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/0AC.2ACI/2692.1 Message Board Post: According to the book, Soldiers, Sailors, and Patriots of the Revolutionary War--Vermont, by Carleton and Sue Fisher, "Reed, John, Sgt., MA; b VT 1759; Capt. Smith's co.; d. Canandaigua, NY 1828; m. Abigail; CL-10, 136:25. CL-10 is a DAR Lineage Book. 136:25 is the volume number and page. I do not believe that he would have been born in VT back in that time period.