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HISTORY

THE REED FAMILY

In Europe anti America.

JACOB WHITTEMORE REED,

MEMBER OF THE NEW-ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY.

BOSTON:

PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON AND SON,

22, School Street.

1861.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861,

BY JACOB WHITTEMORE KEED,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

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PREFACE.

The author began this work ten years ago, principally
for his own edification ; but, as he proceeded in his
labors, his manuscript was sought after by many per-
sons, who persuaded him to prepare it for the press.
There are, doubtless, some mistakes in the work ; as
it is impossible at this late day to prepare genealogical
statistics with perfect accuracy. There are many
omissions ; but he has done his utmost to include all
by the name of Reed, with the collateral branches,
so far as they could be obtained. He has written
hundreds of letters of inquiry, to which he never
received a response ; and many others, to which the
answers were so meagre, that little information could
be obtained from them. He has spent much time
and money in travelling to search old records, and
has done all in his power to make them as full
and complete as possible. Not a few, both ladies and
gentlemen, were unable to give the Christian names
of grandparents, — showing the deplorable neglect
of many of their forefathers in preserving records of

IV PREFACE.

family events ; while others have provided him with
much that is valuable and interesting, going back
several generations. His massive accumulation of
correspondence, and his copies of records, show a
great variety of taste and disposition ; and they are
all preserved as mementoes for the perusal of coming
generations.

The origin of the name, and other hypothetical
remarks, at the commencement of the work, may be
criticized and ridiculed by some who have never de-
voted much attention to the subject ; but there is
much more evidence to substantiate the theory of the
author than a casual observer would suppose. If all
the vouchers were inserted, the book would necessa-
rily be too large. It is much easier for people to find
fault with the work of others than to do it well them-
selves.

The body of the work is mostly taken from state,
county, town, parish, church, and family records ; but
in some cases it consists merely of the oral statements
of members of those particular families to which they
have reference ; while in most cases, where there
were no records, different members of the same
branch would differ in many points of their state-
ments, and thus make it necessary to search for other
proof to establish the facts.

If the subject had been postponed twenty years
longer, much that is contained in this volume could

PREFACE. V

not have been obtained ; for many who, ten years
ago, stood as landmarks between the riving and the
dead, have gone to their rest.

The engravings have been procured at great
expense, and are generally pronounced complete
likenesses of those whom they are designed to repre-
sent.

The errors, so far as discovered by the author, are
noticed at the end of the book. Those who find
their individual record incomplete should turn to the
Appendix, as all information obtained after print-
ing the body of the work had to be thus inserted.
The records here comprised are substantially all
that can be obtained on the subject ; and the blank
leaves are inserted to enable each family to carry out
their record in the book for generations to come.

CONTENTS.

Chapter. Page.

Introduction 1

I. Origin of the Name, and History of the Clans . 9

II. William Reade of Boston, and his Descendants . 41

III. Col. Thomas Read of Salem, and his Descendants 47

TV. William Reade of Woburn, and his Descendants. 61

V. Esdras Reade of Boston, and his Descendants . . 151

VI. John Read of Rehoboth, and his Descendants . . 186

VII. Elias Read, and his Descendants 272

VIII. William Reade of Weymouth, and his Descendants 310

IX. Philip Reade of Weymouth, and his Descendants 414

X. John Reede of Plymouth County 416

XL John Read of Freetown, and his Descendants . . 417

XLI. John Reade and others 427

XIII. John Read of Alexandria, and his Descendants . 429

XIV. John Read, Sen., and his Descendants in America 431
XV. John Read of Norwalk, and his Descendants . . 445

XVI. Joseph of Lynn, and his Descendants 458

XVII. Lyme, Halifax, and Wisconsin Stock 461

XVIII. The Londonderry Reids 464

XIX. Burlington Stock 470

XX. The Reads of the Benjamin Franklin Stock . . 473

XXL The Boothbay Stock 478

Vlll CONTENTS.

Chapter. Page.

XXII. Reeds of various Families 481

XXLU. Reed of the Boston-Police Notoriety .... 496

XXIV. Reed of the " Constitution " and " Guerriere "

Notoriety 498

XXV. Reeds of various Families 500

XXVI. The Lancaster Stock 504

XXVII. Reid of Ethan Allen Notoriety, and others. . 507

XXVIII. Reeds, Reads, or Reids, not fully traced . . . 514

XXIX. Miscellaneous List of Marriages 521

XXX. Josiah Read of Connecticut, and his Descend-
ants . . . . • 529

APPENDIX 539

INDEX 555

INTRODUCTION.

HTHE pedigree of different families has been kept up to
■ some extent by almost all nations, so that every man
could be called by the peculiar name and relation of his
family. So strong was this habit in ancient times, that a
man without a pedigree was considered equivalent to being
without a parent ; as was Melchisedek, King of Salem. As
far as my observation extends, the practice of retaining a
pedigree first fell into disuse among the Americans soon
after the country began to be settled by European emigrants,
who came here during the seventeenth century ; and for the
following reasons : First, the most of those who came here
were in better circumstances at home than they were after
their arrival here ; but, having spent all their means in
emigration, they were obliged to remain. Having been
misled by designing and interested men to believe that
America was a land which possessed every thing desirable, a
large proportion of the emigrants were sanguine in the
expectation of bettering their temporal condition by emi-
gration ; very much as people were misled by exaggerated
statements in reference to California, and as they have
always been misled by representations in reference to the
West. But in former days it cost a fortune to come from

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J INTRODUCTION.

Europe to America ; and those who embarked in such an
enterprise generally had to give up all they possessed,
or a great proportion of it, to get here. Many of them
who had the means returned to England ; but those who
had not were obliged to make the best of a bad bargain.
They had abandoned all hope or expectation of any remit-
tances from Europe. Many had been outlawed, and dared
not go back. They had turned their backs on all beyond
sea ; and, under such circumstances, it was most congenial
to their feelings to bury the whole subject in oblivion.
It was accordingly annoying to them to converse on the
subject ; and, to a great extent, they refrained from con-
versation in reference to these matters in the presence of
their children. Their location and pecuniary circumstances
also combined to cause the interest in genealogy to abate,
as they were scattered over a large extent of country.
And what attention and strength was not exercised in
defending themselves, their wives and children, from the
tomahawk, was required to clear the land, to build the
cottages and barns, to dig stumps and stones, to build
bridges, and erect meeting-houses and schoolhouses ; and
the taste for all kinds of knowledge, not called into im-
mediate use to accomplish these and kindred objects, neces-
sarily ceased.

When these difficulties ceased in some measure to be
objects of solicitude, and they had greatly overcome these
almost overwhelming difficulties; when the howl of the
wild beast and Indian had become in some degree silenced,
and, in their stead, had been reared in every town the
parish-church, with its spire pointing towards heaven ; when
their children began to move to the sound of the church-
going bell, and peace and comfort seemed to dawn upon
them, — then the French War broke out, with all the ter-
rors of the French and Indians combined : and, as soon

INTRODUCTION. 6

as they had overcome the innumerable evils of this war,
that of the Revolution commenced, which called into ser-
vice all the men that could be spared from the plough ; and
much of the labor of the husbandman had to be done by
females.

The next generation was agitated by another war with
the mother-country ; so that, till recently, the people had
no time to spare to study the virtues, the achievements, the
mental qualities, the political condition, or physical constitu-
tion, of their ancestors. The first white inhabitants of this
country were better educated than their children. They
were brought up in Europe ; and a large proportion of them,
being younger sons of the landed gentry and of wealthy
tradesmen, had all the care bestowed upon them necessary
in those days to fit them for the various civil and military
stations of life, which were at that time filled generally by
that class, as was the case with the ecclesiastical. In short,
the various responsible offices and duties of life were at that
time filled by the younger sons ; and even tradesmen and
mechanics were of that class, as none could be put to trades
without paying a considerable sum of money in addition
to their personal service ; which made mechanical pursuits
beyond the reach of the poor.

It was likewise a time of the greatest religious contro-
versy ever known in Europe ; and these people had been
proscribed on account of their theological opinions. This
controversy was carried on not only in public places, but
even in private life, and intruded itself on the sacredness
of the family circle ; so that, in many cases, a man's foes
were emphatically those of his own household. The father
would generally be more conservative than his children ;
and the elder son, aware of his rights by seniority, would
naturally take the course most likely to be in keeping with
government and the laws : while the younger sons, with less

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of the world to control their course, were not so politic, but
more sincere and enthusiastic.

Prom these and kindred circumstances, the controversy
was warmest, and the bickerings most severe, in the do-
mestic circle. On this account, many left wealthy parents
and responsible stations, and sought an asylum in the wilds
of America ; and, when they departed from Catholic Eu-
rope, they turned their backs on their Catholic friends
whom they had left behind.

It was impossible for such people, unaccustomed to hard-
ship, and surrounded by wild beasts and savage Indians, to
educate their children. Conseq\iently, the first generations
of those born in this country could not so well preserve
written details, — a fact which appears by the church and
town records. Even up to the period of the Revolution,
education was in so low a state, that many distinguished
officers and statesmen were unable to write a legible hand,
and others were unskilled in orthography. But, since some
attention has been paid to genealogical research, it is found
that these persons were descended from illustrious families
in Europe.

Since the people of this country have overcome the effects
of the various wars in which they have been engaged, more
attention has been paid to education ; and, of late, genea-
logy has brought many curious and interesting reminiscences
to light, and, as the community wakes up to the subject,
will probably bring to light many more. Some, who scarcely
knew any of their ancestors farther back than grandfather,
can now trace their genealogy to the Norman Conquest,
and the blood in their veins to noblemen and kings.

There is still in the minds of many a prejudice against
paying any attention to the history of their ancestors : but
the feeling is fast wearing away ; and the people are now
gratified in receiving information on the subject, though

INTRODUCTION. 5

few are willing to devote to it that time and expense which
its importance demands.

The question has been often asked me, and doubtless has
been put to others, What do you expect to gain by it ? By
some I have been asked, if I was induced to devote so much
of my time and money to the subject, from the expectation
of being able to distribute an English fortune among the
Reeds of this country. In answer to all such inquiries, I
can say, that though there are large estates in England,
which, if they could prove heirship, would go to the Reeds
of America, yet, for the want of such proof, none of it will
ever be obtained. But I feel compensated, from day to day,
by the information which I obtain, and by the satisfaction
which it affords me. Though laughed at, and called a
monomaniac on the subject, I have received a constant re-
muneration in the new discoveries which I have made.

It is the sincere desire of the author, that those of his
name and blood may experience as much satisfaction in the
perusal of the work as he has had in preparing it ; and that
they will regard it, on his part, as a labor of love. He is
confident that all who have the blood of the Reeds flow-
ing in their veins will feel interested in perusing these
pages.

He congratulates his friends that he has been able to
demonstrate that the Reeds are of no mean origin ; that,
though their connection with thrones and empires has long
since ceased to exist, they have been, and are at the present
day, a powerful race, and, as a body, have acted well their
part on the stage on which they have been placed.

I have learned, by the investigations I have made, the
peculiar mould and cast of mind which has shown itself in
my ancestors, in different ages and under different circum-
stances, for several hundred years ; also their physical
strength and developments, the adaptedness of my race to

6 INTRODUCTION.

certain occupations, and their average length of life. I can
say from observation, that, unless through gross careless-
ness, but few of them die of pulmonary complaints. They
generally live to old age ; eighty-five or ninety, or even a
hundred years, being nothing unusual. They are capable
of great endurance, especially under opposition ; and possess
a determined will and perseverance, which generally carry
them through whatever they mean to accomplish. I have
seen much in them that is praiseworthy, — much worth
imitation, and less to be condemned.

The race of Reeds was originally of large and almost
gigantic size and strength. This is supported by the ac-
counts we have of them when they fought the Caledonians
and Romans. Their fiery and poisonous darts struck terror
into the hearts of the Roman soldiers, and put them to
flight. Ancient statues also represent them to be of an
uncommon size ; and, at the present day, they are generally
taller than the average of men.

They are to be found in all parts of the civilized world,
especially in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and the
adjacent islands, as well as in Germany and America.
They are mixed witli all classes of society, and pursue all
branches of business. In intellect they are above mediocri-
ty. Some are in possession of great wealth, and only a
few of them are really what is called poor. They have
generally been found ready, in times of emergency, to place
themselves in the front rank of danger, in order to defend
their country and its laws ; and have been always willing
to encounter difficulty and hardship for the community,
being strangers to fear, and exhibiting their true character
best when opposed or persecuted. An instance of this
force of will is exhibited in the conduct of Gen. Reid, of
Londonderry, N.H. He had been appointed by Gov. Sul-
livan Commandei'-in-ohief of the troops raised to put down

INTRODUCTION. 7

Shay's Rebellion. The townsmen of Gen. Reid sympa-
thized strongly with the Shay party, and were very indig-
nant at Gen. Reid for accepting the appointment. On the
succeeding night, when people might be supposed to be
in sound sleep, he saw from his chamber-window a large
number of men approaching the house, armed with all man-
ner of offensive weapons, evidently with an intent against
his person. He raised the window, and told them that the
man who advanced another step would be shot. His man-
ner and known determination of character convinced them
at once that he would act as he said, and that they were
fortunate in being thus timely discovered by him when
they were at such a safe distance. He then took advantage
of the impression he had made, to give them some wise and
wholesome advice relative to their duty as citizens ; and,
when he had brought his harangue to a close, the parties
separated, — the mob to their several homes, and he to
quiet slumber. The next sabbath morning, he received an
early call from the venerable pastor of the parish to suggest
the propriety of his staying at home that day, on account
of the fury of the populace ; but his reply was, that he
should be in church at the proper hour. He was accord-
ingly there ; but his determined countenance and his repu-
tation were sufficient to keep the people under restraint,
and no violence was done to him. He lived long enough
to convince his townsmen of the justness of the cause he
had espoused ; and they loved and respected him the more
for his independence of character.

But few of those bearing the name of Reed have ever
been a public charge, or inmates of penitentiaries. They
have been usually of a religious turn of mind, being firm
supporters of the institution of the gospel ; but they are
fond of mirth and fun, — a propensity which seems to run
through all of the name within my observation.

8 i INTRODUCTION.

Having gone thus far, I hope to be indulged in noting
one custom which has to some extent prevailed among the
Reeds : I mean that of their marrying relatives. This
practice grew out of the exclusiveness of society in Puritan
times, and perhaps, in some cases, to save property in the
family : but its consequences have been injurious ; many
of the offspring of such marriages dying in infancy, early
youth, or middle age, and but few of them living to ad-
vanced years ; to say nothing of cases where the effect has
been still more melancholy.

HISTORY OF THE REEDS.

CHAPTER I.

ORIGIN OF THE NAME, AND HISTORY OF THE CLANS.

T)EED, Read, Reid, Rede, Red, Rad, Rheade, Rheadus,
-*-*' Wrede, Whrede, Reda, Rada, Redha, Wada, Wrade,
Raad, Ried, are all derived from the word Rhea, which had
its origin in Phoenicia ; having been used soon after the
dispersion of the people in consequence of the confusion
of language at Babylon. Rhea was a name given to the
Goddess Ops, the daughter of Ccelus and Terra. She was
the sister and wife of Saturn, by whom she had Vesta,
Ceres, Juno, Pluto, Neptune, &c, whom her husband de-
voured. Her next son was Jupiter. Her residence was on
Cybele, one of the mountains of Phrygia in Asia Minor.
She was worshipped in that part of the world, and was a
ruling deity. Her name was in some form attached to
many persons and places in Phoenicia and Asia Minor,
and was identified with government and rulers. The na-
tions that were her votaries became more advanced in
commerce and civilization than those around them.

Across the corner of the Mediterranean Sea stood the
city of Tyre, the capital of ancient Phoenicia, as its name
implies ; and Ruad, or Raad, was in its neighborhood. The

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10 ORIGIN OP THE NAME,

word Tyre probably meant the ruling city, or the city of
the tyrant, or king. All governments were then despotic.
" King " and " tyrant " were synonymous terms ; and it
only became necessary to know that a city or country had
a tyrant to know that he was a king : and the fact of his
being a king also gave the assurance that he was a tyrant ;
each of the words implying one who ruled. The word
Esau seems to be the word " red," or " read," in another
dialect ; and the Red Sea is in some books called the Read
Sea, as was also the Arabian Sea. The name Esau meant
" the elder," or one having the rights of primogeniture ; as
Jacob meant " the younger," or one without those rights.
Tlie rights of seniority were very early established, and
the elder was in all cases considered the ruler ; while the
Jacobins, or Jameses, or the younger, were the subjects.
Esau was called the Red, being one of the greatest men of
his time ; his country, Edom, or Red ; as the Erythraean
Sea, contiguous to his dominions, was called the Read or
Red Sea.

Phoenicia, Edom, and Asia Minor, were in advance of
their neighbors in commerce and civilization. They so far
excelled in manufactures and colors, that the rulers of
other countries sought their fabrics for their kiugly robes ;
and thus the passage of Scripture : " Who is this that
cometh from Edom with dyed garments ? " &c. These
dyed garments were called red, having reference to Edom,
or the country, with a ruler or king ; as the fabrics of the
present day are called damask. The word " read " and its
affinities are used at the present day among many nations
in that part of the world.

One of the principal cities of Persia is called by that
name ; and some of the rulers of India have a title which
probably originated from the same source as " raja," or
" rajah," for king. The word has at times been partly

AND HISTORY OP THE CLANS. 11

altered for the sake of euphony, or to suit the idiom of
other dialects, and has been more or less connected with
other words, making a union of both definitions : as, Ethel-
red, or Reed the Good ; Conrad, or Reed the Powerful ;
Eldred, or Reed the Elder ; Remus, belonging to the State ;
and Regina, Queen.

Among the class of words belonging to this stock, in
addition to those already mentioned, are Wraid,' Rade,
Gerard, Gerarden, Rath, regium, reign, regent, regalia,
reason, rhetoric; and also the compound of other words,
as Erythrasan, Tyrrhenian, Reate, Rages (now called Rei),
Regia, Rhenus, Rhedarian, Rheidlingine, Reedel (or Riddle),
Redesdale, Dalraid, Dalreda, and many others.

At a later period, the word became more extended in its
signification, and implied counsel, advice, wisdom, &c.
Still later, it meant one who could read, or the act of read-
ing ; as so few understood the art of reading, that one
Bible was sufficient for a parish ; and, the holy book being
chained to the desk, a person would be employed to read
as a clerk. This last expression gave rise to the word
" clergy," or " clergyman ; " meaning one who can read.
The art of reading was considered so beneficial to the
public, that all who understood it were entitled to the bene-
fit of clergy ; which phrase meant boring in the hand, or
other corporeal punishment, for crimes committed, instead
of death.

The following is the definition given by Noah Webster : —

" Sax. reed, rad, red, speech, discourse, counsel, advice, knowledge,
benefit, reason ; rcedan, redan, to read, to decree, to appoint, to command,
to rule or govern, to conjecture, to give or take counsel ; arcedan, to
read, to tell, to narrate; geraedan, to read, to consult; gerad, mode, con-
dition or state, reason, ratio or account, knowledge, instruction or learn-
ing, and, as an adjective or participle, knowing, instructed, ready, suited ;
gerad beon, to be ready, to accord or agree ; geradod, excited, quick.
These significations unite this word with ready ; which see. Ger. rede,

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speech, talk, account ; reden, to speak. Dut. rede, speech ; reden, rea-
son. Dan. rede, account and ready. Ger. bereden, to berate; rath,
advice, counsel, a council or senate ; raihen, to advise, to conjecture or
guess, to solve a riddle. Dut. raad, counsel, advice ; raaden, to counsel.
Swed. rod, Dan. raad, counsel ; rada, raader, to counsel, to instruct.
Wei. rJiaith, straight, right (that is, set right), decision, verdict; rheitheg,
rhetoric, from rhaitli. Dan. ret, law, justice, right, reason. Swed. rati,
ratta, id. Ir. radh, a saying ; radham, to say, tell, relate. Wei. adraivz,
to tell or rehearse. Gr. fiea, for jie8o, to say or tell, to flow; {njTop, a
speaker, a rhetorician. Goth, rodyan, to speak. The primary sense of
read is, to speak, to utter ; that is, to push, drive, or advance. This is
also the primary sense of ready; that is, prompt, or advancing quick.
The Sax. gerad, ready, accords also in elements with the Wei. rhad,
Lat. gratia ; the primary sense of which is, prompt to favor, advancing
towards, free. The elements of these words are the same as those of
ride, and Lat. gradior, &c. The sense of reason is secondary, — that
which is uttered, said, or set forth ; hence counsel also. The Swed. ratta,
Dan. ret, if not contracted words, are from the same root."

The present different methods of spelling the word arise,
in a great measure, from fancy ; there being not less than
eleven orthographical forms, in which the natural result is
the same. The mode of spelling in use by our Puritan
ancestors was usually Reade, but, in some cases, Reede ;
and one of them spelled it Rede. One who figured with
Napoleon I. spelled his name Wrede. A Bavarian general,
who fought against Napoleon at the head of the Bavarian
troops, wrote it Reid. His biographers, however, sometimes
wrote it Ried. The Irish formerly spelled it Reedha, or
Redha ; from which came " ready." The Scotch method
was formerly Raid. The mode of spelling the name in
this country has gradually assumed one of the three follow-
ing forms ; namely, Read, Reed, and Reid : but it affords
no clew to the history of the word, as different members of
the same family use all these methods.

It was common, in the infancy of governments, for kings
and princes, who had been vanquished in the more civilized
countries, to steal away with their effects and retainers, to

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seek an asylum in the wilds of Europe, and, by superior
skill, flattery, and strategem, or by marriage, to work them-
selves into the good graces of the barbarous tribes among
whom they sought shelter : as was the case with Dido, the
Carthaginian queen, wbo fled from her oppressive brother
Pygmalion, the King of Tyre, after he had murdered her
husband ; or like JEneas, who, after the sacking and de-
struction of Troy, sought a place of settlement, and finally
presented his suit to Latinus, the King of the Latins, for
the hand of Lavinia, his only daughter, — by that alliance
becoming successor to the throne of his father-in-law, and
ancestor to the founder of the Roman Empire.

Many more instances might be named where vanquished
rulers became refugees among an uncivilized and barbarous
people, and worked their way into power by dint of su-
perior skill or valor : as Cecrops, the founder of Athens ;
Cadmus the Phoenician, who inti'oduced alphabetic writing
into Greece, and founded Thebes in Boeotia ; Danaus, the
founder of Argos ; Pelops the Phrygian, whose descendants,
intermarrying with those of Tyndareus, King of Lacedas-
mon, acquired the ascendency in Greece.

About fourteen hundred years before the Christian era,
Teucer, a native of Crete (now Candia), led, in time of fa-
mine, a company to a promontory on the shore of the
Hellespont, and became the founder of the Trojans. He
introduced the worship of Cybele, who, according to hea-
then mythology, was the mother of the gods ; and gave to
the mountains of Phrygia the name of Ida, from a moun-
tain by that name in Crete ; and to many other locations
Cretan names, among which was Miletus, — a city so called,
as tradition says, from Miletus, the son of Apollo, but pro-
bably from a city of that name in the island. The goddess
was called Cybele from Mount Cybele in Phrygia, and was
believed to be the common parent of all the inhabitants of

14 ORIGIN OP THE NAME,

the earth. She was called Rhea from her being the ruling
deity, and from the benefits and patronage she distributed
to all her votaries. The promontory on which Teucer
landed and settled was called Rhaeteum. This Cybele
became the tutelar deity of that region. These emigrants
were a commercial people, and were called Milesian mer-
chants. One method used in those times to increase trade
was to establish colonies in other parts of the world, and
to extend traffic through them ; which was done by the
inhabitants of Miletus and other commercial cities.

A colony of this kind was established in Italy, the founder
of which was Tyrrhenus. The city of Reate (now Rieti) was
built by this colony, as were also Ravenna and Veii. The
sea contiguous was called the Tyrrhenian Sea. This colony
was vanquished by the Gauls about three hundred and
eighty-nine years before Christ ; and a portion fled to the
north of Italy, where they established their new home, and
called it Rha3tia, which comprised what is now the Tyrol
and a part of Bavaria. One portion of the Alps is, at the
present time, called the Rhaatian Alps. The inhabitants of
ancient Rhaatia were called Rhedarians, — a name which
was undoubtedly derived originally from Rhea. The river
Rhine has its source in ancient Retia, and was formerly
called Rhenus. The government of Rhretia was made
tributary to Rome, by Nero, in the year of Christ 50 ; and
the inhabitants were overrun and partially conquered by the
Alemauni, or Germans, about the commencement of the
third century. Some of the remnant of the nation of
Rhedarians continued to lurk about their old homes ; and
were finally overrun by Otho, Emperor of Germany, in the
tenth century. In time, they became amalgamated with
their conquerors ; but some of their ancient towns and
cities retained their former names, being slightly altered to
suit the idiom of the languages now in use. The Alemanns

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were in their turn superseded in the sixth century by an
association of German tribes called Bavarians. This ac-
counts for the existence of Reads in Bavai-ia, and for names
of places in Bavaria which retain the name in connection
with some other word indicating their location or history :
as Rednitz, on the borders of Regia ; and Reidlinggine,
meaning " the place of the Reids." It is a very common
name in the German States, and is abbreviated from Rheda-
riurn. Some of the descendants of the ancient Rhedarians
may have found their way to England at the time of the
Saxon invasion, and retained the name ; but I think it is
very clear that the Reads of England, Scotland, and Ire-
land, went there by a different route.

About fourteen or fifteen hundred years before the Chris-
tian era, there prevailed a general fever for Western emi-
gration, which was resorted to by tribes, who selected some
new location in order to get better feeding-places for their
flocks, or for purposes of plunder. The only method then
known of obtaining possession of a desired spot was by
what we now term " fillibustering ; " as was the case with
the Cretan Teucer and his company, from whom arose the
Rhedarians, Dalraids, Reedhas, or Reeds. The advent of
the Israelites into the land of Canaan was in keeping with
the spirit of the times. The stronger would drive out the
weaker ; and the vanquished were under the necessity of
expelling some nation weaker than themselves, in order to
gain a habitation : and thus a general commotion prevailed.

The children of Israel fixed on the land of Canaan for
their portion ; and the Phoenician States, comprising Tyre
and Sidou, were set off to the tribe of Ashur. Though
these never got possession of either, their conquests in the
neighborhood, and almost certain success in every engage-
ment, filled the minds of the Phoenicians with fear. The
latter were a commercial people ; their property consisting

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of ships and merchandise, with silver and gold, precious
stones, &c.

The people generally were very ignorant of the country ;
and the popular opinion was that the limits of the world in
this direction were what were called the Pillars of Hercules
(now Gibraltar) and a mountain on the opposite side of
the straits. This place was supposed to be the gates, or
entrance, to the infernal regions, or dominions of Pluto ;
but, to the Phoenician or Milesian merchants, tins belief was
known to be ignorant superstition. The Tyrians had esta-
blished a colony a little beyond the gates, to which they gave
the name of Gades (now Cadiz), where they traded, and ex-
tended their commerce through the colonists to the natives
of Spain. This place became a rendezvous for their ship-
ping in sailing and trading along the coast ; and while the
other inhabitants of Asia, Europe, and Africa, knew com-
paratively nothing of that section, the Phoenicians and
Milesians had become fully acquainted with the coast of
Ireland.

About five hundred years before the Christian era, the
Athenians having burned the city of Sardis, — the capital
of Lydia, one of the provinces of the Persian Empire, — the
Persians became enraged, and began to invade the Grecian
States contiguous to them with an immense army. The
city of Miletus was next in importance to that of Tyre, and
was one of the twelve cities which constituted the confede-
racy of Ionia, — one of the Grecian States. A company of
merchants from Miletus, Erythras, and other confederate
cities of Ionia, rather than suffer the evils of a Persian inva-
sion, fled with their shipping, effects, and retainers. They
visited the friendly colonies along their route, and made
headquarters at Gacles ; and, from that place, an expedition
was fitted out against Ireland, which they conquered, and
divided into two kingdoms. The capital of one they called

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Ballyreda, which is in the county of Westmeath, and, in
English, means Reedstown : the capital of the other kingdom
was Regia Altera (now Limerick). These invaders were
called Gadelians by the Romans, because they came upon
the Roman frontier through the gates of the infernal regions,
and were believed to be the subjects of old Pluto.

The figure drawn by St. Paul, in describing the armor
of God necessary to withstand the fiery darts of the wicked,
may have had reference to these fillibusters, as it describes
their weapons and mode of warfare. Their most ancient
coat-of-arms also had upon it the poisoned or bloody dart.
The Romans, also having a nation of Rhedarians on their
frontier in Italy, were under the necessity of distinguishing
them by different names ; and the name of Gadelian was a
very proper phrase to express the character of the people
referred to. The inhabitants of ancient Erin called them
Dalredas, or Dalredhas. The Caledonians called them Dal-
raids. On account of their intruding themselves upon the
ancient inhabitants, and taking possession of their estates,
they were called Scuits, or " wanderers," — a phrase which
gave name to Scotland. Surnames were not in use till
about the year 1170 ; but clans had appropriate names,
which some retained ; and others took such names as had
reference to their location, occupation, or some peculiarity
or achievement.

The Dalraids crossed over from Ireland to Caledonia,
and so annoyed the Caledonians and the Romans, that, in
order to keep them back, the latter built the wall called
Agricola's, running from the Frith of Forth to the Clyde.
Prince Reda and his knights scaled the wall, and put the
Romans to flight, A.D. 180. After he had got possession
of that part of England and Caledonia, the Romans (A.D.
210) built the wall, running from Newcastle to Carlisle,
called Adrian's.

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18 ORIGIN OF THE NAME,

The Dalraids kept possession of the territory between the
two walls, constituting a portion of the county of Northum-
berland. They finally conquered Caledonia, A.D. 843 ;
and the Britons, as a sort of reproach, afterwards called it
Scuitland, or a land of interlopers, or wanderers. The
predatory excursions of these people were called " raids." .

The Reads, or Reeds, of England descended from the
above Raids, Reeds, or Reedhas ; and I am able to trace
the principal families to them.

The river Tyne, in the north of England, is so called
from its having tynes, or branches, — one of which is
called North Tyne ; another, South Tyne. A third branch,
taking its rise in Carterfell, and other highlands between
England and Scotland, is the river Reed. The valley
through which the stream winds its way to its mouth is
Redesdale, comprising a portion of Northumberland. This
territory formed the principal seat of the border wars. On
the banks of the river Reed was fought the bloody battle
of Otterburne, or Otterbrook, at the junction of a small
stream by that name with the Reed Waters, as the river is
called by Sir Walter Scott. This battle is sometimes called
the battle of Chevychase ; meaning a chase, or park, for
deer. Upon the edge of Carterfell — a mountain between
England and Scotland — is Reed's Square, — a corruption
of wear, a Scotch phrase for a fort or castle, — named in
honor of Sir Reginald Reed, who was distinguished in the
Border wars. Following the stream down, the ruins of
several Reed castles and fortifications may be seen. Some
splendid castles still occupied by persons of the same name
and blood are also found ; among which is Chipchase Castle,
not far from the junction of the Reed with the Tyne.

It may not be inappropriate here to give some further
description of the territory between the wall of Agricola
and that of Adrian ; it being the hive from which a large

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portion of the ancestors of the English and American
Reeds originated. It is bounded east by the North Sea,
and extends westerly to the river Tweed, on the borders
of Scotland ; southerly to the Cheviot Hills, Carterfell, and
the disputed grounds ; easterly by the river Tyne and
Adrian's Wall ; and forms a barony by the name of Redes-
dale. John Thomas Freeman Mitford — a descendant of
Robert Mitford, otherwise Robert of Redesdale — is the
present Baron of Redesdale ; who was born Sept. 9, 1785,
and succeeded to the barony on the death of his father,
Jan. 16, 1830. He is a prominent member of the House of
Lords.

The scenes in Scott's novels and poetical works are laid
here. The territory is rich in monuments of the past, —
in the relics of the superstitious ceremonies of the Druids,
and in the ruins of ancient Roman roads, fortifications, and
towns. The wild and unfrequented glens, desolate moors,
interspersed with rich alluvial valleys, splendid towns,
villages, and castles ; chases, parks, and forests ; with the
history of momentous events, — make Redesdale a romantic
and interesting spot. This is the first starting-point of the
Reeds of England and Scotland. Many of the name still
remain there, scattered through the towns, cities, and rural
districts.

Among the relics of former days at Risingham, — the
Roman name of which is Habitancum, — on the banks of
the river Reed, upon an eminence covered with scattered
birches and fragments of rock, there is cut in alto relievo
a remarkable figure called Robin of Redesdale ; which, if
adapted to our language, would be Robert Reed. Tradi-
tion says he was murdered by his brother, who lived at
Woodburn (otherwise Woodbrook), an adjoining parish.
The figure represents a man of large size, dressed in armor,
and called by the peasantry in the neighborhood " the

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Giant." This Robin of Redesdale (meaning the Dale of
Prince Rheda) flourished in the fifteenth century, and was
associated with Earl Warwick. He fought and conquered
the Earl of Pembroke, in the year 1470, at Danesmore,
near Edgecoat in Northamptonshire, about three miles from
Banbury. His name was Robert ; and he took the name of
Mitford, from a fording-place near his residence, to distin-
guish him from another of the same name. The monu-
ment was on his own estate, and intended to perpetuate his
memory for his valor and success in the Border wars.

Further up the river is the Pringle, — a small stream
which empties into the Reed. Tradition says that Percival
or Percy Reed, Esq., fell into the hands of a company of
moss-troopers, who robbed and murdered him at Bating-
hope, — a place on the banks of this stream ; and that his
spirit haunts the Pringle.

Another legend is, that Mr. Reed, of Bowland, — a gen-
tleman of landed property in the Vale of Gala, — was
prosecuted for a very considerable sum, — the accumulated
arrears of teind, or tithe, — for which he was said to be
indebted to a noble family, the titulars of the tithes. Mr.
Reed was strongly impressed with the belief that his father
had in his lifetime, by a form of process peculiar to the law
of Scotland, purchased these lands ; and that the present
prosecution was groundless. But after an industrious
search among his papers, an investigation of public records,
and a careful inquiry among all persons who had transacted
law-business with his father, no evidence could be obtained
to support his defence. The period had now arrived at
which he considered the loss of his case as inevitable ; and
he had formed his determination to ride to Edinburgh the
next day, and make the best bargain he could by way of
compromise. He went to bed with this resolution, and
with all the circumstances of the case floating in his mind,

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and had the following dream : His father, who had been
dead many years, appeared, as he thought, to him, and
asked him why he was troubled in mind. Mr. Reed
thought that he informed his father of the cause of his
distress ; adding, that it was more distressing on account
of knowing that it was not due, though he was unable to
produce satisfactory evidence to the contrary. " You are
right, my son," replied the paternal shade. " The papers

to prove the same are in the hands of Mr. , an attorney,

who has retired from business, and resides at Ivernisk, near
Edinburgh. He was a person whom I employed on that
occasion for a particular reason, but who had never done
any business for me at any other time. It is possible that
you may find the evidence there. He may have forgotten
it: but you may refresh his memory by the circumstance,
that we had some difficulty in making change, as I offered
him a Portuguese piece of money ; and that we drank the
balance at a public house." Mr. Reed awoke in the morn-
ing with the full force of the vision upon his mind, and
immediately set out for Ivernisk, and found the person
described in the dream to be a very old man. Upon
making the inquiry, the old gentleman could not recollect
the circumstance ; but, on mention of the piece of money,
it became fresh to his recollection, and be found the papers
necessary for Mr. Reed to prove his case.

The theory of Sir Walter Scott is, that this dream was
only the recapitulation in the mind of the sleeper of what
he had learned from his father, while awake, many years
before, but had forgotten it ; there being nothing strange in
people's recovering, while asleep, the thread of some idea
forgotten while awake. It may be added, that this remark-
able circumstance was attended with bad consequences to
Mr. Reed, whose health and spirits were afterwards impaired
by the continual contemplation of the matter.

22 ORIGIN OP THE NAME,

Many more interesting legends, which would fill a volume,
might be told of the Valley of Redesdale. Some of the
present names of towns and parishes are a corruption of
a former word, which was derived from Reed ; as Redsford
for Reedsford, Radhani for Reedham, and Riddle for Redes-
dale.

One of the most important towns of Redesdale is Mor-
peth, on the Wensbach River, — a small stream emptying
into the North Sea.

The Reeds are numerous, from the fact that they are de-
scended from a clan, or nation, and not from an individual.
Though they have taken their origin from Aschanaz, the
great-grandson of Noah, they have had an opportunity of
becoming a numerous people ; and, whatever their reputation
might have been when the world was in a state of barbarity,
they have, since mankind emerged from darkness, filled their
places well, and have been among the leading men in this
country and in Europe. They have generally been of a
religious cast. But few have been found among the in-
mates of penitentiaries or alms-houses.

As the line of England and Scotland was constantly
changing according to the valor and strength of parties, the
Reeds became mixed up, more or less, with both nations.
And as borderers in all nations are more exposed to the depre-
dations of the enemy, so they have the better chance of
distinguishing themselves ; consequently are more likely to
be promoted in civil departments. This was the case with
the Reeds of the English and Scotch borders. They were
connected with the royal family of England long before the
days of William the Conqueror. There was Withred, King
of Kent, in the seventh century ; Ethelred, or Read the
Good, King of England, in 866 ; Alfred, or Reed the Shrewd,
in 871 ; Eldred, or Reed the Elder, in 946 ; Ethelred the
Second, in 978 ; and when William the Conqueror took

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possession of the English throne, in 1066, the legal heir to
the throne was brother-in-law to the King of Scotland. Na-
tions have in all ages united as much by marriage as by
war. The Reeds were of Celtic origin, and the most power-
ful noblemen were of Saxon blood. Much jealousy existed
between the two races. Edwari the Confessor, son of
Ethelred, being aware that his lineal descendants did not
possess the energy and power to hold the crown against the
opposition of the Saxon nobles, made a compact with his
cousin, the Duke of Normandy, by which William was to
have the crown at his decease ; the crown being then in the
power of the king to dispose of like other property. Harold,
the son of Earl Godwin, represented the Saxon stock, and
was placed on the throne by that interest. It should be
here understood, that, when English historians speak of
the people, they mean only the nobility ; as the common
people then had no more voice in matters of state than the
kids upon the Cheviot hills. William came over from
France to carry out the provisions of the compact ; and
Harold, in behalf of the nobles, met him, and was slain.
Thus ended the struggle which had been carried on between
the two races, and which had been the means of inviting the
Danes, at several different times, to land upon the English
shores, being encouraged by existing jealousies between
the races. There appears to have been no difficulty be-
tween William and the descendants of Ethelred ; the legal
heir waiving his claim, and the son of William marrying
the heiress : and both houses merged into one in the chil-
dren of Henry ; he being descended from Alfred, by both
father and mother.

The Reeds were among the reigning princes of North-
umberland, Kent, Wessex, and Mercia, and seem to have
been of the same blood ; and political alliances existed
between them.

24 ORIGIN OP THE NAME,

Before proceeding any further, it will be proper to give
the definition of some ancient English and Scottish words
which are in some way connected with this subject : viz., a
" town " is a settlement containing sufficient inhabitants to be
entitled to a market ; a " village " is a settlement of somewhat
less inhabitants than a town ; a " hamlet " is less than a
village ; and a " court" is the manor of a nobleman or gentle-
man, containing the mansion and dwellings of less magni-
tude for the residence of his retainers and peasants. Towns
or villages in England, ending with " ham," were once ham-
lets ; and the first part of the word, in most cases, though
not always, was the name of the principal owner. In the
course of time, the last syllable was dispensed with ; and, in
some cases, the word " hamlet " has become wholly disused.
In others, the orthography is slightly altered, so that the
original cannot be identified without care and attention.
As for instance : the word " Renham " was, originally,
" Reed's hamlet ; " and, in the course of time, the last sylla-
ble and one of the " e's " were omitted, the name being pro-
nounced Redham ; and, by substituting an " n " for a " d," it
became Renham. A similar fate has followed the names of
many other places. Other words have been not only abbre-
viated, but have entirely lost their original significance.
Thus Sussex was South Saxony, or the southern settlement
of the Saxons in England ; Essex was East Saxony, or the
eastern settlement ; Wessex was the western settlement ; Mid-
dlesex was the middle settlement ; and Norfolk was the north
folks. Norwich was the northern bailiwick, or sheriffdom ;
Canterbury was the place of the principal castle for the
kingdom of Kent, as " bury " meant castle ; and Kent has
been somewhat altered by substituting an e for an a. Dor-
chester meant the place of keeping the chest, or public
depository, for the county of Dorset. The word Exeter
meant, " towards the river Exe." Newcastle denoted the

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castle built after the erection of Adrian's Wall. In refer-
ence to the name of Reading there is some doubt; for English
historians, being disposed to give a Saxon origin to every-
thing, suggest that ancient Reading was derived either from
the river (Rhea), or from Redin, the English word for " fern,"
which they say grew in great abundance thereabouts. This
fact would probably apply to many other places in England,
if we go back to a time anterior to agriculture : but the
town is called, in the Saxon annals, Reading, Redding, and
Raeding ; and, being in the vicinity of several of the Read
establishments, it is full as reasonable to suppose that they
gave the name to it. We know that many of the towns by
that name in America were so called in honor of individuals
by the name of Reed or Read, who were prominent in the first
settlement of their respective towns ; and others were named
from Reading in England. Places ending with "ford"
had, before the introduction of bridges, reference to a ford-
ing-place across a body of water ; as Bradford, in ancient
times, meant Brad's fording-place. The word " burn," an-
nexed to many ancient towns and parishes, had reference to
some brook: consequently the word Otterburn would be
better understood at the present day if called Otterbrook ;
and the same would be true of Bannockburn, and all other
places of the same termination.

Many counties and towns in the United States took their
names from places in England, Scotland, or Ireland, with-
out much reference to the original meaning ; as Boston,
in Massachusetts, from Boston, in the county of Lincoln,
England ; Plymouth, from Plymouth in England ; Read-
ing in Pennsylvania, and Reading in Massachusetts, from
Reading in England. The names of persons have under-
gone as great a change as those of places. Thus a Welsh-
man, having pierced the eye of an English officer, received
the surname of Pierce-eye, which originated the name Percy.

26 ORIGIN OF THE NAME,

The same is now Pierce, or Pearce. The name of Peabody
meant " mountain-man," and had reference to the remnant of
the subjects of Boadicea, an English queen, who was taken
prisoner by the Romans, and the remnant of her army fled
to the mountains of "Wales, and were called Peabodies, or
" mountain-men." Winn is said to be an abbreviation of
Llewellyn, the Welsh prince who was taken and slain by
Edward I. ; Parker, from one who was keeper of a park ;
Forester, from one who was keeper of a forest, and the
name became Foster.

Some surnames have a significance of their own, as being
illegitimate descendants of princes and noblemen, particu-
larly all names ending with " son," as Johnson and Peterson:
the former meaning the illegitimate descendants of John ;
and the latter, those of Peter. The name of Perry is said
to be a corruption of Ap Harry, or the son of Henry.

The first notice taken of any person by the name of Rede,
in Kent, was Withred, King of Kent, in the seventh century.
Their seat was at Rede, in the hundred of Merdinnie, the
modern name of which is Harden. There was John, of this
place, in the muster-roll of William the Conqueror, a.d. 1075 ;
and a John of Merdinnie sold the manor of Silham in
Renham, or Reedham, in the year 1280. Rede is in the
north-westerly part of Kent, adjoining to Maidstone, a cele-
brated military station. It is within the district of the
weald, and has from the earliest times been esteemed a
part of the king's manor. The mansion is on the north side
of the district, and has always been called Reade Court.
There is likewise a Reade Court in the parish of Friends-
bury, in the same county, situated on the river Medway,
and adjoining to Hoo. There are likewise two other manors
in Kent, which for a great length of time belonged to the
Reads, — namely, East and "West Euherst, in Tunbridge
Wells ; but they belonged to the Reads of Harden.

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The ancient seats of the Reads in Mercia were Rocking-
ham Castle, at North Hampton ; so named from Roken, a
small stream and parish of the same name on the banks
of Redesdale, the residence of one branch of the Reads.
This castle was the residence of Robin of Riddisdale. The
Reeds had also an establishment at Wrangle, near Boston ;
and another, at Norwich. The manor called the Bowers of
Gifford, about eight miles from Billerica and thirty from
London, was owned by the Reeds a hundred and thirty
years, but was not one of their original seats. John died
in possession of it in 1627, and had a son and heir by the
name of Roger. Henry died seized of it in 1712 ; but
the manor passed out of the family in 1747, Henry having
sold it to George Montgomery, Esq. There was likewise
Boreplace in the county of Kent, and Barton Court, the
seat of a bloody battle between the Loyalists and the Parlia-
mentarians. The last-named manor was defended by its
owner, Robert Read, till it was burned down over his head.
The Reads also had an establishment at Barrie, Brocket
Hall, of Abington, and Renham, or Reedham. Chipchase
Castle, near the junction of the Reed with the Tyne, is oc-
cupied by Sir Christopher Reed at the present time ; as is
also Prestwich Lodge in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the owner,
son of Sir Christopher, being Deputy-Lieutenant of the
county. Ewellgrove, Ipsdenhouse, Ashmans, in the county
of Suffolk, Woodparks in the county of Galway, Ros-
senara in Kilkenny, and many other manors, are now
possessed by the Reeds. It was common to have several
establishments ; a portion of the household residing at one,
and another portion at another. Those in the remote parts
of England held the old country establishment, and, at the
same time, another seat at or near the metropolis. This
was the case with Robbin of Riddisdale, who held his pro-
perty on the banks of the Roken and also at Rockingham

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Castle. The family of Read, in the county of Kent, held
their estates in the north of England and south of
Scotland ; and nearly all who lived in and about London
owned estates in Northumberland or in the southern parts
of Scotland. They have lost their identity with royal fami-
lies ; but, as will be shown hereafter, many of them are
persons of influence and wealth.

In books on heraldry are laid down a great many coats
of arms of the Reeds, only a few of which I shall describe
in their proper place.

Brianus de Rede was living in the year 1139, and was of
Morpeth, on the Wensback River, in the north of England.
He had three sons: 1. Robert of Rede; 2. William, who
was Bishop of Chichester ; and, 3. Thomas of Redydale.

Robert of Rede had a son by the same name, who was
Bishop of Carlisle. He was also Bishop of Chichester,
and built a fine stone piazza in the centre of the city.

William, the second son of Brianus, had a son Robert,
who had a son Galfrinus. The latter had William, Thomas
of Redydale, and Robert. The latter had sons Richard,
Philip, and Robert who held the manor of Hallbury in the
seventh year of Henry VI.

William, the son of Galfrinus, married Margaret Glan-
ville : they had Robert, who had David, John, and William.
The latter was one of the bailiffs of Norwich in 1260, and
had a son John, who sold the manor of Silham in Reedham
in 1280.

David had a Robert, who married Cecilia Randall, and
died in 1346, leaving a son Robert, Bishop of Carlisle, Feb. 8,
1396 ; and the same year made Bishop of Chichester, and
died in 1415. He was chosen in 1381 to provide and deliver
out bows, arrows, swords, <fec, to defend the city in the
" Tyler and Jack Straw insurrection."

William, the son of Galfrinus, also had a son William,

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■who was Bishop of Chichester in 1330, and died in 1385,
leaving a son by the same name, who was Bishop of Chiches-
ter, Sussex County, in 1369. John, son of William and
Margaret, was Rector of St. Michael's in Norwich in 1393,
and died in 1395.

Thomas of Redydale, the son of Galfrinus, had a son of
the same name, who was living in 1429, and had a son
Thomas, who possessed an estate at Heddington, Oxon, and
married Christiana, daughter of Robert James Lapole,
and sister of Michael De Lapole, Lord Chancellor. This
Lapole Family constituted some of the worthless favorites to
whom, as historians say, the king delivered himself up.
The true interpretation probably is, that the Lapole Family
were not of noble birth, and were on that account obnoxious
to the nobility, who contrived to make them unpopular with
the common people. Sensible of the value of their services,
King" Richard, in order to save them, stooped in vain to such
acts as were considered ignoble in a prince. They were
attainted, and condemned to suffer as traitors ; and, though
one of Lapole's associates was hung at Tyburn, Lapole found
means of escape to the Continent, and much of his effects
passed into the hands of his son-in-law, instead of the public
treasury. This name of De Lapole is understood to be the
same as that of Pool in America ; persons of this name
being numerous in Weymouth, Taunton, and other places
in Massachusetts.

Thomas of Redydale had also an Edmond, who was the
owner of an estate at Heddington. Thomas and Christiana
also had John, who was Mayor of Norwich in 1388. The
latter had an Edward, who married Isiod Stanley; and they
had John ; Bartholomew, who was Mayor of London in
1502 ; Robert, who was Lord Chief-Justice of the King's
Bench ; and William, who was Professor of Divinity. Mayor
John likewise had a son Henry, who was patron of Clothell

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in Berks in 1405. John, son of Edward, married Joan
Ludlow, and died Nov. 11, 1502, leaving a son, Thomas of
Beccles, who married Philipa Bacon, and had five sons :
1. William, his heir; 2. John of Norwich, who was warden
of New College, Oxon, in 1520, and died in 1521 ; 3. Alvan,
Abbot of Waltham in 1507 ; 4. Edward, Sheriff of Norfolk
in 1508, and member of Parliament; 5. Thomas, who was
Rector of Beccles, and died in 1543, leaving a son by the
name of William, who, in 1538, married a Tooley, and died
in 1545, leaving a son by the name of Thomas, also a Wil-
liam and six daughters. The latter William was of London,
and married Anna, daughter of William Fernley of Creeting,
and died in 1552, leaving a son, who was Sir William
of Beccles, born in 1551 ; and Richard, who was Com-
missioner of the Court of Requests. The widow of William
of London, who died in 1552, married Sir Thomas Gresham.
Sir William of Beccles married Gertrude Paston for his
first wife, and a Goldsmith for his second wife. He died
in 1599, leaving a daughter, who married Sir Michael
Stanhope ; a son, known as Sir Thomas, who married
Mildred Cecil, daughter of the Earl of Exeter ; and Francis,
who married the widow of Lord Cobham, by whom he had
four daughters.

Thomas, son of William and Miss Tooley, married Marga-
ret Guints for his first wife, and, for his second, the widow
of John Goldingham, Esq. ; and died in 1554, leaving a son
Francis, who was incumbent of Ellough ; a George, who
married Ann Lee ; and John of Beccles and Weston, who
built Weston Hall, was member of Parliament for Guil-
ford in 1575, and married Ursula Cook. He sold the estate
of Oatlands, and died in 1605, leaving a son Thomas, who
married Anna, daughter of Sir F. Gandy, Judge of the
Queen's Bench. They had sons Henry, and Edward, who
married Elizabeth Edgar. Henry married Elizabeth, the

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daughter of Nicholas Garneys, Esq., of Redisham, and had
a son Thomas, who married Abigail Edgar of Glenham, and
died in 1714, leaving a son Edward, who left by his wife
Elizabeth one daughter ; Thomas, who left a son Thomas,
who married Anna Farr of Northcone, who died in 1723,
leaving Thomas, Esq., of Weston Hall, who married Martha,
daughter of John Elmy, Esq., of Beccles, and died March 25,
1766, leaving a daughter Martha, who married a Carter ;
Anna, who married Col. Anderson ; and a Thomas, who was
born in January, 1730, and married Theopila, daughter of
William Lemon, Esq., and married, for second wife, Elizabeth,
daughter of Robert Wilson, Esq., of Didlington, and, for third
wife, Rachel, the widow of John Donaldson, Esq. ; and died
Jan. 29, 1811. Children : Thomas Leman, who married
Anna Bullen, and had a daughter Louisa, and son Thomas
William, who married Ann Mills, and had Robert, Char-
lotte, Anne, Henry, and Sarah Lemon. Thomas and Theo-
pila also had Robert, who built Ashmans in the county of
Suffolk, and married Charlotte, the daughter of William
Anderson, Bart., and died Aug. 13, 1822. Sarah Lemon,
daughter of Thomas and Theopila, married Rev. Samuel
Lovick Cooper, November, 1787. Their children were, —
Bransby Blake ; Robert, born April 10, 1796, married
Louisa, daughter of Benjamin Henshaw, Esq., of Moor Hall,
county of Essex ; Louisa Charlotte, Annie, Marianne, Sarah
Bransby, Madaline Naunton Lemon. He came into pos-
session of the estates of his maternal uncle, Aug. 13, 1822 ;
at which time he assumed the name, and lives at Ashmans.
Edmond, the son of Thomas and Christiana, married Alice,
and had by her Edmond, who was Lord of Portstal ; Thomas,
and John. His widow Alice was executrix of the will of
William De Pulham in 1372. Thomas, the son of Thomas
and Christiana, possessed great estates in Wrangle, Boston,
Burgh or Bury, Winthrop, Bennington, Leake, and Lineston.

32 ORIGIN OP THE NAME

Edmond, the son of Edmond, had a son William ; also Eobert
and John : the latter was a* merchant, of great wealth, in
Boston. He lived at Wrangle in 1460. There continued to
be a John in this branch of the family till 1626. The last
one was knighted in 1609, made Sheriff of Lincoln in 1610,
and died in 1626, aged sixty-five years. Charles Crafts Read,
who moved away from Wrangle, and in 1676 lived in Bard"
well, was probably a son of the last-named John. There is
a record of the death of Charles Crafts in 1662 ; which
makes it probable there were a father and son by that name.
The latter married Mary, the daughter of Thomas Henet ;
and she inherited the manor and royalties of Pishobury.
The Reads, in 1675, had disappeared from Wrangle, partly
by emigration to America ; and the remainder had taken up
their residence on their other estates. Francis, the son
of Thomas and Bridget, left there in 1674. The Crafts of
Bard well, the Gerards of Suffolk, the Greshams of Norfolk,
and the Eltons of Pinsbury in Lincolnshire, were relatives
of the Reads of Boston and Wrangle. Edmond, the son of
Thomas and Philipa, married Isiod Stanley ; and they had a
son Peter, who was knighted by Charles V. at the siege of
Barbary. He gave his houses in St. Giles to pay for ringing
the great bell at four in the morning and at eight in the even-
ing. There is a picture of him in the council-chamber, with
a hawk on his fist, and the arms of Rede, with an account
of the donation for ringing the bell, and of a large charity
to be distributed to the poor of the city. He married Annie,
daughter of Sir Thomas Bleugrehasset, Knt. She was the
widow of George, Duke of Brampton. He died in 1568,
leaving a son Giles. His wife died April 15, 1577. The
records abound with the charities and bequests of Sir Peter
Rede ; and his name is spelled Rede, Read, Redde. His
father's name was spelled Rede and Reed. This family
dwelt in the black flint house opposite to the north side of

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the churchyard in Norwich, in which many of their arms
remain. There was also a Peter Rede in Boston, in 1332,
who probably belonged to this family ; but I find no account
of his pedigree. Thomas, the son of Edmond and Alice, had
a son William, who inherited great estates from his father.
He married Alice for his first wife, Margaret for his second,
and Anna, the daughter of William Fernley, Esq., of West
Creeting in the county of Suffolk, for his third wife. He
provided obits to be observed annually for himself and his
three wives at the Feast of the Invention of the Holy Cross.
He died in 1453. His widow married Sir Thomas Gresham,
a wealthy London merchant, who died in 1579, having made
over a large portion of his estate in fee-simple to his wife.
After her death, which took place in 1596, that portion
passed to her son William Reade, who was born in 1538,
and was afterwards known as Sir William of Rockingham
Castle in the county of Northampton, one of the ancient
seats of the Read Family. He had a son Thomas, who died
without male issue ; a daughter Anne, who married Sir
Michael Stanhope ; Jane, who married Lord Fitzwater, and
afterwards Sir William Wetherpole ; Elizabeth, who married
Lord Berkley ; and Bridget, who married George, Earl of
Desmond. Sir William died in 1621 ; and his widow mar-
ried Sir Edward Spencer, of the Sunderland Family, who
held the Burelston Estate many years in the right of his wife ;
he having willed it to her, with remainder over to his three
grand-daughters, the children of his son Thomas. Rocking-
ham Castle is now a ruin.

Robert, the son of Edmond, married Christiana Lapole, a
descendant of Robert James Lapole. She lived at Wrangle
after the death of her husband.

Robert, the son of Edward, was executor of the will of
Hemy VII. He was Justice of the Common Pleas, and
afterwards Chief-Justice of the King's Bench, in the reign

5

34 ORIGIN OP THE NAME,

of Henry VIII. Lord Chief-Justice Robert Read married
Margaret Alphew of Ohidingstone, and, when young, lived
at Morpeth, Blackfriars, in the north of England, the neigh-
borhood of large paternal estates of the family ; but, in 1530,
he and his wife were members of the Corpus Christi Guild at
Boston in the county of Lincoln, ■ — an institution under the
old English laws, by which the community was divided into
tens, hundreds, and thousands. The members of ten were
responsible for the conduct of each member of his ten. The
tens originated the present institution of towns, — a word
which is derived from ten ; as also the thousands originated
that of counties. The hundreds were a class, or division,
which has never been adopted in this country. The children
of Lord Robert and Margaret were, — John, who was Mayor
of Norwich ; Bridget, who married Francis Willoughby,
afterwards Lord Chief-Justice Willoughby ; and three other
daughters. He inherited the two manors of East and West
Euhcrst; and he had estates in Chidingstonc, Morpeth, Bos-
ton, Norwich, and other places. The estates of East and
West Euhcrst passed to Lady Willoughby in the division of
Lord Robert's estate. His son John was Mayor of Nor-
wich, and was also Sheriff of Norwich in 1568. Bloomfield's
History says, " In 1572, on the 14th of June, about nine
o'clock in the forenoon, a good and godly and virtuous
brother of this house (viz., John Rede, alderman), a big man,
and hot with travel, after reverence to Mr. Mayor and other
brethren, and in his place taken in the council-chamber,
being troubled with a rheum that fell from his head, as it is
supposed, did cough three times, wherewith he was stopped,
and his wind failed, and so, in a sudden, seized down, and
never spake any word ; and so there presently departed this
transitory life unto a more joyful place of rest."

Richard, the Commissioner of Requests, had a son by the
same name, who studied music twenty-two years, and was

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admitted Bachelor of Music. He composed church-services
and other matters for instruments, which are scattered in
several books.

Giles, the son of Sir Peter and Annie, married Catherine
Greville, the daughter of Earl Brooke.

Thomas Read, Esq., of Barton Court in the county of
Berks, was living in 1575. He married Ann, the daughter
of Thomas Hoo, Esq., of the Hoo, in the county of Hert-
ford ; and they had Thomas of Barton, who married Mary
Stonehouse, of Little Peckham in the county of Kent, and
Radley. He was Clerk of the Green Cloth. They had a
son of the same name, who was knighted, and married Mary,
the daughter of Sir John Brocket, of Brocket Hall in Hert-
fordshire. Their children were Thomas, John, and James,
who were all baroneted. They also had two daughters.
Thomas, son of Sir Thomas and Mary, married Mary, the
daughter of Thomas Cornwall, Lord of Strophshire. Their
children were Compton, Edward, and three sons whose
names are not given, but probably Thomas, William, and
John, who came to America. Compton, the son of Sir
Thomas and Mary, married Mary, the daughter of Gilbert
Cornwall of Berford. They had one child, named Edward,
who succeeded his father to Shipton House in Oxford, and
Barton in Berkshire, and was made baronet, in 1660, by
Charles II. He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Francis
Hardy, Esq., of Adston in Northampton. Their children
were, — Thomas, who succeeded his father ; and George,
who became member of Parliament for Tukcsbury in the
county of Gloucester, and was a brigadier-general. Thomas,
the son of Edward and Elizabeth, married Jane Dutton.
They had a son named John, who succeeded his father to
his estate and titles.

Thomas, the son of Thomas and Jane, had a son by the
same name, who had John and Thomas, twins, born in 1762.

36 ORIGIN OF THE NAME,

The latter died in 1837 ; the father died in 1773. John,
the twin-brother of Thomas, married Jane, the daughter of
Sir John Candos Hoskins, Bart. They had a John Candos,
of Shipton Court, Oxford County, who was born Oct. 17, 1814,
and died July 31, 1851.

Edward, the son of Thomas and Mary Corwall, inherited
the estate of Ipsden in 1637 ; he also had an estate in
Meckford, Essex County. He had a daughter Elizabeth,
who was married, Feb. 12, 1635, to John Winthrop, jun., the
first governor of Connecticut, and settled at New London.
He also had a son Thomas, who was one of the first proprie-
tors of New London ; and John, who was of New London
in 1651. The land granted them was forfeited for not being
occupied ; and they probably never permanently settled
there.

William Reade of Aikenhead had a son by the name of
Robert, who was Bishop of Orkney ; and a daughter Allison,
who married Edward, the son of Sir David Bruce, about the
year 1551.

Alexander Reid of Barrie was created a baronet of Nova
Scotia in 1706. He married Agnes, the eldest daughter
of Sir Alexander Oglevie, Bart., of Forglen ; and, dying in
1770, was succeeded by Iris only son James, who died
in 1771, and was succeeded by his son John, who was born in
1760, and married, June 2, 1785, Barbara, the daughter
of Thomas Livingston, Esq., M.D., of Downyhills in the
county of Aberdeen. His son John, the fourth baronet,
had a son Alexander, Nov. 12, 1798 ; and William, a clergy-
man, who is the present baronet.

John Reid, Esq., of Kirkmahoe in the county of Dum-
fries, married Helen, the daughter of John Davison, Esq.,
of Woodside, in 1761, and died May 20, 1775, leaving
Thomas, born Oct. 26, 1762, who was made baronet, Nov. 10,
1823, and had sons John and Thomas. The latter had a

AND HISTORY OF THE CLANS. 37

son of the same name, bom May 21, 1805 ; Alexander,
June 8, 1806 ; Joseph, Aug. 24, 1810 ; Edward Maitland,
Jan. 16, 1815 ; Henry Mansford, Aug. 22, 1817 ; George
James Greystone, July 30, 1828 ; Agnes M. Helen, Eliza-
beth B., Mary Ann, and Louisa. He had been an eminent
merchant in London, and for some time Chairman of the
Court of Directors of the East-India Company.

Sir John Reid, of Ewell Grove in the county of Surrey,
son of James, Esq., married Maria Louisa, the only daughter
of Richard Eaton, Esq., Sept. 9, 1840. Their children were,
— John, born Aug. 14, 1841; a son, born Feb. 13, 1845;
and a daughter, in 1843. He succeeded his father as second
baronet, Feb. 29, 1824 ; and was Governor of the Bank of
England in 1840 and 1841.

William Reade, S.T.P., son of Edward and Isiod, supposed
to be born about 1450, had a son Sir William, who mar-
ried Ann Menis, and had a son William, who married
Rebecca, the daughter and coheir of Menis. Their chil-
dren were Matthew, John, Richard, Thomas, William, and
Lucy.

Matthew, Esq., the son of William and Rebecca, married
Alice, the daughter of Andrew Ward ; and they had William,
and a daughter who married Sir Henry Oxinden of Dene,
and was heir to half his estate. They also had a daughter
Elizabeth, who married Morace Dixwell, Esq., of Broome
in the county of Kent. William, the son of Matthew and
Alice, married Lucy Henage ; and they had John and Wil-
liam. Richard, the son of William and Rebecca, born in
1577, married Joan, daughter of Ralph Dale of London ;
and they had a son Richard, who lived at Whittlesey; Wil-
liam, and a daughter Rebecca. He was living at London
in 1657, aged eighty-seven years. John, the son of William
and Rebecca, was knighted in 1641 by Charles I. William,
who sailed from Gravesend in 1635, and settled in Wey-

38 ORIGIN OF THE NAME,

month, may have been son of Richard, and grandson of
William and Rebecca.

Sir John Reade of Bodington in the county of Glou-
cester, Knt., had Dorothy, who married Lord Oliver St.
John.

Thomas Read was admitted LL.D., May 8, 1638, of New
' College. He afterwards was a great royalist ; and, by his
majesty, was nominated Principal of Magdalen College, on
the flight of Wilkinson to the Parliament. Afterwards he
changed his religion for that of Rome, lived beyond sea,
and wrote certain matters against Dr. Edward Bangor.

Thomas Rhcad, M.A., of Aberdeen in Scotland, was an
author of distinction.

Alexander Rhead, M.A., of Aberdeen, was created Doctor
of Physic in the House of Convocation, by virtue of letters of
King James I. This learned Scot, who was afterwards one
of the College of Physicians in London, and a brother of the
Company of Barber-Chirurgeons, has written and published
" A Description of the Body of Man," and also " Chirogical
Lectures " on tumors and ulcers. He was afterwards mini-
ster of Yeatley in Hampshire, where he died in 1628.

Thomas Rede, Rector of Agotte St. Lawrence, lost his
living ; and his family was reduced to such necessities, that
some of them came to be maintained by the public charity
of the Corporation for Ministers' Widows. One of this name
was Rector of Offley in 1617.

John Reade of New College was Fellow of Wykcham
College, and made Doctor of Decrees, Jan. 29, 1507. It
was granted to Mr. John Rede, M.A., Bachelor of Divinity,
and Warden of Wykeham College, near Winchester, that
he be created D.D. by a cap put on his head by Dr. Faunte-
roy, the commissioner, the proctor, and two masters. Ho
had been tutor to Prince Arthur ; was then Canon of Chi-
chester ; afterwards Warden of New College in Oxon ; and

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Master of the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen, near Win-
chester. He was made LL.D. in 1528.

In 1437, Richard, Phillip, and Robert Eede held the
manor of Hallbury, in the 7th and 15th of Henry VI.

Henry Reade was Sheriff of London in 1477.

Simeon Reade was Mayor of Norwich in 1502.

Edmund Reed of Morgansleigh in the county of Devon-
shire, rector, was once interrupted and abused in the pulpit,
and at length deposed when he had been nearly forty years
minister in that place. The chief accusation against him
was his approval of the " Book of Sports." He lived to be
restored, but died soon after.

Charles Read, Esq., built and endowed a celebrated school
and hospital at Tuxford on the river Trent. There is at
the present time a Charles Reed, who is a distinguished
English author.

There was a Dr. Samuel Read of Stafford in England,
who, in 1645, furnished one Cook with funds to build a
gristmill in Cambridge, Mass., and took a mortgage of the
same. Whether this mill was on Charles River, or on a
small stream which is in West Cambridge, I have no know-
ledge ; but it was a great enterprise for those days, and
controlled the location of highways in that section. He was
probably a relative of the Puritan emigrants of the same
name, and lived in the vicinity of Boston in England.

There was a John Reade of St. John's College, who was
made Bachelor of Divinity, April 10, 1516 ; and died in 1587,
being the Prebendary of Westminster. He was buried in
St. John's College Chapel. There was a Thomas Reade,
who was Rector of Adcome in Somersetshire, who died
about the year 1570. Thomas Reade of Upham married
Alice Petre, about the time of Henry VIII. Sir John of
Sussex married Bridget, the daughter of Lord Thomas
Munson, about the year 1600. Sir John of Bodington had

40 ORIGIN OP THE NAME.

a daughter Dorothy, who married Lord Oliver St. John.
There was a George Reede of Leis Garden, who died Feb.
25, 1530 ; and there is a monument to his memory in Horn
Church.

Clement Reade of Maryfield married Ann, the only
daughter of John Baker. Ralph Read in Lone, county of
Kent, married the daughter of Ralph Bufkin. There was
a James Reade who was Rector of St. Augustine. Thomas
Rhead, M.A., of Aberdeen in Scotland, was an author of
distinction. There is a Baron Von Rheede of Von Oudshoorn
in Holland ; but nothing is known of his pedigree. A
Roger Reed of Haverhinge bequeathed large amounts
for objects of charity and public utility. There was also a
Simeon Reed of the same place. There is one Isaac Reed,
Esq., at Hampstead in England, who was a companion of Dr.
Johnson.

WILLIAM READE OF BOSTON. 41

CHAPTER II.

WILLIAM READE OF BOSTON, AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

We now arrive at a time when it is difficult to trace the
different families, as there was a great rush for America ;
in consequence of which, some branches became extinct in
Europe, and there appeared to be a disposition, on the part
of at least some of the Puritan emigrants, to blot out every
tiling that would connect them witli families in Europe. In
consequence of this, their descendants lost the means of
proving heirship to great estates, aud left their posterity in
uncertainty and doubt in reference to their ancestry.

The author has devoted much attention to the subject,
and is unable to give that assurance which he would like ;
but is inclined to think that the first by the name of Reed
in this country was, —

1.* William, the son of Richard Read of Whittlesey in
the county of Kent. He came to America with Gov.
Winthrop in 1630, or about that time ; and settled first
in Weymouth, but removed to Boston. He was engaged in
mercantile business, but, a portion of the time, commanded
his own vessel. He died on his homeward passage from
Ireland, on board the ketch " William and Mary," of which

* The Arabic figures at the commencement of paragraphs, always throughout
this work, indicate the generation.

42 WILLIAM HEADE OF BOSTON,

he was part owner. An inventory of his estate was taken
Sept. 23, 1667, in the schedule of which was real estate at
the North End and in King Street (now State Street),
some broadcloths, a tailor's goose, &c. He probably had
done some business as a merchant tailor. His first wife's
Christian name was Susan, who died Oct. 12, 1653. He
married, for a second wife, a person whose Christian name
was Hannah, Nov. 25, 1656. His children were, — Edward,
who was born in 1618 ; John, 1620 ; Samuel, 1624. These
three settled in Marblehead. He had a daughter Margaret,
who married Richard Stubbs of Hull, March 3, 1658 ; Rich-
ard, who settled in Marblehead ; Susanna, who married
Samue Smith, Dec. 13, 1659 ; William ; Esther, who mar-
ried John Cann, July 30, 1661; Christopher, who was a
tanner in Charlestown, and died in 1696, leaving a widow
by the name of Catherine.

2. Samuel, the son of Capt. William of Boston, was a
proprietor of land in Marblehead previous to 1673. His
children were, — Samuel ; Benjamin, who died in 1700.

3. Samuel, the son of Samuel of Marblehead, married
Abigail Rowland, March 17, 1684. Their marriage was
solemnized by Mr. Moses Maverick, the first town-clerk of
Marblehead. Their children were Samuel and Benjamin.
He married, for a second wife, Jane Stacy, Nov. 4, 1692.
He was a purchaser of land in Marblehead in 1687.

4. Samuel, the son of Samuel and Abigail, married Mary.
Their children were, — Samuel ; Richard, born Aug. 4, 1706 ;
Mary, Jan. 12, 1714 ; Esther ; John ; Bridget. His will was
dated Nov. 12, 1718.

5. Samuel, the son of Samuel and Mary, married Mary
Tyler of Boxford. They were married in Boston, Aug. 18,
1725 ; and had a son Benjamin Tyler.

6. Benjamin T., the son of Samuel and Mary, married
Mary Appleton of Ipswich. Their children were, — Benja-

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 43

min Tyler, William, Polly, Rebecca, Martha. He was a
cabinet-maker and an innholder. His wife died in 1830.

7. Benjamin T., the son of Benjamin T. and Mary, mar-
ried Rebecca Blackley. Their children were,- — -Benjamin T.,
Lucy Ann, Mary, Rebecca. His wife died Feb. 8, 1837, in
her sixty-third year. He died June 6, 1829, of jaundice,
aged fifty-four years. He was known as Esquire Reed.

8. Benjamin Tyler, the son of Benjamin T. and Rebecca,
was formerly Treasurer of the Eastern Railroad. He married
Elizabeth T. Hooper; and had a son, — John Hooper, who
is of the firm of Reed and Hooper, in State Street.

8. Hon. William, son of Benjamin T. and Mary, married
Hannah Hooper. He was a member of Congress. He died
suddenly, of apoplexy, Feb. 22, 1837, aged sixty years and
six months. This family of Reeds, with their relatives the
Hoopers, are among the wealthiest people of Massachusetts,
and are also distinguished for high moral religious standing
as well as business talents. Benjamin T. was for several
years Treasurer of the Eastern Railroad, and his son is one
of the Bankers of State Street. Hon. William Reed was a
very distinguished man ; and his widow survived him till
recently, and was known as Madam Reed. She was looked
up to in Marblehead as a pattern of piety and virtue. Her
abundant wealth enabled her to do much for the poor, and
to make her splendid mansion a home to the philanthropist
and the destitute.

7. Polly, the daughter of Benjamin T. and Mary, married
the Hon. William Hooper of Marblehead. Their children
were, — Robert C: Isaac D., who died young; Mary; Han-
nah ; Rebecca, who married Robert Hooper, and botli de-
ceased, leaving one child.

8. Mary, the daughter of William Hooper and Polly Reed,
married Francis Blacklie. They have two sons and four
daughters.

44 WILLIAM READE OP BOSTON,

8. Hannah, the daughter of William Hooper and Polly
Reed, married S. T. Williams, and died, leaving one
son.

8. Martha, the daughter of William Hooper and Polly,
married Rev. Nehemiah Adams, D.D., of the Essex-street
Church, Boston. She died in 1848, leaving two sons and
four daughters.

7. Rebecca, the daughter of Benjamin T. Reed and Mary,
married Rev. David Jewett. Their children are, — Rev.
William Reed Jewett ; David Brainard ; Mary A., who mar-
ried Rev. J. Whitney ; and Elizabeth. Mrs. Jewett died
at the residence of Mr. Whitney, April 16, 1859, aged
seventy-five.

7. Martha, the daughter of Benjamin T. and Mary, mar-
ried William Ropes, a distinguished merchant in Boston.
She died in 1829, leaving three sons and five daughters.

8. Lucy Ann, the daughter of Benjamin T. and Rebecca,
married Rev. W. C. Woodbridge, and died at Frankfort,
Germany, in 1839, leaving a son by the name of William
Reed, now in Yale College ; and Lucy Ann, who was born in
1837.

8. Mary, the daughter of Benjamin T. and Rebecca, mar-
ried Rev. 0. Eastman of New York. Their children are, —
Benjamin Reed, William, John Cotton, Mary, Elizabeth, and
Harriet.

5. John, the son of Samuel and Mary, died in 1764,
leaving a son by the same name, who administered upon his
father's estate, and died in 1773, leaving also a son of the
same name, who was a sea-captain, and a large landholder
in Windham in the State of Maine. The latter left a widow
by the name of Annis. He also had a sister Mary, who mar-
ried a Malcom. She left a son John. Annis, the widow of
Capt. John, married Ebenezer Foster of Boston, May 2,
1778. The town of Windham was first called New Marble-

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head, probably on account of so many people in Marblehead
being proprietors of land in that township.

5. Richard, the son of Samuel, married Elizabeth Tucker,
May 5, 1730. Their children were, — Mary, born Dec. 5,
1730; Samuel, Nov. 23, 1732; Richard, June 6, 1736;
Elizabeth, Sept. 9, 1738 ; Ebenezer, March 12, 1741 ; Sarah,
Aug. 31, 1744 ; Andrew, April 1, 1747 ; Benjamin, Sept. 14,
1749; Tabitha, June 17, 1755; Jeremiah, Oct. 3, 1757.
Administration was granted on his estate in 1801.

6. Ebenezer Reed, the son of Richard and Elizabeth of
Marblehead, born March 12, 1741, married Sarah Harris,
March 12, 1772, and, in the time of the Revolution, moved
to Londonderry, N.H., where he made his will, which was
witnessed by Jonathan Reed. He died in Marblehead early
in 1785. His widow died Sept. 23, 1822, aged seventy-five
years.

6. Richard, the son of Richard and Elizabeth, married
Hannah Bowen, July 1, 1762.

6. Benjamin, the son of Richard and Elizabeth, married
Damaris Picket, Sept. 29, 1774. He married, for a second
wife, Elizabeth Gordon, Sept. 7, 1779.

2. Richard, the son of Capt. William of Boston, had a son
by the same name, who married Hannah Walker, May 21,
1705. Their children were, — Richard, born in Boston,
Aug. 26,1708; Esther, Feb. 15, 1706; Hannah, June 17,
1711.

There was a Mary Reed of Boston who married John
Venterman, May 9, 1710. She was doubtless a grand-
daughter of Capt. William ; but I have been unable to ascer-
tain who were her parents. They had a daughter Mary,
who married in Boston to Burges Reed of Marblehead,
June 8, 1725. Their children were, — Mary, born May 12,
1726 ; Yenterman, baptized in Boston, at the Second Church,
May 25, 1729.

