Daniel REED

1697 - 1775  (77 years)

• Name	Daniel REED  [1]
  	Daniel Reed was a man of considerable distinction in the community of Norwalk where he spent his whole life, and was mentioned in some writings as a tall man. Indeed, the Reeds have always been called a tall race. About the year 1720 he built a substantial house on the farm conveyed to him by his father, about sixty rods northeast of the original house built by Capt. John Reed, and a portion of it was standing as late as 1882, when it was visited by Newton Reed. It was here that he found many of the records of the reed Family in the keeping of the descendants. After wife, Elizabeth Kellogg died, he remarried on December 13, 1764 to Susanna Weed. "Wife Susanna," of this old-age marriage, is mentioned in his will, which was made February 8m 1774, and probated January 1, 1776. [1]
  Birth	13 Jun 1697	Norwalk, Connecticut   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1775	Norwalk, Connecticut   [1]
  Person ID	I86786	Main Tree
  Last Modified	24 Feb 2023

  
  

  Father	John REED, Jr.,   b. Rhode Island d. Bef 26 Oct 1724
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Elizabeth TUTTLE,   b. 19 Nov 1666, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	28 Mar 1687  [1, 2]
  Family ID	F10454	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth KELLOGG,   b. 5 Oct 1703   d. 13 Apr 1764 (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1719  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Eliakim REED,   b. 18 Sep 1725, Norwalk, Connecticut d. 28 Oct 1810, Amenia, New York (Age 85 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F35709	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Nov 2016

  
  

  Family 2	Susanna WEED   d. Aft 1776
  Marriage	13 Dec 1764  [1]
  Family ID	F35710	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Nov 2016

  
  

• Sources

  [S8840] Charles E. Benton, Ezra Reed and Esther Edgerton, Their Life and Ancestry. [S02419] Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, (Name: Name: Clearfield Company, Inc.;;), 76-3279.