Janet Nelson At Ancestry ID: I3156 Name: John REEDER
NSFX: (from England)
Title: (from England)
Sex: M
Birth: Abt 1614 in Kent, England
Death: 1659/1660 in Middleburg, Long Island, NY
Change Date: 6 OCT 2002 at 14:56:23
Father: William REDER
Mother: Leser
Marriage 1 Hannah THORPE b: Abt 1616. Married: Abt 1641 in Stratford, Fairfield Co, CT John Reeder Sr. b. 1618, d. before 9 March 1659/60, #5809 Appears on charts: Pedigree for Lieutenant Colonel John Robert Stewart. John Reeder was a Dutch-Englishman, his family having immigrated to Protestant England (Kent County) from Holland when it was invaded by Spain.
The earliest Reeder wills in the Canterbury Courts show that the Reeder family first settled on the southern branch of the Thames River estuary at Sittingbourne, Kent County (which village was north of the Pilgrim's Path to Canterbury.) From Sittingbourne, the younger generations of Reeder gradually spread south and east to Canterbury, where Thomas Reeder was an Alderman, and finally down to Dover and Folkestone. 1 John Reeder is a qualifying founder for the Founders of New Haven Colony. 2 John Reeder Sr. was born in 1618 in Kent, England.1 He emigrated from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England, leaving 8 April 1630; Departed England on Winthrop's flagship, the Arabella. In the passenger list he is referred to as "... Reeder."1 He immigrated to Salem/Boston, Massachusetts Bay Commonwealth, arriving 13 June 1630; He was a young passenger on the "Arbella", flagship of Governor Winthrop's 1630 fleet to Boston. He was a schoolboy and was addressed as "Reeder" by Winthrop's personal list of 76 passengers aboard the ship.1 He was taken, after the first dreadful winter in Massachusetts (Cambridge) during which so many of the passengers died, into the household of William Pynchon (another on the first five of Winthrop's 1630 fleet), who was sent by Winthrop to found Roxburg (today part of Boston) on the other side of the Charles River, in 1632. He accompanied Pynchon and his company, and moved to the Indian town Agawam on the Connecticut River, where the company founded "Springfield" across the river in 1636. He relocated to Massachusetts, in 1636. He received his first grant of land from Massachusetts Bay Colony, being now eighteen years old, ten acres of land bounded by neighbor John Cabell, in 1636 in Springfield. He immigrated to Kent, England, arriving 1637; He sold his 10 acres and returned to England on Captain Henry Smith's ship (Smith was the son-in-law of William Pynchon). There he visited relatives in Kent County, but decided to return to America again. He emigrated from London, England, leaving circa April 1637; "In Nov. of 1633, [John] Davenport fled to Amsterdam to escape increasing disapproval of the Crown where the group organized their move to the New World.

The group included: John and Elizabeth Davenport (left infant son in care of noble lady); Theophilus Eaton, Anne Eaton, dau. of George Lloyd, Bishop of Chester, and widow of Thomas Yale, the second wife of Theophilus Eaton; old Mrs. Eaton, his mother; Samuel and Nathaniel Eaton, his brothers; Mary Eaton, the dau. of his first wife; Samuel, Theophilus and Hannah, the children of his second wife; Anne, David and Thomas Yale, the children of Anne Eaton by her former marriage; Edward Hopkins, who on Sep. 5, 1631 had married Anne Yale at St. Antholin's in London; and Richard Malbon, a kinsman of Theophilus Eaton. Also many inhabitants of the parish of St. Stephen, Coleman St. Nathaniel Rowe (son of Own Rowe who intended to follow); William Andrews, Henry Browning, James Clark, Jasper CRANE, Jeremy Dixon, Nicholas Elsey, Francis Hall, Robert Hill, William Ives, Geo. Smith, George Ward and Lawrence Ward." "Others (probably from the neighborhood, but not members of St. Stephens): Ezekiel Cheever, Edward Bannister, Richard Beach, Richard Beckley, John Brockett, John Budd, John Cooper, Arthur Halbidge, Mathew Hitchcock, Andrew Hull, Andrew Low, Andrew Messenger, Mathew Moulthrop, Francis Newman, Robert Newman, Richard Osborn, Edward Patteson, John Reader, William Thorp and Samuel Whitehead. The group chartered the "Hector" of London. On June 26, 1637, John Winthrop recorded the arrival of the group from London at Boston."

He immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts Bay Commonwealth, arriving 26 June 1637; He returned to America aboard the "Hector", accompanied by William Tharp/Thorp and his daughter Hannah, who became his first wife. On June 26, 1637, John Winthrop recorded the arrival of the group from London at Boston. He settled then in Hartford. He married Hannah Thorpe, daughter of William Thorpe and Garthered Blithe, circa 1639 in New Haven, Connecticut; His 1st. He relocated to New Haven, Connecticut, before 4 June 1639; He and his father-in-law moved to Connecticut, because William Pynchon had moved there as the first magistrate, where Reeder opened and maintained an inn on the river (Reeder's lot was #10 in the village).1,2 He one of the free planters who assented to the Fundamental Agreement of the Colony on 4 June 1639 in New Haven Colony, Connecticut. He was not a Puritan, but a "Separatist" rather (much like the Plymouth Pilgrims). He lived in 1641 in New Haven, Connecticut; John Reeder is described as a resident of New Haven, but not within the "Nine Squares" of the town. His father-in-law, William Thorpe, is found within one the the nine.6 He lived between 1643 and 1650 in Connecticut.3 He relocated to Stratford, Connecticut, circa 1651; After his father-in-law's death, he and his wife Hannah and their children moved to Stratford, Connecticut at the mouth of Housatonic River and Long Island Sound. (Stratford is now the river port of Bridgeport, Connecticut on Route #1.).

He was operator of a trading post and inn in 1651 in Stratford, Connecticut. He relocated to Middleburgh (now Newton), Queens County, New York, in 1652. He left his children with friends at Stratford and moved across the Sound to Long Island, where Henry Feake of Massachusetts and his company of 12 men were building a new town named "Middleburgh" in 1652 in Long Island, New York. He married Margaret Isackes in 1652 in Middleborough, Long Island, Queens County, New York; His 2nd or a different John Reeder? One of Connecticut, another of New York? This too explains why mother is variously Hannah Thorpe, Margaret Thorpe, and also Margaret Isackes. He died before 9 March 1659/60 in Newton, Queens County, New York.      

Children of John Reeder Sr. and Hannah Thorpe:     Elizabeth Reeder   b. c 1644     John Reeder Jr.+   b. c 1645, d. b 18 May 1710     N. N. Reeder+   b. c 1647   Joseph Reeder Sr.   b. 1647, d. a

CHARLES REEDER was born in England, June 24, 1713, and came to America in 1734. In 1737 he married Eleanor Merrick, and they were the parents of eleven children:

Joseph, born September 3, 1738; Charles, June 15, 1743; Benjamin, March 20, 1746; Jesse, August 25, 1748; David, May 3, 1750; Abraham, July 8, 1752; Merrick, July 31, 1754; Hannah, August 15, 1756; John, November 20,1761; Mary, September 10, 1764, and Job. The parents of these children were both members of the Society of Friends. The will of Charles Reeder, Sr., was made June 16, 1800, and admitted to probate on the 8th of September, 1804. Benjamin Reeder settled in Shamokin, Northumberland county, Pennsylvania.

Jesse Reeder was drowned when a young man while fishing in the Delaware river. Job Reeder was born in New Jersey while his parents were temporarily sojourning in that State, having been driven by the Indians from their home in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He removed to Lycoming county and his sons, Samuel and Joseph, settled in Erie county, Pennsylvania.

   MERRICK REEDER, Sr., son of Charles and Eleanor Reeder, removed from the Canaan farm, Wrightstown, Pennsylvania, to Muncy in 1810. In 1773 he married Elizabeth Collins, and they had thirteen children: Benajah, born November 30, 1774; Merrick, February 8, 1776, Jonathan, June 10, 1777; David, August 23, 1778; Hannah, April 11, 1780; Mary, October 29, 1781; Rebecca, May 30,1783; Elizabeth, April 3, 1785;Charles, April 18, 1787; Andrew, June 12,1789; John, May 18, 1791; Eleanor, November, 4, 1793, and Jesse, August 10, 1796.

   ANDREW REEDER, son of Merrick Reeder, was a farmer, and took an active part in Democratic politics; he was elected commissioner for Lycoming county in 1852, and was married to Anna Kimble, who was born September 6, 1791, and to this union were born seven children: Margaret, born June 12, 1814; Charles, deceased, January 16,1816; Henry C., March 22, 1818; Andrew C., September 15,1820; Anna, January 20, 1824; Peter, and Merrick, deceased, (twins), October 4, 1827. Andrew Reeder 'died, September 2, 1874, and his wife, January 23, 1879.

   PETER REEDER, lumber dealer, was born near Montoursville, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, October 4, 1827, son of Andrew and Anna (Kimble) Reeder. He was educated in the common schools, and began his business life as a farmer and drover, alternating with teaching school in the winter. In 1866 he engaged in the mercantile business in Hughesville, and also the lumber business; he has built thirteen houses in Hughesville, and is still engaged in lumbering, but sold his mercantile store in 1887 to Reeder & Derr.

In 1878 he was elected to the State legislature; he has been county auditor, and has served on the school board and council of Hughesville. He was married, September 15, 1853, to Sarah F., daughter of Henry Ritter, and to them were born nine children: Annie, born July 1, 1854, who married William L. Laird; Lizzie, who was born July 25, 1856, and died May 23, 1890; Robert K., whose sketch appears elsewhere; Margaret, born March 6, 1860; Henry C., born September 25, 1862, who is a civil engineer of Williamsport; Charles, born April 2, 1864; Milton, born March 18, 1866; Frank A., born June 17, 1869, and Jessie May, who was born November 1, 1875, and died July 28, 1876.

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