46 WILLIAM READE OP BOSTON.

5. John, the son of John and Hannah, born Feb. 26, 1722,
married Ann Mansfield, June 23, 1748. Children, — John,
a seaman, who died at the Marine Hospital at Charlestown,
July 20, 1822 ; Lydia, married John Eobertson, May 3,
1768.

John Reed in Marblehead married Rebecca Orne, Nov. 10,
1782; William married Mary Shields, July 21, 1783;
John married Jane Moon, Sept. 5, 1790 ; Nicholas married
Anna Gurney, April 17, 1791 ; William married Susan
Frost, March 23, 1816.

Venterman, the son of Burges and Mary, married Urith
Fabins, May 26, 1752. He married, for second wife, Eliza-
beth, who died at the alms4iouse, Feb. 17, 1817.

2. John, the son of Capt. William of Boston, settled in
Marblehead, and had a son of the same name, who married
Elizabeth. They had a son John, born in Boston, Dec. 29,
1706, who married Hannah. They had a son of the same
name, born in Boston, Feb. 26, 1722 ; Benjamin, March 27,
1724 ; Mary, Nov. 25, 1728 ; Benjamin, Feb. 3, 1731 ; Wil-
liam, April 10, 1734 ; William, March 8, 1737.

6. Samuel, son of Samuel and Elizabeth, born Nov. 23,
1732, married Tabitha. Children, — Mary, born Sept. 5,
1756, died June 2,1821; Tabitha, Jan. 14,1758; Nicholas
Gordon, Feb. 10, 1760, died March 28, 1760 ; Nicholas Gor-
don, May 30, 1761, died Aug. 12, 1761.

2. Christopher, the son of Capt. William of Boston, mar-
ried Catherine. He was of Worcester in 1680. He rendered
some military service under Major Willard in 1675, and
afterwards lived in Charlestown. Administration of his
estate was granted to his widow, Dec. 3, 1696.

COL. THOMAS READ OF SALEM. 47

CHAPTER III.

COL. THOMAS READ OF SALEM, AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

1. Col. Read is supposed to have been a son of Sir
Thomas and Mary Cornwall, of Brocket Hall in Hertford-
shire, England. His paternal grandfather had been Clerk
of the Green Cloth, and his maternal grandfather was
Lord of Strophshire. His elder brother Compton was a
baronet. He came to America in the great fleet in 1630,
with Winthrop and others, and settled in Salem, Mass. He
was made freeman the same year. He had a town-grant
of three hundred acres of land in 1637, lying contiguous to
that of Gov. Endicutt, and being what now constitutes the
celebrated farms of Kendall Osburne, Esq., and the Hon.
Ricard S. Rogers, in South Danvers, known many years
as the Derby Farms, together with some smaller lots. The
first settlers had grants of land in proportion to their amount
of funds in the common stock, and their means of cultivat-
ing the same. There were but four persons in Salem who
had as large grants of land as Col. Read. The name
of his wife was Alsea. Their children were Thomas, Jacob,
and Abraham; and they were probably born in England.
He was a very prominent man in the Colony, and held the
rank of colonel as early as 1613, and was probably an officer
of that rank before he came to America. He was a colonel
in the British Army, at the restoration of Charles II., in

48 COL. THOMAS BEAD OP SALEM,

1660. He died in England in 1663, and his son Abraham
settled his estate.

2. Jacob, son of Col. Thomas, was probably born in Eng-
land, and was a freeholder in Salem in 1661, but lived in a
house belonging to his father. There is but little known of
the descendants of this Jacob. There is a tradition that
they at some time went South ; and he may have been the
ancestor of Gen. Jacob Eeade, who was United-States senator
from 1795 to 1801 ; and also of Jacob P. Reed, an attorney-
at-law in South Carolina at the present time. He had a son
Aaron, who was accidentally shot in Salem, by Joseph Small,
when they were out on a hunting excursion, 11th of ninth
month, 1670.

2. Abraham, son of Col. Thomas, was probably named for
Abraham Palmer, a distinguished emigrant, and in some
way related to Col. Read's family. He occupied the farm
of his father in South Danvers, and purchased land in Salem
in 1677. He had a son Samuel, who returned to England,
and was a merchant in London.

3. Samuel, son of Abraham, by his attorney Waitstill
Winthrop, sold the farm in South Danvers to Daniel Epps in
1701. He was then described as Samuel Read of London,
merchant.

2. Thomas, son of Col. Thomas, was born in England.
He married Mary, and probably lived at one time in Lynn.
He was appointed ensign, and, in 1647, was made captain,
and had several lots of land granted him in Salem, of the
class called ten-acre lots.

Children, — Susanna, baptized Sept. 23, 1649 ; John,
June 13, 1651, died young ; Mary, April 10, 1653 ; Eliza-
beth, May 13, 1655 ; Remember, April 26, 1657 ; Jacob,
Dec. 22, 1658, died Sept. 19, 1662 ; Sarah, born at Salem,
March 15, 1660, died March 4, 1662 ; Jacob, 7th of sixth
month, 1663 ; John, 21st of eighth month, 1662 ; Sarah,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 49

Oct. 14, 1665. He probably died soon after the birth of
the youngest child, as his wife was known as Widow Mary
Read soon after that time. The last known of him is in
1666, when he conveyed some land in Salem to Richard
Richards.

3. Jacob, son of Capt. Thomas and Mary, born 7th of
sixth month, 1663, married Elizabeth Green, December,
1693. Children, — Aaron, born at Salem, January, 1694,
died ; John, Dec. 26, 1695 ; Mary, 1697, married Nathan
Proctor, March, 1720 ; Jacob, Feb. 4, 1699 ; Jonathan,
Jan. 12, 1701 ; Sarah, May 15, 1703 ; Elizabeth, March 13,
1704. His will is dated Jan. 5, 1742 ; and his wife was
then living.

3. Jonathan, the son of Jacob and Elizabeth, was born in
Salem, Mass., Jan. 12, 1701 ; and married, first, a Hanson ;
and married, for second wife, Sarah Kempton, Jan. 1, 1744.
His children by his first wife were Benjamin ; Hanson ;
Daniel; John; Jacob, who died in Smithfield, R. I., in
October, 1749, and his father settled his estate ; William,
born in 1729, and settled in North Yarmouth, Me. ; and six
other children. His children by his second wife were Oliver ;
Aaron, who died unmarried. Several of his sons by his
first wife appear to have settled in or near Rhode Island.
He was principal legatee and executor of his father's will ;
which was dated Jan. 5, 1742.

4. John, the son of Jonathan, married a Hanson ; and
they had a son David, also George and John.

5. George, the son of John of Salem, lives in Woonsocket
Village, and has a son Elisha, who is cashier of a bank.

4. Benjamin, the son of Jonathan, had a son of the same
name, who moved from Salem to Parmington, and had a
son George, who married Hannah Jones of Seekonk. Their
children were, — George J., born at Seekonk in 1813 ; Han-
nah W., at Providence in 1815 ; Julia, 1817, died young ;

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50 COL. THOMAS READ OF SALEM,

William H., 1819. He married, for a second wife, Charlotte.
Children, — Albert D., born in 1822; Benjamin C, 1824;
Charles E., 1825 ; Cornelia A., 1826 ; James E., 1828.

7. Albert D., the son of George and Charlotte, married
Mary W. Page, and lives in Providence. Children, — Agnes
C, born in 1842; Alice, 1844; Mary E., 1845; Lucy M.,
1849; Madaline, 1851.

5. Benjamin, the son of Benjamin of Farmington, lives at
Franklin Mills in New Hampshire.

7. Benjamin C, the son of George and Charlotte of Provi-
dence, lives in East Cambridge, Mass. He married Isabella.
Child, — Ellen, born March 3, 1846.

4. Hanson, the son of Jonathan, had a son of the same
name, who was born in 1773, and died in 1830. He
married Lucinda Brown, of Cumberland, R.I. Children, —
William B., bom at Rehoboth, Nov. 23, 1809, and died in
1830 ; Elias, born at Pawtucket, Jan. 23, 1811 ; Maria,
Sept. 24, 1813, married Ferdinand Horton ; Thomas, Aug.
27, 1815, died in 1816 ; Elizabeth, Aug. 19, 1817, married
Jabez Pierce ; Sarah, born at North Providence, Feb. 23,
1820, died in 1821 ; Hanson A., Dec. 10, 1822. He was
a clothier.

6. Hanson A., the son of Hanson and Lucinda, born
Dec. 10, 1822. Child, — Elizabeth. He lives at North
Providence.

4. Jacob, sou of Jacob and Elizabeth, probably settled at
what is now Gorham, Me. ; as he was taken by Indians
at Gorhamtown, and carried into captivity. He died Sept. 20
of the same year.

4. William, son of Jonathan of Salem, born in 1729,
married Mary Tuttle, and settled first in North Yarmouth,
Me., about the year 1750, and moved to Sedgewick in 1760,
and was a captain in the Revolutionary War. Children, —
Samuel, born 1753 ; Abraham, born in 1757 ; William ;

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 51

Isaac ; Zebulon ; Jacob ; Mercy, 1767, married Stephen
Harris ; Anna, 1761, married a Pray ; Mary, who mar-
ried John Smith ; Lydia, 1763, married Moses Black. He
died in 1790, aged sixty-one.

5. Samuel, son of William and Mary of Sedgewick, born in
1753, married Sarah Soames. Children, — Abraham, Wil-
liam, Betsy, Hannah, Anna, John. He died at Mount Desert.

5. William, son of William and Mary of Sedgewick, born
1757, married Hannah Merrill, and settled in Cumberland,
Me. Children, — Prudence ; Mary ; William, who lived in
North Yarmouth ; Abigail. He died in 1826, aged sixty-
nine.

5. Isaac, son of William and Mary of Sedgewick, had
George, Feb. 7, 1791 ; Isaac, Dec. 17, 1797 ; Elijah, Feb.
15, 1799 ; Mary, May 29, 1801 ; Elusia, July 30, 1805 ;
Narcissa, Aug. 2, 1807 ; Reuben M., July 31, 1809 ; Sally,
Sept. 15, 1811. He was a payer of direct taxes in 1799.

5. Zebulon, son of William and Mary of Sedgewick, born
March, 1765, married Anna Merrill. Children, — Abigail;
Nancy, who married Jeremiah Reed of Bath, Me. ; Reuben,
who lives in Georgetown, Mass. ; Mercy ; Narcissa ; Ze-
bulon ; Jane C. ; Jacob ; Enoch M. ; Asa S. ; Cynthia.
He died in 1841, aged seventy-six.

Mercy, daughter of Zebulon, married William Lawrence
of Pownal. Child, — William, who is a sea-captain, and
lives in Bath. Married Jeremiah Reed for second hus-
band. Child, — Zebulon, who lives in Bath. She died, and
Jeremiah Reed married Nancy. Children, — Thomas L.,
Adrian, Calvin, Augusta, Enoch.

5. Jacob, son of William and Mary of Sedgewick, born
1755, married Sarah Butler. Children, — Rebecca ;. Lydia ;
Jacob ; Sarah ; John H., born April, 1799 ; William ;
Abigail ; Ann. He settled in Cumberland, Me. ; and was
a seaman, and died at sea in 1802.

52 COL. THOMAS READ OF SALEM,

5. Abraham, son of William and Mary of Sedgewick,
born 1759, married Prudence Soames. Children, — Mercia,
born in 1784, married John Smith, and live in Brookline ;
Mary E., Oct. 17,1784; Betsey; Lucy, Nov. 4, 1786, married
Stephen Cousens, live in Brookline ; Abraham, Nov. 2, 1788 ;
Prudence, Jan. 6, 1790; Hannah, March 18, 1772, married
to Thomas Cousens, jun. ; Joseph, Nov. 24, 1795 ; Sally,
Jan. 3, 1800, married William Jackman ; Jacob, Dec. 22,
1803. He was a freeholder, and payer of direct taxes in
Sedgewick, in 1799, and died in 1841.

6. Beuben, son of Zebulon, married Mary Mitchel.
Children, — Sewell ; Alvan ; Mary, who married George
W. Tucker of Bath ; Francis R., lives in Georgetown ;
Mercy, who married Benjamin Lewis of Waterville.

7. Alvan, son of Reuben, married Sarah Spencer of
Machias. Child, — George.

7. Francis R., son of Reuben, married Ann Elizabeth
Chase of West Amesbury, Mass. Child, — Eva Augusta.
He lives at Georgetown, Mass.

6. Narcissa, daughter of Zebulon, married Jacob Lan-
caster of New Sharon.

6. Zebulon, son of Zebulon, married Deborah Shaw of
Cumberland, Me. Child, — Sarah, who married Eben
Russell.

6. Jane, daughter of Zebulon, married Thomas Lancaster
of New Sharon. Children, — William, Lyman, Prudence,
Samuel, Sarah, Alman, Orinda, Mary Jane, Clementine,
Helen.

6. Jacob, son of Zebulon, was a seaman, and died on the
Island of Madagascar.

6. Enoch M., son of Zebulon. Child, — Cynthia, who
married Hartson Blackstone.

6. Asa, son of Zebulon, married a Hicks. Children, —
Albert and Charles, who are traders in Windham.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 53

6. Cynthia, daughter of Zebulon, married Edward Greely
of Cumberland.

6. Elijah, son of Isaac, born Feb. 15, 1779, married
Judith. Child, — Lois, born at Sedgewick, Nov. 28, 1817.

Samuel C. Reed, married at Sedgewick, Dec. 3, 1845, to
E. H. Flye.

5. Jacob, son of William and Mary of Sedgewick, born
1755, married Sarah Butler. Children, — Rebecca, born
Sept. 22, 1783 ; Lydia, Sept. 14, 1785 ; Jacob, Aug. 24,
1787 ; Sarah, July 9, 1789 ; William, May 10, 1791 ; Abi-
gail, July 6, 1793 ; Ann, Sept. 5, 1795 ; George, May 28,
1799 ; John H., April 8, 1801. He settled in Cumberland,
Me., and was a seaman. He died at sea in 1802.

6. John H., son of Jacob, married Hannah Cowen.
Children, — Sarah H., born May 5, 1826 ; Hannah C,
Feb. 23, 1828 ; Samuel H., May 28, 1830 ; Lydia Ann,
Jan. 28, 1833 ; Ellen, Dec. 13, 1835 ; Lucy M., May 4, 1838,
lives in East Boston.

7. Samuel H., son of John H., married Marietta Vose,
April 22, 1856. Child, — Walter A., born Jan. 19, 1857.
Live at East Boston.

7. Sarah, daughter of John H., married Edmond Ren-
dexter. Children, — Augustus W., Hannah Jane, Charles F.,
Olive, Samuel.

7. Hannah C, daughter of John H., married Albert, Jan.
17, 1841. Child, — Lilla Edith, born July 14, 1855.

7. Lydia Ann, daughter of John H., married Ezekiel W.
Hodgdon, Jan. 1,1854. Child, — Ezekiel W., born Octo-
ber, 1857. Mr. Hodgdon was a police-officer, and was
shot in the discharge of his duty, Oct. 18, 1857, in Maverick
Square, East Boston.

Abraham, son of Abraham and Prudence, born Nov. 2,
1788, married Prudence Pray, and settled in Oldtown.
Child,- — Prudence, born in 1791, married John Bailey.

54 COL. THOMAS READ OF SALEM,

Joseph, son of Abraham and Prudence, born Nov. 24,
1795, married Abby Lunt, and settled in Oldtown.

Jacob S., son of Abraham and Prudence, born Dec. 22,
1803, married Sally Steples, and lives in Swan's Island,
Me. Children, — Emily, born Dec. 18, 1831 ; Susan, Feb. 1,
1834; Allen, July 1, 1836.

6. George, son of Isaac and of Sedgewick, born

Feb. 7, 1794, married Lois. Children, — Carlisle, born July
28, 1823 ; George Dean, Dec. 13, 1824, died Oct. 20, 1826
(his wife died Dec. 22, 1824, married Hannah Allenpul) ;
Elijah W., born Nov. 27, 1826 ; Gabrilla, Sept. 6, 1829,
married Samuel P. Lufkin. He was known as Capt. Reed.
He died Oct. 4, 1830.

7. Elijah, son of Isaac of Sedgewick, born Feb. 15, 1799,
married Judith Allen; published April 3, 1826. Child, —
Lois, Nov. 28, 1827, married Newell Bowers.

6. Jacob, son of Abraham, born Dec. 22, 1803, married

Sally . Children, — Emily, born Dec. 10, 1831 ; Susan,

Feb. 1, 1834 ; Helen, Jan. 1, 1836.

6. Abraham, son of Abraham of Sedgewick, born Nov. 2,
1788, married Nancy Pray ; published June 28, 1810 ; and
again, in May 27, 1813.

6. Isaac, son of Isaac of Sedgewick, born Dec. 17, 1797,
married Sally Staples, March 4, 1830.

6. Joseph, son of Abraham of Sedgewick, born Nov. 24,
1795, married Abigail Lunt.

7. Carlisle, son of George, born July 28, 1823, married
Almira H. Fly, Dec. 3, 1845 ; married Elmanica H. Flye,
Dec. 3, 1845.

7. Elijah W., son of George, horn Nov. 27, 1826, married
Rebecca Herrick, Oct. 17, 1847.

8. James, son of William and Mary of Sedgewick, mar-
ried Polly Mulliken, June 6, 1791, and settled at Mount
Desert.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 55

8. John, son of Jacob and Elizabeth, born at Salem,
Jan. 26, 1695, married Mary. Children, — Isaac, Mary,
John, Bartholomew, Sarah, Aaron. He died young; and
his widow, Oct. 3, 1727, owned the covenant and was baptized
at the Second Parish in Salem, now Danvers.

4. Bartholomew, son of John and Mary of the Second
Parish in Salem, now Danvers, lived a while, after his
majority, in Andover ; married Miss Harris, and settled in
Falmouth, Me., about the year 1750. Children, — Abraham,
born in Freeport, Me., in 1751 ; John, 1753 ; Josiah, 1757 ;
Ammi, 1759 ; Sarah, who married a Harvey, 1761 ; Naomi,
1763, married a Gibson ; Rachal, 1765, married a Hutchens ;
Stephen, 1767. He was in the Revolutionary War, with
three of his sons, and died at the age of ninety.

5. Abraham, son of Bartholomew, born 1751, married
Miss Bram. Children, — Eben, John, Mary, Betsy, Abi-
gail, Hannah, Rachal. He died in 1834, aged eighty-three.

6. Ebenezer, moved from Yarmouth, Me., to a place called
Dead River in Maine, married Jane James. Children, —
Abram ; Ami ; David ; James ; John ; Susan, married
a Welch ; Lois, married a Welch ; Margaret, married a
Thompson.

7. Abram, son of Ebenezer and Jane, married Nancy
Monsey. Children, — Nathaniel, Lewis, Lyman, Jane, Sa-
rah, Clarinda, and Permelia.

7. David, son of Ebenezer and Jane, married Sarah
Robinson. Children, — Eben, Elias, Abram, Margaret,
Rachal.

7. Ami, son of Ebenezer and Jane. Children, — George,
Margaret.

8. Nathaniel, son of Abram and Nancy, married Rebecca
Withey. Children, — Ezra, Julia, Clarinda, and Permelia.

8. Lewis, son of Abram and Nancy, married Miss Tay-
lor. Children, — Calvin, Esther, Permelia.

56 COL. THOMAS READ OP SALEM,

8. Clarinda, daughter of Abram and Nancy, married
Calvin Wing, and lives in Michigan.

8. Jane, daughter of Abram and Nancy, married William
Stevens.

8. Permelia, daughter of Abram and Nancy, married
Henry Thompson.

7. John, son of Ebenezer and Jane, married Eleaner
Powers. Children, — William 0. ; Alvin ; John ; Joshua ;
Ruth, who married Abijah Lowell ; Julia, married Franklin
Bartlett ; Opha, married Chandler Lovell.

5. John, son of Bartholomew, born 1753, married Mitchell.
Children, — Abraham, John, Andrew, Bartholomew, Samuel.
He was a seaman.

5. Josiah, son of Bartholomew, born 1757, married Mit-
chell. Children, — Reuben, Cornelius, Jacob, Charles, Ed-
ward, Rhoda, Lydia, Hannah, Sarah. He died about the
year 1850, aged seventy-three.

6. Abraham, son of John, married . Child, — Free-
man.

7. Freeman, son of Abraham, married in Boston, Jan. 29,
1835, to Eliza C. Malcom of Newcastle, Me. Children, —
Freeman Harney, born in Edgecomb, Dec. 28, 1835 ; Eliza
P., born at Newcastle, Nov. 26, 1843 ; Emma Jane, born
at Chelsea, Mass., Feb. 3, 1846 ; Frank M., Feb. 8, 1855.
They live at No. 6, Washington Avenue, Chelsea.

6. Hannah, daughter of Stephen and Mary, born at Free-
port, Dec. 9, 1789, married Samuel Alden, and died April,
1850.

6. Daniel, son of Stephen and Mary, born at Freeport,
March 19, 1791, married Rachal Loring. Children, — Ed-
win, Mehitable, Lucy A., Mary G., Prudence. He died
June, 1856.

6. Rebecca, daughter of Stephen and Mary, born at
Freeport, Sept. 20, 1793, married Andrew, son of John

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 57

Reed. Children, — Philemon P. ; Jeremiah B. ; George
B. ; Nicholas G. ; Angelia, who died February, 1854.

4. Stephen, son of Bartholomew, born in 1767, married
Mary Grant. Children, — Hannah, born Dec. 9, 1789,
married Samuel Alden ; Daniel, March 19, 1791 ; Rebecca,
Sept. 20, 1793, married Andrew Reed, son of John ; Jere-
miah, July 28, 1795 ; Prudence, Oct. 23, 1799, married
Benjamin Mayo ; Stephen, December, 1801, died in Havana
in 1836 ; Philander, July 11, 1803, married Jeremiah Ladd ;
Nicholas G., Jan. 26, 1805 ; Mary, June 26, 1807, married
Henry Cram; William B., July 13, 1809, moved to New
Brunswick. He was living in 1857 in Freeport, aged
ninety.

4. Annua, son of Bartholomew, was a Baptist preacher,
and settled in Weld.

4. Naomi, daughter of Bartholomew, married a Gibson.

4. Sarah, daughter of Bartholomew, married a Harvey.

5. Daniel, son of Stephen, born March 19, 1791, married
Rachal Loring. Children, — Edwin, Mehitable, Lucy A.,
Mary G., Prudence. He died in 1856.

5. Jeremiah B., son of Stephen, born July 28, 1795,
married Mercy, daughter of Zebulon Reed. Children, —
Zebulon, born July 24, 1822, lives in Bath ; married Nancy,
daughter of Zebxilon, for second wife. Children, — Calvin
W., born April 11, 1828; Thomas L., March 25, 1830;
Enoch M., Nov. 25, 1833 ; Adran, Sept. 4, 1826 ; Augusta
A., Nov. 5, 1831.

Andrew, son of John, married Rebecca, daughter of
Stephen Reed. Children, — Philemon P., Jeremiah B.,
George B., Nicholas G.

6. Zebulon, son of Jeremiah B. of Bath, married Harriet
N. Green. Children, — Frederick A., George M.

6. Prudence, daughter of Stephen and Mary, born at
Freeport, Oct. 23, 1799, married Benjamin Mayo.

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58 COL. THOMAS READ OP SALEM,

6. Stephen, son of Stephen and Mary, born at Freeport,
December, 1801, died in Havana in 1830.

6. Philanda, daughter of Stephen and Mary, born July 14,
1803, married Jeremiah Ladd, and lives in Garland, Me.

6. Nicholas, son of Stephen and Mary, born at Freeport,
Jan. 26, 1805 ; an Advent preacher.

6. Mary, daughter of Stephen and Mary, born at Freeport,
Jan. 26, 1807, married Henry Cram ; and they live in Hol-
yoke, Mass.

6. William, son of Stephen and Mary, born at Freeport,
July 13, 1809, is a seaman, and moved to New Brunswick
in 1836.

6. Jeremiah B., son of Stephen and Mary, born at Free-
port, July 28, 1795, married Nancy M., daughter of Zebulon
Reed of Sedgewick. Children, — Zebulon, born at Pownal,
Me., July 24, 1822 ; Adraan, at Freeport, Sept. 14, 1826,
died Dec. 8, 1847 ; Calvin W., April 11, 1828, died in Cali-
fornia, Nov. 1, 1851 ; Thomas L., born in Newsharoii,
March 25, 1830, is a dentist, and lives in Bath ; Augustus
A., Nov. 5, 1831, lives in Bath ; Enoch M., Nov. 25, 1833,
lives in Bath.

7. Zebulon, son of Jeremiah B. and Nancy, born July 24,
1822, married Harriet N. Green. Children, — Frederick
A., George M. They live in Bath.

5. Isaac, son of John and Mary of Second Parish in
Salem, now Danverse, was in the Revolutionary War, and
settled in Berwick, Me., where he died. Children, — Isaac,
James, Samuel.

6. Isaac, son of Isaac of Berwick, born in 1770, married
Susan. Children, — Joel, Jacob, John, Isaac.

7. Joel, son of Isaac of Berwick, married Sally Tinelley
of Marblehead, June 22, 1841, and lives in Marblehead.

7. Jacob, son of Isaac of Berwick, lives in Dover, N.H.
7. John, son of Isaac of Berwick, lives in North Berwick,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 59

Me. ; married Sarah. Children, — George Herbert, Charles
Byron, Emma.

7. Isaac, son of Isaac of Berwick, lives in Sanford, Me. ;
married Nancy Herd. Children, — Edwin, William, Phebe
Jane, Nathan.

8. Nathan, son of Isaac, married Emily Monies of Salem,
Mass. Child, — Nathan Edwin, born in Salem.

8. William, son of Isaac, married Margaret Monies of
Salem, Mass., Dec. 31, 1848, and lives in Sanford.

4. John, son of Jacob and Elizabeth, born at Salem,
Jan. 26, 1695. Child, — John, who married Abigail Turn-
er, Dec. 15, 1742, and died in 1760. Child, —John, born
Nov. 17, 1743.

6. John, son of John and Abigail, born Nov. 17, 1743,
married Desire Cook, Jan. 18, 1774. Children, — John,
born June 3, 1775 ; Mary, Dec. 22, 1776, died Aug. 15,
1838. He died June 20, 1779. His wife was living, and
a payer of direct taxes on real estate, in 1798.

6. John, son of John and Desire, born June 3, 1775,
married Mary Fairfield, April 25, 1802. Child, — Mary.

6. Samuel, son of Isaac of Berwick, married, for first wife,
a Chase. Children, — John, William. Married, for second
wife, Sarah Frye. Children, — James ; Silas ; Mary, who
died, unmarried, in 1858 ; Lydia ; Charles, born Nov. 28,
1819 ; Ebenezer ; Nathaniel.

7. John , son of Samuel of Berwick, married Sally Roberts ;
lives in Newfield, Me., and has several children.

7. William, son of Samuel of Berwick, married Sarah ;
and married, for second wife, Abigail D. Dorman. He lives
in Newfield, Me., and has a large family of children.

7. James, son of Samuel and Sarah, married Mehitable
Fernald, and lives in Acton, Me. ; has two children.
■ 7. Silas, son of Samuel and Sarah, married Hannah York.
They live in Wolfborough, and have a large family.

60 COL. THOMAS READ OP SALEM.

7. Lydia, daughter of Samuel and Sarah, married Say-
woods of Strafford, N.H. ; and they have a family of chil-
dren.

7. Charles, son of Samuel and Sarah, born Nov. 28, 1819,
married Thirza Whitehouse of West Newfield, Me., and lives
on the homestead of his father, in Newfield. Children, —
Thirza Ellen, born January, 1846 ; Joseph Whitehouse ;
Charles Albert ; John P. H. ; Samuel ; Nathaniel ; Christo-
pher W., born 1858.

7. Ebenezer, son of Samuel and Sarah, married a Burbank
of Acton, Me., and lives in Brookline, Mass. Children, —
three daughters.

7. Nathaniel, son of Samuel and Sarah, married a Ver-
mont lady. He died in Newfield, Me. His wife and one
child live in Newburyport.

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CHAPTER IV.

WILLIAM READE OF WOBURN, AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

William Reade, supposed to be the son of Thomas and
Mary of Brocket Hall, was born in 1587, and was the
oldest of any of the Puritan emigrants by the name of
Reade. He sailed from London in the ship " Defence," in
July, 1635 ; Capt. Edward Fostick, master ; and arrived at
Boston, Oct. 6, the same year, with his wife, who was Mabel
Kendall, born in 1605. Their children, who sailed with
them, were — George, born in 1629 ; Ralph, 1630 ; and
Justice, afterwards Abigail, born in 1633. He settled in
Dorchester, but did not remain there. He was made free-
man, March 4, 1638. In August, 1639, he sold his real
estate in Dorchester to Thomas Clark, and moved to Scitu-
ate. He was constable of Scituate in 1644. He sent his
wife to Dorchester, on horseback, in 1644, with an infant
named Israel, to be baptized ; he being a member of the
church in that place. His brother Esdras, who had a grant
of land from the town of Boston, situated at Muddy River
(now Brookline), sold the same to William, who took up
his residence upon it, where he lived till 1648 ; when lie
bought a farm in Woburn, of Nicholas Davis of Charles-
town, and removed to that place. He is the ancestor of the
Woburn, Lexington, Bedford, and Burlington Reads ; he is
also the paternal ancestor of a large portion of the Reeds in
Maine ; and almost every State in the Union has some of

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his descendants. His children, born in America, were —
Bethia, who married John Johnson, son of Edward, the
author of Johnson's " Wonder-working Providence ; " Israel ;
Sarah, who married Samuel Walker, Sept. 10, 1662 ; Re-
becca, who married Joseph Winn. He returned to England,
and died at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1656. A letter of
administration was taken out by his widow, under Oliver
Cromwell. She returned to America, and, after finishing
the settlement of his estate, married Henry Summers of
Woburn, Nov. 21, 1660. She outlived her second husband,
and resided with her son George till her death, which
took place June 5, 1690, when she was eighty-five years of
age.

The following are the copies of two legal instruments in
connection with this man, and are a specimen of the style
of such documents in those times. The first is intended
for a deed, and was found on the records of Suffolk
County. It runs thus : —

The bill of sale from Nicholas Davis of Charlestown, to William
Reade of Muddy River, of his farm in Woburn, containing fifty
acres of upland ; four acres of meadow, before the door ; four acres
of meadow in Rockbrook ; and two acres in Brook Meadow ; with
all barns, outhouses, fences, and all to the same belonging ; which is
by me an absolute deed of sale. Nicholas Davis.

Dated 7. 5. 1648.

The above piece of land is on the old road from Salem to
Concord, not far from Kendall's mill. The cellar and well
are to be seen at the present time. The land, after being
in the possession of his descendants by the name of Read,
passed into the hands of the Fowles, who were also his de-
scendants ; from them to Col. Baldwin, through his wife,
who was a Fowle ; and from the Baldwins to Mr. Samuel
R. Durant, who is a descendant in a direct line from said
William Read, and is the eighth generation from him. He

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purchased other tracts of land in the vicinity ; and his
descendants settled upon it, and continue to occupy lands
in the vicinity, although much of it is, at this time, held
by those bearing other names.

The other instrument, intended for his last will and
testament, was written in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in anticipa-
tion of his decease ; and runs as follows : —

My will is, that my wife Maybel have threescore pounds for
herselfe.

Item, That my wife have the household stuffe to dispose of.

Item, That the threescore pounds which is owing me by Mr.
"William Brenton of Newengland be disposed of as followed], if it
can be got ; viz. : To my wife, twenty pounds. Item, To my four
youngest children, twenty pounds ; that is, five pounds apiece.

Item, To my three children that are married in Newengland,
that is, George, Ralph, and Michael, twenty pounds, to be equally
divided between them.

Item, That, whenever any of my four youngest children die, their
portion be equally divided among the other three ; that is, if they
die in their minority.

401b. due me from Mr. Shillingsworth ; 201b. Mark Eaton of
Blackeallerton ; 301b. from Mrs. Flora Hall ; 201b. from Anthony
"Walker; 121b. 31b. in my wife's hands, and 61b. in Mr. Oggle's
hands ; 401b. more in the house. George Errington of Longhouse,
and his sonne and his sonne-in-law, 40 shillings ; Sawin Anderson,
forty shillings ; Mary Chicken, alias "Watson, 41b. 10 shillings, and
10 shillings in my wife's hands, in all ninescore pounds.

The mark of "Wii. Reade.
Witness : William Cutter.
The mark of Thomas Gibson.

Oliver, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scot-
land, and Ireland, or the dominions thereto belonging, to Maybel
Reade, widow, the relict of William Reade, late of Newcastle-upon-
Tyn, deceased, greeting. "Whereas the said William Reade made
his last will and testament, which is hereunto annexed, and therein
made nor constituted no executor, but nominated and appointed the

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said Maybel Reade, his then wife, principal testatrix ; we, there-
fore, give and grant full power and authority unto you, the said
Maybel Reade, widow.

Given at London, under the hand and seal of the Court of Pro-
bate of Wills, and granting administration, the last day of October,
1C56. Robert Blackford. B. Sunhenge. Nath. Shoucklegs. And
seal annexed now, Pesto annexo uli exeant uli nidlus.

Mr. Watson. T. M. Blackford.

Entered and recorded, 17. 12. 1661, by

Thomas Danforth, Recorder.

The will is recorded in Middlesex Probate Office, Dec. 16,
1661, vol. i. p. 299.

The amount of estate appraised in England was two
hundred pounds. The amount clue him from Mr. William
Brenton in New England, not appraised, sixty pounds, with
what he had advanced to his three older children in America,
made in all over three hundred and fifty pounds ; and, by-
including the amount necessary to convey himself and family
to England, it would make his estate, at the time he left
America, not less than four hundred pounds : which was
among the largest estates in New England at that time.

The name of Michael appears to have been a mistake of
the recorder for Abigail, as he had no son by that name ;
but his third child, born in England in 1633, and entered
at the time he embarked for America by the name of Justus,
was changed to Abigail, who married Francis Wyman as
his second wife, and was living in Woburn at the demise of
her father. One of her great-great-grandsons, by the name
of Edward Wyman, died in Pelham, N.H., Dec. 1, 1856,
aged eighty-four, having been born in 1772.

2. George, son of William and Maybel, born in England,
1629, bought a farm in Woburn of Rebecca Terrace, Nov. 7,
1651. Married Elizabeth Gennings, or Gennison, of Water-
town, Aug. 4, 1651 ; bought laud in Weymouth, April 16,

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16G5. Children, — Elizabeth, born July 26, 1653, married
David Fiske, of Watertown, Dec. 15, 1675, a distinguished
surveyor of land ; twins, not named, born in 1654 ; Samuel,
born April 29, 1656, married Elizabeth Mousal of Charles-
town, April 19, 1679 ; Abigail, born June 27, 1658, married
Nathaniel Richardson, Sept. 18, 1694 ; George, born Sept. 14,
1660, married Abigail Pierce, Feb. 18, 1684 ; William, born
Sept. 22, 1662, married Abigail Kendall, May 24, 1686, his
father's cousin ; Sarah, born Feb. 12, 1664, married a
Robinson, Dec. 12, 1685. George's wife, Elizabeth, died
Feb. 26, 1664 ; and he married Hannah Rockwell of Charles-
town, Nov. 9, 1665. Children, — Hannah, born Feb. 18,
1669, married an Elson ; John, born March 18, 1671,
married Ruth Johnson, June 10, 1697 ; Mary, born June
15, 1674, married Nathan Johnson, 1697 ; Timothy, born
Oct. 20, 1678, married Persis Kendal, his second cousin ;
Thomas, born July 15, 1682, married Sarah Sawyer,
Feb. 1, 1704. George is mentioned in Robert Gennison's
will, in 1690. The farm on which he lived is now owned by
Nathan Blanchard, Esq., in what is now Burlington. He
was a large landholder and a wealthy man. His children
formed marriage alliances with the first families in the
vicinity. He settled his sons around him in what is now
Woburn Westside, Burlington, and Lexington. His house
stood where Esquire Blanchard's carriage-house now stands.
He was deacon of the church in Woburn ; and died Feb. 21,
1706, aged seventy-seven.

2. Ralph, son of William and Maybel, born 1630 in Eng-
land ; married Mary Pierce, daughter of Anthony Pierce of
Watertown. His name appears upon the records of Wo-
burn, March 31, 1654. Children, — John, born in 1660,
married Elizabeth Holden, March 21, 1682 ; Joseph ; Wil-
liam, born 1658 ; David ; Daniel; Timothy, born Feb.

14, 1664, died Jan. 12, 1729 ; Jonathan, died May 5, 1710 ;

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Mary, who married Benjamin Pierce. His wife died Feb. 18,
1700. He occupied the farm bought by his father of Nicho-
las Davis, but afterwards owned and lived on the farm known
in the present century as the Sylvanus Wood Farm. He
died Jan. 4, 1711.

6. Israel, son of William and Maybel, born 1642. On the
11th of July, 1660, with the consent of his mother, he bound
himself, till he should be twenty-one years of age, to learn
the tailor's trade ; which was a business peculiar to the
Reeds of that century. Married Mary, daughter of Francis
Kendall, his own cousin. Children, — Mary, born Aug. 15,
1670, married Matthew Johnson ; Eebecca, born July 2,
1678, married John Wyman, Jan. 28, 1697 ; Elizabeth, born
Oct. 22, 1681, married Richard Snow, Jan. 1, 1706 ; Ruth,
born Nov. 6, 1683 ; Israel, March 17, 1687, married Hannah
Johnson, June 1, 1707 ; Jemima, born July 23, 1689 ; Pa-
tience, Dec. 3, 1697, married Jeremiah Whittemore of Wes-
ton, March 15, 1722, and died Oct. 24, 1745. The elder
Israel died June 25, 1711 : his wife died Jan. 17, 1721. He
lived and owned where the Baptist Meeting-house now
stands, in Woburn. The house was taken down, about the
year 1830, to make room for the church. He likewise owned
a small house where Mr. Bucknam's store now stands, run-
ning back to the burying-ground ; and a small lot on the other
side of the street, with a shop on it, called Under the Rock,
adjoining the town-pound and the king's highway. His
farming land was situated in that part of the town towards
Reading. Jan. 6, 1699, one Joseph Whittemore owned
and occupied the place with his mother, Elizabeth Pierce.
They sold it to George Read. It was owned and occupied
by some of his descendants till it was purchased for the
Baptist Society. Israel Reed was an innholder.

3. Rebecca, daughter of Israel and Mary, born at Woburn,
July 2, 1678 ; married John Wyman of Woburn, the son of

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John, and grandson of John who was brother to Francis,
who married her aunt Abigail Reed. Children, — Rebecca,
born Oct. 14, 1699, married Benjamin Thompson of Rox-
bury, and was a widow, with three or four children, in 1736 ;
John, born Oct. 30, 1702, settled in Lunenburg, and had
seven children ; Israel, born Jan. 4, 1704, settled in Leices-
ter, and was a tanner, — he was one of Col. Tyng's men, in
service in 1724, — died July 20, 1732 ; Jabez, born July 24,
1707, settled in Cambridge, had seven children, one of which,
by the name of Jabez, was killed in Concord fight, April 19,
1775, aged thirty-nine; Mary, born Aug. 1, 1709, married
Timothy Johnson of Woburn, Nov. 11, 1734 ; Ezekiel, born
July 8, 1712, married Abigail Wyman, daughter of William,
Nov. 12, 1735, and settled in Lunenburg, had ten children ;
Elizabeth, born July 3, 1714, married Thomas Underwood,
Oct. 25, 1739; Martha, born July 20, 1718, married Joseph
Hopkins of Charlestown, published Sept. 14, 1744, and was
the third of his five wives, — was deceased in 1750, leaving
a son William ; Abigail, born July 18, 1722, married Joseph
Bruce of Woburn, Dec. 20, 1758. Mr. Wyman died June
16, 1727 ; and his wife, Sept. 12, 1734.

3. Israel, son of Israel of Woburn, born March 17, 1667 ;
married Hannah Wyman, daughter of Jonathan Wyman,
June 1, 1717. Children, — Elizabeth, born Dec. 18, 1737,
died June 1, 1747 ; Israel, born Nov. 25, 1718 ; and Israel,
Nov. 16, 1722 ; Sarah, who married Hezekiah Wyman, son
of Seth, had nine children, and died Oct. 16, 1775 ; Abi-
gail, born Nov. 15, 1724 ; Lucy, Oct. 4, 1728.

4. Israel, son of Israel, and grandson of Israel, born
June 16, 1747 ; married Martha Temple of AVcstford, near
Littleton line. He settled in Littleton, and kept a public
house. Children, — Israel, born Dec. 19, 1768; Joseph,
Nov. 29, 1772 ; Jeremiah, Sept. 25, 1770 ; Lucy, June 27,
1779 ; Mary, Nov. 20, 1781. He moved from Littleton to

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Walpole, N.H., and married, for second wife, Mary, and
had Mary, born Nov. 20, 1784 ; Betsy, Oct. 11, 1786 ;
John, Feb. 7, 1784; and probably Benjamin, Gideon, Simeon.
His first wife died Nov. 18, 1783.

5. Jeremiah, son of Israel, born at Littleton ; married
Sarah, daughter of Joseph Tidd of Lexington, Sept. 25, 1770,
and moved to New Braintree. Children, — Joseph ; Mar-
tha ; Elijah M., born July 12, 1800.

5. Israel, son of Israel and Jemima, horn Dec. 19, 1768 ;
married Mary. Children, — Herman, born Aug. 9, 1793 ;
Augustus, July 1, 1794; William, July 30, 1796; Henry.

6. Elijah M., son of Jeremiah, born July 12, 1800 ; mar-
ried the widow of Asa Reed of Westford. Lives in Tukes-
bury, and does business in Lowell. Has been a member of
the Legislature, and holds a Justice of the Peace commission.
He is a fancy farmer, and a man of wealth and distinction.

6. Joseph, son of Jeremiah, born Jan. 11, 1791 ; married
Maria. Children, — John Forbes, born Nov. 4, 1824; Jo-
seph Mason, Aug. 12, 1826 ; Josiah Miles, Sept. 21, 1830,
doing business at No. 6, Water Street, Boston ; Malvina
Maria, born Sept. 20, 1834 ; Martha Malvina, Jan. 9, 1837.

6. Henry, son of Israel, married Dolly ; settled in Brookfield,
where he still resides. Children, — Ann Precilla, born Oct.
15, 1824 ; Henry, July 16, 1826 ; Charles, Jan. 4, 1828, died
Mar. 21, 1832 ; Micah S., Mar. 17, 1829; Almira H., Aug. 26,
1830 ; Charles Lyon, June 6, 1832 ; Mary E., June 14, 1834.

7. Henry, son of Henry and Dolly, born July 16, 1826 ;
married Mary. Children, — Francis D., born Feb. 19,
1848 ; Nathan F., Sept. 24, 1856 ; Elizabeth, Nov. 3, 1851 ;
a son born Nov. 9, 1856.

Benjamin, son of Israel, born in Walpole, N.H., and had
Olive, who now lives in New Salem, Mass. ; Benjamin, who
went to Webster, Mich. ; Joseph V., otherwise Owen,
Aug. 22, 1812.

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Joseph Videll, born Aug. 22, 1812 ; had his name altered
from Owen. Married Hannah Goodwin, June 13, 1841 ; and
lives in West Newbury.

Gideon, son of Israel, lives in New Salem, Mass.

Simeon, son of Israel, lived in Whateley. Child, —
George, who now lives in Whateley.

3. John, son of Ralph and Mary of Woburn, born 1660 ;
married Elizabeth Houlding, March 21, 1682. Children, —
John, born March 22, 1684 ; Ralph, Sept. 5, 1686 ; Eliza-
beth, Feb. 25, 1690 ; Ralph, Sept. 5, 1686 ; Elizabeth,
Feb. 25, 1690. He married, for second wife, Abigail
Baldwin, Dec. 4, 1705, and had Susanna, March 13, 1706 ;
Henry, 1708 ; Amos, May 25, 1710. John, the elder, was
a weaver. He bought a lot of land, Jan. 1, 1700, of Henry
Baldwin, in Woburn, near the line of Billerica, on which
he moved and settled ; and it is occupied by his descendants,
Isaiah Reed and others. His will is dated July 20, 1732.
Died March 9, 1733.

4. Henry, son of John and Abigail, born in 1708, and
named, from his paternal grandfather, Henry Baldwin ; mar-
ried Rebecca. Children, — Rebecca, born June 1, 1731;
Henry, May 7, 1735 ; Abigail, July 6, 1736 ; Sarah, June
18, 1741. His wife was burned to death, June 18, 1768.
Married Prudence Hayward, Sept. 22, 1768, widow of
Thomas Hayward. The fact that his wife died in a strange
manner, and that an attachment was discovered between
him and Mrs. Hayward, led to suspicions that she had been
murdered. The excitement was great. The civil au-
thority had the body taken from its resting-place, and he
was required to touch the body ; it being the general
belief, that, if the murderer was made to touch the mur-
dered body, there would be some miraculous demonstration
of his guilt. But there was no such demonstration ; and
Mr. Thompson, the recording magistrate, made entry that

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some people went home satisfied, and that others were dis-
satisfied. Mr. Reed, however, married Mrs. Prudence
Hayward. He lived on a portion of the old farm of his
father. His house stood near where Mr. Jesse Deane
afterwards lived, near the line of Billerica, and also near
that of Wilmington. His second wife was the third daughter
of Joshua Wyman, and was one of three sisters who mar-
ried Reeds.

4. Ralph Read, son of John and Elizabeth, born Sept. 5,
1686 ; married Mary Pierce, 1709. Children, — David and
Jonathan, born May 3, 1710 ; John, Aug. 14, 1712, died
Jan. 14, 1756 ; Maria and Mary, born Nov. 30, 1714 ;
Abigail, May 25, 1717 ; Jonathan, March 9, 1722, lived at
Billerica ; Joshua, June 18, 1724 ; Amos, born March 13,
1728, and died Aug. 23, 1799.

5. John, son of Ralph and Mary, born Aug. 14, 1712 ;
married Kerzia Wyman, Dec. 9, 1735, daughter of Natha-
niel and Mary Winn Wyman. Child, — David. Married,
for second wife, Judith Proctor. Children, — Judith, born
Nov. 10, 1745 ; Martha, Dec. 3, 1747 ; John, Jan. 19,
1749. He was a captain in the French War ; and died
Jan. 31, 1755.

6. David, son of John and Kerzia, married Hannah Ray-
mond, Jan. 9, 1772. Children, — John, born March 3,
1772 ; Polly, May 31, 1777 ; Hannah, May 14, 1784 ;
David, May 19, 1787. His wife died April 29, 1790.
Married Abigail Simonds, Dec. 28, 1792. Children, —
Benjamin, born Feb. 12, 1793 ; Nabby, Nov. 6, 1794. His
second wife died Sept. 1, 1803, aged forty-four. Married
Martha Simonds, March 28, 1804. Child, — Susanna,
born Jan. 3, 1806. He died Jan. 1, 1832 : his wife died
Jan. 31, 1834. He was known as Capt. Reed, and kept
a public house in Bedford, on the road from Boston to
Chelmsford.

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7. John Reed, son of Capt. David of Bedford, born
March 23, 1772. He died Nov. 3, 1846. Child, — Ne-
hemiah L.

8. Nehemiah L., son of John, married Anna. Children, —

— George W., born May 25, 1825 ; Jacob H., Feb. 22, 1828.
7. David, son of Capt. David and Hannah, born May 19,

1787 ; married Abigail Danforth, April 23, 1812. Children,

— Abigail, born Feb. 6, 1813 ; Hannah R., Jan. 14, 1823.

7. Benjamin, son of Capt. David, born Feb. 12, 1793 ;
married Sally P. Danforth, April 7, 1817. Children,—
William D., born Dec. 16, 1817 ; David and William Dan-
forth, twins, Jan. 28, 1819 ; Lucy, Nov. 21, 1825.

8. William D., son of Fenjamin, and twin-brother of
David, born January, 1819 ; married Lydia Butters, April
20, 1843.

8. David, son of Benjamin, and twin-brother of William
D., born Jan. 28, 1819 ; married Sarah Butters, April 15,
1848.

5. Jonathan, son of Ralph, 2d, born March 9, 1722 ; mar-
ried Mary, daughter of Joshua Wyman, Sept. 9, 1742.
Children, — Mary, born at Billerica, June 20, 1743 ; Eliza-
beth, who married Thomas Wyman, May 25, 1773, and set-
tled in Winchinton ; Sarah, born Oct. 8, 1744, at Billerica.
The residence of Ralph Reed, 2d, in Woburn, was as near
the centre of Billerica as that of Woburn, being about half a
mile from the line between the two towns.

6. Sarah, daughter of Jonathan and Mary, born at Bur-
lington, Oct. 8, 1744 ; married a Cutler ; and married Fiske
for second husband.

5. Joshua, son of Ralph, 2d, married Hannah Procter,
July, 1742. Children, — Joshua, born Dec. 14, 1742 ;
Hannah, April 2, 1745 ; Esther, born at Billerica, Feb. 14,
1746 ; Elizabeth, at Billerica, April 23, 1749 ; Lucy,
Nov. 25, 1754 ; John, March 29, 1757 ; James, April 14,

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1759 ; Jonathan, Feb. 13, 1761 ; Mary, May 24, 1763 ;
Judith, March 6, 1768. He died at Woburn Precinct, now
Burlington, July 19, 1786. His residence was about one-
fourth of a mile from where his grandson Isaiah now lives.
A row of buttonwood-trees marks the spot. He was an
innholder.

6. Jonathan, son of Joshua and Hannah, born Feb. 13,
1761 ; married Ruth Tay of Woburn, Oct. 14, 1790. Chil-
dren, — Jonathan, born Oct. 26, 1792 ; Isaiah ; Abigail,
married Jacob Simonds ; Moses Abbot ; Joshua, born April
3, 1801 ; Eliza ; Franklin ; Mary Ann. He lived on the old
place, in what is now the north part of Burlington. He
died Aug. 17, 1820 ; and his widow married Jesse Deaue
of Burlington, Feb. 1, 1827. She died Feb. 11, 1834.

7. Joshua, son of Jonathan and Ruth of Burlington, born
April 3, 1801 ; married Rhoda Goodwin of Billerica. Chil-
dren, — Charles Otis, born at Woburn, May 22, 1821 ; Reuel
Goodwin, May 14, 1827 ; Rhoda A., born at Billerica,
May 20, 1829 ; Moses D., Jan. 21, 1834 ; Nahum, Dec. 13,
1835 ; Diantha, Feb. 20, 1837 ; Mary Ann, Oct. 4, 1838.
His wife died at Burlington, Aug. 1, 1843, aged forty-five.
Married Roxanna Turner of Billerica. Child, — Susan,
born at Burlington, May 12, 1849.

6. Joshua, son of Joshua and Hannah, born at Burling-
ton, Dec. 14, 1742 ; moved to Hebron, N.H. Children, —
Thomas ; John, who died in Charlestown ; Joshua. He was
killed in the Revolutionary War.

6. James, son of Joshua and Hannah, born in Burlington,
April 14, 1759 ; married Olive Johnson. Children, — Olive,
born Feb. 4, 1780, married Samuel Beaverstocks ; Betsy,
born Feb. 26, 1782, married an Alexander of Wilmington ;
William, born Feb. 18, 1795 ; Samuel, June 4, 1800 ; John,
Dec. 26, 1787 ; Lucy, who married a Stone ; Orvil ; Abigail,
born May 17, 1790 ; Lucy, Nov. 19, 1791 ; George, who died

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in New Orleans in 1853. He died in Charlestown, of
consumption, June 8, 1796.

7. Thomas, son of Joshua and Hannah of Hebron, N.H.,
married Sally Alexander of Burlington, Mass. Children, —
Alexander ; Thomas U.

8. Alexander, son of Thomas and Sally, married Jennette.
Child, — Jane Caroline, born in Billerica, Dec. 4, 1842.

7. William, son of James and Olive, born in Burlington,
Feb. 18, 1795 ; married Mary Marden of Chichester, N.H.
Children, — - William Henry, born June 8, 1844 ; Sarah,
1841, and died April 24, 1856. He died Nov. 3, 1847.
His widow now lives in East Boston.

8. Thomas TJ., son of Thomas and Sally, married Mary
Fiske. Children, — George W. L. ; N. H. ; Eliza A. He
moved to Lowell, and was killed by the cars.

9. George W. L., son of Thomas U., married Rebecca
Chase, and lives in Lowell.

7. Isaiah, son of Jonathan and Ruth, married Sally Ells-
worth of Deering, N.H. Children, — Isaiah, born July 7,
1816 ; Charlotte Lucretia, Dec. 25, 1817 ; Jonathan Ells-
worth, Jan. 10, 1819 ; Joseph Wyott, April 26, 1820 ;
Josiah Thomas, Nov. 11, 1821 ; William Abbot, Nov. 8,
1823, lives in Philadelphia ; Nancy Lowell, born March 24,
1825 ; Oliver Franklin, July 31, 1826 ; Levi Houghton,
Nov. 18, 1829. He was an officer, for some years, at
the State Prison, at Charlestown.

8. Isaiah, son of Isaiah and Sally, married Mary B. Wales,
November, 1836. Children, — George Wales, born July 28,
1840, died April 20, 1848 ; Thomas Isaiah, born July 14,
1846. He now lives in the north-westerly part of Burling-
ton, at the junction of the Billerica and Wilmington Roads,
near the schoolhouse ; it being a portion of the farm bought
by his ancestor, John Read, of Henry Baldwin, on the first
day of January, 1700.

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8. Joseph W., son of Isaiah and Sally, born April 26,
1820; married Mehitabel C. Wynran. Children, — Joseph
M. ; Abby ; Wyman, born Aug. 8, 1854. He lives in
Charlestown, and is a trader.

8. Josiah T., son of Isaiah and Sally, born Nov. 11, 1821 ;
married Lydia Simonds. Child, — Mary, born Feb. 16,
1853. Lives in Charlestown, and is a trader.

8. Franklin Oliver, son of Isaiah and Sally, born July
31, 1826 ; married Charlotte M. Eoberts. Child, — Frank-
lin, born May 28, 1855. Lives in Charlestown, and is a
trader.

8. Nancy L., daughter of Isaiah and Sally, born March
24,1825; married Charles Patridge. Children, — Alden ;
Sarah. They live in Philadelphia.

8. Charlotte L., daughter of Isaiah and Sally, born
Dec. 25, 1817 ; married John F. Snow. Child, — Jonathan.

9. Jonathan Snow, son of Charlotte, married Deborah
Hunt, and lives in Newport, N.H. Children, — Nathan,
Franklin, Sarah.

8. Levi H., son of Isaiah and Sally, born Nov. 16, 1829 ;
married Jane Cook. Child, — William H., born Oct. 17,
1856. He lives in Charlestown, and is a trader.

3. Daniel Eead, son of Ralph, and grandson of William
and Maybel, married Sarah Johnson, Jan. 17, 1699. She
died in 1793, and he married Susanna Johnson. He
purchased the homestead farm of the Squaw Sachem by
deed, bearing date May, 1707, from one Fowle. The farm
was situated near Mystic Ponds, near the line between
Woburn and Charlestown, and comprising the farms now
owned by Mr. Simms, Mr. Wyman, and others, his descend-
ants. The heirs to the dignity and estate of the Squaw
Sachem seemed to hover about this last relict of their sav-
age royalty. It was on this farm that Seth Wyman shot
the Indian, who was lurking about the neighborhood with

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savage intent upon the peaceful occupants of the premises.
Children, — Daniel, born Oct. 1, 1700; Sarah; Samuel,
born April 31, 1707 ; Seth, March 23, 1709.

4. Daniel, son of Daniel of the Squaw Sachem Farm,
born Oct. 1, 1700 ; married Mary Converse, Dec. 27, 1722.
Children, — Sarah, born Sept. 8, 1722, married Hezekiah
Wyman in 1745 ; Susannah, born Sept. 9, 1726 ; Hannah,
Jan. 28, 1728 ; Ruth, July 9, 1729 ; Samuel, Dec. 16, 1730;
James, April 4, 1741 ; Daniel, Feb. 19, 1732 ; Joshua,
Nov. 8, 1734 ; Elizabeth, May 13, 1736 ; Esther, April 24,
1738 ; Ruth, Nov. 16, 1746. He was an innholder in
Charlestown.

Seth Read, son of Daniel, 1st, of Squaw Sachem Farm,
horn March 23, 1709 ; married Lydia, and lived within the
bounds of Charlestown, on the old homestead. Children, —
Samuel, born July 22, 1733 ; Seth, April 7, 1736 ; Lydia,
June 14, 1745 ; Daniel.

5. Daniel, son of Seth, married Dorothy Billings, April 12,
1762, at Medford, and had Daniel, Susan, and Precilla ;
Henry, born Jan. 27, 1785 ; Abigail, who died Oct. 15,
1820, aged eighty-seven.

6. Daniel, son of Daniel, married Precilla Wyman,
Nov. 26, 1789. Children, — Daniel and Sibra, twins ;
Benjamin ; Abigail ; Lucretia, Eunice, and Roger, three at
a birth ; and Mary Billings.

5. James, son of Daniel and Mary, born April 4, 1741 ;
married Margaret in 1765. Children, — James ; Margaret ;
Polly ; Betsy ; Peggy, who was admitted to the church in
Charlestown in 1788. He lived in Charlestown.

3. Joseph, son of Ralph, married Phebe. Children, —
Phebe, born March 22, 1695 ; Joseph, Jan. 22, 1698 ;
Joshua, Oct. 1, 1700 ; Nathaniel, March 28, 1704 ; Susanna,
Aug. 17, 1707, married Samuel Fowle ; Abigail, July 29,
1709. He lived at Woburn Westside, near where his father

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and grandfather had lived. The place was owned and
known for many years as the Sylvanus Wood Farm. His
will was proved January, 1741.

4. Nathaniel, son of Joseph and Phebe, born March 28,
1704. Owned the farm now occupied by Mr. Gennison,
a portion of his father's. The old house was taken down by
Mr. Gennison some twenty or twenty-five years ago, and a
new one built on the same spot. Married Hannah. Chil-
dren, — Mary, born April 15, 1735 ; Joshua, Nov. 17, 1739.

4. Susanna, daughter of Joseph and Phebe, Aug. 17, 1707,
married Samuel Fowle, Sept. 5, 1727, which resulted in a
transfer of a portion of the old William Reed Farm from
the heirs of his son Ralph to the Fowles.

Seth Reed, who was published in West Cambridge to
Eliza Frost, July 9, 1820, is supposed to be a grandson
of Seth, who was the son of Seth and Lydia of Charlestown ;
but no record. Lives in Lexington. Child, — Joseph G.,
who married N. Murphy in Charlestown, May 12, 1850.

5. Daniel, son of Daniel and Mary, born Feb. 19, 1732 ;
married Abigail. Children, — Daniel, who died Nov. 10,
1800 ; Luke, born in 1769, married Mary Bridge. Married,
for second wife, Mary Winn of Burlington, March 29, 1801.
Children, — Mary B., born in 1801 ; Abigail, Aug. 12, 1806 ;
Caroline, March 31, 1808 ; Delphina, Nov. 23, 1811 ; Caro-
line Delphina, Jan. 15, 1814. He lived on the homestead
in Woburn Westside, and died Aug. 17, 1820. His widow
still occupies the same place.

6. Daniel, son of Daniel and Abigail, married Elizabeth
Wyman, second daughter of Ezra and Eunice Wyman,
Oct. 16, 1788. He died Nov. 10, 1800. Child, — Ezra.
His widow married Edmond Parker, of Woburn.

7. Ezra, son of Daniel and Elizabeth, married Fanny
Fowle, Oct. 27, 1814, and occupied the old Israel Reed
House at Woburn Centre, and had a blacksmith-shop across

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the Common, near where the Town Hall now stands. He
is now deceased.

Abigail, daughter of Daniel and Precilla, married Thomas
Sprague.

Precilla, daughter of Daniel and Precilla, married Stephen
Symmes ; and they now own and occupy the old Squaw Sa-
chem Farm. Children, — Precilla, married Josiah Locke ;
and Stephen.

Susan, daughter of Daniel and Precilla, married Mr.
Huffmaster of West Medford. Children, — Martha Reed,
Susan Jane, John, Isaac, Joseph, Abby, Mary, Sarah. The
dwelling-house of Mr. Huffmaster stood in the range of the
tornado that passed through Medford in 1852 ; and during
this tornado, while he was trying to shut the outer door
which had blown open, the roof of a barn fell against it, and
Mr. Huffmaster was mortally wounded, and only survived
about thirty hours. His widow and some of his children
still live in the same place.

Susan Jane, daughter of Mr. Huffmaster and Susan Reed,
married George W. Symmes of Medford. Children, —
Louis, Mary, Abby, Ella, Hepsy ; Martha Huffmaster, mar-
ried John Norton ; Susan Huffmaster, married Kendrick
Chapman ; Mary, married Henry Drake.

Henry Reed, son of Daniel of Squaw Sachem Farm, born
Jan. 27, 1785 ; married Hannah Greenleaf, Aug. 23, 1810.
Children, — Hannah M., born June 23, 1811 ; Susanna,
Feb. 15, 1813 ; Henry F., June 15, 1818 ; Isaac R., Dec. 17,
1820, keeps No. 77, Union Street, Boston ; Rebecca G.,
Sept. 1, 1823. He lived in Medford, and held the rank of
captain. He was drowned in Medford River, Oct. 13, 1827.
His widow and some of his children still live at the same
place.

Benjamin, son of Daniel of Squaw Sachem Farm, lived and
died in Medford.

4. Joseph, son of Joseph and Phehe, born at Woburn,
June 22, 1698 ; married Sarah Rice of Sudbury, Nov. 26,
1723. Children, — James, 1724; Bethiah, Aug. 1, 1725;
John, 1728. Married, for second wife, Sarah Reed, daughter
of Daniel and Sarah, his first cousin, Jan. 1, 1729, by whom
he had Joseph, born in Woburn. He died March 6, 1730, at
Woburn, by some prevailing epidemic which carried off seve-
ral of the family. He was a distinguished Indian hunter,
and was associated with Seth Wyman and others of Capt.
LovwelPs men in 1725, during their scouting for Indians.
He lived a portion of the time after his marriage at Sud-
bury, but died at the house of his father at Woburn West-
side, at the place known, in the present century, as the
Sylvan us Wood Farm.

5. James, son of Joseph and Sarah of Sudbury, born in
1724 ; married Abigail Hinds of New Salem, and settled first
in Brookfield, next in Lunenburg. Children, — Abigail,
born in Brookfield, Jan. 20, 1749 ; James, 1746 ; Frederick,
Aug. 16, 1752 ; Sylvanus, Jan. 7, 1755 ; Barzela, Jan. 23,
1756 ; Hinds, Nov. 29, 1757 ; Joseph, Feb. 17, 1763 ; She-
fomith, born at Monadnoc No. 4, May 23, 1766.

He was one of the principal original proprietors of Mo-
nadnoc No. 4, now Fitzwilliam, in New Hampshire ; and did
much for the growth and prosperity of the town. He was
captain in Col. Blanchard's regiment, serving \inder Sir
William Johnson against the French and Indians near Lake
George ; and his military experience, energy of character,
and commanding appearance, gave him a great influence
over his relatives in Middlesex and Worcester Counties.
They rallied with him, in almost countless numbers, at
their country's call, and reddened the soil of Lexington
and Charlestown with their blood. He commanded the
second regiment at the battle of Bunker Hill, and a
hundred and sixty-six of his regiment were killed or

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wounded. He was in the battle of Bennington, West
Point, Valley Forge, and New Jersey. He was the first
brigade general appointed by the Provincial Congress.
He had the misfortune to lose his eyesight while in the
service, and retired on half-pay ; and history seemed to
neglect to do him justice, as no doubt exists that he was
one of the most efficient generals of his time, and did much
to arouse to action the section of country in which he lived.
Eight of his townsmen were killed in Bunker-Hill battle.
His oldest son James was in the army with him, and was a
prisoner at Quebec. The elder James married Mary Farer
of Framingham for his second wife, daughter of Major John
Farer, born Jan. 8, 1742. He lived, the latter part of his
life, in Keene ; and died in 1807, aged eighty-five years.

6. James, son of Gen. James, born Aug. 25, 1746 ; mar-
ried Mary Dodge of Lunenburg, Dec. 11, 1768, and left no
issue. He was a Revolutionary pensioner, and died at Fitz-
william in New Hampshire.

6. Sylvanus, son of Gen. James, born Jan. 7, 1755, at
Lunenburg, N.H.; married Caroline Taylor in 1781. Chil-
dren,— Caroline, born in 1782; Sylvanus, 1787, died in
1822 ; Sylvester, born 1791. The elder Sylvanus was with
his father in the battle of Bunker Hill, and served through
the war. He was afterwards much in town-business, and
known as Col. Reed.

7. Sylvester, son of Sylvanus, born 1791 ; married Mary
Bachelder in 1817. Children, — Caroline; Mary Ann, who
married Robert Wade ; Sylvanus ; Lafayette. Sylvester
lives in Battle Creek, Mich.

8. Sylvanus, son of Sylvester, married Caroline Gallop.
Children, — Mary G., Sylvanus A., Suthom G. He is
rector of an Episcopal church in Albany, N.Y.

6. Hinds, son of Gen. Reed, born at Lunenburg, Nov. 29,
1757. Children, — Barzela, born at Fitzwilliam, May 25,

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1780 ; Nabby Hinds, 1779, married Oliver C. Wyman, who
died in Boston, Jan. 7, 1850 (she died at Nahant, Jan. 3,
1851) ; Salome, born Dec. 30, 1781 ; James, July 30, 1784 ;
Caroline, March 16, 1787 ; Beulah, Oct. 17, 1789 ; Abijah,
June 4, 1792; Hinds, Nov. 16, 1794; Rapina, April 11,
1797 ; Eliza, May 14, 1799.

7. Barzela H., son of Hinds, born May 25, 1780 ; lives
in Albany, Vt. He has three sons and six daughters, whose
names are not given.

5. John, son of Joseph and Sarah, born in 1728. In
1730, after the prevailing epidemic had carried off several of
the family, he was taken by the wife of Daniel Bugbee
of Roxbury, his mother's sister, who carried him before
her, on horseback, to her residence in Roxbury, where he
lived till his majority, and learned the trade of a tanner of a
Mr. Williams. He afterwards became a kind of steward or
agent for Gov. Bowdoin, who owned great estates near Cape
Cod, among which was Naushon Island and its dependencies,
constituting the group known as the Elizabeth Islands, be-
tween Buzzard's Bay and Martha's Vineyard Sound, in whose
employ he continued many years. He afterwards moved
back to Roxbury, and was much in public life ; being repre-
sentative to the legislature, governor's council, justice of
the peace and quorum throughout the Commonwealth, and
land-agent for Massachusetts, which was at that time an
important office. The town of Readfield in the State of
Maine was named in honor of him. He named the town
of Bowdoinham in honor of his early patron, Gov. Bowdoin ;
he being proprietor of both townships. His residence was
what was afterwards the residence of Gov. Eustis. He died
in Roxbury, June 3, 1813. Known as Major Read, from his
having acted as paymaster of militia before the Revolution.
He married Hannah Godard. Children, — John; William;
Thomas, born Nov. 24, 1767.

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6. John, son of Major John, maiTied Maria Goodwin of
Plymouth, daughter of Gen. Goodwin. Children, — John ;
Betsy ; Hannah ; George ; Charles ; William ; Joseph ; Isaac ;
Mary ; Francis ; Nancy, who married Mr. Byles ; and five
others, who died young. The powder magazine at Roxbury
was in his charge many years. He was also a wine-merchant
of Boston, and quite a distinguished man in his time.

7. George, son of John and Maria, born in Boston,
July 25, 1789 ; married Rebecca Pierce of Newbury, Dec. 29,
1819. Children, — Caroline P., born in Boston, Feb. 18,
1821, married George Drew of Duxbury, Jan. 6, 1842 ;
George P., born May 24, 1822, died Sept. 14, 1823 ; Mary
Elizabeth, born April 2, 1824. His wife died May 9, 1824 :
he died at Roxbury, March 27, 1856.

8. Mary Elizabeth, daughter of George and Rebecca, born
April 2, 1824 ; married George Weld of Roxbury, Dec. 14,

1848. Children, — George R., born at Roxbury, Nov. 25,

1849, died Nov. 26, 1849; Percy R., born Nov. 2, 1852,
died Aug. 18, 1853 ; Clifford R., born Aug. 16, 1854. Mr.
Weld died at his residence in Roxbury, Dec. 21, 1855. He
belonged to the ancient family of Weld, who were among
the early settlers of Roxbury ; and lived upon a portion
of the ancient Weld Lot.

Joseph, son of Joseph and Sarah, born at Woburn, Jan. 1,
1730, and settled in Sterling. Children, — Joseph, Joshua,
Nathan, Danforth, Levi, William, Lincoln.

Nathan, son of Joseph, married Hannah Brooks, June 4,
1788. Children, — Joseph; Jabez.

Joseph A., son of Nathan and Hannah, married Mary B.,
who died July 28, 1822 ; married Turner, who died April 20,
1846. Children, — Nathan B., born June 17, 1827; Joseph
P., March 12, 1829 ; Minerva, Oct. 29, 1831. He has been
a major, and is one of the justices of peace for the county
of Worcester.

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82 WILLIAM READE OP WOBURN,

Jabez, son of Nathan and Hannah, married Lavina B.
Children, — Mary L., born March 20, 1832, died Jan. 12,
1852; Henry J., born July 3, 1814; Julia Ann, Aug. 11,
1837 ; Silas Harrison, Dec. 20, 1839 ; Harriet L., Nov. 30,
1842 ; Jabez E., Jan. 19, 1835, died March 14, 1845 ;
Jabez ; Eugine, born Oct. 5, 1848. He died Jan. 28, 1849.

Joshua, son of Joseph of Sterling, married Mariam Fair-
banks, March 2, 1784.

Joseph S., son of Joseph A., lives in Princeton ; married
Ann E. Ames, May 18, 1854.

6. Thomas, son of Major John, born Nov. 24, 1767 ; mar-
ried Euth Wait of Roxbury. Children, — James Bowdoin,
born July 5, 1790, died July 7, 1823 ; Ruth, Feb. 12, 1802,
died Dec. 9, 1812 ; Rebecca, born Jan. 27, 1806, married
John Pratt. Married, for second wife, Margaret Pratt of
Bowdoinham. Child, — Thomas. The elder Thomas died
Oct. 19, 1843: his first wife died July 26, 1826. He
inherited large tracts of land in Maine by the will of his
father. He settled in Bowdoinham, and was a man of
wealth and business, and a magistrate.

James of Bowdoinham, son of Thomas, born July 5, 1790.
Child, — Thomas, who lives in Waine, Me.

7. George, son of John, and grandson of Major John,
married Rebecca Pierce of Newburyport.

7. Charles, son of John, and grandson of Major John,
lived at one time in Portland, but moved back to Roxbury,
and died there.

7. Joseph, son of John, and grandson of Major John, lived
and died on the old place in Roxbury.

3. Timothy, son of George and Hannah of Woburn, born
1678 ; married Persis Kendall, his cousin. Children, —
Persis, born July 31, 1711, married Jonathan Gray, Feb. 20,
1738 ; Timothy, born in 1713 ; Jacob, Jan. 31, 1714 ;
Jonathan, May 19, 1718, married Kersey Converse, Feb. 26,

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1739; Alice, born March 24, 1720; Amos, July 1, 1722;
Ezekiel, Aug. 1, 1728. His father gave him forty acres of
land in Woburn great lots, situated on the third and fourth
range, by deed, bearing date March 15, 1700, and witnessed
by John and Thomas. It is the place owned at this time
by Mr. Duren, whose mother is a descendant of Timothy.
The elder Timothy likewise owned land in Hodge's Hole.
He died Oct. 17, 1758, aged eighty : his wife died Sept. 16,
1748.

5. Timothy, son of Timothy and Persis, born 1713 ; mar-
ried Huldah. Child, — Huldah, born Feb. 24, 1745 ;
married Jesse Russell, Oct. 14, 1779 ; and Russell in-
herited the estate.

4. Jacob, son of Timothy and Persis, born Jan. 31, 1714;
married Elizabeth French of Billerica, June 19, 1774.
Children, — Jacob, born April 30, 1745, died Dec. 30,
1770 ; Reuben, born March 2, 1747 ; Joseph, 1748 ; Amos ;
Isaac ; Elizabeth, April 18, 1750 ; Sarah, July 25, 1752.
His wife died Axig. 7, 1811, aged eighty-nine. He died
July 20, 1804, aged ninety. He occupied the homestead of
his father.

5. Isaac, son of Jacob and Elizabeth, married Susanna
Munroe. Children, — Isaac, born in 1781 ; Susanna, 1782 ;
William, 1785 ; Oliver, 1787 ; Thomas, Jan. 18, 1790; Reu-
ben, March 25, 1791 ; Maxwell, 1795 ; Enos, Aug. 1, 1796.
He died April 2, 1848, aged ninety-two.

6. Isaac, son of Isaac, born in 1781. His widow lives in
Lexington. Children, — Isaac; William H.

7. Isaac, son of Isaac, keeps at No. 15 and 17, Boylston
Market.

6. Thomas, son of Isaac and Susanna, born June 18, 1790.
Children, — James M., Thomas, Henry, and one daughter,
who married William Thomas, and lived at No. 1, Salem
Place, Boston.

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8. Children of William Thomas are Mary and William.

7. James M., son of Thomas, married Julia Stone of Port-
land. Children, — James Henry, Ann Maria, Nelly, John
Stone, Theodore Franklin. He lives at No. 10, Unity
Street, Boston.

7. Thomas, son of Thomas, married Sarah Bellamy.
Children, — Martha White; William Bellamy. He died
May 19, 1854, at No. 26, Snow-Hill Street, Boston.

7. Henry, son of Thomas of Lexington, married Mary
Ann Austin. Children, — Caroline Austin, Harriet Jose-
phine. He died April, 1849, in Greenough's Alley, Boston.

6. Reuben, son of Isaac, married Mary Willard. Chil-
dren,— Reuben W. ; Jonah H. He lives on the Middlesex
Turnpike, in the north-easterly part of Lexington.

6. Enos, son of Isaac and Susanna, born Aug. 1, 1796 ;
married Sarah. Children, — S. Henrietta, born June 12,
1823; Helen Maria, April 18, 1826; Weston S., Oct. 9,
1830 ; Enos W., Oct. 6, 1834 ; Harrietta, Aug. 3, 1837 ;
Adalade, Oct. 30, 1839. He lives in East Cambridge,
keeps a shoe-store, and is known as Deacon Reed.

6. William, son of Isaac and Susanna, born in 1785, died
1852 ; married Rebecca Wilson. Children, — William,
George, Ann, Alfred, Franklin, Abby, and Charles.

7. George P., son of William, born at Boston, Nov. 8,
1813 ; married Julia W. Belcher of Boston, March 11, 1846.
Has three children, — William Gorham ; Julia E. ; Alfred
Augustus. Lives at Roxbury.

7. Alfred, son of William, married Caroline van Sou ; and
they have four children.

7. Frank, son of William, married Laurelia A. Bramwell.
He died at the Cape of Good Hope, leaving one child. His
widow lives at No. 37, Essex Street, Boston.

5. Joseph, son of Jacob and Elizabeth, born in 1748 ;
married Eunice Cook of Cambridge, July 4, 1785. Chil-

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dren, — Joseph, born April 7, 1776 ; Eunice, April 1, 1780,
married Ebenezer Jenkins ; Reuben, born May 9, 1785 ;
Elizabeth, Nov. 22, 1787, married John Raynor ; Sarah,
born Dec. 22, 1790, married Abel Baker. The elder Joseph
lived near the College in Cambridge. Died Feb. 23, 1816.

6. Joseph, son of Joseph and Eunice, born April 7, 1776;
married Elizabeth Keyes. Children, — Joseph ; Catherine,
who married Dr. Warren of Newton ; Harriet, married
Freeman Allen of Boston ; Ellen, married Rev. Dr. Miron
Winslow, and went missionary to India; Charlotte, married
Charles Reed of Salem. Elizabeth, the wife of Joseph, died
Sept. 30, 1825, aged seventy-six.

