<p> The Reeds (Riedt) come to America</p><p>This document is my attempt to correct the records on Captain Casper Reed (Casper Jr. 1731), my wife’s 4 great grandpa.</p><p>Casper Reed. There are numerous Casper Reeds (Riet/Riedt). The gentleman who came to America as a 7 year old child is my wife’s great great great great great grandfather I will call Casper Reed Sr.</p><p>Johann Jerg (George) Reed (Riet/Riedt)</p><p>My information on the Reeds is as follows: </p><p>The record from the "Book of Names" by Lou D. MacWethy, 1933. Second List of Palatines coming from Germany, 1193 persons, taken at Walworth, England, May 27, 1709 </p><p>Johann Jerg (George) Reed (Riet), husbandman, Lutheran, with wife Ann Catherina (Bern) plus 5 sons: George (20), Leonhardt (18), Michael (16), Peter (14), and Casper (7) years old; also 3 daughters: Anna Maria (22), Amelia (12), and Daughter (10) years old.</p><p>The Family sailed from England December 24, 1709 on board the Ship "Midfort", and landed in New York June 13, 1710. Father, Johann, died during the voyage to America aboard the ship and was buried at sea; he was listed as 50 years old. His wife and her family landed with her Palatine friends..</p><p>The family lived at Livingston Manor, New York in 1710-1711 and then in the Schoharie Valley. Most of its members migrated to the Tulpehocken area near Stouchsburg, in 1723. Grandpa Casper is mentioned on the list of the first settlers of Tulpehocken Twp along with his son Casper (Jr.) and his other relatives (1752) in Daniel Rupps, "History of the Counties of Berks and Lebanon", pages 245-249;</p><p>Much of the confusion about the Reeds comes from various church records and from Herbert Reed’s book “The Tulpenhocken Reeds”</p><p>The following summary comes from the Robert Reed family who has a copy of the original church document.</p><p>***********************************************************************************************</p><p>A BRIEF HISTORY of the FIRST TULPEHOCKEN LUTHERAN CHURCH Known as ZION’S – ST. JOHN’S (REED’S) LUTHERAN CHURCH</p><p>Page 1 of 4 Data compiled from Authentic Sources By Rev. E. S. Brommiller</p><p>Delivered at the Semi-Centennial of the Erection of the present CHURCH EDIFICE ,,,, Nov. 26, 1887</p><p>1. *Johan Jerg (George) Riet (1659-1710) = w/Anna Catharina (Bern) and their children (8): Anna Maria (Riet) Anspach, Mrs. Baltsan (1687-1750); J. George (1689-1753); J. Leonhardt (1691-1747); J. Michael (1693-1754); J. Peter (1695- 1747); Amelia (1697 - 17____); daughter/______(1697 – 17____); and *J. Casper (1702-1788). *--The vater, J. George Sr. died during the voyage and was buried at sea; but we did find where an/or when the mutter, A. Catharina Riet/Rieth died. It may have been at Germantown, New York.</p><p>2. *J. Casper Rieth Sr. (1702-1788), m. (2) w/l, Anna Margaret (Schirmer), (1709- 1760); they were in Berks County, 1723: (13 ch. Listed); m. w/2, (Shirmer) Stieffen, Anna Marie (Mrs. Merc), 1761; no ch. listed.</p><p>3. *J. Casper (Capt. Casper) Reed (Rieth/Ried), (1731-1802), m. (2): w/l, Anna Magdalena Schaefer: m., Berks County, 12 August 1754, at Atolhoe (Rehrersburg), by Rev. J. Casper Stoever Jr.; m. w/2, Anna Magdalena Weiser (s/o, Conrad Weisr), 6 April 1774, by Rev. Muhlenburg (6 ch listed).</p><p>************************************************************************************************* Captain Casper Reed (Rieth)</p><p>In fact thanks to the information provided by the Northumberland County Historical Society, we had the pleasure of visiting Casper’s grave in Port Treverton. </p><p>Information furnished by the Northumberland Historical Society:</p><p>Casper Reed was born on February 2,1731 and died August 9, 1802. He was christened in 1731 at Reed’s ”Zion Lutheran Church”, Stouchsburg, PA His children from his first wife, ANNA SCHAEFFER, who were married in Atolhoe, PA by Rev. J. Casper Stoever Jr. are:</p><p> i. CASPER II4 REED. 5. ii. EVE MARGARET REED, b. March 10, 1758, Berks County, Pennsylvania; d. Bef. January 6, 1798., m. Simon Rorabaugh iii. FREDERICK REED, b. January 31, 1762, Heidelberg Twp, Berks County, PA; d. May 6, 1836, pt. Trevorton, Mahantango Twp, Northumberland/Snyder Cnty, PA; m. (1) ELIZABETH KLINGER, October 16, 1787; m. (2) MARY EVE GROVE, 1791. iv. HANNAH ELIZABETH REED, m. CHRISTOPHER WITMER. v. ANNA CATHARINA REED. vi. MARY ANN REED, m. JACOB WITMER.