[2] He was an officer in Oliver Cromwell's army, and a soldier from the age of sixteen.
[4] When Charles II of England was restored to the throne, Reed left for America.
[4] He then established himself in the western part of Norwalk, at a house he built on the eastern side of the Five Mile River, north of the Old Post Road and nearly two miles from the Long Island Sound at a place called Reed's Farms.
[4] John Reed was admitted to the bar in 1708 in Norwalk, Connecticut.
He died in Norwalk, in the ninety-eighth year of his age, in 1730, and was interred in a tomb on his own farm.