admin 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.
SOURCE: Memorial and Family History of Erie County New York; Volume I