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Reed," edited by their grandson, William B. Reed, and pub- lished in 1853. In 1769, came the death of the father, An- drew Reed, following which event, Joseph sailed for Eng- land, and May 22, 1770, the wedding took place. Shortly thereafter bride and groom sailed for America and estab- lished their home in Philadelphia, on Chestnut street, below Fourth. Like her husband, Mrs. Reed became a notable figure in the life of Philadelphia. In the spring of 1780, when the distress of the American army was at its height, money being scarce, and prices of all commodities having risen to a phenomenal height, the ladies of Philadelphia undertook the collection of money and clothing for the half- starved and poorly clad troops. Mrs. Reed assumed the lead in this movement, which was successful to a degree unantici- pated, the collections in Philadelphia city and county alone amounting to $300,000, paper currency. In a letter of July 4, 1780, addressed to General Washington, Mrs. Reed acquainted him with the result of the collection, and added :
The ladies are anxious for the soldiers to receive the benefit of it, and await your directions how it can best be disposed of. We expect considerable additions from the country, and have also written to the other states in hopes the ladies there will adopt similar plans to render it more general and bene- ficial. With the utmost pleasure I offer any further attention and care in my power to complete the execution of the design, and shall be happy to accomp- lish it, agreeable to the intentions of the donors and your wishes on the subject. The ladies of my family join me in their respectful compliments and sincere prayer for your health, safety and success. I have the honor to be with the highest respect,
Your obedient humble servant,
E. REED.
Mrs. Reed did not long survive the writing of this letter. In the previous January she had been ill with smallpox, and her death occurred September 18, 1780. This notice of the event is found in the "Pennsylvania Gazette" of the 27th instant :
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On Monday the 18th instant died after a few days illness, in the thirty- third year of her age, Mrs. Esther Reed, consort of his Excellency, the Presi- dent of this State. Possessed of every female virtue which could adorn herself and station, this amiable lady lived beloved and died lamented by all who had the happiness of her friendship and acquaintance. On Tuesday her remains were interred in the Second Presbyterian burial ground in this city, with every mark of respect due to her merit and character, being attended by his Excel- lency, the President, and the members of Congress and their principal Boards, the General Assembly and Supreme Executive Council, officers of the Army and the State, and a great concourse of numerous friends and acquaintances
Her husband survived her less than five years, and died March 5, 1785, being not quite forty-four years of age. Joseph and Esther (de Berdt) Reed were the parents of six children: 1. Martha, born May 21, 1771, died unmarried. 2. Joseph, mentioned below. 3. Esther, born July 21, 1774, died May 22, 1847. 4. Theodosia, born October 2, 1776, died may 12, 1778. 5. Dennis de Berdt, born May 12, 1778, grad- uated from Princeton College, in 1797, and died at sea, Feb- ruary 5, 1805. 6. George Washington, born May 26, 1780, graduated from Princeton College, 1798, was commissioned midshipman, United States Navy, January 13, 1799, and lieu- tenant, March 10, 1803. In the early stages of the War of 1812, he commanded the brig "Vixen," which was cap- tured by the British frigate "Southampton," commanded by Sir James Lucas Yeo. Shortly after the surrender of the "Vixen" both vessels ran ashore and were wrecked. The property was largely recovered through the generous and hazardous exertions of the captive American sailors. The British commandant publicly acknowledged his obligations to Lieutenant Reed for the services of his crew, and offered him a parole with permission to return to the United States. He declined, however, to leave his comrades. He died shortly afterward, January 4, 1813, at Kingston, Jamaica, while still a prisoner-of-war, of a fever induced by exposure and fatigue.