6. Reuben, son of Joseph and Eunice, born May 9, 1785 ;
married Hannah Hovey, May 2, 1813, and carried on car-
riage-building and harness-making in Elm Street, Boston,
in all its branches, more than forty years ; but has now
retired, and lives at No. 39, Lyne Street. Children, —
Reuben, born Sept. 9, 1814, died Oct. 3, 1814; Reuben
A., born Feb. 12, 1817, died June 2, 1830 ; Charles H.,
born Feb. 7, 1819, died June 26, 1822.

6. Oliver, son of Isaac and Susanna, born in 1790 ; mar-
ried Sarah Thayer of Braintree. Children, — Caroline
Augusta ; Emily, born April, 1813 ; Theodore, Dec. 19,
1823 ; Angelina A., Dec. 19, 1825 ; Cordelia R., Sept.
26, 1827; Julia A., October, 1822. He died in Boston,
August, 1832 : his wife died in Chelsea, Dec. 8, 1849.

7. Caroline A., daughter of Oliver and Sarah, married
George W. Porter. Child, — George Augustus. She is
not living.

7. Theodore, son of Oliver and Sarah, born Dec. 19, 1823 ;
married Martha A. Adams of Quincy. Children, — Oliver,
born 1851 ; Herbert, 1857. He lives at Portage, Wis.

7. Angelina A., daughter of Oliver and Sarah, born
Dec. 19, 1825 ; married James Gammons, jun. Children,

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— George Gordon, born Nov. 1, 1853; Elbert Howard,
Sept. 21, 1855. They live at No. 64, Pearl Street, Chelsea.

Huldah, daughter of Timothy and Huldah, born Feb. 24,
1745 ; married Jesse Russell, Oct. 14, 1779. Children, —
Jesse ; Mary.

Mary, daughter of Jesse Russell and Huldah, married
Abraham Duren, from Carlisle, Oct. 25, 1801. Children, —
Samuel R., born May 29, 1803 ; Lydia, Dec. 13, 1805, mar-
ried Joseph Kendall ; Warren, born Feb. 14, 1809 ; Wil-
liam, June 5, 1813 ; Abraham, Nov. 21, 1815.

Mr. Duren died on the farm formerly owned by the
grandfather, Timothy Reed. The widow still resides in
the same place ; and her three sons live on the same
farm, and also own the farm adjoining, formerly the
residence of the great-grandfather of Mrs. Duren, Jacob
Reed ; the house upon it having been built by her great-
great-grandfather Timothy, and the land given to Timothy
by his father, Deacon George Reed, the first of Woburn, by
deed, bearing date March 15, 1700. His father had then
owned it several years, so that some portion of this property
has been in the hands of the same family nearly two hundred
years ; and, though it is now out of the name, the Reeds
have no cause of complaint, as the present incumbents have
fitted up the houses and out-buildings in excellent taste.
They have also covered the land over with a vast number
of fruit-trees ; and the land, in every respect, shows the
hand of the skilful cultivator. These houses and farms
now are known as Durenville ; and it is truly a delightful
spot, — rich in every thing that makes farms attractive.
The Duren Family also own the farm which was bought
by William Reed, the father of George, in 1648, by deed,
from Nicholas Davis. It is two hundred and ten years since
this last-named farm came into the family of Reed ; and
though it passed out of the name more than a hundred

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years ago, yet it has been in the descendants of William
Reed the most of the time. It passed, first, from the
Reeds to the Fowles, but not without marriage alliance ;
and from Fowle to Col. Baldwin. Baldwin's wife was
Margery Fowle, married May 19, 1791. It afterwards
passed into the hands of Capt. Fox. His mother was
Elizabeth Reed, who married Thomas Fox, March 31, 1763.
The buildings upon this farm have long been gone, and the
farm mostly turned to pasturing ; and a good growth of
wood has been cut from where the first William Reed, and
his children after him, were wont to swing their scythes.
The old cellar and well are yet remaining to calr the mind
back through the centuries that are past.

Samuel R. Duren, son of Abraham and Mary, and grand-
son of Huldah Reed and Jesse Russell, born March 29, 1803 ;
married Sybil Spaulding of Billerica, Dec. 12, 1826. Chil-
dren,—Samuel R., born Sept. 29, 1828 ; William Henry,
June 19, 1831, who is now in California. Married, for
second wife, Ann Searls of Nashua, N.H.

Warren, son of Abraham Duren and Mary, born April 14,
1809 ; married Mary Ann Merritt, and, for second wife, Mary
Chandler, daughter of William Chandler, Esq., of Lex-
ington.

William Duren, son of Abraham and Mary, born June 5,
1813; married Augusta Locke. Child, — Henrietta.

Abraham, son of Abraham and Mary Duren, born Nov. 21,
1815 ; married Prudence Simonds. Children, — George,
Mary Ann, Nelmina, Carry.

5. Amos, son of Jacob and Elizabeth, born May 15, 1754;
married Lydia Simonds of Burlington, Oct. 7, 1786. Chil-
dren,— Lydia, born in Woburn, April 18, 1782, lives in
Salem ; Jacob, otherwise John, July 31, 1784 ; Elizabeth,
June 18, 1786 ; Ann, Aug. 29, 1789 ; Amos, Aug. 24, 1791 ;
Sally, Sept. 16, 1793, lives in Salem ; Reuben, March 5,

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1795, died April 3, 1833 ; Fanny, born May 20, 1798 ;
Franklin, Sept. 20, 1800. The elder Amos died at Danvers,
Oct. 9, 1812 : his wife died at Salem, Aug. 17, 1850, in
her ninetieth year.

6. Jacob Reed, son of Amos and Lydia, born in Woburn,
July 31, 1784; married Mary Winship of West Cambridge.
Children, — George Washington, born Oct. 12, 1810 ;
Charles' Albert, Dec. 25, 1812 ; Eveline, Dec. 15, 1815 ;
Warren A., Nov. 17, 1823 ; John F., July 28, 1821 ; Eliza-
beth. He had his name altered to John, and lives in Salem.
He did business in the market at Salem many years, but has
now retired ; and his sons succeed him.

7. George W., son of Jacob, otherwise John, and Mary,
born Oct. 12, 1810; married Anna Southwick, the twentieth
day of the tenth month, 1842: they were married at Lynn,
by the Society of Friends. He graduated at Cambridge Col-
lege in 1831, and was at first a Baptist minister ; but, em-
bracing the doctrines of the Society of Friends, he left the
pulpit, and had his middle name altered from Washington
to Fox, and is now a teacher, in Salem, by the name of
George Fox Reed.

7. Charles Albert, son of John and Mary of Salem, born
Dec. 25, 1812 ; married Charlotte Reed, daughter of Joseph,
his second cousin. Child, — Charles, born in 1840. Charles
Albert lives at Newton Corner, and has been agent of the
Western Railroad.

7. Warren A., son of John and Mary of Salem, born
Nov. 17, 1823 ; married Sarah E. Bennett, March 3, 1853.
Child, — Charles Warren, born May 18, 1856.

7. John F., son of John and Mary of Salem, born July 28,
1821 ; married Caroline Chase of Salem. Child, — a
daughter, born in 1857.

6. Elizabeth, daughter of Amos and Lydia, married Ben-
jamin Gates of Stow, and moved to New-York City. Cliil-

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dren, — Albert, born June 19, 1812 ; Emily, Aug. 28, 1813 ;
Benjamin F., Sept. 22, 1821.

7. Albert Gates, son of Elizabeth Reed and Benjamin
Gates, born June 19, 1812 ; married Harriet, and has four
children.

7. Emily, daughter of Elizabeth Reed and Benjamin Gates,
born Aug. 28, 1813 ; married Christopher Garrison of New-
ark, N.J. Child, — Christopher, born Aug. 11, 1846.

7. Benjamin F. Gates, son of Elizabeth and Benjamin,
born Aug. 22, 1821 ; married Elizabeth A. Mackenzie of
New- York City, and resides there, and has a child, born
in 1857.

7. George Gates, son of Elizabeth and Benjamin, born in
1816 ; died young.

6. Ann, daughter of Amos and Lydia, born in Woburn,
April 29, 1789; married Nathan Frye, June 14, 1812.
Children, — Lydia Ann, born Oct. 22, 1813; Nathan Au-
gustus, Nov. 25, 1815 ; Daniel Osmond, 1820, died on the
coast of Africa, Aug. 15, 1843, aged twenty-three years.
Mr. Frye is a retired ship-master, and lives at No. 354,
Essex Street, Salem.

7. Lydia Ann, daughter of Ann Reed and Capt. Frye,
born Oct. 22, 1813 ; married Thomas B. Russell, June 14,
1846. Child, — Thomas Franklin Russell, born in 1847;
died Sept. 3, 1851.

7. Nathan Augustus Frye, son of Capt. Frye and Ann,
born Nov. 25, 1815 ; married Sarah M. Russell in Salem,
March 11, 1840. Children, — Nathan A., born Dec. 22,
1840 ; Anna M., Feb. 1, 1842, died Feb. 19, 1848 ; Daniel
Ormond, born Dec. 5, 1847 ; Charles Russell, March 31,
1853 ; Arthur M., June 17, 1854.

6. Amos, son of Amos and Lydia, born Aug. 24, 1791 ;
married Joanna Allen in Elizabeth town, N.J. Children, —
Ann, born Aug. 11, 1822; Sarah E., Oct. 22, 1825, died

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April 4, 1845 ; Henrietta Frances, born Dec. 27, 1829 ;
Amos A., Dec. 6, 1833, went to Australia. Amos died in
Elizabethtown, Nov. 30, 1835: his wife died June 6, 1847.

7. Ann, daughter of Amos and Joanna of Elizabethtown,
born Aug. 11, 1822 ; married William P. Crawford, Mar. 6,
1841. Cbildren, — Joseph, born Dec. 11, 1842 ; Sarah E.,
May 8, 1844 ; William Reed Crawford, Dec. 8, 1846, died
young.

7. Henrietta Frances, daughter of Amos and Joanna,
born in 1827 ; married a Mr. Russell of Elizabethtown in
1857.

7. Joanna, daughter of Amos and Joanna, born Dec. 27,
1829; married Henry Smith in 1846. Children, — Joanna
Eliza, born June 4, 1847 ; William Crawford Smith, Oct. 4,
1849.

6. Reuben, son of Amos and Lydia, born May 20, 1798 ;
married Abigail Foster for first wife, and Fidelia Swan for
second wife. Child, — Edward.

6. Franklin Reed, son of Amos and Lydia, born Sept. 20,
1800 ; died in Salem, Oct. 5, 1823, single.

6. Frances or Fanny Reed, daughter of Amos and Lydia,
born May 20, 1798 ; married Amos Breed of Lynn. Child,
— Amos Franklin.

7. Amos Franklin, son of Fanny Reed and Amos Breed,
married Anna Lynsey of Lynn. Children, — Ruth Ann,
born in 1856; Amos F.

5. Reuben, son of Jacob and Elizabeth, born March 2,
1747 ; married Elizabeth Baron, Feb. 2, 1793.

4. Ezekiel, son of Timothy and Persis, born Aug. 1, 1728 ;
married Widow Mary Locke, June 17, 1760. Child, —
Ezekiel, born Aug. 20, 1760.

3. Thomas, son of George and Hannah of Woburn, born
July 15, 1682 : married Sarah Sawyer, Feb. 1, 1704. Chil-
dren, — Thomas, born Nov. 18, 1704 ; Samuel, June 5,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 91

1710 ; Hannah, June 2, 1714 ; Mary, Jan. 6, 1717 ; Abigail,
May 24, 1721, died Dec. 7, 1736 ; Kesiah, Oct. 28, 1726 ;
Charles, May 11, 1730. He received a quit-claim deed of
half of his father's farm, signed by his brother John and
wife Ruth and his mother, April 5, 1706. The farm was
then bounded easterly, westerly, and northerly by land of
Timothy Walker ; and, on the west, partly by land of Tho-
mas Kendall ; reserving to their brother Timothy certain
rights and privileges. His deed also conveyed land at Rag-
rock and Rockpond. He bought land in Hodge's Hole,
Aug. 17, 1707. He died Aug. 18, 1736, aged fifty-four ;
and his gravestone is standing near that of his brother
George and others of the Reed Family, in the south-
westerly quarter of Woburn Old Burying-ground. He was
called Lieut. Reed.

4. Thomas, son of Thomas and Sarah of Woburn, born
Nov. 18, 1704; married Lydia. Children, — Lydia, born
Oct. 17, 1737 ; Thomas, Dec. 22, 1740 ; Sarah, June 26,
1742 ; Abigail, Aug. 21, 1743 ; Joseph, Dec. 23, 1745 ;
Kersia, Aug. 24, 1746. In 1714, he bought a farm of John
Connell, containing several pieces of land ; and Benjamin
Pierce, Henry Johnson, and William Johnson, are abutters.
This last-mentioned farm is in Woburn west side, on the road
by Mystic Pond ; and, I believe, is still in the possession of the
Reed Family. The Pierce Farm is still owned by a Pierce,
and is the starting-point of the ancestors of Franklin Pierce.

5. Joseph, son of Thomas and Lydia, born Dec. 23,
1745; married Relief Richardson. Child, — William, born
July 24, 1768. His wife died, and he married Lavina
Bond. Children, — Joseph, baptized Feb. 3, 1771; Ed-
mond, baptized Sept. 20, 1772 ; Lydia, born June, 1772 ;
Moses, 1774 ; John, 1775. Joseph, the elder, was a man of
property and influence in Cambridge, but suffered much
in property during the Revolution.

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6. William, son of Joseph and Relief, born July 24, 1768 ;
married Lavina Chickering, 1788. Child, — Lorinda.

6. Joseph, son of Joseph and Lavina, married Mary-
Massy, July 8, 1794. Children, — Nancy, born May 21,
1795; Lefa Eichardson, March 8, 1777, died July 9, 1820;
Jane B.,born Aug. 14, 1799, married D. M. Spear, Nov. 11,
1834; Joseph M., born Feb. 5, 1802, married M. Seymore,
July 23, 1828 ; Sophia W.,born March 10, 1804; Leonard
Eichardson, June 20, 1806, died Oct. 6, 1854 ; Mary, born
July 1, 1808, died Jan. 31, 1838 ; Sarah Lord, born Feb. 4,
1811, died Aug. 29, 1813. He died June 28, 1830: his
wife died Aug. 10, 1845.

7. Joseph, son of Joseph and Mary of Cambridge, born
Feb. 5, 1802 ; married Louisa Seymore, July 23, 1828.
Children, — Sarah Jane, born March 23, 1829, died May 4,
1830 ; Carlton L, born Jan. 24, 1831, is a professor in
Union College ; Leonard, Nov. 26, 1832 ; Lucretia, March 3,
1833 ; Adaline S., Feb. 26, 1836 ; Mary, Feb. 7, 1838 ;
John, April 6, 1840 ; Francis M., Jan. 20, 1846 ; Nancy
M., May 26, 1829.

7. Leonard, son of Joseph and Mary, born June 20, 1806.
Child, — James, born Nov. 26, 1826; occupies the home-
stead.

7. Mary, daughter of Joseph and Mary, born July 1,
1808 ; married James Eeed, the son of an English barrister,
Sept. 1, 1830. Children, — Mary E., born June 27, 1831 ;
William Lowell, Nov. 6, 1835, — a gentleman of liberal
education, now fitting a class of young men for college in
Newtown on Long Island.

5. Thomas, son of Thomas and Lydia, born Dec. 22,
1740 ; married Ehoda Crosby, July 2, 1761. Married his
second wife, Alice Pierce, April 1, 1773, in Cambridge.

Samuel Eead, born in England, March 6, 1774 ; married
Catherine Hardy, June, 1803. Sailed from England in May,

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1804 ; and died in September, 1804, leaving a son James,
born Oct. 12, 1804.

James, son of Samuel and Catherine, married Mary,
daughter of Joseph Reed and Mary Massy, Sept. 1, 1830,
and had Mary E. and William Lowell.

4. Jonathan, son of Timothy and Persis, born at Woburn,
May 19, 1718 ; married Kersey Converse, Feb. 26, 1839,
at Lexington. Children, — Jonathan, born in Woburn,
June 15, 1740 ; Robert, Aug. 3, 1742, at Lexington ; Jude ;
Mehitabel, born Sept. 25, 1748, married George Lilley ; Joel,
baptized at Cambridge, Nov. 12, 1749 ; Phebe, baptized
Feb. 2, 1752, married John Foot ; Amos, baptized Dec. 30,
1753 ; Samuel ; Ann, born in the boat when they were
fleeing to escape the tomahawk and scalping4cnife of the
Indians, married George Cooch ; Mary, married Natha-
niel Hathorn. He moved from Cambridge to Woolwich,
Me., soon after the birth of his son Amos, probably in 1754,
where he and his family suffered much during the French
and Revolutionary Wars ; but left a numerous and enter-
prising posterity, and his old homestead is occupied by
one of his descendants of the name of Alfred Reed. His
descendants are mostly settled in the neighborhood of the
Kennebec River. He died in 1803, aged eighty-five; and
his wife died in 1808.

5. Jonathan, son of Jonathan and Kersey of Woolwich,
Me., born at Woburn, Mass., June 15, 1740; married Jo-
anna Call, and settled in Dresden. Children, — Obadiah,
settled in Pittston ; Isaac, settled in Pittston ; Stephen, set-
tled in Dresden ; David, settled in Dresden, and was a
sea-captain, married Sarah King, died in Pittston, March
22, 1851 ; Betsy ; Amos ; Daniel, settled in Dresden, and
was a sea-captain ; Jacob, settled in Dresden ; Rebecca.
He was a captain of militia at the time of the Revolution.

5. Robert, son of Jonathan and Kesiah, or Kersey, born

94 WILLIAM READE OP WOBUEN,

in Lexington, Aug. 3, 1742, and settled in Woolwich ; mar-
ried Catherine Mayers. Children, — George; John; Sam-
uel ; Mary ; Robert, settled in China ; James C. ; Betsy ;
Ulrich ; Nancy.

6. Obadiah, son of Jonathan and Joanna, settled in
Pittston ; married Mary Pottle, Dec. 2, 1810. Children, —
Betsy, born June 3, 1811, married John R. Taylor ; Frances,
born Nov. 3, 1812 ; Daniel, April 11, 1814 ; Jonathan,
March 14, 1816 ; William, March 22, 1818 ; Cordelia,
Jan. 14, 1820, married Leonard Cooper. He was a
freeholder, and payer of direct taxes, in 1799 ; and died
in 1851.

6. Isaac, son of Jonathan and Joanna of Pittston, married
Betsy Robinson. Children, — Isaac, born May 3, 1819;
Robinson, Feb. 21, 1821 ; Lydia, Nov. 12, 1815 ; Elizabeth,
Oct. 22, 1822; Lucy Freeman, Sept. 21, 1824. He was
among the freeholders of Pittston in 1799. Died in 1829.

7. Jonathan, son of Obadiah and Mary of Pittston, born
March 14, 1816 ; married Eliza A. Richardson. Children,
— George T., born May 5, 1840 ; Zorushe, Sept. 27, 1843 ;
Clara Ellen, Dec. 8, 1850.

7. Daniel, son of Obadiah, born April 11, 1814 ; married
Hannah. Children, — Hiram, born June 11, 1840; Laura,
May 2, 1846. He died Nov. 19, 1845.

7. William, son of Obadiah, born March 22, 1818; mar-
ried Julia A. Palmer. Children, — Warren A., born July
11, 1844; Safons, May 19, 1847; Arienna, Feb. 12, 1841,
died Sept. 14, 1856 ; Daniel A., born Aug. 25, 1852.

5. Mehitable, daughter of Jonathan and Kersey, baptized
at Cambridge, Sept. 25, 1748 ; married George Lilley. Chil-
dren,— Converse, who was a sea-captain ; George ; Robert;
Samuel, a sea-captain ; Isaac, a sea-captain ; Mehitable ;
Betsey.

5. Joel, son of Jonathan and Kersey, baptized at Cam-

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 95

bridge, Nov. 12, 1749, and settled in Woolwich ; married
Eunice Webb. Children, — Sarah ; Joel, settled in Dresden ;
Mehitable ; Eunice ; Ebenezer, settled in Brooklyn, N.Y. ;
Susanna ; Webb, settled in Canaan, Me. ; Betsy ; Nathan,
went to the British dominions.

5. Phebe, daughter of Jonathan and Kersey, baptized at
Cambridge, Feb. 2, 1752 ; married John Foot. Children, —
Annie, Mercy, Martha, David.

5. Amos, son of Jonathan and Kersey, baptized at Cam-
bridge, Dec. 30, 1755 ; settled in Dresden. Married Annie
Webb. Children, — Amos, Fanny, Mary, Converse.

5. Samuel, son of Jonathan and Kersey, settled in Wool-
wich ; married Mary Winship. Children, — Winship, who
married Mary Ann Hatch, and was murdered at sea ; Sam-
uel ; Charles, a sea-captain ; Alfred, who now lives on the
old homestead of Jonathan and Kersey ; Samuel, the son of
Jonathan, was a sea-captain during the Revolution ; was
taken prisoner by the British, and suffered many hardships.

5. Ann, daughter of Jonathan and Kersey, who was born
after they moved to Woolwich, in the midst of the reign of
terror caused by the French War, in which the Indians
as well as French were infuriated against the English and
Americans, and sought opportunities to butcher them. She
married George Couch. Children, — Phebe, James, Sarah,
Stephen, Kesiah.

5. Mary, daughter of Jonathan and Kersey, born at Wool-
wich ; married Nathaniel Hathorn. Children, — James,
Lemuel, Catherine, Amy, Nathaniel, Jude, Matilda, Lu-
cinda, Wyman, Hannah, Mehitable ; numbering fifty-three
grandchildren of Jonathan and Kersey, most of whom are
located in the neighborhood of the Kennebec.

6. James Converse Reed, son of Robert and Catherine,
married Kesiah C. Couch, his first cousin. Children, —
Jude, and two daughters.

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7. Jude Reed, son of James C. and Kesiah.

Henry of Pittston, and Mary Ann, had William, born
Sept. 17, 1815 ; Joseph, April 5, 1817.

6. Capt. Daniel Reed of Dresden, son of Jonathan, mar-
ried Sarah King of Pittston, Jan. 18, 1824.

David Reed of Pittston married Hannah W. Joy ; pub-
lished Nov. 10, 1838.

6. Winshop Reed of Dresden, son of Samuel and Mary,
married Ann Patch ; published Feb. 2, 1843.

Lewellyn Reed of Dresden married Charlotte McLain,
June 28, 1856.

6. Capt. Daniel, son of Jonathan, married Hannah W.
Joy, Nov. 10, 1838. Child,— Laura, born May 2, 1846.
He died Nov. 19, 1845.

2. Rebecca, daughter of William and Mabel, born proba-
bly at Muddy River, now Brookline ; married Joseph Winn
of Woburn, son of Edward, who was made freeman in 1643.
His son Increase, elder brother of Joseph, was the first
person born in Woburn. The name Winn is said to be a
corruption of Lewellyn, the name of the Welsh prince
taken and slain by Edward I. Joseph Winn died Feb. 22,
1714; and Rebecca died in 1734. Children, — Rebecca,
born at Woburn, May 25, 1665 ; Sarah, Nov. 9, 1666 ;
Joanna ; Abigail, June 18, 1670 ; Joseph, May 15, 1674 ;
Timotby, who died March 22, 1678; Rebecca and Hannah,
twins, born Feb. 14, 1679 ; Rebecca, married Timothy
Spaulding of Chelmsford, March 5, 1700 ; Annie, born
Nov. 1, 1684 ; Timothy, Feb. 27, 1687.

3. Timothy, son of Ensign Joseph and Rebecca, born at
Woburn, Feb. 27, 1687 ; married Elizabeth Brooks. Chil-
dren, — Timothy, who married Mary Bowers of Billerica ;
Elizabeth, born Sept. 1, 1719, who married Nehemiah Wy-
man, December, 1742. Married Jane Belknap for second
wife, Feb. 18, 1730. Children, — Ruth, born Aug. 6, 1732,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 97

married a Reed, and went to Maine ; Joseph, July 3,
1734 ; Jerusha, Aug. 4, 1740, who married Jonathan
Burnham, Sept. 27, 1744. The elder Timothy died in
1752, aged sixty-five.

4. Timothy, son of Timothy and Elizabeth, married Mary
Bowers. Child, — Timothy, born Dec. 20, 1740. The
father died March 3, 1800.

5. Timothy, son of Timothy and Mary, born at Woburn,
Dec. 20, 1740 ; married Sarah Reed, Jan. 23, 1766. Child,

— Jonathan. Married Mary Bridge of Chelmsford for
second wife. Children, — Timothy, born Sept. 20, 1773,
and married Rebecca Delano ; Ebenezer Bridge, Nov. 13,
1777; Jonathan B., Dec. 8, 17.80 ; William, Feb. 14, 1784.

6. Timothy, son of Timothy and Mary, born at Woburn,
Sept. 20, 1773 ; married Rebecca Delano. Child, — Mary,
born June 8, 1775, and married Luke Reed, March 29,
1801.

6. Ebenezer, son of Timothy and Mary, born at Woburn,
Nov. 13, 1777 ; married Elizabeth Wheat of Burlington.

6. Jonathan B., son of Timothy and Mary, born at Wo-
burn, Dec. 8, 1780 ; married Mary Adams of Westford.

6. William, son of Timothy and Mary, born at Woburn,
Feb. 14, 1784 ; married Rebecca Walker, daughter of Ed-
ward and Abigail (Reed) Walker, Aug. 29, 1805. Children,

— William, born April 8, 1809 ; Jonathan Bowers, Aug. 24,
1811 ; Abigail, Sept. 6, 1814, who married Jonas Hale ;
Timothy, born Sept. 25, 1817. His wife died May 11, 1826.
He married Mary Cutler, for second wife, Dec. 21, 1826.
Child, — Lavinia, born Nov. 4, 1827; who married Rev.
Daniel Winn, pastor of the second Baptist Church of Salem,
Mass. He was a distinguished man in town-business ; was
a justice of the peace, and a colonel. He died at Woburn,
April 13, 1856.

7. William, son of William and Abigail, born at Burling-

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98 WILLIAM READB OP WOBUBN,

ton, April 8, 1809 ; married Abigail Parker, April 8, 1834,
and lives on the old farm, in what is now Burlington, near
the line of Woburn.

7. Jonathan Bowers, son of William and Abigail, born at
Burlington, Aug. 24, 1811 ; married Nancy W. Cummings
of Woburn. Children, — Maria Ann, born at Woburn,
Aug. 25, 1836 ; Charles Bowers, May 15, 1838. Jonathan
B. lives in Woburn, but is an extensive dealer in leather, in
Boston.

7. Timothy, son of William and Abigail, born at Bur-
lington, Sept. 25, 1817 ; married Abigail M. Kendall.

4. Joseph, son of Timothy and Jane, born at Woburn,
July 3, 1734; married Betty Pool of Lynn. Children, —
Betsy, Abel, Joseph, George.

Joseph, son of Joseph and Betty, moved to Salem, and
became distinguished in town and county affairs. He was
a county commissioner several years.

Abel, son of Joseph and Betty. Children, — Betsy, Abel,
Joseph, George, Mary. He was an enterprising and wealthy
man ; was a justice of the peace, <fec. ; and, for many years,
he supplied the State's Prison with vegetables. His farm
is now occupied by his sons Abel and George, and is so
located, that when Woburn Precinct was set off in 1790
as a town, by the name of Burlington, it left a portion of the
farm in both towns ; and though Abel and George live only
a few rods apart, yet the town-line runs between them.

2. Abigail, daughter of William and Mabel, married
Francis Wyman of Woburn, Oct. 2, 1650. Children, —
Judith, born Sept. 29, 1652, died Dec. 29, 1652 ; Francis,
born 1654, died April 26, 1676 ; William, born 1656, died
1705 ; Abigail, who married Stephen Richardson, Jan. 2,
1675, died Sept. 17, 1720 ; Timothy, born Sept. 15, 1661,
died 1709 ; Joseph, born Nov. 9, 1663, died July 24, 1714 ;
Nathaniel, born Nov. 25, 1665 ; Samuel, Nov. 29, 1667 ;

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 99

Thomas, April 1, 1671 ; Benjamin, Aug. 25, 1674 ; Stephen,
June 2,1676; Judith, Jan. 15, 1679, married Nathaniel
Bacon.

3. William, sou of Francis Wyman and Abigail Reed,
born at Woburn about 1656 ; married Prudence, daughter
of Thomas Putnam. He died in 1705. Children, — Wil-
liam, born Jan. 18, 1683 ; Prudence, Dec. 26, 1683, married
Jacob Winn, jun., June 28, 1704; William, born Jan. 15,
1685, — his posterity live in Charlestown ; Thomas, born
Aug. 23, 1687, settled in Pelham, N.H. ; Elizabeth, born
July 5, 1689, died June 25, 1690 ; Francis, born July 10,
1691, settled in Maine; Joshua, born Jan. 3, 1693, — poste-
rity in Roxbury, and Keene, N.H. ; daughter, died 1694 ;
Edward, of Pelham, N.H., born Jan. 19, 1696, — posterity
in Cambridge, and Cornish, N.H. ; Elizabeth, born Feb. 16,
1697 ; Deliverence, Feb. 28, 1700, married Ezekiel Gowen,
jun., of Lynn, Jan. 1, 1732 ; James, born March 16, 1702,
settled in Maine.

3. Timothy, son of Francis and Abigail, born at Woburn,
Sept. 15, 1661 ; married Hannah Wyman. Children, —
Hannah, born July 7, 1688 ; Timothy, April 5, 1691 ; Solo-
mon, Oct. 24, 1693 ; Joseph, Nov. 1, 1695 ; Eunice, Feb. 24,
1697, married Henry Tottingham, Sept. 7, 1771 ; Ann,
born March 26, 1700 ; Judith, married John Wright of
Ashford, Conn., March 23, 1725 ; Eli, born March 11,
1704, died Aug. 22, 1728 ; Ebenezer, born March 21, 1706,
settled in Townsend, — his descendants in Maine; Hester;
Elizabeth ; Prudence, born March 8, 1709, married Thomas
Phelps.

3. Nathaniel, son of Francis and Abigail, born at Woburn,
Nov. 25, 1665 ; married Mary Winn ; and his widow mar-
ried John Locke, Nov. 30, 1720. Children, — Nathaniel,
born May 23, 1693, died Dec. 13, 1715 ; Mary, born May 28,
1694, died about May 23, 1763, insane; Abigail, born Oct. 5,

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1695, married Benjamin Gowen ; Ruth, born April 17,
1697, married Thomas Gould of Charlestown, Aug. 1, 1721 ;
Hannah, born April 23, 1699, married Timothy Wyman ;
Eliza, born Nov. 11, 1700, married John Geary of Charles-
town ; Phebe, bom June 11, 1702, married Thomas Geary of
Stoneham ; Rebecca, born April 14, 1704, married Thomas
Holden, March 7, 1723 ; Joanna, born July 25, 1705, mar-
ried Jonathan Holden, Dec. 30, 1731 ; Increase, born
March 1, 1707 ; Sarah, Aug. 21, 1710, married Ezekiel
Walker, July 6, 1732 ; Keziah, born April 5, 1713, married
John Reed, Dec. 9, 1735, died Jan. 14, 1756.

3. Samuel, son of Francis and Abigail, born at Woburn,
Nov. 29, 1667 ; married Rebecca, daughter of Mathew John-
son, in 1692. Children, — Rebecca, born Nov. 11, 1693,
married Thomas Richardson of Woburn, Sept. 29, 1713 ;
Abigail, born Feb. 5, 1695, married Jonathan Richardson of
Woburn ; Hannah, born Dec. 10, 1696, married Samuel
Parker, May 10, 1725 ; Sarah, born Feb. 2, 1698, married
John Coggin, Aug. 31, 1726, died May 22, 1732; Samuel,
born March 18, 1700, — posterity in Boston ; Oliver, born
Sept. 5, 1701, settled in Leominster ; Lydia, born Jan. 1,
1703, married Oliver Richardson of Woburn, July 24, 1729,
died Oct. 26, 1754 ; Patience, born Jan. 11, 1705, married
Edward Deane, May 1, 1740, died June 15, 1741 ; Matthew,
born Aug. 3, 1707, settled in Lancaster ; Esther, born
Feb. 25, 1709.

3. Thomas, son of Francis and Abigail, born at Woburn,
April 1, 1671 ; married Mary, daughter of Nathaniel Rich-
ardson, May 5, 1696 ; died Sept. 4, 1731. His widow mar-
ried Josiah Winn of Woburn, Aug. 17, 1733, and died
June 7, 1743. Children, — Thomas, born May 12, 1697;
Josiah, March 18, 1700 ; Phineas, 1701 ; Timothy, March 1,
1702 ; Benjamin, June 12, 1704 ; John, July 6, 1706, died
March 26, 1739 ; Mary, born March 10, 1708, married Na-

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thaniel Clark of Watertown, June 13, 1726 ; Aaron, born
Dec. 6, 1709 ; Eleazer, April 13, 1712 ; Nathaniel, May 18,
1716 ; Elizabeth, Dec. 19, 1718, married a Blodget.

3. Benjamin, son of Francis and Abigail, born Aug. 25,
1674 ; married Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel Hancock
of Cambridge. She married, for second husband, Jonathan
Bacon of Bedford, Aug. 22, 1739 ; died at Medford, March
2 or 3, 1749. Stephen, born June 2, 1676, died Aug. 19,
1676 ; Judith, Jan. 15, 1679, married Nathaniel Bacon.
Children, — Elizabeth, born May 1, 1705, married Jacob
Richardson, June 11, 1724, died Oct. 20, 1749 ; Benjamin,
born Nov. 13 or Dec. 17, 1706, settled in Woburn, — his poste-
rity live in Lexington, Cambridge, and New York ; Lucy, born
April 17, 1708, married Nathaniel Davenport of Shrewsbury
in 1729, and died Oct. 25, 1730 ; Zebediah, born June 21,

1709, — descendants in Cambridge; Eunice, born Nov. 16,

1710, married Robert Pierce, Oct. 28, 1736, died May 5,
1774 ; Jerusha, born July 23, 1712, married Edward
Richardson, Feb. 24 or April 14, 1730, died April 10,
1784 ; Tabitha, born April 7, 1714, married Josiah Kendall,
March 17, 1736, died April 24, 1800 ; Abijah, born Sept. 20,
1717, settled in Lancaster ; Catherine, born May 6, 1717,
married William Tufts of Medford, Feb. 28, 1732, died Feb.
20, 1749 ; Nathaniel, born Jan. 26, 1719, settled in Lan-
caster ; Abigail, born Aug. 26, 1720, married Jacob Snow,
April 8, 1740, died Oct. 31, 1771 ; Martha, born May 7,
1722, married Samuel Deane, Sept. 6, 1739 ; Noah, born
July 30, 1724, died Dec. 10, 1726 ; Jonas, born July 26,
1725, died Jan. 20, 1746, — was a soldier at Lewisburg ;
Reuben, born Nov. 9, 1726, settled in Wilmington ; descend-
ants in Concord, N.H.

3. William, son of Ralph, born 1658 ; married Elizabeth
Pierce. Children, — William, born Aug. 23, 1682 ; Mary,
March 12, 1685 ; Elizabeth, Feb. 23, 1686. The elder Wil-

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liam was accidentally shot by his brother Timothy, Nov. 7,
1688. His widow married John Cutler, Oct. 14, 1694.

3. David, son of Ralph, married Susanna Johnson, June 6,
1704, and settled first in Watertown.

4. William, son of William and Elizabeth, born in Woburn,
Aug. 23, 1682 ; married Abial, in Lexington. Child, —
William, born at Lexington, Dec. 7, 1714, and settled in
Westborough. He married Sarah Wood, in Acton, May 28,
1740.

3. Timothy, son of Ralph, born Feb. 14, 1664 ; married
Martha Boydon, Dec. 27, 1688. Children, — Martha, born
March 1, 1669 ; Timothy, June 11, 1692 ; William, Oct. 5,
1694 ; Benjamin, Jan. 31, 1698 ; Jonathan, Dec. 15, 1701 ;
Elizabeth, Dec. 1, 1706. He sold his farm, in 1719, to his
nephew, Joseph Whittemore : it was the farm for many
years owned by the Pierces, adjoining that formerly owned
by the first William, and afterwards by Ralph.

4. Timothy, son of Timothy and Martha, born June 11,
1692; married Mary. Children, — John, born April 11,
1722 ; Mary, Aug. 12, 1717 ; George, Sept. 26, 1725.
Timothy lived in Charlestown ; married, for second wife,
Abigail Frothingham, Jan. 11, 1753.

4. William, son of Timothy and Martha, born Oct. 5,
1694 ; married Elizabeth Edes, Dec. 15, 1724. Children,—
William, born Nov. 6, 1727, in Charlestown ; Elizabeth,
Jan. 23, 1728. Married, for second wife, Anne, daughter
of John Mousell and widow of Edward Newell, Feb. 18,
1731 ; divorced in 1736. He was a seaman.

5. William, son of William and Elizabeth, married Han-
nah Lothrop, March 28, 1750, and settled in Charlestown.
Child, — William C, born in 1757 ; and died at Salem,
March 15, 1852, aged ninety-five.

4. Benjamin, son of Timothy and Martha, born Jan. 31,
1698 ; married Elizabeth Edes, Nov. 4, 1720. Children, —

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 103

Abigail, born Dec. 21, 1723 ; Elizabeth, Jan. 8, 1724 ; Sa-
rah, Feb. 17, 1725 ; Mary, June 24, 1728 ; Benjamin, Feb. 5,
1733; Hannah, May 31, 1736; Susanna, Feb. 6, 1738;
John, Sept. 10, 1745. The elder Benjamin lived in Charles-
town.

5. Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth, born Feb. 5,
1733 ; married Martha Pitman. Children, — Benjamin,
born 1785 ; Margaret Daniels ; Martha ; Mary ; Simmons ;
Thomas.

6. Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Martha, born 1785 ;
married Sebra Wellington of Charlestown. Children, —
Benjamin B., who lives in Chelsea ; Martha, who married
Mr. Chesman, and lives at South Salem ; Henry J., mar-
ried three wives, — the first was Martha J. May ; second,
Eliza Moulton ; third, Mary White. He died in Salem,
Jan. 20, 1851 : Sebra, his wife, died Oct. 6, 1847, aged
sixty-three.

7. Thomas, son of Benjamin and Martha, born 1797 ;
married Mary Brinley, Oct. 31, 1819. Children, — Debo-
rah, born Sept. 29, 1823, married Benjamin Lomden ; John
Brinley, born Sept. 25, 1825 ; Thomas Lyons, Aug. 22,
1827 ; Mary E., born Jan. 20, 1831, married Andrew
P. Wood ; Richard, born July 31, 1834 ; Eliza Bryant,
Sept. 15, 1835. He lived in Salem, and died Oct. 2, 1846.
His widow, and son Richard, live at No. 13, Warren Street,
Salem.

7. Benjamin B., son of Benjamin and Sebra, born in
Salem, Aug. 7, 1804 ; married Emeline Harrington of Lex-
ington, Nov. 15, 1832. Child, — Emeline H., born Dec. 14,
1837, in Chelsea. He followed the sea for many years, and
was a shipmaster ; but is now superintendent of the Chelsea
Ferry.

7. Henry J., son of Benjamin and Sebra, lives in Glouces-
ter, N. J.

104 WILLIAM READE OP WOBURN,

8. Thomas L., son of Thomas and Mary, born Aug. 22,
1827 ; married Harriet "Woodbury, March 15, 1849. His
wife died Aug. 22, 1851. Married, for second wife, Phebe
Irons, Oct. 16, 1854: she died in Providence, Sept. 8, 1857.
Children, — Thomas Sidney ; Franklin W. Thomas lives in
Providence, R.I.

8. John B., son of Thomas and Mary, born Sept. 25,
1825 ; married Betsy Robinson. Children, — Charles
Albert, born April 15, 1850 ; John Franklin, Aug. 23,
1851 ; Georgianna Hale, Jan. 11, 1853 ; Benjamin R.,
Sept. 6, 1854 ; Thomas Edgar, April 23, 1856 ; Richard
Lyons, June 3, 1858.

3. Elizabeth, daughter of George and Elizabeth of Woburn,
and grand-daughter of William and Maybal, born July 26,
1653 ; married Daniel Fiske of Watertown. Mr. Fiske was
a land-surveyor, and did much in laying out townships, &c.
He was of the Lexington stock of Fiskes, who were relatives
of Rev. John Fiske of Chelmsford.

3. Samuel, son of George and Elizabeth, born April 29,
1656 ; married Elizabeth Mousall of Charlestown, April 19,
1679. Children, — Elizabeth, born April 3,1687, married
Ebenezer Houlding, Feb. 5, 1712 ; Samuel, born July 16,
1688 ; James ; Abigail, Jan. 10, 1682 ; Mary, Nov. 29, 1697,
baptized at Cambridge, Dec. 5, 1697. He lived in Cam-
bridge, and was a practising physician in Cambridge and
Boston. He served in King Philip's war, and was wounded.
Mr. Mousall, his father-in-law, gave him a part of his
homestead, by deed, bearing date Feb. 2, 1681 ; on which
he lived the latter part of his life. This homestead was
situated on the back-side of Winter Hill, on the road to
Medford. On a stone in the burying-ground in Charles-
town is inscribed, " Mrs. Elizabeth Read, relict of Dr.
Samuel Read, died March 12, 1728, in the seventieth year
of her age." The town-records have it July 15, 1729.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 105

3. George, son of George and Elizabeth, born Sept. 14,
1660 ; married Abigail Pierce, Feb. 18, 1684. Children, —
Abigail, born Feb. 6, 1685, and married Capt. Samuel
Stone ; William, who died Dec. 9, 1728 ; Ebenezer, March 6,
1690 ; he also had a daughter, who married Timothy
Walker of Charlestown ; another daughter, who married
Jacob Kendall of Dunstable ; and another, who married Sa-
muel Walker of Woburn ; also Elizabeth, born June 14, 1700,
who married Deacon Christopher Paige of Billerica, May 23,
1719. He lived about fifty rods from where Deacon Nathan
Blanchard now lives in Burlington, and was the first deacon
of the church in what was formerly Woburn Precinct. A
silver cup now in use by that church at its communion
service was presented by him a hundred and fifty years
ago. His wife died Sept. 9, 1719 ; and he married Sybil
Rice of Sudbury for his second wife, May 24, 1721. She was
widow of Isaac Rice : her maiden name was Collins. He
died Jan. 20, 1756, aged ninety-six ; and his gravestone is
to be seen in the south-westerly quarter of the old burying-
ground in Woburn.

4. Capt. Samuel Stone, and Abigail Read, daughter of
Deacon George, went to Sudbury, and with Jonathan Fiske,
who married a cousin to Abigail, settled on Pelham's Island,
now a part of Wayland. She died at the age of eighty
years.

4. Ebenezer, son of Deacon George and Abigail, born
March 6, 1690; married Huldah. Children, — Ebenezer,
born Sept. 26, 1715; Huldah, June 11, 1717; Nathan,
June 3, 1719; Abigail, April 3, 1721; Eliphas, Feb. 11,
1726 ; George, Dec. 29, 1722, died March 20, 1804, aged
eighty-one. George, the father, gave Ebenezer a deed of
his farm, Dec. 11, 1722 ; and his sisters and brothers-in-law
gave him a quit-claim deed. Ebenezer died at Woburn,
July 9, 1767.

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106 WILLIAM BEADE OF WOBURN,

5. Eliplias, son of Ebenezer and Huldah, born Feb. 11,
1725 ; married Elizabeth Perry in 1747. Child, — Judith,
born June 6, 1748. His wife died Sept. 19, 1752. Married
Sarah Newell of Lexington, May 24, 1753. Children, —
Eliphas, born Aug. 28, 1752 ; Newell, Feb. 10, 1754 ; Sarah,
Dec. 12, 1755, married Ebenezer Wood ; Joel, born 1757 ;
Ward, who served in the Revolution, and afterwards went
to Maine, and was a pensioner ; Reuben, born March 8,
1760. Eliphas was in the Revolutionary War, and was
a prisoner at Quebec, Dec. 31, 1775.

6. Newell, son of Eliphas, born Feb. 10, 1754 ; married
Mary Harrington of Lexington, Oct. 16, 1776. Children,
— Joel, born May 13, 1777 ; Newell, April 5, 1783 ; Nathan,
Feb. 18, 1786 ; Orlando, Nov. 24, 1793 ; Abigail, Nov. 21,
1795 ; Polly, April 4, 1799 ; Lorenda ; Daniel. He enlisted,
in 1776, in Capt. Walker's company, of Woburn Precinct,
for eight months. He died at Burlington, April 12, 1831.

7. Newell, son of Newell and Mary, born April 5, 1783 ;
married Sarah Flood, May 27, 1808. Children, — Joel,
born Feb. 27, 1813 ; Charles, Oct. 14, 1818 ; Newell, Jan. 19,
1825 ; Nathan ; Jacob. Newell died in Bedford, April 8,
1855. His three youngest sons live in Bedford.

7. Daniel, son of Newell and Mary, married Betsy. Chil-
dren,— William, who lives in North Woburn ; Augusta, who
married Prescott Barrett of Woburn ; Hiram, who died of con-
sumption in Woburn, Oct. 3, 1849, aged twenty-nine years and
seven months. Daniel moved from Burlington to Oakham.

5. George, son of Ebenezer and Huldah, born Dec. 29,
1722; married Mary Wood, March 26, 1746. Children,—
Mary, born Jan. 19, 1745 ; Kesiah, Nov. 16, 1746 ; George,
Jan. 7, 1749, killed in Lexington Fight ; Ebenezer, born
Nov. 29, 1751; Simon, Feb. 10, 1754; Jonas, April 15,
1758 ; Ruth, July 31, 1760. George died March 20, 1804,
aged eighty-one.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 107

fa'. Kesiah, daughter of George, married Joel Reed, her
cousin-german, Nov. 15, 1787 ; and settled in Washing-
ton, N.H.

6. Jonas, son of George and Mary, born April 15, 1758 ;
married Rhoda Johnson, July 2, 1778. Children, — Rhoda,
born April 18, 1779 ; Jonas, June 27, 1781 ; Benjamin,
Feb. 24, 1784 ; Patty, July 28, 1790 ; Nancy, June 7, 1794.

6. Simon, son of George and Mary, born at Woburn,
Feb. 10, 1754; married Esther. Children, — George, born
Oct. 11, 1780 ; Lucy, Aug. 27, 1784 ; William, Feb. 20, 1788,
graduated at Harvard College, and died of consumption in
Burlington, June 25, 1812.

6. Ebenezer, son of George and Mary, born Nov. 29, 1751 ;
married Ruth Snow, June 23, 1777. Married Anna for
second wife. Children, — Anna, born Feb. 28, 1781; Ebe-
nezer, March 1, 1782. The elder Ebenezer bought the Snow
Place at North Woburn, the homestead of his first wife's
father, and lived upon it. He died Jan. 1, 1825.

7. Ebenezer, son of Ebenezer and Anna, born March 1,
1782 ; married Eleanor. Children, — Elleanor, born Sept. 8,
1824 ; James, April 8, 1825 ; George.

6. Joel, son of Eliphas and Sarah, born Jan. 18, 1757 ;
married his cousin Kersia, daughter of George Reed, Nov. 14,
1787, and moved to Washington, N.H. Children, — Kesiah,
Asa, Mary, Sally, Olive. He was in the battle of Bunker
Hill, and her father was also in the same battle ; and her
brother George had been killed, in Lexington Fight, on the
19th of April previous. Joel died March 19, 1830 : his wife
died July 4, 1845.

7. Asa, son of Joel and Kesiah, married Sarah Davis ;
settled in Stoddard, N.H. ; and died May 13, 1830. Child,
— George D., who, with his mother, lives at No. 74, Andover
Street, Boston.

5. Nathan, son of Ebenezer and Huldah, born at Woburn,

108 WILLIAM READE OF WOBURN,

June 3, 1719; married Susanna. Children, — Nathan, born
at Woburn, July 14, 1744 ; Susanna, Dec. 4, 1745.

Abigail, daughter of Deacon George and Abigail, born in
Woburn, Feb. 6, 1685 ; married Capt. Samuel Stone, and
settled on Pelham's Island in Sudbury. He was one of the
original proprietors of Rutland ; he and his sons owning
nine hundred acres of land in that township. Children, —
Samuel, Nathan, Jonas, Isaac. They returned from Sud-
bury to Lexington, and died on the old Stone Farm, near
the line of Lexington and Lincoln.

Samuel, sou of Abigail Reed and Samuel Stone, settled
on land set off to the right of his father in Rutland, which
was lot No. 25 in the first division. He was one of the first
settlers of Rutland. Married Mindwell Stevens, Oct. 20,
1732. Children, — Esther, born in 1733, married John
Bryant; Samuel, born in 1736; Isaac, 1739, died in the
French War ; Mindwell, born in 1742 ; Stevens, 1744 ;
second Stevens, 1746 ; Elijah, 1749. Samuel, the elder,
died in the Revolutionary War.

Samuel, son of Samuel Stone and Mindwell, born at
Rutland in 1736 ; married Patience Atherton, 1756. Child,
— Samuel. His wife died of small-pox in 1756. Married,
for second wife, Dorothy Fletcher in 1761. Children, —
Thomas, born 1762 ; Dorothy, 1764 ; Alpheus F. F., 1767 ;
Abigail, 1769 ; Susanna, 1772. The elder Samuel died
Dec. 10, 1775.

Second Stevens, son of Samuel and Mindwell, born in
1746; married Mercy Munroe, Aug. 30, 1770. Child, —
Elijah, born at Rutland, April 18, 1771, who married Eunice
Savage.

Nathan, son of Capt. Samuel Stone and Abigail Reed,
married Mary. Children, — Mary, born in 1741; Thank-
ful, 1743 ; Nathan, 1746 ; Jeduthan, 1748 ; Lois, 1752 ;
Rebecca, 1756. Mary married Edward Rice, May 10, 1758 ;

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 109

Thankful married Isaac Savage in 1766 ; Nathan married
Preelove Phillips in 1768 ; Lois married Eli Clark in 1770 ;
Jeduthan married Elizabeth Howe in 1773 ; Eebecca mar-
ried Thomas Hunt in 1775. They were prominent and
useful members in society.

Jonas, son of Capt. Samuel Stone and Abigail Reed, lived
on a portion of the old lot No. 25 in Rutland ; was a promi-
nent man in town and church. Married Elizabeth. Chil-
dren,— Elizabeth, born in 1733; Deborah, 1736; Jonas,
1741; Lucy, 1743 ; Hannah, 1746; Zeruiah, 1749. Jonas
moved back to Lexington in 1751.

Isaac, son of Capt. Samuel Stone and Abigail Reed, mar-
ried Martha, and settled in Rutland. Children, — Abner,
born in 1748; Patty, 1751, — these two were born in Lex-
ington ; Isaac, boru in Rutland in 1753 ; Abigail, 1755 ;
Alpheus, 1757. Isaac built and kept a public-house in Rut-
land, and the same stand has been occupied as such ever
since ; it being lot No. 61, granted to the first settled mini-
ster, and garrisoned for Rev. Mr. Willard. He removed from
Rutland to Oakham ; and his daughter Patty married Rev.
John Strickland, the first minister of Oakham.

4. Elizabeth, daughter of Deacon George and Abigail,
born June 14, 1700 ; married Christopher Paige, son of Na-
thaniel and Joanna, of that part of Billerica which is now
Bedford, May 23, 1720 ; settled in Hardwick in 1734 or 5,
where Mr. Paige was selectman seven years, and the first
deacon of the church in Hardwick at its organization in
1736. Children, — Christopher, born June 11, 1721; Wil-
liam, May 2, 1723 ; George, June 17, 1725 ; Timothy,
May 24, 1727 ; Jonas, Sept. 19, 1729 ; Elizabeth, Oct. 3,
1731 ; Lucy, Feb. 22, 1734 ; Nathaniel, May 18, 1736 ;
John, July 6, 1738 ; Elizabeth, June 7, 1743. Deacon
Paige died March 10, 1774, aged eighty-three. Elizabeth,
liis widow, died in 1786, aged eighty-six.

110 WILLIAM EEADE OP WOBURN,

5. Christopher, son of Deacon Christopher and Elizabeth
Keed, born June 11, 1721 ; married Rebecca Haskell of
Rochester in 1739, when he was eighteen years of age.
Child, — Christopher, who settled in Swansey, N.H., and
had a numerous family. He died Dec. 3, 1772.

5. William, son of Deacon Christopher and Elizabeth, born
May 2, 1723 ; married Mercy Aiken, Jan. 11, 1744. Chil-
dren,— William, born May 5, 1745 ; James, Sept. 19, 1747;
Rebecca, Oct. 8, 1749 ; Jesse, March 4, 1752 ; Mercy, May 18,
1754 ; Lucy, March 19, 1757 ; Christopher, June 12, 1762.
He succeeded his father in the office of deacon of the church
in Hardwick, and was captain in the French War ; was
selectman ten years ; was delegate to the Provincial Con-
gress in 1775, and delegate to the Constitutional Convention
in 1779 ; representative fonr years. He died Feb. 14,
1790: his wife died Feb. 19, 1823, aged a hundred and
two years.

6. William, son of William and Mercy, born May 5, 1745 ;
married Mercy Raymond, Oct. 6, 1768. He was deacon
of the church in Ware ; where he died June 23, 1826,
leaving posterity.

6. James, son of William and Mercy, born Sept. 19, 1747 ;
married Thankful Raymond, Oct. 6, 1768. Children, —
Ralph, born Aug. 21, 1769 ; Charles, Oct. 16, 1771 ; James,
Oct. 14, 1773 ; Nathaniel, April 14, 1776 ; Benjamin,
July 24, 1778 ; Lucinda, July 28, 1780 ; Mercy, Nov. 12,
1786 ; Ira, June 17, 1789. He was a major of militia and
a selectman. Married, for second wife, Widow Mary Lawton,
sister of his first wife, March 22, 1807 ; and died in Hard-
wick, Feb. 18, 1818.

7. Ralph, son of James and Thankful, born Aug. 21,
1769 ; lived in Rutland, Vt. ; was a justice of the peace;
and died Aug. 20, 1857, leaving posterity.

7. Charles, son of James and Thankful, born Oct. 16,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. Ill

1771 ; lived in Hardwick, where he died April 21, 1853.
His son, Elbridge Gerry, was one of the editors of the " New-
York Sunday Mercury," and known as " Dow, jun."

6. Rebecca, daughter of Deacon William, born Oct. 8,
1749 ; married John Foster, Oct. 6, 1768. Child, — James,
who was a clergyman in the State of New York. She was
married the same day with her two elder brothers ; and the
wives of her two brothers were sisters.

6. Jesse, son of Deacon William, born March 4, 1752 ;
married Mary Breckenridge of Ware in 1780, and lived
in Hardwick, where he died July 3, 1818. Children,

— Francis, Mary, Christopher, Nancy, Sally, Jesse, Ha-
dassali.

6. Mercy, daughter of Deacon William, born May 18,
1754 ; married Nathaniel Graves of Athol, May 29, 1777 ;
and died at an advanced age, leaving children.

6. Lucy, daughter of Deacon William, born March 19,
1757 ; married Daniel Ruggles, Esq., of Hardwick, Dec. 30,
1779; and died Aug. 3, 1840. Children, — Gardner, born
Feb. 16, 1782, was a major of militia and a representative,

— he was thrown from a wagon, and killed, Aug. 5, 1853
(his son Daniel is a brevet-colonel in the United-States
Army); Anson, born Dec. 17, 1783 ; Franklin, March 21,
1786 ; Mercy, April 26, 1788, died Oct. 9, 1802 ; Lucy,
born April 5, 1791 ; Crighton, June 10, 1793 ; Alma,
July 22, 1795; Luthera, Jan. 4, 1798.

6. Christopher, son of Deacon William, born June 12,
1762 ; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1784 ; was a
clergyman, and settled in Pittsfield, N.H. ; afterwards in
Roxbury, N.H. He married the widow of Rev. Elijah Flet-
cher of Hopkinton, one of whose daughters was the first
wife of Daniel Webster. Children, — Elijah F., graduated
at Harvard College 1810, and died in Virginia in 1817 ;,
James W., an eminent merchant in Boston ; Christopher,

112 WILLIAM EEADE OF WOBURN,

who lives in Nashua, N.H. ; Nancy, who died unmarried.
He died at Salisbury, Oct. 12, 1822.

5. George, son of Deacon Christopher Paige and Elizabeth
Reed, born June 17, 1725 ; married Rosilla Whitcomb,
June 4, 1752. Children, — Nathaniel, born Jan. 11, 1754,
moved to Vermont ; Asa, Jan. 25, 1756 ; George, March 9,
1758 ; Ehoda, Oct. 5, 1760 ; Nathan, Aug. 7, 1762, moved
to Vermont ; Paul, Feb. 12, 1765 ; Pierce, July 16, 1768 ;
Anne, July 23, 1771. He died at Hardwick, May 8, 1781 :
his wife died Oct. 29, 1807.

5. Timothy, son of Deacon Christopher and Elizabeth,
born May 24, 1727 ; married Mary Foster of Rochester,
Oct. 24, 1754. Children, — Lydia, born Sept. 15, 1755;
Timothy, Feb. 16, 1757 ; Mary, Oct. 19, 1759 ; Foster,
Aug. 29, 1761 ; Reed, Aug. 30, 1764 ; Moses, Dec. 12,
1765, died Dec. 28, 1765 ; Moses, born Feb. 19, 1767 ;
Rebecca, Nov. 28, 1768 ; Thomas, Nov. 7, 1770, died
Nov. 21, 1770 ; Thomas, born April 20, 1772 ; George
Washington, Aug. 24, 1775. He was a captain in the
Revolutionary War, and colonel in the government forces
raised to suppress Shay's Rebellion ; was selectman, town-
treasurer, and representative. Died at Hardwick, Aug.
26, 1791 : his widow died July 21, 1825, aged ninety-three
years.

6. Lydia, daughter of Timothy and Mary, born Sept. 15,
1755 ; married Deacon Thomas Fuller, Nov. 26, 1778 ; set-
tled at Hardwick, Vt. ; and died July 8, 1810.

7. Martin, son of Thomas and Lydia, born June 6, 1780 ;
married Letitia Duncan of Hancock, N.H. Children, —
Thomas J. D., born March, 1808, — a lawyer in Calais, Me.,
and a member of Congress ; Lydia, July 2, 1810, married
Rev. Mr. Stone of Cabot, Vt., — died Dec. 8, 1844 ; Mary,
Jan. 13, 1812 ; Hiram, Oct. 22, resides in Hancock, N.H.

7. Thomas, son of Thomas and Lydia, born March 24,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 113

1782 ; married Sally House of Bennington, Vt., Dec. 31,
1809, and settled in Enosburg, Vt. ; but recently removed
to Boston. Children, — Cordelia Hannah Lydia, born
Dec. 27, 1810, who married Hon. Horace Eaton, late Gover-
nor of Vermont, and died Feb. 7, 1841 ; Thomas H., born
March 13, 1815, — a merchant in Boston ; Charles Edwin,
June 8, 1817, died Sept. 13, 1835 ; Martin Kimball, born
April 21, 1823, died Aug. 24, 1838 ; Mary C, born Oct. 22,
1824, died Nov. 16, 1847 ; Sarah Emery, born July 15, 1826,
died July 26, 1845 ; Martha Rebecca, born March 24, 1828,
married A. P. Chandler of Boston ; Frances Maria, born
Feb. 19, 1831, died Feb. 6, 1852.

7. Lydia, daughter of Thomas and Lydia, born June 6,
1784 ; married Daniel Weld of Berkshire, Vt. ; and had John
Fuller, born in Berkshire. They moved to Cornish, and had
Daniel, Moses, Eben, Martin, and Charles.

7. Malinda, daughter of Thomas and Lydia, born Feb. 3,
1787 ; married Charles Steams of Enosburg, Vt. ; and had
seven children, names not given.

7. Timothy Paige, son of Thomas and Lydia, born March
30, 1790 ; married Rebecca Duncan of Hancock, N.H.,
Nov. 14, 1816 ; and died July 21, 1854. He lived in
Bakersfield, Vt. ; was Judge of the County Court.

7. Austin, son of Thomas and Lydia, born April 13,
1792 ; married Betsy Maynard of Bakersfield, where he re-
sides, and was Judge of the County Court.

7. Francis E., son of Thomas and Lydia, born March 20,
1794 ; married Martha Worcester of Hollis, N.H., Sept. 30,
1819 ; and married her sister Hannah for second wife,
Oct. 17, 1825. Children, — Samuel Worcester, bom April
25, 1822 ; Martha Worcester, March 22, 1824.

7. Rebecca Paige, daughter of Thomas and Lydia, born
April 29, 1796 ; married Alvan House at Hardwick, Vt.,
and had seven children. Lives at Enosburg.

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114 WILLIAM READE OP WOBURN,

7. John Washington, son of Thomas and Lydia, born
Jan. 4, 1799 ; and died Aug. 15, 1803.

6. Timothy, son of Timothy and Mary, born Feb. 16,
1757 ; married Mary Robinson of Hardwick, Jan. 20, 1780.
Children, — Mary, born Oct. 28, 1780; Sophia, Oct. 31,
1782; Stephen West, May 3, 1785; Timothy, March 6,
1788 ; Martin, Sept. 27, 1791 ; Cyrus, April 7, 1794, died
Jan. 16, 1796 ; Rebecca, born Aug. 27, 1796, died March 30,
1821 ; Cyrus, born Sept. 16, 1799, died June 28, 1803 ;
Lucius Robinson, born March 8, 1802. He was a captain
of cadets, a justice of the peace and quorum, selectman
eighteen years, assessor twenty-four years, a delegate to the
State Convention in 1820, and representative to the Legisla-
ture seventeen years. He died Oct. 29, 1821 : his widow
died March 29, 1836.

7. Mary, daughter of Timothy and Mary, born Oct. 28,
1780 ; married Col. Thomas Wheeler of Hardwick, Feb. 14,
1805 ; and moved to Ticonderoga, N.Y., in 1819, where she
died Sept. 18, 1828. Children, — Ann Dexter, born Dec. 3,
1805, died Jan. 25, 1816 ; Thomas A., Nov. 7, 1808, died
April 15, 1811 ; Charlotte Sophia, May 8, 1811, who married
a Bennett, and lives in New-York State ; Mary Emeline,
June 21, 1813, married Thomas R. Green of Belchertown,
and died Feb. 20, 1843 ; Rebecca Ann, March 6, 1816, who
married Lyman Burrill of Dunkirk, N.Y., and died June 10,
1853 ; Eliza Jane, April 15, 1819, who married Rev. Stephen
Lovell of Boston, died March 4, 1848 ; Juliet Elvira, Sept. 10,
1821, died July, 1840.

7. Stephen West, son of Timothy and Mary, born May 3,
1785 ; married Lucy, daughter of Daniel Ruggles, Esq.,
Oct. 26, 1809, and lives in Hardwick. Has been representa-
tive, and justice of the peace. Children, — Adeline, born
March 20, 1811, who married Capt. Walter Mantlell, Jan. 31,
1842, and died Oct. 3, 1842 ; Theodore, born Oct. 27, 1813,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 115

and died March 21, 1814; Lucy, born July 30, 1815, died
June 10, 1816 ; West, born Aug. 23, 1817, who married
Caroline M. Warner of Hardwick, Dec. 13, 1848, and died
Sept. 4, 1853 ; William, born Dec. 18, 1819, resides in
Hardwick ; Lucy Rebecca, Jan. 19, 1822, married Elbridge
Mandell of Hardwick, June 18, 1844, and has had four
children ; Daniel Ruggles, born July 14, 1829, died Aug. 26,
1838.

7. Timothy, son of Timothy and Mary, born March 6,
1788 ; married Cynthia Ammidown, March, 1815. Children,
— Cynthia Evelina, born Dec. 4, 1815, died Nov. 10, 1850 ;
Juliet Eliza, born April 14, 1817, who married M. Mansfield,
a merchant in Barton, Vt. ; Timothy, born Feb. 17, 1819 ;
Calvin Ammidown, June 7, 1820. He was a lawyer, and
spent some years in the State of Georgia ; but returned,
and settled in Soutlibridge, Mass. He died Nov. 16, 1822.

7. Martin, son of Timothy and Mary, born Sept. 27, 1791 ;
married Mary Ann Billings, Aug. 20, 1817, and lives in
Providence. Children, — Timothy, born Aug. 3, 1818,
who lives in Cavendish, Vt. ; Frederick Augustus, mer-
chant in Providence, Nov. 6, 1819 ; George, Aug. 17, 1821,
who was a merchant in Providence, and died, unmarried,
April 3, 1855 ; Julia Billings, born Jan. 12, 1824, died
May 14, 1825 ; James, born Feb. 9, 1826, died May 7, 1826 ;
Henry, born April 5, 1829, merchant in Providence ; Martha
Pomeroy, Jan. 4, 1832, married William Stone of Worces-
ter, June, 1854 ; Sarah Pomeroy, born Sept. 9, 1837, died
Sept. 30, 1838.

7. Lucius Robinson, son of Timothy and Mary, born
March 8, 1802 ; a clergyman, who was settled, first in
Springfield, next in Gloucester, and next at Cambridge.
Resigned his pastoral charge, on account of ill health, in
1839 ; and has since preached occasionally. Has published
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116 WILLIAM READE OF WOBURN,

was elected town-clerk of Cambridge, soon after he resigned
his pastoral charge, in 1839 ; and, after Cambridge became a
city, he was chosen city-clerk ; which office he resigned in
1855, and became cashier of the Cambridge Bank. He was
appointed a justice of the peace in 1843 ; and received
the honorary degree of A.M., at Harvard College, in 1850.
He married Clarinda Richardson of Brookfield, Sept. 14,
1826. She died Aug. 29, 1833 ; and he married, for second
wife, Abhy R. Whittemore of Charlestown, Oct. 5, 1834.
She died Dec. 23, 1843 ; and he married Lucy Richardson
of Brookfield, Oct. 22, 1845. Children, — Henry Ballou,
born Dec. 23, 1827, died Jan. 17, 1828 ; Lucius R., horn
Sept. 19,1829, — was a merchant in Boston, and married
Ellen S. Pond of Cambridge, Oct. 15, 1851, and died Oct. 28,
1852 ; Mary Jane Pearce, born March 8, 1832, died Dec. 27,
1854; Thomas Whittemore Robinson, Oct. 17, 1837, died
April 2, 1838 ; Clarinda Richardson, born Dec. 24, 1840,
died Dec. 30, 1843. He is preparing a History of Cam-
bridge, and has collected a great amount of statistics for
that purpose.

6. Mary, daughter of Timothy and Mary, born Oct. 19,
1759 ; married Daniel Pay of Hardwick, Aug. 23, 1778 ;
settled in Bethel, Vt. ; and died at Stockbridge, Vt., March
27, 1834. Children, — Mary, born March 10, 1779, married
Rev. Philander Chase, Bishop of Ohio and of Illinois, and
died May 5, 1818 ; Nancy, March 25, 1781, who married
Nathaniel Evans, settled in Middlebury, 0., and died July 12,
1825 ; Elizabeth, born Sept. 3, 1783, married B. Batchelder,
and died in Bethel, Vt., May 4, 1831 ; Jedediah, born
Jan. 30, 1786, — a physician, who died at Owego, N.Y.,
April 23, 1848 ; Timothy Paige, May 9, 1788, — a physician,
who resides in Stockbridge, Vt. ; Almira, July 28, 1790, died
Oct. 29, 1824 ; Daniel, born Oct. 26, 1792, died March 16,
1796; Cyrus Paige, born Feb. 17, 1796, — a physician at

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Columbus, 0. ; Oren, Dec. 17, 1798, — a merchant, who died
at Madrid, Mo., September, 1834.

6. Foster, sou of Timothy and Mary, born Aug. 29, 1761 ;
married Amittai Paige, Jan. 6, 1785. Settled in Hardwick,
Vt., about the year 1800 ; and from thence went to Bakers-
field, Vt., where he died June 22, 1843. His widow was living
in 1860, aged ninety-six years. Children, — Gardner, born
Oct. 16, 1785, who married Betsey Parker, April 25, 1810,
and lives at Bakersfield, Vt. ; Seneca, born Feb. 15, 1788,
was member of the Parliament for the Province of Canada,
and died in October, 1856 ; Reed, born March 28, 1790, who
married Eunice Cutler of Hardwick, Mass., and lives in
Bakersfield, Vt. ; Mary Foster, July 18, 1792, who married
Jesse Paige of Hardwick, Mass., and died Jan. 19, 1823 ;
Rebecca Peirce, born March 17, 1797, who married David
Smith, June 25, 1820 (he died, and she married Asahel
Deming, Oct. 5, 1828); Foster, Oct. 25, 1801, who married
Julia Soule, and lives in Bakersfield, Vt. ; Amittai Cutler,
Nov. 16, 1804, who married Lyman Hurlburt, May 25, 1824
(he died, and she married Elijah Barns, July 2, 1857); Sally
Warner, Aug. 5, 1808, who married Fay Brigham, and died
March 11, 1828.

6. Reed, son of Timothy and Mary, born Aug. 30, 1764 ;
graduated at Dartmouth College in 1786 ; the first pastor
of the church in Hancock, Mass. ; ordained in 1791 ; and died
July 22, 1816, aged fifty-two years. He was justly esteemed
a learned, pious, able, and faithful minister; a good citizen,
and an honest, upright man ; a firm patriot ; a zealous and
able advocate of his country's rights, — which very much
endeared him to his people, who frequently elected him
representative ; which office he filled at the time of his death.
Married Hannah Paige of Bedford, Dec. 25, 1794. Children,
— xVbigail, born Jan. 23, 1796, who married Jacob Flint of
Peterborough, N.H. ; Mary, born Oct. 2, 1799, who married

118 WILLIAM READE OF WOBURN,

Moses Whitney of New Boston, N.H. ; David, born March 11,
1802, — a physician, who married Prances Tyler, Oct. 1, 1844,
and moved to Belvidere, 111. ; Timothy, born Aug. 31, 1805,
who was a cadet at West Point, and attained the rank of
captain in the United-States Army, — resigned his commis-
sion, and commenced the practice of law at New Orleans,
and since at New York ; Nathaniel George Reed, born
Aug. 17, 1807, who lives at Marengo, 111. ; William,
April 18, 1811, who is a merchant in Mobile, Ala.

6. Moses, son of Timothy and Mary, born Peb. 19, 1767 ;
married Lucy Aiken, Aug. 27, 1789 ; and married, for
second wife, Mary Aiken, June, 1801 ; and died at Hardwick,
Dec. 5, 1818. Children, — Joel, born Jan. 25, 1793, — a
physician, who resided many years at Owego, N.Y., and
removed to Alexander, N.Y., in 1850, and died July, 1855 ;
Lucy, born April 13, 1796, married Anson Ruggles of
Hardwick ; Mary, born March 8, 1798, married a Haskins
of Prescott ; Moses, born Peb. 6, 1800, married the widow of
his brother Asa, and kept an apothecary-shop in Troy, but
now lives in Bennington, Vt. ; Asa, born Dec. 9, 1801, a
physician and apothecary in Troy, N.Y., and married Sarah
Ruggles of Hardwick ; Hannah, born May 11, 1804, married
a Haywood of Ware, and died in 1835 ; Clarissa, born
Dec. 22, 1808, married a Breckenridge of Ware.

6. Rebecca, daughter of Timothy and Mary, born Nov. 28,
1768 ; married Capt. Seth Peirce of Hardwick, Dec. 22,
1793, and had one child, which died soon after its birth.
She died Aug. 2, 1795.

6. Thomas, son of Timothy and Mary, born April 20,
1772 ; married Susan Warner of New Braintree, June 17,
1798, and lived in Hardwick, New Braintree, and Lenoxville,
C.E., and Compton, C.E., where he died June 23, 1855.
Children, — Susan Warner, born Aug. 10, 1800; Hannah
Ware, June 22, 1802, who married Samuel Wood of Farn-

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ham, C.E., Feb. 9, 1843 ; Daniel Waldo, born Feb. 18,
1804, who married Sarah Smith of Lenoxville, C.E., in 1836,
and lives in Canada ; George Washington, born May 18,
1806, married Elvira Waters of Barre, Vt., Aug. 24, 1835,
and lives at Chicago ; Almira Clark, born Feb. 7, 1808, died
March 11, 1838 ; Prudence Maria, born May 15, 1811,
married Samuel A. Porter of Worcester, April 3, 1831 ;
Sophia Foster, born March 4, 1815, married Austin Bixby
of Worcester, March 15, 1836 ; Letitia Duncan, born May 2,
1817 ; Thomas Reed, June 1, 1821, died May 25, 1836 ;
Harriet Antoinette, born July 2, 1825, died May 4, 1827.

6. George Washington, son of Timothy and Mary, born
Aug. 24, 1775 ; a physician, justice of the peace, and elder
in the Presbyterian Church at Colchester, N.Y ; married a
Mrs. Cunningham, and died Sept. 10, 1834.

5. Jonas, son of Deacon Christopher Paige and Elizabeth
Reed, born Sept. 19, 1729; served several campaigns in the
French and Indian wars, and was afterwards of a roving-
disposition. In consequence of an early disappointment, as
it is said, he never married. He was living in 1792 ; but the
time of his death is unknown.

5. Lucy, daughter of Deacon Christopher and Elizabeth,
born Feb. 22, 1734; married Seth Lincoln of Western, now
Warren, Oct. 10, 1751, who died May 6, 1793 ; and she
married a Tyler, and died Sept. 1, 1821. Children, —
Thomas, Seth, Asa, Lucy, Betsy, Olive, Thankfull, Mary,
Levi, Sally.

6. Seth, son of Lucy Paige and Seth Lincoln, married
Jemima. Children, — Jemima, born 1780, died Nov. 15,
1786 ; Lucy, born Oct. 1, 1782, who married Dr. Fairfield,
and was mother of Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, a poet of some
note; Hervey, born March 17, 1785, died Oct. 17, 1823;
Ivers, born July 22, 1788; Warren, March 11, 1791,—
a colonel of cavalry ; Jemima, 1793, died Jan. 7, 1797 ;

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Fanny, born Dec. 20, 1796, who married Joseph Paige of
Barre ; Sumner, born June 20, 1799, graduated at Yale
College in 1822, — a clergyman, who lived many years at
Gardner, Mass.

5. Nathaniel, son of Deacon Christopher Paige and Eliza-
beth Reed, born May 18, 1736 ; elected deacon of the church,
May 12, 1785. For the first five years after his election, his
brother William was his associate in office. They were suc-
cessors of their father in the same office ; and Nathaniel was
succeeded by James, son of William. Deacon Nathaniel
married Joanna Freeman of Sandwich, in 1759. She died ;
and he married Martha Fisk, daughter of Rev. Elisha Fisk of
Upton, August, 1783. Removed to Athol in 1812 ; and died
Jan. 6, 1816. Children, — Elizabeth, born April 27, 1788 ;
Nathaniel F., Aug. 11, 1790 ; Jason, Dec. 18, 1792, — a mer-
chant in New York.

5. John, son of Deacon Christopher and Elizabeth, born
July 6, 1738 ; married Hannah Winslow of Rochester in
January, 1765 ; removed from Hardwick to Stephentown,
N.Y., in 1790, and afterwards to Schaghticoke, where he
and his wife died April, 1811, and both occupied one grave.
Child, — Winslow, born Feb. 28, 1767, — a clergyman,
who settled in Stephentown in 1790, at Schaghticoke in
1793, at Florida, N.Y., in 1808, and at Broome in 1820;
received the degree of A.M., at Brown University, in 1828 ;
married Clarissa Keyes of Ashford, Conn., in 1787 ; and
died at Broome, March 15, 1838.

