_Reed Family._--_In A Perfect Diurnall of some Passages in Parliament
and the dayly Proceedings of the Army under his Excellency the Lord
Fairfax_, _April 20, 1649_, No. 298., mention is made of one
_Lieut.-Col. John Reed_, governor, under Fairfax, of the town and county
of Poole, the first town making a public "demonstration of adhesion to
the present Parliament sitting at Westminster." A note by Sir James
Mackintosh, to whom this volume belonged, leads me to inquire whether
any of your readers can afford information as to the subsequent career
of this _John Reed_, and whether he can be identified by any local
history as connected with either the Dorset or Devon families of that
name.