Reed

14 May 1740	Orange County Deed Bk 4, p. 9	William Reed, b. ca 1695, purchased 200 acres on the southwest side of Opequon Creek. The Transactio was witnessed by David Vance & Huch Gilder. Willaim paid Jost Hite 12# for the land, part of Hite's original patent of 5,018 acres.
14 Nov 1749	Northern Neck Grants, H-2	William was deceased by 14 November 1749 when his widow Mary was appointed administrator of his estate in Frederick County. On 19 June 1751 Mary received a Fairfax grant for 100 acres adjacent south of the 210 acres tract. She paid 4#, 10 schillings for the survey and deed.
6 May 1755	Frederick County, VA Will Book 2, p. 158	Mary was deceased by 6 May 1755 when her will (dated 11 December 1754) was proved in Frederick County Court. She bequeathed 50 acres each from the 100 acre tract grant land to her youngest wons William and Jonathan. Her husband William had willed the 200 acres to their eldest son John and daughter Martha, wife of Samuel Givens (b.ca 1720). Mary appointed her brother, Robert Allen to serve as executor.
2 Dec 1778	Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys, Frederick Co, VA, Vol. III, Joyner	John's brother Jonathon assigned the 206 acres to him on 31 March 1773 and he received a Fairfax grant for it on 2 December 1778. ***
22 Mar 1738/39	Orange Co. VA Court Bk 1, p. 439	William Reed and Robert Allen petitioned the Orange Co. Court for a road from Jost Hites's Mill to Ashby Bent. They were ordered by the Court to clear the road.

***John Reed, as the eldest son of William and Mary and heir-at-law, claimed both tracts of land by law of inheritance. (A widow can sell inherited land, grant land or purchased land, but cannot bequest land since it is her possession only for so land as she lives.) So John was able to claim the original grant of 200 acres his father left him PLUS the 100 acres Mary had bequeathed to William and Jonathan, her two youngest sons.

Jonathan¹ Reed was born circa 1740. Jonathan died 16 Feb 1788 in Loudoun Co., VA. Line of Nancy, Doris, Dolores,

He married Susannah (Unknown) Abit circa 1782. Susannah was born circa 1750. She married Mr. Abit circa 1768. Susannah died after 1791.

1787 CENSUS OF VIRGINIA - LOUDOUN CO, VA, by Schreiner-Yantis & Love: List "B" - 2nd Battalion- Dist. of William Ginnel, Comish:

Reed, Jonthan                           self      0     1     4       2     2
Reed, Stephen                          self       0     0     0       3     3
Reed, Cornelius                        self      0     0     0       2     8

Foster, Aron charged to Stephen Reed
also a William, Jacob, James, Daniel, William and Joseph Reed

Abstracts of Will, Inventories and Administrtion Accounts of Loudoun Co., VA 1757-1800, J. Esteele S. King, Baltimore, 1984.

Will of Jonathan Reed - Will Book C - p. 150: Made, 16 Feb. 1788; Proved, Jan. Court, 1791

Wife: Susannah Reed, Legatees: grandson Jonathan Reed (son of Stephen), Jobe (or John) Abit (son of wife), sons Andrew, Cornelius and Stephen Reed. Daughters, Martha Poulton, Eunus (Eunice), Naomi, and Elizabeth Reed, Charity Phillips and her children - Sarah, Benjamin and Nancy Phillips, Exrs: sons Cornelius and Stephen Reed, Wit: Thomas Marks, Richard Roach John Poulton.

Jonathan Reed and Susannah (Unknown) Abit ? (unsure if Susannah was mother of these children - but have not found another wife for Jonathan) had the following children:

7. Charity² Reed (Jonathan¹) birth date unknown.
Charity Reed and ?? Phillips had the following children:

9. Elizabeth² Reed (Jonathan¹) was born before 1788. Elizabeth died circa 1829 in Warren Co., KY.
She married Ephraim Carter in Loudoun Co., VA, 25 Dec 1809.