When Doctor Elijah Fitch Reed was born on 11 May 1767, in East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, his father, Ebenezer Read, was 33 and his mother, Mary Fitch, was 23. He married Hannah McLean on 6 January 1792. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 9 September 1847, in South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Center Cemetery, South Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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Separated from East Windsor which had been divided from Windsor in 1768
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English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English and Older Scots red(e) ‘red’, no doubt denoting someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion.
English: from Middle English ride, rede, rude (Old English rīed, rēod, rȳd) ‘clearing’. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived in or near a clearing, or habitational, for someone who lived at one of a number of places so named, including Rede Court in Strood (Kent), Rides in Eastchurch (Kent), Ride Way in Ewhurst (Surrey), and Reed Farm in Wadhurst (Sussex). The word is particularly common in the southeastern counties of England, from Kent to the Isle of Wight. See also Rider and Reader .
English: habitational name from Read (Lancashire), Reed (Hertfordshire), or Rede (Suffolk). The Lancashire placename derives from Old English rǣge ‘roe, female roe deer’ + hēafod ‘head’. The Hertfordshire placename derives from Old English rȳhth ‘rough piece of ground’. The etymology of the Suffolk placename is uncertain.
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