Our Reid Family
The name Reid in Ireland is often of immigrant origin having been brought to the country by settlers from England and Scotland in the seventeenth century. The native Gaelic O'Riada Sept of County Tipperary and the O'Maoildeirg Sept of County Mayo have also adopted Reid as the anglicized form of their name. Mulderrig, Reade and Red are other variants.
1. Reid.
Children:
i. John (<1700-1771) ii. Thomas iii. Robert
Full Context of New York City Wills, 1771-1776; Page 133.In the name of God, Amen. I, JOHN REID, of New Windsor Precinct, Ulster County, being very weak and frail, I order all the Book debts and small debts I owe to be thankfully paid out of my movable goods. I leave to my daughter, Anna Reid, alias Burnet, 100 acres of land that I bought of Samuel Boyd. I leave to my second daughter, Mary Reid, alias McClohry, 70 acres of land with my house, barn and orchard. I leave to William, Mary, Catharine, and Jean Burns, children of my youngest daughter Jean, 70 acres of the farm I live on, to be laid off as my daughter Mary shall direct. And they are to pay to my executors, œ100. I also leave to said children the farm I bought at Vendue in Esopus, and now possessed by James Burns, smith. And they shall pay to my executors œ97 for discharging debts on said land and Quit rents. But in case any of the said four children should at any time marry or cohabit with a Papist or Papists, notorious Drunkards or Profane Swearers, these said children shall forfeit all their right, and their part to go unto such child or children as shall behave regularly and free of Scandals. I leave to the Trustees of the meeting house built on the hill adjoining Thomas Crawford and Patrick McClohry's land, œ3 yearly for the use of the minister, as shall be lawfully chosen by the majority of the Congregation, the payment to begin in one year, and so to continue yearly until the end of time. Twenty shillings thereof to be paid by Anne Reid, alias Burnet, and her heirs and executors, or whomsoever she may assign the said 100 acres of land. The Trustees are to have an action at Law against said lands for said payment. Twenty shillings to be paid by William, Mary Jean, and Katherine Burns, and to be a lien on their lands. Provided the Trustees of said Meeting House shall allow to said legatees and their heirs and assigns one seat room in the front of the Gallery, 11 foot 3 inches long, and 5 feet wide, in the south west part of said meeting house, until Time end. And in consideration of said seat room the Trustees may bring action for said payments. If my daughter, Jean Reid, alias Burns, shall be left a widow and in distress, my executors are to allow her the use of the house she lives in, and sufficient maintainance. I bequeath 10 shillings to James Burns, blacksmith, and 10 shillings to his eldest son, and no more. I leave to my brother, Robert Reid, œ10 or its value; to be sent to Sarah Reid, and œ10 to Elizabeth Reid, daughter of my brother, Thomas Reid, all in the Parish of Colerain, County Derry, Ireland. If my daughter Jean be left a widow or in distress she is to have the use of one room and cellar in my house, and the use of the barn. I make my grandson, James Burnet, and Mary McClohry, and Patrick McClohry, my son-in-law, executors.
Dated April 2, 1768. Witnesses, Mary McClohry, John McKnight, Thomas Clark, Physician.
Proved, August 30, 1771.John married Unknown.
They had the following children:
i. Jean
ii. Ann
iii. MaryThomas Reid.
1 Child:
i. Elizabeth
Third Generation
Family of John Reid
4. Jean Reid. Jean married James Burns.
They had the following children:
i. William.
ii. Mary.
iii. Jean.
iv. Catharine (or Katherine).5. Ann Reid. In 1730 Ann married Robert Burnet. Born in 1701 in Scotland, near Edinburgh. Robert died in 1774, he was 73. . He was a Scot of pure type, six feet and two inches in height; a firm Presbyterian and a rigid disciplinarian, and his wife was reared in the same faith.
They had the following children:
i. James (1732-1807)
ii. John (1739-1824)
iii. Robert (-1790) 10
iv. Mary (1742-1831) 11
v. Sarah (1745-) 12
vi. Thomas (1748-1835) 13
vii. Patrick (1750-1825)6. Mary Reid. In <1739 Mary married Patrick McClaughry, son of McClaughry.
They had the following children:
i. Elizabeth (1743-1816)
ii. Jane (1739-1811)
iii. Mary
iv. John
v. James. Died unmarried at the home of his sister Mrs. Finley
vi. Ann Nancy (~1740-)
vii. Catherine.
Fourth Generation
Family of Ann Reid & Robert Burnet
Family of Mary Reid & Patrick McClaughry
Created by Elizabeth Finley Frasier
Created April 4, 2000
