History of the Reed family in Europe and America

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 666
1829, took his name from both paternal and maternal
grandparents, who both died the same month, and day
of the month, in which he was born, both aged fifty-four
(although one died in 1809, and the other in 1824) ; married
Sarah Elizabeth Thomas, Dec. 8, 1853, and lives at Damas-
cus, Montgomery County, Md. Children, — Mary Emma,
born Nov. 7, 1855 ; Lucy Holden, May 13, 1858.
7. Samuel P., son of Seth and Lucy, born March 24,
1833 ; married Rachel Ann Brown, Aug. 23, 1855. Chil-
dren, — Samuel Payson, born May 20, 1856 ; Olive Ann,
May 7, 1857. He lives in Howard County, Md.
6. Lyman, son of Rev. William Reed of Easton, born at
Easton, Dec. 28, 1801 ; married Marcia Ann, daughter of
Judge Jedediah Harris of Strafford, Vt., Oct. 22, 1832.
Children, — Jedediah Harris, born in Baltimore, Aug. 2,
1833, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1854 ; Ellen
Jennette, born Feb. 9, 1835 ; Lyman, June 9, 1838, died
Feb. 28, 1839 ; Charles, born Aug. 4, 1840, died Sept. 9,
1842. He lived in Boston from 1832 to '56, and was an
alderman in 1845 and '46. He is a merchant, and, since
1856, has lived in Baltimore ; and has recently obtained a
patent for a prevention of the potato disease, — a discovery
which has met the approbation of an agricultural committee
of Congress as well as of the Patent Office.
6. Lucius, son of Rev. William, born Oct. 27, 1805 ; mar-
ried in Boston, to Abby Sumner Harris, Aug. 19, 1831.
Children, — William Harris, born Aug. 19,1832, in Balti-
more ; Lucius, born in Baltimore, 1834, and died in Texas,
Nov. 4, 1857. He died in Boston, Nov. 1, 1855 : his wife
died Nov. 6, 1839.
Jane Reed, daughter of Silence and William, born
June 23, 1757, was married in 1787 to Rev. David Gurney,
who was settled in that year as pastor of the Congregational
Society in Titicut, Middleborough ; being the successor of