David Reed

David Reed (1747 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania – September 30, 1824 in Washington County, Pennsylvania) was an American pioneer in the early history of Pennsylvania.

Biography He was a squatter on land owned by George Washington in Washington County, Pennsylvania. At that time, Washington owned a large parcel of land, totaling 58,000 acres, across Western Pennsylvania, then part of the American frontier. The land had been given to Washington in the District of West Augusta by the Colony of Virginia in consideration of his service during the French and Indian War. who himself had established an early British American trading post in the Ohio Country before the French and Indian War.

In 1784, following the end of his service in the Continental Army, Washington traveled to survey his land holdings. an 18th-century movement within Scottish Presbyterian which spread to the north of Ireland.

In October 1786, a trial on the issue was held in Washington, Pennsylvania, with Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Thomas McKean riding circuit as the presiding judge.

In 1950, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission erected a historic marker at the site of his log cabin near Venice, Pennsylvania noting the historic importance of Reed and the squatters. The historical marker mistakenly identifies the Washington County squatters as Covenanters. One of Samuel and Lydia (Reed) McBride's descendants, Grace Elizabeth (McBride) Crile (1876-1948), was the wife of George Washington Crile.