(handwritten genealogy:)     Reese                      1

David Reese, Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co.
N.C. born 1710, married Susan Polk in 1738-
died 1808, leaving a son:-
Rev. Thomas Reese-who married Jane
Harris in 1773, and died 1790, and left a dau.-
Susan Polk Reese.
She married Samuel Cherry in 1807, and
left a son-,
Samuel Madison Cherry born 1808—and
married Caroline Chrenshaw 1840.
Genealogy of Reese family p27, 31, 42, 64.

David Reese Signer of Mecklenburg Declaration of
Independence—May 20, 1775—
Foote's Sketches of N. C., p. 208— [published 1846]

Rev. Thomas Reese, D.D. was Chaplain in
Col. Thomas Polk’s Regiment—also assisted
his father in 1776.—David Reese, (Signer)—in
procuring firearms and distributing troops—
Received the degree of D.D. from Princeton in 1778.

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Gen.—
Thomas Polk 173?-1793—(N. C.)—Member of
General Assembly  1771-73—Signer of Mecklenburg
Declaration of Independence May 20, 1775
Colonel of Minute Men, Second Battalion,
1775.  Commissioner of Boundaries under
Gov. Martin 1771—

Susan Polk was a dau. of Thomas
Polk—-Miss ?’s paper.
Jane Harris was a dau. of Robert
Harris, born about 1741, early migrated to
the Columbia Valley.
History of Mecklenburg Co. N. C. p. 421—



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"Thomas Reese, Clergyman, b. in Pennsylvania
in 1742--; d. near Pendleton S. C. in August
1794.  He was graduated at Princeton
in 1768, studied theology and was admitted
to the Ministry of the Presbyterian Church
in 1771.  He then became pastor of Salem
church, Sumter District, S. C. where he continued
until the Revolution.  During the War he
preached in Mecklenburg Co. N.C. but in
1782—he returned to his previous charge,
and in 1792-3—-he was pastor of two
churches in Pendleton district.
Princeton gave him the degree of D.D.
in 1789.  Dr. Reese was an eminent
scholar and a successful teacher and 
did much to promote
the religious life of the colored race in
his district to whom he regularly lectured."
Appleton’s Cyclopaedia of American
Biography p. 213.

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"William Brown Reese, Jurist, b. in
Jefferson Co., Tennessee Nov. 29, 1793, died
near Knoxville, Tenn. July 7, 1860.
He was graduated at Greenville
College with first honors, studied law
and was admitted to the Bar in
1817. In 1831 he became Chancellor of
the State--and in 1885, he was elected
to the Bench of the Supreme Court
in Tennessee"-—Appleton’s Cyclopaedia p. 219.

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