Joseph Reed (July 11, 1772 – March 4, 1846)[1][2] was a Pennsylvania lawyer and legal writer, who served briefly as the state Attorney General.
Shortly after Reed's birth, the elder Reed gave up his law practice and became closely involved with George Washington and the American Revolutionary War, served a term as Pennsylvania's president, and was a delegate to the first Continental Congress.
William Bradford would, like his father, serve as state Attorney General, and then also switch careers.
Envoy to China, and became an academic in history, writing books on his paternal grandparents.
Reed served as prothonotary of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1801–1810.