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The Priors are poss. of Tewkesbury (Eng.) origin. Rev. William Phelps Prior, 1. in T. (see Phelps Gen.), says that in T. "the PRIORs, with the exception of my brother Frederick, who was twice mayor of T., were always on the wrong side in politics. Both families { Phelps and Prior] were respectable townspeople and land- owners, nothing more." John Stoughton's Account Book mentions (1740) Nathan- iel Pryor of Indtickl.
Marriagex - George, m. Juliana Watson, 18 Mch .. 1839 .- S. B. Horace, m. Charlotte Chapin, 5 June, 1821 .- S. B. Horace, mn. Marilla Parsons, ? Mch., 1840 .- S. B. Harvey, Jr., m. Louisa Bancroft, 10 Sept., 1835 - S. B. John (or Tryon), m. Rachel Bush, both of Enfield, 13 Sept. 1739.
Deaths Call from S. B., except one, from E. W. C. R.)- Allen, d. 30 Aug., 1885, a. s. Betsy, 1. 26 Sept., 1817, æ. 20. Charlotte, d. 25 Apl., 1839, æ. 42. Delia, d. N Sept., 1818, æ. 7. Fanny, d. 27 June, 1897, a. 38. Fanny (au. Horace). d. 5 Sept., 1835, æ. 3. George, d. 2 May, 1846, æ. 80. George, wid of, d. 16 Sept., 1850, æ. 83. Jerusha, d. 16 Apl., 1825, a. 29. John, d. 12 May, 1840, w. 76. John's son, d. 26 Meh., 1729 (E. W. C. R.); poss. John. Sen. Lovinia, <1. 14 Nov., 1831, a. 12. Nathan Pease, d. 12 Sept .. 1841. :. 29. Selina, d. 29 Sept., 1809. æ. 24. William, ch. of, d. 11 Nov., 1850, æ. 3 mos. Ch. of Win. d. 4 Nov . 1848, æ. 2. Wid., d. 20 Feb., 1812, æ. 89.
PRUDDEN, P., m. Laura Porter, 26 May, 1819 .-. S. B.
PURCHAS, Joan, wid. of Jolin, an orig. ppr. of HIifd., m. (2) 29 Oct., 1616, Nich. Palmer of W .. and d. 16 Apl., 1683. Of her two dans, by Purchas, viz., Mary and Elizabeth, the latter m., before 17 Dec., 1663, Richard Case, who calls him- self, on that date, "of W."- Htfd. Co. Mem. Hist.
RAMSDELL, George, the wife of, bp. 1 July, 1832 .- S. B.
RANDALL, Goodman Philip, a member of Dorchester Ch. (O. C. R.); freeman al 1. 1633, and juror, 1634; one of first at W., where he came with the Wenham party and where he had land 1640 (see p. 165, Vol. 1); bu. 26 Sept., 1645. The "old Wid. Randall, Si year old," who d. 1665, net. to O. C. R. and Col. Her., which latter gives the exact date, 24 Aug., was prob. his wid. Who the Phillura, whod. 6 May. 1662 (Col. Rec. et 0. ('. R.), was, we do not know; it may be Philip. O. C. A. rec. the vr. of death, but the name reads more like Philura. Children :
1. Philura, In. George Phelps.
2. Abraham, received gr. of Id., 1610 thre p. 165. Vol. D), evidence that he had then attained his majority: m. (1) Mary Ware, 8 Dec., 1640, the Introthul sermon being preached by Rev. Mr. Warham (wer P'reface. p. H. Vol. Ii, from text Eph. vi. 2. on the 17 Nov. preceding. O. C. R. ways of them, in 1674. " Now. Th. fr since 34 years, and lund no child," his wife d. July 8.
to W. ch. 6 Ang .. 1645. 0.0.R. Hem. 122; \pl .. 1681. Elizabeth (wid. of John Kirby of Middh. town, J'onn .. who had d. 1677. Ab'm R. was a ju- ror, 1650; d. $1 Ang .. 169) ( Od Re ): 1 .. ₺140. no ch. : his principal legater was his cousin Abra ham is. George) Phelps, wh he had adopted when a child. Isaac Phelps of Westhich aud Jusepl: Phelps of W. rer'd small legacies.
Ichabod, of E. W., m. Betsey Griffin of Enf., 17 Dec., 1807 .- Eng. Ch. Her.
