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See also:REED, See also:JOSEPH (1741—1785) , See also:American politician, was See also:born in Trenton, New See also:Jersey, on the 27th of See also:August 1741. He graduated at See also:Princeton in 1757, studied See also:law under See also:Richard See also:Stockton and, in 1763—65, at the See also:Middle See also:Temple, See also:London, and practised in Trenton from 1765 until his removal to See also:Philadelphia in 1770. He was See also:president of the second Provincial See also:Congress of See also:Pennsylvania in 1775, was aide-de-See also:camp and military secretary to See also:General See also:Washington in 1775-76, and was See also:adjutant-general with the See also:rank of, See also:colonel in 1776—77. He resigned his See also:commission in the autumn of 1777, and in 1777—78 was a delegate to the See also:Continental Congress. From See also:December 1778 to See also:October 1781 he was president of the See also:state Executive See also:Council. During his See also:administration the proprietary rights of the See also:Penn See also:family were abrogated (1779), and See also:provision was made for the See also:gradual abolition of See also:slavery (178o). During this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time Reed led the attack on See also:Benedict See also:Arnold (q.v.) for the latter's administration of Philadelphia. Reed was elected to Congress in 1784, but died in Philadelphia on the 5th of See also:March 1785.
The See also:Life and See also:Correspondence of Joseph Reed (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1874), by his See also:grandson, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William B. Reed, is based upon the family papers. It pictures Reed as an heroic patriot and statesman; See also:George See also:Bancroft, on the other See also:hand, in the ninth See also:volume (p. 229) of his See also:History (1866) and in Joseph Reed: an See also:Historical See also:Essay (1867), pictures him as a See also:trimmer of the most pronounced type. Bancroft's See also:principal See also:charge against Reed was based on a passage in See also:Count Donop's See also:diary referring to a See also:Col. Reed protected by the See also:British in 1776. In 1876, however, Mr W. S. Stryker discovered that the reference in the diary was really to Col. See also:Charles Read (1715-c. 1780). Bancroft withdrew this definite charge in the 1876 edition of his History, in which, however, his See also:tone towards Joseph Reed was unchanged.
Joseph Reed's son, JOSEPH REED (1772—1846), published the See also:Laws of Pennsylvania (5 vols., 1822—24), continuing the See also:work of Charles See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith, published in 1810-12, which began with the laws of 1700. His grandson, WILLIAM See also:BRADFORD REED (1806-1876), graduated at the university of Pennsylvaniain 1822, was a representative in the Pennsylvania legislature 111 1834—35, See also:attorney-general of the state in 1838, and a state senator in 1841. He was See also:professor of American history in the university of Pennsylvania in 1850-56, See also:United States See also:minister to See also:China in 1857—58, and in 1858 negotiated a treaty with China, proclaimed in 186o. Besides the See also:biography of his grandfather mentioned above, he published one of Joseph Reed's wife, Life of See also:Esther De Berdt, afterwards Esther Reed (1853).
W. B. Reed's See also:brother, See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY [See also:HOPE REED (1808-1854), graduated at the university of Pennsylvania in 1825, practised. law in Philadelphia, and was assistant-professor of moral See also:philosophy in the university of Pennsylvania in 1831—34 and professor of See also:English literature and See also:rhetoric there in 1835-54. He assisted See also:Wordsworth in the preparation of an American edition of his poems in 1837, edited in See also:America See also:Christopher Wordsworth's See also:Memoirs of William Wordsworth (1851) and published Lectures on English Literature from See also:Chaucer to See also:Tennyson (1855).
End of Article: REED, JOSEPH (1741—1785)
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