7. John Keyes, son of Winslow and Clarissa, born at
Hardwick, Aug. 2, 1788 ; graduated at Williams College in
1807 ; a lawyer, and cadet at West Point ; captain of the
United-States Army in 1812; a colonel of militia in 1817;
district attorney in 1818 ; clerk of the Supreme Court in
1823 ; regent of the University of New York in 1829.
Married Helen Maria Yates, daughter of Governor Yates,

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Oct. 15, 1817. She died January, 1829 ; and he married
Anna Maria Bloodgood, Nov. 20, 1833. His general resi-
dence was at Albany, N.Y. ; of which place he was mayor.
He died at Schenectady, N.Y., Dec. 10, 1857. Children, —
Joseph Christopher Yates, born July 8, 1818, graduated at
Williams College in 1838, a lawyer ; Anna Bloodgood, Dec.
10, 1834 ; John Keyes, April 18, 1837, died May 29, 1838.

7. Hannah Winslow, daughter of Winslow and Clarissa,
born August, 1791, who married Archibald Croswell of
Broome, N.Y., 1822.

7. Maria C, daughter of Winslow and Clarissa, born
1794 ; married David Cady of Florida, N.Y., 1815.

7. Alonzo Christopher, son of Winslow and Clarissa, born
July 31, 1796 ; graduated at Williams College, 1812 ; a law-
yer ; district attorney ; member of the Assembly four years,
and senator five years ; reporter to the Court of Chancery.
Married Harriet B. Mumford in 1832, and has generally
resided in Schenectady. Children, — Benjamin M., born in
1834, died in 1838 ; Clara, 1836 ; Harriet B., 1838.

7. Diana C, daughter of Winslow and Clarissa, born
February, 1799 ; married Allen Jackson of Florida, N.Y.,
in 1820.

• 7. Antoinette A. L., daughter of Winslow and Clarissa,
born in August, 1804 ; married George Smith of Florida in
1825. He died August, 1828 ; and she married Piatt Pot-
ter, Esq., of Schenectady, N.Y., in 1836.

5. Elizabeth, daughter of Deacon Christopher Paige and
Elizabeth, born June 7, 1743 ; manned Solomon Green
of Leicester in 1765, and died at her birthplace, in Hard-
wick, April 1, 1802. Children, — Timothy, who resided in
Ohio in 1838 ; Solomon, who went to New York ; Archelaus,
July 16, 1770, — a clergyman and physician, and resided at
Virgil, N.Y., where he died Dec. 25, 1843; John; Mary;
Lynde ; Isaac, May 25, 1798 ; Serena, 1782, died young.

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122 WILLIAM READB OF WOBDRN,

6. Archelaus, son of Solomon Green and Elizabeth Paige,
born July 16, 1770 ; had Jordan Dodge, who died young ;
Hiram, a clergyman ; John ; Paige ; Lucy ; Archelaus.

6. Isaac, son of Solomon Green and Elizabeth, born
May 25, 1778 ; married Rebecca Gay Harriden of Taunton,
January, 1808, and lived in Providence, but now lives in
Rehoboth. Children, — John Harriden, born March 19,
1811, who married Harriet C. Potter, Feb. 3, 1833, and lives
in Providence ; Sarah Ann, married Edwin Potter, and lives
in Providence ; Rebecca, married William Burke, and lives in
Cranston, RJ. ; Solomon, born Dec. 22, 1819, married Nancy
B. Manchester of Newport, and lives in Rehoboth.

3. William, son of George and Elizabeth, and grandson of
William and Maybal, born Sept. 22, 1662 ; married Abigail
Kendall, his father's cousin, May 24, 1686. She had an
unusual number of fingers and toes. Children, — Abigail,
born May 29, 1687, married Deacon Jonathan Fiske, and
moved to Sudbury ; William, born July 18, 1693 ; Mary,
April 8, 1695, married Deacon John Stone ; Benjamin, born
Oct. 22, 1696, married Rebecca Stone ; Samuel, born Oct. 24,
1699 ; Joshua, Jan. 20, 1702 ; Hepsibah, Dec. 10, 1705,
married Daniel Tidd ; Elizabeth, married Joseph Munroe ;
Rebecca, married Edward Johnson of Woburn. He settled
in Cambridge Farms, now Lexington ; and was a great land-
holder in Cambridge Farms, Woburn, and Billerica. He
held a justice's commission, and was also a military captain,
but was generally called Capt. Read. He was one of the
board of selectmen chosen the first year after the incorpora-
tion of the town in 1713. He died in Cambridge Farms,
May 12, 1718. I find him purchasing land up to within
five days of his death. His wife died Oct. 12, 1734. They
were buried in Lexington old burying-yard ; and two plain
stones near the centre of the yard, with the common inscrip-
tion, mark their resting-place ; and around them are clus-

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tered the tombstones and monuments of their descendants,

filling a large portion of the yard.

4. William, son of William and Abigail, born July 18,
1693; married Sarah Poulter. Children, — William, born
Jan. 1, 1720 ; Samuel, May 4, 1722 ; Sarah, Jan. 3, 1725 ;
Mary, March 10, 1728, married William Bowman ; Oliver,
born March 25, 1730 ; John, May 28, 1731 ; Harmond,
April 28, 1734 ; Eliot, April 28, 1738 ; Hannah, Oct. 21,
1740: Nathan, Nov. 9, 1743. He lived about a mile from
the Monument in Lexington, on the road to Bedford, where
he owned a great tract of land in that neighborhood, on
which his sons Harmond and Nathan remained and settled.
He also had six hundred acres in what is now the centre
of the town of Bedford, on which he settled his sons John
and Oliver. He settled his son Samuel about a mile north
of his residence in Burlington, on the farm now owned by
Mr. Nichols, whose wife is one of his descendants. The
house in which he lived and died is still standing, in good con-
dition ; and is owned by Mr. Christopher Reed, his grandson.
He was a representative twenty years in succession ; a jus-
tice of the peace during the reigns of George II. and III. ; and
did much of the public business in the town and county.
For many years, he officiated in marrying his descendants.
He died Feb. 11, 1778, aged eighty-five years. He had pre-
pared a tomb previous to his death ; a splendid affair for those
times, and is still in good preservation in the old burying-
yard. He was generally known by the appellation of Esquire
Read. A portion of his homestead was bought of Robert
Fiske, his relative, Feb. 6, 1718.

5. William, son of William and Sarah, born Jan. 1, 1720 ;
married Abigail Stone, Jan. 1, 1741, on the day. of his ma-
jority. Children, — William, born Oct. 2, 1742; Abigail,
Sept. 22, 1744 ; Sarah, May 14, 1747 ; Nathaniel, June 2,
1749 ; Mary, July 17, 1751 ; Buler, May 4, 1753 ; Thaddeus,

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Aug. 25, 1755; Josiah, Aug. 25, 1757; Hannah, Oct. 8,
1758 ; Milley, April 26, 1762 ; Esther, Oct. 25, 1765.

6. William, son of William and Abigail, born Oct. 2, 1742 ;
married Elizabeth Davis, Dec. 13, 1768. Child, — William,
April 5, 1778. He died in Acton, Aug. 31, 1829, aged
eighty-live.

7. William, son of William and Elizabeth of Acton, born
April 5, 1778, in Lexington. Children, — William, born
Dec. 15, 1804, married Anna Gleason of East Sudbury,
March 28, 1826 ; Mary A., born June 25, 1807, died Oct. 19,
1847 ; Joseph W., born Jan. 2, 1810, died Feb. 28, 1813 ;
Daniel H., born Oct. 29, 1812, died March 11, 1817; An-
drew J., born Feb. 19, 1815, died Nov. 16, 1851 ; Isaiah,
born May 18, 1817 ; Charlotte, May 10, 1819 ; Prescott,
Feb. 14, 1821; Isaac, March 13, 1823; Eliab G., Jan. 15,
1825. He died in Acton, Nov. 3, 1846, aged sixty-eight
years.

4. Benjamin, son of Capt. William of Lexington, born
Oct. 22, 1696 ; married Rebecca Stone, sister of Deacon
John Stone. Children, — Benjamin, born May 13, 1718;
Abigail, March 30, 1720, married Deacon John Muzzy ;
Jonas, June 7, 1722 ; Rebecca, Nov. 5, 1724 ; Isaac,
July 30, 1727 ; Jonathan, March 8, 1729 ; Thaddeus, June
17, 1732; Dorcas, July 18, 1734; Samuel, April 3, 1737 ;
Ruth, Nov. 9, 1741. He was a major, and a justice of the
peace. He removed from Lexington to Littleton, and is
the ancestor of the Littleton Reeds.

5. Deacon Jonas, son of Major Benjamin, born June 7,
1722 ; married Elizabeth Wright of Concord, April 17, 1746.
Children, — Rebecca, born Oct. 26, 1748 ; Jonas, March 17,
1751 (Jonas and his sister Elizabeth died of the dysentery in
1756, and both were buried in one grave); Elizabeth, born
Oct. 9, 1755; Jonas, April 21, 1759; Nathan, May 31, 1761.

Benjamin, son of Major Benjamin, married Mrs. Hannah

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Easterbrooks, July 19, 1763. He was a captain of militia.
He moved to Holden before he was married, and his children
were born in Holden. His farm was the corner of Holden,
adjoining Rutland, and about two miles from Rutland
Meeting-house, where he was deacon of the church. He died
in 1806, aged eighty-three.

6. Jonas, son of Jonas and Elizabeth, born April 1, 1759 ;
married Elizabeth Willson, Jan. 8, 1784 ; and married a
Hammond for second wife. Children, — Betsy, born
Jan. 20, 1785 ; Sally, Sept. 28, 1786 ; Jonas, Oct. 3, 1788 ;
Rufus, Dec. 20, 1790 ; Benjamin H., July 1, 1794 ; Wil-
liam, Oct. 30, 1798, who married Polly Babcock, April 3,
1837. He lived in Rutland, and Holden was formerly part
of Rutland ; was known as Deacon Reed. He wrote a His-
tory of Rutland. He lived and died on the homestead of
his father in Rutland.

6. Nathan; son of Jonas and Elizabeth, born in Rutland,
May 31, 1761 ; married Lois Maynard, and settled in Royal-
ston. Children, — Moses M., Tabitha, Nathan, Betsy,
Arba, Abigail, Isabella, Benjamin, Cyrus B., Phineas W.,
Lois M.j Ainsworth, Sylvanus S., Sally. He married Lydia
Poor for second wife, and the six youngest children were by
her. His wife died Dec. 24, 1846 : he died May 6, 1850.

7. Cyrus B. Reed, son of Nathan and Lydia of Royalston,
born in 1806 ; married Sarah Godard, Dec. 15, 1831, and
lives in Royalston. Children,- — Cyrus P., born April 12,
1834 ; William G., June 26, 1841 ; Charles P., Oct. 11, 1846 ;
Henry C, March 22, 1852.

6. Isaac, son of Major Benjamin, born July 30, 1727 ;
married Mary Bridge of Lexington, April 22, 1754. Child,
— Isaac, born May 18, 1755.

7. Isaac, son of Isaac and Mary, born May 18, 1755 ;
married Mary, the daughter of Gen. Isaac Gardner of
Brookline, distinguished in the Revolution. He graduated

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at Cambridge in 1780 ; settled in Littleton, and became a
trader ; and died Nov. 5, 1789, leaving a son Isaac Gardner,
born Nov. 16, 1783, who graduated at Cambridge in 1803 ;
Edward Augustus, 1781, died at Westford, 1850.

8. Isaac C, son of Isaac, practised law with success in
Waldoborough, Me. ; where he died, much lamented, Feb. 25,
1847. Children, — Isaac, and three other sons, and two
daughters.

Hon. Isaac Eeed of Waldoborough, son of Hon. Isaac G.
Reed, is a distinguished lawyer in the State of Maine, and
has been a candidate for governor.

5. Jonathan, son of Major Benjamin of Littleton, born at
Lexington, March 8, 1729; married Sarah. Children, —
Rhoda, born June 13, 1764 ; Anna, Oct. 19, 1766 ; Mary,
April 20, 1720 ; Jonathan, Sept. 13, 1772. He settled in
Littleton, and was a colonel of militia, and a justice of the
peace. He died Oct. 8, 1790 : his wife died June 4, 1803.

5. Samuel, son of Major Benjamin, born at Lexington,
April 3, 1737 ; married Hannah Raymond, Feb. 18, 1762 ;
settled in Littleton. Children, — Isaac, born Oct. 7, 1768;
Betsy, Aug. 25, 1770 ; Daniel, May 2, 1772 ; James, July 15,
1774 ; Mary, who died Sept. 23, 1853 ; Benjamin, born
Jan. 13, 1779 ; Hepsibah, June 27, 1781 ; Jonas, June 21,
1784 ; Nathan, April 14, 1790. He died at Littleton,
March 9, 1806 : his wife died Sept. 22, 1819.

6. Samuel, son of Samuel and Hannah, married an Um-
phrey, and moved to Lynn. Children, — Benjamin, Tho-
mas, Nathan.

6. Isaac, son of Samuel and Hannah of Littleton, born Oct.
7, 1768 ; married Rebecca Fletcher of Westford, July 9, 1789.

7. Thomas, son of Samuel of Lynn, married Elizabeth
Phillips, Dec. 25, 1796. Children, — Eliza, born Nov. 6,
1797 ; Sally, born Oct. 8, 1800 ; Thomas P., July 9, 1803 ;
Walter A., June, 1807.

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7. Nathan, son of Samuel, married Nancy. Children, —
Eliza ; Jane, born Feb. 23, 1813 ; Nathan, Jan. 20, 1815.
He died March 7, 1820.

7. Jonas, son of Samuel and Hannah of Littleton, born
June 4, 1784 ; married Elizabetb, the widow of his brother
David, and had Jonas, William, and Daniel Mortimer.

8. Jonas, son of Jonas, lives in South Danvers ; married
Mary Soames.

8. William, son of Jonas, lives at South Danvers, and is
Agent of the Bleachery. He married Elizabeth Newhall of
Lynn, Nov. 27, 1828. Children, — Sarah Ellen, born
Jan. 21, 1830 ; Francis Andrews, Sept. 21, 1835 ; William,
Oct. 5, 1845.

6. Daniel, son of Samuel and Hannah of Littleton, and
grandson of Major Benjamin, born May 2, 1772 ; married Eli-
zabeth. Children, — Samuel, born March 17, 1798; Hannah,
June 20, 1800 ; Betsy, May 16, 1802 ; Orrin, March 27,
1804 ; Elvina, June 7, 1806. He died at Littleton, Nov. 24,
1806 ; and his widow married Jonas, brother of Daniel.

7. Samuel, son of Daniel and Elizabeth, born at Littleton,
March 19, 1798 ; married Harriet Hodgeman of Bedford,
May 12, 1825. Children, — Harriet Ann, born at Bedford,
Dec. 3, 1826, died Jan. 2, 1827 ; Mary Caroline, March 21,
1828, died March 11, 1835 ; Jonas H., born April 19, 1829 ;
Harriet Jane, Aug. 23, 1831, died March 11, 1835 ; Nancy
E., born March 30, 1833 ; Adaline, Jan. 8, 1835, died
March 20, 1835 ; Mary Jane, born July 2, 1836 ; Daniel
Webster, Aug. 5, 1838. They buried three children in two
months. They now live in Lowell.

6. Orrin, son of Daniel and Elizabeth, born May 24, 1804,
and was many years constable and janitor of the Court House
in Lowell ; but now lives in the west parish of Haverhill.

6. Benjamin, son of Samuel and Hannah of Littleton, and
grandson of Major Benjamin, born Jan. 13, 1779 ; married

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Mary Litchfield of Littleton, November, 1797. Children, —
Daniel, June 15, 1800 ; Thaxter, Nov. 24, 1801, died
May 28, 1824 ; Mary, horn Nov. 12, 1803 ; Benjamin,
Aug. 28, 1805 ; Sarah, June 17, 1807 ; Joseph Madison,
June 24, 1809 ; Catherine, Dec. 13, 1810 ; Jefferson, March
24, 1813 ; Rebecca, April 26, 1815 ; Ephraim, April 27,
1813 ; Nathan, June 28, 1819 ; William, Sept. 2, 1821 ;
Ehoda Jane, Nov. 30, 1824, died March 22, 1825.

7. Jefferson, son of Benjamin and Polly or Mary, born
March 24, 1813 ; married Eliza for first wife, who died in
Concord, July 10, 1845. Married Susan. Child, — Mary,
born in Littleton, Oct. 15, 1853.

7. Ephreim, son of Benjamin and Polly or Mary, born
April 27, 1817.

7. Nathan, son of Benjamin and Mary, born at Littleton,
June 28, 1819 ; married Elizabeth Damon of Wayland,
Oct. 3, 1841. Married Augusta Turbell in Bedford, April
13, 1841. Child, — Eben P., born May 20, 1844. His wife
died Nov. 27, 1845. Married Lucy Reed in Boston, Nov. 26,
1846. He lived in Bedford ; and died Jan. 20, 1847.

7. Nathan, son of Samuel and Mary, born June 28, 1819 ;
married Elizabeth Damon of Wayland, Oct. 3, 1841.

Benjamin, son of Major Benjamin of Littleton, and grand-
son of Capt. William of Lexington, born May 13, 1718, in
Lexington ; married Mary Muzzy, Nov. 28, 1743, at Brook-
field. The record says, Mary Rindall. She may have been
previously married to a Rindall. She was the daughter of
Deacon John Muzzey and Abigail Reed: consequently they
were first cousins. Children, — Mary, born at Rutland,
Jan. 3, 1744 ; Benjamin, March 28, 1745 ; Edmond, Nov. 8,
1747,- — the three above-named children all died within
twelve days of each other, of canker-rash, in 1749 ; Benja-
min, born May 28, 1750, — a promising young man, who
fell in the battle of Bunker Ilill ; Edmond, July 8, 1755 ;

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Mary, July 10, 1752 ; Patience, Dec. 1, 1756 ; Silas, Dec. 15,
1762. He married Hannah Easterbrook of Lexington for
second wife, July 19, 1763. He was a captain of militia.

Edmond, son of Capt. Benjamin, born July 8, 1755 ; mar-
ried Miriam Clements, 1778. Children, — Benjamin, born
April 24, 1779, died May 14, 1823; Sewell, born Aug. 18,
1781, died December, 1846 ; Betsy, born July 8, 1783 ;
Lucy, Sept. 7, 1785, died March 7, 1855 ; Gardner and
Gerry, born April 11, 1789,— Gardner died Feb. 9, 1807 ;
Polly, March 31, 1793. He died Feb. 26, 1821 : his wife
died July 29, 1823.

Sewell, son of Edmond, born at Rutland, Aug. 18, 1781 ;
married Elizabeth Browning. Children, — Francis G.,born
June 6, 1808, died Aug. 8, 1841 ; Elizabeth M., born March
18, 1810, died Dec. 7, 1851 ; James G., born Feb. 13, 1812 ;
Emeline R., July 24, 1814, died Dec. 18, 1854 ; Daniel B.,
born June 18, 1817 ; Mary M., March 15, 1820, died Jan. 24,
1846; Harriet W., born Nov. 16, 1832; Sarah, Oct. 29,
1825, died July 17, 1850 ; Charles, born Feb. 16, 1830.

Daniel B., son of Sewell, born June 18, 1817 ; married
Isabella Easterbrook, June 24, 1844. Children, — Caroline,
born June 8, 1845 ; Mary, Sept. 7, 1848 ; Edward M.,
April 22, 1852. He is, by trade, a carriage-builder.

Silas, son of Benjamin and Mary, settled in Oakham, for-
merly part of Rutland ; born in Rutland, Dec. 15, 1762.
Children, — Benjamin, Cheeny, Silas, Lewis, Jonathan, An-
drew.

Jonathan, son of Silas, married Betsy Temple. Children,
— Stephen Albert, Edmond Joseph, Ellen Amelia, Leroy
Sunderland, William P.

Silas, son of Silas of Oakham, married Lucy House of
North Brookfield, March 14, 1832.

Abigail, daughter of Major Benjamin of Lexington, born
March 20, 1720 ; married Deacon John Muzzey, Nov. 11,

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130 WILLIAM READE OF WOBURN,

1736. Children, — John, born in Lexington, Dec. 9, 1737 ;
Abigail, May 16, 1739 ; Thaddeus, born in Rutland, Sept. 7,
1740 ; Mary, May 20, 1742 ; Olive, Feb. 7, 1744 ; Elizabeth
B., May 9, 1746 ; Jonas, Jan. 2, 1748 ; Rebecca, May 24,
1750 ; Sarah, April 24, 1752 ; Bethiah, born in Spencer,
June 22, 1754 ; Susa, June 27, 1756 ; Dorcas, March 19,
1758 ; Amos, Feb. 27, 1762 ; Edmond, Aug. 25, 1763 ;
Benjamin, Aug. 14, 1765. His wife died Feb. 16, 1766.
Married, for second wife, Eleanor Snow, widow of Jonathan
Snow, May 14, 1778. He died June 25, 1789, aged seventy-
five.

Abigail, daughter of Deacon John Muzzey and Abigail
Reed, born May 16, 1739 ; married Thomas White of Spen-
cer, Dec. 30, 1756, and had sixteen children. Their oldest
son Thomas, born Nov. 24, 1757, married Hannah Easter-
brook of Holden, Sept. 2, 1784, daughter of Ebenezer
Easterbrook, and Ruth Reed, daughter of Major Benjamin
of Lexington : consequently, she was cousin to his mother.
They had nine children. Hannah, their second daughter,
born Feb. 27, 1762; married Thomas White, jun., September,
1784, and had six children ; the oldest of whom (Joseph),
born Jan. 24, 1792, married Matilda Davis, whose father is
cousin to Ex-Governor Davis. Married Jan. 30, 1817.
Children, — Wilson D., born July 24, 1818; Persis A.,
Jan. 11, 1820; Windsor, March 14, 1823; Harriet M.,
Jan. 27, 1825, died young; Joseph E., Jan. 19, 1834, died
young. He lives at West Boylston, and is known as Deacon
White.

5. Samuel, son of William and Sarah of Lexington, born
May 4, 1722 ; married Eunice Stone, daughter of Deacon
John Stone and Mary Reed, his father's sister. He lived in
what is now Burlington, and the farm is owned by Mr.
Nichols. Children, — Samuel, born Aug. 6,1744; Micah,
Sept. 28, 1746 ; Moses, May 31, 1749 ; Francis, May 3, 1851,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 131

died in infancy ; Eunice, Feb. 19, 1754, married Jotham
Johnson ; Abigail, born Aug. 13, 1757, married Samuel
Walker ; Lucy, Oct. 12, 1759, married Mr. Blanchard ;
Sarah, Dec. 31, 1762, married Ichabod Johnson, brother of
Jotliam ; Mary, Aug. 11, 1767, married Samuel Walker,
brother of Edward. He was deacon of the church in Bur-
lington ; and he and his wife lived together sixty-five years in
the same house, and died at the same time. Both occupied
the same grave, and one stone marks the resting-place of
both. The following is the inscription on the gravestone
in the old burying-yard in Burlington : —
Here lies buried the body of

Deacon Samuel Reed;

who died April 28, 1809, aged

eighty-seven.

Mrs. Eunice Reed,

wife of Deacon Samuel Reed ;

who died April 25, 1809, aged

eighty-five.

They lived happy in the marriage state for sixty-five years, and were
not separated in their death.

The Grave its trophies shall resign;
Christ will the mouldering dust refine;
And Death, the last of foes, shall be
Swallowed up in victory.

Samuel, son of Deacon Samuel and Eunice, born Aug. 6,
1744 ; married Joanna Page of Bedford, July 25, 1771.
Children, — Samuel ; Frances, Feb. 5, 1773 ; Eunice, April 3,
1782 ; Rebecca, Nov. 2, 1788. He lived and died in Graf-
ton, N.H. He was a man of large size and stature, — a relict
of olden times. He was in Lexington and Bunker-Hill
Fights ; and the library and public records of Harvard Col-
lege were deposited in his house, in Woburn Precinct,
while the British had possession of Boston. The house is
standing in what is now Burlington, and owned by Mr.
Nichols, whose wife is daughter of Hammond Reed. Mr.
Reed returned from Lexington Fight, having in his custody
two British officers.

7. Samuel, son of Samuel and Joanna of Grafton, N.H.,

132 WILLIAM RKADE OF WOBUKN,

married Anna Sayles of Grafton, N.H.,1801. Children, —
Anna, born Sept. 13, 1802; Sally, July 22, 1804 ; Marilla,
April 1, 1806 ; Rebecca, April 3, 1808 ; Samuel, April 28,
1810 ; Elmira, May 5, 1812 ; Clarissa, April 2, 1814 ; Eze-
kiel Sayles, June 25, 1816 ; Francis, June 21, 1820. He
was six feet two inches in height, and weighed two hundred
and twenty pounds, — a specimen of the olden stock.

Anna, daughter of Samuel and Anna, born Sept. 13, 1802 ;
married Tupper Foss of Grafton, N.H., Oct. 31, 1824. Chil-
dren,— Samuel R., born Feb. 10, 1826 ; Maribeeham, Aug.
22, 1828, married George Hilton ; Mannassah B., born
Aug. 21, 1834.

Samuel R., son of Tupper Foss and Anna Reed, born
Feb. 10, 1826 ; married Mary Higgerson. Children, — two;
names not given. Live in Grafton.

Meribeeham, daughter of Tupper Foss and Anna Reed,
born Aug. 22, 1828 ; married George Hilton of Grafton, and
moved to California.

Sally, daughter of Samuel and Anna, born July 22, 1804 ;
married William H. Saunders, Sept. 30, 1832, and lived in
Sanburntown, N.H. Children, — Abigail, born Aug. 19,
1833 ; Sarah R., Jan. 25, 1835 ; Martha, Pec. 16, 1836,
died Aug. 17, 1854 ; Joanna P., April 4, 1839, died July 12,
1839 ; Mary Jane, born March 16, 1842 ; James W.,
Sept. 26, 1844.

Marilla, daughter of Samuel and Anna, born at Grafton,
April 1, 1806 ; married George M. Prake, June 23, 1824.
Children, — Sarah Ann, born Nov. 14, 1824 ; Porothy,
Sept. 17, 1826 ; George W., June 8, 1831, who lives at
Salmon Falls, Elderado County, Cal. ; Mary E., May 14,
1834. Ho died Sept. 3, 1840 ; and his widow, Marilla
Prake, married Benjamin P. Fifield.

Sarah Ann, daughter of George W. Prake and Merrilla
Reed, born Nov. 14, 1824 ; married Rufus Gould of Pan-

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bury, Sept. 3,1846, and lives in Nashua, N.H. Child, —
Merrilla R., born June 3, 1849.

Dorothy, daughter of Merrilla and George W. Drake, born
Sept. 17, 1826 ; married Hiram F. Taylor of Danbury, Oct.
17, 1845. Children, — Helen Jane, born Aug. 26, 1846 ;
Clara Emily, May 20, 1848 ; Warren French, June 27,
1854.

Rebecca, daughter of Samuel and Anna, born Aug. 23,
1808 ; married Moses L. Taylor, March 18, 1834, and live in
Danbury. Children, — Amos Webster, born Dec. 25, 1835,
died May 22, 1843 ; Anna, born April 29, 1838 ; Frank
Lennett, May 19, 1844 ; Arthur Henry, June 11, 1848.

Samuel Reed, jun., born April 28, 1810 ; married Sally
B. Sanders of Sanborntown, April 22, 1834. His wife died
July 25, 1835. Married, for second wife, Rebecca Martin
of Danbury, Juno 11, 1839.

Almira, daughter of Samuel and Anna, born May 5, 1812 ;
married Silas Corliss of Bristol, N.H., Sept. 30, 1832, and
live in Plymouth, N.H. Children, — Emily, born Aug. 26,
1834 ; Cyrus, Oct. 29, 1836 ; Almira, Dec. 20, 1838 ; Francis
R., Aug. 9, 1841 ; Clarissa A., Aug. 8, 1843 ; George Henry,
Sept. 15, 1846.

Clarissa, daughter of Samuel and Anna, born April 2,
1814 ; married Ira Heath of Grafton, Oct. 27, 1844. Chil-
dren,— Frances Warren, born Aug. 2, 1845; Ira; Orin,
June 18, 1846 ; Merilla, July 15, 1847, died Sept. 16, 1847 ;
Samuel Oscar, born March 28, 1849 ; Clara Milissa, Aug. 18,
1851, died Aug. 2, 1856. He died Oct. 1, 1852, aged forty-
six. She married Frederick Clay, Nov. 15, 1854 ; and lives
in Danbury.

Ezekiel Sayles, son of Samuel Reed and Anna, born
June 24, 1816 ; married Joanna Page Judkins of Danbury,
March 11, 1841. Children, — Selwin Sayles, born Dec. 17,
1841 ; Samuel Page, born March 19, 1844 ; Mary Ellen,

134 WILLIAM READE OP WOBURN,

Sept. 20, 1846 ; Benjamin Judkins, June 24, 1849 ; Francis,
April 8, 1852. The wife of Ezekiel Sayles died Oct. 21
of the same year. He married, for second wife, Betsy
B. Gilman, Aug. 31, 1854. He is deacon of the church in
Danbury, a singing-master, and a mill-owner.

Rev. Francis, son of Samuel and Anna, born July 21,
1820 ; married Aphia Goodwin of Rumford, Me., at Lowell,
Mass., July 5, 1849. Child, — Frances Ellen, born Feb. 2,
1851. He is a clergyman, and lives at Hopkinton, N.H.

Francis, son of Samuel and Joanna, born in Woburn, now
Burlington, Feb. 5, 1774 ; married Mary Martin of Grafton.
Children, — Seth, born July 24, 1801, died Aug. 3,1803;
Mary, born Feb. 20, 1804 ; John Page, June 24, 1806, died
Feb. 28, 1839, at Grafton ; Candice, Sept. 12, 1808, died at
St. Anthony, M.T., Aug. 12, 1855 ; Alsea, May 6, 1811.

Mary, daughter of Francis and Mary, born Feb. 20, 1804 ;
married Israel Smith of Grafton. Children, — Alsea S.,
born Feb. 20, 1828 ; Francis R., Nov. 14, 1833 ; Forluska
M., Sept. 17, 1836 ; Henry Austin, July 27, 1845.

John P., son of Francis and Mary, born June 24, 1806 ;
married Clementine B. Abbot of Sutton, N.H., Sept. 19,
1830. Children, — John Abbot, born at Grafton, Dec. 25,
1831 ; Ephraim L., July 15, 1835.

Candice, daughter of Francis and Mary, born Sept. 12,
1808 ; married Samuel Tukesbury of Grafton in 1839, and
moved to St. Anthony, Min. She died May 12, 1855.

Alsea, daughter of Francis and Mary, born May 6, 1811 ;
married Caleb Sanders of Sanborntown ; and he died soon
after, leaving an infant child, which soon died. Alsea mar-
ried, for second husband, George Aldrich of Grafton. Chil-
dren, — Candice Maria, born June 3, 1841 ; Alsea Ann,
Oct. 29, 1848 ; Mary Emily, Sept. 7, 1850.

John Abbot, son of John P. Reed and Clementine, born
at Grafton, Dec. 25, 1831 ; married Rachel France of Hud-

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 135

son, Ind., and lives at Liberty, Min. Child, — Willey Cla-
rence, born April 24, 1857. He is a scbool-teacher.

Ephraim, son of John P. and Clementine, born July 15,
1835 ; married Sarah Ann Hunter, April 28, 1857, and lives
at Lewiston, Min.

Joanna, daughter of Samuel and Joanna, born ; mar-
ried Moses Leavett, March 5, 1799. Children, — Joanna,
born Jan. 15, 1800, married Abiram Sanborn, Nov. 9, 1820,
and lives at Wilmot, N.H. Mr. Leavett died May 28, 1826 :
Joanna, his wife, died at Grafton, April 23, 1823. Children
of Abiram and Joanna Sanborn, — Moses Leavett, born
March 7, 1822; Aaron, March 10, 1824; Isaac, July 4,
1826 ; Sarah Ann, Sept. 28, 1828 ; Asa Morrison, Jan. 12,
1831, died Marcli 26, 1832 ; Albert, born March 8, 1883 ;
Emily Caroline, March 16, 1838 ; Rhoda Maria, March 12,
1843.

Moses L. Sanborn, son of Abiram and Joanna Sanborn,
born March 7, 1822 ; married Eliza A. Burbank of Grafton,
April 17, 1845, and lives at East Canaan, N.H. Children, —
Warren L., born Nov. 13, 1846; Morrison L., March 26,
1849 ; William A. and Susan E., twins, June 19, 1854
(William A. died Aug. 2, 1854).

Aaron Sanborn, son of Abiram and Joanna Reed, born
March 10, 1824 ; married Amanda M. Currier of Grafton,
Nov. 16, 1848. Child, — Aaron E., bom Aug. 28, 1849.
He died at Grafton, Jan. 5, 1852.

Isaac Sanborn, son of Abiram and Joanna, born July 4,
1826 ; married Azubah Dunlap of Danbury, and lives at
Wilmot Flat, N.H. Children, — Orin A., born Sept. 24,
1851 ; Pamelia E., Aug. 4, 1854 ; Charles E., Sept. 21,
1857.

Sarah Ann, daughter of Abiram Sanborn and Joanna,
born Sept. 28, 1828 ; married Alfred S. Williams, April 19,
1849, and lives in Grafton. Children, — Martin A., born

136 WILLIAM EEADE OF WOBUBN,

March 1, 1852, died Sept. 26, 1852 ; Clara E., born July 6,
1855 ; Sumner R., Feb. 26, 1857.

Albert Sanborn, son of Abiram and Joanna, born March 8,
1833 ; married Lucinda Fernald of Orange, and lives at Dor-
chester, N.H.

Eunice, daughter of Samuel and Joanna, born March 30,
1782, at Burlington ; married Levi Martin, March 11, 1802 ;
died March 20, 1829. Children, — Eunice, born Feb. 27,
1803 ; Levi, Sept. 5, 1805 ; Samuel R., Nov. 5, 1807 ; Jo-
anna, May 21, 1810, died Nov. 24, 1812; Rebecca, born
Sept. 10, 1812 ; Cyrene, Nov. 13, 1813 ; Mary R., March 28,
1817. She died at Grafton, March 29, 1817.

Samuel R. Martin, son of Levi and Eunice, born Nov. 5,
1807 ; married Mercy French of Orange, and lives in Grafton.
Children, — Candice, Eunice, Samuel R., Carlos. He has
beeu blind for fifteen years ; but manages his concerns, and
gains property.

Eunice, daughter of Samuel R. Martin and Mercy, married
Samuel P. Haskens, and lives in Grafton.

Rebecca, daughter of Levi Martin and Eunice, born
Sept. 12, 1812 ; married Samuel Reed.

Cyrene, daughter of Levi Martin and Eunice, born
Nov. 13, 1813 ; married William Sherlock of Royalton,
Vt., Jan. 19, 18-10. Children, — James M., born July 26,
1842 ; Eunice R., Feb. 14, 1845 ; Sally B. R., Sept. 21, 1847 ;
Martha Jane, April 4, 1850 ; Frank, April 11, 1853, died
May 17, 1853 ; Frank, born Oct. 17, 1854.

Rebecca, daughter of Samuel and Joanna, born Nov. 2,
1788 ; married Amos Taylor of Danbury, Oct. 29, 1807, and
lived in Danbury. Child, — Moses Leavett, born Dec. 10,
1810. She died Dec. 13, 1842.

Moses L. Taylor, son of Amos Taylor and Rebecca, born
Dec. 10, 1810 ; married Rebecca Reed, March 18, 1834.
Child, — see child of Rebecca Reed.

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6. Micah, son of Deacon Samuel of Burlington, born
Sept. 28, 1746 : married Elizabeth Page, sister of Samuel's
wife. Children, — Micah, born at Burlington, Oct. 19,
1773; Elizabeth, Feb. 25, 1779, lives at Xew Braintree ;
Samuel, June 11, 1783, born at Hardwick, and died May 5.
1846, at Burlington, Yt. ; Eunice, born at Hard wick, Jan. 18,
1787, married James Barn of Xew Braintree, and had four
children. She married Parley Granger for second husband,
and has had two children by him. They now live in Xew
Braintree. He was killed March 1, 1S04, by falling from
a scaffold : his wife died March 21, 1838, in her ninetieth
year.

7. Micah, son of Micah and Elizabeth, born Oct. 19, 1773 ;
married Deborah Tlmrstain of Hardwick. Children, —
Arimanily, born Sept. 22. 1798, died Oct. 14, 1837 : Rebecca
Page, born July 6, 1801, died Jan. 5, 1808 ; Abel Wheeler,
born Jan. 15, 1805; Micah T., May 21, 1807; Samuel G.,
May 21, 1809 ; Hammond. Aug. 7, 1811 ; Sumner, March
29, 1813 ; Rebecca, Dec. 7, 1815 ; Dwight, Aug. 25, 1817.
He was known as Col. Reed ; and died at New Braintree,
Aug. 3, 1825 : his wife died June 30, 1828.

8. Abel Wheeler, son of Col. Micah and Elizabeth, born
Jan. 15, 1805 ; married Widow Elizabeth Scouvel. Child,
— Ellen Tyler, born Aug. 5, 1847, and died in 1849. He
lives at Brookfield, and pays the heaviest tax of any person
in the town.

8. Micah T., son of Col. Micah, born May 1, 1807; mar-
ried Abigail Harlow; published Aug. 23, 1834. She was
killed, June 30, 1852, by being thrown from a carriage.
Child, — Thomas Harlow, born Sept. 14, 1835. He lives
at North Brookfield. Married a Miss Gorham for second
wife.

8. Samuel G., son of Col. Micah, born May 21, 1809;
married Fanny L. Tilton ; published March 14, 1832. Chil-
is

138

dren, — Sarah Elizabeth, born April 7, 1833, died Aug. 13,
1854 ; Charles G., April 22, 1835 ; Henry W., born
March 11, 1843 ; Mary Frances, May 30, 1845 ; Abby Jane,
Jan. 31, 1851. His wife died of consumption, Feb. 20, 1856.
He lives in Worcester, and is probably the largest wheel
manufacturer in the United States. His wheels are many
of them sent to California, and are known through the
country as Reed's Wheels. He was the first to establish
wheel-making by machinery. Married, for second wife,
Cleora E. Harlow, April 27, 1857. Child, — George Harlow,
March 24, 1858. His second wife died Sept. 7, 1858, of
consumption.

9. Charles G., son of Samuel G. and Fanny, born April 22,
1835; married Lucilla P. Ware, May 1,1856. Child, —
Charles Arthur, Sept. 4, 1857.

8. Hammond, son of Col. Micah, Aug. 11, 1811 ; married
Sophia Bailey. Married, for second wife, Caroline Rich. He
lives at East Brookfield.

8. Dwight, son of Col. Micah, born Aug. 25, 1817 ; mar-
ried Susan Vaughn, March 15, 1842. Children, — Susan
Ella, born May 21, 1851 ; Mary Emma, Oct. 27, 1854.
Lives at Worcester.

8. Rebecca, daughter of Col. Micah, born Dec. 7, 1815 ;
married James B. Bardwell. Children, — James Everett,
Frederick, Alice Rebecca. Lives at New Braintree.

8. Sumner, son of Col. Micah, born May 29, 1813 ; mar-
ried Marcia J. Henshaw ; published April 3, 1843. He
lives at North Brookfield.

7. Samuel, son of Micah and Elizabeth, born at Hardwick,
Mass., June 11, 1783 ; married Patty Warner, Aug. 10,
1808. Children, — Mary, born May 7, 1809, died June 5,
1837 ; Eliza, born April 27, 1810, died July 16, 1837 ; Olive
Sawyer, born Jan. 1, 1813, died Sept. 9, 1842 ; Charles,
born March 4, 1814; Henry, Aug. 7, 1820, died June 5,

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1822 ; Lauretta, born June 28, 1823, died Jan. 23, 1842 ;
Samuel H., born Nov. 7, 1830. He died at Burlington, Vt.,
May 4, 1845 : bis wife died Oct. 14, 1857.

8. Samuel H., son of Samuel and Patty, born Nov. 7,
1830. Is counsellor and attorney at law in Burlington,
Vt.

8. diaries, son of Samuel and Patty, born March 4, 1814.
Is married, and gone West.

6. Moses, son of Deacon Samuel of Burlington, and Eu-
nice, born May 31, 1749 ; married Sarah Whittemore,
daughter of Jacob Whittemore of Lexington, April 23, 1770 ;
and settled, with bis father Whittemore, on the farm in Lex-
ington, known of late years as the Finney Place. Was exe-
cutor of the will of his father Whittemore, dated June 16,
1780. Children, born in Lexington, — Whittemore, Feb. 16,
1771, was killed by the falling of a tree in Bridgeton, Me.,
where he was preparing to settle ; Moses, Aug. 10, 1773 ;
Sarah, April 1, 1775 ; Abel, May 8, 1777 ; Elizabeth, Feb. 17,
1779, married Philip Mason of Grafton, N.H., and now
lives, a widow, in Fisherville ; Eliab, born in 1781 ; Jacob,
1783 ; Samuel, 1787 ; Abigail, 1789, married a Skinner of
Chelsea, Vt. A portion of the British troops marched by their
house at the time of the Lexington Fight. Their daughter
Sarah was then eighteen days old. There was just time
enough, after the alarm that the regulars were approaching,
to take up the bed on which Mrs. Reed was lying, and put her
and the children into a cart which was at the door. The in-
mates hastened to a wood near by. The troops fired into the
house as they passed, but did no further damage. Mr. Reed
sold the farm in Lexington, and bought the farm in Bur-
lington now owned by Mr. Wood, where they kept a public-
house ; and afterwards exchanged the farm in Burlington
with Mr. Wood of Grafton, N.H., for a tavern stand and farm
in Grafton, and moved to Grafton. She died in Waterbury,

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Vt., Nov. 2, 1830 : he died in Waterbury, Jan. 27, 1839,
in his ninetieth year.

7. Whitteniore, son of Moses and Sarah, settled in Bridge-
ton, Me. Child, — Whitteniore, born after his father's death,
in Grafton, N.H.

8. Whitteniore, son of Whitteniore, born at Grafton, N.H. ;
went with his mother, when yonng, to Ohio, and settled in
Orange, Meigs County. Children, — Darius, born 1819;
Aaron, 1824 ; Whittemore, 1827 ; Enos, 1831 ; Sardine,
1834.

9. Sardine, the son of Whittemore, was a graduate at
West Point. He married Emily Berard, daughter of one of
the professors ; and died suddenly of an affection of the heart,
in 1858. His widow still remains at West Point.

7. Moses, son of Moses, married Mary Kinsman, and went
to Ohio in 1815. Children, — Aphia, who died in 1838;
Louvilla, who married Marcus Bosworth, and lives in Pome-
roy ; Samantha, married John McDonald of Illinois ; Emily,
married Phineas Robinson, and lives in Chester, Meigs
County ; Mary, married Harold Wills, and lives in Chester ;
John Lester and George Moses, live in Cincinnati ; Lucinda,
married Morgan Wills, and lives in Chester. He died in
1824, and his wife died in 1836.

7. Abel, son of Moses and Sarah, born at Lexington,
May 8, 1777 ; married Euth Lane of Candia, N.H., March 6,
1800. Children, — John Lane, born Oct. 6, 1801, died in
1805 ; Abel, March 30, 1803 ; Jacob Whittemore, March 20,
1805. His wife died June 3, 1814. Married, for second
wife, Dolly Brown of Candia, in 1815. Child, — Water-
man, born Nov. 15, 1818. He died in Candia, N.H.,
June 17, 1842.

8. Abel, son of Abel and Ruth, born March 30, 1803 ;
married Elizabeth Ann Smith of New- York City, October,
1828. Children, — Elizabeth Lane, born May 9, 1830 ;

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Caroline Matilda, Feb. 14, 1832 ; Montgomery Sheriden,
May 6, 1834 ; Jane Maria, June 16, 1836. Married, for
second wife, Charlotte Bechenbach, July 25, 1838. He lives
in Philadelphia ; is a man of extensive business, and a lead-
ing man in the Episcopal Church.

9. Elizabeth L., the daughter of Abel and Elizabeth, born
May 9, 1830 ; married Joseph S. Sparks, a teller in the
Commercial Bank, Dec. 13, 1855 ; and they live at No. 912,
Mellon Street.

9. Caroline M., the daughter of Abel and Elizabeth, born
Feb. 14, 1832 ; married Rev. Thomas S. Yocum, June 23,
1859 ; and they sailed immediately for China as mission-
aries.

8. Jacob Whittemore, sou of Abel and Ruth, born
March 20, 1805 ; married Ruhamah B. Tenney of Grove-
land, Oct. 3, 1826. Children, — Celina Lane, born Oct. 2,
1827 ; Sarah Augusta, June 28, 1829 ; Edward Payson,
Feb. 13, 1835 ; Helen Abby, May 6, 1838. Celina, their first
child, was born in Boston ; and the others were born in
Bradford, East Parish, now Groveland. He is an attorney-
at-law in South Groveland.

9. Celina L., daughter of Jacob W., married Benjamin
Dutton of Hartford, Vt., Sept. 8, 1851. Children, — Wil-
liam, born July 6, 1852 ; Helen Maria, Oct. 8, 1855 ; Henry
Abial, Sept. 7, 1857.

9. Sarah Augusta, daughter of Jacob W., born June 28,
1829 ; married William James Brown of Bradford, June 18,
1850. Children, — Clarance, March 5, 1851; Helen Au-
gusta, March, 1855. They live in Groveland.

8. Waterman, son of Abel, born Nov. 15, 1818 ; married
Deborah Lunt of Newburyport, Nov. 25, 1841. Children, —
Eliza, born July 22, 1842; Sarah Adelaide, Jan. 8, 1844;
William, Sept. 15, 1845 ; Mary Jane, April 14, 1847. They
live at Newburyport.

142 WILLIAM EEADE OF WOBURN,

7. Eliab, son of Moses and Sarah, born in 1781 ; married
Hannah Huse. Children, — Warren, born March 1, 1819;
Eliab H., Sept. 30, 1828. Lives in Craftsbury, Vt.

8. Eliab H., son of Eliab and Hannah, born Sept. 30,
1828. Children, — Henry C, born March 2, 1855 ; Charles
L., Jan. 12, 1857.

8. Warren, son of Eliab and Hannah, born March 1, 1819.
Children, — Juliette, born July 21, 1848 ; Willis N., Feb. 4,
1850 ; George Munsun, Oct. 22, 1851 ; Mason W., May 2,
1854.

7. Jacob, son of Moses and Sarah, born in 1783 ; married
Thurissa Bryant of Scituate, Oct. 2, 1817. Child, — Joshua
B., born June 28, 1818. He lived at Bryant's Corner, in
Scituate, and made a misstep in going down stairs in the
night ; when he fell, and broke a jugular vein, and died im-
mediately, in 1828. He was for many years a teacher.
His widow married Martin Stockbridge of Abington, Oct. 3,
1836.

8. Joshua B., son of Jacob and Thurissa, born June 28,
1818 ; married Belinda Holebrook, Oct. 10, 1841. Child, —
Joshua N., born May 8, 1846. He lives in Scituate, the
former residence of his father.

7. Samuel, son of Moses and Sarah, born in 1787 ; mar-
ried Mary Potter. Children, — Cyrus, who lives in Oregon ;
George, Dec. 8, 1828, lives in Roxbury ; Sarah ; Mary,
married Lewis S. Brooks ; Anna. He died in Roxbury,
Nov. 12, 1858.

George P., son of Samuel and Sarah, married Mary E.
Morrill. Children,— Mary Eva, born Oct. 22, 1855; Bcr-
thia E., Oct. 22, 1856 ; George William, Dec. 4, 1858.

5. Oliver, sou of William and Sarah of Lexington, born
March 25, 1730 ; married Sarah Bridge, April 11, 1754.
Children, — Oliver, born at Bedford, Dec. 11, 1755 ; Sarah,
Oct. 4, 1757 ; Reuben, Dec. 21, 1759 ; Mary, Sept. 12, 1763.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 143

Oliver Eeed settled in Bedford, on land his grandfather
bought of the town of Billerica.

6. Oliver, son of Oliver and Sarah, born Dec. 11, 1855, at
Bedford; married Batsy Abbot, May 18, 1786. Child, —
Oliver.

7. Oliver, son of Oliver and Betsy, married Mary Pitch,
Sept. 2, 1810. Children, — Nathan Oliver and Mary Eliza-
beth (twins), born Feb. 6, 1812.

8. Nathan 0., son of Oliver and Betsy, married Martha S.
Fitch, Dec. 18, 1834. Child, — Martha Fitch, born March 2,
1841. Married, for second wife, Nancy Fitch, Nov. 10,
1843. Children, — Mary Caroline, born April 1, 1844;
Nathan Henry, May 25, 1848.

6. Reuben, son of Oliver and Sarah, born Dec. 21, 1759 ;
married Sally Burrows, Aug. 28, 1782. Married Alfred
Fitch. Children, — Lot, born Jan. 19, 1792, died Sept. 24,
1821 ; Mary, born Sept. 19, 1793, married Abner Wheeler ;
Sally, Dec. 3, 1795 ; Isaac, Feb. 24, 1798 ; Jesse, Jan. 31,
1800 ; Louisa, Feb. 22, 1802, married Elbridge Bacon ;
Betsy, Aug. 29, 1804, died May 3, 1808 ; Hiram, born
Jan. 31, 1808; Betsy, Jan. 6, 1811.

7. Jesse, son of Reuben and Sally, born Jan. 31, 1800;
married Ruth Poole, Oct. 28, 1819.

5. John, son of William and Sarah of Lexington, born
May 28, 1731 ; married Ruhamah Brown, Jan. 18, 1755.
Children, — Ruhamah, born in Bedford, Dec. 11, 1753 ;
John, June 9, 1758 ; Grace, April 26, 1760, died Sept. 16,
1763 ; Roger, born June 14, 1762 ; Eliott, Oct. 22, 1764,
died Aug. 24, 1780; Poulter, Feb. 18, 1767; Hannah,
July 18, 1763. His wife died June 9, 1798. He, with his
brother Oliver, settled in Bedford, on a tract of five hundred
and sixty acres of land which their grandfather bought of
the town of Billerica, by deed bearing date April 9, 1710.
It was then in the southerly part of Billerica, nebct to Con-

144 WILLIAM READE OP WOBURN,

cord ; but, when the town of Bedford was organized from the
southerly part of Billerica and the north part of Concord,
this tract of land became the centre of Bedford, and the
dwelling-house of John was very near the Meeting-house.
He held a justice of the peace's commission, and was a
wealthy and prominent man in town. He died Nov. 20,
1805.

6. Roger, son of John and Ruhamah of Bedford, born at
Bedford, June 14, 1762 ; married Sarali Webber, Nov. 25,
1790. Children, — Sally, born Oct. 8, 1797 ; Eliott, Nov. 9,
1800.

6. Poulter, son of John and Ruhamah, born Feb. 18,
1767 ; married Molly Hartwell, Sept. 1, 1789, and settled in
Littleton. Children, — Polly, born June 3,1791; Dolly, Oct.
6, 1794; Hannah, Jan. 31, 1797; Mary, March 29, 1802;
Joseph Porter, Nov. 2, 1804 ; John Poulter, Dec. 22, 1805.

7. John Poulter, son of Poulter Reed, lives in Bedford ;
is a prominent man.

7. Joseph Porter, son of Poulter and Molly, married Ruth.
Children, — Joseph E., born in Littleton, Oct. 11, 1830;
George S., Dec. 11, 1840 ; Sarah A., Nov. 5, 1843 ; Nahum
Cole, March 1, 1838; Daniel Elbridge, Oct. 11, 1842;
Frances Ellis, Feb. 2, 1836.

8. Joseph E., son of Joseph P. of Littleton, born Oct. 11,
1830 ; married Frances M. Tuttle, May 1, 1851. Child, —
Lorenzo Everett, born Aug. 22, 1851.

6. John, son of John and Ruhamah, born June 9, 1758 ;
married Hannah Merriam, Dec. 1, 1785. Children, — Anna,
born July 2, 1787 ; Otis, March 27, 1791 ; Hannah, Sept. 6,
1795 ; John, April 10, 1798, died May 13, 1819.

7. Otis, son of John and Hannah, born March 27, 1791 ;
married Emily Winship. Child, — Anna W., born March 2,
1820, married to Thomas Stiles, the present town-clerk of
Bedford, April 11, 1838.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 145

5. Hammond, son of William and Sarah of Lexington,
born April 28, 1734 ; married Betty Simonds. Children,- — ■
Betty, born Dec. 17, 1757 ; Lydia, July 11, 1760 ; Ham-
mond, Feb. 24, 1763. The farm given him by his father
was the same now owned by Mr. Joshua Simonds, across the
street from the residence of his father ; but he exchanged
with Mr. Simonds for the farm now occupied by his descend-
ant, Mr. Benjamin Beed.

6. Hammond, son of Hammond and Betty, born Feb. 24,
1763 ; married Sarah Chandler. Children, — Benjamin,
born June 20, 1790 ; Sarah, June 21, 1792 ; Betsy, June 15,
1799; Almira.

7. Benjamin, son of Hammond and Sarah, born June 20,
1790 ; married Bethiah L. Webber of Bedford, Feb. 3, 1825.
Child, — Benjamin, who lives on the homestead, and pays
the largest tax assessed in Lexington.

5. Nathan, son of William and Sarah of Lexington, born
May 9, 1743 ; married Mary Page of Bedford, April 3, 1772.
Children, — Nathan, born Sept. 15, 1776; Mary, Oct. 20,
1778; Sarah, Aug. 1,1781; Hiram, June 22,1784; Su-
sanna Whitmore, Aug. 10, 1786 ; Hannah, Sept. 4, 1789 ;
Christopher, March 18, 1792. He occupied the old home-
stead of his father, situated about a mile from Lexington
Monument,, on the Bedford Road ; and was deacon of the
church in Lexington. His farm at his decease was divided
among his sons, and is still occupied by them and their
children.

6. Nathan, son of Nathan and Mary, born Sept. 15, 1776 ;
married Polly Mussey. Children, — Cyrus, born Nov. 9,
1798 ; Nathan H., Sept. 3, 1805 ; , Feb. 3, 1810 ; Mar-
shal, Oct. 2, 1815.

6. Christopher, son of Deacon Nathan, born March 18,
1792; married Betsy Gibson of Francistown. He owns and
lives on a portion of the home-farm of William Reed, Esq. ;

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146 WILLIAM EEADE OF WOBURN,

and the old mansion is kept in good repair by him as a relic
of olden time, although no person has occupied it for many
years.

7. Cyrus, son of Nathan and Polly, born Nov. 9, 1798;
married Sarah Jewett. Children, — John Mussey, born
May 24, 1825 ; George Henry, May 7, 1831, died Feb. 21,
1832 ; Catherine, Jan. 30, 1832. He lives on a portion of
the farm occupied by his father, and grandfather Deacon
Reed, and great-grandfather Esquire William Reed ; and
the title of his great-grandfather has passed to him.

7. N. Horatio, son of Nathan and Polly, born Sept. 28,
1805 ; married Lucilla Meigs. Child, — Mary E., born
Feb. 10, 1842. He is deceased ; and his widow and daugh-
ter have moved to Janesville, Wis.

7. Sarah, the daughter of Hammond Reed and Sarah,
born June 21, 1792 ; married Nichols of Burlington.

7. Betsy, the daughter of Hammond and Sarah, born
June 15, 1799 ; married Aaron P. Richardson of Lex-
ington.

7. Almira, the daughter of Hammond and Sarah, married
Ebenezer R. Smith of Lexington. Children, — Emily, who
married Edward Reed of Burlington ; Almira J. ; Elias
Reed ; Octavia.

6. Nathaniel, son of William and Abigail Stone of Lex-
ington, born June 2, 1749 ; married Hepsibah Bateman of
Bedford, July 25, 1771.

6. Thadeus, son of William and Abigail, born Aug. 25,
1755; married Anna. Children, — Edmond, born Oct. 20,
1778 ; Esther, Aug. 10, 1790 ; William, July 13, 1792 ;
Thadeus, Oct. 13, 1794; Anna, Feb. 12,1797; Augustus,
June 27, 1799 ; Lucy, July 24, 1801. Most of the family
died of the small-pox, in the early part of the year 1824.

7. Thadeus, son of Thadeus and Anna, born Oct 13, 1794 ;
married Phebe Prescott of Concord, Dec. 8, 1819.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 147

4. Nathaniel, son of Joseph and Phebe, and grandson of
Ealph, born March 28, 1704 ; married Hannah. Children,
Mary, born April 15, 1735 ; Joshua, Nov. 17, 1739. He
lived on the farm at Woburn Westside, known at this time
as the Gennison Place. The old house was taken down by-
Mr. Gennison, about twenty years ago, to make room for a
new one. He was a captain in the Revolution ; and his son
Joshua was his waiter, and drew a pension under the Act
of 1818.

5. Joshua, son of Nathaniel and Hannah, born Nov. 17,
1739 ; married Rachel Wyman, daughter of Joshua of Wo-
burn, Nov. 28, 1759. Children, — Joshua ; Martha, born
March 25, 1764 ; George W., Nov. 8, 1775. He was known
as Capt. Joshua, and died March 9, 1805 : his wife died
Oct. 14, 1818, aged eighty-one years.

6. Joshua, son of Joshua and Rachel, born at Woburn ;
married Ann Richardson, May 29, 1782. He was in the
Revolutionary War, and also in the war of 1812. Children,

— Joshua, born 1790 ; Nancy, 1792 ; John, March 19,
1795 ; Bill, April 24, 1799 ; Thomas, 1801 ; Zacariah,
Oct. 21, 1804 ; Ruth, Feb. 6, 1810.

6. George W., son of Joshua and Rachel, born at Woburn,
Nov. 8, 1775; married Elizabeth Symmes, Dec. 13, 1801.
Children, — Mary, born Sept. 13, 1805 ; Elizabeth, June 29,
1808; Warren, April 10, 1811; Jackson, Jan. 25,1813;
George W. He was a captain of cavalry, and died in April,
1829.

7. George W., son of George W. and Elizabeth, married
Elizabeth Pearson. Children, — Sarah H., born in 1840;
Josephene, Dec. 12, 1841 ; Eliza S., 1848. He lives at Wo-
burn Centx-e, and is a butcher.

7. Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. George Reed, born June
29, 1808 ; married Rodney Clement of Salem, N.H.. Child,

— Fanny, born in 1839.

148 WILLIAM READE OP WOBURN,

4. Joshua, son of William and Abigail of Lexington, born
Jan. 20, 1702 ; married Elizabeth Russell, Jan. 21, 1725.
Children,— Elizabeth, born Feb. 28,1726 ; Hepsibah, Mar. 8,

1728 ; Joshua, May 15, 1729 ; James ; Joseph, June 21,
1739 ; Rebecca Susan. His wife died Feb. 27, 1744.

5. Joshua, son of Joshua and Elizabeth, born May 15,

1729 ; married Susanna Leathers, and afterwards Mrs.
Brooks. Children, — Susanna, born March 11, 1759 ; Hep-
sibah, Feb. 26, 1769 ; Charles, July 10, 1781 ; Susanna,
Jan. 30, 1783 ; Phebe, Aug. 28, 1792.

6. Charles, son of Joshua and Susanna, born July 10,
1781; married Almira Mussey, Oct. 23, 1817. Child,—
Charles M., born Sept. 12, 1819. Married, for second wife,
Martha Wellington, June 28, 1820. He was the first that
manifested any desire to trace out the genealogy of the
Reads, and had accomplished much before his death. Had
he lived, he would undoubtedly have done more.

5. Joseph, the son of Joshua, born in Lexington, June 21,
1729; married Elizabeth. Child, — Janus; has a grandson
by the name of Peter, who is an innholder in Sterling.

4. Samuel, son of William and Abigail of Lexington, born
Oct. 24, 1699, and settled in Lunenburg ; married Mary
Bullard of Lunenburg, Oct. 26, 1738. Children,— Sa-
muel, born July 13, 1740 ; Mary, July 30, 1742, married to
Josiah Bailey, April 15, 1760 ; Hannah, born April 12, 1745 ;
Sarah, July 23, 1747, married Nathan Smith, Dec. 22, 1768 ;
Precilla, born Aug. 10, 1749, married Thomas Carter, jun.,
Feb. 13, 1765 ; Jesse, born July 23, 1751 ; Rebecca, Jan. 25,
1753 ; Joshua, Feb. 18, 1757. He moved from Lunenburg
to Windham, Me., soon after the birth of their first child ;
and, in 1782, to Otisfield. He was killed by lightning in
1784.

5. Samuel, son of Samuel and Mary, born July 13, 1740 ;
married Mary. Children, — Drucilla, born Dec. 23,1766;

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 149

Mary ; Sally ; Lydia ; Martha ; Samuel, in 1780 ; William,
was drowned when a young man.

6. Samuel, son of Samuel and Mary, born in 1780 ; mar-
ried Martha Maybury in 1805. Children, — William, born
Sept. 29, 1805, lives on the old farm in Otisfield ; Mary,
Oct. 22, 1807 ; Samuel Tarbell, Dec. 24, 1809 ; Sally,
Jan. 30, 1812 ; Martha, Feb. 21, 1814 ; Charles, Jan. 1,
1816 ; Francis, Sept. 7, 1818 ; George W., May 26, 1821 ;
Jane, Oct. 17, 1825; John Sullivan, May 7, 1829, lives in
Otisfield. He died in 1831.

5. Jesse, son of Samuel and Mary of Lunenburg, born
July 23, 1851. Child, — Polly, born in Lunenburg, Sept. 10,
1791.

5. James, son of Joshua, settled in Hinge, N.H. ; married
Susanna Stone, Nov. 29, 1792. Children, — Hepsibah,
Jan. 8, 1793 ; Joshua, Feb. 1, 1795 ; Elizabeth ; Abigail.
His widow married John Fenno.

Joshua, son of James and Susan of Ringe, born Feb. 1,
1795 ; married Betsy Fenno ; published Sept. 6, 1816.
Children, — James A., born Jan. 21,1815; Charles, April
24, 1820 ; Lucius, Sept. 29, 1822 ; Abigail ; Hepsibah ; Re-
becca ; Susan.

6. Abigail, daughter of Joshua of Ringe, married Ebenezer
Muzzy. Children, — Isaac ; Betsy ; Thaddeus ; Abigail ;
John, who does business in Boston, but lives in Lexington.

6. Hepsibah, daughter of Joshua of Binge, married a
Wait.

6. Rebecca, daughter of Joshua of Ringe, married a Wait.

6. Susan, daughter of Joshua of Ringe, married Jonas
Bridge, Esq., of Lexington. Children, — Martha, Jonas,
Bowman, Betsy, Caroline.

5. Joseph, son of Joshua and Elizabeth, born in Lexing-
ton, June 21, 1739 ; married Elizabeth Blood, Dec. 22,
1761; settled in Rutland. Child, — Jonas.

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6. Jonas, son of Josqph and Elizabeth of Rutland, married
Abigail. Children, — Benjamin; Hammond, born July 1,
1794 ; William, Oct. 30, 1798.

3. John, the son of George of Woburn, and Hannah, his
second wife, born March 8, 1671 ; married Ruth Johnson,
Jan. 10, 1697. His father gave him half of his farm, May 4,
1696. His wife died in 1703. His children were — Josiah,
born at Woburn, March 24, 1702 ; Ruth, August, 1708.
His will was proved July 29, 1723.

4. Josiah, the son of John and Ruth, was born March 26,
1702 ; married Elizabeth Williams in 1732, but may have
had a wife previous. Their children were — Josiah, born
Sept. 15, 1733 ; Phebe, Sept. 28, 1737 ; Elizabeth, Sept. 29,
1739, who married John Brent ; Susanna, born at Needham,
April 9, 1745 ; Mary, March 2, 1747. He lived at one time
in Watertown, and went from there to Needham ; but it is
supposed that he afterwards moved to Sudbury, as did many
others from Cambridge, Charlestown, Watertown, and Wo-
burn. He died in Dover, Mass., March 9, 1786, aged eighty-
four years.

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CHAPTER V.

ESDRAS READE OF BOSTON, AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

Esdras Reade, supposed to be a son of Matthew and his
wife Alice Ward, had a tract of land granted him by the
town of Boston, situated at Muddy River, now Brookline ;
but, in 1637, he was of Salem, and a prominent and leading
member of the church of Rev. John Fiske. He had a tract
of land granted him by the town of Salem. He went with
Rev. Mr. Fiske and his church to Wenham, then called
Enon, meaning " much water." He was representative from
Wenham in 1648 and in 1651. He was sent in 1655, by
Mr. Fiske and his church, to look out a more commodious
settlement ; and he selected Chelmsford. The next spring,
Mr. Read, Mr. Fiske, and a majority of the church, removed
to that place. He, however, left Chelmsford in 1661, and
returned to Boston, where he died in 1680 ; and his grave-
stone is now standing in Copps-Hill Burying-yard. He was
a tailor by trade, and owned considerable real estate on
Copps Hill at the time of his death. He had a son Obediah,
who married Anna Swift, the 19th of the sixth month, 1664 ;
and had, by her, Thomas, born in July, 1665 ; Rebecca,
in 1668; Elizabeth, in Boston, March 29, 1669; Sarah,
April 16, 1671 ; Anna, Feb. 3, 1772, who married Samuel
Ensign in 1700; Obadiah, Nov. 29, 1677; James, Feb. 29,
1679. His wife died Sept. 13, 1680. His will was proved
in 1718. He was a carpenter by trade. His gravestone is
also standing in the burying-yard at Copps Hill.

152 ESDRAS EEADB OP BOSTON,

3. Thomas, the son of Obadiah and Anna, went back to
Chelmsford, and had a town-grant in 1665. On the 7th of
February, 1707, he bought a tract of land in Chelmsford
of one Fowler, lying between Tadnoc and Stony Brooks, and
took a deed running to himself and his son Thomas. His
children were — Thomas, who was born in 1687 ; Jona-
than ; William; Esdras ; John. He married Hannah for
second wife ; by whom he had Benjamin, Oct. 23, 1699 ; and
Timothy.

4. Thomas, the son of Thomas of Chelmsford, married
Sarah Fletcher, in Charlestown, March 14, 1709. He had
a town-grant of land, March 24, 1711. Children, — Sarah,
born March 23, 1711, died young; Sarah, Aug. 17, 1712;
Timothy, March 21, 1714 ; Eleazer, Feb. 22, 1731 ; Benja-
min, Sept. 3, 1732. He was a prominent man in the town,
and held a commission of justice of the peace. He died
Dec24, 1773, aged eighty-six years : his son Benjamin died
April 2, 1778, in that part of the town which was incor-
porated as the town of Westford. The Reads were the first
settlers in Westford. All by that name in Chelmsford
finally located in Westford.

3. Obadiah, the son of Obadiah, born Nov. 29, 1677 ; mar-
ried Jane Perkins. Children, — Elizabeth, Jan. 3, 1713;
Susanna, born Sept. 28, 1717.

3. James, the son of Obadiah, born in Boston, Feb. 29,
1679 ; married Elizabeth. Children, — Anna, born June 24,
1708 ; James, Nov. 28, 1709.

4. James, son of James and Elizabeth, and grandson of
Obadiah, born Nov. 24, 1709 ; married Mary. Their children
were — Mary, who was born Oct. 5, 1730 ; James ; Brack-
ley ; Thomas ; Elizabeth ; and Anna, who married a Vande-
lier. Mr. Read was a pump and block maker ; and the
same business was continued in the family several genera-
tions. The work-shop was near Oliver's Dock. His sons

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Thomas and Brackley were his successors : his grandson
Edward followed in his turn.

5. Brackley Reed's estate was administered upon in 1786,
and that of Thomas in 1785. Edward, the son of Thomas,
took letters of administration, de bonis non, of the estate
of his grandfather James, who had been captain of an
engine company at the age of twenty-three years. Brack-
ley, Thomas, and Thomas, jun., were sufferers by the great
fire in 1760.

5. James, the son of James and Mary, married Mehitable
Fenno in 1759. Children, — James, born Feb. 14, 1762;
Abigail, March 24, 1764 ; Benjamin, May 20, 1767 ; Thomas,
March 1, 1770 ; William, May 11, 1775 ; Elisha, Oct. 31,
1777; William H., Sept. 26, 1779; Samuel, July 5, 1782;
Clarissa, Sept. 5, 1785. His wife died July 2, 1828, aged
eighty-eight years. He worked with his father at pump and
block making, in the shop near Oliver's Dock, till his mar-
riage. He soon after settled in that part of Dorchester
which is now Milton.

6. Benjamin, the son of James and Mehitable, born
May 20, 1767 ; married Lydia Voce, March 25, 1787. Chil-
dren,— Joshua V., born Oct. 29, 1787; John, May, 1789;
Joseph S., March 31, 1792 ; Elijah, April 20, 1795 ; Benja-
min, Sept. 16, 1796 ; Joseph E., May 16, 1802.

6. Thomas, the son of James and Mehitable of Milton,
born March 1, 1770 ; married Polly Allen, April 25, 1803.
Children, — Joshua Thomas, born Jan. 20, 1806; James;
Samuel, Jan. 14, 1808 ; Mary Ann, June 27, 1814 ; Me-
hitable Fenno, Nov. 29, 1816.

6. Samuel, the son of James and Mehitable, born July 5,
1782 ; married Phebe Raymond of Westford, Nov. 28, 1816.
Child, — Henry Rowland, born June 24, 1821.

7. Joshua, son of Thomas and Polly of Milton, born
Jan. 20, 1806.

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6. James,' son of James and Mehitable of Milton, born
Feb. 4, 1762 ; lived in Boston. Child, — Thomas.

7. Thomas, son of James of Boston, and grandson of
James and Mehitable, married Polly Allen, April 25, 1803.
Children, — Joshua Thomas, born Jan. 20, 1806; James
Samuel, Jan. 14, 1808 ; Mary Ann, June 27, 1814 ; Mehita-
ble Fenno, Nov. 29, 1816.

6. Samuel, son of James and Mehitable, born July 5,
1782 ; married Phebe Raymond of Westford, Nov. 28, 1816.
Child, — Henry Rowland, June 24, 1829.

7. John P., grandson of James and Mehitable. Child, —
James Sewell, born April 3, 1832.

7. Joseph Elijah, grandson of James and Mehitable, born
May 6, 1802 ; married Lydia V. Shepherd, June 18, 1829.
Children, — Edwin James and Ellen Jane, born May 12,
1833 ; Mary Caroline, Oct. 12, 1836 ; Frances Abby, Sept.
11, 1845.

7. Joseph S., son of Benjamin and Lydia, born March 31,
1792 ; married Amelia Jenkins, Oct. 20, 1816.

6. John Walter, son of James and Mehitable, born May 18,
1789 ; married Mary Bullock, Aug. 7, 1817. He got the
Walter added after he came of age. Children, — John Wal-
ter, Joshua H., Caroline, Lorena. He removed to Augusta,
in the State of Georgia ; and died there in 1825.

7. John Walter, son of John Walter, married Ellen S.
Dogan, May 9, 1852. He keeps at No. 4, Brattle Street,
Boston.

7. Joshua H., son of John Walter, married Miss Van-
dyke.

6. William H., son of James and Mehitable, born at Dor-
chester, Sept. 26, 1779 ; married Anna Libbey. Children, —
William F. M., born in Hampden, Me., Aug. 29, 1805;
Jason, April 26, 1809; Anne, May 5, 1811. Married, for
second wife, Lucy Grant. Children, — Daniel M., born

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Aug. 17, 1816; George G., Nov. 9, 1819; Andrew G.,
Jan. 27, 1821 ; Sarah L. G., June 21, 1823 ; Francis A.,
Aug. 10, 1824, died April 18, 1825 ; Francis P., born
Jan. 27, 1827; Charles A., Sept. 18, 1830; Clara C,
April 8, 1832 ; William R., Dec. 21, 1833. He died
March 31, 1858.

7. William F. M., son of William H. and Anna, born
A\ig. 29, 1805 ; married Emeline Jayne. Children, — Eme-
line J., born Nov. 27, 1833; William C, Nov. 1, 1835,—
a student in Andover Theological Seminary ; Beverly S.,
June 19, 1837 ; Thomas G., July 5, 1845 ; Henry G.,
Nov. 17, 1845. His wife died Dec. 5, 1845. Married, for
second wife, Sophia S. Towne. Children, — Clarkson T.,
born Feb. 10, 1848; Barrett R., Aug. 8, 1850; Ernest
R., Oct. 8, 1851 ; Barrett E., April 7, 1853 ; Barrett R.,
died Sept. 11, 1851 ; Ernest R., died April. 18, 1853 ; Bar-
rett E., died Sept. 7, 1853.

7. Jason, son of William H. and Anna, born April 26,
1809 ; married Almira Turener, Jan. 17, 1840, and lived
in Bucksport, Me. Children, — Augusta, born Nov. 27,
1840 ; Olin P., July 10, 1845, died April 21, 1855 ; Mary
A., April 15, 1852, died May 2, 1858 ; Emma S., July 29,
1856, died Oct. 25, 1856. The last named was by his second
wife, Laura M. Williams ; to whom he was married in 1854.
He died March 15, 1858.

7. Anna, daughter of William H. and Anna, born May 5,
1811 ; married David B. Kempton, February, 1830, and
settled in Adams, Mich. Children, — Frances Anna, David
W., Julia A., Jane D., Albina V., Benjamin F., Elmira E.

7. George G., son of William H. and Lucy, born Nov. 9,
1819, and settled in Hampton. Married Sarah H Snow,
Dec. 29, 1847. Children, — George E., born Nov. 9, 1848 ;
Susan E., July 15, 1852 ; Emma, June 12, 1854, died
March 1, 1855 ; Micajah H, Oct. 14, 1856.

156 ESDRAS READE OF BOSTON,

7. Andrew G., son of William H. and Lucy, born Jan. 27,
1821 ; married Rebecca Patridge, Dec. 12, 1852, and set-
tled in Rockland, Me. Child, — Carance E., born May 31,
1854.

7. Francis P., son of William H. and Lucy, born Jan. 27,
1827 ; married Susan E. Patten, July 15, 1849, and settled
in Hampton, Me. She died Oct. 6, 1857. Children, —
Julia F., born Sept. 5, 1850, died 1852; Willis Martin,
June 19, 1853 ; Arthur B., Sept. 19, 1855.

7. Charles A., son of William H. and Lucy, born Sept. 18,
1830 ; married Elmira J. Willson, May 11, 1850, and lives
in Rockland, Me. Children, — Helen F., born July 5, 1850 ;
Hattie D., Oct. 21, 1853.

7. Clara C, daughter of William H. and Lucy, born
April 8, 1832 ; married Isaac H. Young, June 8, 1851, and
lives at Hampton, Me. He died Aug. 11, 1856.

6. Thomas, son of James and Mehitable, born at Dorches-
ter, March 1, 1770 ; lived in Boston, and died November,
1852.

6. Samuel, son of James and Mehitable, born at Dorches-
ter, Mass., July 6, 1783 ; lived in Beaufort, S.C., and died
Nov. 22, 1838.

5. Timothy, son of Thomas and Sarah, born at Chelms-
ford, March 21, 1714 ; married Mary Cummings, Nov. 10,
1732. Children, — Elizabeth, born Feb. 2, 1733; Mary,
Feb. 22, 1734 ; Timothy, Aug. 30, 1736, settled in Putney,
Vt. ; Eleazcr. He moved from Chelmsford to Dunstable,
when that was the name of a tract comprising Dunstable,
Nashua, Nashville, Hollis, and parts of the towns of Pelham,
Londonderry, Hudson, Merrimac, and Townsend ; making in
all about two hundred square miles, which constituted for
many years the northern frontier, where many savage out-
rages were committed by the Indians, and many deeds of
valor and heroism were performed by the whites. It was from

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this region that Lovell and a portion of his men came ;
and Timothy Read was one of the number selected, after
Lovell's Fight at Pigraarket, to go and scout for Indians,
and bury those who were killed in the fight. While
pursuing that object, they espied something in the bushes,
which they supposed was an Indian ; and Mr. Read
was selected, on account of being a superior marksman, to
fire ; which he did. The sequel shows that he had shot a
neighbor by the name of Whitney, who had been wounded
in the fight, and crawled into the bushes to prevent being
discovered by Indians. This event cast a shade of melan-
choly over the feelings of Mr. Reed, which he hardly
forgot through life. The following scrap may give the
reader some idea of the times in which this man and his
associates lived : —

" Old Dunstable was a very different town from that which at
present passes by that name. It was settled in 1673, and included
more than two hundred square miles, embracing the towns of Nashua,
Nashville, Hudson, and Hollis, in New Hampshire ; besides Dun-
stable and Tyngsborough, Mass. ; also portions of Amherst, Milford,
Merrimac, Litchfield, Londonderry, Pelham, and Brookline, N.H. ;
and parts of Pepperell and Townsend, Mass. Dunstable figured
quite prominently in the Indian wars and in that of the Revo-
lution. Those who are curious in reference to these and other
matters can gain a full knowledge of them in Fox's History of the
old township of Dunstable.

