Person:William Reid (34)

Notes from the Descendants of Adam Reid by Jonni Sue Jessup:

About 1812, William and several of his brothers moved to the thennewly-opened frontier settlements of Preble County, Ohio. The outbreakof the war between the United States and Great Britain in 1812 broughtthe threat of Indian raids to the Ohio frontier and Reid was one of the63 Preble county settlers who served as privates in the Militia Companyorganized and commanded by Capt. Daniel Rex between April 3 and October3, 1813. The company was stationed at Fort Nesbitt, a temporary borderfortress in Preble County, built in the summer of 1812 by Capt. JamesNesbitt, in whose militia company William Reid's older brother, Adam, hadserved as a private. Served as a garrison soldier at Fort Nesbitt, in1812...said fort, a stockade, was located in the northwest corner ofPreble County.

In 1836, William Reid and his family which included his son-in-law, JamesWright, removed to newly organized Fulton County, Indiana.

Reid bought government land for his sons Daniel and Matthew M., andretained for himself a farm described in his will. At his death, thisfarm was divided between his two younger daughters, Nancy, wife of JosiahOsborne and Sarah, wife of William Emmons...his eldest daughter,Margaret, wife of James Wright, receiving a monetary settlement in lieuof land.

1. ↑ Cindy Standfest <cstandfest@my.amigo.net>. Rootsweb WorldConnect Project: Standfest and DuCharme and All Ancesters.
2. ↑ Jonni Sue Jessop Schilaty <Jonnialogy@aol.com>. Descendants of Adam Reid.
3. ↑ Jonni Sue Jessop Schilaty <Jonnialogy@aol.com>. Descendants of Adam Reid.
4.   Jonni Sue Jessop Schilaty <Jonnialogy@aol.com>. Descendants of Adam Reid.