Eliakim REED

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While Eliakim was on a visit to his brother James in Amenia he bought of Isaac Delamater, for "nine hundred and thirteen pounds of good and lawfull money of the Province of New York," a farm of two hundred acres. He then returned to Norwalk and sold his farm of forty acres which he owned there, and moved to the new field in 1773, where he soon afterward purchased about forty acres more.

In the settlement of his estate after Eliakim's death this farm was purchased by his son Ezra, the price being as follows: 160 acres at $30. per acre, and seventy-five acres at $22.50 per acre; $6,487.50. After Ezra's death his son, Newton Reed purchased the farm for ten thousand dollars. After Newton's death, his son, HenryVan Dyck Reed, the present occupant, purchased the farm at nine thousand dollars, and on it have been born the ninth generation of reeds in America.

Eliakim married Sarah RICHARDS on 16 Jun 1748. Sarah was born on 24 Jun 1727 in Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut; died on 8 Jun 1795 in Amenia, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ezra REED was born on 3 Aug 1765 in Norwalk, Connecticut; died on 31 Jul 1852 in Amenia, New York.

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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.

Daniel married Elizabeth KELLOGG about 1719. Elizabeth (daughter of Joseph KELLOGG and Sarah PLUMB) was born on 5 Oct 1703; died on 13 Apr 1764. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]