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RAWSON, Mr., child of, d. 6 Apl., 1828, x. 4 .- S. B.
RAYMOND, Sam'l, had Anna. b. 10 Nov., 1744; Anne, bp. 10 Aug., 1766 .- W.C.R.
REED. This revision has profited much by the co-operation of three cousins, all of whom have died since the printing of this work began, viz .: HENRY WATSON, Esq., of Northampton, Mass .; his bro., Dr. et Prof. SERENO WATSON of Cambridge, Mass. ; and their cousin, Rev. JULIUS A. REED, D.D., of Davenport, Iowa. The genealogy of this fam., as given in our first edition (1859), was reprinted in the Ilist. Reed Family, 1861, by J. WHITMORE REED. Mr. FRANK PALMER has also furnished some MIS. errata and corrections made from the Norwich (Conn.) Town Rec. and whi. he found inserted in a copy of the above work in the library of the New England Gen. Hist. Soc. at Boston, Mass.
Josiah $ (s. JJosiah,4 s. Josiah,3 who m. Grace Halleway of Marshfield, Mass., 1666, s. Josiah2 of New London, * 1652, s. John 1 and Sarah of Rehoboth), b. Apl., 1668; m. Elizabeth Amsden (or Amsdale) 3 July, 1697, who d. 23 May, 1749; he d. 9 .Jan., 1752 (F. P. M/S.); prob. res. Ell .- J. A. R. Children :
1. Isaac. b. 30 Apl., 1690; prob. the Isaac spoken of (Why. ('h. Rec.) as of " No. Windsor." who had Frederic, b. 22 Nov., 1751 (Isaac and Fred'e, s. of Isane R., bp. 5 Sept., 1756 .- W. C. R.); and prob. also the same I, who had, by wife Dinah, Elijah, bp. 20 May, 1761; Martin, bp. 7 Dec., 1706 .- N. S. R.
2. Jacob, b. 1 Feb., 1702; d. 25 May, 1774; tres. in Ell. J. 1. R.)
3. David. b. 17 JJune, 1703. FAM. 2.
4. Josepb, b. 1707 8; (d. 21 Apl., 1674, in orth yr .; bn. with bro. Jacob in Ell .- J. . I. R.)
5. John (mentioned with bro. Joseph in Reed Gen.) 6. William (possibly).
FAM. 2. David 4 (Josiah,3 Josiah,? John.1 ), m. Hannah (dau. Edward and Abigail Baulch) Raynesford of Rehoboth, 22 Mch., 1733. Iler parents came from near London, Eng., and sett. at R., where she was b. 7 Aug., 1706; they sett. Ell., where he d. suddenly 9 Mch., 1763; she d. 19 Nov., 1799 (E. W. C. R.); gravestone (E. II'. O.) gives 1800, and æ. 93. (h .:
1. Ebenezer. b. 22 Mch., 1734. FAM. 3. was an off. in Rev. Army; imprisoned in British 2. David. sett. at New Marlboro, Mass .; res. on old Albany Rond. Issue : 1. Augusta. 3. Reuben. prison-ship, The Old Jersey, but ret. home to die. Ilis wid. m. (2) Eliphalet Chapin of So. W., 18 June, 1778; bad a dan. Nancy, who m. Stephen Cole, Manchester, Conn. 2. Eliphalet. | 2 daughters.
3. Elizabeth, b. 25 May, 1451; m. Jonathan Al- vord of W.
.1. Josiah. FAM. 1.
5. Abijah, m. Anne White ; res. Canterbury, ('t .;
6. Charity, m. Stephen Gibbs.
[7. Abigail, ¿ ment, in 1st edit. as members of this 8. Hannab, i fam. seem to be apochrypbal (E.R.S.)}
FAM. 3. Ebenezer 5 (Darid, + Josiah, 3 Josiah,2 John 1 ), m. (1) Mary (dau. Elijah and Mary, dau. of Joseph Loomis) Fitch, 6 Dec., 1759; she b. 25 Apl., 1744; d. 11 Nov., 1174, in 31st year (E. W. O.); (2) Elizabeth (dan. of James and widow of Zebulon Thompson) Barrett, 1 Nov., 1781. lle d. 11 Mch., 1818. - II. W. His pastor, Rev. Thomas Robbins (who puts his death as on 10th), speaks of him as " my aged and good neighbor." She d. 8 Feb., 1816. - J. A. R. Ch. (bp. E. W. C. R.) :
1. Justus, b. 17 Oct., 1260. FAM. 5. 8) May, 1767; bp. same mo. FAM. G. 4. Abner (Dea.), b. 11, bp. 17 (J. A. R., but 16 acc. to E. W. C. R.) Nov., 1771. FAM. 7.
