This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ic.2ADI/1055.1058.1060.1061.1064.1070.1 Message Board Post: I am pasting in what I have for Captain Samuel Reid. I have no actual copies of the will that mentions Andrew; but I am satisfied that it exists. Whether this is YOUR Andrew or not I do not know. !2/13/99: Irving Library, National Genealogical Society Quarterly, Dec. 1964: p. 248 Article "REID FAMILY PAPERS" by Lundie W. Barlow: ! Some th;irty years ago a number of fading manuscripts reposed in an old chest in the home of Miss Anna Jordan at Monticello, Georgia. They were written in eighteenth century hand on paper of that period; they were family documents which had descended to Miss Anna from her great-great-grandfather, Captain Samuel Reid, a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian who was born in Ulster in 1728-29. ! Samuel Reid came to Pennsylvania with his parents, Alexander and Margaret Reid, about 1745 and lived with them for a few years on Swatawro Creek in Lancaster County; there he married Agnes Kay. Removing about 1756 to Rowan County, North Carolina, he became a man of local prominence, serving on the Committee of Safety in 1775-76, and as captain of militia during the Revolutionary War. In 1789 Captain Reid settled in Georgia, with most of his sons and daughters and several of his brothers. There he made his home in the newly established counties of Hancock and Putnam, a highly respected citizen and veteran of the Revolution, until his death in 1810 in the eighty-second year of his age. The Eatonton, Georgia, Chaptor of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution is named in his honor, and his descendants include many men and women of achievement and distinction. {1} ! Upon Miss Anna Jordan's death, the chest and its contents were alloted to a cousin; a few years later they perished in a fire. Fortunately, transcripts had been made by other descendants of Captain Reid, but the papers were never printed and were scarcely known outside the immediate family. ! After many inquiries and much letter writing while checking on this family of Reid, I located several of these early records. They are quoted below to assure their availability to anyone interested; and with the hope they will come to the attention of some of the hundreds of Captain Reid's present generation progeny who may have other papers (including, perhaps, his family Bible, which I have not been able to trace) and will be induced to publish them, or to deposit them in a library for preservation and reference. The documents of whic I have copies of the originals are as follows: !That Agnes Reed heath Lived in this Congrigation from childhood and heath Behaved hirself Christianly and Soberly and free from any Publicke Scandel known to us, and may be Received into any Christion Society wherever God in his Providence may order hir Lott, is Certified this 16th day of September 1755. Att Conawago. By the Elders !/s/ Robert Mordah John McQueen Thomas Bowman (2) ===================================================================== !Rowan -- May 22nd 1776 !To Captain Reid !Agreeable to Order of Congress you are to call your Company together as soon as may be and divide them into Five Divisions which are to be in the following order, the Fifth and last to consist of the aged and infirm, the other Four to be No. 1. 2. 3. 4. Division, which are to draw Lotts which are to go out in Service when called upon. Which Order you are to strictly observe and have your men in Rediness to March at the shortest notice. ! /s/ Francis Lock, Colonel !To Captain Samuel Reid Sir: In pursuance of Orders from Brigadier General Rutherford you are Directed to appear on the 21st of this Instand with the one half of your Company, in order to march against the Indians -- as it is Certain that they have committed serveral Murders within our Bounds. !July 6, 1776 ! /s/ Francis Lock, Colonel !To Captain Samuel Reed, these Sir: By Order from the Board of War and General Davison, you are to raise all the Volunters Horsemen that posable you can turn out for a short time to answer some Valuable Purposes that is in view. What thime that may be shall be allowed them in part of a Toure of Duty. You are to Rendevous at Shirrels Ford on the Cataba the 15 day of this Instant. You are to carry Provisions for yourslef and horse to serve you till Rendivous, where we shall be joined by Brigadier General Davision. The Horse and Incoutrements are to be Valid according to Law. From your Humble Sarvant, ! /s/ Francis Lock, Colonel (3) !Pay Roll of Captain Samuel Reids Company in Colonel Regiment & General Rutherfords Brigade, August 9, 1780. (4) !Samuel Reid, Captain - Commenced service May 27th - Time paid to Aughst 1st - Number of days 66 - Pay per day $3 1/2 - Officers subsistance $200 - Amount of Pay and Subsistence $671...