. Child: Eunice Masters Allen, born in Cazenovia, October 8, 1828; died there, Child: Annie Allen Blair, born in Cazenovia, May 17, 1862; unmarried; residence, Cazenovia. ii Susan Allen, born September 17, 1805; married Joseph Manning Chaphe (1653). Seven other daughters, names unknown. H William Reade of England married Lucy Henage and had: William Reade, Jr., born in England, 1605, supposed to be the man of that name who came to America in 1635 and married Avis Deacon, a fellow passenger to America. Children: i William Reade, Jr., born in Weymouth, Mass., October 15, 1639. ii Esther Reade, born in Weymouth, May 8, 1641. iii Thomas Reade. +iv John Reade, born in 1649; married (1) Bashua v Mary Reade, married Thomas Dyer. ; (2) Bethia Frye. vi Margaret Reade, died May 6, 1659; married John Vining. John Reade, Jr., born in Weymouth, 1649, and died in Dighton, Mass., January 13, 1720. He married (1) Bashua 1730. Child, by first wife: ; (2) Bethia Frye, who died October 20, +i John Reade, Jr., born June 5, 1674; married Bethia Cobb. Children, by second wife: ii William Reade, married Mary Richmond. iii Thomas Reade, married Sarah Tisdale. iv George Reade, married Sarah Whitmarsh. v Mary Reade, married Joseph Atwood. vi Ruth Reade, married Captain Joseph Tisdale. vii Hannah Reade, married Josiah Talbot. John Read, born in Weymouth, June 5, 1674, and died in Barrington, Mass., 1739. He married Bethia Cobb. His will, dated June 6, 1739, mentions all the children given below and directs that his land in Willington, Conn., shall be divided between his sons, William and John. +ii John Read, born August, 1701; married Lydia or Elizabeth Caswell. iii George Read, born May, 1704; married Abigail iv William Read, born in Swansea, Mass., February 28, 1712-13; married Elizabeth Wood of Rehoboth, Mass. v Bethia Read, a twin, born in Swansea, February 28, 1712-13; married Nathan Watson. John Reed, born, probably in Taunton, Mass., August, 1701, and married, October 7, 1733 (?), Lydia (Elizabeth) Caswell. In 1733 he was living in Willington, Conn., where he was still living, October 25, 1751, when he bought eighty acres of land in Tolland, Conn. February 13, 1756, he was living in Tolland when he gave to his son Shubael, for love and affection, a piece of land there. Children, born in Willington: i Mathew Reed, born May 16, 1735. ii Abigail Reed, born July 18, 1737. iii Shubael Reed, born September 27, 1738; married (1) Mary Taylor; (2) Hannah Chaffee. iv Mary Reed, born August 31, 1740. v Hannah Reed, born October 31, 1741; married Thomas Chaffee (135). vi Anna (Ann) Reed, born July 17, 1744. vii Huldah Reed, born April 11, 1747. Shubael Reed, born in Willington, September 27, 1738, and died in Tolland, September 22, 1790. He married (1), there January 1, 1758, Mary Taylor of Colchester, who died July 10, 1767. He married (2) Hannah Chaffee (136), under whose lineage is given the names of his children by her and further biographical items regarding him. Children, by first wife, born in Tolland: i Matthew Reed, born May 26, 1759. +ii Samuel Reed, born October 16, 1760; married (1) Lydia Pearce; (2) Mrs. Roxana (Rawdin) Crandall. iii Rachel Reed, born April 1, 1763. iv Mary Reed, born October 4, 1764. v Grace Reed, a twin, born October 4, 1764; married Iram Grant. vi Annie Reed, born April 18, 1766; married William Ripley. Samuel Reed, born in Tolland, October 16, 1760, and died there, July 25, 1851. He married (1) in Tolland, June 22, 1781, Lydia Pearce of Scituate, R. I., where she was born 1761. She died in Tolland, March 7, 1808, and he married (2) June 2, 1810, Mrs. Roxana (Rawdin) Crandall, born April, 1773, died January 23, 1847. Samuel Reed had a light complexion, blue eyes, broad shoulders and a heavy voice. He was often jokingly called "John Bull." He served in the Revolution in Captain John P. Wyllis' company and at the time of his death was the last Revolutionary soldier in Tolland. In 1832 and 1840 he was a pensioner, in Tolland. The Record Division of the Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C., gives the following as his military record: "Enlisted, September, 1777, as a substitute for his father, as a private under Captain Johnson, in the Conn. Militia; service two months. Enlisted May, 1778, for six months as a minute man under Captain Elijah Robinson, Colonel Enos (Conn.). Enlisted September, 1779, for two months, as a private, Captain Wood. Was six weeks on board a privateer, name not stated, and was in a battle. Enlisted June 1, 1780, for six months, as a private, Captain Shipman, Colonel Hoyt (Conn.). Applied for pension August 3, 1832. Claim allowed. Pension issued March 23, 1833. Residence at enlistment and at time of application for pension, Tolland, Conn." He was a member of the Baptist Church and his first wife of the Methodist Church. He and both his wives are buried in Tolland, where he had lived all his life. The last years he lived with his son Samuel. Children, by first wife, born in Tolland: i Delana Reed, born January 9, 1782; died in Tolland, September 7, 1823; +ii Alexander Reed, born December 8, 1784; married Abigail Daniels. iv Sally Reed, born January 12, 1789; died in Cincinnati, O.; married Holbrook. v Ephraim Reed, born February 10, 1791; died in Tolland, May 28, 1832; unmarried. |