2. Chloe. b. 1, bp. 10 June, 1761; m. Chas. May, 20 (or 26) Ang., 1788, and d. 26 .Jan., 1796, . 31. See May.
3. Elijah Fitch (Dr.), b. 13 (11. and Fam. Rec. say
5. Jernsha, b. 10, bp. 15 Ang., 1973; d. 2 Mch., 1777, in 4th year. - E. I. O.
FAM. 4. Josiah3 (Darid,4 JJosiah,3 Josiah,? JJohn1), m. about 1750, prob. Elizabeth (a sister of Lieut, and dan. of Capt. Benjamin and - Ladd) Pinney of Ell .; she d. Oct., 1805, at Ell. Children :
1. Lovisa, the " Vicy " Reed. ach. bp. IF and d. 20 | Dec., 1798. - E. W. C. R.
2. Horare (Dr.), b. 15 May, 1270. FAM. S. 3. Roswell, d. inf.
* J. I. R. doubts if there were three Josiahs. The memorandum furnished by Dr. Sereno Watson gives
three. It is true that the time allowed from John, who came to Dorchester. 1630. ren :. to Rehoboth, 1612, when 30 years old, to Darid, b. 1703. six yes, after his father's marriage, is rather scant, yet not impossible -for two or three marriages at age of 21 would suffice, and I am disposed to hold on to the three. H. I.
The three children of David unnamed, in the Norwich record, were doubtless born after the removal of David to Ellington; some of them are buried there. - 21. W.
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FAM. 5. Justus$ (Eben., 5 Durid,4 Josiah, 3 JJosiah,2 John 1), m. (1) 9 Dec., 1729, Sarah (dan. Elisha and Sarah Wolcott) Steele, b. 29 Apl., 1729, who d. 15 July, 1290, it'. 61 (2. 11. O.); (2) 9 Dec., 1791, at E. Htfd., Lucina (sister of Roswell) Elmer, b. at. ES. 11., 10 Oct., 1760; d. 20 Feb., 1816; (3) 7 Aug., 1816, Widow Lydia Burn- ham, b. 27 Sept., 1783; d. 11 June, 1858; he d. Torrington, Conu., 11 Oct .. 1846; bu. at So. W .; was at one time a finner, and also a shoemaker. Ch. (by Ist mar.): M .. b. 5 Apl., 1850; d. 21 Ang., 1855: (2) Cornelius Darwin, h. 18 Der .. 149.
1. Mary (" Polly "). b. 17. bp. 23 Dee., 1751; m. 19 Jan., 1806, Allen Loomis of Torringford, (t., 1. 2 Sept. 1751: d. 26 Feb., 1841; she d. 23 (ht .. 1553. Issue :
I. du-ins Read ( Lammnl), b. 20 Feb., 1807 ; m. Re- brera Judson, Feb .. 1931; res, Plymouth, Conn .: s. p.
2. Philo Allen ( Loomis). b. 4 Apl .. 1809; 11, 21 Ort .. 1835, Mary Am Watson ; d. 1813. Now Britain, Conn ; had (1) Luther. b. 15 Nov .. 1837; d 9 July. 193: (2) Philo .Allen, Jr., h. Jan., 1861; res. C'entre Hill. Barkhamsted, et.
3. Mary Ann (Loomis), b. 25 .1pl .. 1811: m. Hez. 11. Brace, 21 Apl .. 1533: d. 14 Apl .. 1880: had (0) ,Juliella M. Brare). b. If July, 1-35: (*) Ellen .1. (Brace), b. 28 Jan .. 1:38; d. 2 Mch., 1839: (3) . inf. (Brace). b. and d. 28 TY.b., 1810; (44) Henry M. (Brave). b. 17 Ang .. 1811: d. 14 May, 1831: (5) Eller A. (Brace), h. 23 Nov., 1413: 1. 2 .pl .. 1862. Ralph Fos- ter ; (6) form lin F. (Braer). b. 3 Feb. 1846; m. 19 Oct .. 14/6. Frank .1. Steele ; (*) wi- lie II. (Brace), h. g> Oct., 1851 : 4. 16 Jan .. 1852. 1. Timothy W. (Loomis), h. 11 Sept. 1813: 1. 23 Nov .. 1440. Chloe Riley : had (1) Charles 1//.». b. 26 Feb .. 1812: in 16 .Apdl .. 1863, Lydia M. Parker ; he d. 24 June. 1-63.