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Joseph Reed, second child of Joseph and Esther (de Berdt) Reed, was born July 11, 1772, in Philadelphia, and died March 4, 1845. Graduating from Princeton College in 1792, he was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, March 10, 1792, having studied law while still in college. At this time, it will be observed, he was not yet twenty years of age. He was appointed, January 2, 1800, prothonotary of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and continued in that office until May 13, 1809. In the same month, January 22, 1800, he was like- wise commissioned clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the County of Philadelphia, and filled this post until Novem- ber 9, 1805. In 1810-II he filled the office of city solicitor of Philadelphia. For a portion of the period -- October 2, 1810, to January 26, 1811-he also held the post of attorney general of the commonwealth. In the year first mentioned, 1810, he was likewise appointed to the position of recorder of the city, and performed the duties of this important judicial office until 1829. He was also named, in 1818, a member of the first board of control of the public schools. Mr. Reed was elected a member of the Hibernian Society in 1811. At a "war meeting," held August 25, 1814, when Philadelphia was threatened by the British, he acted as secretary, and was placed on the "Committee of Defense" at that time appointed. He had been elected a member of the First Troop, Phila- delphia City Cavalry, May 12, 1798, but had resigned May 7, 1810. When, however, his native city seemed in peril, Mr. Reed, August 27, 1814, rejoined his old command, but a year later, August 4, 1815, all danger being past, he resigned a second time. January 19, 1816, he was chosen a member of the American Philosophical Society. In 1816, he was a can- didate for Presidential elector on a combination ticket, sup- ported by independent Democrats and by Federalists, but the regular Democratic ticket was successful. Joseph Reed MD .- 9
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married, June 15, 1805, Maria Ellis Watmough, daughter of James Horatio and Anna Christiana (Carmick) Wat- mough, born December 18, 1784; died January 22, 1865, nine- teen years a widow. They had seven children: 1. William Bradford, mentioned below. 2. Henry Hope. 3. Anna, born June 3, 1811, died August 8, 1812. 4. Maria, born May 24, 1813, died at an advanced age. 5. Emily. 6. Margaret Ser- geant. 7. Joseph, born November 28, 1825, spent a year at the University of Pennsylvania, 1841-42, received an appoint- ment as an assistant in the United States Coast Survey Service, and lost his life by drowning at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1852.
William Bradford Reed, eldest son of Joseph and Maria Ellis (Watmough) Reed, was born June 30, 1806. He inherit- ed the intellectual abilities of his progenitors, and attained a high degree of distinction in professional and public life. Graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1822, he studied law, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, No- vember 26, 1826. So successful was he as a legal practitioner, that April 2, 1838, he was made attorney general of Pennsyl- vania. He was also solicitor for the County of Philadelphia, 1836-41. He was recognized not only as an able advocate, but was also renowned for his oratorical abilities. He was likewise noted for his scholarly attainments along other than merely professional lines, in 1850 was appointed professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania, was the author or editor of a number of biographical and kindred works, among others: "Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed," 1847; "Life of Esther de Berdt, afterward Esther Reed," 1853; "President Reed of Pennsylvania, a Reply to George Bancroft, and Others," 1867; "A Rejoinder to Mr. Bancroft's Historical Essay," 1867, and others. When a young man Mr. Reed had a brief experience in the diplo- matic service, as private secretary of Joel R. Poinsett, who was
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appointed United States minister to Mexico, March 8, 1825. Thirty-two years afterward he re-entered the service, being commissioned, April 18, 1857, minister to China, where he remained nearly two years, during which time he negotiated the important treaty of June, 1858, "that secured to the United States all the advantages that had been acquired by the allies from the Chinese." Returning to America, Mr. Reed re- moved to New York City, where he re-engaged in the prac- tice of his profession, and where his death occurred February 18, 1876. William B. Reed married (first) October 13, 1833, Louisa Whelan, daughter of Thomas and Eliza (Bickham) Whelan, of Baltimore, who died November 27, 1847. He married (second), January 15, 1850, Mary Love Ralston, daughter of Robert and Anne (Boote) Ralston, who was born February 16, 1825, and died November 15, 1867. Chil- dren by first marriage: Emily, Anna, William, mentioned below; George Washington, Louisa Whelan, died young; Louise Whelan; by second marriage: Mary Love, Robert Ralston, Emily de Berdt and Henry Seymour, of whom all but four died unmarried.
William Reed, eldest son of William B. and Louisa (Whelan) Reed, was born June 7, 1838, in Philadelphia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1856, and was admitted to the bar of Philadelphia, May 5, 1860: When his father, Hon. William B. Reed, was appointed United States minister to China, young Mr. Reed accom- panied him to the Orient and acted as secretary of the legation. In 1868, he removed to Baltimore, where he passed the rest of his life, becoming prominent in business and social circles. For many years he was a member of the well-known railroad supply firm of Morton, Reed & Company. Mr. Reed was a member of the Maryland Club, joining in 1869, and for a number of years was one of its governors. He married, April 25, 1871, Miss Emilie McKim, a descendant of an old and distinguished family of Maryland.
RICHARD ISAAC DUVALL
FIVE generations of American ancestors preceded Richard
Isaac Duvall in Maryland. The original ancestor, Ma- reen Duvall, came from France to Anne Arundel county, about the middle of the seventeenth century. He was a man of strong religious principles as the sequel shows, and of a family of note, bearing arms :
Arms-Gules, a chevron argent between two mullets pierced, and a battle axe of the last.
Crest-A lion sejant, per pale argent and gules sustaining a shield as in the Arms.
Motto-Pro Patria.
