Jared Reid (1788-1854)
Rev. Jared Reid, Pastor of First Congregational Church, Reading, Massachusetts
He was born at Preston, Connecticut and grew up in Colchester. He was educated at Middleburg College before entering the Andover Theological Seminary. In 1823, he was ordained and became Pastor of the Old South Congregational Church in Reading, Massachusetts, where his wife helped found the first female anti-slavery society in North America. From 1833, he was Pastor at the Congregational Church in Belchertown, until resigning in 1841 when he was took up the same at Tiverton, Rhode Island, where his ministry terminated on account of ill health in 1850. In 1823, he married Sarah, daughter of Asa and Lydia (Newton) Bigelow, of Colchester. They were the parents of one son and the grandparents of Robert Reid, the impressionist artist.