5. Rnhamah Roberts (Loomis). b. 1 Dec., 1813; m. Shelby Smith, and d. 4 Mph .. 1885, at So. Ridge. Ashtabula Co., Ohio: bad (1) Jnalux C. (Smith), b. Sept. 1843: (2) Hattie .M. (Smith). m. Nathaniel M. Buck of Mecca. Trumbull ('o., Ohio.
6. Elizabeth Loring (Loomis, b. 25 May, 1818: m. Maro S. Reed (consin), IF Nov., 2-41; d. 12 May. 1572: -. D.
". Cornelius Darwin (Loomis). b. 23 JJnne. 1×20; m. Eliza MI. Loomis, Sept., 1815; had (1) Ida
8. William Harvey (Loomis), b. 17 Nov., 1-23; m. Caroline M. Loomis, Sept., 1445; hd (1) Wil- lium IZ. b. 18 Dre .. 1858.
2. Jern-ha. b. 22 May, 1743; probably the ch. bp. 23 May, 1784 (E. W. C. R.): m. Reuben Moulton of Castleton, Vt .: after his death she res. St. Lon- is, Mo., where she d. abont 1861. LAxne :
1. Julia (Moulton), m. a Bosworth ; d. St. Louis, Mo., prob. 1852; he m. (2) Anna, or Ro- >anna (dau. of Otis) McLean of Vernon, ('1.
2. Mary (Monlton), m. Dr. Titus; d. before 1542.
3. Jane ( Moulton), m. Dr. E. G. Watson of st. Louis, Mo.
4 Helen (Moulton), m. Dr. N. F. Watson (bro. of E. G.), St. Louis, Mo .: d. before 1842. (Their three dans, left no children.)
3. Sarah, h. 26 Oct., 1785; prob. the ch. bp. 25 .func. 1786; m. 1807. Phineas Blodgett (see Blodgett).
4. Anna, b. 25. bp. 27 Apl , 178%; rem, with her sister Jerusha: d. num'd. St. Louis, Mo.
3. Elizabeth, b. 28. d. 20 June, 1790. E. W. C. R. (By 2d marriage) : IFAM. U. 6. Justis Orlando, b. 31 May, bp. 2 Nov., 1;93.
". Chloe. b. 28 JJan., hp. 8 Fch., 1,95: m. Albert Mar- tin Judevine, and d. 26 Sept .. 1557. at E. lìtfd.
s. C'elina, b. 25 Mch., bp. 14 Apl., 1490; m. Harvey Bissell of E. W .: d. 10 Apl., 187; s. P.
(By 3d marriage):
9. Emily Smith. b. 15 Jan., bp. 5 June. 1818: 11. ('handler J. Nettleton, 22 Mich., 1810; res. Bristol, Conn. Issue :
1. Edgar M. (Nettleton), b. 6 May. 1412: re -. Oli -. Wash. Co .. Cal .: m. Clara : had William and Cluru, h. 23 Oct., 1858.
2. Ella M. (Nettleton), b. 16 July, 1544: d. î Mch .. 1857.
FAM. 6. Elijah Fitch " (Dr.) (Eben., Darid.4 Josiah,3 Josiah,? John 1), m. 6 Jan., 1792, Hannah (dan. Alexander and Joanna Smith) McLean of N. Bolton (now Vernon), Conn., where he had commenced practice 16 Apl .. 1289. In 1795 he pur- chased the good will and business as well as the residence of Dr. Charles Mather in E. (now So.) W., Dr. M. removing to Htfd. This house was south of E. W. Hill, on the E. side of the road, near site of Dr. Sidney W. Rockwell's house. It has been torn down and its site orcup, by a new editiee .- See biog., p. 791, Vol. I. Dr. Reed d. So. W. 9 Sept., 1817. a. 80; his wife h. 7 Dec., 1769; d. 19 Feb., 1841 (gravestone.) See Mclain. Children :
1. Julia, h. « Oct., 1192, at Vernon, Conn .; m. Henry Watson, & Sept .. 1800. Ser Watson. 2. Ebenezer Fitch, b. 4 Feb .. bp. 5 May, 1999: learned the engraver's art with his uncle .Abner; res. N. Y. city for some yr -.: d 25 Nov., 1432.
