| John Reed | |
| Office: | Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk[1] |
| Term Start: | May 1715 |
| Term End: | October 1715 |
| Predecessor: | Joseph Platt, Samuel Comstock |
| Alongside: | John Betts |
| Term Start2: | October 1717 |
| Term End2: | May 1718 |
| Alongside2: | Samuel Hanford |
| Successor2: | John Bartlett, Samuel Marvin |
| Birth Date: | 1633[2] [3] |
| Birth Place: | Wendron, Cornwall, England |
| Death Date: | 1730[4] (aged 96 - 97) |
| Death Place: | Stamford, Connecticut Colony |
| Residence: | Providence, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Rye, Province of New York (1684–1687), Norwalk (present day Rowayton), Connecticut Colony (1687) |
| Occupation: | Lawyer |
| Spouse: | Anne Samson Derby (widow of Francis Derby) (m. 1652, Providence, Rhode Island), widow Scofield of Stamford |
| Children: | John Reed, Jr., Thomas Reed, William John Reed, Mary Reed Tuttle, Abigail Reed |
| Allegiance: | Roundhead |
| Rank: | Colonel |
| Unit: | Army of the Protector |
| Battles: | English Civil War, Corfe Castle (1649) |
John Reed (1633 – 1730) was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk, Connecticut Colony in the May 1715 and October 1717 sessions.
He was the son of James Reed.[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. He settled first in Providence, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.[4] In Providence, he married Anne Samson Derby.[4] He later moved to Rye, Province of New York, in 1684, where he lived for three or four years.[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] His name is found among the records of the town of Norwalk in 1687.[4] John Reed was admitted to the bar in 1708 in Norwalk, Connecticut. His house was used for a meeting place for some years. His wife died and he married again to the Widow Scofield from Stamford.
He died in Norwalk, in the ninety-eighth year of his age, in 1730, and was interred in a tomb on his own farm.