REED, HENRY, LL.D., 1808-54; b. Philadelphia, graduated at the university of Pennsylvania, 1825; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1829. In 1831 he became an instructor in the university of Pennsylvania, and in 1835 professor of rhet orie and English literature. He published several Weturcs and essays on English Wstory. language, and literature; the most important being Lectures on English Diem tire (I855).
RF.ED..TosErn, 1741-85; b. N. J ; educated at the college of New Jersey. He studied law in England. began practice at Trenton. and in 1767 became depaly secretary of New Jersey. On his return in 1770 from a second visit to England, where he mar ried, be removed to Philadelphia, served on the committee of correspondence, and was .president of the first Pennsylvania convention in 1775. The same year he was a delegate to the continental congress and became Washington's secretary and aid-de-camp. Ile was adjt.gen. during the New Jersey campaign, whose success was due in no small degree to his knowledge of the ground. He declined the posts of chief-justice of Penn
Isylvania and brig.gen., and remained in the army as a volunteer without pay. He was a member of congress in 1778, and signed the articles of confederation. At this time gov. Johnstone, one of the British commissioners, offered him £.10,000 and the best office in America if he would exert himself to bring about a settlement of the quarrel between the colonists and Great Britain. Reed replied: "I am not worth purchasing; but such ns I am. the king of Great Britain is not rich enough to buy inc." Be was president of the Pennsylvania supreme executive council 1778-81, suppressed the revolt of the Pennsyl vania line in the latter year, and had previously caused the trial of Arnold for malad ministration. Bancroft's charge. in his History, that Reed was in British pay, has given rise to a sharp controversy, and is not usually deemed well supported.