Col. George Reid of Londonderry, N.H. from Revolutionary Solders of Dublin, Cheshire County, New Hampshire (1901)

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Source:  A List of The Revolutionary Soldiers of Dublin, N.H. by Samuel Carroll Derby, 
          Columbus, Ohio, 1901, page 23

Listed under Colonels:

GEORGE REID of Londonderry, b. 1733; d. 1815. He held a captaincy under Col. Stark and was 
present at Bunker Hill. Jan. 1, 1776, he was captain in the 2d(?) N. H. regiment, became its Lt.
Col. in 1777, and in 1778, its colonel. He was present in many battles; among these were Long 
Island, White Plains, Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, Stillwater, and Saratoga. He took an 
active part in the campaign against the Six Nations and spent the winter of 1777-78 at Valley 
Forge. Col. Reid was a justice of the peace in Londonderry, and was appointed Brig. Gen. of
militia, 1786. At the end of the Revolutionary War the small remnant of the N. H. troops was 
stationed in northeastern New York and, under the command of Col. Reid, defended the valley of 
the Mohawk from the raids of Indians and Tories. 

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS, OCTOBER, 1904.
Col. Geo. Reid, d. Sept., 1815.