Reed, Sampson

1799 - 1877  (78 years)

• Name	Reed, Sampson
  Birth	14 Mar 1799	Hartford, Oxford Co., ME
  Gender	Male
  Death	06 Apr 1877	Hartford, Oxford Co., ME
  Burial	Hartford, Oxford Co., ME   [1]
  Person ID	I55910	My Damon Genealogy
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2014

  
  

  Family	Bisbee, Hulda,   b. 11 Nov 1802, Sumner, Oxford Co., ME d. 11 Jul 1842, Oxford Co., ME (Age 39 years)
  Children	1. Reed, Elisha Bisbee,   b. 4 Nov 1820, Hartford, Oxford Co., ME d. 1851 (Age 30 years)   2. Reed, Emela Mandaville,   b. 8 Nov 1823, Hartford, Oxford Co., ME   3. Reed, Lewis Bradford,   b. 7 Feb 1822, Hartford, Oxford Co., ME   4. Reed, Sampson Jr.  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   5. Reed, Hulda Bisbee,   b. 11 Dec 1826, Hartford, Oxford Co., ME   6. Reed, Lydia Phelps,   b. 1 Dec 1826, Hartford, Oxford Co., ME   7. Reed, Axel  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   8. Reed, Augustus  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
  Family ID	F1704	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2014

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 14 Mar 1799 - Hartford, Oxford Co., ME Death - 06 Apr 1877 - Hartford, Oxford Co., ME Burial - - Hartford, Oxford Co., ME  = Link to Google Earth
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  A BIOGRAPHY OF SAMPSON REED, by Larry Overmire (3rd great grandson), Aug. 2008: Sampson Reed (III) was born in Hartford, Oxford County, Maine, on Mar. 14, 1799, the second of ten children of Sampson Read Jr. and Jane Bradford Ellis. On July 8, 1820, on the old Charles Bisbee homestead near Buckfield village, 21-year-old Sampson married 16-year-old Huldah Bisbee, the daughter of Revolutionary War veteran Lt. Elisha Bisbee and his wife Mary "Molly" Pettingell. They had 8 children: Elisha Bisbee, Lewis Bradford, Emily Mandeville, Lydia Phelps, Huldah Bisbee, Sampson Jr., Axel Hayford, and Augustus Stevens (died in childhood). Initially, Sampson and Huldah moved to the 'Mason Farm' near Bear Mountain where their first child Elisha was born." After his brother Bradford died, Sampson and Huldah settled on the family homestead to care for his parents. Sampson made many improvements on the homestead until it became the center of attraction for the whole township. Sampson was a prominent farmer and cattle drover. His son Axel H. Reed gave the following description of his father in his "Genealogical Record of The Reads, Reeds, the Bisbees, the Bradfords of the United States of America": "He was a man of a strong constitution, vigorous in action as well as 'head strong' in his younger days. His build was a heavy, set, weighing two hundred and forty pounds in his palmy days at a height of near six feet. In addition to living a farm life, he dealt mainly in stock and for more than twenty years he visited nearly every part of Oxford County each year, buying cattle, gathering them at his home farm and from there driving them on hoof to the Westbrook and Brighton markets. The Westbrook market being near Portland, Me., and the Brighton market near Boston, Mass. He took an active part in politics and served as a representative in the Maine legislature and a term as one of the governor's council." Sampson's family changed the spelling of the family name from "Read" to "Reed." His son Elisha initiated the spelling change when he entered the mercantile business in Boston. His brothers and many other relatives subsequently adopted the spelling of "Reed." Sampson's wife Huldah died of consumption at the age of 38. He married again to a woman named Betsey H. sometime before 1850. Sampson died at Hartford on April 6, 1877, at the age of 78, and was buried in the Read family lot in the Starboard Hill (aka Meeting House Hill) Cemetery there. A Find A Grave volunteer could not locate Sampson's grave in 2010 and reported: "Searched entire cemetery and could not find grave. Not to say it isn't there because there are many many plots that are only marked with a cross and no name. Found wife Hulduah and a plot next to her that could be his but then again - no stone no name."

  
  

• Sources

  [S648] "Find A Grave", Find A Grave, database and images (http://www.findagrave.com: accessed 30 July 2013), memorial page for Sampson Reed III (1799-1877), Find A Grave Memorial no. 29350670, citing Meeting House Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Oxford County, Maine, created by Laurence Overmire, images by Laurence Overmire.