John Read (Connecticut politician)

rdf:langString John Read (Connecticut politician)

rdf:langString John Reed

rdf:langString John Reed

rdf:langString John Reed, Jr., Thomas Reed, William John Reed, Mary Reed Tuttle, Abigail Reed

rdf:langString Lawyer

rdf:langString Member of the

rdf:langString from Norwalk

rdf:langString Colonel

rdf:langString Anne Samson Derby , widow Scofield of Stamford

rdf:langString May 1718

rdf:langString October 1715

rdf:langString May 1715

rdf:langString October 1717

rdf:langString Member of the

rdf:langString from Norwalk

rdf:langString May 1715–October 1715

rdf:langString October 1717–May 1718

rdf:langString John Reed (1633 – 1730) was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk, Connecticut Colony in the May 1715 and October 1717 sessions. He was the son of James Reed. He was an officer in Oliver Cromwell's new model army, and a soldier from the age of sixteen. When Charles II of England was restored to the throne, Reed left for America. He settled first in Providence, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. In Providence, he married Anne Samson Derby. He later moved to Rye, Province of New York, in 1684, where he lived for three or four years. He then established himself in the western part of Norwalk, at a house he built on the eastern side of the , north of the Old Post Road and nearly two miles from the Long Island Sound at a place called Reed's Farms. His name is found among the records of the town of Norwalk in 1687. John Reed was admitted to the bar in 1708 in Norwalk, Connecticut. His house was used for a meeting place for some years. His wife died and he married again to the Widow Scofield from Stamford. He died in Norwalk, in the ninety-eighth year of his age, in 1730, and was interred in a tomb on his own farm.

rdf:langString Reed's Farm, Rowayton, Connecticut