"A few particulars of the olden times may interest the general
reader. The following were the expenses of the funeral of James
Bhmchard, a farmer in tolerable circumstances, who died in Dun-
stable in 1704: Paid for a winding-sheet, 18s.; for a coffin, 10s.;
for digging grave, 7s. 6d. ; for the use of the pall, 5s. ; for gloves (to
distribute at the funeral), £1. Is. ; for wine, cigars, and spice (at the
funeral), £1. 5s. 9d. ; for the doctor, 14s. 9d. ; for attendance, ex-
penses, &c, £1. 17s. 5d.

" So great was the alarm from the frequent incursions of the
Indians, that the inhabitants lived chiefly in garrisons as late as

158 ESDRAS READE OP BOSTON,

1711. There were then seven garrisons, termed Col. Jonathan
Tyng's, Mr. Henry Farwell's, Mr. John Cummings's, Col. Samuel
Whiting's, Mr. Thomas Lands's, Queen's Garrison, and Mr. John
Lollendine's. They contained thirteen families, seven male inhabi-
tants, nineteen soldiers, — a total of eighty-six persons.

" So perilous were the times, that Dunstable was scarcely more
advanced in 1714 than it was in 1680. 'Many of the most useful
inhabitants had been slain or taken captive, — heads of families
especially. Some had removed to places more secure from Indian
depredation, and had deserted all.' "

6. Eleazer, son of Timothy and Mary, born in Dunstable,
February, 1749 ; married Rachel Cummings. Children, —
Rachel, born June 4, 1770 ; Rhoda, Nov. 26, 1772 ; Caleb,
Aug. 7, 1775, died Nov. 28, 1838 ; Leonard, April 4, 1777 ;
Rebecca, March 5, 1779 ; Betsy, Dec. 17, 1730.

7. Rebecca, daughter of Eleazer, married a Pratt. Child,
— Cummings Pratt, who lives in Roxbury.

7. Caleb, son of Eleazer, born Aug. 7, 1775 ; married
Sarah Richardson. Children, — Calvin, born in Dunstable,
Jan. 20, 1798 ; James, 1799 ; Rachel ; Abigail. Married,
for second wife, Widow Catherine Blodget. Children, —
Almira, Catherine, Sarah, Mary Ann, Betsy.

8. Calvin, son of Caleb, born in Dunstable, Jan. 10, 1798 ;
married Catherine Baxter. Children, — Sarah Richard-
son, born in Hawley, Mass., Jan. 4, 1821 ; Calvin Dwight,
in Ashfield, Feb. 28, 1824; William Eleazer, in Hawley,
Dec. 19, 1828 ; Calvin Blood, in Hawley, July 13, 1831 ;
Ann Eliza, in Dunstable, Feb. 8, 1833, died Sept. 1, 1835;
Charles Freeman, Aug. 7, 1835 ; James Alonzo, Nov. 9,
1839 ; Emily, in Lenox, N.Y., Sept. 2, 1844. He now
lives in Durhamville, Oneida County, N.Y. ; having left
Dunstable in 1844.

8. James, son of Caleb, married Bethiah Runnels of
Hollis. Children, — Eben Runnels, born June 20, 1824 ;
Hiram Augustus, Oct. 13, 1826 ; Calvin Richardson,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 159

March 3, 1829 ; James Dexter, Aug. 28, 1832 ; Dana
Dunbar, Dec. 15, 1834 ; Hannah Abba, July 11, 1836.
He lives in Medlbrd, Mass.

6. Timothy, son of Timothy and Mary, born Aug. 30,
1736, and settled in Dummerston, Vt. Children, — Isaac,
Timothy, William.

7. Isaac, son of Timothy of Dummerston, Vt. Children,

— David, Timothy, Sevil, Isaac, Josiah P., Kobert, John.

8. Robert, who had Robert and Randall.

8. Timothy, son of Isaac, had Abel, Timothy, John,
Daniel, Lucy, Charles, Ransom.

8. John, who married Eliza. Children, — Sarah Jane;
Daniel H., born Nov. 1, 1838. John lives in Fitzwilliam,
N.H,

Timothy, married Sarah. Child, — Sumner S., born
Aug. 14, 1841.

8. Timothy, son of Timothy of Dummerston, of the firm
of Reed and Furbush in Boston, married Jane Childs, Feb. 7,
1836. Children, — Alden, Emma, Timothy, Nabby, Francis.
Married, for second wife, Martha E. Whitney. Child, —
Frank. He died at Boston, July 14, 1858.

5. Joseph, son of Thomas, born at Chelmsford, June 4,
1716 ; married Ruth Underwood, May 30, 1737. Children,

— Joshua, born Dec. 1, 1737; Ruth, Jan. 4, 1740; Benjamin,
Dec. 31, 1742, died at Crown Point, October, 1760 ; Joseph,
Oct. 9,1746; Leonard,. April 23, 1750; Molly, Aug. 31,
1851, died Feb. 14, 1777 ; Sampson, May 13, 1754, died
Feb. 22,1777. He was a man of distinction; was repre-
sentative of the town of Westford twenty years in succession ;
and was one of the Boston Tea-party, although then some-
what advanced in life.

6. Joshua, son of Joseph and Ruth, born Dec. 1, 1737;
married Mary Spaulding. Children, — Elnathan, born
Oct. 12, 1758 ; Benjamin, Dec. 5, 1760 ; Joshua, March 6,

160 ESDRAS READE OP BOSTON,

1763, settled in Stoddard, N.H. ; Phineas, born Oct. 18,
1765; Amos, Aug. 1, 1768; Isaiah, Oct. 14, 1770, died
March 13, 1777 ; Zaccheus, born March 8, 1773 ; Joseph,
March 13, 1776, lives in Montpelier, Vt. ; Isaiah, March 17,
1778, lives in Stoddard, N.H. He was a justice of the peace
and an influential man.

7. Elnathan, son of Joshua, born at Westford, Oct. 12,
1758 ; was in the Kevolutionary War, during the whole
term, under Gen. Sullivan and Col. Morgan ; was discharged
at the close of the war at North Carolina ; and died at
Cavendish, Vt., leaving nine daughters, who married and
have families. He was a pensioner.

6. Joseph, son of Joseph and Ruth, born at Westford,
Oct. 9, 1746 ; married Sybel Procter of Chelmsford, Nov. 16,
1769.

7. Benjamin, son of Joshua and Ruth, born at Westford,
Dec. 5, 1760 ; served three years in the Revolution ; married
Olive Robbins of Westford, May 30, 1783 ; settled in Tem-
pleton, Mass., and followed the occupation of a tanner. He
was a man of distinction and much wealth. He died in
1823, leaving one daughter who had buried her children.

7. Joshua, son of Joshua, born in Westford, March 6,
1763 ; served three years in the Revolutionary War ; and
finally settled in Stoddard, N.H., and drew a pension. He
had a large family, some of which are men of distinction and
wealth in Nashua, N.H.

7. Phineas, son of Joshua, born at Westford, Oct. 18,
1765. He enlisted at fourteen years of age as a private
under Capt. Tucker of Salem. He learned the tanner's
trade, after the war, with his brother Benjamin, at Temple-
ton. He settled in Pitzwilliam, N.H., March 24, 1787, and
married Elizabeth Day of Templeton. Children, — Eliza,
born Oct. 21, 1790; Edward O., March 8, 1793; Daniel,
Jan. 2, 1796 ; John M., Sept. 18, 1802 ; Joseph, Sept. 23,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 161

1804, who died at Charlestown in 1826 ; Elliot, born April
21, 1806, wlio died in Georgia, June 15, 1838 ; Sarah, born
May 21, 1811 ; George, Sept. 3, 1815, who married Maria
Pray of Salem, Mass., and lives in California. He died in
1852.

8. Eliza, daughter of Phineas of Fitzwilliam, born Oct. 21,
1790; married James Godfrey. Children, — Joseph, who
is an engineer at Springfield, Mass. ; James, who is in Cali-
fornia.

8. Edward, son of Phineas, born at Fitzwilliam, March 8,
1793 ; graduated at Dartmouth College, and practised
law in Homer, N.Y. ; was a member of Congress during
Jackson's administration ; and has two daughters married,
and one not married, and two sons in California.

8. Daniel, son of Phineas, born Jan. 2, 1797 ; lives in
Adrian, Mich. Has two daughters married; one of whom
is at x\.drian, and one at Worcester, Mass.

8. Mary, daughter of Phineas, born July 8, 1800 ; mar-
ried Eli Sprague. They live at Ashfield, Mass., and have a
daughter and a son with them, and one son in California.

8. John M., son of Phineas, born Oct. 18, 1802 ; married
Henrietta Taylor. Has no children. The father of Mrs.
Reed was connected with the army during the Mexican War,
and distinguished himself at Monterey. He was afterwards
in the quartermaster's department, in Gen. Pierce's brigade ;
and was lassoed the 24th of September, 1847 or 8, while out
procuring supplies, in charge of a baggage-train from Gen.
Taylor to Gen. Scott.

8. Sarah, daughter of Phineas, born May 21, 1811 ; mar-
ried Major Daniel T. Hayden, Nov. 5, 1833. He was a
merchant in Fitzwilliam, and accidentally shot, Aug. 18,
1838, — a sad event. She married, for second husband,
Dexter Whittemore, a merchant ; and lives in New-York
City.

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162 ESDRAS READE OF BOSTON,

8. Charles, son of Plrineas, born March 17, 1813 ; married
Betsy Osburn, April 8, 1835. Child, — Daniel H., named
after the uncle who was shot.

7. Amos, son of Joshua, born at Westford, Aug. 1, 1768 ;
married Rachal Prcscott of Groton in 1790. Children, —
Radial, horn Aug. 19, 1790, married Jacob 0. Parker; Be-
thiah, May 26, 1792 ; Amos, April 7, 1794 ; Joshua, March
12, 1796; Otis, May 18, 1807; Stephen, March 5, 1799;
Francis, March 28, 1809; Augusta Maria, Sept. 4, 1812.
He moved to Sodus, N.Y.

7. Zacheus, son of Joshua, born at Westford, March 8,
1773 ; lived and died on the old farm in Westford ; married
Mary Parker in 1795. Children, — Zacheus, born Jan. 27,
1796 ; Abigail, Dec. 23, 1798 ; Mary, May 27, 1801 ; E.
Haywood ; Josiah, died in Charlestown in 1834 ; Almira,
Oct. 19, 1811 ; Edwin, Nov. 28, 1814, died in 1832. He
died Sept. 15, 1854, aged eighty-one years.

8. Zacheus, son of Zacheus of Westford, born Jan. 27,
1798 ; married Mary Haywood. Children, — Mary E.,
Sept. 2, 1823, married Silas N. Haywood of Springfield in
1845 ; Edward L., Aug. 13, 1825, died Jan. 16, 1852 ; Mar-
tha Ann, Sept. 16, 1828, married E. F. Dupee in 1845;
Joseph H., Aug. 5, 1835 ; Emily F., Aug. 9, 1837.

9. Edward L., son of Zacheus of Westford, born Aug. 13,
1825 ; married Julia A. Chamberlain, Jan. 6, 1852 ; and, by
my record, died the 16th of the same month.

7. Joseph, son of Joshua and Mary, born at Westford,
March 13, 1776 ; was for many years a merchant in Thet-
ford, Vt. ; but now resides in Montpelier, and has been for
more than twenty years Judge of Probate. Children, —
Charles, who is of the firm of Morrill and Reed, attorneys-at-
law, in Montpelier ; George, who is Secretary of the National
Insurance Company.

7. Isaiah, son of Joshua, born March 17, 1778 ; married

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. i 163

Lydia Procter. Children, — Lydia, born June 4, 1798,
married Amasa Fairbanks ; Isaiah, June 18, 1802 ; Jonas P.,
Dec. 16, 1806 ; Nancy, Nov. 30, 1809 ; Cyrus, April 24,
1814 ; John, Feb. 22, 1817 ; Edward, July 30, 1819. He
lives in Stodard, N.H.

8. Lydia, daughter of Isaiah of Stodard, born June 4,
1799 ; married Amasa Fairbanks, March 4, 1813. Children,
— Sumner; Mary. Tbe family live in Washington, N.H.
She died March 10, 1846.

8. Isaiah, son of Isaiah of Stodard, born June 18, 1802 ;
married Susanna Dodge, Aug. 12, 1830. Child, — Colum-
bus, born Sept. 14, 1831, who is a law student at Concord.
He died March 31, 1836.

8. Jonas P., son of Isaiah of Stodard, born Dec. 16, 1806;
married Ann Waldron, Dec. 15, 1837. Children, — Fre-
derick, Feb. 5, 1838 ; Benton H., Nov. 9, 1840 ; Jonas L.,
Nov. 13, 1842 ; Martha, Nov. 29, 1844 ; Isabella A., March 8,
1854. Lives at Stodard.

8. Nancy, daughter of Isaiah, born Nov. 30, 1809 ; mar-
ried Samuel Jenkins, Aug. 18, 1829. Children, — Nancy
Ann, born Nov. 22, 1830 ; Edmond S., July 30, 1831 ; Lydia,
Nov. 23, 1837. , Live in Stodard.

8. John, son of Isaiah, born July 30, 1819 ; married Har-
riet Wright, April 24, 1842. Children,- — ■ James, born June,
1846 ; Henry, July 20, 1850 ; Frank, Aug. 8, 1853.

8. Edward, son of Isaiah, born July 30, 1819 ; married
Mary A. Page, Oct. 16, 1844. Children, — George E.,
July 24, 1845 ; Mary M., Sept. 18, 1850 ; Joseph A.,
March 18, 1856.

4. John, son of Thomas of Chelmsford, grandson of Obe-
diah, married Jane Chamberlain at Charlestown, Jan. 10,
1707 ; and had Samuel, born Aug 11, 1711 ; Thomas,
Oct. 25, 1713 ; William, April 2, 1715 ; Jane, April 1, 1717 ;
Sarah, Feb. 22, 1719 ; Betsy, May 27, 1721 ; Hannah,

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Feb. 15, 1723 ; Lucy, July 16, 1727 ; Jacob. He had a
town-grant of land, March 28, 1719; and his children were
all born in Chelmsford.

5. Jacob, son of John and Jane, married Lucy. Chil-
dren,— Benjamin, born Feb. 22, 1752; Precilla, June 3,
1756 ; John, May 22, 1758.

6. Samuel, son of Samuel and Hannah, born at Chelms-
ford, Aug. 15, 1774 ; married . Children, — Mary, mar-
ried a Hosley of Pepperel ; Nancy, married Calvin Fletcher
of Groton ; Eliza, married Joseph Stevens of Littleton ; A.
J. ; Walter ; Eufus, 1805. Mr. Samuel Reed is now living
in Littleton.

7. Rufus, son of Samuel, born 1805 ; married Hannah
Fitch. Children, — Mary Louisa, born in Providence in
1833; Rufus Fletcher and Harriet Fitch (twins), in 1834
and 5, in two different years, in Newport; Joseph R., 1836 ;
Pamelia A., at Providence, 1837 ; Sarah F., 1841 ; Samuel
Rufus, 1843. He is now living in Providence.

6. Bridget, daughter of Samuel and Hannah, born at
Westford, July 14, 1762 ; married Jonas Keyes, and settled
in Putney, Vt. Children, ■ — Raymond ; Jonas ; John, who
lives in Putney ; Polly, who married a Flint of Royalton,
Vt. ; Sally, married a Lamb, and married Ephreim Morse
of Newfane for second husband ; Lucy, who married David
Reed of Dummerston.

5. Samuel, son of John and Jane, born Aug. 11, 1711 ;
married Abigail Cummings, Nov. 23, 1732. Children, —
Thomas, born in Westford, Feb. 6, 1733 ; Samuel, Jan. 20,
1735, died Jan. 20, 1755 ; Silas, April 2, 1737 ; William,
Sept. 24, 1739. His wife died March 31, 1743. Married
Hannah Underwood, June 22, 1757. Children, — Abigail,
April 8, 1758 ; Olive, April 13, 1760, married Silas Procter
in 1784 ; Bridget, July 14, 1762 ; Samuel, Aug. 15, 1764.
Lived in Westford.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 165

6. Samuel, son of Samuel and Abigail, born Aug. 15,
1774. Children, — Mary, who married a Hoslcy of Pepperel;
Nancy, married Calvin Fletcher of Groton ; Eliza, married
Joseph Stevens of Littleton ; Walter ; Eufus, who lives in
Providence.

6. Thomas, son of Samuel and Abigail of Westford, born
Feb. 6, 1733 ; married Susanna Button, Dec. 13, 1753.
Children, — Stephen, born March 26, 1754 ; Abigail, June 5,
1757 ; Susanna, May 2, 1759, died March 2, 1762 ; Jemima,
Nov. 10, 1761 ; Susanna, March 29, 1764, married to Wil-
liam Button, 1781 ; Sarah, June 27, 1766, married Reuben
Wright, 1787 ; Thomas, Jan. 5, 1768, married Phebe
Wright ;' Lucy, May 16, 1771; Anna, Dec. 5, 1773, mar-
ried Daniel Smith, jun., of Exeter, N.H., in 1811. Susanna,
his wife, died ; and he married Widow Phebe Procter of
Grafton, Jan. 20, 1784. Children, — Phebe, born Sept. 26,
1784; Charles, Dec. 11, 1785; Charlotte, Jan. 25, 1787,
married David Nutting in 1808. Married, for third wife,
Polly Spaulding, June 19, 1792. Children, — Roswell, born
Sept. 19, 1793 ; Polly, April 10, 1795, married Samuel
Spaulding, 1812; Alenath, Oct. 16, 1797, died Oct. 25,
1802 ; Lydia, May 13, 1798, married Joseph Wild of Brain,
tree, 1814 ; Phicinda, Nov. 28, 1803 : making seventeen
children. Tradition says that Polly Spaulding was keeping
house for Lieut. Thomas Read during his widowhood, after
the death of his second wife, and that one of his sons be-
came attached to her. Some time after she was married to his
father, in the absence of the old man, she asked the son to
crave a blessing at the dinner-table ; which was done in the
following words : " Once you was my love, and I loved you
as my life ; and, if my father had not been so spry, I should
have made you my wife."

7. Thomas, son of Thomas and Susan of Westford, born
Jan. 5, 1769 ; married Phebe Wright, Dec. 13, 1795. Chil-

166 ESDRAS READB OF BOSTON,

dren, — Phebe, born May 9, 1795; Lucinda, June 9, 1797 ;
Joseph, June 27, 1798; Phebe, Nov. 22, 1800; Thomas,
Feb. 12, 1803; Joel, February, 1807; Stephen, May 19,
1811 ; Roxanna, July 12, 1815. He lived in Nellson, N.H.

8. Joseph, son of Thomas and Phebe, born Jan. 27, 1798 ;
married Rebecca Lyon.

8. Thomas, son of Thomas and Phebe, born Feb. 12,
1803 ; married Mariam Clough of Candia, N.H., and kept
a public-house at East Cambridge. Children, — Dexter,
Porter, Theodore. He died in Cambridge, July 31, 1841.

8. Joel, son of Thomas and Phebe, born Feb. 7, 1807 ;
married Lucinda Sargeant of Candia, N.H. Children, —
George D., born May 20, 1837 ; Mary J., Aug. 25, 1840.
He kept a public-house at East Cambridge ; and died
Dec. 22, 1840. His widow and children still remain there.

8. Stephen, son of Thomas and Phebe, born May 19,
1811 ; married Sarah Clark, April 5, 1840. Child, —
Henry O., born March 25, 1845. He keeps the same public-
house in East Cambridge that his brothers Thomas and
Joel had kept, and is doing a flourishing business. He is a
wealthy and prosperous man.

8. Silas, son of Samuel of Westford and Abigail, born
at Westford, April 2, 1837 ; married Hannah Chamberlain,
June 2, 1792. Children, — Betsy, born Aug. 2, 1773, died
Sept. 8, 1777; Silas, Feb. 6, 1775 ; Hannah, June 25, 1777 ;
Silas, July 12, 1778 ; Ephreim, June 3, 1780, died Nov. 20,
1781; Ephreim, April 30, 1782; Betsy, Jan. 21, 1784;
Hannah, April 1, 1786 ; Abigail, Oct. 6, 1788 ; Samuel,
Dec. 20, 1789 ; John C, April 7, 1792 ; Rebecca, June 3,
1794; Bridget, Jan. 1, 1796, died Nov. 4, 1798; Luther,
Feb. 12, 1799 ; Bridget, April 30, 1801 ; Harriet : making
sixteen children.

7. Rosewell, son of Thomas and Polly of Westford, born
Sept. 19, 1773 ; married Sybel . Children, — Joanna,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 167

born July 22, 1815 ; Harriet, Aug. 19, 1817, married Joseph
Wright; Cynthia, Feb. 2, 1820; Merrick, Nov. 9, 1821;

Abraham, Jan. 18, 1824 ; Elbridge, 27, 1826 ; Clar-

rissa, Aug. 13, 1828 ; Elmira, Dec. 25, 1830 ; Laura,
April 24, 1833. He died in 1856.

8. Elbridge, son of Roswell, born at Westford, March 27,
1826 ; married Hannah F. Davis, May 6, 1853.

9. Luther, son of Silas and Hannah, born Feb. 12, 1799 ;
married Ann Tliaxter of Boston, April 6, 1828. Children,
— Luther W., born Dec. 22, 1828, died Jan. 17, 1829
Nancy T., Dec. 16, 1829 ; Anna R., Feb. 21, 1831 ; Silas C.
Sept. 7, 1834; Joseph W., Dec. 6, 1836, died Jan. 5, 1837
Luther F., Feb. 1, 1838 ; Catherine M., April 26, 1840.

4. Esdras, son of Thomas, and great-grandson of Esdras,
married Sarah, and moved to Woburn ; and, Sept. 8, 1719,
sold his real estate in Chelmsford to George Byam. He
was a tailor, as was his father Thomas, and great-grandfather
Esdras ; and it was a trade that was common among the
first generations of Reads in this country. The Reads
in and about Boston in Lincolnshire were among the
first who went into the trade of cloth after the influx of
the French Huguenots into England. One branch of the
business was to make the cloth into wearing apparel, con-
stituting what we call merchant tailors ; and the first
emigrants of Reeds to this country brought their tools with
them for making clothing.

4. Jonathan, son of Thomas of Chelmsford, married Mar-
garet. Children, — Hannah, born May 17, 1715; Betsy,
Jan. 15, 1717.

4. William, son of Thomas of Chelmsford, and great-
grandson of Esdras, married Hannah Bates. Children, —
Robert, born Dec. 25, 1720 ; William, Feb. 25, 1724 ; Debo-
rah, July 10, 1729 ; Louis, Feb. 3, 1734.

5. Robert, son of William and Hannah, Chelmsford, born

168 ESDRAS BEADE OF BOSTON,

in Chelmsford, Dec. 25, 1720 ; married Hannah Abbot of
Andover, and settled in Litchfield ; afterwards went to Am-
herst. Children, — Sarah, born at Chelmsford, March 9,
1743 ; Bridget, June 11, 1745 ; Lemuel, who died aged
twenty-one years ; William, Aug. 14, 1754 ; Mary, married
Benjamin Bradford ; Olive, married Samuel Greeley ; Ro-
bert. He was known as Col. Reed, and was for many years
the jailer at Amherst. He died Sept. 11, 1803, aged eighty-
three. He married Mrs. David Danforth for second wife.

6. William, son of Robert of Amherst, born Aug. 14,
1754 ; married Bridget Greeley. Child, — Robert, born
Oct. 19, 1786. He died at Amherst, Sept. 10, 1834, aged
eighty years. Married Abigail Howard for second wife,
June 27, 1791 ; his first wife having died in 1788.

7. Robert, son of William of Amherst, born Oct. 19, 1786 ;
married Rebecca French, Dec. 15, 1818. Children, — Wil-
liam, born Jan. 29, 1820 ; Abby Greeley, March 4, 1822 ;
Mary French, March 30, 1824 ; Helen, April 2, 1830 ;
Robert Leland, July 12, 1841. Married, for second wife,
Jane M. Leland of Saco, Me. He was for several years
Agent of the Land and Water Company at Manchester,
N.H. ; but died at Nashua, leaving a great estate ; and was
called one of the rich men of New Hampshire. The follow-
ing biographical sketch of Mr. Read has been contributed by
his son, Dr. William Read : —

Robert Read was born in Amherst, N.H., on what is now called
the " Fletcher Farm," situated about three miles north of the village,
on the banks of the Souhegan River, — a stream abounding in mill-
sites, and which has contributed in no small degree to the prosperity
of the region through which it flows. His grandfather, Robert Read,
moved from Litchfield to Amherst at an early date ; and, during the
Revolutionary War, held a commission of lieutenant-colonel, with
authority to raise a troop of horse. His father, William Read, was
an active and influential citizen of the town ; and for many years
served as deputy-sherifi°, in which capacity he acquired a wide-

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spread reputation for his success in executing the duties of his office.
It was the intention of his father that Robert should prepare him-
self, by a suitable course of education, for one of the learned profes-
sions ; and, to this end, he was entered as a student at Exeter
Academy, then under the charge of the famous Master Abbott.
The bent of his mind, however, was to a more active life ; and,
leaving the academy, he was apprenticed to Daniel Hayden, a mer-
chant in Chelmsford, Mass. Here he remained till his majority ;
when, returning to his native town, he associated himself with his
father in business, under the firm of William Read and Son. The
energy and tact of Mr. Read soon raised the firm to a commanding
position, and, for man)' years, made their store the centre of trade for
a large territory. Upon the dissolution of this firm, consequent upon
the retirement of the senior partner, Mr. Read formed a new con-
nection with Isaac Spalding; and continued the business at the old
stand, with increasing success, till the growth of Nashua, and the
development of the manufacturing facilities at that place, induced
the latter to establish himself there, when the business was continued
in the name of Mr. Read alone. It may be remarked here, that the
business talent of Mr. Spalding soon placed him in a conspicuous
and commanding position in his new location ; and he now ranks
among the wealthiest men of his State. Up to the period of which
we are speaking, the prosperity of Amherst had been constantly
increasing. The shire-town of Hillsborough County, — it was here
that the courts were held, and the county business transacted. The
great stage route from the north, through the centre of the State to
the seaboard, which took this place on its way, also gave it an advan-
tage over the less-favored towns on either side. But, as the manu-
facturing interest developed, other places, more favored by nature,
began to dispute its supremacy : and with the rise of Nashua and
Manchester on the south and east, and the increase of Milford on the
west, came the decline of Amherst, and the withdrawal of almost
the entire trade, except what was supplied by the wants of its own
inhabitants ; and of this, even, scarce a moiety remained. From a
busy mart, its streets thronged with purchasers from all the towns
around, it has changed to one of the quietest of country villages. Its
echoes are seldom awakened by the bustle of traffic, and the dust
lies undisturbed along its highways. The energy and activity which
marked his character, joined to a most scrupulous regard for equity

170 ESDRAS READE OF BOSTON,

and justice, which gained him the confidence of all who knew him,
from an early period gained for Mr. Read the suffrages of his fellow-
citizens for various offices of public trust. He held the responsible
position of town-clerk for thirteen successive years, — from 1817 to
1828 inclusive. In 1826, he was elected representative to the State
Legislature, where he served three terms ; being re-elected in 1827
and 1828. In the latter year, he was appointed aide-de-camp by
Gov. John Bell, with the rank of colonel. In military affairs he was
also an active and influential participator. He served in every
capacity, from private to commander, in the "West Company of
Infantry, — one of the most efficient companies of the State; and
in 1814, at the time of the threatened invasion by the British, while
lieutenant, accompanied it to Portsmouth as its commander, — his
senior officer not being able to leave home. In 1835, Mr. Read
removed to Nashua to assume the duties of Agent of the Nashua
Manufacturing Company ; a position he remained in two years. At
the expiration of that time (1837) he was appointed general manager
of the Land and Water-power Company, which had recently pur-
chased extensive tracts of land at the Amoskeag Falls in Manches-
ter, and from which the present city of that name dates its origin.
In this capacity he continued fourteen years, till 1852; when he
resigned, and took up his residence once more in Nashua, where
he remained till his death. In 1851, he was elected a member of the
Convention for the revision of the Constitution of the State, and repre-
sented Manchester hi that capacity. Of his conduct while in office
at Manchester, says the author of the History of that city, " he per-
formed his duties faithfully to the company by which he was em-
ployed, as every one will testify who had business with him. Strictly
a business-man, he mingled very little with other than business-men ;
and hence was very little identified with interests disconnected with
the corporation: yet no measure connected with the progress of our
city escaped his attention ; and he most heartily co-incided in all that
liberal course of policy, on the part of the treasurer and the directors,
that has added so much of beauty and value to our city."

After his removal to Nashua, he was once elected a representative
from that place to the State Legislature ; was a member of the first
Board of Aldermen elected under the city charter ; and was Presi-
dent of the Nashua and Lowell Railroad Company until a few
months before his death, when, warned by increasing infirmities of
his approaching dissolution, he resigned.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 171

8. William, son of Kobert of Nashua, and Rebecca, born
Jan. 29, 1820 ; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1839 ;
M. D. Harvard University, 1842 ; married Sarah A. P.
McLellan, June 22, 1843. Children, — William, born in
Lynn, Oct. 4, 1844 ; Frederick French, born in Lynn,
May 23, 1847 ; Robert McLellan, born in Boston, Sept. 6,
1848 ; Charles French, born in Boston, Sept. 17, 1853.
He is a celebrated physician, and practises his profession in
Boston. He lives at No. 713, Washington Street.

8. Abby Greeley, daughter of Robert of Nashua, and Re-
becca, born March 4, 1822 ; married to Rev. Jonas B. Clark
of Swampscott, Jan. 11, 1843. Children, — Helen Rebecca,
born East Windsor, Ct., May 9, 1844, died in Boston, Oct. 11,
1848 ; Henry Fields, born in Swampscott, Nov. 28, 1846,
died in Manchester, N.H., Oct. 18, 1848 ; Arthur French,
born in Swampscott, Aug. 4, 1849 ; Helen Grafton, born in
Swampscott, July 8, 1851 ; Grace Blanchard, born in Swamp-
scott, July 14, 1853. Mr. Clark is grandson and namesake
of Rev. Jonas Clarke, who was pastor of the church in Lex-
ington at the time of Lexington Fight ; the intimate friend
of John and Samuel Adams ; and brother-in-law of John
Hancock. The venerable pastor, on the night previous to
the fight, sheltered his three mysterious friends from the
chilling damp of night ; and, when his house was no longer
a safe retreat, they were conveyed to the house of the
minister of Woburn Precinct. From thence, a house in
the wood near the line of Billerica was their safe retreat.
Their heads being considered of greater value to the British
than such heads as grew on the shoulders of some other
men, a large reward was offered for them. The house in
Woburn Precinct, now Burlington, where one part of this
affair took place, is now occupied by the venerable Rev.
Samuel Sewell, a celebrated genealogist and antiquarian,
and a descendant of the celebrated Samuel Sewell of olden

172 ESDRAS READB OP BOSTON,

time. The Rev. Samuel Sewell married the daughter
of the Rev. Mr. Merritt, who was a young man settled
over the church in Woburn Precinct, a few months be-
fore the battle of Lexington ; and was at that time board-
ing with Mrs. Jones, the widow of the former pastor. He
afterwards married Mrs. Jones's daughter. It was Mr.
Merritt who piloted the three guests to their hiding-place in
the woods. The house has been in the family a hundred
and six years, and the occupants have been the three suc-
cessive pastors of the parish during that period. It is
truly venerable in appearance as well as age, and is much
enhanced in its attractions by the large and overtopping
shade-trees, and interesting reminiscences which the vene-
rable pastor and happy family attach to the buildings and
trees and other objects connected with the place. If I
were to give a young clergyman, about to settle in life, my
advice, one portion of it would be to make it in his way to
visit this spot, and see illustrated by every thing about him
the peaceful and happy effect of piety and refinement, accom-
panied with true politeness and hospitality. The influence
of such a family in a parish must be truly valuable. The
house of the Rev. Mr. Clarke is still standing, about one-
fourth of a mile north of the monument in Lexington. It
is somewhat dilapidated, but still shows that it is, or has
been, the dwelling of no ordinary personage. The front-
yard is somewhat overgrown with ancient lilacs. It has
been occupied, since the decease of Mr. Clarke, by his
daughters.

8. Helen, daughter of Robert and Rebecca, born in Am-
herst, April 20, 1830 ; married Charles A. Greeley of Nashua,
Nov. 21, 1855. Child, — George Thornton, born Aug. 23,
1856. Lives in Nashua, Chickasaw County, Io.

6. Olive, married Samuel Greele, son of Samuel of Not-
tingham, now Hudson, N.H. ; and had issue, — Nancy Hoi-

•*

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 173

land, born 1780 (married Dr. Oliver Scripture of Hollis,
N.H.) ; Samuel, born July 2, 1783 (A.B. Harvard, 1802 ;
married, first, Lydia M. Sewall of Marblebead, Mass., daugh-
ter of Cbief-Justice Sewall, by whom he had a son, who died
soon after birth ; second, Louisa May, daughter of Col.
Joseph May of Boston, by whom he had Samuel Sewall and
Louisa May, both born in Boston ; third, Maria Antoinette
Paine, daughter of Robert Treat Paine, one of the signers of
the Declaration of Independence, — no issue ; fourth, Sarah
Follansbee Emerson of Newburyport, by whom lie has no
issue) ; Augustus, born December, 1787 (A.B. Dartmouth,
1813 ; married Caroline Lovett of New York, where be died
1843 ; no issue) ; William, born 17 — (now residing in Penn-
sylvania ; married, first, Pelt ; second, ; by

both of whom be has issue) ; Abigail, born 17 — (married
Daniel Elliott of Keene, N.H. ; A.B. Dartmouth, 1813 ; and
has issue) ; Lucy (married Augustus P. Smith, Esq., of New-
York City, attorney and counsellor at law, and has numerous
issue) ; Augustus Greele (A.B. Yale, 1839 ; M.D. New York,
184- ; married Elizabeth Pierce ; has four children); Henry
Bond, A.B. Yale, now settled in the ministry at Columbus,
0. (married Martha, daughter of Rev. Dr. Skinner of New-
York City, and has issue) ; Caroline (married Cornell,

son of Hon. Robert Cornell, late of New-York City, deceased,
and has three children); Robert, born 17 — , now residing

in New- York City (married Harriet , widow of

Fleming, and has issue).

6. Thomas, son of Benjamin and Sarah, born March 14,
1766 ; married Molly Spaulding, 1792.

5. Benjamin, son of Thomas of Chelmsford, and Sarah,
born at Westford, Sept. 3, 1732 ; married Abigail Fasset,
Jan. 2, 1755. Children, — Sybel, Feb. 24, 1755; Abel,
Marcb 2, 1757 ; Abigail, Oct. 15, 1759 ; Rebecca, Sept. 3,
1761, married Isaac Procter in 1783; Thomas, March 14,

174 ESDRAS READE OP BOSTON,

1766, married Sally Spaulding in 1792 ; Benjamin, June 8,
1768. He died April 22, 1778 : his wife died May 10,
1787.

6. Abel, son of Benjamin and Abigail, born March 22,
1757 ; married Rebecca Farrer, Nov. 24, 1778. Children,
— Peter, born Oct. 15, 1788, died April 4, 1853 ; Benjamin,
born Jan. 19, 1779; Olive, June 30, 1781; Abel, Nov. 1,
1782 ; Timothy, Sept. 1, 1785, died July 11, 1830 ; Rebecca,
born Aug. 30, 1786.

5. William, son of William and Hannah of Chelmsford,
born at Chelmsford, Feb. 25, 1724 ; married Lucy Spaulding
of Merrimac, N.H. Children, — Zadoc ; William; Henry;
Hannah, married Samuel Center of Windham, N.H. ; Lucy,
married Jonathan Lyon of Pelham, N.H., and had Read
Lyon ; and Sally, who married Roger Coburn of Pelham :
the three "daughters lived to be about ninety years each
before their death. Mr. Reed settled, when young, in
Litchfield, N.H., on what was at that time the frontier, and
nigh to the northern border of ancient Dunstable. He was
a noted bear-hunter, and was killed at the raising of a
building. He had just received a colonel's commission at
the time of his decease. Reed's Ferry, at Litchfield, took
its name from him.

6. Zadoc, son of Col. William of Litchfield, N.H., married
Lucy McLean of New Boston. Children, — Francis and
Dudley. He settled in Antrim.

6. William, son of Col. William of Litchfield, married
Lydia B. Nourse of Londonderry. Children, — Patty, Wil-
liam, Robert, Francis, David, Louisa, Henry, Lydia. Married
Mary Aikin for second wife. Child, — Phineas. He was
deacon of the church in Litchfield.

7. William, son of William of Litchfield and grandson of
Col. William, married Judith Little. Children, — Lissie S.,
Mary H., John S., and Lydia. He lives upon the old place

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 175

owned and occupied by the family from its first settlement
to the present.

7. Robert, son of William of Litchfield, and Lydia, born

; married Mary Moody of Newburyport in 1820.

Children, — William W. ; Enoch M., who keeps in New-
buryport ; Mary H. ; Robert ; and John. He has been a
captain of militia, and is now a trader in Lowell (see letter
to Dr. Read).

7. Francis, son of William and Lydia, has five children,
as follows, — Samantha, Caroline, Louisa, Louvisa, and
George W.

7. Phineas, son of William and Lydia. Children, —
Mary J., William T., Walter H., George M., Rachal, Nella
M., and Phineas.

7. Louisa, daughter of William and Lydia of Litchfield,
N.H., married Jesse Little of Atkinson, N.H. ; and his sister
married her brother William of Litchfield. Children, —
Lydia, born April 27, 1820 ; William Reed, Nov. 4, 1823 ;
Albert, Feb. 13, 1835.

6. Henry, son of Col. William of Litchfield, married Anna
McMurphey of Londonderry, and went to Canada. Chil-
dren,— Harry, Phillip, John, Leonard, James, Zadock.

8. Lydia, daughter of Louisa and Jesse, born April 4,
1820 ; married Thomas L. Page. Children, — Harriet, who
died young; William W., 1846 ; Jesse T., 1850, died young;
Louisa, died young.

8. William R., son of Louisa and Jesse Little, born Nov. 4,
1823 ; married Elizabeth A., daughter of Capt. Stephen
Little of Groveland, Mass. Children, — Mary ; Albina.
She died in 1853.

6. Joseph, son of Joseph and Ruth, born Oct. 9, 1746 ;
married Martha Fletcher, Nov. 11, 1771. Children, —
Ruth, born Dec. 22, 1771, married Susan Heald in 1813 ;
Patty, April 4, 1773.

176 ESDRAS READE OP BOSTON.

6. Leonard, son of Joseph and Ruth, born April 23, 1750 ;
married Bethiah. Children, — Bethiah, born June 4, 1770 ;
Lois, Dec. 26, 1771 ; Ruth, Nov. 12, 1774 ; Joel.

7. Joel, son of Leonard, married Joanna Chandler, Jan. 7,
1810. Children, — William, born Dec. 17, 1810; Joseph,
Dec. 29, 1811 ; Charles G., Nov. 7, 1813 ; Edwin R., July 2,
1815 ; Joanna, April 5, 1817 ; Bethiah, Dec. 20, 1818 ;
Leonard, March 12, 1821 ; Nancy, Aug. 30, 1822 ; Sarah R.,
May 21, 1824.

8. Leonard, son of Joel and Joanna of Westford, born
March 12, 1821 ; married Leonora Tarr of Rockport, Oct. 7,
1844. Children, — Emma; Georgianna. Lives in Charles-
town.

5. William, son of John and Jane of Chelmsford, born at
Chelmsford, April 2, 1715 ; married Thankful Spaulding
of Westford, Dec. 29, 1741, and settled in Westford. Chil-
dren,— Thadeus, born May 15, 1742; William, July 9,
1753 ; Oliver, who died June 20, 1791.

6. William, son of William and Thankful, born July 9,
1753 ; married Lydia Stratton in 1785. Child, — William,
who married Lucinda Patch, Jan. 12, 1817.

5. Thomas, son of John and Jane, born at Chelmsford,
Oct. 25, 1713; married Olive. Children, — Sarah, born at
Westford, April 25, 1747 ; Jacob, March 18, 1748 ; Cathe-
rine, Oct. 13, 1750, married a Fosset, and died April 19,
1805 ; Thomas, born Aug. 28, 1752 ; Hannah, May 4,
1754; Rachal, Aug. 20,1756; Martha, March 18, 1758;
Levi, Feb. 15, 1760; Howard,- Feb. 26, 1762.

5. Eleazer, son of Thomas and Sarah of Westford, born
Feb. 22, 1731 ; married Joanna Fitch, March 22, 1754.
Children, — Joanna, born Oct. 3, 1754; Samuel, March 7,
1756; Eleazer, March 1, 1760; Eliakim, Aug. 1, 1762;
Catherine, Feb. 14, 1764, married Samuel Reed of Little-
ton in 1785 ; Elihu, April 2, 1766, was in the Revolution ;

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 177

Lydia, June 7, 1768, married Jacob Kendall, 1788 ; Rhoda,
1770, married George Frederick, 1788 ; Mirriam, March 27,
1772, married Samuel Coburn of Dracut, 1794 ; Sarah,
March 17, 1776 ; Aaron, Nov. 27, 1778.

6. Samuel, son of Eleazer and Elizabeth, born March 7,
1756, and setted in Tyngsborough. Children, — Thomas,
born Oct. 11, 1778 ; Jesse, Dec. 20, 1779 ; Lucy, April 19,
1781.

7. Thomas, son of Samuel and Elizabeth, born Oct. 11,
1778 ; married Rebecca Cummings, both of Westford, Dec. 8,
1803.

6. Eleazer, son of Eleazer and Joanna, born March 1,
1760; married Elizabeth Fletcher in 1786. Children, —
Eleazer and Joshua (twins), born Dec. 26, 1786; Jepthah,
1790, died March 30, 1855.

7. Eleazer, son of Eleazer and Elizabeth of Westford, and
twin-brother of Joshua, born Dec. 26, 1786 ; married Mary
Putnam of Fitchburg, Aug. 13, 1814.

6. Levi, sou of Thomas and Olive, born Feb. 15, 1760 ;
married Maria. Child, — Georgianna, born November,
1855.

5. Benjamin, son of Thomas and Sarah of Westford, born
Sept. 3, 1732 ; married Abigail Fasset, Jan. 2, 1755. Chil-
dren,—Sybel, born Feb. 24, 1755 ; Abel, March 22, 1757;
Abigail, Oct. 15, 1759 ; Rebecca, Sept. 3, 1761, married
Isaac Procter in 1783 ; Thomas, March 14, 1766, married
Molly Spaulding, 1792 ; Benjamin, June 8, 1768. He was
in battle, and standing by the side of Capt. Davis of Revolu-
tionary memory, when the latter fell. He died April 22,
1778 : his wife died May 10, 1787.

Thomas, son of Benjamin, served in the Revolutionary
War ; and finally settled in Londonderry, Vt., where he
brought up a large family.

6. William, son of William and Thankful, born at West-

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178 ESDRAS READE OP BOSTON,

ford, July 9, 1753 ; married Lydia Straton in 1785. Child,
— William, who married Lucinda Patch in 1817.

6. Oliver, son of William and Thankful, married Abigail.
Children, — Oliver, born July 25, 1779; Abigail, Nov. 25,
1780 ; Patty, Oct. 22, 1782 ; Lucy, Sept. 2, 1785, married
Joel Hunter ; Richard, April 22, 1789, died April 29, 1790.
He died June 20, 1791.

6. Eliakim, son of Eleazer and Joanna, born Aug. 1, 1762;
married in Chelmsford to Sarah Mansfield, Nov. 28, 1784.

7. Joshua, son of Eleazer and Elizabeth, and twin-brother
of Eleazer, born at Westford, Dec. 26, 1786 ; married Char-
lotte, daughter of Lieut. Thomas, May 15, 1816. Child, —
Charlotte, born Nov. 23, 1816.

6. Abel, son of Benjamin and Abigail, born March 22,
1757; married Farrer, Nov. 24, 1778. Children, — Peter,
born Oct. 15, 1788, died April 4, 1853 ; Benjamin, horn
Jan. 19, 1799; Olive, June 30, 1781; Abel, Nov. 1, 1782;
Timothy, Sept. 18, 1785 ; Rebecca, Aug. 30, 1786.

7. Timothy, son of Abel and Rebecca, born Sept. 18,
1785; married Mary Procter, Dec. 6,1825. Children, —
Timothy, born June 6, 1826 ; Mary Ann, Dec. 22, 1827.
He had probably married Sarah Pierce, daughter of Jonas
Pierce, May 16, 1815, and had Sarah E., in Chelmsford,
Sept. 15, 1815 ; Mary Ann, Aug. 10, 1817. He died
July 11, 1830. His wife married Mr. Tibbets, and died
May 5, 1832.

6. Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Abigail of Westford,
born June 8, 1768 ; married Jerusha. He settled in Wea-
thersfield, Vt., about the year 1790. Children, — Jerusha,
Nov. 10,1793; Abigail, Dec. 4, 1795; Orpha, Jan. 25, 1798 ;
Timothy, Dec. 5, 1800 ; Lydia, Sept. 4, 1804 ; Benjamin,
Sept. 7, 1806 ; Ezra, Sept. 11, 1808 ; Franklin, Feb. 16,
1811; Charles, Sept. 11, 1812; Emerson, Feb. 23, 1811.
He died at the age of eighty-two years.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 179

7. Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Jerusha, born Sept. 7,
1806 ; married Arathusa. Children, — Lorette Ellen,
May 23, 1839 ; Loren Benjamin, July 1, 1841 ; Adeline
Jerusha, Dec. 3, 1845 ; Leslie Orwin, June 7, 1848. He
lives in Waitsfield, Vt. ; is a prominent man, and has been
for some years a member of the Legislature.

6. Thomas, the son of Benjamin of Chelmsford, born
March 14, 1766 ; married Elizabeth Diggins, and settled in
Londonderry, Vt., Their children were — Elizabeth ; Lucy ;
Laura ; Sophia ; Louisa ; Rebecca ; Mindol ; Almira ; Theo-
dotia ; Thomas ; Cyrus ; Martin P., born in Weathersfield,
Vt., April 20, 1796. Married Nabby Baldwin, May 6, 1799.
Children, — Lucy H., born in Londonderry, Vt., Sept. 13,
1817 ; Benjamin B., Dec. 3, 1819 ; Emeline, born in
Worcester, Vt., Dec. 6, 1822 ; Charles, Jan. 11, 1827, died
Aug. 13, 1833 ; Elizabeth, born April 21, 1829 ; James,
Aug. 23, 1831, died June 3, 1844 ; Semantha K., born
April 1, 1834, died March 19, 1838 ; Henryette S., born
Oct. 11, 1838 ; Semantha Jane, July 17, 1843. He lives in
Worcester, and is a justice of the peace for the county
in which he lives.

6. Elihu, son of Eleazer and Joanna, born April 22, 1766 ;
married Lucy Reinsford in Boston, July 23, 1792. Chil-
dren,— William, born in Boston, Dec. 12, 1792; Thomas;
Josiah ; George W. ; Mary, who married James Bates. He
was a soldier of the Revolution, and drew a pension.

7. William, son of Elihu, born Dec. 12, 1792 ; married
Hannah Cash of Marblehead, Aug. 26, 1819. Children, —
William G., born Nov. 27, 1820, died Feb. 9, 1821 ; William
G., born in Boston, June 13, 1823 ; Charles H., Sept. 23,
1826, died May 19, 1828 ; Charles H., born Dec. 25, 1831 ;
Lucy Ann, July 1, 1833 ; Emeline R., born in Chelsea,
Oct. 2, 1837. He died in 1850 ; and his widow lives at
No. 66, Shurtleff Street, Chelsea.

180

8. William G., son of William and Hannah, born June 13,
1823; married Eliza C. Bagnall. Children, — Thomas B.,
born in Chelsea, July 8, 1848 ; Anna D., Oct. 10, 1853 ;
Mary A., Aug. 17, 1855. He keeps in Broadway, Chelsea.

8. Lucy, daughter of William and Hannah, born July 1,
1833 ; married Thomas H. Mayo, June 8, 1854. Child, —
William R., born in Chelsea, Feb. 6, 1857. They live in
Chelsea.

7. Thomas, son of Elihu, married Sarah Jones of Boston.
Children, — Thomas J. ; Eliza.

7. Josiah, son of Elihu, married Lucinda. Children, —
Henry R., born at Chelmsford, Aug. 23, 1837, and keeps
with Gilbert and Sons in Boston ; Andrew F. ; Lucy ;
Helen. He lives at New Ipswich.

7. George, son of Elihu, lives at Fall River, No. 33, Pine
Street ; married Eveline E. Leonard of Taunton. Children,
— George Hodges, born Jan. 3, 1836 ; Emeline F., Sept. 25,
1839 ; Charles H., Dec. 26, 1849 ; Walter H., died young.

Supply Read of Chelmsford was a soldier of the Revolu-
tion ; married Susanna Byam, June 7, 1781, and moved to
Acworth, N.H., where he lived to be ninety-two years of age.
Children, — John, who became a Mormon preacher, and
died at Salt Lake ; Tileson, who went West ; Susan, mar-
ried Silas Rice, and went to Missouri ; one daughter married
a Benjamin, and went West ; Supply ; Patty, who married
Asa Shed of Stodard ; Sally, died young ; Lucinda, mar-
ried a Corey ; Mahalu, married David Currier, and lives in
Unity, N.H. ; Parker, who went to Missouri.

Supply, son of Supply and Susanna, born June 2, 1791 ;
married Mercy Streeter, Nov. 20, 1817. She died March 27,
1831 : he died in Lowell, June 12, 1854. Children, —
Sylvester, born July 20, 1818, now living in Acworth ;
Theron A., Nov. 27, 1819 ; Leusy I., born in Northfield, Vt.,
May 24, 1822; Mary M., March 2, 1825, died Aug. 30,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 181

1826; Maria F., born Oct. 4, 1827; Mary Ann, Feb. 6, 1829.
Married, for second wife, Catherine Moors of Stodard, N.H.,
Oct. 27, 1831. Children, — Supply, born July 17, 1832,
died in Lowell, Sept. 6, 1853 ; Willard B., born in Acworth,
June 8, 1834 ; Israel, Oct. 16, 1836, lives in Lowell ; George
W., Dec. 24, 1838 ; Gracy T. H., Nov. 27, 1840 ; Ann J.,
Dec. 3, 1845.

Willard B., son of Supply and Catherine, born in Acworth,
N.H., June 8, 1834; married to S. J. Smith. Child,—
Willard A.

Tileston, son of Supply of Acworth, had one son, Timothy
S., now living in Fitzwilliam, N.H. ; married Sarah. Child,
— Sumner I., born Aug. 14, 1841.

John Reed of Chelmsford, brother of Supply, settled in
Acworth, N.H. Children, — Lucy, Amos, and Holden.

David of Chelmsford, brother of Supply. Child, — John.

William, son of Samuel and Abigail of Westford, born
Sept. 24, 1739 ; settled in Hollis, N.H. ; was a captain in
the Revolutionary War. Children, — Uriah, Samuel, Wil-
liam, James Gilman, Patty.

William, son of Capt. William, was also a captain ^ and had
William, who married Lydia Gilson of Nashua, May 8, 1816.

James G., son of Capt. William of Hollis, married a
Wright. Children, — James G., Asa, John L., Luther W.,
Lucinda, Julia, Abigail.

James, son of James G., married Sophia Wood. Child, —
James G.

James G., son of James, married Hannah Pushly. Chil-
dren, — Aletha ; Gillman. He lives in Newburyport.

William, son of John and Jane, or of Thomas, born at
Chelmsford ; married Molly Conn of Shirley, Mass., and
was the first settler in the town of Chesterfield, Mass. Chil-
dren, — William, John, Ephraim, Joseph, George, James,
Thomas, Henry, Polly, Betsy.

182 ESDRAS EBADE OF BOSTON,

William, son of William and Molly, married Anabasaba
Smith of Shirley, and lived in Chesterfield. Children, —
William, who now lives in Groton ; Thomas ; Boz ; Willard ;
Sampson ; Nancy, married Reuben Willard of Swan ton, Vt. ;
Orpha A. ; Anabasaba, married Mr. Chase ; Betsy. He was
drowned in Chesterfield.

William, son of William and Anabasaba, married .

Child, — Dolly, who married a Chambers, and went West.

Betsy, daughter of William and Anabasaba, married Abia-
ther Wetherbee, and lives in Chesterfield. Child, — Herbert
R., born in 1844.

Joseph, George, and James, sons of William and Molly,
all settled in Chester, Vt. Thomas went to Ohio ; Ephraim
went to Newport; William and Henry lived and died in
Chesterfield ; George died at Crown Point.

Anabasaba, daughter of William and Anabasaba of Ches-
terfield, married Mr. Chase. Child, — Charles, who is
living in Westmoreland.

Sampson, son of William and Anabasaba, distinguished
himself in putting down Shay's Rebellion in 1785. He
was living in Tremont Street, Boston, in 1789. Married in
Boston to Ann Sargeant, March 28, 1773. Child, — Samp-
son.

Sampson, son of Sampson and Ann, married in Boston, to
Hannah Fiske, Feb. 28, 1799.

James, son of William and Molly of Chesterfield, born in
1760 ; settled in Chester, Vt. ; married Lydia Powers.
Children, — Lydia, who married Mr. Balch of Chester ;
Phila, who married John Thompson of Chester ; Patty,
married Mr. Haughton of Cavendish ; Richard ; Jonas ;
John, who was in the battle of Plattsburg, and died there.
He died in 1835.

Richard, son of James and Lydia, married Irene Deane
of Hartland, Vt. Children, — Alfred, who married Hannah

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 183

Benjamin ; Edward, married Matilda Pedder of Montreal ;
James ; Helen ; Sarah, who married C. M. Dorsey of Ben-
son, Vt.

Jonas, son of James and Lydia, married Widow Jennings
of New Haven, Vt. Children, — A. A. Reed, E. W. Reed,
F. L. Reed. His wife had been the wife of Samson Reed,
deceased, of Ludlow, Vt., and afterwards the wife of a Mr.
Jennings ; and Jonas Reed appears to be her third husband.

A. A., son of Jonas, married S. S. Baldwin of Bristol, Vt.,
Feb. 22, 1855.

E. R., son of Jonas, married Miss Pippin of Phillipston,
Mass.

6. Benjamin, son of Jacob and Lucy, born in Chelmsford,
Mass., Feb. 22, 1752 ; married Miss Powers. Children, —
Benjamin, born at Chelmsford, Mass., Feb. 11, 1776, and
moved to Cherry Valley, N.Y., in 1814 ; Polly, Aug. 3, 1777 ;
Jacob, Sept. 24, 1779, went to Maine ; Webber, born in
Princeton, Sept. 19, 1781 ; Elisha, Oct. 18, 1783 ; Bridget,
April 9, 1786 ; Lucy, Feb. 28, 1788 ; Peter, Feb. 29, 1790,
went to Munroe, Mich. ; Joseph, Feb. 11, 1794, served in the
war of 1812, and fell in battle at the Stone Mill ; Samuel,
May 27, 1796 ; Nancy, Jan. 15, 1798 ; Thomas, May 15,
1800. He moved to Princeton about the year 1780 ; and in
1808, he, with two of his sons (Webber and Thomas), moved
to Durham, U.C. He died in Wirkham, U.C., Oct. 19, 1810 :
his wife died at Durham, Dec. 27, 1852. He was a soldier
of the Revolution.

7. Samuel, son of Benjamin, born at Princeton, May 27,
1796 ; married Nancy Swett of Bath, N.H., October, 1820.
Children, — Abiel S., born at Rygate, Vt., Aug. 31, 1821;
Mary E., Sept. 11, 1823 ; David S., born in Barnett, Vt.,
Nov. 22, 1825 ; Moses, born in Durham, U.C, Jan. 11,
1827, died Feb. 12, 1828 ; Sarah A., born March 27, 1831 ;
Elizabeth M., July 18, 1833 ; Samuel A., May 19, 1835 ;

184

Nancy, born in Westfield, Vt., May 15, 1837, died Jan. 20,
1841. His wife died April 9, 1844. Married Jane Thurstain
of Bath, N.H., November, 1845. Children, — Andrew A.,
born in Lisbon, N.H., March 1, 1848 ; Webber H., Aug. 16,
1849 ; Mary Ann, March 14, 1851 ; Florence M., Jan. 23,
1853.

8. Abiel S., son of Samuel, born at Rygate, Aug. 31, 1821 ;
married at Bath, Feb. 21, 1847. Children, — Thiah, born
Feb. 28, 1850, died Aug. 5, 1854 ; James B., born March 17,
1857. He moved to Peacham, Vt., Aug. 29, 1858.

8. Daniel S., son of Samuel and Nancy, born at Barnett,
Nov. 22, 1825 ; married Molly Moulton, March, 1849 ; and
lives in Bath.

7. Elisha, son of Benjamin of Chelmsford, born October,
1783 ; moved to Springfield, Mass.

Benjamin, supposed to be a descendant of Esdras, born
May 3, 1752 ; married Huldah Pratt. Children, — Benja-
min, born Aug. 4, 1779 ; John, Jan. 21, 1781 ; Huldah,
Aug. 21, 1763, died Dec. 13, 1818 ; Cyrus, born Oct. 24,
1786, died Oct. 14, 1804 ; David, born Nov. 19, 1788 ; Cal-
vin, Dec. 2, 1793 ; Luther, April 16, 1796 ; Nancy, Aug. 2,
1798 ; Almira, September, 1801. He was in the battle of
Bennington, and drew a pension. Died March 9, 1801 : his
wife died, and he married Betsy Reed, Aug. 22, 1791. The
four youngest children were by the second wife.

David, son of Benjamin and Huldah, born Nov. 19, 1788 ;
married Mary Martha Morse, July 28, 1789. Children, —
Reinsford, born Dec. 29, 1810, died July 4, 1818 ; Charles E.,
born Jan. 3, 1813, lives in Boston; Henrietta Morse, Aug. 29,
1815, died Feb. 12, 1837 ; William N., born Sept. 7, 1817 ;
Martha Ann, Aug. 26, 1820, married Matthew McLoud,
Aug. 10, 1844 ; Lucius E., born April 20, 1825. His wife
died April 24, 1826. Married, for second wife, Lucy Keyes,
who was the daughter of Jonas Keyes and Bridget Reed, and

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 185

grand-daughter of Samuel Reed of Westford, Mass., Nov. 23,
1826. Children, — Lucy P., born Oct. 25, 1827; Juliett
Emily, July 29, 1831 ; David H., Sept. 7, 1833. He died
July 13, 1842. His widow lives in Roxbury.

David H., son of David and Lucy, born at Dummerston,
Vt., Sept. 7, 1833 ; married Fausta McElroy of Roxbury,
June 25, 1851, and keeps at No. 121, Washington Street,
Roxbury. Child, — Henry Eliott, born May 13, 1854 ; died
Oct. 1, 1854. His wife died July 4, 1855. Married Caro-
line A. Fernald of Boston, June 2, 1858.

William N., son of David and Mary, born Sept. 7, 1817 ;
married Lucy Stevens, Sept. 4, 1839. Children, — Henrietta
Maria, born at Roxbury, Dec. 30, 1841 ; Melissa Almira,
Sept. 24, 1843 ; Adeline Louisa and Adelaide Lucy, born
at Bedford, July 30, 1845 ; William N., at Roxbury, Jan. 31,
1843 ; Albert Henry, Jan. 9, 1851 ; George Augustus,
Sept. 10, 1853, at Boston. He died in Stoughton, March 13,
1855.

Martha Ann, daughter of David, born Aug. 26, 1820 ;
married Mathew McLoud, Aug. 10, 1844. Children, —
Robert Morse, born Oct. 12, 1845 ; Harriet Dexter, Feb. 26,
1848 ; Ellen Frances, May 1, 1850, died Nov. 14, 1855. He
died May 24, 1853 ; and she lives in Girard, Penn.

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186 JOHN READ OF REHOBOTH,

CHAPTER VI.

JOHN READ OF REHOBOTH, AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

1. John Read of Rehoboth came to America with the
great fleet in 1630. He is supposed to be son of William by
his wife Lucy Henage ; and was brother to William of Wey-
mouth. He was born in 1598. The first that is known of
him, after his arrival, was in Weymouth, in 1637. He was
of Dorchester in 1638, and went from there to Braintree
(now Quincy). In 1643 or '4, he went with Rev. Mr. New-
man and his church to Rehoboth. His name is the third
on the list of purchasers of that township. He was a man
of large property for those times, and held the office of con-
stable, which was the chief executive office in town. He
lived at what was called the Rim, which is now in See-
konk. Ancient Rehoboth was divided into seven towns ;
viz., Rehoboth, Attleborough, Seekonk, Pawtucket, Swansey,
Barrington, and Cumberland. Many of his descendants are
still living within the bounds of ancient Rehoboth. He kept
a public-house, and was a prominent and leading man.
There is a record that Richard Ponton was " put " to John
Read in 1644. Mrs. Read's Christian name was Sarah. He
died Sept. 7, 1685, aged eighty-seven ; and his gravestone is
standing in Seekonk old burying-yard, inscribed "J. R.,
£et. 87. D. S. 1685." Their children were — Samuel ;
William ; Abigail, who was baptized in Dorchester the 30th

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 187

of tenth month, 1638 ; John, horn at Braintree, Aug. 29,
1640 ; Thomas, Nov. 9, 1641 ; Ezekiel and Zachariah
(twins), who died in infancy; Moses, born October, 1650;
Mary, January, 1652 ; Elizabeth, January, 1654 ; Daniel,
March, 1655 ; Israel, 1657 ; Mehitable, August, 1660.

2. William, the oldest son of John, married Ruth Crooke,
Jan. 20, 1653. He was a tailor, and lived at one time in
Weymouth, and at one time in Muddy River, now Brook-
line, but principally in Boston ; and was a man of some
distinction, but had some trouble with his wife, growing out
of her incontinency. It appears that, at one time, she was
absent in Europe for a considerable time ; and, on her re-
turn, brought with her an infant child, pretending that it
was one which she had adopted: but it was proved to be
hers ; and she was sentenced by the court to stand in some
conspicuous place for a certain length of time, to wear a
badge significant of the crime, and to be gazed upon by the
populace. Children, — William, born Feb. 3, 1654, died
Dec. 3, 1654 ; Isaac, born April 18, 1656 ; Ephraim, Nov. 23,
1657 ; Jonathan, April 23, 1659, died July 2, 1659 ; Timo-
thy, born Aug. 11, 1660 ; William, May 7, 1662 ; Ruth, who
died July 17, 1662 ; Hesekiah, born July 6, 1663 ; Sarah,
June 26, 1665 ; Elizabeth, Dec. 22, 1666 ; Elizabeth,
April 22, 1669, married Samuel Durham.

3. Isaac, son of William and Ruth, born April 18, 1656.
He appears to have been living, and taxed for real estate, in
1714.' His will is dated Jan. 26, 1712. Child, — Isaac,
bom at Salem, and married Rebecca Burton, Feb. 24, 1736.
Children, — Isaac, James, Daniel, Jacob, Abijah, William.
Isaac the 2d died in the French War.

5. Abijah, son of Isaac, married Margaret. His will was
proved Nov. 12, 1795.

4. Jacob, son of Isaac, married a Wellman, and left no
issue. He was in the Revolutionary War ; was wounded,

188 JOHN READ OP REHOBOTH,

and among the list of invalid pensioners. He lived in Flint
Street, Salem. He adopted one Luther Brithen, who now
lives in Reading, and married a Sweetser.

4. Isaac, son of Isaac and Rebecca. Children, — Joseph,
Mary, William, Elizabeth, Haffield, John.

5. Joseph, son of Isaac, had a Joseph.

Haffield, son of Isaac, married Sarah Patten, formerly
Sarah Silsbee, Jan. 28, 1808. He was a sea-captain. His
widow lives at No. 1, Daniel Street, Salem.

6. Joseph, son of Joseph, married Mrs. Meservey, formerly
Elizabeth Woodbury. Children, — Mary A., born Feb. 20,
1811 ; Martha Woodbury, Oct, 20, 1812 ; Joseph W.,
Feb. 28, 1816 ; Matthew Woodbury, May 2, 1818 ; Sally
Webster, July 29, 1821 ; Tobias Davis, March 16, 1825.
Joseph, jun., died in Danvers, Dec. 7, 1825.

7. Martha W., daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth, born
Oct. 20, 1812 ; married to Joseph Hale of Boxford. Chil-
dren, — Joseph, Josiah, Martha, Augusta, Henry Otis,
Mary Ann, Margaret, Sarah Elizabeth, Hatty Florence,
Hannah.

7. Matthew W., son of Joseph and Elizabeth, born May 2,
1816; married Hannah Miller. Children, — George, Mary,
Wilier. They live in South Bridgeton, Me.

7. Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth, born July 29,
1821; married J. G. Scolley. Children, — Alia L., Grace
Greenwood, Lucy E. They live in Lynn.

7. Tobias, son of Joseph and Elizabeth, born March 16,
1825 ; married Mary Ann Townsend. Children, — Ellen
Allis, Caroline, Sarah Ann. They live in Boxford.

4. William, son of Isaac and Rebecca Burton, married
Mrs. Manning, formerly Elizabeth Stone. Children, — Eli-
zabeth, who married Thomas Fuller of Salem ; Mary,
married James Simonds ; Sarah, married Joseph Poor; Re-
becca and John, died unmarried ; William went to Illinois.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 189

The elder William was wounded in the Revolutionary War,
and drew a pension.

4. James, the son of Isaac and Rebecca, married Amy
Clark of Wells, Me. Children, — Benjamin C, born
July 24, 1775 ; Abijah ; James ; John, born in 1791 ; Isaac,
in 1786 ; Nathaniel, in 1792. The elder James lived in
South Danvers, near where the Hotel now stands. He was
in Lexington Fight and the Revolutionary War ; and, at
one time, did service on board of a privateer.

5. Isaac, the son of James and Amy, was in the war of
1812. He went to Plattsburg too late to be in the battle.
He married Mary Blanchard of Millbury, Mass., Jan. 20,
1815. He worked in Boston when young, but finally settled
in Randolph, Vt., where he died in 1858. He married Mi'r-
riam Edson for second wife, May 29, 1844. His children are
— Adaline B., born Nov. 10, 1816; Mary, March 28, 1822,
died April 9, 1855 ; Samuel Tenney, born July 1, 1825.

6. Adaline, the daughter of Isaac and Mary, born Nov. 10,
1816 ; married to Rev. Azariah Hyde, Dec. 9, 1838. Chil-
dren,— Charles, born Aug. 18, 1839 ; William, July, 1847 ;
George, September, 1852. She died Oct. 9, 1854.

5. James, the son of James and Amy, married Sally
Rowell, Sept. 23, 1804. Children,— Mary, born Aug. 31,
1805 ; Sarah, May 4, 1808. He died in St. Petersburg,
Russia.

6. Mary, the daughter of James and Sally, married Micah
Eaton, and lives in Reading.

6. Sally, the daughter of James and Sally, married to
Timothy Dame of Reading. Children, — William, Augus-
tus, Dexter, Sarah, Francis, Mary, Herbert.

5. John, the son of James and Amy, married Sally, the
widow of his brother James, Aug. 14, 1817. Children, —
Judith and Betsy, born May 3, 1812 ; James ; and John.

6. James, the son of John and Sally, married Elizabeth

190 JOHN READ OF REHOBOTH,

Norwood. Children, — Sarah Augusta, Lorena Sophia, Ju-
dith, Helen, George, James. James the elder died at Lynn-
field in 1850.

6. John, the son of John and Sally, married Barbara
Thompson, Feb. 16, 1846. Children, — Charles ; John.
They keep a public-house in Salem.

6. Judith, the daughter of James and Sally, married Paul
Buxton in October, 1831.

6. Betsy, the daughter of John and Sally, married George
Flint of Reading. Children, — George Harris, Mary Ann,
Judith, Lucilla, Sarah, Clementine, Francis. They live in
Reading.

4. Daniel, son of Isaac and Rebecca, married Lydia Cook,
Nov. 19, 1765. Children, — Lydia, born April 12, 1766;
Dorothy, Nov. 24, 1767 ; Daniel, Feb. 3, 1769 ; Stephen,
Dec. 15, 1770 ; Henry, Jan. 21, 1772, died June 21, 1773 ;
Henry, born Feb. 14, 1774 ; William, Nov. 3, 1775 ; Betsy,
March 15, 1778 ; Rebecca, May 4, 1783 ; Nabby, Jan. 10,
1785 ; Polly, April 10, 1788, married Jeremiah Nichols of
Reading. Mai-ried, for second wife, Elizabeth Hodgkins,
Nov. 10, 1797 ; and died Aug. 22, 1819.

5. Daniel, son of Daniel and Lydia, born Feb. 3, 1767 ;
married Mary Archer. Child, — Daniel A., born Sept. 9,
1796. Married Sally Whittemore for second wife, May 8,
1778. Children, — Mary A.; Hannah W., born April 16,
1802 ; Henry, Dec. 6, 1804 ; Joseph W., Sept. 26, 1809.

6. Joseph W., son of Daniel and Sally, born Sept. 26,
1809 ; married Sarah V. Stevens, April 27, 1838. Children,
— Sarah W., born Sept. 30, 1839 ; Sarah M., Aug. 16, 1841 ;
Joseph F., Feb. 23, 1844.

6. Henry, son of Daniel and Sally, born Dec. 6, 1804 ;
married Sarah W. Poor of Andover, May 23, 1833. Chil-
dren,— Sarah A., born June 25, 1834; Mary A. Hunting-
ton, Sept. 5, 1836.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 191

7. Stephen, son of Daniel and Lydia, born Dec. 15, 1770 ;
married Eunice Spaulding. Children, — Henry, born in
Plainfield, Sept. 4, 1800, died Sept. 6, 1800; Henry C,
born April 27, 1802 ; Daniel, Feb. 26, 1804 ; Betsy Spauld-
ing, June 17, 1805 ; Sally Maria, born at Danvers, Jan. 27,
1810, died June 24, 1810 ; Abigail Maria, Sept. 28, 1812 ;
Stephen Franklin, May 28, 1815. Stephen lived at one
time in Plainfield, N.H., where his wife was raised, and his
four oldest children were born. He died in Danvers, Jan. 1,
1817 : his wife died June 6, 1829.

8. Henry C, son of Stephen, born in Plainfield, N.H.,
April 27, 1802 ; married Sarah E. Fiske, June, 1829. Chil-
dren, — Stephen Spaulding, born July 10, 1837 ; Joseph
Saunders, Dec. 3, 1838, died Feb. 14, 1844.

8. Stephen Franklin, son of Stephen and Eunice, born
May 28, 1815 ; married Eliza Flint Nourse, Jan. 14, 1843.
Children, — Franklin P., born April 2, 1845; Herbert P.,
Jan. 7, 1847 ; Charles H., March 5, 1850. Stephen F. is
constable in South Danvers.

5. Benjamin C, son of James, born July 24, 1775 ; mar-
ried Betsy Procter. Children, — Clark, born Oct. 24, 1799 ;
Thorndike, Nov. 30, 1801 ; Betsy, April 25, 1804. Married,
for second wife, Judith Procter, Dec. 24, 1806. Children, —
Benjamin, born Sept. 13, 1808; George Warren, Sept. 24,
1816.

6. Benjamin, son of Benjamin C. and Betsy, born Sept. 13,
1808 ; married Joanna B. Jewett of Candia, N.H., Jan. 9,
1838, and lives at South Danvers.

5. Clark, son of Benjamin C. and Betsy, born Oct. 24,
1799; married Hannah Pulsifer, Jan. 12, 1825. Children,
— Eliza Ann, born Aug. 22, 1825, married Samuel S. Swazy,
Sept. 21, 1849 ; Ellen Augusta, born March 25, 1827, mar-
ried Samuel Swazy, and went to California ; Hannah Maria,
born June 22, 1829, married William Pitman, March 7, 1850;

192 JOHN READ OF REHOBOTH,

Martha Hodgkins, born Oct. 3, 1833, married William Ni-
chols ; George and Benjamin (twins), born Nov. 16, 1835.

7. Benjamin, son of Clark and Hannah, born Nov. 16,
1835 ; married Emily Farley, and died in Salem in 1858.

7. George, son of Clark and Hannah, and twin-brother of
Benjamin, born Nov. 16, 1835 ; married Cecillia Lorene,
July 16, 1850.

6. George W., son of Benjamin C. and Betsy, born
Sept. 24, 1816 ; married Eliza Ann Verry, July 26, 1838,
and lives in South Danvers, on Mount Pleasant. Child, —
Eliza Ann, born Oct. 30, 1840. Married, for second wife,
Abigail Felton, July 16, 1843. Children, — Rebecca P.,
born June 22, 1844 ; Mary Abby, Sept. 19, 1845 ; George
Procter, July 15, 1847 ; Zacheriah W., June 7, 1852 ; Betsy
Preston, Oct. 12, 1854. Married, for third wife, Ann Ellis,
Oct. 14, 1855. Children, — John Henry, born July 7, 1856 ;
Phebe Procter, March 3, 1858.

5. Nathaniel, son of James, born in 1792 ; married Debo-
rah Witham, Oct. 27, 1813. Children, — Henry L., born
Oct. 2, 1814 ; Lucy D. ; Samuel. Married Hannah Leach
for second wife. He was for many years constable of Salem ;
and died Feb. 28, 1853, aged sixty-two.

6. Henry L., son of Nathaniel and Deborah, born Oct. 2,
1814 ; married Mary D. Southwick. They were married in
Beverly, though both lived in Salem. Children, — Henry
Alonso, born Nov. 5, 1841 ; Nathaniel R., March 30, 1850 ;
Charles F., Feb. 25, 1853 ; Henry A., died April 27, 1847 ;
Nathaniel, died Sept. 15, 1850. Henry L. lives at No. 23,
Warren Street, Salem.

6. Samuel, son of Nathaniel and Deborah, born ;

married Eliza Ann Jepson, April 10, 1843. Children, —
Eliza Ann, born Aug. 6, 1844 ; Samuel Whittemore,
March 7, 1849 ; Joseph Henry, Nov. 29, 1856. They live
in North Salem.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 193

5. William, son of Daniel and Lydia, Nov. 3, 1775.
Child, — William. He moved to Norway, Me., and brought
up a family there. He was a payer of direct taxes in Nor-
way in 1798.

6. William, son of William, married Hannah Leach,
Oct. 28, 1824. Children, — Ann S., born March 3, 1828;
Abigail, May 13, 1829; David, June 5, 1833; Daniel,
Feb. 21,1836; Caroline, Feb. 21,1838; Wesley, June 3,
1842. His widow lives on the old road from South Danvers
to Lynn.

7. William, son of William and Hannah, married Laura
Emerson. Children, — Laura E., born Nov. 21, 1847 ;
Abby Noy, March 8, 1849 ; Carrie Sonora, Aug. 24, 1854 ;
and one infant, name not obtained.

5 Thorndike, son of Benjamin C. and Betsy, born Nov. 21,
1801 ; married Sarah Wendall, Feb. 11, 1826. Children,

— Sarah W., who married William B. Ingalls ; Martha W.,
born Nov. 14, 1829, married J. W. Heath. He lives in
Lynn.

5. Isaac, son of Isaac, and grandson of Isaac and Rebecca,
married Mary. Children, — Isaac, Nov. 11, 1797; Esther,
May 16, 1799 ; Phebe, Nov. 11, 1802.

