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| | Joseph Reed |
 | | Governor Reed was charged with meditating a treacherous abandonment of the American cause, and a determination to go over to the British, and George Bancroft in his history introduced the statement on what appeared to be reliable testimony. |
 | | See "Life of Joseph Reed," by Henry Reed, in Sparks's "American Biography" (Boston, 1846), and "Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed." by his grandson, William B. Reed (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1847).--It is wife, Esther De Berdt, born in London, 22 October, 1746: died in Philadelphia, 18 September, 1780, became acquainted with Mr. |
 | | Reed when he was a law student in London, and soon after the death of her father married him in London in May, 1770. |
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