3. Maro McLean (M D), b. 18 Det .. 1801; bp. 3 Jan., 1802. F'sM. 10.
4. Mary Eliza, b. 15 Jan .. bp. 20 Apl, 1501; d.
num'd, Waverly, IN., 26 July. 1:50.
5. Harriet Smith, b. 12 Feb., bp. 8 June, 1806; In. (as ed wife) 6 Sept., 1:30, John Hall of Ell. Me Hall. [9 .July, 1409. FAS. 11.
G. Inlins Alexander (Rev. ef D.D.), b. 16 Jan .. bp.
7. Rosanna, b. 14 May, bp. 30 Sept., 1810; m. 17 Oct., 1×35. Stanley White. She d. Andover, Conn., 2) May, 1-39: 8. P.
FAM. 7. Abner' (Dea. ) ( When., 5 Darid,' Josiah,3 Josiah,? John 1), commenced the sad- der's trade with a Mr. May of E. W. Hill; secing on some saddles which were bro't to the shop for repair plates engraved with the maker's name, he was led to attempt the engraving of similar plates for his master's use, which was the beginning of his artistic life. He never rec'd any instruction in the arts of designing, or of engrav- ing, but soon developed a wonderful aptitude for that class of work, which ulti- mately determined his career. In 1793, or the early part of 1294, he went to Albany, N. Y .; and at Lansingburgh, N. Y., he taught school for a while. Here, also, he m. 9 Apl., 1995, Elizabeth (dau. Thomas and Elizabeth Bloods) Loring of L., b. 3 Dec., 1750, she being 11 years and 4 months old at the time.
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They ret. to E. (now So.) W., where he taught school for some yrs. Ile joined the Cong'l Ch. there 19 Ang., 1798, and was elected deacon 22 May, 1799; was clerk of the Soc'y from 1827 (his first record being ent. 28 Jan., 1828) until 186, when he left So. W. to res. with his dan., Mrs. Charlotte S. Stiles of N. Y. city. Though there is no record, he prob. resigned his deaeonship at the same time.
Nov. 1, 1803, he rem. to Htfd., where he carried on the business of engraving, print and plate printing, and sign-painting. A glance through his carefully kept diaries at this period affords an amusing view of the diverse character of his daily occupations, viz .: Engraving and printing " watch-cards " for jewelers: graining chairs; designing, engraving, and printing bank-bills and maps, wood-cuts, a " head- ing " for the Conn. Gazette; lettering cartridge-boxes and coffins; making a cheese- press; composing an oration; hewing and turning rollers for his printing-press; ornamenting "Capt. Watson's drums"; gilding and painting a carriage; engraving music-plates for S. Jinks; cutting types and making type-punches "for Wing & White "; fixing bookbinders' rollers for Hosmer & Goodwin; engraving a " clock- plate for Eli Terry "; lettering on glass; making bookbinders' stamps; mending umbrellas; painting signs; engraving " hat-card for G. Cleveland, hatter "; cutting, sizing, and gilding " cap-fronts " (military) for Capt. Watson: engraving ornaments, ete., on Freemasons' instruments; cutting "an urn and willow " for Hosmer & Goodwin, publishers; cutting seals, and monlds for beads, etc., etc.
In 1811 he ret. to E. W. and purchased a house (erected about 1750), now stand- ing and (until lately) since his occupaney known at the So. W. Ch. parsonage. His first shop was the second story of an L building running east from the house; after- wards he added (abt. 1817 or '18) an L'extension on the north side for a shop, which, in 1830, his son Abner L. moved to the south side and fitted up with a bar and a hall overhead, and there kept tavern until his rem. to Ohio in 1834. In 1837 the Deacon reoccupied the house, and the bar was closed; though the hall, for many years thereafter, was used as a resort for lectures, exhibitions, fairs, and dances.
