History of the Reed family in Europe and America

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 289
1838 ; Emily, July 2, 1839, died Sept. 29, 1857 ; Martin,
born Feb. 4, 1841, Sept. 8, 1856 ; Laura, born Aug. 3,
1843, died Nov. 1, 1857; Mary Ann, born April 8, 1846,
died Nov. 2, 1856 ; Alanson, born June 7, 1847, died Nov. 5,
1856. He was a prosperous farmer, and died Sept. 27, 1857;
making eight deaths in the family in two or tln - ee years.
Surely the messenger of death laid his hand heavily upon
this family, as it is almost unprecedented in the New-
England States since the time of small-pox in 1720, '21, and
'22 ; when it was so prevalent and fatal, that, in some places,
the old records note those deaths not of small-pox, and some
families became almost extinct by its ravages.
7. Nathan, son of Reuben and Hannah, married Eliza
Mills in 1820. Children, — Nathan G., born July 24, 1821 ;
Emeline A., June 13, 1824 ; John B., April 4, 1828 ; Na-
thaniel, March 24, 1830 : Cyrus, June 17, 1832 ; Frances E.,
June 20, 1834 ; Columbus F., November, 1836 ; Mary E.,
Feb. 21, 1839 ; Freeman, March 2, 1840, died Aug. 9, 1856.
7. George W., son of Joshua and Anna of Warren, born
Dec. 11, 1799; married Julia Ann Hamilton of Hampton,
Conn., in 1825. Child, — Samuel G., born 1833 ; died
June 17, 1846.
6. Nathaniel, son of Reuben and Tamerson of Warren,
born April 4, 1762 ; settled in Cambridge, in the State of
Vermont, in 1800, where he died in 1842, aged eighty years.
Children, — Rensselaer ; Nathaniel, who is a lawyer in Cam-
bridge, Vt. ; Virgis ; Adeline, married a Story ; Horace ;
Thomas ; George W. ; Tamerson, married Walter Germain ;
David, born in Warren, Mass., July 24, 1799, and admitted
to the bar in Franklin County, Vt., in 1823.
7. David, sou of Nathaniel of Cambridge, Vt., born
July 24, 1799 ; married Judith M. Hazel ton, Feb. 2, 1824.
Children, — Adeline M., born July 4, 1825 ; Eldon W.,
July 7, 1827, died Aug. 19, 1835 ; Harriet Sophia, July 14,
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