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- From History of Bucks County, by Davis, pg 23:
Merrick Reeder, seventh son of Charles and Eleanor, was reared on the Makeficld farm, and on arriving at man- hood married Elizabeth Collins, and followed the vocation of a farmer. He was a tenant on the "Canaan Farm" in Upper Makefield for several years. [illeg] he and several of his children re- moved to Muncy, Lycoming county, Pennsylvania.
He had thirteen children, viz.: Benajah, born 11 mo. 30, 1774, married Elizabeth Pownall, of Solebury, and removed to Muncy, in 1810; Merrick, born 2 mo. 8, 1776, .was the grandfather of the subject of this sketch; Jonathan, born 6 mo. ID, 1777, married Sarah Palmer, and removed to Muncy; David, born 8 mo. 23, 1778, married Rachel Pownall, and removed to Muncy; Hannah, born 4 mo. 11, 1780, married Samuel Winder, and removed to Muncy; Mary, born 10 mo. 29, 1781, married John Robinson; Rebecca, born 5 mo. 20, 1783, died unmarried; Elizabeth, born 4 mo. 3, 1785, married Thomas Osborn and re- moved to ]\\Iuncy; Charles, born 4 mo. 18, 1787, married Elizabeth Clark and re- moved to Baltimore. Maryland, where he has descendants; Andrew, born 6 mo. 12, 1789, married Anna Kemble, and re- moved to Muncy: John, born 5 mo. 18, 1791, married Rebecca Ellis, and removed to Muncy; Eleanor, born 11 mo. 4, 1793, married John Ross, and removed to Muncy, Lycoming county, with her parents; Jesse, born 8 mo. 19, 1796, married first Elizabeth Fell, and (sec- ond; Mary Fell, her sister; settled in Buckingham and is the grandfather of E. Wesley Keeler, Esq., of Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
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