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Andrew Reid (17511837)

Description

Andrew Reid, the Rockbridge County, Virginia, clerk of court for more than fifty years, was born on 2 February 1751 in Amherst. In 1797 he purchased Mulberry Hill, a brick manor house in Lexington that would become one of the notable residences of the region. Reid bequeathed the home to his son Samuel McDowell Reid, who also succeeded him as Rockbridge County clerk of court in 1831.

Citations

"Samuel McDowell Reid to Thomas Jefferson, 22 September 1817," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-12-02-0028. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 12, 1 September 1817 to 21 April 1818, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, p. 38.]

Guide to Andrew Reid Record Book, Special Collections Research Center, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Oren Frederick Mort, A History of Rockbridge County, Virginia (Staunton, VA: The McClure Company, 1920), 81 (Ancestry.com).

Andrew Reid at Rockbridge County, Virginia Genealogy and History (Genealogy Trails History Group).

Gen Andrew Franklin Reid at Find a Grave.