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Subject: Re: [MAINE] Janice -Thank You - Transcription Andrew Reed
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:38:46 -0400 (EDT)
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In my previous email, I mentioned that to this day, I still carry on
Andrew's son's given name (David), as did my gg-grandfather and my
gggg-grandfather.

But Ishould also mention that my father, and HIS grandfather, carried on a
similar name... Dermont Arlington Reed. The initials are the same
(D.A.R.), but I'm curious, is there a greater significance to the given
name "Dermont Arlington", as both my father and g-grandfather had that
name?

Does it exist in this line somewhere else?

-David Reed
Rockport, Maine




>
> Janice... my sincere thanks to you for the transcription of information
> about Andrew Reed, my 6th ggf. I have read this particular section before,
> but am
> always amazed by the hardships they endured during these early years.
>
> I've always wished I knew more about Andrew and Jean (Murray) Reed's life
> before they came to America. A few years ago, I traveled to Northern
> Ireland
> knowing that most of the records were destroyed by fire, but it was
> wonderful
> seeing the towns they may have known.
>
> Thank you for all the time you spend gathering information for us.
>
> Carol Reed Kennedy
> Arizona
>
> <<<In a message dated 10/2/2007 11:13:11 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
> writes:
>
> p.284 COLONEL ANDREW REED.
> Colonel Andrew Reed came from Antrim County, Ireland, and settled at
> Boothbay about 1731. He
> was of English descent, although his family had lived in the north of
> Ireland some years previous to his emigration to America. He was a man
> of marked
> character, resolute in the performance of every duty, and a devoted and
> strict Presbyterian.
>
> During the raids of hostile Indians upon Boothbay, when Colonel Reed was
> an
> old man, the
> inhabitants at the Harbor, withdrew to the westward for safety. Colonel
> Reed sent his
> family to Boston, but in defiance of all persuasion, remained alone all
> winter in the simple shelter of the log cabin. Contrary to expectation
> the
> returning fugitives
> found him alive and unharmed in the spring, and to their excited
> enquiries,
> he calmly replied
> "Why should I?" cried the old man, "I was not alone. I had my Bible and
> my
> God."
>
> His wife was Jane Murray, whom he married in Ireland, and whose nephew
> was
> the Rev. John
> Murray, first minister to the Presbyterian church at Boothbay, Maine.
> Colonel Andrew and Jane
> (Murray) Reed had sons:
> 1. John Reed
> 2. Henry Reed
> 3. William Reed
> 4. Andrew Reed, Jr.
> 5. Joseph Reed
> 6. David Reed
> 7. Paul Reed who married Marjory Beath.
>
> He died 1763.
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