Richard Isaac Duvall, of the sixth generation of the family in America, was of a strong and sturdy type of char- acter, honorable and upright, and unflinching in his advocacy of any cause he deemed a righteous one. That trait of his Huguenot ancestor was transmitted to him unweakened by the lapse of time.
Mareen Duvall, the first of the family who settled in Maryland, is said to have come from the neighborhood of Nantes, Brittany, and some support is lent to this statement by the fact that he gave to the first piece of land patented to him the name of "Lavall," and there is a town called "Val" and a chateau "Laval" some sixty or seventy miles from Nantes. The name "Mareen" is clearly a corruption of the French "Marin" and he was undoubtedly a French Hugue- not. Although the Edict of Nantes was not repealed until 1685, those of "the religion," as the Huguenots called them- selves, were nevertheless severely oppressed by the govern- ment, and many of them emigrated to other lands. It was doubtless for this reason that Mareen Duvall settled in Mary- land, to round out his days in peace, safe from the persecu-
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tion that prevailed in his native land. The date of his arrival in Maryland is not recorded, but it was certainly before 1659 and probably not far from 1650. At any rate he made his demand for land, July 25, 1659, and this being duly laid out for him he had a patent, January 22, 1659-60, for a tract called "Lavall" on the west side of South river, in Anne Arundel county (Land Office, Lib. 4, fol. 431). Other tracts patented to him were "Middle Plantation," 600 acres, on the south side of South river, patented 1664 (Land Office, Lib. 7, fol. 450) ; "Duvall's Addition," 165 acres, on the west side of South river, patented August 8, 1670; and "Duvall's Range," 200 acres on east side of north branch of Patuxent river, in Anne Arundel county, patented September 10, 1672 (ibid. Lib. 14, fol. 22; Lib. 17, fol. 290).
Another tract called "Rich Neck," and containing 200 acres, was surveyed for Mareen Duvall and William Young, on the south side of South river, May 25, 1664 (Rent Roll, Lib. I, fol. 33). In 1678 the Maryland Assembly passed an act appropriating a large amount of tobacco, then serving as currency, in payment of the service of those who had taken part in the recent expedition against the Nanticoke Indians (Md. Arch. vii, 87), and Mareen Duvall was paid eighty pounds of tobacco for his participation in the expedition (ibid 96). September 13, 1681, Thomas Francis and Nicholas Gassaway, writing to the Council about Indian outrages, state that in Anne Arundel county the Indians have killed a negro and wounded two white men-one mortally. The people are in great distress, since the Indians keep them constantly ter- rorized, and attack their dwelling houses, especially those of Mr. Duvall, and Richard Snowden (Md. Arch. xvii, 24). In 1683 an act was passed by the Assembly, and approved by Governor and Council, for the encouragement of trade by establishing with great liberality towns and ports of entry
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in all the seaboard counties, and under the terms of this act Mr. "Marien Duvall" is appointed one of the Commissioners for establishing towns and ports in Anne Arundel county (Md. Arch. vii, 611).
In one instance a glimpse is afforded of the immigrant's political views. Colonel Nicholas Greenberry, in a communi- cation to the Governor dated July 25, 1692, asserts that the principal rendezvous of the leaders of the Jacobite party were at "Darnall's, Chew's, Dorsey's and one Mareen Du- wall's" (Md. Arch. viii, 343). During his long residence in Maryland, Mareen Duvall acquired a large landed estate by purchase, in addition to the tracts taken up by him, and was thus able to provide handsomely for his large family of twelve children. He styles himself "merchant" in his will, and he doubtless engaged in the export of tobacco, a very profitable occupation in those days, and one that stood in high repute both in Virginia and in Maryland.
Mareen Duvall was three times married. The name of his first wife has not been preserved. His second wife, Susanna, is named in his will as the mother of his son, Mareen, the younger, or Mareen II., as he is usually designated. His third wife, Mary (Stanton) Duvall, sister of Daniel Stanton, of Philadelphia, was married to him about 1693, the year before he died, and bore him no children. According to Judge Duvall, who left a thoroughly reliable genealogy of the Duvall family (and of whom later) his grandfather, Ben- jamin Duvall, was born in 1692, and was the son of the im- migrant by his second wife, Susanna. In all probability, therefore, Mrs. Susanna Duvall died at the birth of her youngest son, Benjamin, in 1692, and Mareen was married to his third wife, Mary Stanton, in 1693. Mareen Duvall died in August, 1694, and the following year his widow, Mrs. Mary Duvall, married Colonel Henry Ridgely, in proof of
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which we have the following: 9 October, 1695, "came Major Henry Ridgely, of Anne Arundel county, who intermarried with Mary, relict and executrix of Mareen Duvall, late of said county, deceased, and exhibited the inventory of said deceased's estate, etc. (Test, Proceedings). Major Henry Ridgely was soon promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, and in 1695 his landed property, formerly in Anne Arundel county, was included in the newly formed county of Prince Georges'. He died in 1710, and by his will, dated April 30, 1705, and proved July 13, 1710, appointed his wife, Mary, his sole executrix. She soon married her third husband, Rev. Jacob Henderson, rector of Queen Anne Parish, Prince Georges' county, and afterward Commissary for the Province under the Bishop of London. Rev. Jacob Henderson died August 21, 1751. Mrs. Henderson survived until 1762. As she was mar- ried to Mareen Duvall in 1693, she must have been very old at the time of her death."
