Hugh Reed Sr.
Landholder on Second Creek in Rowan County, North Carolina, who died there, probably before the end of 1786; his 187-acre estate was sold, and a James Reed was named in the sale. Possibly the father of James Reed, but the link is unproven.
Life
- bef. 1786Diedbef. end of 1786, Rowan County, North Carolina
The Attride compilation gives "before Dec 1786, Rowan/Burke Co NC." His estate was sold after his death.
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Family
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Pedigree
Notes
Known only from the Attride compilation, whose underlying records have not been seen here. His 187-acre estate on Second Creek, Rowan County, was sold after his death, and a James Reed was named in the sale. The compilation makes him the father of the James Reed who died about 1841 in Clay County, Kentucky.
Whether he is the father of our James Reed is unproven. Being named at an estate sale does not show that a man was the deceased’s son, and James’s census ages (born c. 1766-75) are young for the James Reed of the 1783 Rowan grant of 130 acres on Dutchmans Creek, which needs a man born by about 1762. A James Reed in Rowan in 1820 (a man 16-25, counted white) shows that James Reeds were still there later. The book Molata calls Hugh Mary Reed’s grandfather “with confidence”; the research marks that link [?].
No link is known between Hugh and William Read (b. c. 1673), whom Heinegg treats as the founder of the free colored Reed family; the research estimates about four generations between them, none traced.
Open questions
- Hugh’s estate papers (Rowan County, 1786): do they name heirs, and is James among them as a son?
- Was Hugh counted or described as free colored or mulatto anywhere?
- His own parents, and any connection to the Virginia Reeds in Heinegg.