Reeder, (John Reeder, age 18 son of William Reeder) was born 27 December 1616 in Stradishall to William Reeder and died 9 March 1660 Newton of unspecified causes.
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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 at 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 1636.1 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 at Springfield.1 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.1 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." 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.1,4 He married Hannah Thorpe, daughter of William Thorpe and Garthered Blithe, circa 1639 at New Haven, Connecticut; His 1st.5,1 John Reeder Sr. 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 at New Haven Colony, Connecticut.2 He was not a Puritan, but a "Separatist" rather (much like the Plymouth Pilgrims).1 He lived in 1641 at 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 at Connecticut.3 He witnessed the death of William Thorpe circa 1650 at New Haven, Connecticut; He died at his son-in-law, John Reeder's Inn and home.1 John Reeder Sr. witnessed the death of Hannah Thorpe between 1650 and 1652 at Stratford, Connecticut.1 John Reeder Sr. 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.).1 He was operator of a trading post and inn in 1651 at Stratford, Connecticut.1 He relocated to Middleburgh (now Newton), Queens County, New York, in 1652.3 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 at Long Island, New York.1 He married Margaret Isackes in 1652 at 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.7 John Reeder Sr. died before 9 March 1659/60 at Newton, Queens County, New York |
Dave Stake (John Reeder is my 10th great maternal grandfather)