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Memorial and Family History of Erie County, New York
Vol. I, Biographical and Genealogical
The Genealogical Publishing Co., Buffalo; 1906-8

   [53-54]

        THE WEED FAMILY. The WEEDS are of English and Puritan ancestry.
     JONAS WEED emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1630. JONAS WEED
     (2d), son of the foregoing, had a son, BENJAMIN, who had a son,
     BENJAMIN, who married SARAH HAIT.  ANANIAS WEED, son of BENJAMIN WEED
     (2d) and SARAH HAIT, was born in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1752. At
     the outbreak of the Revolution he joined the Continental army, and
     served through the war. He fought at the battle of White Plains,
     crossed the Delaware with Washington and took part in the famous
     surprise of the Hessians at Trenton. From 1779 till the peace of 1783
     he was in the Commissary Department, and participated in expeditions
     against the British in New York and New Jersey.

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