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George Reid (1733–1815), born in Londonderry, was a farmer who, upon news of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, marched a company of the 1st New Hampshire Regiment to Boston in time to participate in the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. Serving there as a captain under fellow Granite Stater John Stark, Reid's distinguished service led to his appointment as Captain of the Fifth Regiment of the Continental Army. A participant in numerous major engagements—including Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, Saratoga, and Stillwater—Reid rose quickly through the ranks and was promoted lieutenant colonel in 1777 and colonel in the following year.
While several officers returned home during the difficult—and deadly—winter at Valley Forge in 1777–78, Reid remained with the troops. In 1779 he took part in the Sullivan Expedition, fighting against the British-assisted Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. In April 1783, he became commander of the 1st New Hampshire Regiment, the same unit in which he began his military career, and finished out his military service as Brigadier General of the New Hampshire troops. His eight years in service was one of the longest tenures of any participant in the Revolutionary War.
After the war Reid returned to Londonderry and served in a number of municipal positions, including Rockingham County Sheriff. In 1786 he led a group of soldiers in quelling the Exeter Rebellion, sparked by demands for the printing of paper currency to ease the increasing financial obligations of debt-strapped farmers in the wake of the war. (The uprising was one of the events that hastened calls for a constitutional convention, which assembled in Philadelphia the following year.) Reid and his wife eventually moved from their Londonderry farm to a public house in the middle of town and died at the age of 83. Both Reids are buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in East Derry.
