Eliakim REED

1725 - 1810  (85 years)

• Name	Eliakim REED  [1]
  	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. [1]
  Birth	18 Sep 1725	Norwalk, Connecticut   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	28 Oct 1810	Amenia, New York   [1]
  Person ID	I86789	Main Tree
  Last Modified	3 Nov 2016

  
  

  Father	Daniel REED,   b. 13 Jun 1697, Norwalk, Connecticut d. 1775, Norwalk, Connecticut (Age 77 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Elizabeth KELLOGG,   b. 5 Oct 1703   d. 13 Apr 1764 (Age 60 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	Abt 1719  [1]
  Family ID	F35709	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah RICHARDS,   b. 24 Jun 1727, Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Connecticut d. 8 Jun 1795, Amenia, New York (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	16 Jun 1748  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Ezra REED,   b. 3 Aug 1765, Norwalk, Connecticut d. 31 Jul 1852, Amenia, New York (Age 86 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F35711	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Nov 2016

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - 28 Oct 1810 - Amenia, New York  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S8840] Charles E. Benton, Ezra Reed and Esther Edgerton, Their Life and Ancestry.