The order of the birth of Mareen Duvall's children fol- lowed below is that given by Judge Gabriel Duvall, and is shown by deposition filed in Provincial Court records. It is believed, on the same authority, that Mareen Duvall's first wife was the mother of the first five children, while Susanna was the mother of the remaining seven. It is to be noted that the immigrant had two sons named Mareen, both named in his will, and that Susanna was the mother of the younger. Mareen Duvall, who died in 1694, had issue by his first wife: I. Mareen, "the elder," born in 1662, married, 1685-86, Frances, daughter of Captain Thomas and Mary (Wells) Stockett, of Anne Arundel county. 2. John, buried April 20, 1711 ; married, before August, 1685, Mary, daughter of Wil- liam Jones, of Anne Arundel county. 3. Eleanor, married, before 1694, John Roberts, of Virginia. 4. Samuel, born 1667; married, June 18, 1697, Elizabeth Clark. 5. Susanna,
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married, before 1694, Robert Tyler, of Prince Georges' county.
Mareen Duvall and his second wife, Susanna, had issue : 6. Lewis, married, March 6, 1699, Martha, daughter of Rob- ert Ridgely, principal secretary of the province; removed to South Carolina. 7. Mareen, through whom descent is traced. 8. Catherine, married, October 22, 1700, William Orrick. 9. Mary, married, July 5, 1701, Rev. Henry Hall, rector of St. James' Parish, Anne Arundel county. 10. Elizabeth, ap- parently unmarried in 1694. 11. Johanna, married, August 12, 1703, Richard Poole. 12. Benjamin, born 1692; died 1774; married, 1713, Sophia Griffith. The latter were the grand- parents of Justice Gabriel Duvall, of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Justice Gabriel Duvall was born December 6, 1752. He married (first) a Miss Bryce, daughter of Captain Robert Bryce, of Annapolis, July 24, 1787. He married (second), May 5, 1795, Jane Gibbon, daughter of Captain James Gib- bon, of Philadelphia. Beginning when very young he spent sixty-one years of his life in public service. In early life he was clerk to the Conventions in Maryland, clerk to the Council of Safety, and clerk to the first House of Represen- tatives under the new Government. Later he was member of Congress. Then after serving as Judge of the General Court of Maryland and Comptroller of the Treasury of the United States, he was appointed Associate Judge of the United States Supreme Court, and held this honorable position from October, 1811, until his resignation in 1835 or 1836. He died March 6, 1844.
Mareen Duvall, "the younger," eldest child of Mareen Duvall, the Huguenot, and his second wife, Susanna, was born in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, in 1680. He is styled of "Great Marsh," but he removed to and died at his plantation, "Pleasant Grove," Queen Anne's Parish, Prince
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Georges' county, Maryland, in June, 1741. He married, Oc- tober 21, 1701, Elizabeth Jacob, who died in Prince Georges' county in February, 1752, daughter of Captain John Jacob. Children: Mareen, born March 14, 1703, married, Novem- ber 25, 1725, Ruth Howard; Susannah, born September 12, 1704, married (first) Mr. Fowler, (second) Mark Brown; Elizabeth, born July 20, 1706, married Dr. William Denune; Samuel, through whom descent is traced ; Anne, born May 10, 1709; Benjamin, born April 4, 1711, married Mary Wells; Jacob, born April 19, 1715, married Miss Bourne, of Calvert county, Maryland; Mary, born March 22, 1717; Lewis, born December 3, 1721, married Miss Hardesty; Gabriel, born September 13, 1724, died unmarried.