lTere, as one of his " specimen plates " describes it, "Engraving, Painting, and Copper-Plate Printing " was "performed to the satisfaction of Customers by ABNER REED, 40 rods South of the South Meeting-House." Both here and while at Htfd. he executed several very excellent engravings for the time, among which may be named portraits of Rev. Drs. Samuel Buell, Gardner Thurston, Eleazer Wheelock; and the earlier volumes of the Am. Antiq. Soc. Transactions contain some specimens of his skill. lle was largely engaged in the designing and engraving of bank-note plates, for which he received orders from many banks in the I. S. and Canada, and he also executed wood-cuts, as well as copper-plate engravings and etchings. He possessed great mechanical skill, and had a large and well-fitted workshop, wherein he executed all kinds of jobs in wood and metal, with rare and even tedious accu- racy. In his family at E. W. were always dwelling several apprentices, whose names and work have since been intimately associated with the history of engraving (especially bank note) in this country. Among these we may mention William Mason, afterwards a wood-engraver in Philadelphia; Asaph Wilson, afterwards of Iltfd .; Ralph Rawden, head of the once famous firm of Rawden, Wright & Co. of N. Y. city; Oliver Pelton, Frederick Bissell, Ebenezer F. Reed. Alfred Daggett, Lewis Fairchild, wood engraver, Vistus Balch, William Phelps, plate printer, after- wards of Albany, N. Y., and others. In fact, when the history of bank note en- graving in the I'nited States comes to be written up, the widespread influence of this little East Windsor School of Art eannot fail to be recognized and honored. "In these days the means and instrumentalities now employed in this great business were unknown. Laborious hand work was not relieved, as at present, by curious mechanism; the old " pull " hand.press alone was used, and the printed sheets of bank-notes were sun-dried on clothes lines in the Deacon's back yard !
Of the family, and of the Deacon as an employer, as well as of his active, sen-
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silde wife. JOHN WARNER BARBER, the well-known Connecticut historical writer and engraver, of New Haven, says, in speaking of his apprentice days at E. W., that he " considered it a favorable circumstance that he had been a member of the family of Dea. Abner Reed, where Christian rules were adopted and where its heads Telt an interest in the religious welfare of those under their charge."
In 1821, Dea. Reed formed a partnership with one of his former apprentices, SAMUEL STILES (who afterwards became his son-in-law), under the title of Reed & Stiles, at llartford, " over the store of Mr. R. Landon, a few doors S. of Messrs Geo. Goodwin & Sons' bookstore. Main street," and at Dea. Reed's res. E. W., where, until 1824, they carried on the business of " portrait, historical, landscape, map " engraving; also "engr. on wood and copper plate printing." Mr. Reed amassed, for that period, quite a handsome fortune from his business, which, however, he lost, about 1830, by unwise endorsements for others.
In early life he had some literary aspirations, and published (1994) a novel, enti- tled Lore Triumphant, or Constancy Rewarded, an 18mo vol. of 122 pp., of which 28 pp. form a " Poctical Appendix." The volume was illustrated with frontispiece of his own designing and engraving, and was prefaced with a commendatory note by his pastor, Rev. David McCluire, who approved of his " purpose of printing it for the instruction of youth.". Of the novel it must be said that it is written in the severely stilted style of the last century, which is provocative of unutterable mer- riment to the reader of the present day; and of the poems that they possess scant merit as to rhythin, and are dismally religious in tone.
In 1800 he pub at E. W. The | FIRST STEP TO LEARNING: ] or | Little Children's 1 Spelling and Reading Book | Designed to render the first | Rudiments of Learning | Easy and familiar to \ Young Beginners \ By ABNER REED, S. M. | : East Windsor: | Connecticut. | Printed for the Author | By Luther Pratt \ Mdccc. - 18 mo, 60 pp.
This little work is illustrated by some " rudimentary " wood-cuts (said to have beeu engr. by him on apple-tree wood), which must have been among his first efforts in that direction. . This passed thro' at least two editions, and, in Dec., 1801, we find in his Diary, "Pratt [prob. Luther, the printer] bro't home my colt, bo't of him for 600 Spelling Books, in the sheets."
We have it, on the authority of John Warner Barber, that Mr. Reed engr. the euts for the early editions of Webster's Spelling Book, and that the first job of import- ance done by him in wood was a series of wood cuts for a line of Toy Books, issued by Messrs. Lincoln & Gleason of Hartford.
A little paper-covered book, of which one or two copies seem to be yet extant, and entitled Four Aquatinta Sketches, published 1800, by Abner Reed, Engraver, Hart- ford, (Conn.), gives a very pleasing idea of his ability, both in designing and engrav- ing. These sketches were 4 by 5 inches in size.
