Reids, Pendelton District, SC and Iredell-Rowan, NC - reid
Subject: Reids, Pendelton District, SC and Iredell-Rowan, NC
From: reid
Date: April 11, 2000

Some raw information from land and other records from North and South Carolina:

Census of 1790 Iredell County, NC:  
 
                        male 16+       male< 16       female        free        slaves
John Reed            4                    1                   4            -                1
John Reed, Jr       1                                         1                             1


Iredell County, NC, Will Book I:401 - John Reed, 9 Nov 1816, probated Feb 1817.  Wife:  Mary.  Sons:  James, David, John, Alexander, Samuel, George.  Daughters:  Margaret Dobbins and Mary Beggarly.  Witnesses:  Abner Caldwell, Isaac Green, Joseph Summers.

Iredell County, NC, Will Book I-TO3 - Jean Ramsey, 9 June 1790: "Whole estate to be divided equally between my grandchildren, Sarah Reid, Jno Reid, James Reid and Jean Reid."  Executor:  none.  Witness:  James Wilson.

Iredell County, NC, Will Book B:359-60-61, 15 May 1795 David Hogshead to John West for 103 pounds, 41 acres situated on the north side of Fourth Creek adjacent Adam Allison's line and Robert Matthew's line.  ORIGINALLY PART OF 364 ACRES GRANTED TO ALEX REID, SR., BY THE EARL OF GRANVILLE, 2 May 1753.  Then by last will and testament 7 Jan 1775, to Alex Reid, Jr.  (Possibly indicates the year Alexander Reid arrived in Rowan County, NC.)

Rowan County, NC, Will Book 10:494, 14 May 1786, Thomas Bell, blacksmith, to John Green for 75 pounds, 100 acres adjacent George Lock and John Reid part of a tract where the said Bell now lives.  Witnesses:  Thomas Prather, John Reed, John Reed, jr. Proved November court 1786.
 
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Charter members of the Bethany Presbyterian Church, Iredell County, NC, from the Session Book at Presbyterian Archives, Montreat, NC.

Andrew Reid, George Reid, John Reid, John Archibald, James Hall, Robert King, James McCreary, Joseph Wasson, Thomas Archibald, William Archibald, Isabella Bailey, David Beaty, Thomas Beaty, Thomas Bell, John Bone, Thomas Bone, William Bone, David Caldwell, David Cooper, John Dobbins, Benjamin Dobson, Joseph Dobson, Hugh Hall, Thomas Hall, William Hall, Robert Hardin, Francis Holmes, Andrew Kilpatrick, James King, John King, George Locke, David Logan, Samuel Love, John McConnell, William McConnell, James McHargue, John McWhorter, Andrew Morrison, John Morrison, Jacob Nichols, John Nisbet, Henry Potts, John Roseborough,William Roseborough, William Sharpe, Adam Simonton, Robert Smith, Ninian Steele and Nathan Todd.

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From a letter dated 20 November 1920 from the US Department of Interior, Bureau of Pensions, to Mrs. G. T. Russell, Washington, DC.  

"In reply to your letters, of June 26 and September 6, 1920, which were forwarded to this bureau, from the General Land Office, for a reply you are advised that the records of this bureau show that John Reid/Reed entered the service as a substitute for his son Andrew and served as a private in Captain James Thompson's company of South Carolina militia from 23 January 1814 to 28 May 1814.  He married in Rowan County, NC, in September 1790 Mary Hardin and he died in Pendleton District, SC, 14 November 1818.  His widow was allowed bounty land on her application executed 25 November 1850 at which time she was 82 years old and resided in Gwinnett County, GA, with Henry W. Inzer, whose relationship to her is not stated.  (He was her son-in-law.)  Her daughter, Phoebe H. Inzer, lived in Gwinnett County, GA, in 1850."


Bob




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