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\u00a0William Reed (ca. 1670-1728) began serving as a Proprietor\u2019s deputy and member of the Council in 1712, and from October 7, 1722 until his death was President of the Council.\u00a0 As president, he served in the capacity of acting governor from the time of his selection until George Burrington\u2019s<\/a> arrival in January 1724.\u00a0 Little is known about Reed\u2019s early life or, in fact, his personal life in general, since there were several William Reeds in the colony at the time and it is difficult to distinguish them in extant records.\u00a0 Reed was married twice; the first wife was named Christian and the second, Jane.\u00a0 With his wife Christian, he had two sons, Christian and Joseph, and with Jane he had William.<\/p>\n It has been presumed that the William Reed who appears as a witness in Currituck Precinct court in 1692 and as a juror in 1697 was the future acting governor.\u00a0 It is likely the same William Reed who was chosen as a vestryman for the Church of England in the Currituck Precinct in 1715.\u00a0 Governor Charles Eden<\/a> appointed Reed and two other men to the Virginia-North Carolina Boundary Line Commission on October 30, 1718.\u00a0 While the group began the dividing line<\/a> survey the following year, the dispute over the line was not settled until 1729, after Reed\u2019s death.<\/p>\n William Reed\u2019s tenure as acting governor was relatively uneventful.\u00a0 He seems to have fulfilled the duties of his office, as well as participated in some land speculation.\u00a0 There was a complaint in a 1726 report of the Committee of Grievances, Pasquotank Precinct, claiming that in 1724 Reed levied and collected an unfair tax and assumed the power to appoint commissioners and assessors.\u00a0 When Burrington took the oath of office in 1724, Reed continued as President of the Council.<\/p>\n As President, Reed did not get along with either of the proprietary governors with whom he served.\u00a0 He also had grievances with several of the councillors.\u00a0 While not, to judge from surviving records, overly combative, Reed did not tolerate disrespect from the council, demanding on one occasion to be referred to as President Reed instead of Mr. Reed.\u00a0 Despite quarrels William Reed served as President of the Council until his death in 1728.\u00a0 There is even a letter to the king in which he and the council complain about the state of North Carolina\u2019s government at the hands of Sir Richard Everard that was dated and sent the day after his death.\u00a0 He was contentious until the end.\u00a0 Reed died at his home in Pasquotank County on December 11, 1728.<\/p>\n References: \u00a0William Reed (ca. 1670-1728) began serving as a Proprietor\u2019s deputy and member of the Council in 1712, and from October 7, 1722 until his death was President of the Council.\u00a0 As president, he served in the capacity of acting governor from the time of his selection until George Burrington\u2019s arrival in January 1724.\u00a0 Little is … Continue reading “William Reed”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Yemh-Ao","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/camden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRobert J. Cain, Colonial Records of North Carolina, Records of the Executive Council 1664-1734<\/i>, Series 2, VII (1984)
\nJ. R. B. Hathaway, North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register<\/i>, Vol. I, No. 1 (January 1900)
\nWilliam S. Powell, ed., Dictionary of North Carolina Biography<\/i>, V, 187-188\u2014sketch by Vernon O. Stumpf
\nLocation: NC 343 southeast of Camden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"