After his removal to New York city, in 1847. he still continued engraving, a little every day, in his rooms, mostly on a set of copy books for penmanship, upon which he had been long engaged, and which he finally completed in 1-51. This work, 8 by 3 inches in size, is entitled REED'S GUIDE TO THE ART OF PENMANSHIP'. The Scholar's Plain and Easy Guide to the Art of Penmanship \ Containing the true Principles of Writing. \ And Rules for forming every letter: \ Analytically, Systemati- cally \ and Mathematicaly delimated \ and Illustrated in a Variety of plain \ Roma Hond copies | Designed principally ax a Standard Work for the use of Primary Schunds. Written and Engraved by A. REED. New York, 1851 | - 12 plates." These, the' to our present view of an antiquated style, were very beautiful examples of engrav- ing and of the really excellent system of penmanship upon which Den. Reed always insisted, and which he himself maintained until the day of his death; his letters. even to the latest, always looking more like engraved than written ones. A few years later, after he had rem, to res, with his ellest dau., Mrs. Edward Bissell of Toledo, Ohio, he gained the first prize for penmanship at a county fair, he being then about 93 years okl.
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Rev. JULIUS A REED died 27 August, 1890 ; his wife 1 October of same year.
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THE REED FAMILY.
In person he was tall and quite erect, even to the day of his death, and he must have been in youth and the prime of manhood eminently handsome. He was grave and deliberate in manner, slow of speech, of tenacious memory, and a great reader: of an amiable, phlegmatic temperament. He d. at Toledo, Ohio, 25 Feb., 1866.
Mrs. Elizabeth (Loring) Reed, who was at the age of Ha " county belle." re- tained much of her beauty and elegant dignity of mauner, to the day of her death. She was a woman of singular energy of character and loftiness of purpose, and died in New York city before her husband's removal to Ohio. Ch. (b. K. H.) :
1. Jano Ann Maria, b. 28 Apl, bp. 19 Ang., 1708; in. 15 Oct., 1823, Edward (s. Edward and Jerusha Holott Bissell. Ser Bissell. [FAM. 12.
4. Abner Loring, b. 21 Apl., bp. 15 Inne, 1800.
3. Elizabeth Hayman, b. 14 Mch., bp. 6 Apl., d. 10 Apl .. 1802, :0. 264 days. - Mr. R.'s Diary.
4. Charlotte Sophia, b. 20 Apl., bp. 1 Inly. 1504; m.
Samnel (s. Asahel and Tryphena Chopin) Stiles of E. W. See Stiles.
5. Waldo Raynesford, b. June "during the hour of the Great Eclipse " (Mr. R's Diary): hp. 21 Sept. 1806: d. Geneseo, N. Y., Oct., 1827
6. Arthur Melancthon, bp. 6 June, 1813. FAM. 13.
FAM. S. Horace 6 (Dr.) (Josinh,5 David.4 Josiah,3 Josiah,2 John 1), studied medicine with Dr. Porter of E. W. (cast of W. Pt.); spent abt. 8 yrs. at the South in a special study of fevers, in the treatment of which he was eminently successful; ret. and pract, at Glastonbury, Conn., until his mar. in 1803 with Betsey Welles, whose J'ather left her a considerable property: they rem. to Putnam, Ohio, where he d. ? Apl .. 1824; wid. res. (1833) at P. Child. :
1. Iney Welles, m. S June, 1820, Robert Hazlett; res. (1859) Zanesville, Ohio.
FAM. 9. Justus Orlando ? (Justus," Eben.,5 Durid,4 Josiah, 3 Josinh,? John 1), m. 30 Oct., 1816, Elizabeth (dau. David) Crane of E. W., b. 18 Dec., 1791, and d. 12.Apl .. 1878; he d. 21 Sept., 1850; farmer, E. W. Children :
1. Lemuel Elmer, b. 27 Ang., 1817: m. 13 May, 1816, "'ath. M. Lewis. Hed. 12 Jan., 1579. Issue : 1. Charlolte.
2. Charlotte Crane, b. 9 Apl., 1819; m. Oct., 1839, Edwin King, who d. Dec., 1888; shed. 10 Ang., 1545. Isgitt :
1. Eliza (King). | 2. Charlotte (King).
3. John Henry, b. 15 July. 1820: m. 4 July, 1854, Mary M. Warren. ITe d. 2 Sept., 1889; PPF. N. Haven (1889): dentist.
4. Maro Smith, b. 14 May, 1822; m. 17 Nov., 1844, Elizabeth L. Loomis (consin); he d. 1859.
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