</p><p>It should also be noted that Casper Reed was on the Snyder County tax rolls in 1768 and therefore was not in Berks County in 1778 for Casper II’s birth in Womelsdorf, PA</p><p>Page 2 of 4 Will: Casper's will was dated January 6, 1798 in Mahantango Twp., Northumberland County, PA and proved Aug. 9, 1802. A copy of this will is our possession. In it he mentioned his wife Anna and his daughter Eve, Mrs. Simon Rohrbach, as being deceased; leaving (grandchildren) Hannah, Catherine, (Grandpa)John, Elizabeth, and David Rohrbach.</p><p>Casper’s second wife is ANNA MAGDALENA WEISER, married April 6, 1774 in Pt. Trevorton, Mahantango Twp, Northumberland/Snyder Cnty, PA.</p><p>The following summary was written in a book: "Snyder County Pioneers" by Charles A. Fisher dated 1938. Text from the book follows</p><p>CAPTAIN CASPER REED (also Ried, Rieth, Riet, etc.) was assessed as a resident, but not a landowner in Heidelberg Township, Berks County, PA in 1767. The following year (1768) he was assessed as a resident of what is now Snyder County, and he lived along the Susquehanna River on the present site of the village of Port Trevorton, where he had a frontier Inn. It is supposed ( ed: confirmed as a son) that he was a son , or grandson, of John Casper Ried who came down the Susquehanna River from New York State with the Palatines in 1723, and settled in the Tulpehocken Township, Berks County. The Reverend Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg, the noted Lutheran missionary of that period, states in his diary that he stopped at the inn.</p><p>Captain Reed did not leave his property during the Indian uprisings, as many of his neighbors did, but his home seems to have been the embarking place for those who desired to go further down the river. </p><p>In 1772, Casper Reed, Peter Hosterman, and George Wolf were granted tavern licenses in Penn Township. Reed was located at Port Treverton, Hosterman at Selingrove, and Wolf near Hummel's wharf. On November 23, 1772, Casper Reed was sworn in as one of the commissioners of Northumberland County. This and his large land holdings would seem to indicate that he was a man of considerable wealth and standing in the frontier community. In 1781 Casper was assessed with 200 hundred acres of land, a sawmill and considerable personal property. On April 10, 1794, he was granted a warrant of survey for 400 hundred acres in Bedford County, and on June 20th of the same year 94 additional acres in Northumberland (now Snyder) County. </p><p>Captain Reed died in Mahantango Township, Northumberland, now Union Township, Snyder County, in the summer of 1802. His wife's name was Anna, the will mentions her and their children: Frederick, Hannah (Mrs., Christopher Witmer), Mary (Mrs. Jacob Witmer), and Eve (Mrs. Simon [Rohrabach ] Rorabaugh). Eve died before 1798 and left the following children: Hannah, Catherine, Elizabeth, John, and David (Rohrabach) Rorabaugh. The compiler believed that Captain Reed is buried in the Old Pioneer Cemetery, opposite the Lower Harrold's School House, south of Port Treverton. (ed. Captain Reed is indeed buried in the Old Pioneer Cemetery and we have pictures of same.)</p><p>Revolutionary War Service - Casper Reed served as a Captain in the First Company, Third Battalion, Northumberland Militia according to the Battalion Return dated May 1, 1778. noted in the Pennsylvania Archives Fifth Series, Volume VIII. Casper is listed in Page 3 of 4 the "DAR PATRIOT INDEX Centennial Issue PART III" on Page 2420 as a Captain from PA. On May 1, 1778, he was Captain of the 1st Company, 3rd Battalion of the Northumberland County Militia. In 1790 his family consisted of two males over 16 years, and two females. ************ end exerpts *************************************</p><p>Migrations: Casper is mentioned on the list of the first settlers of Tulpehoken Twp along with his father Casper (Sr.) and his other relatives (1752) in Daniel Rupps, "History of the Counties of Berks and Lebanon", pages 245-249; Page 21 of Rohrbach, Vol II - Casper moved from Tulpehoken Twp, Berks County in 1771 to the Buffalo Valley in Northumberland County in the Spring of 1771. The move was possibly with Simon Rohrbach of Hereford Twp, Berks County, who would be Casper's future son-in-law. Tax Lists, Tulpehoken Twp, Berks Co., Page 21- 1754 Tax records</p><p>Page 4 of 4</p>