5. Abijah, son of James and Amy, married Lydia Kenny,
and settled in Frankfort, Me. Children, — James, born
Aug. 20, 1803 ; Anna, Nov. 19, 1804, married Joseph M.
Carr, July 4, 1823, — married, for second husband, Jonathan
Towle ; Paul, March 9, 1807 ; Samuel, April 24, 1809, mar-
ried Aseneth Lamphreys, and they live in Prospect ; Alfred,
April 31, 1812, who is ferryman at Orono ; George, May 4,
1813, is quartermaster in the navy ; John, Sept. 24, 1815 ;
William. Married, for second wife, Lydia Hager. Child,

— Lydia.

6. James, son of Abijah and Lydia, born at Frankfort,
Aug. 20, 1803 ; married Lucy N. Whitney, April 15, 1824.

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194 JOHN READ OF REHOBOTH,

Children, — Ann T., born in Corinna, Me., May 14, 1837 ;
George M. D., born in Bangor, July 4, 1839 ; James H. P.,
Aug. 13, 1841. He was formerly a ship-master, but is now
one of the harbor police in Boston. His wife is half-sister to
Redman Puffer, who was on board the " Constitution " when
she took the " Guerriere : " and she is half-sister also to John
Puffer, Esq., of Columbia, Me., who was a Dartmore prisoner
twenty-nine months ; and when they were fired upon by the
guards, in the prison-yard, a ball grazed his jacket, and
killed a fellow-prisoner.

6. John, son of Abijab and Lydia, born Sept. 24, 1815 ;
married Mary Kelly. Child, — Mary Jane. He is in Cali-
fornia.

2. Samuel, son of John of Rehoboth, was constable of
Mendon in 1681 ; married Hopestill Holebrook in 1668.
Made freeman, Oct. 15, 1673. Children, — Mary, who
married Seth Chapin, May 20, 1689 ; Samuel ; Ebenezer;
John ; Sarah, who married a Murdock, April 12, 1727 ;
Josiah. His wife died Jan. 12, 1706. Married, for second
wife, Hannah, who died Jan. 24, 1717. His will is dated
April 5, 1717. He is the ancestor of the Mendon, Uxbridge,
Northbridge, Milford, Oxford, and Charlton Reeds.

3. Samuel, son of Samuel and Hopestill of Mendon, mar-
ried Deborah. Children, — Mary, born Aug. 11, 1694;
Deborah, Jan. 25, 1696 ; Hopestill, April 1, 1698 ; John,
1704, married Abigail White, Jan. 7, 1704, — she died
June 12, 1706 ; Samuel, born June 7, 1707 ; Ebenezer,
Aug. 8, 1709, died Nov. 11, 1709 ; Daniel, born Oct. 29,
1712 ; Abigail, Dec. 23, 1710 ; died July 16, 1721 ; Thomas,
born Nov. 24, 1715 ; Sarah, Feb. 10, 1717 ; Abigail, 1721 ;
Hannah, June 11, 1724. He died Feb. 14, 1725. He lived
in that part of Mendon afterwards set off to Uxbridge. His
will is dated Feb. 5, 1724. Inventory: .£3,989. lis. 8d. ; a
vast estate for those times. His purse, apparel, and cane,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 195

=£188. 18s. 6d. (book 24, p. 128; proved November, 1725).
It is said that about one-half of the land in Uxbridge and
Northbridge was formerly owned by this family of Reeds.

4. Samuel, son of Samuel and Abigail of Mendon, born
June 7, 1707 ; married Ruth Brown, Jan. 21, 1729. Chil-
dren,— Ruth, born April 8, 1732 ; Samuel, April 12, 1730 ;
Eunice B., Oct. 27, 1733 ; Abigail, Dec. 12, 1736 ; Lydia,
Jan. 10, 1742 ; Catherine, Feb. 23, 1740 ; Thomas, July 11,
1746. His wife died April 30, 1747. Married Elizabeth
Hunt. Children, — James C, born July 18, 1750 ; Thad-
deus, April 9, 1752. His wife died June 22, 1771 : he died
March 21, 1788. He was deacon of the church, and gene-
rally known as Deacon Reed.

4. John, son of Samuel and Abigail, born in 1704 ; mar-
ried Lucy, and lived in Uxbridge. Children, — Sarah, born
Oct. 24, 1729, married Josiah Adams, Dec. 27, 1750 ; Joseph,
born March 6, 1732 ; Peter, Nov. 13, 1735 ; Seth, March 6,
1746 ; Josiah, July 23, 1753 ; John, June, 1743. John the
elder was called Lieut. Reed ; and died Jan. 18, 1771.

5. John, son of Lieut. John, born June, 1743 ; married
Hannah Tuft, June 23, 1763. Children,— Phila, born
Dec. 13, 1763 ; Nathan, Jan. 24, 1766 ; John Tuft, March,
1769.

5. Joseph, son of Lieut. John, born March 6, 1732 ; mar-
ried Eunice Taft, Nov. 6, 1753. Children, — Nathan, born
Dec. 9, 1754 ; Eunice, Dec. 26, 1755 ; Cheney, Sept. 9,
1757 ; Joseph, Sept. 1, 1760 ; Hannah, July 24, 1762.

5. Seth, son of Lieut. John of Uxbridge, born March 6,
1746 ; married Hannah. Children, — James Manning,
born Jan. 6, 1770 ; John, Dec. 23, 1771 ; Sophia, Sept. 26,
1773 ; Seth, Oct. 16, 1775 ; Sally Adams, Nov. 1, 1777 ;
Henry Joseph, Dec. 20, 1779 ; George W., March 24, 1782 ;
Polly, April 19, 1784, died Feb. 19, 1830.

6. Cheney, son of Joseph and Eunice, born Sept. 9, 1757 ;

196 JOHN BEAD OP EEHOBOTH,

married Sally Rice, Jan. 25, 1784. Children, — John Taft,
April 19, 1785 ; Sally, March 16, 1787 ; Fanny, Sept. 23,
1788, died Aug. 22, 1798 ; Caroline, Nov. 21, 1789. His
wife died Jan. 14, 1791. Married Nancy Cutter, Aug. 26,
1792 ; who died March 16, 1797. Married Mary. Children,

— Joseph, born May 21, 1803; Mary Stone, Dec. 1, 1804.
His third wife died Dec. 1, 1804 : he died May 18, 1822.
He lived in Brookfield, and was a justice of the peace and a
distinguished man.

5. Capt. Samuel, son of Deacon Samuel, born April 12,
1730; married Abigail Murdock, April 12, 1753. Children,

— Samuel, born Jan. 10, 1756; Lydia, Feb. 4, 1759; Sub-
mit, Aug. 23, 1761 ; Ruth, March 3, 1764 ; Samuel, Dec. 12,
1769. Capt. Samuel died Aug. 24, 1798: his wife died
Feb. 4, 1806.

6. Samuel, Esq., son of Capt. Samuel, born Dec. 12, 1769 ;
married Nancy Whitney. Children, — Nancy "Whitney, born
Aug. 3, 1794 ; Abigail Murdock, June 12, 1796 ; Elizabeth
Hill, Sept. 18, 1798 ; Mary Green, Oct. 22, 1800, died
Sept. 13, 1806. Esquire Read died April 19, 1839: his
wife died March 26, 1835. He was representative twenty
years, and was a distinguished man.

5. Capt. Thaddeus, son of Deacon Samuel, born April 9,
1752, in Uxbridge ; married Hannah Taylor, May 24, 1780.
Children, — Betsy, born Oct. 3, 1781, married M. Rider;
Sally, born Feb. 28, 1784, married John Bachelder; Han-
nah, born May 9, 1786 ; Mary, Dec. 22, 1789 ; Thaddeus,
June 8, 1793. Capt. Read removed, when young, to Grafton,
Mass. ; and was a captain in the Revolution, and a distin-
guished land-surveyor. He died Dec. 3, 1824.

6. Betsy Hunt, daughter of Capt. Thaddeus of Uxbridge
and Grafton, born Oct. 3, 1781 ; married Gilead Rider, and
live in Malone, N.Y. Children, — Charles Jordan, born
March 23, 1810; Thaddeus R., Feb. 7, 1812; Joshua Le-

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 197

land, June 20, 1815 ; Elizabeth H., Dec. 25, 1813 ; Hannah
E., Dec. 5*1817; Mary E., April 5, 1820; Holland H.,
May 1, 1823 ; Harriet N., Feb. 17, 1825.

7. Joshua L., son of Gilead Rider and Betsy H. Read,
born June 20, 1815 ; married Philomela N. Edda. Chil-
dren, — Helen Maria, born July 23, 1840 ; Julia Leland,
July 11, 1843. Lives at Malone, N.Y.

7. Hannah R., daughter of Gilead Rider and Betsy H.
Reed, born Dec. 5, 1817 ; married Parseus Willson. Chil-
dren,— Joshua, born Jan. 25, 1845; Harriet E., Nov. 13,
1846; Mary R., June 27, 1849; Winfield Scott, Aug. 11,
1851 ; Theodore G., Feb. 21, 1854. Live at Malone, N.Y.

7. Holland H., son of Gilead Rider and Betsy H. Reed,
born May 1, 1823 ; married Philomela N. Rider. Children,

— Joshua Leland, born May 7, 1847 ; Henry H., Feb. 16,
1849 ; Mary E., Dec. 16, 1850. Lives at Malone, N.Y.

7. Charles J., son of Betsy H. Reed and Gilead Rider,
born March 23, 1810 ; married Delia E. Blodget. Children,

— Charles M., born June 6, 1838 ; Delia Jennette, July 12,
1841 ; Clarida J., Feb. 12, 1847 ; Mary S. B., Nov. 13,
1850 ; Samuel G., Nov. 10, 1853. They live in Ogdensburg,
N.Y. ; and he is a teacher.

7. Thaddeus R. Rider, son of Betsy H. Reed and Gilead
Rider, born Feb. 7, 1812 ; married Fanny Waldron. Chil-
dren, — Mary E., born July 14, 1841 ; Thaddeus R., July 27,
1843 ; Ella E., Oct. 20, 1848 ; Phineas L., Dec. 10, 1850.

7. Hanson L., son of Thaddeus and Patty, born Aug. 10,
1818 ; married Eliza M. Kellogg. Children, — William
Hanson, born Sept. 21, 1852. Hanson L. Reed, Esq., lives
in Fitchburg. He has a college education. Has been a
member of the Legislature, and is the principal of an aca-
demy.

6. Sally, daughter of Thaddeus and Hannah, born Feb. 28,
1784 ; married John Bachelder. Children, — Sarah S.,

198 JOHN READ OP EEHOBOTH,

born Sept. 2, 1808 ; Hannah Reed, Nov. 29, 1811 ; John A.,
May 15, 1814 ; John A., May 1, 1816 ; Holland N., Sept. 28,

1818 ; Joseph M., Aug. 29, 1820 ; Susan E., Feb. 20, 1823.
7. Holland N. Bachelder, son of John and Sally Reed,

born Sept. 28, 1818; married Mary Dennis. Children, —
Mary Louise, born Jan. 11, 1848 ; John Dennis, July 26,
1850 ; Joseph Ednaond, July 19, 1852. Lives at Macon,
Ga.

7. Susan E., daughter of John Bachelder and Sally Reed,
born Feb. 20, 1823 ; married Simon J. Umphrey. Children,
— Grace Brewster, born April 12, 1855 ; Horace Bucking-
ham, Feb. 25, 1857. Lives at Newark, O.

7. Julia M., daughter of Thaddeus Reed and Polly, born
March 26, 1823 ; married Albert H. Daniels. Children,—
Frances M., born Aug. 16, 1847 ; Lucy H., April 22, 1849 ;
Isabel R., June 22, 1851. Lives at Manchester, N.H.

6. Thaddeus, son of Capt. Thaddeus, born June 8, 1793 ;
married Patty Leland of Grafton. Children, — Hanson L.,
born Aug. 10, 1818 ; Martha E., July 6, 1820 ; Julia M.,
March 26, 1823 ; Samuel F., Jan. 21, 1830. Married, for
second wife, Abigail Sibley. Children, — Martha E., born
Sept. 5, 1832 ; Almira S., May 11, 1835. Thaddeus died
Feb. 4, 1837, at Westborough, Mass.

7. Nancy W., daughter of Samuel Reed, Esq., of Ux-
bridge, born Aug. 3, 1794 ; married Luther Spring, and
lives in Worcester. Children, — Samuel R., born Sept. 7,

1819 ; Mary E., Jan. 22, 1822 ; Charles C, March 24, 1824 ;
Emily A., Dec. 21, 1827 ; George W., Oct. 15, 1830 ; Wil-
liam L., Oct. 25, 1832 ; Nancy J., Aug. 13, 1835 ; Franklin
H., March 3, 1838.

7. Abigail M., daughter of Samuel Reed, Esq., of Ux-
bridge, born July 12, 1796 ; married John W. Capron, who
died May 21, 1828. Children, — Elizabeth R., born Dec. 3,

1820 ; Mary Aim, Sept. 9, 1827.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 199

7. Elizabeth H., daughter of Samuel Reed, Esq., of Ux-
bridge, born Sept. 18, 1798 ; married Nathan White, Oct. 31,
1822. Mr. White died at White-Sulphur Springs, Ya.,
July 25, 1837. Children, — Abby R., born March 9, 1827 ;
Frances E., Dec. 26, 1828 ; Irene J., July 6, 1831 ; Arthur
J., Oct. 1, 1833 ; Rodney S., Jan. 29, 1836. Mrs. White
afterwards married Mr. D wight.

8. Samuel R., son of Luther Spring and Nancy, born
Sept. 7, 1819 ; married Maria Aldrich, October, 1845. Chil-
dren,— Mary Eliza, Ellen, Ella Frances.

8. Mary Spring, daughter of Luther Spring and Nancy W.
Reed, born Jan. 22, 1822 ; married James Morse, and they
live in Worcester. Children, — Charles F., born Feb. 21,
1849; George A., Feb. 1, 1851; Hattie J., Dec. 4, 1855;
William H., Sept. 18, 1857.

8. Charles C, son of Luther Spring and Nancy W. Reed,
born March 24, 1824 ; married E. Prentice, Feb. 18, 1844,
and lives in Worcester. Children, — Charles A., born
Jan. 16, 1845; Ellen A., Jan. 6, 1847; Edgar F., July 18,
1848 ; Alice E., March 21, 1853.

8. Emily A. Spring, daughter of Luther Spring and Nancy
W. Reed, born Dec. 31, 1827; married Carter Whitcomb,
Feb. 6, 1850. They live in Worcester. Children, — Ida F.,
born April 29, 1851 ; Carrie J., Jan. 13, 1853 ; an infant
boy, not named, born Aug. 29, 1857.

8. Elizabeth, daughter of John W. Capron and Abigail M.
Reed, born Dec. 3, 1820 ; married Trueman Richards,
April 25, 1848. They live in Worcester. Children, —
John C, born Sept. 27, 1851 ; Charles T., Aug. 26, 1857.

8. Frances E., daughter of Nathan White and Elizabeth
H. Reed, born Dec. 26, 1828; married Henry Gale, May 1,
1854, and has no children.

3. Ebenezer, son of Samuel and Hopestill, married Sarah
Chapin, Feb. 7, 1704. Children, — Lydia, born May 15,

200 JOHN READ OP EEHOBOTH,

1706, died July 2, 1706 ; John, born Aug. 3, 1707 ; David,
Aug. 19, 1709 ; Ebenezer, Feb. 27, 1711 ; Hannah, March 19,
1714 ; Abigail, March 15, 1717 ; Mary, Feb. 4, 1721 ; Josiah,
Jan. 24, 1723, probably killed by Indians at Housac Fort,
Sept. 15, 1746. Sarah, the wife of the elder Ebenezer, died
at Uxbridge, May 16, 1773, aged ninety-five years.

4. Ebenezer, son of Ebenezer of Mendon, born at Mendon ;
married Esther Webb of Braintree, June 26, 1736 ; and
married Hannah for second wife. Children, — John ; Benja-
min, born Jan. 21, 1740 ; Ebenezer, Aug. 24, 1741 ; Esther,
Aug. 24, 1743. He was deacon of the church in Uxbridge.

5. Ebenezer, son of Ebenezer, born Aug. 24, 1741 ; mar-
ried Sarah. Children, — Alexander, born July 10, 1786 ;
Samuel T., 1775, died April 1, 1832, aged fifty-seven. Ebe-
nezer was known as Deacon Reed ; and died May 10, 1823.

6. Ebenezer, son of Deacon Ebenezer, born Aug. 24, 1741 ;
married Mary Chapin, Feb. 23, 1764. Children, — Hannah,
born May 15, 1764 ; Ichabod, Jan. 21, 1766 ; Sarah, March 4,
1773 ; Mary, Jan. 7, 1769, died May 20, 1770 ; Sylvia, born
July 18, 1761 ; Samuel Torry, Oct. 17, 1774 ; Mary, Dec. 16,
1776 ; Ebenezer, May 1, 1779 ; Benjamin, who lives at No. 9,
Maple Street, Worcester.

7. Ebenezer, son of Deacon Ebenezer of Uxbridge, born in
1789; married Sarah Curtis, April 2, 1817. Children,—
Abigail Curtis, April 28, 1818 ; Ebenezer Chapin, May 10,
1820 ; Alexander, Feb. 1, 1822 ; Sarah Elizabeth, May 20,
1826 ; Frances Mary, Sept. 7, 1829. Ebenezer lived in that
part of the town afterwards Milford ; and died at Worcester,
July 2, 1837. He was a deacon. His wife died Feb. 19,
1834, at Worcester, aged forty-eight years.

8. Samuel, son of Deacon Ebenezer and Sarah, born in
1775; married Charlotte. Child, — Lucy W. He died at
Worcester, April 1, 1832, aged fifty-seven : his wife died
March 20, 1843, aged seventy.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 201

Samuel T., son of Deacon Ebenezer and Mary, born
Oct. 17, 1774 ; married, first, Mary Torrey, Sept. 24, 1808 ;
and, second, Abigail Wight, Dec. 16, 1817. Children, —
Mary Torrey, born Sept. 4, 1820; Samuel Torrey Wight,
Jan. 22, 1822 ; Abigail Wight, Dec. 7, 1823 ; Maria
Hawes, June 24, 1825 ; Lucy Wheelock Warren, Aug. 2,
1827 ; Josiah Torrey, Aug. 1, 1829 ; Samuel Austen, Jan. 18,
1832 ; Samuel T. W., graduated at Brown University in
1854 ; Josiah, graduated at Amherst in 1856, — lives at No.
15, Portland Street, Worcester. Samuel T. died at Worces-
ter, April 1, 1832. His widow lives at No. 15, Portland
Street, Worcester.

Alexander, son of Deacon Ebenezer, born July 10, 1786 ;
married Sarah Willis in 1817. Children, — Mary; Sarah;
William, who graduated at Dartmouth College, and lives in
New Bedford ; Elizabeth T., born in 1831, and died in 1847,
and her life has been published by John S. C. Abbot. Dr.
Alexander Reed was of Worcester in 1818. He was after-
wards a physician in New Bedford.

4. John, son of Ebenezer and Sarah, born at Mendon,
Aug. 3, 1707 ; settled early in life in that part of Windham,
Conn., which is now within the bounds of Mansfield. Chil-
dren,— Amasa, Nathaniel, Timothy, Joshua, Rachal.

5. Amasa, son of John, lived in Mansfield, and raised a
family of four sons and as many daughters. He served in
the Revolutionary War. His oldest son was Amasa, who was
born in 1764, and occupied the old homestead. He served
some time in the latter part of the Revolutionary War ; and
died by a fall in his barn, in January, 1836. Children, —
John, born Dec. 20, 1783, and lives in Mansfield ; Preun-
day, born June 17, 1785, married a Gurley ; Jesse, born
Sept. 29, 1786 ; Ethelday, June 26, 1787, died in 1838 ;
Roina, June 28, 1790, married a Fenton ; Anna, born
Nov. 18, 1791 ; Samuel F., Sept. 16, 1793 ; Polly, Sept. 9,

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1795, died April 10, 1808 ; Elson, born Nov. 27, 1797, lives
in Ohio ; Josiah H., born Dec. 5, 1799, lives in Uxbridge.

5. Nathaniel, son of John, settled, when young, in Tyring-
ham, Mass. ; but afterwards emigrated to Ashtabula, in the
State of Ohio, where he died. He was in the battle of
Bunker Hill.

6. Joshua, son of Amasa, settled in Shelburn, Vt., soon
after the Revolution, and raised a family of ten children ;
and died in 1846, aged eighty-four years. His wife was
Orphana Hurlburt of Woodbury, Conn. Children, — Al-
mon H., Joshua, Myron, Horace, Marshal, Orphosa, Diana,
Orphena, Clarissa, Ralph H.

6. Joshua, son of Amasa, settled in Shelburn ; and died
in 1829, leaving three children.

6. Myron, son of Amasa, lives in Shelburn. Joshua has
one son in Iowa; another in New Haven, Conn. ; and three
in Shelburne.

6. Ralph H., son of Joshua, married Sophia Olmstead ;
lives in Shelburn, and is justice of the peace. Children, —
Cornelia G., born March 12, 1821 ; Lucelia W., June 3,
1822; Homer J., Aug. 21, 1828, died young; Henry Hurl-
burt, born Jan. 27, 1831 ; Charles D., Feb. 15, 1833 ;
Lucian 0., Oct. 20, 1835 ; Sophia J. A., July 25, 1844.

5. Almon H., son of Joshua, graduated at Williams Col-
lege, and practised law in Montrose, Pa. ; was a repre-
sentative to the Legislature, State Treasurer, a delegate to
revise the Constitution, and member of Congress. He died
in 1844, leaving a son Charles P., who is living in Montrose.

6. Samuel P., son of Amasa, lives in Westfield, Mass.
Children, — Nancy, born May 19, 1817; Mary, April 21,
1819 ; Prunda, May 7, 1821 ; George, April 16, 1826 ;
Crelilia, April 25, 1828 ; John, Jan. 2, 1830, died in 1848 ;
James, born Jan. 18, 1833 ; Roina, Jan. 15, 1836.

4. David, son of Ebenezer and Sarah of Uxbridge, born

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 203

Aug. 19, 1709 ; married Thankful. Children, — Henry,
born Jan. 7, 1735 ; Joseph, Sept. 6, 1736 ; Lydia, Nov. 8,
1738 ; Mary, Oct. 14, 1740 ; Silence, Nov. 4, 1742 ; David,
Nov. 14, 1744. David died Jan. 6, 1805, aged ninety-
seven.

5. Benjamin, Esq., son of Ebenezer and Esther, born
Jan. 21, 1740 ; married Comfort Tuft, May 17, 1762 ; and
died June 18, 1806. His wife died March 16, 1824.

4. Daniel, son of Samuel and Abigail of Uxbridge, born
Oct. 29, 1712; married Sarah Tuft of Uxbridge, Jan. 8,
1736. Children, — Thomas, born May 23, 1741; Daniel,
June 3, 1743 ; Sarah, Jan. 23, 1740 ; Ezra, June 28, 1737,
died in 1739.

5. Thomas, son of Daniel and Sarah of Uxbridge, born
May 23, 1741 ; married Martha Park of Uxbridge, Dec. 14,
1763. Children, — Martha, born Feb. 15, 1765, who mar-
ried Amos Wheeler of Worcester, June 2, 1785 ; Thomas,
born Oct. 8, 1766 ; Sarah, Sept. 22, 1768, married Calvin
Hersey of Leicester ; Lucy, born Sept. 20, 1770, married
Cyrus Emerson of Danville, Vt. ; Mary, married Amos
Emerson of Danville, Vt. ; Elizabeth, born Jan. 24, 1773,
married Joab Kimball of Peachem, Vt. ; John Hancock,
born Oct. 8, 1775 ; Eleaner, Dec. 19, 1777, married Rev.
Joseph Emerson of Beverly ; Clarissa, born March 12,
1780, married Deacon Luther Pierce of Enfield, Conn. ;
Charlotte, Feb. 12, 1784, died Sept. 2, 1811 ; Paulina, mar-
ried John Burley, Esq., of Beverly; Elizabeth and Lucy,
who were living, at the age of eighty-four years, in Montpe-
lier, Vt. The elder Thomas lived in Uxbridge ; which was
set off to Northbridge in 1772.

5. Daniel, son of Daniel and Sarah, born June 3, 1743 ;
married Mary. Children, — Mary, born Feb. 5, 1767 ; Abi-
gail, Jan. 29, 1769.

6. Thomas, Esq., of Montpelier, Vt., son of Thomas of

204 JOHN READ OP REHOBOTH,

Northbridge, born Oct. 9, 1766 ; married Patty Hutcliins of
Hampstead, N.H. He settled in Hampstead, and remained
there till 1799. He then removed to Enfield, N.H., where
he resided a while ; but moved to Montpelier in 1804, and
resided there till his death, April 3, 1839. He was president
of a bank in Montpelier. Children, — Thomas, born March
29, 1793 ; Hezekiah, May 25, 1795 ; Eliza, Oct. 13, 1798.

7. Thomas, Esq., son of Thomas of Montpelier, born
March 29, 1793 ; married L. W. Borland of Billerica. Chil-
dren,— George B. ; William J. ; Edward D.; Charles, State
Librarian for Vermont ; Josephene ; Georgianna.

7. Hezekiah, Esq., son of Thomas of Montpelier, born
May 25, 1795 ; married Martha Barnard. Children, — •
Mary B., Cornelia A., Eliza S., Emily D., Gertrude H.

8. Mary B., daughter of Hezekiah and Martha, married
Prof. N. G. Clarke of the University of Vermont. She died
Feb. 11, 1859.

7. Eliza, daughter of Thomas and Patty, born Oct. 13,
1798 ; married James Spaulding, a physician in Montpelier.
Children, — James B., William C, Martha, Jane, George,
Isabel.

6. John H., son of Thomas of Northbridge, born Oct. 8,
1775 ; married Mary Tyler of Mendon. He removed to
Snow Hill, N. C. ; taught an academy; and died there
April 27, 1828. His children died young.

5. Daniel, son of Daniel and Sarah of Uxbridge, now
Northbridge, born June 3, 1743 ; married Mary Brown of
Leicester. Children, — Ezra ; Abner ; Amasa ; Acsah, who
married Mr. Inman, and lived and died on the homestead in
Northbridge ; other daughters, names not known.

5. Sarah, daughter of Daniel and Sarah of Northbridge,
born June 23, 1740 ; married Edmond Potter of Sutton.
Child, — Sarah, who married William Park, Esq., of North-
bridge ; and afterwards removed to Woodford, Vt.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 205

6. Ezra, son of Daniel and Mary of Nortlibridge, settled
in Champaign County, 0. ; liad a large family of sons, and
gave them all a liberal education. His son, Daniel was Pre-
sident of Athens College ; Nathaniel, a lawyer, settled in
Cincinnati, — is Circuit Judge; Abner, a lawyer, settled
in Memphis ; his next son, a physician, settled in Paris, 0. ;
another son is in the navy ; and another, Sheriden P. Eeed,
is a lawyer in Terre Haute, Ind.

6. Abner, son of Daniel and Mary of Nortlibridge, settled
in Champaign County, 0. ; married Syntha Adams, April 8,
1816. Children, — Nathaniel, who was killed by the falling
of a tree, when about twenty-one years old ; Arnold, who is a
farmer in Indiana ; George ; Cyrus ; Clark ; Orail ; Eliza.

6. Amasa, son of Daniel and Mary of Nortlibridge, settled
in Champaign County. Children, — Mary, who married a
Brown in Ohio ; Sarah Ann ; Samuel A., who married Miss
Dodson ; Mortier L., who married Miss J. C. Wright in 1846,
and settled in Rushwell, and, in 1851, removed to Beards-
town, 111., — a lawyer by profession, but is now in a mer-
chant-tailor's shop, on account of health ; one son died, aged
twenty years, name not known ; Martha and Hannah, died
young. Amasa died in Beardstown, 111., September, 1843.

4. Thomas, son of Samuel and Abigail, born Nov. 24,
1715; married Experience. Child, — Joseph, born at Ox-
ford, April 19, 1750. Thomas was known as Deacon Read
of Oxford.

5. Joseph, son of Thomas and Experience of Oxford, born
April 19, 1750 ; married Hannah Learned, April 30, 1775.
Children, — Thomas, born Feb. 16, 1778; Nancy, Nov. 22,
1782, married Samuel H. Stebbins, and lives in Belcher-
town ; John ; Zilpah, born July 12, 1785, married Amasa
Lincoln, and lives in Athol ; Learned, born Oct. 31, 1786 ;
Haddassah, May 29, 1788 ; Joseph, May 11, 1790 ; Eliphas,
Sept. 1, 1792 ; Charles, Oct. 25, 1795, lives in Union, 111.

206 JOHN READ OF REHOBOTH,

Hannah, the wife of Joseph, died June 13, 1802. Married
Louis Sykes at Ludlow, Vt., May 26, 1803. Children,—
William, born June 1, 1804, lives in Crystal Lake, 111. ;
Lucetta M., born April 14, 1806 ; Louisa, Not. 21, 1808.
He died at Belchertown, Dec. 19, 1818.

6. Thomas, son of Joseph and Hannah, born Feb. 16,
1778; married April 2, 1801. Child, — Thomas. The
elder Thomas died at Amherst, May 16, 1832 ; where his
descendants still remain.

6. Joseph, sou of Joseph and Experience, born May 7,
1790, in Belchertown ; married Ruth Dwight, March 22,
1819. Children, — Samuel D., born Feb. 8, 1820 ; Charles
F., Jan. 23, 1822 ; Clara A., Aug. 13, 1823 ; Edward L.,
Sept. 4, 1824 ; Henry H, Aug. 16, 1826 ; Jason W.,
June 16, 1829 ; Emily J., Feb. 2, 1834.

7. Henry H, son of Joseph and Ruth of Wilmington,
Vt., born Aug. 16, 1826 ; married Lucy E. Lincoln. Child,
— Judith E., born July 14, 1853. His wife died July 13,
1855. Married Julia L. Boyd, Oct. 14, 1855.

4. Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Abigail of Uxbridge,
and sister to Deacons Thomas and Daniel, married Col. John
Spring of Uxbridge. Children, — John, Samuel, Ephraim,
Mary.

5. John Spring, son of Col. John Spring and Sarah Reed,
had Adolphus, who married a Tuft of Uxbridge ; and Polly,
who married Rev. Mr. Dudley.

5. Rev. Samuel Spring, son of Col. John and Sarah Reed,
married Hannah Hopkins, daughter of Rev. Samuel Hopkins
of Hadley. Child, — Gardner. The Rev. Samuel was an
Orthodox minister in Newburyport.

6. Gardner Spring, son of Rev. Samuel Spring, is an
Orthodox minister of distinction in New- York City. A
daughter of Rev. Gardner Spring, D.D., is the wife of Paul
Spofford of New York, — a celebrated merchant.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 207

5. Thomas, son of Deacon Samuel of Mendon, afterwards
Uxbridge, born July 11, 1746 ; married Ruth Carriel, Dec. 6,
1768. Children, — Elizabeth, born Oct. 19, 1769; Samuel,
Jan. 24, 1771; Daniel, March 11, 1774; Thomas, Aug. 28,
1772 ; Elkanah, Sept. 15, 1780 ; Cheney, Dec. 4, 1794 ;
Abigail, July 7, 1778, married a Dunn ; Amah, born
Sept. 18, 1784 ; Ruth, Jan. 29, 1786 ; Lydia, July 20,
1781 ; Betsey, Oct. 10, 1790. The elder Thomas settled
in Townsend, Vt., and died in 1814. His wife died in
1824.

6. Thomas, son of Thomas and Ruth of Townsend, Vt.,
born Aug. 28, 1772 ; married Betsy Merrifield, Dec. 29,
1796 ; died June 30, 1853. Children, — Hollis, born
Aug. 26, 1802 ; Lucius, Aug. 14, 1810 ; Anna, Oct. 10,
1798; Clark, Oct. 10, 1800; Leonard, Aug. 7,1807; Eliza-
beth R., March 31, 1813 ; Lydia, March 6, 1816.

6. Abigail, daughter of Thomas of Townsend, married Mr.
Dunn. Children, — Ransom, a clergyman ; Lewis, Principal
of Fairfax Academy in Vermont.

6. Elkanah, son of Thomas of Townsend, born Dec. 15,
1780; married Patty Rawson. Children, — Lorain Rawson,
who married Dr. D. H. Burd ; Emily Ward, born March 29,
1806, married John R. Skinner ; Olive Wilkinson, born
Feb. 23, 1808, married Joseph Dunton ; Eunice Worcester,
born April 28, 1810, married Amos E. Parker ; Nancy Ma-
ria, born July 31, 1812, married J. W. Barns; William
Wilson, born Feb. 4, 1814, married Cornelia S. Spooner ;
Luther Allen, born Aug. 26, 1817, married Mary Gridley ;
Luke ; Whitcomb, born Sept. 7, 1820, married Abby E. Dar-
ling, and is Principal of the Academy at Kinderhook.

7. Hollis, son of Thomas and Ruth of Townsend, Vt.,
born Aug. 26, 1802; married Caroline Hubbell of Benning-
ton, Vt., June 24, 1830. Children, — Catherine Henrietta,
born June 26, 1842 ; Edward Griffin, Nov. 3, 1844 ; Hollis

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Reed, graduated at Williams College in 1826 ; taught school
at Bennington ; finished his theological studies at Princeton,
N.J., 1829 ; and sailed for India, Aug. 2, 1830, as missionary
for the American Board. He remained in that capacity five
years, and then returned on account of the feeble health of
his wife ; and has since been a settled minister in Derby and
New Breton, Conn., and Granville, N.J. He is likewise an
author of distinction. Among his published works of note
are the " Christian Brahman," " Read's and Romsdail's Re-
searches," " Hand of God in History," and " Memoirs and
Sermons of Rev. J. W. Armstrong." He lias likewise con-
tributed largely to the newspapers and periodicals of the
day, and has at this time several manuscript-works in
the hands of the publisher. He is honored with the title
of D.D.

Eliza, daughter of Thomas and Betsy, born March 31,
1813; married Daniel Whitaker, Dec. 13,1835. Child, —
Ann Eliza, born Aug. 26, 1838.

Clark, son of Thomas and Betsy, born Oct. 10, 1800
married Orpha Wright, December, 1824. Children, — Leo
nard Serena, born Jan. 9, 1825 ; Hollis Sydney, July 20
1827. Married, for second wife, Lucina Warren, March 27
1829. Children, — Mary Ann ; Eliza C. ; Horace, January
1841.

7. Lucius, son of Thomas and Betsy, born Aug. 14, 1810
married Emily N. Kimball, Nov. 22, 1831. Children,—
Martha Elizabeth, born March 10, 1840, died Aug. 28, 1840
Helen Amanda, Jan. 17, 1844 ; Emily Lucia, November
1847. Married, for second wife, Tryphena H. Parsons
April 4, 1848. Children, — Lydia, born Oct. 2, 1849
Caroline E., June 29, 1852, died Sept. 12, 1852 ; Thomas
born Oct. 2, 1854 ; Tryphena, July 3, 1856, died Sept. 6
1856. Lucius lives in Byron, 111.

Elizabeth R., daughter of Thomas and Betsy, born March

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 209

31, 1813 ; married David Whitaker, Dec. 13, 1835. Child,
— Ann Eliza, born Aug. 26, 1838.

6. Daniel, son of Thomas and Ruth of Townsend, Vt.,
horn March 11, 1771 ; married Betsy Bailey in 1799.

John, son of Samuel and Hopestill of Mendon, born about
1673 ; graduated at Cambridge in 1697, and was a distin-
guished preacher. The following is related of him in the
Connecticut Historical Collections : " A Mr. Walker and Mr.
Reed were both preaching at Hartford ; and, about the time
of the first settlement of the town of Woodbury, there was
some controversy, which of the two licentiates should go with
the emigrants to Woodbury : and they were requested to
deliver a discourse on the day when it was to be decided, —
Mr. Walker in the forenoon, and Mr. Reed in the afternoon.
Mr. Walker took for his text, ' What went ye out into the
wilderness for to see ? — a reed shaken with the wind.' He
enlarged upon the circumstance and propriety of a reed
being found in the wilderness, &c. Mr. Reed, in the "after-
noon, took for his text, ' Your adversary, the Devil, walketh
about,' &c. In the course of his observations, he stated that
the great adversary of men was a great walker ; and, instead
of remaining with the brethren, ought to be kept walking at
a distance from them. The result was, that Mr. Reed was
retained at Hartford. He, however, was soon after in Fair-
field County, where he was a great landholder. He preached
a portion of the time at New Milford ; and, in 1699, was
preaching at Waterbury, but refused to be settled. He
was engaged in a long and tedious law-suit about the title
of a tract of land in the centre of New Milford, which he
claimed to have bought of the Indians. He built a dwelling-
house upon it, near where the Town House now stands, and
lived there a while to hold possession and defend his title ;
and, after he moved away, his house was used for some years
as a place of public worship. His experience in the law

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210 JOHN BEAD OP REHOBOTH,

probably convinced him that he was better calculated for
the forum than the pulpit ; and he afterward practised law
with great success in Boston. He married Euth. Chil-
dren,— John, born in 1700; William; Euth, who married
Eev. Mr. Hann, the minister of Fairfield ; Mary, who mar-
ried, and moved to Halifax, N.S. ; Abigail ; and Deborah.
At the time of his death, he owned a mansion-house in Green
Street, Boston, now Court Street ; which, in the division of
his estate, was set off to his son William, who was a lawyer,
but died unmarried. He also owned large tracts of land in
Fairfield, which then embraced what is now the county of
Fairfield ; and his son John, and son-in-law Mr. Hann, set-
tled upon it. He owned also, at the time of his death in
1749, the township of Ware in Massachusetts, which had
been granted to certain persons in Narraganset for military
services ; and he bought it of them for two coppers per acre,
and a tract in Wellington, now Dayton, and several other
townships, one of which he bought at auction of the town of
Boston in 1637, for which he paid about $3,600. He had
one township at the time of his death, which was called the
Manor of Peace, probably from the fact that he held peace-
able possession of it without a lawsuit. He published a
grammar and some political essays, and was unquestiona-
bly the greatest lawyer of his time. He was also a man
of ardent and devoted piety, though somewhat eccentric in
his manners. He was called, by the people of Boston,
Leather-jacket John, to distinguish him from the other
John Eeeds. The following tribute to his memory, taken
from " Knap's Biographical Sketches," will illustrate his
character and worth : —

"John Reed was distinguished for genius ; beloved by the votaries
of literature ; revered by the contemporary patriots of his country ; the
pride of the bar ; the light of the law ; and chief among the wise, the
witty, and the eloquent. One who lived long and did much ; but of

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whom so little is matter of record, that a single page would contain all
that is written of him. It is painful to think that a man so proudly
pre-eminent among his peers should now be buried in obscurity.
Tradition, it is true, is stored with anecdotes of him ; but we look in
vain for written memorials. He graduated at Cambridge in 1697.
He studied divinity, and was for some time a popular preacher ; but
not liking the religious dogmas of that day, or fearing that he should
not be able to restrain his wit or keep his gravity at some instance
of solemn foolery, or perhaps feeling that he was destined for a more
extended sphere of action, he left that profession for the law. The
last of his years are distinctly remembered by two votaries of the
law, who are now living (for he did not die till 1749) ; and those
living chronicles confirm the statement, that the numerous anecdotes
of him which have come down to us were current soon after his
decease.

" To prove that he was a profound lawyer, not trammelled by the
mere letter of the law nor confused by its prolixity, it is only neces-
sary to look at his legal labors which are now extant. One act
alone should give him immortality. He, from his own high responsi-
bility, reduced the quaint, redundant, and obscure phraseology of the
English deeds of conveyance to the present short, clear, and simple
form now in use among us. Forms seemingly prolix have gene-
rally their use ; and most lawyers are attached to them from habit,
and from a belief that it is better to be tautological, than obscure
from too much brevity. His influence and authority must have
been great, as a lawyer, to have brought these retrenched forms into
general use. The declarations which he made and used in civil
actions, have, many of them, come down to us as precedents, and are
among the finest specimens of special pleading which can be found.
Story has preserved some of his forms : and Parsons used to say, that
many other lawyers had assumed his works, as a special pleader,
as their own ; and that the honors due him had, by carelessness
or accident, been given to others, who had only copied his forms.
In speaking of Reed's knowledge of the science of special pleading,
Judge Trowbridge related an anecdote to a gentleman of the bar,
now living. The facts show sagacity and cunning, — then the great
requisites for distinction ; and which, at all times, have their weight
in making up a lawyer's character. A merchant of Salem or
Boston, who had a ship and cargo seized for breach of the revenue-

212 JOHN BEAD OF REHOBOTH,

laws, applied to Reed for advice. Reed told him to replevy the
ship and cargo ; and a writ of replevin was made out, with the forms
prescribed by the old Province law, commanding the plaintiff, upon
his giving bond, to answer the cost and damages at the next Court of
Common Pleas, and respond the judgment finally given thereon ;
and summon the seizing officer to appear, and show cause why he
had driven away and impounded the ship and cargo. As the abating
of writs seemed at that time to be a great part of the practice, Reed
intentionally had given the defendant in replevin no addition, or
else the wrong one. On the day of the sitting of the court, the
plaintiff in replevin came and told Reed that the counsel for the de-
fendant had found a flaw in the writ, and intended to have the writ
abated. Reed endeavored to calm the feelings of his client ; and,
without letting him into the secret of his intentions, told him to enter
his writ. Upon the sitting of the court, the counsel for defendant
reached across the table, and whispered to Reed, informing him
of the mistake made in the writ, and that he intended to have it
abated. Reed, having examined the writ, and finding the error,
desired him to let him amend ; but he refused. Reed then told him,
if he would not let him amend, he could not help it ; but he must
plead it in writing, for sometimes such pleas were made ore tenus,
praying that the writ might abate, and for costs, without requesting
a return of the ship and cargo : and judgment was rendered accord-
ingly. Then Reed told his client to let execution come out against
him, and, when the officer came to serve it, to pay it, and not before.
At the next term, suit was brought on the bond, and Reed prayed
oyer of the bond and condition ; and pleaded in bar, that he had fully
complied, and performed its condition by entering and prosecuting
the suit to final judgment, and by paying the execution ; in proof of
which, he produced the sheriff's return on the same. The merchant
having sent his ship to sea upon her restoration thereof to him by
the writ of replevin, there was an end of the cause.

"As a legislator, he was conspicuous for several years; but so
unambitious a man could not have been a regular leader of faction.
He spoke with frankness, regardless of political consequences. A
great man who condescends to enter into the politics of the day,
and bear the heat and burthen of it, owes nothing to the public
for his honors ; but the public are much indebted to him for his
exertions.

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" After having been for some time in the House of Representa-
tives, he was elected to the Council when Shirley was in the chair,
and there passed the same upright course. Belcher, the predecessor
of Shirley, had persuaded his council, that, upon the appointment of
a new Governor, it was necessary to renew all civil commissions.
This same thing was proposed by Shirley, and the precedent
brought up ; but Mr. Reed, a very eminent lawyer, and, which is
more, a person of great integrity and firmness of mind, being then
a member of the Council, brought such arguments against the prac-
tice, that a majority of the Board refused to consent to it (Hutchin-
son, vol. ii.).

" His method of managing causes, his terse arguments, his cutting
irony, his wittiness, and his good nature too, were well known to that
generation of lawyers to which Gridley, Trowbridge, and Pinchon
belonged ; and facts illustrating his powers and disposition were fa-
miliar to the next, — to Lowell, Parsons, and those just gone.

" It is related of him, that at one time he travelled South ; and
there being no conveyance by stage or railroad, and not much com-
munication in any way between the North and South, he adopted
the safest and most feasible mode of travel for the times, — which was
to obtain a dress of the plainest and most unostentatious kind, — and
with his change of linen in his pack, and his walking-stick, sat out on
foot. It was from this circumstance that he acquired the name of
Leather Jacket, by which he was sometimes called.

" During his journey, he arrived in a country village, which hap-
pened to be the shire-town ; and the court was in session. There was
a cause about to be tried, in which the plaintiff was a poor man, and
unable to pay such fees as were demanded by counsel, and appeared
there without any. The defendant was rich and influential, and
had able counsel*- Mr. Reed listened to the discussion going on in
relation to the case, at the public-house, during the evening ; and,
in the morning, intimated to the plaintiff, that he had discovered the
points in his case, and might render him some service, but without
making himself known to him. The plaintiff readily availed himself
of his assistance : and Mr. Reed appeared and opened the case, and
won it, very much to the surprise of all present ; and immediately,
without any pay for his valuable services, left the court-house, — he
to pursue his journey, and they to wonder who the mysterious
stranger could be. Like Galileo and Bacon, Mr. Reed was too far

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in advance of the age in which he lived to have been sufficiently
honored in his generation ; and it is to be deplored that he had no
honest chronicler to have traced him from the cradle to the grave,
however homely the record might at this time appear."

John, son of Hon. John of Boston, went to Connecticut,
and settled in the North Parish of Fairfield ; the county of
Fairfield being then one town. He was one of the first and
principal settlers ; and when it was incorporated into a town
in May, 1767, it was named Reading in honor of him. He
was a military character, and held a colonel's commission ;
but, like his father and grandfather, was a very pious man,
and occasionally preached. He had a deer-park, about a
mile north of the Town House. He died in 1786, aged
eighty-six ; and his monument is to be seen, a little west of
the Town House. His descendants are numerous in Con-
necticut, New York, Vermont, and many of the Western
States; and the peculiar features in the character of Hon.
John Reed are strongly imprinted upon his posterity. He
married two wives, one of which was a Milford lady ; by
whom he had the following children: viz., — William, Zal-
mon, Luke, and Huldah. Married, for second wife, Sarah
Bradley, Dec. 17, 1750, of Greenfield Hill. Children,—
Hezekiah, born Feb. 23, 1753 ; John, who died unmarried ;
Sarah, born Nov. 27, 1751 ; Deborah ; Ruth, Sept. 25, 1754 ;
Marab, March 4, 1758 ; Mable, Sept. 9, 1759 ; Esther,
Dec. 26, 1760; Levi, March 19, 1764, died when four days
old ; John, April 30, 1765.

William, son of Col. John of Reading, went to Ohio many
years ago with his family, and settled. His wife was a Miss
Hawley.

Zalmon, son of Col. John of Reading, born 1763 ; married
Huldah Bradley of Greenfield, Fairfield County, Jan. 31,
1758 ; inherited a portion of the landed estate of his father,
and settled upon it, in Reading. He was also administrator

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 215

of the estate of his uncle William, who died in Boston. He
had four sons; viz., Zalmon, Eli, Samuel, Aaron.

Luke, the son of Col. John, fell into a burning coal-pit in
the year 1739, and was so badly burned that he survived but
a few hours. His father wrote a letter to Ruth, his mother,
in Boston, informing his parents of the melancholy event ;
and his father sent back a letter in reply. Both of the letters
are yet preserved, after a period of a hundred and twenty
years ; and are both remarkable for the piety and Christian
resignation manifested in them, and form a complete index
to the turn of mind, and Christian graces, so strongly exhi-
bited in the writers.

Zalmon, son of Zalmon, born at Reading, April 28, 1759 ;
married Huldah Gray in 1780 ; and died on the old estate,
Oct. 3, 1846. Children, — Aaron, born April 23, 1781;
Henry, Nov. 11, 1787 ; Samuel, June 9, 1797 ; Benjamin ;
Betsy, Feb. 24, 1792 ; Clarissa, April 8, 1793. His wife died
June 27, 1810. Married Hannah Basset, 1819. Children,
— Frederick, born November, 1821 ; Mary, February, 1824 ;
Benjamin, May, 1831.

Aaron, son of Zalmon of Reading, married Maria Hawley.
Children, — Harriet, who married Richard Smith of Sharon,
May 28, 1830, and died in fourteen months after her mar-
riage, leaving an infant son ; Mary, married Mr. Nathaniel
Church, and moved to Troy, N.Y. Mr. Church died Oct. 22,
1839 : Mrs. Church died Oct. 22, 1853, leaving three chil-
dren,— one son and two daughters. Mr. Reed now lives in
Troy, N.Y., and is widely known as Deacon Reed. He has
a son (Charles H.), who graduated at Yale College ; studied
theology at Princeton ; licensed to preach in Troy, N.Y. ;
settled over the Pearl-street Church, New- York City, where
he remained five years ; and has been for the last twelve
years pastor of the United Presbyterian Church in Richmond,
Va., — a pious and devoted pastor, and popular preacher.

216

Frederick, son of Zalmon and Hannah, born November,
1821; married Zeaner Gray in 1841. Children, — Charles,
born in 1843 ; Delia G., 1846 ; George, 1850.

Benjamin, son of Zalmon and Hannah, born May, 1831 ;
married Catherine Selloch. Children, — John, born in
1853; William, 1856.

Samuel, son of Zalmon, 1st, settled in New- York City ;
married Ruhamah Lockwood. Children, — Charles; Hannah.

Eli, son of Zalmon, born in 1765 ; married Mabel Lyon.
Child, — Huldah, born Aug. 16, 1764. He died in Reading
in 1842.

Aaron, son of Zalmon, born in 1767 ; received a liberal
education ; studied law, and settled in Bedford, N.Y. ; mar-
ried Sally Memming of Bedford. Children, — Sarah, Aaron,
Frederick. Sally, the wife of Aaron, died in 1829 ; and,
after living a widower six years, he married Mary, daughter
of Edmond Mead of Somers, N.Y. He was Judge of the
County Court ; a ruling elder in the church ; a talented,
pious, noble-hearted man ; and died Sept. 9, 1855, much
lamented, aged eighty-eight years.

Huldah, daughter of Zalmon, born in Reading in 1761 ;
married Samuel Smith, and had children. She died in the
twenty-third year of her age.

Samuel, son of Zalmon, born at Reading in 1763 ; mar-
ried Ruhamah Lockwood, and had a family of children. He
settled in Woodbridge, N.J. ; where he died.

Hezekiah, son of Col. John, born at Reading, Feb. 25,
1753 ; married Anna Gorham, May 12, 1774. Children, — ■
Anna, born Dec. 1, 1775 ; Sarah, Sept. 14, 1777 ; Ulilla,
Jan. 22, 1780 ; Hezekiah, March 23, 1783, married Nancy
Banks. His wife died Feb. 23, 1785. Married, for second
wife, Abigail Hull, Feb. 22, 1789. Children, — Deborah,
born May 23, 1790; Thaddeus, Sept. 27, 1792 ; Elizabeth,
June 6, 1795 ; Samuel Bradley, April 1, 1802.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 217

Thaddeus, son of Hezekiali, married Elleanor Lyon, Jan. 1,
1823. Children, — George, born Dec. 2, 1829, married
Eliza Collins, Jan. 23, 1854; Susan, born Jan. 21, 1824;
Sarah, April 23, 1826 ; Abigail, Sept. 6, 1832 ; Eleanor,
Aug. 5, 1834 ; Deborah, July 19, 1839. The son George
lives in Reading. Thaddeus died September, 1846 ; and
his widow and daughters live in New- York City.

Sarah, daughter of Col. John, married Jabez Hill of Read-
ing, and brought up a family of children, whose descendants
form a numerous and respectable family.

Samuel B., son of Hezekiah and Anna, born April 1, 1802 ;
married Camille Lyon, and lives in Ipsilanta, Mich. Chil-
dren,— William, John, Eliza.

Josiah, son of Samuel and Hopestill, born about 1675 ;
married in Marlborough, to Elizabeth Amsden, June 3,
1697. Children, — William, Joseph, John, Isaac, Jacob,
David.

David, son of Josiah and' Elizabeth, born June 20, 1706 ;
married Hannah Rainsford, March 20, 1733, of Rehoboth.
Children, — Ebenezer, born March 22, 1734; David, who
settled in New Marlborough, Mass. ; Hannah ; Elizabeth,
married Jonathan Alford ; Josiah ; Abigail ; Abijah, who
married Anna White, and settled in Canterbury, Conn. ;
Charity, married Stephen Gibbs. David died at Ellington,
Conn., March 9, 1763.

Ebenezer, son of David and Hannah, born March 22,
1734 ; married Mary Fitch of Windsor, Conn., Dec. 6, 1759.
She died Nov. 11, 1774. Married Widow Elizabeth Barret
of Thompson, Conn., Nov. 1, 1781. Children, — Justus,
born Oct. 17, 1760; Chloe, June 1, 1764, married Charles
May, Aug. 26, 1788, died Jan. 26, 1795 ; Elijah Fitch, born
May 11, 1767 ; Abner, Nov. 13, 1771 ; Jerusha, Aug. 10,
1775, died Sept. 4, 1777. He died March, 1818, aged
eighty-four.

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218 JOHN READ OF EEHOBOTH,

Elijah Fitch, son of Ebenezer and Mary, born May 13,
1767, at South Windsor ; married Hannah M'Lean. Chil-
dren, — Julia, born Oct. 8, 1792, married Henry Watson
of South Windsor, Sept. 5, 1809 ; Ebenezer P., born Feb. 4,
1799, died Nov. 25, 1832; Maro M'Lean, Oct. 18, 1801 ; Mary
Eliza, Jan. 15, 1804, died at Waverley, 111., in 1850 ; Harriet
S., born Feb. 12, 1806, married Hon. John Hall of Elling-
ton, Conn., Sept. 6, 1830 ; Julius Alexander, born Jan. 16,
1809; Roxanna, May 14, 1810, married Stanley White, and
died at Andover, Conn., Aug. 20, 1839. He practised medi-
cine with success fifty-six years, and received a degree of
M.D. from the Medical Society of Connecticut ; died Sept. 9,
1847, aged eighty.

Maro M'Lean, son of Elijah F., married Elizabeth Lathrop,
June 31, 1831, at Jacksonville, 111. Children, — Harriet,
born June 31, 1831 ; Edward, March 6, 1833 ; Albert,
Feb. 12, 1836 (in college) ; Maria L., Jan. 27, 1839 ; Elijah
F., died young ; Sarah ; Julia; born April 20, 1846 ; Hen-
ry, died ; Mary Eliza, born June 25, 1849. Maro studied
and practised medicine with his father, after graduating at
Yale College in 1822 ; and took his degree of M.D. in 1826.
He afterwards practised in East Windsor and Hartford,
Conn., till 1830 ; when he removed to Jacksonville, 111.,
where he is in full practice.

Josiah, sou of David and Hannah, married a sister of
Lieut. Pinney of Ellington. Children, — Louisa; Horace,
born May 15, 1770, — a physician of much distinction, who
married Betsy Welles of Glastenbury, Conn. He moved to
Putnam, O., in 1814 ; where he died. Cbildren, — Roswell,
who died young ; Lucy W., who married Robert Haslet,
June 8, 1810. They live at Zanesville, O. ; and have eight
children.

Rev. Julius Alexander, son of Elijah F., born Jan. 16,
1809 ; married Caroline Blood, Dec. 1, 1835, and lives at

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 219

Davenport, Io. Children, — Anna, born 30, 1836;

Rosanna, Aug. 11, 1839, died April 25, 1840, by being
thrown from a wagon ; Mary, bora Feb. 9, 18-43.

Arthur M., son of Deacon Abner, married Harriet, daugh-
ter of Judge Douglass of Florida ; and is a banker in Jack-
sonville, Fla. Children, — Louisa and Harriet (twins) ;
Maro S. Reed, married Elizabeth Loomis of Farrington, and
lives at East Windsor.

5. Josiah, son of Lieut. John of Uxbridge, and Lucy, born
July 23, 1753 ; married Elizabeth, who died at Uxbridge,

1819. He died at Westfield, Vt., in 1804. Children,—
Rodolphus, born May 6, 1774, died May 16, 1841 ; Naomi ;
Lucy ; Hannah ; Ellen ; Chloe ; Abijah.

6. Rodolphus, son of Josiah, born May 6, 1774 ; married
Sarah Hill. Children, — Lydia, born Dec. 5,1804; John,
Nov. 6, 1803, died Dec. 5, 1825 ; Hannah, born Oct. 7,
1805, died young; Lucy, born Aug. 27, 1807, died young;
Lyman, born Dec. 25, 1809; Erastus, Dec. 17,1811; Jo-
siah, Jan. 18, 1813, died in 1843 ; Calvin, born Dec. 11,
1815 ; Sarah Ann, March 25, 1819 ; Arvilla, March 29,

1820, died in 1831 ; Royal, born March 28, 1822 ; Willard,
Aug. 15, 1826.

6. Lucy, daughter of Josiah, married Erastus Burges.
Children, — Patience, Hubbard, Arvilla.

6. Hannah, daughter of Josiah, married Aaron Loveland.
Children, — Hannah, Alfred, Dinah, Jared, Lorin, Asher.

6. Ellen, daughter of Josiah, married Josiah Stratton.
Children, — Josiah ; William.

6. Chloe, daughter of Josiah, married an Underwood.

6. Abijah, married Rhoda Chapman of Grafton, Vt. He
was in the war of 1812.

7. Lydia, daughter of Rodolphus, born Dec. 5, 1801 ; mar-
ried Luther Howe, Jan. 16, 1842. Child, — Sarah A., born
May 23, 1843. They live in Westfield, Vt.

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7. Lyman, son of Rodolphus and Sarah, married Mehitabel
Clark, and lives in Illinois.

7. Erastus, son of Rodolphus and Sarah, born Dec. 17,
1811 ; married Betsy Marks of Gillsum, N.H., and lives in
Peterborough, N.H. Children, — James, Josiah, Mary
Ann, Lizzie, George.

7. Calvin, son of Rodolphus, born Dec. 11, 1815 ; married
Precilla G. Titus, who died Dec. 5, 1845. Married Sarah
R. Young, Aug. 8, 1846. Children, — Henry D., born
Nov. 27, 1847 ; Herbert, Sept. 26, 1849 ; Luther H.,
July 15, 1854. He lives in Westfield, Vt.

7. Sarah Ann, daughter of Rodolphus, March 25, 1819 ;
married George Howard. Children, — Geoi'ge, John, Sarah.
Married, for second husband, Luther Bardwell. Children,
— Moses, William Wells, Melissa.

7. Royal, son of Rodolphus, born March 28, 1822 ; mar-
ried Fanny Perkins. Children, — Lydia Ann and Asseneth.
He died Aug. 21, 1851.

4. Silas, is undoubtedly a descendant of Josiah of Elling-
ton, Conn. ; but I am not able to state which of Josiah's
sons is his immediate ancestor. He married Mary Wallace,
and settled in Ellington, Conn. Children, — Jacob, born at
Ellington, Oct. 23, 1775 ; Abraham ; Polly ; Lydia ; Charles ;
Timothy ; Silance ; Silas. The elder Silas died in 1789.
His widow married John H. Goodrich, Esq., Sept. 26, 1793 ;
moved to Ohio, and the children of Silas Read went with
them, some fifty years since. They were a talented and
respectable family.

5. Abraham, son of Silas, married, and moved to Roots-
town, 0., when there were but four families in that town, in
1804 ; had four sons. His son Otis Reed, Esq., is Post-
master of Rootstown. Abraham died Jan. 7, 1849, aged
seventy-two years.

5. Jacob, son of Silas and Mary, born Oct. 23, 1775 ; mar-

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 221

ried Chloe Hitchcock in Ellington, Dec. 24, 1800 ; went
with his brother to Rootstown, and from there to St. Louis
in 1816, where he built and ran the first steamboat that ever
went to St. Louis. He died in New Orleans in 1820.

5. Timothy, son of Silas and Mary, moved to Ohio, and
died there about the year 1838.

5. Charles, son of Silas and Mary, went to Ohio ; lives in
Deerfield, and is the only survivor of the family of Silas.

6. Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Betty, lived at one
time in Franklin, Vt. ; and had William Harlow, who lives
in East Fairfield, Vt. ; Josiah, who lives in Cleveland, 0. ;
Luman, deceased ; Leonard, born in Franklin, Jan. 24,
1820. Married Mary Loverin, July 18, 1850. Child, —
Charles L., born June 18, 1851. Mary, the wife of Leonard,
died October, 1851. Married Rebecca Gallop, Sept. 4, 1853.
Child, — Mary A., born April 21, 1857.

Abijah, son of David, married Anna White, and lived at
Canterbury, Conn. He was an officer in the Revolutionary
War, and was imprisoned in the Jersey-prison ship. He was
exchanged, and died soon after returning home. Children,
— Nancy, who married Stephen Cole of Manchester, Conn. ;
Augusta ; Eliphalet ; Reuben ; and two daughters. His
widow married a Chapin of South Windsor.

Abner, son of Ebenezer and Mary, born Nov. 11, 1772;
married Elizabeth Loring, April 9, 1795, and settled in
Soiith Windsor. Children, — Elizabeth, who died young;
Jane Anne Maria, married Edward Bossill, and is now living
at Toledo, O. ; Abner L. ; Charlotte Sophia, who married
Samuel Stiles of Brooklyn, N.Y. ; Waldo R., who died at
Genesee, N.Y. ; Arthur M. Deacon Abner now lives in
Conneant, O.

Abner L., son of Abner and Elizabeth, born at South
Windsor, Conn. ; lives at Connaught ; married Abigail
Tudor. Children, — Sophia; Arthur.

222 JOHN READ OF REHOBOTH,

Arthur M., son of Abner and Elizabeth, married Miss
Douglass, and lives at Jacksonville.

Justus, son of Ebenezer and Mary, born June 1, 1764 ;
married Sarah Steel, who died July 15, 1790. Married, for
second wife, Lucina Elmore. Married, for third wife,
Widow Lydia Burnham. Children, — Polly, born Dec. 17,
1781, married E. Loomis of Torrington, Conn. ; Jerusha,
born Nov. 23, 1783, married Mr. Mo ul ton of Castleton, Vt.,
and lives in St. Louis, Mo. ; Sarah, born Oct. 26, 1785, mar-
ried Phineas Blodget of East Windsor ; Ann, April 25, 1787 ;
Selima, who married Mr. Bissil of East Windsor, Conn. ;
Justus C, born Aug. 31, 1792; Chloe, born Jan. 28, 1795,
died at East Hartford in 1857 ; Celima, born 1849, died
Nov. 20, 1849 ; and Emily, who married a Nettleton. He
served in the Revolutionary War, and died in Torrington,
Conn., at the age of eighty-four.

Justus C, son of Justus, has a son John, who is a dentist
in Hartford, Conn. ; also Waldo and Maro.

2. John, son of John of Rehoboth, born at Braintree,
Aug. 29,1640; married Radial. Children, — Sarah, born
Dec. 14, 1664, died 1675 ; Mehitabel, born April 13, 1667 ;
John, Dec. 8, 1669 ; Thomas, July 23, 1672. The elder
John was killed by the Indians, March 21, 1776, at Pierce's
Fight. He had been quite a prominent man, and was dis-
tinguished by the appellation of "Mr."

3. John, son of John, 2d, and Rachal, born Dec. 8, 1669 ;
married Sarah. Children, — John, born Nov. 11, 1695;
Moses, May 14, 1698 ; Timothy! July 11, 1699 ; Sarah,
March 24, 1702 ; Obediah, Jan. 10, 1705 ; Daniel, Nov. 2,
1710, died Nov. 3, 1710. Married, for second wife, Eliza-
beth. Children, — Patience, born Aug. 1, 1715; Rachal,
April 14, 1717 ; Patience, Oct. 15, 1719. The elder John
died in 1752.

4. John, son of John, born Oct. 11, 1695 ; married Chisi-

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 223

beth Dere, Sept. 6, 1714. Children, — Radial, born June 2,
1720 ; John, May 3, 1722 ; Elizabeth, July 10, 1725.

5. John, son of John, born May 3, 1722 ; married Judith.
Children, — David, born at Warren, R.I., July 10, 1748;
Judith, May 5, 1753 ; John, Oct. 11, 1758, died young.
The elder John died in 1759, and had been a sea-captain.

6. David, son of John, born at Warren, R.I., July 10,
1748; married Mary. Children, — John, born at Barring-
ton, March 3, 1778, died young; Eliza, March 12, 1791,
married Green Marshall.

3. Thomas, son of John, 2d, born at Rehoboth, July 23,
1672 ; married Sarah Butterworth, June 21, 1699. Child,
— Patience, born at Rehoboth, April 16, 1708. Married
Martha for second wife. Children, — Thomas, born March
10, 1712 ; Martha, Nov. 4, 1715 ; Noah, Dec. 26, 1717 ;
Hannah, June 18, 1720 ; Sarah, Dec. 12, 1722 ; Peter,
Dec. 26, 1724. Thomas died Nov. 25, 1748.

4. Thomas, son of Thomas and Martha, born at Rehoboth,
March 10, 1712; married Bethsheba. Children, — Lois,
born at Rehoboth, May 27, 1741; Sarah, May 30, 1743;
Bethsheba, Sept. 1, 1745 ; Orinda, May 15, 1747 ; Huldah,
Aug. 11, 1752; Hannah, Aug. 28, 1754.

2. Thomas, son of John, 1st, of Rehoboth, born at Brain-
tree, Nov. 9, 1641 ; married Elizabeth Clark, March 29,
1665. Children, — Sarah, born March 10, 1666 ; Elizabeth,
Jan. 25, 1668 ; Mary, April 11, 1670 ; James, July 6, 1672.
His wife died Feb. 21, 1675. Married Annie Perrin for
second wife, June 16,1675. Children, — John, who died
Oct. 25, 1676 ; Thomas, born March 25, 1678 ; Nathaniel
and Mehitabel, Sept. 22, 1680; Hannah, April 12, 1682;
Martha, April 3, 1689. He was in King Philip's War, and
his house was made a depository for arms. He died Feb. 6,
1696 ; and his gravestone is standing near that of his
father's, and is inscribed " T. R., D. Feb. 6, 1695-6 : " and

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the gravestone of his wife Elizabeth, inscribed " E. R., ag.
32 ; D. F. 1675." He is probably the Thomas taken by
Indians at Hadley in the beginning of 1676 ; but of this
there is no positive proof.

3. James, son of Thomas and Elizabeth, born at Rehoboth,
July 6, 1672 ; married Mercy Cooper, Jan. 7, 1697. Chil-
dren,— Elizabeth, born at Rehoboth, May 29, 1699 ; James,
April 14, 1701, died April, 1725. Married Mary for second
wife. Children, — Mercy, born May 25, 1706 ; Susanna,
March 21, 1709; Aaron, April 10, 1710; Hannah, Oct. 11,
1712 ; Nathan, May 4, 1715 ; Jonathan, April 22, 1717, died
May 1, 1717 ; David, April 22, 1717, died June 12, 1717.
James died March 8, 1732.

4. James, son of James and Mercy, born April 14, 1701 ;
died April, 1726. Children, — James, born in 1724 ; Ste-
phen, in 1726.

5. James, son of James and Mercy, born in 1724. Chil-
dren,— Hopestill, born in 1762 ; Ephraim and Lucy (twins),
1764; James, 1765; Leafe, 1772; Elizabeth, 1776; Free-
love, 1781.

4. Stephen, son of James and Mercy, born in 1726. Chil-
dren,— Samuel, born in 1757; Prudence, 1758; Hannah,
1760 ; Esther, 1762 ; David, 1764 ; Abigail, 1767.

5. Samuel, son of Stephen, born in 1757. Children, —
Stephen, born in 1781 ; Polly, 1783 ; Sally, 1785 ; Hannah,
1787 ; Mason, 1789 ; Samuel, 1791 ; Anna, 1794 ; Priscilla,
1796 ; Serena, 1800.

Mason, son of Stephen, born in 1789. Children, — Pa-
melia M., born in 1816 ; Hiram S., 1818 ; Lorenzo H., 1819 ;
William M., 1821 ; Elmira, 1825 ; Delia A., 1827 ; Eliza-
beth, 1828 ; Emily, 1830 ; Amanda, 1836.

Hiram S., son of Mason, born in 1800. Children, —
Catherine, born in 1845 ; Jaletta, 1848 ; Frank, 1851 ;
Anna, 1853.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 225

William M., son of Mason, born in 1821. Child, —
Ella W., born in 1847.

6. Samuel, son of Samuel, born in 1791. Children, —
Andrew, born in 1815 ; Mary A., 1817 ; Julius, 1819 ; Nel-
son, 1821 ; Hannah, 1823 ; Ann M., 1825.

7. Nelson, son of Samuel, born in 1821. Child, — Samuel,
born in 1846.

Jonathan, son of James and Mary, born in 1717. Chil-
dren,— Noah, born in 1740 ; Abel, 1746 ; Silence, 1752.

Noah, son of Jonathan, born in 1740. Children, — Han-
nah, born in 1762 ; Dorcas, 1764 ; Huldah, 1766 ; Abial,
1768 ; David, 1771.

Nathaniel, son of Thomas, born at Rehoboth, March 30,
1680 ; married Elizabeth French, July 8, 1709. Children,
— Samuel, born at Rehoboth, Aug. 12, 1710; Nathaniel,
Oct. 25, 1712, died Nov. 7, 1732 ; Moses, born Dec. 17,
1716 ; Ephraim, April 5, 1723 ; Ezra, March 18, 1729.

Samuel, son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth, born Aug. 12,
1710 ; married Patience Chaffee, Feb. 28, 1724. Children,—
Nathaniel, born May 31, 1735 ; Samuel, Oct. 11, 1736, died
Sept. 8, 1765 ; Mary, born Feb. 13, 1738 ; David, Oct. 5,
1742 ; Jessie, July 8, 1744 ; Zachariah, Sept. 8, 1746 ; Pa-
tience, Jan. 22, 1748 ; Experience, April 19, 1755.

Nathaniel, son of Samuel and Patience, born May 31,
1735; married Huldah Carpenter. Children, — Nathaniel,
born at Attleborough, Oct. 21, 1760 ; Huldah ; Dillie, born
at Rehoboth, Feb. 8, 1765 ; Hepsah, Oct. 30, 1766 ; Samuel,
May 7, 1769 ; Obadiah, Feb. 14, 1771 ; Daniel, June 25,
1773 ; Esther, May 3, 1775.

Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel and Huldah, born Oct. 21,
1760 ; married Anna. Children, — Nancy, born at Reho-
both, March 6, 1783 ; Daniel, Oct. 24, 1784 ; Nathaniel,
Aug. 18, 1786 ; Huldah, June 12, 1789 ; Fanny, Dec. 10,
1791 ; Lucy, July 19, 1794 ; Barsheba, Oct. 23, 1797.

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Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel and Ann, born Aug. 18,
1786 ; married Sally Crossman. Children, — Sally E.,
born at Seekonk, Dec. 7, 1814; Gilbert, Oct. 30, 1816;
Henry, Sept. 20, 1818 ; Horatio N., Nov. 23, 1820 ; Mary
Ann, Dec. 26, 1822, who married John B. Humphrey ;
Lewis Lafayette, Dec. 4, 1824 ; George Bradford, June 23,
1828. Married, for second wife, Philena Perrin. Child, —
David P., June 21, 1837.

Gilbert, son of Nathaniel and Sally, born at Seekonk,
Oct. 30, 1816; married Almira Budlong. Children, —
George Edward, born at Pawtucket, April 9, 1844 ; Frede-
rick P., March 16, 1847 ; Anna Budlong, Aug. 13, 1848.

Horatio N., son of Nathaniel and Sally, born at Seekonk,
Nov. 23, 1820 ; married Susan Sunderland. Children, —
Arthur W., born at North Providence, May 22, 1846 ; Eu-
gene H., Jan. 2, 1848 ; Georgiana, Dec. 18, 1850, died in
1852.

4. Ezra, son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth, born March 18,
1724 ; married Joanna Read, Aug. 24, 1750. Child, —
Deborah, born at Attleborough, Aug. 2, 1756.

Zachary, son of Samuel and Patience, born at Rehoboth,
Sept. 8, 1746 ; married in Wrentham to Lois Mann, Nov. 23,
1775. Children, — John, born at Wrentham, Jan. 11, 1777 ;
Lois, Oct. 29, 1778 ; Polly, Oct. 1, 1780 ; Thomas, Jan. 26,
1783 ; Harvey, who died June 10, 1747. Zachary died at
Wrentham, May 7, 1808. His wife died May 7, 1824.

John, son of Zachary, born at Wrentham, Jan. 11, 1777 ;
married Lydia Davis. Children, — Charles Jones, born at
Wrentham, Jan. 30, 1807 ; Loisa Davis, Oct. 12, 1808 ; Daniel
Davis, June 1, 1810. John married, for second wife, Cathe-
rine Murphey, Nov. 5, 1848 ; and lives in Attleborough.

Charles J., son of John and Lydia, born at Wrentham,
Jan. 30, 1807 ; married Pamelia Vose of Foxborough,
Dec. 2, 1830, and lives in Foxborough.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 227

Daniel D., son of John and Lydia, born at Wrentham,
June 1, 1810 ; married Miranda White, Nov. 27, 1839, and
lives in Attleborough. Child, — Daniel D., born at Wren-
tham, Jan. 16, 1845.

Jesse, son of Samuel and Patience, born at Rehoboth,
July 8, 1744 ; married in Wrentham, Dec. 3, 1772, to Esther
Puffer. Children, — Jesse, born at Wrentham, July 2,
1776 ; Esther, May 23, 1787. His wife died, and he mar-
ried Susanna, who died July 1, 1799.

David, son of Samuel and Patience, born Oct. 5, 1742.
Children, — Betty, born in 1774 ; Zaliome, 1777 ; Alice,
1780 ; William, 1782.

7. Lewis L., son of Nathaniel and Sally, born at Seekonk,
Dec. 4, 1824 ; married Eliza Brown. Children, — Samuel,
born at Seekonk, Oct. 31, 1852 ; Herman, Feb. 9, 1855 ;
Emma, born Sept. 19, 1856 ; Martha, Dec. 17, 1857.

7. George B., son of Nathaniel and Sally, born at See-
konk, June 23, 1828 ; married Amelia. Child, — George
Francis, born in New- York City, February, 1858.

4. Noah, son of Thomas and Martha, born at Rehoboth,
Dec. 26, 1717; married Anna Hunt. Children, — Peter,
born at Rehoboth, Nov. 20, 1742, died ; Martha, born May 2,
1744 ; Noah, Feb. 19, 1746 ; Perez, Aug. 4, 1748 ; Cyrel,
Sept. 20, 1750, died ; Thomas, Dec. 25, 1752 ; Anna, May 29,
1755 ; Judith, July 20, 1758 ; William, Oct. 12, 1760 ; Lois,
Dec. 23, 1762. The elder Noah died Oct. 14, 1773.

5. Perez, son of Noah and Anna, born at Rehoboth,
Aug. 4, 1748 ; married Mary Paine, Jan. 9, 1777 ; and
Synthia Carpenter for second wife. Children, — Anna,
born at Rehoboth in 1777, and married Samuel Allen ;
Noah, born in 1780 ; Perez, 1791 ; Cyrel, 1805.

6. Perez, son of Perez, born at Rehoboth in 1791 ; mar-
ried Eunice Briggs. Child, — Eunice B., born at Seekonk,
April 24, 1818, and married Daniel Ide.

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6. Cyrel, son of Perez, born at Eehoboth in 1805 ; mar-
ried Sarah Wheaton. Children, — Elizabeth, born at See-
konk in 1823, and married John A. Wood ; Martha, born in
1825, married Noah Bliss ; Sarah, born 1826 ; Perez W.,
1828 ; Theofoles H., 1830 ; Cyrel, 1832, died ; William
Noah, born 1834, died ; Lucius W., born 1836 ; James N.,
1838 ; Louisa E., 1843 ; Charles R., 1845 ; Eunice, 1847.

6. Noah, son of Perez, born in 1780 ; married Betsy.
Children, — Mary Ann, born at Seekonk, Sept. 28, 1806;
Elizabeth L., born Feb. 11, 1808 ; Cynthia, March 14, 1810 ;
Sarah Ann, Nov. 14, 1815 ; Harriet B., April 22, 1822.

5. William, son of Noah and Anna, born at Rehoboth,
Oct. 12, 1760. Children, — William, born in 1791; Za-
cheus, 1794 ; Anne, 1796. This family went West.

5. Noah, son of Noah and Anna, born Feb. 19, 1746 ;
married Pear, daughter of Obediah Read, Jan. 28, 1773.
Cbildren, — Abial, born at Rehoboth, Oct. 24, 1773, died
March 18, 1775; Noah, born April 20, 1775, died Jan. 13,
1777.

