I could use some help.  Does anyone know of a Portsmouth LIst like this?

I am still trying to make a connection between my gr3grandfather, Joshua 
David Reed (b 1820, m 1841, d1885 buried in Elmwood) to the James Reed family of 
Portsmouth.  James Reed according to the records I found in a brief lunchtime 
visit to DAR was a Revoutionary soldier of some level.  (I distinctly remember 
as a child my maternal grandmother pointing to a Revolutionary Record of a 
REED ancestor, framed on hanging on the wall of their Ghent home in Norfolk.  
None of my other cousins remember this and the house was destroyed for 
redevelopment years back.)  According to the DAR Interment Records James Reed has a 
family plot in Portsmouth with wife, son Washington (and some other children) and 
a Joshua Davis Reed (born around 1845) who owned a business there under "JD 
Reed".  Either JD or Washington Reed was a former mayor of Portsmouth.  Everyone 
in the family plot lists on the Interment records their parents names, except 
JD Reed.  On the Joshua David Reed (b 1820) side and residing in Norfolk none 
of his records list parents.  But in the 1860 Census for Norfolk Joshua David 
Reed lists in his household a son, Joshua age 16.  This son appears no where 
else but then a Joshua Davis Reed appears (I believe it is the 1870 census I 
found him there) across the river in Portsmouth apprenticing for Washington 
Reed in his firm.  Anyone know the Portsmouth history of mayors or the List 
access or something that may help?  Probabilities are fun but I like to see the 
actuals.

Katie Holland
Silver Spring, Maryland
just outside Washington, DC

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