Joseph Reed (1772–1846)
Joseph Reed, son of patriot Joseph Reed (1741–1785), was born in Pennsylvania on 11 July 1772. A graduate of the College of New Jersey (today's Princeton University), he worked as an attorney in Philadelphia. He also served as prothonotary of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1800–09), Philadelphia city recorder (1810–29), and Pennsylvania attorney general (1810–11). In 1806 Reed married Maria Ellis Watmough (1785–1865). Their children included William Bradford Reed, who would serve as Pennsylvania attorney general and U.S. minister to China.
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John Hill Martin, Martin’s Bench and Bar of Philadelphia; Together with Other Lists of Persons Appointed to Administer the Laws in the City and County of Philadelphia, and the Province and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: R. Welsh & Co., 1883).
Joseph Jackson, Market Street, Philadelphia: The Most Historic Highway in America, Its Merchants, and Its Story (Philadelphia: Joseph Jackson, 1918), 115.
The Philadelphia Directory and Register, for 1822 (Philadelphia: McCarty and Davis, 1822).
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 6 March 1846, page 2, column 5 (Newspapers.com).
Joseph Reed in U.S., Presbyterian Church Records, 1701–1970 (Ancestry.com).
Joseph Reed at Find a Grave.
Joseph Reed at FamilySearch.