(Similar entries follow relative to Lieutenant Robert Allison, Ensign Allen Maccoby, (4) First Sergeant Robert Ralston, Second Sergeant Boston Dyson, First Corporal Peter Riggen, Second Corporal James Markham, and Privates J. McComel, William Whitfield, Joseph Noriss, William Dobbins, Joseph McHargus, Patrick Harkness, Aaron Lewman, Robert Kivin, James Walton, William Taylor, Archabal Smith, William Anderson, Robert Anderson, Robert Homes, Thomas Bailey, Philip Dyson, Robert Bathwell, Leander Smith, James Kidd, Ebinezer Dickey, (4) Alexander Patterson, Michael Kinleven, Tarden Arm Hollow, William Petherson.) ! Will of Samuel Reid !In the name of God the twenty sixth day of April in the year one thousand and sevenhundred and eighty four and in the eighth year of American Independence, !I, Samuel Reid, of Rowan County in the State of North Carolina, being infirm in body but of perfect mind and memory, thanks to God for it, calling to mind the Mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed for men to die, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament - that is to say principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul into the Hands of God that gave it; and my body I commit to the Earth to be decently buried at the ciscretation of my Executors hereafter named, nothing doubting but at the Resurrection to receive the same again; and as touching the Worldly Estate where with it has pleased God to bless me in this life, I give and devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form, that is to item First, I will that my lawful debts be paid by my Executors hereafter named. !Item: I give and devise to my loving son James Reed, & to his heirs and assigneers forever, two hundred acres of land off the track that my dwelling is now on, to be devided and taken off the north end on an East and West line, being part of the track whereon he now livith. I give and bequeath all remainder of my land to be sold at the discreation of my Executors hereafter mentioned, at any term of time they think proper, and the money thereof to be equally divided and given to my loving sons as foloweth, namely, Samuel Reid, Alexander, John Reid, and Andrew Reid. !Item: I give and bequeath to my loving wife Agness Reid (5) one negro wench, which one she shall choose of the wenches, and a third of my goods and chattels. !Item: I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary Reid Hall ten pounds lawful money to be raised of of my estate. !Item: I give and bequeath unto my loving daughters, namely, Margared Reid, (5) Jean Reid, Agnes Reid, and Sarah Reid, the two thirds of my movible Estate to be equally devided between my last named daughters. !Item: I give and bequeath the remainder of my Estate to be divided to all my sons as my Executors shall see fit. Lastly, I do hereby nominate, and name, and appoint, and ordain my brother Alexander Reid, and my loving wife Agnes Reid, Executors of this my last Will and Testament. !In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and affixed my seal this day & month & year above writ. ! /s/ Samuel Reid (Seal) !Signed, Sealed, Published, Pronounced, and Declared by said Samuel Reid as his last Will & Testament in the presence of us the Subscribers: !