The John Bargrave Collection
James Reed ( - fl. 1690)
Alias James (Alias) ReadAlias James (Alias) Rheed
James Reed (also "Read" or "Rheed"), horticulturalist and Quaker, who undertook a sponsored year-long expedition to Barbados and the Madeira Islands in 1689-90, "returning (October, 1690) with more than a hundred seeds and plants, besides specimens of insects, birds, fishes, and reptiles" (Stearns, 291). The sponsors and recipients of these objects "evidently consisted of members of the Temple Coffee House Botany Club, probably guided by the initiative of [Courten]" (ibid.). James Petiver was also among the sponsors.
Courten's instructions to Reed for collecting naturalia in the West Indies, dated September 1689, are preserved in Sloane MS 3962, 188r-v. A list of seeds "gathered at Barbadoes for the Kings use by James Reed Gardner" are in the same ms, 83r-v. Leonard Plukenet "described Read as having been sent to the West Indies several times to gather plants for William Bentink (1649-1709), the Earl of Portland" (Kusukawa, 31, n.147, citing Plukenet, Phytographia, plate 238, no. 4).
According to Kusukawa, "Read also supplied objects to Hans Sloane, which are now in his ‘Vegetable Substances’ collection, Natural History Museum, London" (21, n.147), Relevant locations: Lived at or near London
Visited Barbados
Visited Madeira Islands
People linked to person: James Reed was a source of object(s) for William Bentink (1649-1709)
James Reed was a source of object(s) for William Courten (28 Mar 1642-26 Mar 1702)
James Reed was a source of object(s) for James II of England (1633-1701)
James Reed was a source of object(s) for James Petiver (c. 1665-Apr 1718)
James Reed was a unspecified Leonard Plukenet (1642-1706)
James Reed was a husband of Elizabeth Reed (fl. 1692-)
James Reed was a source of object(s) for Hans Sloane (1660-1753)
James Reed was a source of object(s) for William III of England (4 Nov 1650-8 Mar 1702)