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- ↑ Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Danvers, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1901-1910)
Vol. 2, p. 245.
REED, Jona[than] [Jotham, int.], of Woburn, and Abigail Marium, Apr. 1, 1787.
- Johnson, Edward F. Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages . (Woburn, Massachusetts: Andrews, Cutler & Co., 1890-1919)
Vol. 3, p. 222.
Jonathan [sic] Reed of Woburn and Abigail Merriam of Danvers, at Danvers, April 1, 1787.
[Also, Intentions, Vol. 10, p. 142: Mr. Jotham Reed, of Woburn, and Miss Abigail Marion, of Danvers, Feb. 17, 1787.]
- FHL film 0421500, in Massachusetts. Probate Court (Middlesex County). Probate records, 1648-1924. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1964-1967).
From Case 18556 "Abigail Reed & al": 1 Sep 1806: Affadavit of John Walker that he properly sold land of "Abigail Reed & Mary Reed Children of Jotham Reed late of Greenfield in the State of New hampshire Deceased and Grand Children & heirs at law by right of representation of their said Father Jotham Reed to George Reed late of s'd Burlington Deceased". One piece sold to Eben'r Reed, one piece sold to Simeon Reed.
From Case 18557 "Catharine Read & al 1805": 9 Jan 1806: Petition of Nathan Simonds of Woburn as guardian of "Catharine Kendall Reed, Jotham Reed, Jacob Reed, George Reed & Jesse Reed minors" to sell "five sevenths parts of twelve acres of land, lying in Burlington ... which descended to them from George Reed late of said Burlington, yeoman deceased". Approved. Sold to Ebenezer Reed and Simeon Reed.
- ↑ Lyndeborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States. 1790 U.S. Census Population Schedule
p. 293, line 10350, 1790.
Lyndeborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States: Jotham Read; free white males of 16 years and upwards including heads of families (1); free white males under 16 (0); free white females, including heads of families (3)
- One of the better candidates for the wife of Jotham by age is Abigail Marion, d/o Ignatius, whose birth is recorded in Woburn 20 Mar 1760 and whose baptism is recorded in Burlington (i.e., the second precinct of Woburn) on 30 Mar 1760. It is not clear why she is called of Danvers in the marriage record. Several of her brothers were known as Merriam. Source:Stearns, Ezra S. History of Ashburnham Massachusetts from the Grant of Dorchester Canada to the Present Time, 1734-1886 with a Genealogical Register, p. 820, says that Abigail, d/o Ignatius, "d. unmd. in Francestown, NH". One is inclined to doubt the "unmarried" part, because one of the few mentions of Jotham Reed is in a 1791 petition with neighbors asking their land to be annexed to this same Francestown (Source:Cochrane, W. R. History of Francestown, N.H., from Its Earliest Settlement, April 1758, to January 1, 1891, p. 130). Their co-location in the same area, given the names in the marriage record, seems a little too coincidental.
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