/s/ Anna Reid ! /s/ John (X) Vicker (5) Margarette Reid and her Descendants (6) Margarette Reid, daughter of Captain Samuel and Agnes Reid, married John Bailey of Hancock County and had isseu - Nancy Baily, married Abner Simonton, died 1840, son of Adam Simonton. David Henry Bailey, Died in 1812 in the War. John Abercrombie Bailey Charles Bailey General Samuel Armstrong Bailey, married Frances Lloyd. Nancy and Abner Simonton had issue - Margarette Simonton, married Benjamin Alfriend, Sarah Simonton, married Matthew Howell, Isabella Simonton, married Sidney C. Prudden, Isabella and Sidney Prudden have issue - Louise Prudden, Belle Prudden, and Sarah Jane Prudden. The following are notations for the immediate preceeding Reid Family Papres: (1) For Captain Samuel Reid and some of his descendants see membership papers of Emmaline Jernigan Moore (Mrs. Lundie Weathers) Barlow, chapter number C 1281, The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwelath of Massachusetts. See also I. W. Avery, "The Scotch-Irish Settlers and Statesmen of Georgia" in Scotch-Irish Society of America Proceedings and Address, vol 4, pp 214 ff.; Lucian Lamar Knight, Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials, and Legends, vol. 2, pp 866, 934; and two manuscript accounts in Daughters of the American Revolution Library, Washington:L - Judge Thomas G.Lawson, Memorandum Genealogy of Reid and Lawson, and Judge William Dennis Reid, Reid Family of North Carolina and Georgia. (2) In 1755 Conewago Presbyterian Church was in that part of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, near Swatawra Creek, where Alexander Reid and Samuel Reid were granted land in 1748 - Wayland F. Dunaway, The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania, pp 53, 204; Pennsylvania Land Survey Book, C 189, p 145, in Department of Internal Affairs, Harrisburg; Physick Papers, vol 5, p. 91, in Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. !(3) This order is not dated but from internal and other evidence it seems to have been written in early May preceding the Battle of Camden on 16 August 1780; compare Revolutionary War Pension Papers in National Archives, Washington: -W8669, !Declaration of Ebenezer Dickey that he enlisted in Rowan County in May 1780 and "served three months as Private in Captain Samuel Reed's Company, Colonel Lock's North Carolina Regiment...was in the Battle of Camden...lived in Rowan until 1787"; and S32108, Declaration of Robert Bailey that he volunteered in May 1780 "in the county of Roan.. in the Company commanded by Captain Reid and Lieteuant Mackobey...marched from Roan to go against Cornwallis...joined General Gates...marched a great part of the might before General Gates was defeated in the action at Camden.,..was sent back with the troops that was wounded...discharged after a three months Tour"; and see note 4 for those named. !(4) At and undetermined date during May to August 1780 Colonel Alexander seems to have succeeded Colonel Locke as commander of Captain Reid's regimend, compare note 3 for Ensign (lieutenant) Allen Maccoby (Mackobey), and Privates Bailey and Ebinezer (Ebenezer) Dickey. (5) See notes 1 and 6 for Agnes Reid, and note 6 for Agnes and her daughter Margaret Reid. The will was never probated, presumable because Captain Reid did not die until some twenty-six years after it was written. By that time the will was obsoletd, all of the property bequeathed by it havig been sold, or given to his children, in the interim. Genealogically, however, the document is as authoritative as if it had been proved and recorded soon after it was drawn. (6) This memorandum was written by Elizabeth Reid (Mrs. Charles Scott) Jordan, daughter of Samuel Reid, Junior; granddaughter of Captain Samuel Reid; niece of Margaret (Reid) Bailey; and grandmother of Miss Anna Jordan, possessor of the Reid Papers quoted. Mrs. Charles Scott Jordan was a contemporary or near comtemporary of all those named in this memorandum. 7/20/99 - From book in Irving Library " The Granville District of North Carolina 1748 - 1763, Abstracts of Land Grants" Vol. Two by Margaret M Hoffman. The following has not been proved to be connected to this particular Samuel Reid but the dates and places fit well. pg 328: 7626 MR SAMUEL REED entry dated 10 February 1761 640 acres in Rowan County on the North side of the South Yadkin, joining the sd river - including the Mouth of Little Dutchman Creek /s/ SAML REED Wit: JOH FROHOCK. 7627 SAMUEL REED warrant 10 February 1761 to JOHN FROHOCK to survey 640 acres in Rowan County on the North Side (of the) South Yadkin, joining the sd river - including the Mouth of Little Dutchmans Creek ?s/ JOHN FROHOCK. The back of the document reads: "Grant 21 December 1761". 7628 SAMUEL REED entry dated - February 1762 700 acres in Rowan County on both sides of fourth creek, joinin JOHN WILSON - including REED'S Own improvements /s/ SAML REED Wit: WILL REED