7. Theofoles H., son of Cyrell, born at Rehoboth,
Sept. 17, 1832 ; married Sarah J. Leonardson.

4. Aaron, son of James, born at Rehoboth, April 10,
1710 ; married Tabatha Chaffee, Dec. 20, 1733. Children,
— Aaron, born at Rehoboth, Nov. 14, 1734 ; Susanna,
Oct. 29, 1737; Jonathan, Aug. 23, 1739; Simeon, June 7,
1743 ; Amos, April 27, 1745.

5. Simeon, son of Aaron and Tabatha, born at Rehoboth,
Nov. 14, 1734 ; married Elizabeth. Children, — Cynthia,
born Nov. 12, 1768 ; Sarah, Oct. 16, 1770 ; Aaron, Jan. 29,
1773 ; Susanna, Dec. 23, 1774 ; Simeon, Sept. 22, 1776,
died Aug. 15, 1778 ; Elizabeth, Nov. 15, 1778 ; Hannah,
Nov. 15, 1782 ; Olive, Nov. 20, 1783 ; Orinda, June 25,
1786.

6. Aaron, son of Simeon and Elizabeth, born at Rehoboth,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 229

Jan. 29, 1773 ; married Naomi. Children, — Lorenzo, born
at Rehoboth, Sept. 20, 1807 ; Cynthia, Feb. 1, 1809.

5. Aaron, son of Aaron and Tabatha, born Nov. 14, 1734 ;
married Hannah Carpenter, Jan. 25, 1757. Child, —
Ephraim, born at Rehoboth, April 10, 1757.

Daniel Reed, born in Somers, Conn., Dec. 9, 1752; was
probably of the Rehoboth stock ; but his genealogy is not
traced. He died in 1840, leaving a son (William W.), who
was born in Andover, Conn., Oct. 31, 1787, and lives in
.Albany, N.Y. He married Lydia Rathbone of Salem,
Conn., Nov. 17, 1819. Children, — Henry, born in Ando-
ver, Feb. 23, 1821, and lives in Paris, France ; Edward,
May 22, 1822, who married Fanny Miller, and lives in St.
Louis, Mo. ; Joel R., Feb. 24, 1829.

Joel, son of William W., born at Andover, Conn., Feb. 24,
1829 ; married Marianna Townsend, April 19, 1855, and
lives in Albany. Children, — William H., born May 7,
1856 ; Edward T., Nov. 9, 1857.

4. Timothy, son of John, born at Rehoboth, July 16,
1699; married Joanna. Children, — William, born June
18, 1724 ; Joanna, April 5, 1725 ; Timothy, April 24, 1732 ;
Kesiah, Nov. 8, 1734 ; Sarah, June 1, 1737 ; Rachel,
Dec. 21, 1739 ; Daniel, Feb. 7, 1742 ; Theodore, Aug. 24,
1745 ; Huldah, Dec. 21, 1748. The elder Timothy died
May 8, 1781.

5. Timothy, son of Timothy, born at Rehoboth, April 24,
1732; married Martha Pidge. Children, — Obadiah, born
at Rehoboth, July 24, 1761, died Jan. 31, 1762 ; Joel, born
Dec. 2, 1762 ; John, Feb. 10, 1765 ; Sabrina, June 4, 1767
Rachel, May 25, 1769, married Asa Hills of Swansey, N.H.
Josiah P., born April 28, 1772 ; Benjamin, May 3, 1774
Robert, March 30, 1776, settled in Shrewsbury, Vt., but
finally moved to the State of New York, where he brought
up a large family ; Martha, born Oct. 11, 1778, married

230 JOHN READ OF REHOBOTH,

Josiah P. Harvey, and is now living in Shrewsbury, Vt. ;
Timothy, born in Swansey ; Betsy, May 24, 1781, married
Sebra Aldrich, and settled in Shrewsbury, Vt. The elder
Timothy served in the Revolutionary War in 1775 and '6.
In 1779, he set out with an ox-team to convey his family to
Swansey. He arrived there in ten days, and settled in the
east part of the town, -which was at that time a perfect wil-
derness. He died in March, 1808. His wife died Jan. 30,
1812.

5. Daniel, son of Timothy and Joanna, born at Eehoboth,
Feb. 7, 1742; married Huldah. Children, — Lydia, born
at Rehoboth, May 6, 1769 ; Nancy, Jan. 5, 1771 ; Abel,
Sept. 28, 1772; Betty, Sept. 30, 1774; Ezra, Sept. 7, 1777;
Williams, Sept. 29, 1781.

6. Josiah P., son of Timothy and Martha, born at Reho-
both, April 8, 1772, and settled in Swansey, N.H. ; married
Mary Forbes. Children, — Josiah M. ; Maria, who mar-
ried Joseph Reed of Rutland ; William ; Malinda, who
married a Sargeant, and lives in Unionville ; Benjamin ;
Mary Ann, who married C. Parker, and lives in Unionville ;
Edwin. Josiah P. is now living, and enjoying vigorous
health, at the age of eighty-eight years.

7. Josiah M., son of Josiah P., married Martha Carter,
and does business at No. 31, Union Street, Boston. Child,
— Helen. He married, for second wife, Eliza S. Newman
in Boston, June 26, 1842. Children, — Josiah C, Georgi-
anna, Emma.

6. Joel, son of Timothy and Martha, born at Rehoboth,
Dec. 6, 1762 ; married Judith Mears, and settled in the
south part of Swansey, N.H. Children, — Sabrina, Betsy,
and Hannah, who live in Lowell ; Judith, who married a
Deary, and lives in Athol ; Joel ; Lucinda, who married
Lyman Parker, Esq., and lives in Swansey. The elder Joel
died Jan. 22, 1812: his wife died Jan. 22, 1829.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 231

6. Timothy, son of Timothy and Martha, settled in Swan-
sey, N.H., and had Abel, Timothy, John, Daniel, Lucy,
Charles, and Rawson.

6. John, son of Timothy and Martha, born at Rehoboth,
Feb. 10, 1765 ; married Lucy Warner, and settled in the
east part of Swansey. Children, — Abel Warner, born
Nov. 4, 1796 ; Timothy, 1798 ; Edward ; a daughter, who
lives in Hartford, Conn. ; John, born May 3, 1800, lives in
Fitzwilliam, N.H. ; Daniel, born April 1, 1803, who lives
in Keene ; Charles, born in 1805 ; Rawson, who lives in
Hartford, Conn. The elder John died June 3, 1813 : his
wife died Dec. 3, 1846.

6. Benjamin, son of Timothy and Martha, born at Reho-
both, May 3, 1774 ; married Phebe Farnsworth, and settled
in Shrewsbury, Vt. His wife died soon after the marriage,
and he died while on a visit to his friends in Swansey in
1812.

7. Abel Warner, son of John and Lucy, born at Swansey,
N.H., Nov. 4, 1796 ; married Sylvia Graves, and lives upon
the old homestead. Children, — Abel Graves and G. H.

8. Abel G., son of Abel W. and Sylvia, married Hannah
P. Marsh, and lives with his father.

7. Timothy, son of John and Lucy, born at Swansey, N.H.,
in June, 1798 ; married Eunice Kelley, and settled in Danby.
Children, — Timothy ; Edward ; and two daughters, one of
whom is deaf, dumb, and blind, yet is able to do many kinds
of work, and cultivates a flower-garden in good taste ; she is
also an expert at knitting. The elder Timothy died in Fe-
bruary, 1847 or '8.

7. John, son of John and Lucy, born at Swansey, N.H.,
May 3, 1800 ; married Eliza Baker, and settled in Fitzwil-
liam. He has a family of children, whose names are not
given. His wife died in March, 1849.

7. Charles, son of John and Lucy, born at Swansey, N.H.,

232 JOHN READ OF REHOBOTH,

October, 1805 ; married Kesiah Ripley, and settled in Hart-
ford, Conn.

William, son of Josiah P. and Mary, married Susan Whit-
comb, and lives in Swansey. Child, — Joel.

8. Joel, son of William and Susan, married Helen Wright,
and has one son.

7. Benjamin, son of Josiah P. and Mary, married Deborah
Ballou, and lives in Unionville, Swansey.

7. Edwin, son of Josiah P. and Mary, married a Stone,
and lives in West Swansey. They have one daughter.

7. Maria, daughter of Josiah P. and Mary, married Joseph
Reed of Rutland, Mass. (for their children, see Joseph Reed,
son of Jeremiah). She married, for second husband, a Mr.
Wilde of Boston ; and now lives in New- York City.

4. Obadiah, son of John, born at Rehoboth, Jan. 10,
1705; married Ruth Smith, Jan. 15, 1730. Children,—
Anna, born at Rehoboth, Dec. 7, 1730 ; Sarah, Nov. 1, 1732 ;
Ruth, Feb. 1, 1734 ; Abial, April 13, 1737 ; Martha, April 6,
1739 ; Molly, Aug. 15, 1741 ; Ama, May 21, 1744 ; Lydia,
Aug. 12, 1746 ; Fear, Feb. 18, 1748.

5. Abial, son of Obadiah and Ruth, born at Rehoboth,
April 13, 1737; married Lydia White. Child, — Luther,
born at Attleborough in 1762.

6. Abel, son of Daniel and Huldah, born at Rehoboth,
Sept. 28, 1772 ; married Sarah Carpenter. Children, —
Lyman ; William ; Stephen 0. ; Cyrus ; Abby J., who mar-
ried Horatio N. Angell ; Sarah A., who married a Johnson ;
Nancy A. ; Betsy, who married Remember Carpenter of
Pawtucket. Abel married Lydia Wood for second wife.
Children, — Ezra, Mary, Huldah. He married Patience
Chase for third wife. Child, — Abel, of Pawtucket.

7. Ezra, son of Abel, married Alice Slater, and lives in
Blackstone.

7. Stephen G., son of Abel, married Mrs. Hannah Leach

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 233

at Thompson, Conn., Nov. 14, 1852. Child, — William
Abel, born at Wrentham, Jan. 7, 1854. They live in Wal-
pole.

7. Abel, son of Abel, born in 1821. Children, — Henry
P., born in 1846; Frederick A., 1847; Delos L., 1850;
Ormond F., 1852 ; Ella M., 1857.

5. Thomas, son of Noah and Anna, born at Rehoboth,
Dec. 25, 1752 ; married Hannah Bourne. Children, born
at Rehoboth, — William, October, 1785; Francis, Aug. 3,
1787, died in 1814 ; Betsy, born October, 1789, died in
1847 ; Thomas, April 28, 1791 ; Samuel, April 3, 1794 ;
Noah, July 25, 1796 ; John B., May, 1799, died 1848. The
elder Thomas died at Rehoboth in 1816.

6. William, son of Thomas and Hannah, born at Reho-
both in October, 1785 ; married Sarah Rogers. Children,
— Peter, born at Somerset in 1810 ; Hannah, 1813, married
James Stone; Thomas, bona in 1815, died ; William, 1817 ;
Francis B., 1819 ; Joseph R., 1821 ; Julia Ann, 1823. He
lives in Fall River.

7. Francis B., son of William, born at Somerset in 1819 ;
married Mary Brayton. Children, — Benjamin B., born at
Pall River in 1851 ; Francis, 1853 ; Herbert, 1856. They
live at Fall River.

7. William, son of William, born at Somerset in 1817 ;
married Amanda Snow. Children, — Thomas, born at Fall
River in 1841; Francis, 1843, drowned in 1851; Julia A.,
born in 1845 ; Frederick, 1848. Lives at Fall River. He
is, or has been, one of the city police.

6. Francis, son of Thomas and Hannah, born at Rehoboth,
Aug. 3, 1787; married Nancy Church. Child, — Mary C,
born at Seekonk, March 17, 1811, died in 1851. He lived
in Seekonk, and died in 1814.

6. Noah, son of Thomas and Hannah, bom at Rehoboth,
July 25, 1796. Child, — Josephus F., born at Seekonk,

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234 JOHN READ OP REHOBOTH,

Sept. 28, 1823, who married Maria Hardy. Child, — Jose-
phus, born at Seekonk, July 25, 1849.

7. Josephus F., son of Noah, born at Seekonk in 1823 ;
married Maria Hardy, and has gone to California. Child,
— Josephus F., born at Seekonk, July 25, 1849.

6. John B., son of Thomas and Hannah, born at Reho-
both, May, 1799; married Seulah Boyd. Child, — Albert
L., born at Seekonk, Feb. 2, 1825.

7. Albert L., son of John B. and Seulah, born at Seekonk
Feb. 9, 1825 ; married Charlotte at Parmenter, and lives at
Pawtucket. Children, — Frank A., born at Pawtucket,
May 27, 1851 ; Sarah S., Sept. 7, 1853 ; Clara A., Oct. 2,
1855.

7. Thomas, son of Noah, had a son Thomas, born at See-
konk, Jan. 13, 1822 ; married Anna Hall of Uxbridge, Mass.,
and lives in Providence.

2. Daniel, son of John, 1st, of Rehoboth, born at Reho-
both, March, 1655 ; married Hannah Peck, Aug. 20, 1677.
Children, — Hannah, born at Rehoboth, June 30, 1678, and
married Daniel Taft of Mendon, July 28, 1703 ; Daniel,
born Jan. 30, 1680 ; John, Feb. 25, 1681, died March 1,
1683 ; Sarah, born April 5, 1684 ; Noah, May 17, 1687, died
Oct 20, 1710 ; Abigail, born June 5, 1690. The elder Da-
niel died Oct. 17, 1710.

3. Daniel, son of Daniel and Hannah, born at Rehoboth,
Jan. 20, 1680 ; married Elizabeth Bosworth. Children, - —
Beriah, born at Rehoboth, Oct. 29, 1707 ; Ichabod, Oct. 8,
1708 ; Hannah, Feb. 5, 1709 ; Abigail, April 29, 1709, and
died young ; Esther, born July 1, 1712 ; Daniel, Sept. 7,
1713. Married, for second wife, Elizabeth Ide, Dec. 8, 1715.
Children, — Daniel, born at Attleborough, Dec. 3, 1716;
Noah, Dec. 17, 1718 ; Elizabeth, April 2, 1721 ; Samuel,
May 18, 1823, died 1823 ; Abigail, bom April 4, 1725 ;
Daniel, 1726 ; Rachel, June 10, 1728 ; Benjamin, Aug. 21,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 235

1730 ; Ebenezer, 1733 ; Thankful, May 12, 1737. He was
known as Capt. Read.

4. Daniel, son of Daniel and Elizabeth, born at Attlebo-
rougb, Dec. 3, 1716; married Mary White. Children, —
Matthew, born at Eehoboth, July 23, 1742 ; Hannah,
June 26, 1744, died in 1822 ; Mary, Jan. 29, 1747, and
died in 1847 ; Daniel, June 9, 1749 ; Peter, July 6, 1751 ;
Joel, Aug. 16, 1753 ; Eunice, Sept. 21, 1755 ; Daniel, 1757 ;
Ezra, May 2, 1760 ; Levi, Aug. 23, 1762 ; William, Dec. 27,
1764. The elder Daniel of this family was known, as was
his father, by the appellation of " Captain."

4. Ichabod, son of Daniel and Elizabeth, born at Eeho-
both, Oct. 8, 1708 ; married Elizabeth Chaffee. Children,
— Ichabod, born at Attleborough, Jan. 15, 1735 ; Patience,
Aug. 2, 1737 ; Amos, May 1, 1739 ; Daniel, Aug. 12, 1743 ;
Olive, April 11, 1746 ; Ichabod, March 2, 1750 ; Jonathan,
Aug. 8, 1752. Married, for second wife, Elizabeth Robinson.
Children, — Ebenezer, born July 7, 1757 ; Dan, Feb. 7,
1766 ; Sarah, April 13, 1768, married Moses Thatcher ;
Lemuel, born Feb. 1, 1771 ; Asareel, July, 1773, lived and
died on the homestead in Attleborough.

5. Amos, son of Ichabod and Elizabeth, born May 1, 1739,
at Attleborough ; married Mary Ide. Children, — Hannah,
born at Attleborough, Feb. 6, 1772 ; Anion, Nov. 9, 1773 ;
David, March 1, 1776 ; Amos, May 9, 1778. He died in
1779.

6. David, son of Amos and Mary, born at Attleborough,
March 1, 1776 ; married Rebecca Pachodie of Providence.
Children, — Horace, born at Providence in 1806 ; Mary
Ann ; Eliza, who died young ; Rebecca P. ; Francis, born
1810 ; Jane ; Eliza Lee ; Alden P. ; Cynthia P., born in
Attleborough.

7. Francis, son of David and Rebecca, born in 1810 ;
married Mary Jewett of Rowley. Children, — Mary R.,

236 JOHN BEAD OF REHOBOTH,

born at Providence, 1835 ; Francis J., 1837 ; Sarah E. ;
Harriet C. ; Willie C. ; Webster ; Payson. Francis is a
dealer in paper-hangings in Providence.

6. Amos, son of Amos and Mary, born at Attleborough,
May 9, 1778 ; married Caroline Bowers. Children, —
Mary, born at Attleborough, Aug. 26, 1806 ; Hannah,
Feb. 7, 1808, married William Burroughs ; Caroline M.,
Oct. 30, 1815 ; William B., Jan. 6, 1810 ; Anthony S.,
Jan. 18, 1812, died 1813 ; Caroline M., Oct. 30, 1815.

7. William B., son of Amos and Caroline, born at Attle-
borough, Jan. 6, 1810 ; married Esther Coburn. Child, — ■
Willie Coburn, born at Pawtucket, July 30, 1850 ; died in
1854.

5. Jonathan, son of Ichabod and Elizabeth, born at Reho-
both, Aug. 8, 1752; married Dorothy Blake. Children, —
John, born at Falmouth, Me., in 1787 ; Abigail, 1789 ;
Rufus, 1793 ; Samuel, 1797, married his cousin Betsy,
daughter of Lemuel ; Amos, born Oct. 18, 1796 ; Eliza,
1799 ; John B., born at Freeport, Dec. 2, 1801 ; Daniel B.,
Jan. 1, 1803 ; Mary Ann, 1806, married a Bracket ; Louisa,
born in 1808.

6. Daniel B., son of Jonathan and Dorothy, born at Free-
port, Me., Jan. 1, 1803 ; married Submit, daughter of Oliver
Read of Lewiston, and lives in Lewiston, Me.

7. Horace, son of David and Rebecca, born at Providence
in 1806 ; married Charlotte Wood of Swansey. Children,

— Georgiauna D., born at Providence in 1812 ; Horace F.,
1845.

6. Rufus, son of Jonathan and Dorothy, born in Fal-
mouth, Me., in 1793 ; married Nancy P. Bailey. Children,

— George S., born Sept. 21, 1815 ; Ervin, April 11, 1817 ;
Amos, Feb. 5, 1819 ; Albert, Feb. 22, 1821, died Sept. 5,
1849 ; Frances A., born Feb. 27, 1823 ; Mary E., Aug. 8,
1825, died Jan. 15, 1850 ; Leonard B., born July 16, 1827,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 237

lives in California ; Abba B., born June 28, 1831 ; Martha J.,
July 31, 1835. They live in Westbrook, Me.

7. George S., son of Rufus and Nancy, born Sept. 21,
1815 ; married Jennett Estis. Children, — Frederick, born
1854 ; Ida, 1856 ; Abba E., 1858. They live in Gorham,
Me.

7. Ervin, son of Rufus and Nancy, born April 11, 1817 ;
married Caroline Cotton. Children, — Sewell B., born
1824 ; Charles, 1828.

7. Abba B., daughter of Rufus and Nancy, born June 28,
1831 ; married Nathaniel Small. Children, • — ■ Charles M.,
born in 1854 ; Frederick, 1857.

7. Amos, son of Rufus and Nancy, born Feb. 5, 1819 ;
married Sarah Knight. Children, — Charles Read, Daniel
Knight, Frances C, Leonard Read, George Read, E. Read,
Sumner Read.

7. Frances A., daughter of Rufus and Nancy, born
Feb. 27, 1823; married George L.Walker. Child, — Fre-
derick, born in 1841.

6. Amos M., son of Jonathan and Dorothy, born at Fal-
mouth, Oct. 18, 1796 ; married Mary Drown. Child, —
Augustus, born at North Providence, June 1, 1822 ; died in
1840. Married Mary E. Underwood for second wife. Chil-
dren, — Henry Clay, born June 25, 1831 ; Joseph M.,
May 11, 1832 ; Harriet N., Feb. 20, 1835, married Frederick
Bates ; Amos Theodore, born Sept. 25, 1838 ; Walter B.,
July 18, 1820, died ; Charles N., Nov. 29, 1845, died in
1846. Amos M. is a hardware dealer in Pawtucket.

6. John B., son of Jonathan and Dorothy, born at Fal-
mouth, Me., June 2, 1801 ; married Jane Ingraham. Chil-
dren,— Mary D., born at Pawtucket, June 7, 1829, and
married Edward Lefavour. John B. is a hardware dealer
in Pawtucket, and is known as Gen. Read.

7. Henry C, son of Amos M., born at North Providence,

238 JOHN READ OP REHOBOTH,

Jan. 25, 1831 ; married Eliza Douglass. Children, — Carrie
A., born at North Providence, September, 1852 ; Hattie U.,
October, 1855. They live at Pawtucket.

7. Joseph M., son of Amos M. and Mary, born at North
Providence, May 11, 1832 ; married Frances E. Richer.
Children, — Charles M., born at North Providence, Sept.
12, 1855 ; Fanny L., Feb. 12, 1858. They live at Paw-
tucket.

7. Arnan, son of Amos and Caroline, born at Attlebo-
rough, May 9, 1773 ; married Mary Cushman. Children,
— George A., born at Attleborough, Jan. 26, 1808 ; Joseph
T., March 20, 1812 ; Lewis L., March 17, 1815 ; Samuel,
Nov. 28, 1819.

4. Ebenezer, son of Daniel and Elizabeth, born at Reho-
both, 1733 ; married in Windsor, Conn., Dec. 6, 1759, to
Mary Fitch. Children, — Justus, born Oct. 17, 1760 ; Chloe,
born at Windsor, June 1, 1764 ; Elijah Fitch, May 11, 1767.

4. David, son of Daniel and Elizabeth, born at Rehoboth
in 1726 ; married Hannah. Child, — Elizabeth, born at
Windsor, Conn., May 26, 1751.

5. Dan, son of Ichabod and Elizabeth, born at Attlebo-
rough, Feb. 7, 1766 ; married Susan Hart, and settled in
Vassalborough, Me. ; but moved from there to Lewiston,
where he was postmaster forty years. He was also a select-
man many years. Children, — Martha, who married Richard
D. Harris of Lewiston; Samuel, who married Huldah Nash of
Lewiston ; John P., who married Betsy, daughter of Ichabod
Reed (they being first cousins) ; Sarah, who married John
Nash; Lois; Jacob, born 1795, married Maria Goff; Ste-
phen H., married Rachel Brown ; Amaziah, married Margaret
Randall; Joseph F., married Mary Sturgis ; Lemuel, mar-
ried Eleaner Russell ; Deborah, who died young ; Mary,
who married Jonathan Raynes.

5. Ichabod, son of Ichabod and Elizabeth, born March 2,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 239

1750. Children, — Betsy, who married Capt. John P., son
of Lemuel Reed ; Oliver, who married Catherine Hart ;
Ichabod ; Russell, who married a Sprague ; Nancy, who
married an Austin.

5. Lemuel, son of Ichabod and Elizabeth, born Feb. 1,
1771 ; married Mary Hart, and settled in Vassalborough,
Me., with his brother Dan. Their wives were sisters, and
they occupied one house together many years. He after-
wards moved to Lewiston, as did his brother Dan. Children,
— Charles T., born at Vassalborough, Oct. 8, 1795 ; Betsy,
who married Samuel, son of Jonathan Reed of Falmouth,
Me., her first cousin ; Patience, who married William Web-
ster of New Gloucester ; Abigail, married Frederick Dana ;
Susanna, married Enos Dunham of Falmouth ; Jane, mar-
ried Amasa Storer of North Yarmouth ; Syntha, married
George Bean of Lewiston.

6. Charles T., son of Lemuel and Mary, born at Vassalbo-
rough, March 8, 1795 ; married Syntha Swift of Livermore.
Children, — Mary Jane, born at Lewis, Sept. 24, 1827 ;
Amanda F., Feb. 24, 1829 ; Edwin and Edgar, Sept. 20,
1832 ; Mark L., April 29, 1835, keeps at No. 16, Pearl
Street, Boston ; Charles A., Nov. 30, 1838. Charles T.
lives in Boston, No. 16, Chamber Street.

5. Ebenezer, son of Ichabod, born at Attleborough, July 7,
1764 ; married Betsy Stanley. Children, — Rosey, born at
Attleborough, March 6, 1796, married Gideon Young; Rus-
sell, born July 26, 1792 ; Martha, Feb. 27, 1795, married
Daniel Bradley ; Dana, born July 18, 1803 ; Hannah, born
at Lewiston, Me., Oct. 20, 1807.

6. Russell, son of Ebenezer and Betsy, born at Attlebo-
rough, July 26, 1792 ; married Susan Alby. Children, —
Oren A., born at Attleborough in 1814 ; Harriet R., 1816.
He died in 1816.

7. Oren A., son of Russell and Susan, born at Attlebo-

240 JOHN READ OF REHOBOTH,

rough in 1814 ; married Ellen Slater at North Providence,
Aug. 12,1840. Children, — Ellen S., born at Providence
in 1841 ; John Si, 1843 ; Frances Elizabeth, 1846. Oren A.
is a dealer in stoves and hardware in Providence. He has
done much to perpetuate the history of his race.

6. Dana, son of Ebenezer and Betsy, born at Attleborough,
July 18, 1803 ; married Julia Woodruff. Children, —
Laura, born 1829 ; Sarah N., 1831 ; Ellen H., 1833 ; Henry
C, 1834 ; Sarah, 1837 ; Julia W., 1839 ; David H., 1841 ;
Frederick, 1843. He lives in Springfield, Mass.

6. Hannah, daughter of Ebenezer and Betsy, born at
Lewiston, Me., Oct. 20, 1807 ; married Joseph B. Gage of
Pelham, N.H. Children, ^ Harriet Stanley, who married
Charles Kelley of Salem, N.H. ; Helen M. ; Sarah ; Joseph
Alonzo ; William ; George ; Albert ; Joanna ; Ida.

4. Samuel, son of Daniel and Elizabeth, born at Attlebo-
rough, May 18, 1723 ; married Barbara Lindley. Children,
— Barbara, born April 26, 1747 ; Solomon, Sept. 17, 1749 ;
Thomas, Sept. 12, 1752 ; Alpha, Feb. 23, 1755 ; Lucy,
July 21, 1758 ; Samuel, Nov. 20, 1760 ; Lois, Oct. 18, 1762 ;
Betty, Dec. 18, 1766.

5. Daniel, son of Ichabod and Elizabeth, born at Attlebo-
rough, Aug. 12, 1743 ; married Bebbe Peck. Children, —
Barzela, born at Attleborough ; Elizabeth, born April 11,
1760 ; Cyrus, Jan. 13, 1770.

5. Thomas, son of Samuel and Barbara, born at Attlebo-
rough, Sept. 12, 1752 ; married Rachel Titus. Children, —
Barbara, born at Attleborough, Sept. 13, 1784 ; Artemas,
April 13, 1787.

6. Artemas, son of Thomas and Rachel, born at Attlebo-
rough, April 13, 1787 ; married Abigail French. Children,
Barbara A., born at Attleborough, Nov. 18, 1813, died 1843 ;
Albert N., born Jan. 5, 1816, died 1834 ; Eliza W., born
1818 ; Eunice M., 1822.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 241

2. Moses, son of John, born at Rehoboth, October, 1650 ;
married Eebecca Fitch, Dec. 6, 1677. Children, — Zache-
riah, born at Rehoboth, Oct. 20, 1681 ; Rebecca, Sept. 14,
1683 ; Ezekiel, Jan. 23, 1685 ; Mary, Sept. 24, 1689 ; Moses,
Nov. 12, 1691, died Dec. 9, 1697. The elder Moses was a
representative of the town several years, and was a captain.
He died Dec. 14, 1716.

3. Zacheriah, son of Moses and Rebecca, born at Reho-
both, Oct. 20, 1681 ; married Martha. Children, — Zache-
riah, born at Rehoboth, Jan. 8, 1718 ; Moses, June 26,
1720 ; Hezekiah, May 1, 1722 ; Martha, Sept. 13, 1724;
Ruth, June 21, 1726 ; Hepsibah, June 27, 1730. He died
March 21, 1732.

3. Ezekiel, son of Moses and Rebecca, born at Rehoboth,
Jan. 23, 1685 ; married Mary Ide, May 24, 1714. Children,
— Mary, born at Rehoboth, April 22, 1715 ; Bethiah,
July 13, 1718 ; Ezekiel, Aug. 7, 1721 ; Rebecca, Nov. 1,
1723 ; Oliver, April 21, 1726, died Nov. 7, 1729 ; Joshua,
born March 7, 1728, died March 23, 1729; Olive, born
Jan. 19, 1729 ; Kesiah, May 1, 1731.

3. Moses, son of Moses and Rebecca, born at Rehoboth,
Nov. 12,1691. Children, — Moses, born in 1716; Natha-
niel, 1715 ; Ezra, 1718.

4. Moses, son of Moses, born in 1716 ; married Elizabeth
George. Children, — Moses, born at Attleborough, Nov. 24,
1745 ; Elizabeth, May 4, 1747 ; Abigail, Feb. 15, 1750 ;
Frelove, May 10, 1753 ; Ephraim, July 13, 1756 ; Susanna,
Aug. 9, 1758, who married a Tyler.

4. Hesekiah, son of Zacheriah and Martha, born at Reho-
both, May 1, 1722 ; married Hannah Haddock of Windsor,
Conn., Feb. 16,1747. Child, — Benjamin, born at Wind-
sor, Conn., Sept. 30, 1748.

5. Moses, son of Moses and Elizabeth, born at Attlebo-
rough, Nov. 24, 1745 ; may have had a son Moses, who

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242 • JOHN READ OF REHOBOTH,

married Esther, and had Mary, born at Attleborough,
Sept. 26, 1812.

5. Ephreim, son of Moses and Elizabeth, born July 13,
1756; married Hannah Fuller. Children, — Isaac, born at
Attleborough, Oct. 28, 1782 ; John, Dec. 20, 1785 ; Tenty,
June 2, 1789 ; Hannah, May 6, 1792 ; Savira, Sept. 4, 1798.
He was in the Revolutionary War, and was distinguished
as a man of a very retentive memory.

6. John, son of Ephraim, born Dec. 20, 1785 ; married
Sally Freeman. Children, — Susan, born Sept. 4, 1810 ;
Marcus, Aug. 7, 1812 ; Edwin, Sept. 28, 1814 ; John,
Jan. 12, 1819 ; Sarah Ann, June 24, 1820 ; James, April 30.
1822 ; William, Nov. 10, 1825 ; Ezra, Oct. 19, 1828. The
elder John is a Baptist clergyman, and lives at Cranston, R.I.

7. William, son of Rev. John and Sally, born Nov. 10,
1825 ; married Susan M. Austin. Children, — Samuel,
born Sept. 19, 1850 ; Edward A., April 27, 1852 ; Jane M.,
Oct. 4, 1843. He is a Baptist clergyman.

4. Ezekiel, son of Ezekiel and Mary, born Aug. 7, 1721 ;
married Anna. Children, — Rebecca, born at Rehoboth,
Sept. 10, 1751 ; Ezekiel, Sept. 13, 1753 ; Samuel, Sept. 18,
1757 ; Anna, Oct. 28, 1756 ; Mary, June 25, 1759 ; Patty,
Sept. 14, 1761 ; Joshua, June 30, 1764.

4. Oliver, son of Ezekiel and Mary, born Jan. 19, 1729;
married Hannah. Children, — Mary, born at Rehoboth,
Dec. 10, 1763 ; Oliver, April 21, 1765 ; Hannah, March 29,
1769 ; Chloe, May 22, 1773. He was deacon of the church
of Rehoboth.

5. Oliver, son of Oliver and Hannah, born at Rehoboth,
April 21, 1765 ; married Huldah Read. Children, — Hul-
dah, born Oct. 3, 1795 ; Milton, April 21, 1797.

5. Joshua, son of Ezekiel and Anna, born at Rehoboth,
June 30, 1764 ; married Kersia. Child, — Joshua, born at
Rehoboth, Dec. 18, 1793.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 243

6. Milton, son of Oliver and Huldah, born April 21, 1797 ;
married Fanny. Children, — Milton S., Albert, William,
Mary.

7. Edwin, son of John and Sally, born Sept. 28, 1814 ;
married Caroline M. Coulton, Oct. 1, 1839. They live at
Pawtucket.

2. Israel, son of John, 1st, of Rehoboth, born in Rehobotb
in 1657 ; married Rebecca Ruggells of Roxbury, Nov. 6,
1684. Children, — John, born April 22, 1686 ; Rebecca,
July 14, 1687; Israel, Sept. 3, 1688, died Sept. 22, 1732;
Mary, born Aug. 4, 1690 ; Joseph, Aug. 19, 1692 ; Eliza-
beth, April 6, 1694 ; Ann, March 23, 1695 ; Ruth, Nov. 23,
1697 ; Joshua, Oct. 3, 1699, died Sept. 14, 1722 ; Judith,
born April 8, 1701 ; Jeremiah, May 8, 1703. The elder
Israel died Nov. 17, 1732.

3. Joseph, son of Israel and Rebecca, born Aug. 19,
1692; married Hannah. Children, — Joshua, born July 1,

1728 ; Eliphalet, Oct. 6, 1730 ; Joseph, 25, 1733, died

■without issue ; Ruth, born Oct. 28, 1734 ; Joseph, Jan. 30,
1736 ; Betty, Nov. 30, 1738 ; Rosanna, Dec. 7, 1740 ; Ben-
jamin, Nov. 8, 1743.

4. Eliphalet, son of Joseph and Hannah, born Oct. 6,
1730 ; married Sarah Bucklin of Providence. He moved to
New Brunswick, and was with Gen. Wolfe at the taking
of Quebec in 1759. He finally settled at Sackleville.
Children, — Eliphalet, William, Joseph, Benjamin, Joshua,
Hannah, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Sarah.

5. Joshua, son of Eliphalet, born at Sackleville, N.B. ;
married Hannah Salisbury of Mount Desert, Me. Children,
— John ; Joshua ; Joseph, born in 1804 ; Sarah ; Elizabeth ;
Lydia; Rebecca.

6. John, son of Joseph of Sackleville, N.B., had one son
and four daughters. He died many years ago.

4. Joshua, son of Joseph and Hannah, born July 1, 1728 ;

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married Betty. Children, — Amey, born Sept. 9, 1756 ;
Daniel, Sept. 10, 1754 ; Hannah, Oct. 26, 1758.

Joshua Read married Kesiah. Child, — Joshua, born at
Rehoboth, Dec. 18, 1793.

Joshua, son of Joshua, born at Barrington, Oct. 13, 1820.

6. Joshua, son of Joseph of Sackleville, N.B., has four
children living.

6. Joseph, son of Joseph and Hannah of Sackleville, born
at Sackleville in 1804 ; married Abigail Seaman. Children,
— Joseph B., born 1830; Augusta A.; Sarah A.; Lucy
Herbert; Emily C, born in 1842 ; Huldah, 1844; Mary F.,
1846 ; Louisa C, 1848 ; Henry Harris, 1851 ; Eveline,
1853 ; Barton S., 1855 ; Ellen, 1856. He lives at Minudie,
Cumberland County, N.S. ; and is of the firm of Reed and
Seaman of Boston. He is a magistrate for the county of
Cumberland.

7. Joseph B., son of Joseph, married Emma Marsters of
Nova Scotia, and had one child, who, with the mother, is
dead ; and they lie side by side in one grave.

7. Augusta A., daughter of Joseph Read, Esq., of Minu-
die, married Rev. R. H. Emerson of Moreton, N.B., and has
three children. Mr. Emerson is deceased.

7. Sarah A., daughter of Joseph, Esq., married Rev. David
M. Keen. They have two children.

6. Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Hannah, married Isaac
Powell, and had seven children, and lives in Farmersville,
C.W.

6. Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Hannah, married
Thomas Read (her first cousin), and lives in New Bruns-
wick. They have nine children.

6. Lydia, daughter of Joseph and Hannah, married Ro-
bert Willis. Both dead, leaving eight children.

6. Rebecca, daughter of Joseph and Hannah, married
Job Seaman. They have seven children.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 245

6. Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Hannah, married
Charles D. Lockhart. They have seven children.

6. Eliphalet, son of Joseph and Hannah, married Francis
Patterson. They have eight children.

6. William, son of Joseph and Hannah, married Mary
Cole. Both are deceased, leaving two children.

4. Joseph, son of Joseph and Hannah, went to the British
Provinces about the year 1755. He was at the taking of
Port Cumberland. He married Martha, daughter of Elder
Rounds, a Baptist minister in Attleborough, July 26, 1761 ;
and he also became a Baptist minister. Settled in Horton,
N.S., and died young, of a tape-worm, leaving a son Benja-
min, born in 1769, and settled in Winthrop, Me. ; married
Mary B. Easty of Sharon, Mass., Aug. 15, 1789. Children,
— Leonard, born Oct. 13, 1791; Polly, March 12, 1792;
Benjamin ; Perin and Perintha, June 17, 1796 ; Martha,
Aug. 16, 1798 ; Joseph, July 9, 1800 ; Draper P., Sept. 5,
1802 ; Hannah ; Nancy ; Solomon ; Olive M. The elder
Benjamin was a landholder, and payer of direct taxes in
Winthrop in 1798, but afterwards moved to Albion. Joseph
also left two daughters, older than Benjamin ; one of whom
married a Colburn, and died without issue : the other mar-
ried a Lake, and raised a large family in Winthrop. The
children of Joseph were brought up by their grand-parents,
in Attleborough.

6. Joseph, son of Benjamin and Mary, born at Winthrop,
July 9, 1800 ; married Lucinda Hathorn. Children, —
Mary, born April 27, 1827 ; Bartlett W., May 9, 1829 ;
Olive M., May 18, 1831 ; Levina C, Dec. 19, 1839 ; Oren J.,
Nov. 16, 1836 ; Mary B., who married Paul Dudley, June 15,
1850, died Oct. 14, 1854.

6. Draper P., son of Benjamin and Mary, born Sept. 5,
1802 ; married Betsy Smith of Orington, and lives in Mil-
ford, Me. Children, — Martha, William H., Delia S.,

246 JOHN READ OF REHOBOTH,

George D., Marcellus, Jesse W., Mary E., Essanah Annett,
Eva, Abby T.

3. John, son of Israel and Rebecca, born April 22, 1686 ;
married Susanna Rounds, Feb. 8, 1710. Children, — Eliza-
beth, born at Swansey, Nov. 23, 1711 ; Oliver, June 18,
1715 ; probably John, and William. Susanna, the wife,
died Aug. 21, 1735.

John, son of John and Susanna, married Susanna Rollins,
and settled in Bristol, Me. Children, — John, born at
Bristol, now Damariscotta, in 1750, died in the Revolution-
ary War ; Polly, born in 1752, married a Ross ; William,
born in 1754; Sally, 1762; Susanna, April 8, 1765 ; Martha,
1768 ; Eliphalet, 1770 ; Frank, April, 1772 ; Samuel, Feb. 5,
1774 ; Joseph, 1776 ; Asa, Oct. 22, 1778.

William, son of John and Susanna, born at Bristol, Me.,
1754 ; married Eunice Flint, and had two sons and five
daughters. He died April 15, 1823 : his wife died April 18,
1834. They settled in Strong, Me. Children, — John, born
Aug. 24, 1779 ; Thomas, March 16, 1781 ; Eunice, April 18,
1783; Susanna, March 6, 1786 ; Patty, June 1, 1789 ; Polly,
June 24, 1793 ; Sally, May 14, 1799.

William, son of John and Susanna, born at Somerset,
1708. Children, — John, born in 1729 ; Mary, 1733 ;
Betsy, 1736; Nathan, 1746.

John, son of William, born in 1729. Children, — Wil-
liam C, born in 1755 ; William, 1761 ; Sarah, 1763 ; Mary,
1764 ; John, 1765 ; Nathan, 1768 ; Nathan, 1774.

William of Somerset, son of John, born in 1761. Chil-
dren,—William E., born in 1805; Ruth, 1807; William,
1808 ; Eben S., 1810; Mary C, 1812; Epaphras J., 1814;
George, 1816 ; Sarah, 1819 ; Elizabeth, 1821.

William, son of William, born 1808. Children, — Wil-
liam F.. born 1838 ; Rufus S., 1840 ; George, 1843 ; Mary
B., 1845.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 247

Nathan, son of John, born 1741. Child, — Preserved,
born in 1777.

Preserved, son of Nathan, born 1777. Children, — Cathe-
rine, born in 1807 ; Nathan, 1809 ; Francis, 1812 ; Emeline
M., 1815 ; Elizabeth, 1817 ; Mariah, 1823 ; Charles G-.,
1829.

Francis, son of Preserved, born in 1812. Children, —
Cate, born in 1852 ; Charles, 1853.

7. Eben S., son of William, born at Somerset, Oct. 6,
1810; married Sarah Ann Curtis. Children, — Sarah E.,
born at Fall River in 1836 ; Charles M., born at Somerset
in 1841. They live at Fall River.

John, son of William and Eunice of Strong, born Aug. 24,
1779 ; married Abigail Smith. Children, — Susan, Wil-
liam, Harrison, Mary, John S., Abigail A., Sarah. John
died May 22, 1837.

Thomas, son of William and Eunice, born March 16,
1781 ; married his cousin Polly Flint, and had seven sons
and two daughters. He died in 1857.

Polly, daiighter of Thomas and Polly, married John L.
Blake, and lives at Farmington, Me.

Sally, daughter of John and Susanna of Bristol, Me., mar-
ried Micah Wethren, and had two sons and two daughters.

Susanna, daughter of John and Susanna, married Ephrairn
Rollins. Children, — Samuel, William, Ephrairn.

Martha, daughter of John and Susanna, born 1768 ; mar-
ried Richard Clark. Children, — Lavina, Alice, Adam,
Eliphalet, Phebe, George, Dennis.

Eliphalet, son of John and Susanna, born 1770 ; married
Jane Plumer of Damariscotta. Children, — Abiel, Benja-
min, Moses, Samuel, Susan, Hannah. He lived and died
in Bristol, now Damariscotta, Me. : his wife died in Lynn,
Mass., Sept. 21, 1853.

Frank, son of John and Susanna, born April, 1772. Chil-

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dren, — William; and two others, names not given. He
settled in Knox, Me.

Samuel, son of John and Susanna, born Feb. 5, 1774 ;
married Abigail Yeaton. Children, — John G., Henry,
Harvey, Rufus, Joel, Catherine, Jane, Mary, Samuel P.,
Susan, Abigail. He lived and died on the old homestead
of his father in Bristol, Me.

Joseph, son of John and Susanna, born 1776. Children,
— Waterman, Benjamin, Margaret, Esther, Sally. He set-
tled in Windsor, Me.

Asa, son of John and Susanna, born at Damariscotta,
Oct. 22, 1778 ; married Sarah Yeaton. Children, — Wil-
liam M., born June 27, 1801 ; George P., Oct. 22, 1803 ;
Abigail, Oct. 13, 1805 ; Hartshorn, June 27, 1807 ; Francis
P., Jan. 12, 1809 ; Elbridge G., June 1, 1811 ; Sarah M.,
July 17, 1813 ; Warren A., Feb. 9, 1815 ; John B., April 29,
1818 ; Jerome, Sept. 23, 1820. Married, for second wife,
Abigail Huchinson. Children, — Augusta A., born Oct. 18,
1834 ; Charles L., Oct. 22, 1836. Asa settled in 1803 or '4 in
New Sharon, and removed to Strong in 1817 ; then to Town-
ship No. 6, Oxford County, now Phillips in Franklin County,
where he died in 1849. He was called Esquire Reed.

William M., son of Asa and Sarah, born June 27, 1801 ;
mari'ied Anne Wentworth, and is known as Esquire Reed of
Farmington, Me.

George F., son of Asa and Sarah, born Oct. 22, 1803 ;
married Dolly Beedy, and lives at Phillips. Married, for
second wife, Susan Smith ; and has children, whose names
are not given.

Abigail, daughter of Asa and Sarah, born Oct. 13, 1805 ;
married Enos Hiscock, and lives at Strong Tillage.

Hartshorn, son of Asa and Sarah, born June 27, 1807 ;
married Rachel Chandler, and have children, whose names
are not given. They live at Phillips.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 249

Francis, son of Asa and Sarah, born Jan. 12, 1809 ; mar-
ried Jane Lathrop, and they live in Lee, Penobscot County.
Names of children are not given.

Elbridge G., son of Asa and Sarah, born June 1, 1811 ;
married Sarah A. Hussey, and died at his residence in Mil-
ford, Penobscot County, in December, 1858.

Sarah M., daughter of Asa, born July 17, 1813 ; married
Richard Hiscock, and lives at Farmington Centre. Names of
children are not given.

Warren A., son of Asa, born Feb. 9, 1815 ; lives at No.
11, Aroostic County.

John B., son of Asa, born April 29, 1818 ; has a family,
and lives in Lee.

3. Israel, son of Israel and Rebecca, born Sept. 3, 1688 ;
married Hannah. Children, — Mary, born at Rehoboth,
Feb. 11, 1730 ; Israel, April 1, 1781 ; a son, born Aug. 11,
1732. The elder Israel died Sept. 22, 1732.

5. William, son of Eliphalet and Sarah, married Jemima
Finney, and lived in Sackville. Children, — William, born
in 1794 ; Joseph, 1796 ; Eliphalet, 1798 ; Hannah, who
married Elijah Ayers ; Caleb, lives in Portland, Conn. ;
James ; Harris ; John ; Asa.

Joseph, son of William and Jemima, married Mary, widow
of Valentine Easterbrooks, and lives at St. John's.

6. Eliphalet, son of William and Jemima, born in 1798 ;
married Rebecca Outhouse. Children, — Maria A., married
Samuel Hicks ; William, who went to Illinois ; Alton G. ;
Elizabeth, who married Edward Smith ; James L., a Baptist
clergyman ; Jemima, married Seth Campbell ; Eliphalet, a
Baptist clergyman, settled in Horton ; Rebecca ; Allison,
who died young ; Hiram ; Joseph B.

7. Alton G., sou of Eliphalet, married Anna Craig of
Roxbury, where he resides.

Eliphalet, son of Eliphalet, married Margaret Stockman.

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250 JOHN EEAD OF REHOBOTH,

Children, — Jesse; Otho ; William; Peter; David; James;
Eunice, who married Thomas Townsend ; Sinthia, married
Joshua Tingley ; Betsy, married John Anderson.

William, son of Eliphalet, married Sarah Palmer, and
lives in Westmoreland County, N.B. Children, — Jane, who
married Gny Tuttle ; Gideon ; Eliphalet, died young ; Cha-
rity, married Ebenezer C. Palmer ; Sarah ; Otho R., who
lives in Roxbury ; John T. ; Ruth E. ; Ellen, who married
Isaac Anderson ; William M. ; Elizabeth A.

Joshua, son of Joseph and Sarah, married Pricilla Chap-
pel. Children, — Eliphalet ; Catherine ; Elizabeth, who
married James Outhouse ; Ruth ; Hannah ; Charles ; Jo-
seph ; Richmond ; Otho ; George ; Albert. Joshua died in
Illinois, where his children live.

Benjamin, son of Joseph and Sarah, married Jane, and
settled in Bay de Verte. Children, — Ephraim ; Benjamin ;
Joshua ; Jonas ; Sinthia, who married William Kay.

Rebecca, daughter of Joseph and Sarah, married David
Purrington. Children, — Eleaner; Eliza, who married Dr.
Knapp.

William, son of William and Jemima, married Anna
Easterbrooks, and lived in Sackville. Children, — Sarah,
who married Joseph Sears ; Allen, who went to Illinois ;
Nancy, married Albert Peck of Hopewell ; Jemima, died in
1842; Louis, married Isaac Barns; Tinson ; Direxa; Pur-
rington, who died young ; Joseph ; Amey.

3. Jeremiah, son of Israel, born May 8, 1703 ; married
Patience Goodale, Oct. 18,1732. Children, — Lydia, born
at Rehoboth, Dec. 1, 1733, died 1739 ; Patience, born
Dec. 25, 1734 ; Rebecca, born at Attleborough, Oct. 4,
1736 ; Jeremiah, Sept. 25, 1738, died 1740 ; Lydia, born
Feb. 3, 1740.

4. Joshua, son of Joseph and Hannah, born at Rehoboth,
July 21,1728; married Betty. Children, — Daniel, born

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 251

at Swansey, Sept. 10, 1754 ; Amey, Sept. 9, 1756 ; Hannah,
Oct. 26, 1758.

5. Matthew, son of Daniel and Mary, born at Rehoboth,
July 23, 1742 ; married Dorothy Bardine. Children, —
Zelenda, born in Ashford, Conn., May 25, 1770 ; Mary,
1772 ; Reuben, 1774, died ; Matthew, born Nov. 3, 1776 ;
Daniel, 1779 ; Olive, 1781 ; David, 1783.

6. Matthew, son of Matthew and Dorothy, born at Ashford
in 1776; married Lydia Hotchkiss. Children, — Elizabeth,
born in East Windsor, Oct. 24, 1802, died in 1808 ; Matthew
H., born Sept. 2, 1804; Eleazer B., Sept. 12, 1808. Mar-
ried, for second wife, Lydia P. Allen in 1815. Children, —
Timothy, born May 15, 1817 ; Francis, Feb. 3, 1819 ; Susan,
Jan. 29, 1823, died 1825 ; Emeline, born Feb. 10, 1825,
died 1831.

6. Daniel, son of Matthew and Dorothy, born in Ashford,
Conn., in 1779 ; married in Wrentham, Mass., in 1805, to
Patty Whiting, and settled in Andover, Conn.

6. David, son of Matthew and Dorothy, is deceased ; and
his widow lives in Springfield, Pa.

6. Matthew H., son of Matthew and Lydia, born at East
Windsor, Sept. 2, 1804. Children, — Louisa P., William H.,
Amelia M., Matthew H., Daniel P. They live in Albany,
N.Y.

7. Eleazer B., son of Matthew. and Lydia, born at East
Windsor, Sept. 12, 1808. Children, — Mary E. ; Benjamin
F. They live at Albany.

8. Robert, son of Matthew H. Children, — Robert, Jen-
net B. They live in Albany.

8. William H., son of Matthew H. Child,— Addie. They
live in Albany.

5. Peter, son of Daniel and Mary, born at Rehoboth,
July 6, 1751 ; married Mary Pitcher in 1776. Children, —
Ezra, born in Attleborough, Dec. 16, 1777. Married, for

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second wife, Lydia Gilbert in 1786. Children, — Mary,
born in New Haven, Sept. 10, 1787, died in 1789 ; Rufus,
born July 10, 1789 ; Jesse, Oct. 2, 1790 ; Patty, July 11,
1792, died 1813 ; Peter, born at Ludlow, Vt., Dec. 27, 1793.
Married Elizabeth Baldwin for third wife. Children, —
Mary, born May 17, 1796 ; Lydia, Aug. 15, 1797, and mar-
ried S. W. Goodrich ; Mariam, born June 27, 1802. The
elder Peter was a clergyman, settled in Ludlow. He died
in 1839.

6. Ezra, son of Rev. Peter, born in Attleborough, Dec. 16,
1777 ; married Harriet Orne Fanning, daughter of Barcley
Fanning, a captain in the English Army. Child, — Harriet
Orne Fanning, a distinguished reporteress at Washington.
He learned the printer's trade at Windsor, Vt., and edited
a newspaper in that State ; but was afterwards associated
with his uncle Daniel in publishing musical and other
works in New Haven. He afterwards moved to Boston,
and was associated with Alclen Bradford, Secretary of State,
and an extensive publisher of law, musical, and other works.
They were the first who published Scott's novels this side of
the Atlantic. His health failing him, he went to Barbadoes
in search of a more genial climate ; and died of yellow fever
soon after his arrival.

6. Rufus, son of Rev. Peter, born at New Haven, July 10,
1789; married Rhoda Deane in 1819. Children, — George
F., born at New Haven, Oct. 24, 1820 ; Ezra G., May 2,
1822 ; Elizabeth T., March, 1824.

6. Peter, son of Rev. Peter, born at Ludlow, Vt., Dec. 27,
1793; married Jane Walker. Children, — David W. A.,
born at Ludlow, December, 1820 ; Cornelia S., July 18,
1824.

6. Jesse, son of Rev. Peter of Ludlow, born Oct. 2, 1790,
and settled in Richmond, Vt.

5. Daniel, son of Daniel and Mary, born at Rehoboth,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 253

Nov. 2, 1757 ; married Jerusha Sherman. Children, —
George F. Handall, born at New Haven, May 21, 1788 ;
Nathan S., Jan. 31, 1792, died 1821 ; Eliza, born Dec. 12,
1799, died in 1800 ; Mary W., born June 30, 1802, who
married Jonathan Nicholson. Daniel was a comb manufac-
turer and a composer of music in New Haven : he died in
1836.

6. Nathan S., son of Daniel and Jerusha, born Jan. 31,
1792; married Hannah Marriman. Children, — Eliza J.,
born April 26, 1815, died in 1815 ; Sarah C, born Oct. 28,
1816, died 1818 ; Daniel A., born Sept. 16, 1818, died
1821. Nathan S. was a graduate at Yale College, and a
clergyman.

6. George F. Handall, son of Daniel and Jerusha, born at
New Haven, May 21, 1788 ; married Miss Dummer. Chil-
dren,— Theodore, born at New Haven, April 26, 1811;
Henry A., Dec. 6, 1812, died 1842 ; William S., born
Oct. 31, 1816 ; George F., July 26, 1819, died 1845 ; Daniel
E., born Aug. 4, 1827. Married, for second wife, Rebecca
Sherman ; and the three youngest children are by the
second wife. George F. is a merchant in New Haven.

7. Theodore, son of George F. H. and Rebecca, born at
New Haven, April 26, 1811 ; married Mary Atwater. Chil-
dren,— Thomas A., born at New Haven in 1835 ; Stephen
D., 1837 ; Rebecca, 1840 ; Elisha, 1843. They live at New
Haven.

7. Henry A., son of George F. H., born at New Haven,
Dec. 6, 1812 ; married Caroline Curbey. Children, —
Eunice D., born in 1837 ; Nathan S., 1838 ; Henry, 1840 ;
Mary M., 1841 ; Cornelia, 1843. They reside at New
Haven.

5. William, son of Daniel and Mary, born at Rehoboth,
Dec. 27, 1764 ; married Selenda Tingley. Children, —
Mariah C, born at Attleborough, June 24, 1793, died in

254 JOHN READ OP EEHOBOTH,

1833 ; Ezra C, Jan. 27, 1798 ; Herbert A., Nov. 18, 1801.
William was a manufacturer at Pawtucket.

6. Herbert A., son of William and Selenda, born at Attle-
borougb, Nov. 18, 1801 ; married Nancy D wight. Children,
— Martha M., born at Thompson, Feb. 12, 1826, died in
1837 ; Mary B., born at Leroy, N.Y., Aug. 27, 1830 ; Mar-
tha M., at Muuroe City, 0., Feb. 12, 1838. He is a clergy-
man.

6. Ezra, son of William and Selenda, born at Attleborough,
June 27, 1798 ; married Martha Simpson. Children, —
James A., born at Newport, R.I., July 19, 1825, died 1830 ;
Charles A., born at New York, June 13, 1828, died 1831 ;
Martha W., born March 10, 1833, married Francis Wayland,
son of President Wayland. Ezra is president of a bank in
New Haven.

5. Joel, son of Daniel and Mary, born at Rehoboth,
Aug. 16,1753; married Chloe Stanley. Children, — Olive,
born at Attleborough, Sept. 4, 1780 ; Nancy, Feb. 23, 1782 ;
Eunice, April 19, 1784 ; Otis, July 29, 1786 ; Chloe, June 5,
1788 ; John A., Oct. 22, 1790 ; Mary, Jan. 7, 1793 ; Daniel,
Feb. 14,1795; David, Oct. 21, 1797. Joel lived in that
part of Rehoboth afterwards incorporated as the town of
Attleborough ; and was justice of the peace, selectman, and
representative for many years.

6. Otis, son of Joel and Chloe, born July 29, 1786 ; mar-
ried Charlotte Everett. Children, — Julia Ann, born at
Attleborough, Jan. 4, 1811 ; Charles, Sept. 25, 1813 ;
Jason, Oct. 11, 1815 ; Amherst Everett, Dec. 5, 1819 ;
Henry O., July 4, 1823 ; John A., Aug. 28, 1828.

7. Charles, son of Otis and Charlotte, born Sept. 25, 1813 ;
married Lucy Newman. Children, — Henry M., born
Jan. 15, 1838 ; Charles E., March 15, 1840 ; Ellen F.,
Nov. 2, 1841 ; Charles O., Dec. 29, 1846.

7. Daniel, son of Joel and Chloe, born at Attleborough,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 255

Feb. 14, 1795 ; married Lydia Miller. Children, — Albert
M.; Eunice, Feb. 28, 1826; Daniel W., Dec. 26, 1827,
died ; Daniel F., born April 1, 1830 ; James, April 3, 1837,
died 1839 ; Adaline, born July 12, 1835 ; Robert, Jan. 29,
1838 ; George, March 5, 1841.

5. Levi, son of Daniel and Mary, born at Rehoboth,
Aug. 23,1762; married Anna Hunt. Children, — Rufus,
born at Attleborough, Nov. 19, 1800, and lives in New-York
City; Clement 0., born Aug. 1,1802; Esther, Sept. 4, 1804 ;
Charlotte A., April 16, 1807 ; William H. Clifford, May 6,
1809; Sinthia M., Oct. 30, 1811, died in 1836.

6. Clement O., son of Levi and Anna, born Aug. 1, 1802 ;
married Miranda Collins in 1826 : she died in 1832. Mar-
ried Anna Goddard in 1834, and married Lydia Buffam in
1845. Children, — .Albert O., born in Nashua, N. H.,
Nov. 29, 1826 ; Angelina, April 10, 1829 ; Handall, Dec. 12,
1832, died ; Herbert G., born March 5, 1836, died ; Mi-
randa Adeline, born in Worcester, Sept. 18, 1828 ; Mary
Anna, born at Attleborough, Oct. 2, 1842 ; Lucy E., born
at Milford, Dec. 12, 1847 ; Edward E., at Brooklyn, N.Y.,
Nov. 13, 1850 ; Sarah B., May 13, 1853 ; Berthy, at Perth-
amboy, N.Y., Aug. 14, 1854.

4. Noah, son of Daniel and Elizabeth, born at Attlebo-
rough, Dec. 17, 1718 ; married Abigail Baldwin. Children,
— Timothy, born at Attleborough, Aug. 2, 1843 ; Elizabeth,
April 3, 1745 ; Sarah, Aug. 22, 1746 ; David, Nov. 10, 1747,
died in 1748 ; Esther, born Feb. 1, 1748 ; Abigail, Oct. 25,
1750 ; Chloe, Feb. 13, 1752 ; Richard, Dec. 21, 1753 ; Noah,
Sept. 21, 1755 ; Benjamin, March 5, 1757 ; Hannah, Jan. 17,
1759, died in 1859. Married Dorcas Chaffe, for second
■wife, in 1761. Children, — Hannah, born in 1762, married
Rev. Otis Robinson of Salisbury, Mass. ; Dorcas, born May 6,
1764, who married Job Harding ; Huldah, born April 18,
1766, married David Winkley ; Abel, born Feb. 10, 1768 ;

256 JOHN READ OP EEHOBOTH,

Olive, June 11, 1770, married Elisha Harding ; David,
born Aug. 11, 1777.

5. Olive, daughter of Noah and Dorcas, born June 11,
1770 ; married Elisha Harding of Medway, Mass., and had
several children. He died, and she married a Blake of
Wrentham, by whom she had several children. She after-
wards joined the Shakers at Lebanon, N.Y.

5. David, son of Noah and Dorcas, born Aug. 11, 1777 ;
married Prudence Pitts, July 3, 1798, and settled in Liver-
more, Me. Married Hannah Abbot of Minot for second
wife. Children, — Lucinda, who married Elvin Dillance ;
Phillip P. ; Mary P., married David Rich ; Prudence P.,
married Micah Foster for her first husband, and afterwards
Orin Andrews of Boston ; Louis and Eunice ; Stillman, who
died in infancy ; Harry ; Clarinda and David ; Stillman.

6. Phillip P., son of David of Livermore, married Lydia
D. Parsons. Children, — Margaret P., Annette E., Emily F.,
Alvan A. He lives at No. 357, Tremont Street, Boston ; and
is the inventor of a patent horseshoe.

6. Stillman, son of David of Livermore, married Martha
T. Thompson, July 1, 1835. Children, — Theron, born
Aug. 30, 1836 ; Cyrus T., Jan. 4, 1839 ; Clara, Sept. 12,
1840, died May 5, 1851 ; George E., born Feb. 3, 1843;
Fred, June 15, 1852 ; Corsel, Aug. 31, 1854 ; Charles Still-
man, Nov. 16, 1857.

6. Harvey, son of David of Livermore, married Adaline
Richards ; and Deborah Macholster, for second wife. Chil-
dren, — Mary Adaline ; Charles ; Elvah ; Clarinda, who
married John Bemis in 1836 ; David, who married Sarah E.,
daughter of Dr. Johnson of Newburyport.

5. Abel, son of Noah and Dorcas, born at Attleborough,
Feb. 10, 1768 ; married Elizabeth Sweet. Children, —
Noah, born at Attleborough, June 17, 1789 ; Betsy, Aug. 17,
1791, died in 1796 ; Fanny, born Jan. 30, 1793 ; Huldah,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 257

May 24, 1795 ; Elsea, May 7, 1797 ; Betsy, May 12, 1799 ;
Abel, April 1, 1801.

6. Abel, son of Abel and Elizabeth, born at Attleborough,
April 1, 1801. Children, — Abel, born at North Providence,
Nov. 30, 1821, and married Deborah P. Staples. Children,
— Henry F., born at Smithfield, March 4, 1846 ; Frederick
A., Oct. 11, 1857 ; Delos Lebarron, at North Providence,
1850 ; Osmand F., Feb. 14, 1852 ; Ella M., at Newport,
April 1, 1857.

Noah, son of Noah and Abigail, born at Attleborough,
Sept. 21, 1755 ; married Mary Kobinson at Windham, Me.,
Nov. 26, 1768. Children, — Emma, born at Windham,
Me., April 25, 1792 ; John, Oct. 8, 1793 ; Nathan, March 2,
1795 ; Huldah, April 15, 1796, died ; Sarah, born March 13,
1798, died June 16, 1839 ; Lydia, born March 2, 1802, died
Feb. 18, 1842 ; Tabitha, born July 17, 1804 ; Jane, April 27,
1806 ; Eufus, March 5, 1809, died Sept. 9, 1848 ; Noah,
born Dec. 19, 1810. The elder Noah died April 4, 1844 :
his wife died Nov. 4, 1842. He was a member of the Soci-
ety of Friends. The following is taken from " Memorials of
Deceased Friends of New-England Yearly Meeting," pub-
lished by the meeting for sufferings, 1849 : —

" Although considerable time has elapsed since the decease of our
aged and worthy friend Noah Read, yet the remembrance of him is
still fresh in our minds ; and we believe it right to preserve the fol-
lowing testimony concerning him. He was born in Attleborough,
State of Massachusetts, the 22d of ninth month, 1757, of parents
not in profession with Friends ; and, in the thirty-first year of his
age, he was received a member of Falmouth Monthly Meeting, of
which this Monthly Meeting was then a part. Of his previous life,
little has come to our knowledge ; but from this time he appears to
have engaged in the cause of truth and righteousness in the earth,
and was concerned that his life and conversation might be answer-
able to the profession he was making. He was, for many years,
more or less occupied as a teacher of the youthful members of our
society, in the common branches of school-learning ; which service

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258 JOHN READ OP REHOBOTH,

he performed much to the satisfaction of his friends. He was a
zealous friend of the Aborigines of this country : and, when the situ-
ation of the Penobscot tribe engaged the attention of our Yearly
Meeting, he was early appointed one of the committee to look into
their situation ; and, for many years, gave much personal attention to
that concern. He often visited them at their location ; going from
cabin to cabin, and endeavoring to turn their attention to their reli-
gious duties, and to instruct them in the arts of civilized life. In
1800, he was appointed an elder; which station he filled till his
death."

The testimony is continued to considerable length, and
signed by the clerks ; but, for want of room, I pass over
the remainder.

Emma, daughter of Noah and Mary, born at Windham,
April 25, 1792 ; married John Robinson, June 11, 1812.
Children, — Huldah Reed, born July 15, 1813 ; Otis,
Nov. 25, 1814; Noah, June, 1816, died in 1816 or '17;
Miriam, born Feb. 21, 1818, died Sept. 14, 1833 ; Mary J.,
June 16, 1819, died Jan. 23, 1834.

John, son of Noah and Mary, born Oct. 8, 1793 ; married
Nancy Horton, Jan. 28, 1818. She died June 27, 1832.
He married Eunice Hodsdon, Jan. 30, 1833 : she died
Nov. 19, 1843. Married Jane Woodford, November, 1849.
Children, — Ann Elizabeth, born Nov. 4, 1818 ; James Neal,
Oct. 17, 1820 ; John H., Sept. 12, 1828 ; Nancy H., March
22, 1836, died July 30, 1844 ; Noah, born Sept. 23, 1830 ;
Daniel H., June 15, 1838. John lives in Westbrook, Me.,
near the line of Portland. He formerly kept a publicJiouse
in Windham.

Nathan, son of Noah and Mary, born March 2, 1795 ; mar-
ried Rutb Horton, Jan. 28, 1824. Children, — Emily
Hussey, born Dec. 15, 1824, died Oct. 7, 1825 ; Emily H.,
Aug. 30, 1826 ; Julia W., Sept. 1, 1831 ; Joseph Warner,
Nov. 9, 1834, a clerk in Portland ; Charles H., Nov. 17,
1840, died Feb. 1, 1845.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 259

Emily H., daughter of Nathan and Ruth, born Aug. 30,
182(3; married Josiah Jones, Nov. 10, 1853. Child, — Julia
W., born Sept. 5, 1854.

Julia W., daughter of Nathan and Ruth, born Sept. 1,
1831 ; married Nathan R. Dyer, April 28, 1858.

Sarah, daughter of Noah and Mary, born March 13, 1798 ;
married Jeremiah Hacker, Sept. 11, 1817. Children, —
Lydia, born July 8, 1818, died May 23, 1821 ; Mary Read,
Jan. 26, 1820 ; Emily Ann, Nov. 22, 1821 ; Hannah, Sep-
tember, 1823 ; Joseph N., Feb. 15, 1826 ; Francis, Dec. 15,
1827; Lydia, Nov. 24, 1829; Abigail, Aug. 24, 1832, died
Oct. 16, 1832 ; Jeremiah W., born Nov. 22, 1834. They
live in Windham.

Mary R. Hacker, daughter of Jeremiah Hacker and Sarah
Read, born Jan. 26, 1820 ; married Josiah S. Allen, May 29,
1845. Child, — George, born June 11, 1853.

Hannah Hacker, daughter of Jeremiah Hacker and Sarah
Read, born September, 1823 ; married Stephen Winslow,
Dec. 2, 1852.

Tabitha, daughter of Noah and Mary, born at Windham,
July 17, 1804 ; married Stephen Webb, Dec. 29, 1822, and
lives in Windham. Children, — Albert, born Feb. 28, 1823 ;
John M., June 29, 1824 ; Josiah B., Jan. 19, 1826 ; Caro-
line, Sept. 16, 1827 ; Noah R., May 16, 1829 ; Mary J.,
March 7, 1831 ; Nathan, Jan. 14, 1833 ; Eliza, Sept. 3,
1834 ; Stephen H., Jan. 25, 1836 ; William B., Jan. 23,
1838 ; Noah, Sept. 19, 1839 ; Benjamin Read, Sept. 13,
1841 ; Emma, Oct. 16, 1845 ; Martha M., July 5, 1851.

John M. Webb, son of Stephen Webb and Tabitha Read,
born June 29, 1824 ; married Hannah Maybury, Aug. 14,
1845. Children, — Ellen F., born Nov. 1, 1846 ; Lucius A.,
Nov. 5, 1849 ; Caroline, March 25, 1851 ; Eliza J., July 30,
1857.

Josiah B., son of Stephen Webb and Tabitha, born Jan. 19,

260 JOHN EEAD OF REHOBOTH,

1826 ; married Sarah Ann Lowell, Sept. 23, 1850. Chil-
dren,— Hosanna, born March 1, 1854 ; Olive, May 23, 1858.

Jane, daughter of Noah and Mary, born April 27, 1806 ;
married William Bailey, July 29, 1841, and lives at Wind-
ham. Child, — Lydia, born May 8, 1842.

Rufus, son of Noah and Mary, born March 5, 1809 ; mar-
ried Martha M. Gerrish, Aug. 12, 1833, and lived at Port-
land. Children, — Julia Adelaide, born Jan. 27, 1835 ;
Martha Gerrish, Dec. 9, 1837 ; Ellen L., Sept. 18, 1840 ;
Rufus Scott, July 26, 1845. Rufus died Sept. 9, 1848 : his
wife died Sept. 26, 1847.

Noah, son of Noah and Mary, born Dec. 19, 1810 ; mar-
ried Sarah Mead, May 16, 1832, and lives at Windham.
Children, — George R., born Oct. 9, 1832, lives at Lynn;
Augustus, born Aug. 28, 1834 ; Merriam, June 27, 1838,
died Oct. 10, 1840 ; Rufus, born April 18, 1839 ; Mary,
Aug. 3, 1847 ; Martha, Sept. 27, 1844 ; Sarah H., Dec. 10,
1850, died May 27, 1854.

Ann Elizabeth, daughter of John and Nancy, born Nov. 4,
1818 ; married William M. Hall, April 23, 1844. Children,
— Nancy Read, born June 19, 1845 ; Horace H., April 19,
1848 ; Charles P., April 16, 1850. She died Nov. 2, 1851.

James Neal Read, son of John, born Oct. 17, 1820 ; mar-
ried Rebecca Stevens, October, 1844. She died Sept. 11,
1854. Married, for second wife, Alice Dow, July 8, 1856.

John H., son of John Read, born Sept. 12, 1828; married
Harriet B. Woodford, June 27, 1854.

4. Benjamin, son of Daniel and Elizabeth, born at Attle-
borough, Aug. 21, 1730; married Elizabeth. Children, —
Benjamin and Betsy, born at Coventry, R.I., Aug. 14, 1761 ;
George, Oct. 14, 1762 ; Esther, July 28, 1764 ; Anthony,
Aug. 1, 1766, died Oct. 13, 1778 ; Martha, born Dec. 17,
1796, married Ezekiel Finner; Eunice, born Sept. 20, 1771,
married Christopher Vaughn ; Joseph, born Aug. 1, 1773 ;

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 261

Margaret, Jan. 16, 1776. The elder Benjamin died Sept. 7,
1798 : his wife died March 13, 1809. He lived in New-
port ; and moved from there, at a time when Newport was
likely to fall into the hands of the British, to Cranston ; and
finally settled in Coventry.

5. Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth, born at Co-
ventry, Oct. 17, 1761 ; married Hannah Remington. Chil-
dren,— Anthony, born at Cranston, Aug. 1, 1785; Olney,
1787, died 1793 ; Thomas, born May 14, 1789 ; Anna, 1791,
married Benjamin Arnold ; Williams, born in 1793. Benja-
min died in 1832. Lived in Coventry, on the homestead of
his father. He was a New-light Baptist ; as were also his
children, except Anthony, who was a Quaker.

6. Anthony, son of Benjamin and Hannah, born at Cran-
ston, Aug. 1, 1785 ; married Mary Congdon. Children,
— Alfred, born at Coventry in 1807 ; Horace, 1813 ; Jabez
W., 1820 ; Clarissa D., February, 1826. He lived at Coven-
try ; and died at Warwick, Aug. 27, 1850, aged sixty-five.

7. Alfred, son of Anthony and Mary, born at Coventry in
1807; married Dorcas Arnold. Children, — Alfred, born
at Warwick in 1839, died 1858 ; James, born in 1844. The
elder Alfred lives at Warwick, and is a trader.

7. Horace, son of Anthony and Mary, born at Coventry
in 1813 ; married Miss Sweet. Child, — Rodmoiid S., born
at Providence in 1832. Horace is a trader in Providence.

7. Jabez W., son of Anthony and Mary, born at Coventry
in 1820 ; married Caroline Congdon. Child, — Edward,
born at Warwick in 1852. They live in Coventry.

6. Thomas, son of Benjamin and Hannah, born at Cran-
ston, May 14, 1789 ; married Sarah Congdon. Children, —
Benjamin, born at Cranston, May 21, 1811 ; George W.,
July 30, 1813 ; Harriet, Feb. 27, 1815 ; Lavina, Sept. 10,
1816, married William Taylor; William O., June 15, 1856,
died in 1851. They live at Coventry.

262 JOHN READ OF REHOBOTH,

7. Benjamin, son of Thomas and Sarah, horn at Cranston,
May 21, 1811 ; married Harriet Smith. Children, — Har-
riet N., born at Coventry in 1841, died in 1842 ; Harriet
E., born July, 1843 ; Sarah C, April, 1847 ; Benjamin J.,
1849. They live at Coventry.

7. George W., sou of Thomas and Sarah, born at Cran-
ston, July 30, 1813 ; married Sarah Briggs. Children, —
Daniel B., born at Coventry, July, 1836 ; George B., No-
vember, 1838. They live in Warwick.

8. George B., son of George W. and Sarah, born at Co-
ventry, November, 1838 ; married Elizabeth Potter, and
lives in Warwick.

7. William 0., son of Thomas and Sarah, born at Cran-
ston ; married Sarah B. Taylor. Children, — William 0.,
born at Coventry in 1849 ; Anyerette, August, 1850. He
died in Coventry in 1851.

6. Williams, son of Benjamin and Hannah, born at Cran-
ston in 1793; married Freelove Potter. Children, — Brad-
ford, born at Coventry, Oct. 25, 1822 ; Thomas H., Jan. 26,
1829. Williams died at Coventry in 1838.

7. Thomas H., son of Williams and Freelove, born at
Coventry, Jan. 26, 1829 ; married Ruth Straight. Chil-
dren, — Anna F., born at Coventry in 1851 ; John W.,
1855, died. They live in Coventry.

7. Bradford, son of Williams and Freelove, born at Coven-
try, Oct. 25, 1822 ; married Sarah, daughter of John Read,
and lives at Coventry.

5. George, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth, born at Co-
ventry, Aug. 14, 1762 ; married Nancy Shelden ; for second
wife, Catherine Perkins ; and for third, Rebecca Williams.
Children, — Archimedes, born at Cranston, 1783 ; Polly,
1785 ; William and George, 1788 ; Betsy, 1790, married
Samuel Mitchell ; Thomas, born 1795. The elder George
lived at Cranston and Plainlield, Conn. He died in 1856.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 263

6. George, son of George and Nancy, born at Cranston,
1788. Child, — Josiah, born at Bristol, R.I., in 1817, and
married Elizabeth A. Munroe. Children, — Martha 0.,
born at Providence in 1843 ; Selena Edwards, 1846 ; Wil-
liam W., 1848; Benjamin, 1851; Ann E., 1853; Theodore
A. A., 1856.

6. Archimedes, son of George, born at Cranston in 1783 ;
married Susan Ellis. Children, — George W., born at
Plainfield, Conn., 1818 ; Elvira M., 1820. He lived in
Plainfield.

7. George W., son of Archimedes, born at Plainfield in
1818 ; has two daughters, and lives at Slatersville in Smith-
field, R.I.

6. Thomas, son of George, born in 1795 ; married Sally
"Watson. Children, — Sally, born at Cranston in 1827 ;
Margaret, 1829. He died at New York in 1853.

5. Joseph, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth, born at Coven-
try, Aug. 1, 1773 ; married Sabra Knight. Children, —
Henry, born at Coventry, Aug. 7, 1801 ; Shelden, Sept. 8,
1808. Joseph died in 1835, on the homestead of his father,
in Coventry.

