History of the Reed family in Europe and America

REID OF ETHAN ALLEN NOTORIETY, AND OTHERS. 507
CHAPTER XXVII.
REID OF ETHAN ALLEN NOTORIETY, AND OTHERS.
John Reid, son of Alexander of Stralock, Scot., was born
Jan. 13, 1722 ; graduated at Edinburgh, and entered the
army. He served under Gen. Amherst in the French War.
He was stationed at Albany till 1763 ; when he was sent to
the relief of Fort Pitt, then besieged by Indians. He ob-
tained a grant of a large tract of land on Otter Creek, in
Vermont ; and was the Col. Reid against whom the cele-
brated Ethan Allen figured so conspicuously. He became
major-general in 1781, and lieutenant-general in 1793. He
died at his residence in London, Feb. 6, 1807, aged eighty-
five. He was a celebrated flute-player. He left a large
fortune, which he gave to the founding of a music-college
after the decease of an only daughter.
1. James Read came from the county of Kent, in Eng.,
to America, in 1705, and settled in Cambridge, near the
Meeting-house. A portion of the burying-ground was taken
from his house-lot in 1767. Married, for his first wife, Sarah
Batson, Aug. 12, 1714: she died Dec. 25, 1721. Child,—
James, born Oct. 9, 1721. Married, for second wife, Mary
Oldharn, April 3, 1722. He was a tanner, and an influential
and wealthy man.
2. James, son of James and Sarah, born in Cambridge,