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Notes from the Descendants of Adam Reid by Jonni Sue Jessup: About 1812, William and several of his brothers moved to the then newly-opened frontier settlements of Preble County, Ohio. The outbreak of the war between the United States and Great Britain in 1812 brought the threat of Indian raids to the Ohio frontier and Reid was one of the 63 Preble county settlers who served as privates in the Militia Company organized and commanded by Capt. Daniel Rex between April 3 and October 3, 1813. The company was stationed at Fort Nesbitt, a temporary border fortress in Preble County, built in the summer of 1812 by Capt. James Nesbitt, in whose militia company William Reid's older brother, Adam, had served as a private. Served as a garrison soldier at Fort Nesbitt, in 1812...said fort, a stockade, was located in the northwest corner of Preble County. In 1836, William Reid and his family which included his son-in-law, James Wright, removed to newly organized Fulton County, Indiana. Reid bought government land for his sons Daniel and Matthew M., and retained for himself a farm described in his will. At his death, this farm was divided between his two younger daughters, Nancy, wife of Josiah Osborne and Sarah, wife of William Emmons...his eldest daughter, Margaret, wife of James Wright, receiving a monetary settlement in lieu of land.
Son Robert was dead by this time and his widow had remarried.
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