Samuel Duvall, son of Mareen and Elizabeth (Jacob) Duvall, was born at the parental estate, "Pleasant Grove," Prince Georges' county, Maryland, November 27, 1707, and died in November, 1775. He was a substantial planter and a man of influence, spending his entire life in Prince Georges' county. He married, May 16, 1732, Elizabeth Mulliken, born September 25, 1711, died after November 20, 1775, daughter of James and Charity (Belt) Mulliken, and granddaughter of James Mulliken, the Virginia settler. Children: James, born March 31, 1733, married his cousin, Sarah Duvall, daughter of Mareen and Ruth (Howard) Duvall; Charity, born May 6, 1734, married Mr. McDougal; Elisha, died January 8, 1837, married and left a son Benjamin; Elizabeth, born May 15, 1738, married Mr. Gover; Samuel, of further mention; Margaret, born January 30, 1742, married Mr. Denune; Jacob L., born May 13, 1744; Jeremiah, born August 24, 1745; Jesse, born April 4, 1748; Gabriel, born October 20, 1751.
Samuel (2) Duvall, son of Samuel (1) and Elizabeth (Mulliken) Duvall, was born July 7, 1740, and was a success-
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ful and influential planter of Prince Georges' county, Mary- land. He was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, serving in the Maryland Line, went safely through his military expe- riences, and finally passed away in September, 1804, near the place of his birth. He married Mary Higgins, born in 1741, died prior to July 26, 1800, daughter of and Sarah Higgins. Children: Richard, died in 1832, unmarried ; Tobias, married, February 5, 1795, Sarah Willett, and died in 1835; Walter; Colmore, married, February 5, 1791, Eliza- beth Peach; Samuel, died in 1838, married Miss Hall; Bar- ton, of further mention ; Beale, a merchant of Baltimore City, married (first) April 28, 1800, Margery Belt, (second) April 1I, 1806, Elizabeth Williams; Levi; Sarah, married Samuel Peach; Elender, married William Williams; Rachael, mar- ried a Mr. Hill; Ann ; Elisha, married and had issue.
Barton Duvall, son of Samuel (2) and Mary (Higgins Du- vall, was born in Prince Georges' county, Maryland, in 1776, died October 15, 1831, a planter. He married, November 26, 1811, Hannah Isaac, born in 1788, died March 10, 1826, daughter of Richard Isaac, Jr., Esq., of Prince Georges' coun- ty, and Anne (Williams) Isaac, his wife, her mother a daugh- ter of Stockett and Mary (Waters) Williams, of Anne Arun- del county, Maryland. Children : Mareen, born in 1812, died August, 1831, unmarried; Richard Isaac, of further mention ; Dr. Philip Barton, born July 17, 1816, died in 1851, married Mary E. Hopkins; Samuel Higgins, born May 30, 1818, died in 1890, married Christine Crowley; Dr. Joseph Isaac, born May 16, 1821, died in 1883, married Mary A. Mitchell, daughter of John Mitchell, of Prince Georges' county, Maryland; Mary Ann, born October 28, 1822; Hen- rietta, born in 1823, died October 17, 1826.
Richard Isaac Duvall, second son of Barton and Hannah (Isaac) Duvall, was born September 4, 1814, and died Jan-
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uary 23, 1870. He was educated under private instructors in Prince Georges' county, where he lived until about 1845, when he removed to Anne Arundel county. He was a man of great determination and force of character, honorable and generous in all his business transactions. Though he never had the advantages of a college education, he was possessed of wide and varied information, and was an entertaining conversa- tionalist, taking an active part in public affairs. For many years he was engaged in farming near Millerville, Anne Arun- del county, and was one of the three originators, a founder, an original stockholder and trustee of Anne Arundel Acad- emy, a famed school situated near Millerville. He served as a justice of the peace for Prince Georges' and Anne Arundel counties ; was for several years a school commissioner ; a com- missioner of the Levy Court for two terms, and register of wills from 1861-62 until 1867. He was an extensive slave- holder, and at the outbreak of the Civil War his sympathies were with the Southern States. As a result of his candid and unconcealed expressions of opinion in favor of the cause of the Confederacy, he suffered arrest and imprisonment a num- ber of times.
Richard Isaac Duvall married (first), October 2, 1833, Sarah Ann Duvall, born August 1, 1817, died January 2, 1854, daughter of Tobias Duvall. He married (second) Rachel Maria Waring, born March 21, 1828, died May 2, 1865 .. He married (third) June 12, 1867, Mary Amanda Mitchell, born in 1837, died February 22, 1903, daughter of Henry and La- vinia (Duvall) Mitchell. Children by first marriage : 1. James Monroe, born June 25, 1834, died February 9, 1901 ; mar- ried (first) January 6, 1858, Martha A. Basford, daughter of John and Sarah (Isaac) Basford; married (second) No- vember 24, 1881, Rosa Neal, born October 3, 1844, died May 16, 1900, daughter of Robert Ellett and Susan Garland (Gil-
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