6. Shelden, son of Joseph and Sabra, born at Coventry,
Sept. 8, 1808 ; lives in Coventry, and is a man in good cir-
cumstances.

6. Henry, son of Joseph and Sabra, born at Coventry,
April 7, 1801 ; married Phebe Waite. Children, — Almond,
born at Coventry, June 8, 1823 ; Levi B. and Julia A.,
Dec. 31, 1824 ; Julia, married David Matherson ; Rebecca
W., born Jan. 10, 1827, married John Manchester; Henry,
April 8, 1828 ; Sheffield W., Oct. 24, 1831 ; Cyril W.,
May 17, 1833 ; Joseph, July 18, 1834 ; Shelden, July 18,
1836 ; Christopher, Oct. 28, 1837 ; Phebe, March 24, 1841 ;
Jane W., Sept. 24, 1842 ; Byron, April 7, 1845. Lives in
Coventry.

264

7. Sheffield W., son of Henry and Phebe, born at Coven-
try, Oct. 24, 1831 ; married Sarah Barber. Child, — Emily
J., born Oct. 24, 1856.

7. Almond, son of Henry and Phebe, born at Coventry,
June 8, 1828 ; married Clarissa Andrews.

7. Levi B., son of Henry and Phebe, born at Coventry,
Dec. 31, 1824; married Cynthia Potter. He married Abby
Mathcrson for second wife. Children, — Cynthia, born in
1848 ; Melissa (by second wife), born in 1853 ; Selenda,
1855.

7. Henry, son of Henry and Phebe, born April 8, 1828 ;
married Mary Franklin. Children, — Emer, born at Coven-
try in 1853 ; Anah, 1855.

7. Sheffield, son of Henry and Phebe, born at Coventry,
Oct. 27, 1831 ; married Sarah Barker. Child, — Emily J.,
born at Providence, Oct. 24, 1856.

4. Nathan, son of James and Mary, born at Rehoboth,
May 4, 1715 ; married Dorothy Titus, Jan. 29, 1735. Chil-
dren,— James, born at Rehoboth, Aug. 1, 1736 ; David and
Jonathan, Nov. 21, 1738, died ; Dorothy, Feb. 1, 1740 ;
Nancy, April 3, 1742 ; Nathan, Jan. 19, 1744 ; Mary, Jan.
29, 1745, died ; Nathan, born Jan. 29, 1747 ; Mary, Dec. 31,
1749 ; Jonathan, Feb. 24, 1752 ; Ezra, Jan. 18, 1754 ; Da-
vid, June 3, 1756 ; John, April 20, 1758, emigrated West.

5. Nathan, son of Nathan and Dorothy, born at Rehoboth,
Jan. 29, 1747 ; married Hannah. Children, — Nathan,
born at Rehoboth, Oct. 22, 1771 ; Hannah, April 14, 1773,
married Sylvester Gellison ; Mary, born Nov. 12, 1774, mar-
ried Mason Vial ; Abiel, born Aug. 30, 1776 ; Sarah,
June 9, 1778, married Lewis Carpenter ; Olive, April 23,
1780, married Comfort Allen ; Rosey, born May 5, 1782,
married a Wells ; Nancy, born Feb. 16, 1784, married Olive
Angell ; Matilda, born April 2, 1786, died single.

6. Nathan, son of Nathan and Hannah, born at Rehoboth,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 265

Oct. 22, 1771 ; married Sally Robinson. Children, — Sally,
born at Attleborough, May 10, 1796, died in 1835 ; Alvan
0., born March 29, 1798 ; Elijah R., July 20, 1802 ; Mary
Ann, Dec. 4, 1804, died 1817 ; Nathan A., born Oct. 3,
1807 ; Edward S., Aug. 13, 1813. Married Bethiah Blan-
ding for second wife. The elder Nathan is now living, and
has never had a physician till recently.

7. Alvan O., son of Nathan and Sally, born at Attlebo-
rough, May 29, 1798 ; married Martha J. Roberts. Chil-
dren, — Sarah A., born at Pawtucket, Jan. 15, 1827, married
Henry M. Wilkinson ; William W., born May 24, 1732.
Alvan O. Read lives at Pawtucket, and is a manufacturer ;
has been town-clerk twenty years ; is a justice of the peace,
a commissioner for qualifying civil officers, and deacon of a
church.

7. Nathan A., son of Nathan and Sally, born at Attlebo-
rough, Oct. 31, 1807 ; married Reliance Williams. Chil-
dren,— Alvan A., born at Thomaston, Me., Sept. 30, 1833 ;
Sarah P., March 27, 1836; Marietta S., Jan. 22, 1844;
William H., Oct. 22, 1846. Nathan A. is, at present, in
California ; but his family reside in Thomaston.

7. Elijah R., son of Nathan and Sally, bora at Attlebo-
rough, July 20, 1802 ; married, first, Lucinda Carpenter;
and, second, Cynthia Lyon. Children, — Lucinda, born
at Seekonk, Feb. 10, 1826, married Allen Brown ; Elijah R.,
born Oct. 30, 1827 ; Jane, Nov. 1, 1829, married Ebenezer
Tiffany ; Julia Ann, born in Newburyport, Sept. 26, 1841 ;
Nathan H., at Attleborough, April 6, 1844 ; George B.,
Dec. 24, 1848 ; Edward S., Aug. 31, 1853 ; Eva, May 4,
1856. Elijah R. lives at Attleborough.

7. Edward S., son of Nathan and Sally, born Aug. 13,
1813 ; married Sarah Ann Bates, May 8, 1817. Children,
— Edward E., born at New Haven, May 6, 1839 ; Sarah E.,
Oct. 1, 1840 ; Alvin Orville, April 30, 1842 ; Ellen Frances,

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266 JOHN READ OF EEHOBOTH,

Jan. 24, 1844 ; Jane Augusta, April 16, 1845 ; Charles H.,
Nov. 25, 1846 ; Mary L., Aug. 14, 1848 ; Frank H., Feb. 6,
1850 ; Samuel EL, Oct. 9, 1854 ; Selia Adda, Sept. 15, 1856.
They live at New Haven.

5. Jonathan, son of Nathan and Dorothy, born at Reho-
both, Feb. 24, 1752, and settled in Brookfield, Vt. ; married
Polly Umphrey. Children, — Polly, born in 1778; Jona-
than, April, 1780 ; Dolly, July, 1783 ; Lot, July, 1785 ;
David, 1787 ; Andrew, July, 1790 ; Fry Bailey, July,
1793 ; Lydia, 1795 ; Richard, 1797 ; Relief, 1800 ; Maria,
1804.

6. Andrew, son of Jonathan and Polly, born 1790 at
Brookfield. Children, — David, born May 31, 1816; An-
drew, Jan. 13, 1818 ; Mary, June 18, 1820 ; John A.,
Sept. 18, 1823 ; Maria, July 30, 1827 ; William, May 30,
1829 ; Chester, Aug. 16, 1831 ; George, May 17, 1834.
They live in Brookfield.

5. Timothy, son of Noah and Abigail, born at Attlebo-
rough, Aug. 2, 1743 ; married Priscilla Hatch of Boston.
Children, — Timothy, Michael, Horatio. The elder Ti-
mothy was in Bennington Battle, and had charge of the
wounded.

6. Timothy, son of Timothy and Priscilla of Cumberland,
born in February, 1768 ; had a son William, who lives in
Madrid, N.Y. Timothy served in the Revolution, and drew
a pension.

6. Michael, son of Timothy of Cumberland, born at Cum-
berland, formerly in Massachusetts, now in Rhode Island,
Sept. 14, 1769 ; married Rebecca Mead. Children, — Dru-
silla, born Dec. 28, 1791, married John Wescott ; Betsy,
born at Charlotte, Vt., Jan. 31, 1794, married John Foot ;
Samantha, March 31, 1796, married Joseph Loomis ; Amos,
born Jan. 9, 1798 ; Orren, March 18, 1818 ; Louisa A.,
March 19, 1802, married Milo Fuller, March 28, 1854;

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 267

Minerva, April 23, 1807, married Amos Olin, Jan. 1, 1832,
and lives at Canton, N.Y.

7. Samantha, daughter of Michael, married Joseph Loomis,
June 24, 1813. Mr. Loomis was drowned in the St. Law-
rence River. She married Stephen Smith, January, 1821.
Mr. Smith died in 1838. She is now living in Brooklyn,
N.Y.

7. Orren, son of Michael, born March 18, 1800 ; married
Julia Powell, March 28, 1820. Children, — William Moul-
ton, born Aug. 10, 1827 ; Carlton Willard, Oct. 21, 1834;
Orren ; Powell, Oct. 25, 1843.

8. William M., son of Orren, born Aug. 10, 1827 ; mar-
ried Malinda Palmer, Sept. 10, 1848. William M. lives in
Charlotte, Vt.

8. Carlton W., son of Orren, born Oct. 21, 1834 ; married
Vienna Clark, Oct. 31, 1855. They live in Addison, Vt.

7. Amos, son of Michael, born at Charlotte, Vt., in 1798.
Children, — Charles H., born March 10, 1830; George A.,
May 14, 1836, died in 1856.

8. Charles H., son of Amos, born March 10, 1830. Chil-
dren,— Annie E., born at Lanesborough, March 29, 1854;
Mary A., Jan. 16, 1856.

5. James, son of Nathan and Dorothy, born at Rehoboth,
Aug. 1, 1736 ; married Elizabeth Carpenter, Sept. 3, 1761.
Children, — Hopestill, born at Rehoboth, July 15, 1762 ;
Ephraim and Lucy, Aug. 27, 1763 ; James, Aug. 12, 1765 ;
Leafe, April 6, 1772 ; Elizabeth, Jan. 25, 1776 ; Freelove,
Feb. 3, 1781.

5. David, son of Nathan and Dorothy, born at Rehoboth,
June 3, 1756 ; married Abigail Dagget, Oct. 5, 1781. Chil-
dren,— William, born at Rehoboth, July 31, 1782; David,
Nov. 29, 1784 ; Obadiah ; Aaron ; Lewis, who died Jan. 6,
1823 ; Nathan Dagget, born Oct. 7, 1800 ; Abigail ; Sally ;
Mary. David died in 1819 : his wife died in 1837 or '8.

268 JOHN READ OF EEHOBOTH,

He settled in Swansey, N.H. ; and was known as Deacon
Read.

6. William, son of Deacon David, born July 31, 1782 ;
married Charlotte Crane of Andover, Vt., December, 1813,
and went to the State of New York. Children, — Adeline,
Addison, Henry, Horatio, Betsy. He and his wife both died
in 1847.

6. David, son of David and Abigail, born Nov. 29, 1784 ;
married Lucy Thayer of Watertown, Mass., Aug. 14, 1809.
Children, — Alexander Thayer, born May 19, 1810, died
March 2, 1838 ; Charles Dagget, born March 30, 1812, lives
at Philadelphia ; Lucy Susanna, born Jan. 30, 1814, died
March 5, 1814 ; Maria Louisa, born April 26, 1816 ; Gideon
French Thayer, March 13, 1817 ; Nancy Pierce, Dec. 19,
1819 ; Lucy, May 17, 1822, died Sept. 5, 1854 ; George
Wellington, born April 30, 1824, died August, 1855 ; James
Bingham, born Dec. 9, 1826, died Oct. 8, 1847. The wife
of David died Aug. 31, 1828. He married, for second wife,
Lucinda Knight of Lancaster, Vt., Oct. 14, 1829. Children,
— Missouri, born Nov. 14, 1840 ; Jackson, March 14, 1845 ;
Newton, Oct. 30, 1849. David died June 1, 1855.

7. Maria Louisa, daughter of David and Lucy, born
April 26, 1815 ; married Charles Jackson of Boston, Oct. 30,
1843. Children, — Helen Lucretia, born Aug. 14, 1844,
died young ; Lucy Reed, born May 30, 1846 ; Stephen Win-
chester, Jan. 16, 1848, died Nov. 9, 1849 ; Rebecca Louisa,
born Jan. 2, 1850, died Jan. 28, 1851 ; Louis, born June 8,
1852 ; Horace, Dec. 24, 1853. They are now living at Phi-
ladelphia.

7. Gideon F. T., son of David and Lucy, born March 13,
1817 ; married Rebecca Thayer Jackson of Boston, Oct. 24,
1839. Children, — Rebecca Jackson, born Aug. 13, 1840,
died June 27, 1845 ; Charles Alexander, born Dec. 12,
1841, died Feb. 23, 1842 ; Charles Alexander, born Aug. 1,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 269

1843 ; Maria Louisa, Oct. 29, 1845 ; Albert Lincoln,
April 3, 1847, died Feb. 23, 1850 ; Mary Pierce, born Oct. 3,
1849, died Feb. 28, 1857, in Paris. He kept a jeweller's
store on the corner of Washington and Court Streets, Bos-
ton ; and his name is still to be seen over the door : but he
has removed to Paris, France.

7. Nancy Pierce, daughter of David and Lucy, born
Dec. 19, 1819 ; married Edward Richards Mayo of Boston
May 5, 1840. Children, — Elizabeth White, born March 29
1841 ; Edward Davis, Marcli 16, 1843, died March 26, 1849
Eliot Belknap, born July 3, 1848 ; Amy Louisa, Jan. 23
1851 ; Charles Reed, Sept. 19, 1855. They live at No. 10
Warren Street, Boston.

7. Lucy, daughter of David and Lucy, born May 19,
1822 ; married Edwin Cowperthwait of Philadelphia, Jan.
21, 1851, and both died in Philadelphia.

6. Obadiah, son of Deacon David, married Mary Whitman
of Jeffrey, N.BL, and went to Rockford, 111. Children, —
Prescott Whitman, Mary Maria, Obadiah Stillman, David,
Henry, Paschall, George.

6. Aaron, son of Deacon David, born in Swansey, N.H.,
April 31, 1791 ; married Mary Willson of Keene, Dec. 6,
1818. Children, — Franklin D., born Sept. 6, 1819; Mary
M., May 10, 1822; Diantha P., Feb. 10, 1824, died Aug. 7,
1852 ; Henry W., born April 25, 1827, died March 19, 1832 ;
William B., born Oct. 17, 1829; Charles I., April 15, 1832,
died March 31, 1833 ; George F., born June 19, 1834 ; Sa-
rah E., Sept. 2, 1836 ; Henry V. ,

7. Mary M., daughter of Aaron and Mary, born May 10,
1822 ; married Daniel L. Tollman, Aug. 20, 1851.

7. Sarah E., daughter of Aaron and Mary, born Sept. 2,
1836; married J. S. Herrick, Sept. 13, 1855.

7. William B., son of Aaron and Mary, born at Keene,
Oct. 17, 1829 ; married Elizabeth M. Breen, Sept. 9, 1855.

270 JOHN READ OP EEHOBOTH,

7. George F., son of Aaron and Mary, born at Keene,
June 19, 1834 ; married Elizabeth 0. Eveleth, May 19,
1858.

6. Lewis, son of Deacon David, married Nancy Harvey of
Swansey, N.H., Oct. 15, 1812. Children, — Nancy Palmyra,
born April 9, 1813, died Jan. 18, 1838 ; Fanny K., born
Feb. 8, 1815, died July 1, 1847 ; Lewis G., Sept. 17, 1816 ;
Aurelia Maria, April 7, 1818, died Dec. 25, 1854 ; Pliny L.,
born Dec. 6, 1820 ; Diantha C, March 5, 1822 ; Charles
Henry, May 15, 1823, died April 6, 1826.

7. Nancy Palmyra, daughter of Lewis and Nancy, born
April 9, 1813 ; married George Wilcox of Swansey, N.H.
Children, — Henry Harvey, born Dec. 15, 1831 ; Charles W.,
Aug. 2, 1834; Lewis L., Dec. 2, 1836, died August, 1837.

7. Aurelia Maria, daughter of Lewis and Nancy, born
April 7, 1818 ; married George Wilcox of Surrey, N.H.
Children, — Nancy Aurelia, June 18, 1843; George Lewis,
March 19, 1841, died October, 1844 ; Mary Ella, born
Oct. 22, 1849.

6. Nathan Dagget, son of Deacon David, born Oct. 17,
1800 ; married Charlotte Dwinnell of Keene, N.H., October,
1829. Children, — George Milton, born Nov. 1, 1834 ;
Charles Warren, June 13, 1840 ; Martha Ann, May 6,
1842; Sarah Rebecca, Sept. 25, 1846.

6. Abigail, daughter of Deacon David, married David
Willson of Keene, N.H., and went to Oxford, N.Y. Chil-
dren,— Maria Louisa, Abigail, James.

6. Sally, daughter of Deacon David, married Caleb
Wright of Keene, N.H. Children, — Calvin, Fanny, Rox-
anna, Eliza, Lorania, Emeline, Caroline, Charles, George,
Daniel, Mary Ann, Lucy, Rebecca, Ellen, Martha. Mr.
Wright married, for second wife, a widow with eight chil-
dren ; and the whole twenty-four were present at the wed-
ding.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 271

5. Ezra, son of Nathan and Dorothy, born at Rehoboth,
Jan. 18, 1854 ; settled in Longdon, N.H. ; married Patience
Walker. Children, — Leonard, now living in Longdon ;
Arnold ; Milley ; Esther.

Col. John Eead, from Rhode Island, was undoubtedly one
of the descendants of John of Rehoboth, who stands at the
head of this chapter ; but I have no means of tracing his
genealogy. He was the first white settler in the town of
Erie, in Erie County, and State of Pennsylvania, in 1795,
where he traded. A public-house in that place is known
as the Read House, in honor of him. He left a son Rufus S.
Read, who is President of the Erie Bank.

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CHAPTER VII.

ELIAS READ, AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

1. Elias, who is supposed to be a son of William Reade
of Maidstone, in the county of Kent, professor of divinity,
and his wife Lucy, was born in 1595 ; and the first that
is known of him is in Woburn, Mass. He had sons William
and Philip, who were both born in England.

2. Philip, the son of Elias, was born in 1623. He mar-
ried Abigail. Their children were — Philip, born March 13,
1671 ; Jacob, Jan. 30, 1673 ; Abigail, Oct. 26, 1675 ; Amy,
June 3, 1678. He was a physician, and settled first in
Lynn. In 1669, he made a complaint against Margaret, the
wife of John Gifford, for witchcraft. The complaint was not
fully sustained ; and, the Gifford Family being influential
(Mr. Gifford being agent of the iron-works, — an important
position in those times), it operated against the popularity of
Dr. Reed ; and he, the next year, moved to Concord, where
he practised his profession many years. The unhappy effects
of his controversy at Lynn followed him to Concord, where
he was bitterly persecuted by or through the influence of the
Gifford Family, and at one time went to jail for something
growing out of it. He was one of the trustees of the estate
of John Proctor of Salem, appointed in 1689. Tins Mr.
Proctor is supposed to be the father of the person of the
same name who was hung at Salem, for witchcraft, in 1092 ;

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 273

the principal evidence which contributed to his conviction
being the testimony of the celebrated Cotton Mather, D.D.,
who testified that he had seen evil spirits come behind Mr.
Proctor, and hold conversation with him, during the trial.
Dr. Reed had an extensive practice in Concord, and many
other towns in the counties of Middlesex and Essex. He
died at Concord, May 10, 1696 : his wife died April 16,
1709.

3. Philip, the son of Dr. Reed, was born at Concord,
May 13, 1671. He married Thanks Dile, Dec. 6, 1698.
Children, — Peter, born in 1700 ; David, May 25, 1710 ;
John, Sept. 7, 1714. He was also a physician, and prac-
tised in Concord.

4. David, the son of Philip and Thanks, born at Concord,
May 25, 1710 ; married Louis. Children, — -Beulah, born
Jan. 11, 1735 ; Philip, Aug. 6, 1736 ; David, April 7, 1738 ;
Lydia, June 23, 1740 ; Silas, Feb. 23, 1742.

5. David, the son of David and Louis, born April 7, 1738 ;
married Jemima, and settled in Newburyport. Children, —
William, born Oct. 4, 1758 ; Moses, April 18, 1763 ; Louis,
May 29, 1765 ; Stephen, Sept. 25, 1767 ; Anna.

6. William, the son of David and Jemima, born Oct. 4,
1758 ; married Patience Lervey of Cape Ann. Children,
— Nancy, born Dec. 22, 1778 ; Anna, July 24, 1785, mar-
ried Thomas Winden ; Elizabeth, Oct. 26, 1786, married
William Chase, May 5, 1811 ; William, Nov. 18, 1789 ; Na-
thaniel, June 18, 1793 ; Charles, Dec. 17, 1796, who married
Polly Perry in 1818, and lives in Gloucester ; James, born
April 2, 1799. He was in the war of the Revolution and
in that of 1812.

7. William, the son of William and Patience, born
Nov. 18,1789; married Lucinda Converse. Children, —
Lucinda, born April 27, 1812, married Joseph Poor of
Georgetown ; Isaac, April 2, 1814, who died out West;

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William, March 27, 1818 ; Sarah Ann ; Nathaniel. He
•was in the war of 1812.

8. Lucinda, the daughter of William and Lucinda, born
at Newburyport, April 27, 1812 ; married Joseph Poor of
Georgetown. Their children are — Sarah Sophia, born at
Georgetown, Nov. 15, 1835 ; Samuel Thurlow, Sept. 23,
1842 ; Joseph, Oct. 3, 1848, died 1849 ; Joseph Bailey,
June 7, 1850 ; Alvan Clifton, Dec. 2, 1852.

8. Sarah Ann, the daughter of William and Lucinda,
married Charles H. Hill, and lives in Westbrook, Me. Chil-
dren,— Edgar, William, Ellen, Elvira.

8. Nathaniel, the son of William and Lucinda, married
Pamelia Petit, and lives in Keokuck, lo.

7. W'illiam, the son of William and Lucinda, born March
27, 1818; married Sophia Ladd of Haverhill. Child, —
Waldo, born June 2, 1850. He is a teacher in Newbury-
port.

5. Philip, the son of David and Louis of Lexington, went
to Newburyport, and had a son of the same name, who
married Elizabeth Foot in 1787. Children, — David, born
Sept. 25, 1788 ; Elizabeth, Jan. 3, 1791 ; Caleb, Feb. 4,
1795 ; Mary, April 10, 1797 ; Moses, June 12, 1803 ; Mica-
jah S., Jan. 12, 1808.

7. David, the son of Philip and Elizabeth, born Sept. 25,
1788 ; married Mary Wise, April 11, 1811. She died May 1,
1849. Children, — David, born Nov. 22, 1817 ; Moses,
June 20, 1821. His widow died May 1, 1849, aged seventy-
five.

8. David, the son of David and Mary, born Nov. 22, 1817 ;
married Emily Jackman, Aug. 29, 1844. Child, — Henry
A., born April 2, 1849.

8. Moses, the son of David and Mary, born June 20,
1821; married Abigail. Child, — Mary Abigail, born Oct.
24, 1846.

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7. Caleb, the son of Philip and Elizabeth, born Feb. 4,
1795 ; married Mary Corliss in 1818. He married, for
second wife, Hannah Jenkins, in 1822. Children, — Solo-
mon and Annis. His widow married Joshua Clark.

8. Solomon, the son of Caleb and Mary, married Sarah
Little ; and they have three children.

7. Micajah S. Reed, son of Philip and Elizabeth, was
born in Newbnryport, Jan. 12, 1808 ; married Elizabeth C.
Bachelder. Children, — Edward A., born in Newburyport,
Sept. 9, 1837, died Oct. 7, 1853 ; Samuel W., Dec. 6, 1838 ;
John B., May 22, 1840. He died Sept. 4, 1859. His widow
and sons live at No. 18, Kent Street, Newburyport.

7. Nancy, the daughter of William and Patience, mamcd
Robert Cole. Children, — Robert, born October, 1795 ;
Catherine, November, 1808 ; Eliza, April, 1811. She mar-
ried Thomas Winder for second husband, and lives in New-
buryport. Children, — Margaret, born May 12, 1813 ;
Nathaniel, Feb. 2, 1818 ; Lydia, March 19, 1819 ; Sarah,
Dec. 29, 1824.

8. Margaret, the daughter of Nancy Reed and Thomas
Winder, married James Perkins ; and they live in Water
Street, Newburyport.

8. Annis, the daughter of Caleb Reed, married William
Trevis. Children, — Eveline, Delia, and two others.

9. Eveline, the daughter of William Trevis and Annis
Reed, married George Garsley.

9. Delia, the daughter of William Trevis and Annis Reed,
married John Tolman.

4. Peter, son of Philip and Thankful, born about 1702 ;
married Abigail, and settled in Lexington. Children, —
Abijah, born May 18, 1727 ; Peter, Feb. 16, 1729 ; Sarah,
April 26, 1736 ; Thomas, Nov. 3, 1739 ; Rebecca, May 24,
1743.

5. Peter, son of Peter and Abigail, born at Lexington,

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Feb. 16, 1729 ; married Betty, and settled in Littleton.
Children, — Betty, born Aug. 22, 1752, at Littleton ; and
Charles (twin of Betty) ; Abigail, July 15, 1754 ; Sarah
and Abigail (twins), June 17, 1757 ; Walley, May 29, 1759.
He appears to have married Dorothy Parker of Westford for
second wife ; published Aug. 22, 1772.

5. Abijah, son of Peter and Betty of Littleton, married
Elizabeth Boynton in 1786, and settled in Westford. Child,

— Elizabeth, born Dec. 31, 1787. His wife died August,
1789. Married, for second wife, Susanna Coleman in 1793.
Children, — Susan, born June 21, 1794; Abijah, Feb. 16,
1796 ; Orphah, Feb. 1, 1798 ; Pamelia, Nov. 27, 1799 ;
Jeremy B., Nov. 9, 1801 ; Charles H., March 29, 1804;
Mary Ann, Feb. 8, 1808, died in 1832 ; Nancy Jane, May 27,
1810 ; James M., April 30, 1813 ; Elvira M., April 7, 1816,
died Feb. 9, 1835. He died in 1844, aged ninety years.

6. Abijah, son of Abijah and Elizabeth of Westford, born
Feb. 16, 1796 ; married Sarah Locke of Boston. Children,

— Sarah, born Sept. 24, 1831 ; Susan, Jan. 3, 1833 ; James
H., July 9, 1835 ; Frances A., Dec. 22, 1836 ; Georgianna,
April 5, 1839, died April 5, 1854. His wife died in Nashua
in 1856.

6. Jeremy, son of Abijah and Susanna, born Nov. 9, 1806 ;
married Louisa Hildreth in 1823. Children, — Elizabeth
H., born Feb. 19, 1824 ; Harriet A., Feb. 28, 1825, married
Joseph Wright in 1844 ; Martha Louisa, May 19, 1827. His
wife died Sept. 6, 1827. Married, for second wife, Nancy
Parker. Children, — Nancy, born Oct. 30, 1831, married
Jefferson Wright of Littleton in 1850 ; Charles B., Dec. 7,
1833 ; Elvira M., Nov. 20, 1835 ; Ellen A., Aug. 31, 1839.

5. Thomas, son of Peter and Abigail, born at Lexington,
Nov. 3, 1739 ; married Lucy Farrer of Concord, May 11,
1764, and settled in Littleton. Children, — Peter, born
April 14, 1765 ; Thomas, Jan. 23, 1767 ; Simon, Aug. 31,

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1763 ; Lucy, July 9, 1770 ; Asa P., Sept. 20, 1772 ; Diada-
mor, Dec. 22, 1774 ; Polly, May 5, 1777 ; Barnard, April 27,
1780 ; Theodore, Sept. 9, 1782 ; Sukey, Aug. 31, 1785.

6. Theodore, son of Thomas and Lucy, born Sept. 9, 1782 ;
married Hannah. Children, — Hannah, born in Acton,
Nov. 24, 1816 ; Louisa Frances, July 10, 1818 ; Theodore,
Jan. 6, 1820 ; Clarissa, Dec. 17, 1822 : all born at Acton.

4. John, son of Philip and Thanks of Concord, born
Sept. 7, 1714 ; married Abiel Butterfield, Feb. 3, 1737, and
settled in Westford. Children, — Sarah, born June 16,
1738 ; John, Sept. 1, 1740 ; Abigail, July 21, 1743 ; Wil-
lard, Aug. 15, 1746 ; Simeon, who moved to Ludlow in
Vermont, and died in 1783.

5. Simeon, son of John and Abiel, married Sarah Cum-
mings. Children, — Samuel Adams, Sarah, Mary, Simeon,
Samson, Lydia, Nathan, Betsy, Rebecca, Ransom, Alpheus.
He was in the battle of Bunker Hill. He died in Lud-
low, Vt.

6. Samuel, Simeon, and Alpheus, sons of Simeon, moved
to Ohio.

6. Ransom, son of Simeon and Sarah, married Mary
Sprague of Billerica. Children, — Charles F. ; Marietta,
who is the wife of Paran Stevens, the keeper of the Revere
House ; Caroline, married George F. Richardson of Lowell ;
William Henry ; Fanny ; Harriet ; Anna. He lives in
Lowell, but keeps a store in Boston, and is a man of wealth.

5. Willard, son of John and Abiel, born Aug. 15, 1746 ;
married Olive Minot, Nov. 30, 1774. Children, — John,
born March 20, 1775 ; Willard, Jan. 18, 1777 ; Joseph,
July 22, 1779, died Sept. 22, 1853 ; Seth, Aug. 24, 1781,
moved to Milwaukie ; Olive, Oct. 16, 1783 ; Sally, March 30,
1786, married Frederick Fausel ; Anna, May 2, 1788, mar-
ried a Smith; Polly, May 1,1790, married F. Leighton;
Asa, Dec. 23, 1792.

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6. Willard, son of Willard and Olive, born Jan. 18, 1777 ;
married Mariam White in 1800. Children, — Jonathan M.,
Jan. 20, 1804 ; Joseph, July 20, 1806. He lived at Chelms-
ford Centre, and died Oct. 12, 1850.

7. Jonathan Minot, son of Willard, born Jan. 20, 1804 ;
married Sarah Fausel, Oct. 19,1840. Child, — Frederick

M., born 28, 1841. He lives in Lowell ; is a justice of

the peace, and has been in other public business.

7. Joseph, the son of Willard, is a justice of the peace in
Chelmsford ; has been a member of the Legislature, and a
man of large property ; married Leonora Spaulding for
first, and Maria Eaton for second wife. Children of Joseph
and Leonora, — Joseph Willard, March 25, 1833; Charles
Spaulding, April 29, 1835 ; George E., born Jan. 17, 1838 ;
Caroline Aiigusta, Nov. 1, 1839 ; Martinee, Aug. 10, 1845 ;
Catherine Augusta, Dec. 5, 1846.

6. Samson, son of Simeon and Sarah, married Armina
Green, and died young ; and his widow afterwards married
a Jennings ; and, for third husband, Jonas Reed of Chester,
Vt. Samson left one daughter, who married L. Barton of
Ticonderoga, N.Y.

6. Peter, son of Thomas and Lucy, born April 14, 1765 ;
married Sally Parker of Westford in 1789.

6. Thomas, son of Thomas and Lucy of Littleton, born
Jan. 23, 1767; married Anne. Children, — Sophia, born
June 2, 1792 ; Amory, Oct. 28, 1794 ; Arvada Lucinda,
Sept. 28, 1799.

6. Orphah, son of Abijah and Susanna, born at Westford,
Nov. 27, 1779 ; married .

6. Joseph, son of Willard and Olive, born July 22, 1779 ;
married Abigail Winn of Wilmington. Children, — Abigail
W., born March 11, 1811, and died Sept. 10, 1831 ; Alpheus,
born Nov. 3, 1815, married Sarah S. Parker in 1849 ; Anan,
born Jan. 1, 1818, married Almira S. Fletcher in 1850 ; Betsy

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 279

W., born April 1,1819, married Ivory H. Howe of Methuen
in 1846 ; Alonso, born June 29, 1823, died July 24, 1824 ;
Amanda L., born June 9, 1827. He lived on the old home-
stead in Westford, and was called Capt. Reed. He died
September, 1854.

7. Alpheus, son of Joseph and Abigail, born Nov. 3, 1815 ;
married Sarah S. Parker in 1849. Children, — Alonso Par-
ker, born March 31, 1850 ; Martha J., Oct. 18, 1853.

7. Anan, son of Joseph and Abigail, born Jan. 1, 1818;
married Almira S. Fletcher in 1850. Children, — Eleanor,
March 4, 1851 ; Warren A., Jan. 20, 1853. He lives on the
homestead.

6. Seth, son of Willard and Olive, born July 24, 1781 ;
married Rhoda Finney. Children, — Julianna, born Feb. 11,
1806 ; George, Nov. 10, 1807 ; Orison, Sept. 7, 1809 ; Mary
Augusta, May 23, 1811 ; Harrison, Aug. 26, 1813 (the above
were born in Littleton) ; Cortes, born in Westford, March 27,
1815, moved to Milwaukie.

6. Asa, son of Willard and Olive, born Dec. 23, 1792 ;
married Betsy Prescott. Children, — Rufus, born Sept. 6,
1818 ; Olive, Nov. 20, 1821. He died July 8, 1826 ; and his
widow married Elijah M. Reed of Tewksbury.

7. Rufus, son of Asa and Betsy, born Sept. 16, 1818 ;
married Martha E. Dodge of Nashua. Children, — Lizzie
Mason, born Aug. 9, 1850 ; Albion Rufus, Oct. 27, 1852.
He is a merchant in Lawrence, of extensive business.

6. John, son of Willard and Olive, born March 20, 1775 ;
married Sally Wright. Children, — ■ John, born Aug. 9,
1805, lives in Nashua ; Walter, April 1, 1807, lives in
Merrimack, N.H. ; Lowell, Feb. 13, 1810, lives in Salem,
N.H. ; Sally, March 12, 1812; Dana, March 22, 1814;
Willard, June 11, 1816, lives in Merrimack ; Olive, May 15,
1824.

6. Barnard, son of Thomas and Lucy of Littleton, born at

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Littleton, April 7, 1780. Children, — Barnard, who died
at Westford in 1855 ; and Mary Jane, who died in 1844.

3. Jacob, son of Dr. Philip of Concord, and grandson of
Elias, born at Concord, Jan. 30, 1673 ; married Elizabeth
Low, April 10, 1699. Children, — William ; Jacob.

4. Jacob, son of Jacob and Elizabeth, married and settled
in Sudbury. Child, — Jacob, who married Experience.
Children, — Thomas, born in Sudbury in 1730 ; Jacob,
Dec. 2, 1732 ; Isaac, Jan. 15, 1731 ; Experience, who mar-
ried a Childs of Framingham ; Molly, married a Puffer of
"Westminster ; Sarah, married a Seaver of Westminster ;
Ruth, married a Noyes of Shrewsbury ; Lois, married a Hill
of Framingham.

6. Jacob, son of Jacob and Experience, born at Sudbury,
Dec. 2, 1732 ; married Patience Goodrew, Feb. 28, 1757.
Children, — Abel, born at Sudbury, Dec. 27, 1752 ; Asahel ;
Jacob, July 21, 1754 ; Sarah, December, 1760, married Eze-
kiel Stone of Framingham ; Eunice, married Dr. Moses
Tuft, who died July 12, 1800 (married, for second husband,
Reuben Moor of Sudbury) ; Pendy, Nov. 8, 1772, died
Dec. 18, 1792 ; Ruth, who married Samuel Staples of East
Sudbury, now Wayland, July 31, 1788 ; Bathsheba, who
married a Bisco ; Relief, married Samuel Warren ; Nancy,
married Lawson Buckminster of Framingham ; Ezekiel, who
lives in Framingham ; Curtis, died unmarried ; Susan, mar-
ried Levi Eaton of Framingham. He died Oct. 4, 1797,
aged sixty-five: his wife died Feb. 2,1795, aged fifty-seven.

7. Abel, son of Jacob and Patience, born Dec. 24, 1752;
married Hannah Gleason' of Framingham, formerly part of
Sudbury, June 20, 1785, and moved to Rutland. Children,
— Abel, born Jan. 28, 1792 ; Jacob, Oct. 1, 1797.

8. Abel, son of Abel and Hannah, born at Rutland,
Jan. 28, 1792 ; married Polly. Children, — Mary Anna,
born Jan. 31, 1825 ; Charles Emerson, Nov. 15, 1827 ; Mar-

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 281

tha Augusta, May 31, 1832 ; Marie Antoinette, March 5,
1837 ; Mira Amelia, July 12, 1815. He lives in Rutland.

8. Jacob, son of Abel and Hannah, born Oct. 1, 1797 ;
married Hannah Maynard, Dec. 5, 1826, and lives at No. 55,
Chandler Street, Worcester. Children, — Hannah A., born
Sept. 14, 1828 ; Lydia R., May 1, 1829 ; Mary J., May 25,
1832 ; Isabella S., July 9, 1834 ; Eunice A., Feb. 7, 1837;
Hannah A., February, 1846.

8. Lydia R., daughter of Jacob and Hannah, born May 1,
1829; married Walter Warren, Feb. 6, 1849.

8. Isabella, daughter of Jacob and Hannah, born July 9,
1834; married William T. Wildes, August, 1852.

7. Jacob, soil of Jacob and Patience of Sudbury, born
July 21, 1754 ; married Betsy Gleason, Feb. 5, 1781. Chil-
dren,— Micajah, born Dec. 1, 1781 ; Asahel, Sept. 7, 1783 ;
Charlotte, Aug. 4, 1785 ; Hannah, May 1, 1787 ; Betsy,
May 7, 1784. He died at Sudbury, Nov. 15, 1795.

8. Micajah, the son of Jacob and Betsy, born Dec. 1,
1781 ; married Ruth Gleason, and moved to Hubbardston.
Children, — George W. ; Eliza, who married Benjamin
Clark, and died in Boston ; Mehitabel N., who married Wil-
liam Stowe of Hubbardston ; Sophia P. ; Samuel G. ; Joseph
B., who is in California ; Hannah, who married George
Wilbur of Boston ; Charles, who was drowned at Hubbard-
ston. He was a representative from Petersham ten years,
and was also a member from Hubbardston after he removed
to that place.

9. Samuel G., the son of Micajah and Ruth, married Ca-
roline Webster of Salem. Children, — Carrie ; Georgianna ;
Eliza Clark ; George E. Webster ; Ruth, who died young.
He keeps at No. 85, State Street, Boston. He was born
March 4, 1816 ; went to Boston, March 4, 1833 ; went into
business on his own account, March 4, 1837 ; had a soiree
on board one of his clipper-ships called the " Shooting Star,"

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March 4, 1851, — a singular routine of events of that date,
and the result of which has been uncommon success.

7. Asahel, son of Jacob and Patience, was brutally mur-
dered by the British at Lexington Fight. Having been
taken prisoner, they were about to shoot him ; when he
begged for his life, taking out his purse containing his
money, and a ring valuable for the affection it represented.
After taking his money, they discharged a musket at his
hips, breaking his legs ; and another at his head, holding
the muzzle close to his head, and singeing his hair at the
same time that they blew his brains out. He held a cornet's
commission, and was known as Cornet Read.

7. Ruth, daughter of Jacob and Patience, married Samuel
Staples of East Sudbury, now Wayland. Children, — Sa-
muel, born Nov. 13, 1788, died unmarried, April 5, 1850 ;
William Read, Oct. 10, 1798.

7. Sarah, daughter of Jacob and Patience, married Eze-
kiel Howe of Framingham. Child, — Sarah, who married
John Trowbridge of Cambridgeport, leaving children.

7. Bathsheba, daughter of Jacob and Patience, married Mr.
Bisco, a partner in business with John Trowbridge. He is
dead. She is living with a son who is a clergyman, in Graf-
ton, Mass.

7. Nancy, daughter of Jacob and Patience, married Law-
son Buckminster, and died at the house of her daughter, in
Philadelphia.

7. Susan, daughter of Jacob and Patience, married Levi
Eaton of Framingham. Children, — Levi, who married
Sarah B. Ruggles of Providence, and had a family of chil-
dren ; Winthrop, who married a Valentine of New-York City
one child, living ; Cintis, died unmarried ; Eveline, who
married William Read Staples.

8. William Read, son of Samuel Staples and Ruth Read,
born Oct. 10, 1798 ; married Eveline, daughter of Levi Eaton

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of Pramingham, and Susan Read, daughter of Jacob and
Patience. Hon. William Read Staples and Eveline are
second cousins. They have eight children living ; having
buried three. They live in Providence. He has been Chief-
Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island ; and is, at
the present time, President of the Rhode-Island Antiquarian
Society.

6. Thomas, son of Thomas and Abigail, born at Sudbury,
Feb. 23, 1704 ; married Sarah ; and was, in 1725, the third
settler in that town, on Lot No. 22. Children, — Jason,
born in 1732 ; Thomas, born in Rutland, Sept. 10, 1733 ;
Jonathan, Nov. 28, 1738 ; Micah, May 13, 1742 ; Mary,
May 11, 1736.

7. Jason, son of Thomas and Sarah, born in Rutland,
1732 ; married Zeruiah Nurse in 1756, and settled on the
north-east part of the Sewell Farm, and land formerly of
Jonas Stone of Lexington. Children, — Sarah, born Feb. 4,
1758 ; Enos, Dec. 3, 1760 ; Anna, Nov. 14, 1762 ; Ama,
July 21, 1766 ; Betty, June 4, 1765 ; Patty, June 2, 1770 ;
Zeruiah, July 18, 1768 ; Bathsheba, April 29, 1772 ; Jason,
March 25, 1775. Married Mary for second wife. Child, —
Amos H., Jan. 20, 1792. He died March 1, 1813, aged
eighty-one.

8. Jason, son of Jason and Zeruiah, born at Rutland,
March 25, 1775 ; married Nabby. Children, — Dexter,
born Nov. 29, 1801 ; Eliza, March 10, 1803 ; Melissa, Feb. 6,
1805 ; Clarissa and Clarinda, Dec. 4, 1806 ; James Madison,
March 10, 1810 ; Adeline, Feb. 8, 1814 ; Albert, April 14,
1815.

6. Thomas, son of Thomas and Sarah, born at Rutland in
1733; married Hannah Nurse in 1756. Children, — Han-
nah, who married Micah Howe ; Joel, married Abigail
Newton ; Lucy, married Jonathan Howe ; John, married
Lydia Watson, and, for second wife, Mary Mason ; Bath-

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sheba, married Alpheus Foster ; Sarah, married Barzela
Miles ; Thomas, married Lucinda Wheeler ; Daniel, mar-
ried Rebecca Ames.

Thomas, son of Thomas and Hannah, born at Rutland,
Feb. 14, 1772; married Lucinda Wheeler. Children, —
Abigail, born Feb. 20, 1794 ; Lucinda, Aug. 26, 1800 ; Abi-
gail Wheeler, Feb. 16, 1804 ; Thomas Lyman, Feb. 2, 1805 ;
Mary Jemima, Jan. 2, 1810, married Rev. William Murdock ;
Lorenzo and Lorena, born Sept. 20, 1811.

Daniel, son of Thomas and Hannah, born at Rutland,
May 9, 1774 ; married Rebecca. Children, — Eliza and
Louisa, Aug. 16, 1798 ; Almira, March 5, 1801 ; John,
April 22, 1803 ; Rebecca, April 7, 1808 ; Daniel, Sept. 4,
1805 ; Harriet Ann, April 17, 1810.

Col. John, son of Thomas and Hannah, born April 26,
1763 ; married Lydia. Children, — John, born Sept. 1,
1788 ; Joseph, Jan. 1, 1791 ; Hannah, born in Claremont,
N.H., May 10, 1794, married Esquire Adams of Medfield,
Mass.

John, son of Col. John of Rutland, born Sept. 1, 1788 ;
married Mary Hale, Sept. 10, 1810. Children, — Samuel
F. ; Lydia W.

Samuel F., son of John, and grandson of Col. John, mar-
ried Adaline Wadsworth. Children, — Mary Louisa, Charles
E., Julia A., Eliza W., Marietta. He keeps at No. 5, Quincy
Market, Boston.

Daniel, son of Thomas and Abigail, born at Sudbury,
May 19, 1714 ; married Rebecca Mead, April 13, 1737.
Children, — John, born Aug. 13, 1737, married Elizabeth
Mellen, and moved to Dedham ; Daniel, born Feb. 24, 1739 ;
Rebecca, Feb. 22, 1742, married Daniel Winch, jun. ; Ann,
born in Rutland, April 3, 1747. He and his son Daniel
died of the small-pox in 1759, and were buried on the farm
in Rutland.

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John, son of Daniel, born Aug. 13, 1737 ; married Eli-
zabeth Davis, Aug. 25, 1760. Child, ■ — Daniel, born in
1761.

Daniel, son of John and Elizabeth, born in 1761 ; married
in Westborough to Sarah Brigham ; published Dec. 6, 1783.
Children, — Joseph, born in Westborough, May 14, 1784;
Davis, April 17, 1786 ; Alexander H., June 16, 1804 ; Eli-
jah. He moved to Wardsborough, Vt. ; and was in the
Revolutionary War, and a general of militia in Vermont.
He died in Wardsborough, Aug. 31, 1845. His son Joseph
died Nov. 2, 1849, aged sixty-five.

Davis, son of Gen. Reed, lives in Wardsborough, and has
three children, names not given.

Alexander H., son of Gen. Reed of Wardsborough, born
at Wardsborough, June 16, 1804 ; married Serena Graig,
July 6, 1835. Children, — Cordelia S., born in Boston,
Jan. 11, 1836 ; Alexander D., Jan. 11, 1838 ; Charles B.,
born in Cambridgeport, April 19, 1839, died Dec. 27, 1840 ;
Andrew Jackson, Oct. 8, 1845 ; Henry Hamilton, Oct. 7,
1847 ; Franklin D., Oct. 10, 1849, died July 8, 1850. His
wife died in Cambridgeport, Nov. 2, 1849. Married, for
second wife, Eunice W. Melvin, Oct. 7, 1854.

Jonathan, son of Thomas and Sarah, born in 1738 ; mar-
ried Hannah Mayhew in 1766, and settled on the homestead
with his father. Children, — Molly, born July 4, 1767 ;
John, April 13, 1770. He died of a cancer.

John, son of Jonathan and Hannah, born at Rutland,
April 3, 1770 ; married Hannah Dwilla, Nov. 17, 1791.
Children, — John, born May 20, 1793 ; Lemuel, Dec. 16,
1794 ; Harriet, July 3, 1800 ; Hannah, Sept. 29, 1802. He
settled in Holden, afterwards set off to West Boylston, where
his descendants now live.

John, son of John of West Boylston, born May 20, 1793.
Children, — John G., born in 1821 ; George, in 1823.

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John G-., son of John of West Boylston. Child, — Amelia,
born in 1846.

George, son of John of West Boylston. Child, — George,
horn in 1856.

7. Daniel, son of Thomas and Hannah of Rutland, born
May 9, 1774 ; married Rebecca. Children, — Eliza and
Louisa, born Aug. 16, 1798 ; Almira, March 5, 1801 ; John,

22, 1803 ; Rebecca, April 7, 1808 ; Daniel, Sept. 4,

1805 ; Harriet Ann, April 17, 1810.

4. Joseph, — son, probably, of Jacob and Elizabeth, and
grandson of Dr. Philip, — married Sarah Rice of Sudbury,
Nov. 26, 1723. Child, — Bethiah, born Aug. 1, 1725 ; mar-
ried Moses Towne of Oxford.

5. Joseph, who married Sarah. Child, — Joseph, Oct. 5,
1773 ; died in Wayland, formerly East Sudbury, December,
1845.

7. Isaac, son of Jacob and Experience of Sudbury, mar-
ried Ruth Brown, April 15, 1794. Children, — Clarissa,
born Dec. 18, 1794 ; Isaac, March 23, 1797 ; Webster ;
George, Nov. 4, 1813. He lived in Waltham, and was
known as Capt. Isaac Reed.

8. Isaac, son of Isaac and Ruth, born March 23, 1797 ;
married Eunice Tibbets. Children, — William, born in
1829 ; Roxanna, June 25, 1832 ; Ruth, March 18, 1835;
Harriet, Oct. 22, 1841. He lives at Amesbury Mills.

8. Webster, son of Isaac and Ruth, had George H., born
Oct. 19, 1840; Charles E., Nov. 10, 1843. He is deceased,
and his orphan children live at Amesbury Mills with his
brother Isaac.

9. George, son of Isaac and Ruth, born Nov. 4, 1813 ; mar-
ried Nancy. Children, — Ellen, born May 3, 1837 ; Geor-
gianna, June 3, 1839. He died in Waltham, Oct. 2, 1854.

2. Thomas, son of Elias, settled in Sudbury ; and died
July 25, 1659, leaving a son Thomas.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 287

3. Thomas, son of Thomas of Sudbury, married Mary
Bigelow. Children, — Thomas, Matthew, Benjamin, Ed-
niond. He was made freeman in 1656. He died in 1701 :
his wife died in 1707.

4. Thomas, son of Thomas and Mary of Sudbury, married
Mary Wood, May 30, 1667. Children, — Thomas, born
May 22, 1678 ; Elizabeth, married Nathaniel Wilson,
Dec. 28, 1709. He was appointed a committee to lay out
highways in 1664 ; was rated to build a bridge in 1693.
His wife died in 1724.

5. Thomas, son of Thomas and Mary of Sudbury, born
May 22, 1678 ; married Abigail Bacon, July 1, 1708, for
second wife. Children by first wife, — Nathaniel, Oct. 6,
1702 ; Isaac and Thomas, Feb. 23, 1704 ; Catherine, Janu-
ary, 1707. By second wife, — Mary, born May 1, 1711;
Abigail, Feb. 12, 1713, married Daniel Winch of Framing-
ham, March 11, 1742 ; Daniel, May 19, 1714 ; Betsy,
June 16, 1716 ; Lydia, Aug. 20, 1718 ; Joseph, Dec. 4,
1722.

6. Nathaniel, son of Thomas and Abigail of Sudbury,
born Oct. 6, 1702 ; married Phebe Lamb. Children, —
Reuben, born Nov. 2, 1730 ; Joshua, Dec. 14, 1732 ; Phebe,
Jan. 28, 1734, married Joshua Harrington of Brookfield in
1754 ; Lydia, born March 13, 1736, married Jonathan Dan-
forth in 1759 ; Mary, born Jan. 30, 1738, married Judith
Cutler in 1759 ; Nathan, born March 8, 1740 ; Persis, mar-
ried a Levins ; Martha, born Sept. 26, 1743, married Henry
Waldridge in 1762; Abigail, born March 17, 1746, married
Thomas Cutler of Lexington in 1764 ; Ruth, born Jan. 31,
1747, married William Gree, Oct. 16, 1769 ; Nathaniel, born
March 16, 1749 ; Eunice, Aug. 4, 1751 ; Nathan, Oct. 1,
1758. He settled in that part of Brookfield which is now a
portion of the town of Warren. He was a large landholder,
his farm consisting of fourteen hundred acres.

288 ELIAS READ,

7. Reuben, son of Nathaniel and Phebe of Brookfield,
born Nov. 2, 1730 ; married Tamerson Meachem of Enfield
in 1754. Children, — Reuben, born Jan. 20, 1756; Eliza-
beth, Oct. 26, 1757, married Daniel Foster, the minister of
New Braintree ; Nathan, born July 2, 1759 ; Nathaniel,
April 4, 1762 ; Joshua, Jan. 20, 1764 ; Sarah, April 29,
1768 ; Tamerson, Dec. 25, 1769, married Lieut. William
Eastman of Granby, Sept. 5, 1794 ; Levi, born July 17, 1773,
married Lucinda Morgan of Brimfield. He was a major
of militia in the Revolution, and a man of note. He died
May 26, 1803, on the old homestead in Warren, aged
seventy-three.

6. Reuben, son of Reuben and Tamerson, born Jan. 20,
1756: married Hannah Cheney in 1779. Children, — Da-
niel, born Dec. 9, 1781, married Mary Smith, April 14,
1803, and died Dec. 17, 1843, aged sixty-three ; Persis, mar-
ried Joseph Eaton of Granby ; Hannah, married Parley
Damon ; Reuben, born 1791 ; Nathan, who died in 1856 ;
Waldo, married Celista Howell, 1822.

6. Joshua, son of Reuben and Tamerson, born Jan. 20,
1764; married Anna Chaplin, 1790. Children, — Tammy,
born Sept. 25, 1791, married Sherbec Foster, June 4, 1812 ;
Lois, born April 12, 1793 ; Joshua, March 17, 1798 ; George
W., Dec. 11, 1799.

7. Waldo, son of Reuben and Hannah, married Celista
Hamilton in 1822. Children, — Persis Jane, born in Wes-
ton, March 26, 1823 ; Henry Dwight, Dec. 3, 1824 ; Louisa,
Jan. 6, 1827 ; Mary Ann, born in Brookfield, April 11, 1835 ;
Julia Ann, born March 11, 1837 ; Waldo E., May 6, 1839.

6. Reuben, son of Reuben and Hannah, born 1791 ; mar-
ried Sophrona Cheney. Children, - — Mary Jane, born May
17, 1830 ; William, Nov. 15, 1831 ; Heman, April 30, 1833 ;
Warren, Dec. 10, 1834, died at sea ; Reuben C, born
March 11, 1836, died Oct. 20, 1857 ; Sarah M., born Feb. 15,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 289

1838 ; Emily, July 2, 1839, died Sept. 29, 1857 ; Martin,

born Feb. 4, 1841, Sept. 8, 1856 ; Laura, born Aug. 3,

1843, died Nov. 1, 1857; Mary Ann, born April 8, 1846,
died Nov. 2, 1856 ; Alanson, born June 7, 1847, died Nov. 5,
1856. He was a prosperous farmer, and died Sept. 27, 1857;
making eight deaths in the family in two or tln-ee years.
Surely the messenger of death laid his hand heavily upon
this family, as it is almost unprecedented in the New-
England States since the time of small-pox in 1720, '21, and
'22 ; when it was so prevalent and fatal, that, in some places,
the old records note those deaths not of small-pox, and some
families became almost extinct by its ravages.

7. Nathan, son of Reuben and Hannah, married Eliza
Mills in 1820. Children, — Nathan G., born July 24, 1821 ;
Emeline A., June 13, 1824 ; John B., April 4, 1828 ; Na-
thaniel, March 24, 1830 : Cyrus, June 17, 1832 ; Frances E.,
June 20, 1834 ; Columbus F., November, 1836 ; Mary E.,
Feb. 21, 1839 ; Freeman, March 2, 1840, died Aug. 9, 1856.

7. George W., son of Joshua and Anna of Warren, born
Dec. 11, 1799; married Julia Ann Hamilton of Hampton,
Conn., in 1825. Child, — Samuel G., born 1833 ; died
June 17, 1846.

6. Nathaniel, son of Reuben and Tamerson of Warren,
born April 4, 1762 ; settled in Cambridge, in the State of
Vermont, in 1800, where he died in 1842, aged eighty years.
Children, — Rensselaer ; Nathaniel, who is a lawyer in Cam-
bridge, Vt. ; Virgis ; Adeline, married a Story ; Horace ;
Thomas ; George W. ; Tamerson, married Walter Germain ;
David, born in Warren, Mass., July 24, 1799, and admitted
to the bar in Franklin County, Vt., in 1823.

7. David, sou of Nathaniel of Cambridge, Vt., born
July 24, 1799 ; married Judith M. Hazel ton, Feb. 2, 1824.
Children, — Adeline M., born July 4, 1825 ; Eldon W.,
July 7, 1827, died Aug. 19, 1835 ; Harriet Sophia, July 14,

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1829, died Aug. 30, 1831. His wife died May 30, 1831.
Married Emily Marsh, Oct. 15, 1832. Children, — James
M., born Nov. 19, 1833, graduated at Unity College in
1853, and resides in New-York City, an associate editor
of the " Courier and Enquirer ; " William J., born Oct. 10,
1840, died Dec. 4, 1841 ; Ogdon B., born Sept. 16, 1843 ;
Edward M., July 15, 1846. He resides, and practises law,
at Winooska Falls in Vermont.

7. Rensselaer, son of Nathaniel of Cambridge, Yt. Chil-
dren,— Charles Rensselaer, born in Fairfield, Aug. 6, 1810 ;
Silas H. ; Maria, who married Warren Root of Burlington ;
Hannah, married Lanson Read of Columbus, O.

8. Charles R., son of Rensselaer, born at Fairfield, Vt.,
Aug. 6, 1810 ; married Sally Smith of Fairfield, March 6,
1831. Children, — Rensselaer Smith, born July 8, 1832;
Sarah Sophia, Jan. 1, 1836 ; Ephraim S., May 1, 1839 ;
Charles Joab, Feb. 27, 1843 ; Julius Herbert, Nov. 7, 1845.

9. Rensselaer S., son of Rensselaer, born July 8, 1832 ;
married Henrietta Warren, July 4, 1856. Child, — Cora
Adella, born Aug. 1, 1857.

Hon. Nathan Read was born at Western (now Warren), in the
county of Worcester, Mass., July 2, 1759. He was the son of Ma-
jor Reuben Read, who was born at Sudbury, Mass., Nov. 2, 1730,
and who held the rank of major in a regiment of minute-men, in the
Revolutionary War, raised under the command of Major-Gen. Ward.
After the capture of Burgoyne's army at Saratoga, Major Read was
detailed by Gen. Heath, who then had the command of the eastern
division of the army, to take the charge of the Hessian and British
troops, then prisoners of war at Cambridge ; and who soon after
removed them to Rutland, in the county of Worcester. He (Reu-
ben) was the son of Capt. Nathaniel Read, who was one of the early
settlers of Warren ; took up a large tract of land there ; and who,
under his good management, and taste for agricultural life, soon ren-
dered his farm very productive and valuable. In early life he
learned the carpenter's trade, and always kept on hand a good set

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 291

of lools, which enahled him to make his own farming utensils and
erect his own buildings ; which at that earl)' day, when mechanical
labor was difficult to be had, was a matter of no small moment to
him. He had the reputation of being a man of great industry and
perseverance, and proverbially just in all his dealings and transac-
tions in life. He died June 9, 1785, at the advanced age of eighty-
one years. He resided upon a portion of the farm throughout his
life, and made agriculture his employment, save the time he spent
in the Revolutionary service. He was a man of much activity, and
fixedness of purpose. He died at his residence in Warren, May 26,
1803, in the seventy-third year of his age; leaving five sons, among
whom Nathan was the second.

The grandmother's maiden name was Phebe Lamb. She was a
woman noted for her benevolence and piety. The mother's maiden
name was Tamison Eastman, from Enfield, Conn. : she was cousin
to Gen. Green of Rhode Island, who, in the Revolution, was next in
command to Gen. Washington.

Nathan resided at home with his parents, and occasionally with
his grandparents, until he was fifteen years of age, and worked on
the farm ; their farms being distinct, but adjoining each other. In
the autumn of 1776, having previously had but very little opportu-
nity, he was sent to Rev. Samuel Willard's school, at Stafford, about
three months ; where he was taught arithmetic, English grammar,
and Burr's Latin grammar. He then returned home, and attended
the town-school about two months, kept byJMr. Dwight Foster, an
undergraduate of Brown University. The spring following, he went
to Mr. Nathan Goddard's private school, in Shrewsbury ; where he
commenced the study of Greek. Mr. Goddard being soon after
called away to preach for several months as a candidate for the
ministry, he was under the necessity of seeking a new instructor ;
and entered the school of a clergyman in a neigboring town, prose-
cuted his Greek, and prepared himself, as far as he could under the
disadvantages and limited time that was allowed him, to enter college.
At the close of the summer vacation in 1777, less than a year from
the time he commenced his preparatory studies, he appeared before
the Board of Examiners at Harvard University as a candidate for
admission. Caleb Gannett and Benjamin Guild were his exami-
ners : they found him qualified, and he was then admitted to the
university. As his parents were desirous that he should qualify

292 ELIAS READ,

himself for the ministry, he attended Prof. Sewall's lectures on the
Hebrew language, and acquired so much knowledge of it as to be
appointed to deliver a Hebrew oration at a public exhibition : and,
during the interval between the death of Prof. Sewall and the
appointment of Mr. Parsons as his successor, he was requested to
instruct such students as wished to learn the Hebrew language ;
which he accordingly did, and was handsomely rewarded for his
services. Previous to commencement in 1781, at which time he
graduated, he was selected by his classmates to deliver a valedic-
tory address on a fixed day, in compliance with a long-established
custom of the university.

After commencement, he went to Beverly, Mass., and taught the
town-school there about a year and a half; and boarded at the house
of the Hon. Nathan Dane, the founder of the law-school at Harvard.
After leaving Beverly, he taught a private school for young ladies,
in Salem, until October, 1783 ; at which time he was elected a
tutor in Harvard College, where he continued his labors as such
until after the commencement of 1787. He then resigned his place
as tutor, and entered upon the study of medicine with Dr. Edward
Augustus Holyoke of Salem till October, 1788; when he gave up
the idea of following medicine as a profession, and opened an apo-
thecary store in Salem. He built and occupied the mansion-house,
on Essex Street, late taken down, — where the Plummer Institute
now stands.

In October, 1790, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Jeffry,
daughter of William JeflVy, Esq., Clerk of the Court of the County
of Essex, and grand-daughter of Joseph Bowditch, Esq. Aug. 24,
1791, he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences. April 4, 1795, he removed on to his farm in Dan-
vers, and erected a permanent structure across Waters's River, which
served for a dam and bridge ; and built the splendid mansion-house
known at the present time as the Capt. Porter Estate. In October,
1800, hie was appointed a member of Congress from Essex South
District to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Sewall,
the late member from that district. Nov. 5, 1800, he was also elected
a member, from that district, of the succeeding Congress, for two years
from and after the 4th of March, 1801 ; and was a member during
the contest in the House between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron
Burr, in which the former became the successful candidate, and sue-

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 293

ceeded to the office of President. Feb. 10, 1802, while a resident
of Danvers, he was appointed by Gov. Strong a special Justice of
the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Essex. In 1796, he
and his associates built, and put in operation, the Salem Iron Factory
for the manufacture of chain-cables, anchors, and other materials of
iron for ship-building, for which he acted as the agent of the com-
pany: and the next year (1797) he invented, and put in operation
in the above factory, and designed for its own special use, for the
manufacture of nails and spikes with greater facility and at less cost,
a nail machine, which cut and headed nails and spikes at one opera-
tion ; and for which he afterwards received a patent, — it being
the same machine now used for such purposes. He also invented
about that time many useful and important agricultural implements,
for which he took no patent. In November, 1807, he removed from
Salem to Belfast, Hancock County, Me. ; and for many years pre-
sided as Chief-Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in said county.
May 21, 1815, he was elected an honorary member of the Linnsean
Society of New England.

After removing to Belfast, he gave most of his time to agricultu-
ral pursuits ; which he regarded, to use his own language, "as the
most natural, healthy, and honorable occupation of man." On his
removal there, he purchased a large farm containing some four hun-
dred acres, beautifully situated near the head of Belfast Bay, just
south of the present business part of the city, and fronting about half
a mile on the bay. His residence overlooked the charming scenery
of the bay, studded with its numerous islands, and marked by its pic-
turesque outline, — always presenting a view congenial to his taste
and pleasing to his eye. Here he spent the remainder of his long
and useful life ; ever taking a deep interest in all matters of a public
character designed to benefit and improve the country, particularly
his own town and people. When the railroad from Quebec to the
Atlantic coast, in Maine, was projected, he labored earnestly to make
Belfast the place of its terminus ; which, had such a purpose been
effected, would, ere this, have made it a large commercial city. The
cause of religion and education was esteemed by him as the cause
that involved his highest duties, and his exertions and support were
constantly applied in their behalf. At an early day, when the town
was comparatively new, he was instrumental in establishing a high-
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the beneficial effects of which have for a long time, and will for a
long time to come, no doubt, be felt and appreciated.

He died at his residence in Belfast, Jan. 20, 1849, in the ninetieth
year of his age. He possessed a strong constitution, as well as a strong
and highly cultivated mind. His aim was high, and he soared above
the sordid interests of the world. He was temperate, yet persever-
ing ; ardent in his emotions, yet possessing a kind heart and the
best of qualities. With a fine form, a gentlemanly deportment, and
a highly intellectual countenance, his presence was always command-
ing, and his conversation appropriate and instructive. His mental
and physical powers remained with him, with remarkable unifor-
mity and firmness, until within a few days of his death ; which was
caused by a lung-fever, produced by exposure to extreme cold, which
he seldom sought to avoid. He was the last surviving member of
his college-class ; and, with two exceptions (Judge Farrar and James
Lowell), the oldest living graduate of Harvard University.

He was the first who ever made a successful application of steam-
power to the purposes of navigation ; and the first to invent and
construct a locomotive-engine, alias steam-carriage. The arts and
sciences were his favorite study, and his inclinations constantly
led him to be experimenting therein. As early as 1788, while a
resident of Salem, he became especially interested in the purpose
of applying steam-power to the practical use of propelling boats and
land-carriages. He had the ability to comprehend the results that
would follow the attainment of such a purpose ; and at that time
looked forward to the accomplishment of so important a work, then
universally acknowledged as a desideratum in the mechanic arts.
The idea as to boats was not new ; various experiments had been
tried, and different modes for propelling them attempted : but by
what appliances, and how the thing could be done, remained, as yet,
a mystery to the world.

John Fitch, a native of Windsor, Conn., and James Ramsey, a
native of Maryland, were the first in America who made the at-
tempt to propel boats by steam. Fitch was the first to commence
building his boat ; but Ramsey was the first to try his experiment.
He had settled in Virginia, at Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, on
the south bank of the Potomac ; where, it is said, his log dwelling
still stands. His first effort was the application of steam-power to a
pump ; by which he sought to propel his boat by drawing water in at

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the bow, and pouring it out at the stern. This proved inadequate
for loaded boats, or for river navigation (which was then only thought
of) against the current. He then attempted to apply his steam-
power to setting-poles, but without success ; and he made no further
trial. He commenced the building of his boat, near his residence
in Shepherdstown, in 1783 ; and launched it upon the Potomac in
1786, where the above experiments were tried. He afterwards
(about 1788) went to England to prosecute his steam projects there;
and while about to enter upon a public exposition of his views and
plans before a crowded audience at Liverpool, as he rose to com-
mence his lecture, he was struck down with an apoplectic fit, which
terminated his life, and left his favorite project unattained.*

Fitch attempted to apply steam-power to oars. He commenced
the building of his boat the same year, but earlier than Ramsey ; but
did not complete it, so as to try his experiment, until 1787. He
launched his boat and made his trial upon the Delaware: but his
machinery proved insufficient, and ill adapted to the purposes of
navigation ; and this, being his first, was also his last experiment.
He made no other attempt, but had great faith in the ultimate suc-
cess of steam for propelling boats. He died at Bardstown, in Ken-
tucky, in 1796 ; and, at his death, made the request, that he should
be buried on the banks of the Ohio, " that he might repose where the
song of the boatman would enliven the stillness of his resting-place,
and the music of the steam-engine soothe his spirit."

Mr. Read, in the mean time, having noticed the failure of these
experiments of Ramsey and Fitch, and believing that they were
occasioned by the ill-constructed machinery which they had tried,
set himself to work to accomplish the end which they had sought
and abandoned, by the invention and use of machinery of a differ-
ent and more perfect character, such as would be better adapted
to the object in view. He believed that their boilers for generating
steam were poorly contrived, and that a substitute might be got up
of far greater efficiency ; that their long, awkward oars, and still
more awkward pumps and setting-poles, condemned themselves, as
unsuited to the purpose for which they were designed; and that
some better mode might be adopted. Accordingly, in 1789, eighteen
years before Fulton appeared with his experiments upon the Hudson,

* Howe's Historical Collections of Virginia, p. 336.

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he had succeeded in inventing and constructing a boiler, differing
essentially from those used by Fitch and Rumsey ; and which, from
its characteristic principles, he denominated a " portable furnace
boiler." It occupied but little space, was light and strong, and so
constructed as to require no other furnace than what itself consti-
tuted ; and was designed both for steamboats and steam-carriages.
In the mean time, he had constructed a model of a steam-carriage,
with one of his newly invented boilers, and other new and suitable
machinery attached, to give it locomotion ; and, meanwhile, he had
also constructed a steamboat, with his boiler and one of Watt's
double-acting rotary engines attached. The boat was of sufficient
size to carry a man, with the necessary apparatus for propelling it
through the water. To the axis, which extended across the gun-
wale of the boat, were fixed two paddle-wheels, constructed precisely
on the same principles they now are for steamboats, and such as
are, at this day, almost universally adopted and used for steam-
navigation throughout the world. With this boat, by means of a
crank, and without a fly-wheel, he was safely propelled (immediately
after its completion) with great rapidity, by the force of its little
engine alone, across an arm of the sea which separates Danvers from
Beverly. The Rev. Dr. Prince of Salem and several other gentle-
men were present, and saw the experiment.

This was the first steamboat, and the first voyage ever taken in a
steamer, constructed upon the same plan and principles of our present
boats. The experiment was triumphant ; the work, to human
reason, was accomplished and proved ; the long-sought desideratum
had been reached. The emotions of the inventor, as he sat upon the
deck of his little steamer and watched the seemingly intelligent
workings of its engine and revolving wheels, but more especially as
they faithfully shot him along the surface of the deep waters of the
bay and safely landed him upon the shore beyond, can be better
felt than described. Seeing as he saw, and feeling as he felt, when
the evident success of his experiments, with the great results they
told, flashed upon his mind, and were thus suddenly and successfully
demonstrated, he could well realize the sensations of Franklin when
he applied his knuckle to the key, and drew forth the electric spark.
Surely he felt that he had not labored in vain.

By this experiment, he knew that he had reduced the power of
steam to the easy control of man and to practical purposes, that

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promised untold results upon the industrial, commercial, and social
interests of mankind ; and, although the success of his improvements
to him appeared certain, he was not aware that he had yet to en-
counter the blighting influence of an incredulous and selfish world,
nor that he had yet to meet the derision of the ignorant (tor whose
common benefit he had so ardently labored) "as a weak and silly
projector." Indeed, he was not aware that truth demonstrated
could be crushed, nevertheless, under the weight of popular igno-
rance and prejudice. Accordingly, with high hopes, and bright
prospects in anticipation, he applied, Feb. 8, 1790, to the Congress
of the United States, then in session in the city of New York, for a
patent of his inventions and improvements. He spent most of the
winter of 1790 in New York, and exhibited drawings and descriptions
of his boat, and also of his steam-carriage, to President Washington
(to whom he had letters of introduction from Gen. Benjamin Lin-
coln), and also to the members of Congress and other gentlemen
there, — among whom were many distinguished mechanics, — and
explained to them the principles of his machinery, and especially of
the operation of his paddle-wheels for boats, and of his boilers both
for boats and land-carriages. While in New York, he boarded at
Mrs. Wheaton's, in company with Dr. Cutler and Gen. Rufus Put-
nam, who were attending upon Congress, on business as agents of
the Ohio Land Company. They introduced Gen. Stevens to him :
and he then explained to Stevens the principles on which his boat
was constructed, — combining the tubular boiler, which he had in-
vented, with paddle-wheels and the double-acting rotary engine of
Watt, — and made to him a full exhibition of his drawings and de-
scriptions thereof; who critically examined the same.

The Congress of 1789 and '90, being the first after the adoption
of the Constitution of the United States, was, as yet, but imper-
fectly organized. It was, moreover, overwhelmed with business of
the most exciting and important character, and had but little time
or thought to bestow on applications of a private nature. In the
mean time, no patent-laws or regulations had ever been established
or patent granted by the government. He presented his petition for
a patent to the Board of Commissioners, and first asked for a patent
for a steamboat with paddle-wheels, and for his portable furnace
boiler for boats and land-carriages. But, unfortunately for the
petitioner, in looking over some of the first volumes of the Trans-

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actions of the Royal Society, published upwards of sixty years
before, he immediately noticed that some experiments had been
made in Europe, which before that time had never come to his
knowledge, with a view to ascertain the comparative utility of
wheels and oars ; and, erroneously supposing that he should not
be entitled to a patent for a boat with paddle-wheels, he withdrew
so much of his patent as related to said wheels, and substituted
therefor a rowing machine, which he had invented and constructed
upon the principle of the chain-pump, and which he believed would
insure the next best purpose to paddle-wheels. This change he
reluctantly made ; and had he been sensible, at the time, of the
crude and imperfect character of those experiments, and of the great
dissimilarity in the machinery and combinations used, he most surely
would have made no alteration, but have taken his patent as he at
first petitioned. But, under the circumstances and impressions above
named, he took a patent on his amended petition ; for his rowing-
machine for propelling boats, in lieu of paddle-wheels ; and for his
portable furnace boiler, designed for boats and land-carriages. The
boiler contained no other furnace than what itself constituted ; and
was constructed internally with tubes, on the same principle, and
nearly of the same form, with those now in use for locomotive-engines.
He was, nevertheless, entitled to a patent on his petition as at first
presented. His combinations and much of his machinery were new
and original ; his experiments had demonstrated their concordant
action and success ; and nothing had before transpired in the history
of steam-power to produce such results, and to have interfered with
his original application and purpose. This may be clearly seen by
comparing his boat and experiments with those of an earlier date.

The Marquis of Worcester, the first noticeable experimenter in
steam-power, had expressed his belief that it might be used for pro-
pelling vessels, but had never tried the experiment : this was about
1655. Next Savary, an Englishman, who is supposed to be the first
that applied steam-power to any practical purpose (that of raising
water from the mines of Cornwall), proposed to pump water with his
engine, and turn a large wheel in the middle of a vessel, with paddle-
wheels acting on the outside. ; but it does not appear that he ever
tried it. Soon after (about 1G80), Prince Rupert is said to have
made an attempt to navigate a boat by steam on the Thames, and
that he tried wheels without success ; but little is known of his

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experiment, which was near a century before Watt's invention of a
continuous rotary motion, which alone could make wheels practi-
cable for such a purpose. Bornouville, in 1753, — seventy-three
years after Prince Rupert's experiment, — gained a prize, offered by
the French Academy of Sciences, for writing an essay ; wherein
he satisfactorily demonstrated the principle, that the attainment of a
rotary motion by the steam-engine could alone render wheels prac-
ticable for propelling boats. This was thirty years or more before
Watt, the great improver of the steam-engine, succeeded in obtain-
ing this motion, and of satisfactorily perfecting his machinery
therefor ; which was not until 1784. The inference may be
drawn as quite certain, that all attempts to propel boats by paddle-
wheels must have proved ineffectual, and without the means of
success, before Watt completed his invention. Indeed, we see,
that after the essay of Bornouville, and before such invention, the
idea of using wheels was, for the most part, abandoned. We find
several attempts in France and this country, in the mean time,
to propel boats by other means ; the most prominent of which
seemed to be a paddle in the form of a duck's foot, opening in its
backward and closing in its forward motion through the water.
This, Monsieur Genevois felt quite sure would wrork ; but all of
these experiments proved a failure. The co-incidence is worthy
of note, that the Marquis de Jouffroy upon the Soane, and John
Fitch upon the Delaware, in 1783, — the year before Watt came out
with his perfected double-acting rotary engine, — were simultane-
ously engaged in trying to apply steam-power to oars.

Miller, of Dalswinton in Scotland, about this time, succeeded
better. He first tried a triple boat (three boats side by side), and
used wheels turned by men working at a crank ; but, finding this
too slow and laborious a matter, he employed one Symington to
put a steam-engine into a larger vessel, built double. The wheels
and machinery kept constantly breaking ; the boat was in danger of
sinking; the apparatus was taken out, and laid up; and there ended
the experiment. Miller found fault with his engineer, and pro-
nounced the whole a failure ; but it is said that they succeeded in
driving the boat along the Forth of Clyde Canal at the rate of seven
miles an hour. Miller, Jouffroy, Fitch, and Ramsey were the last
to carry out a long series of vague and abortive experiments ; all
of which experiments, up to theirs, inclusive, whether of wheels,

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oars or poles, duck's-feet or pumps, had proved unsuccessful, and
been abandoned.

It was now that the subject of this notice, from the strength of
his own genius alone, and without any definite knowledge of these
isolated and vague experiments in Europe, combined the boiler he
had constructed and the double-acting rotary engine of Watt with
paddle-wheels, — being the first time that such a combination was
ever effected. It is proper here to remark, that Watt himself
never attempted to apply steam-power to the purposes of naviga-
tion. The above combination brought together in harmony with
each other the necessary and essential parts of a steamboat, prac-
tical, complete, and perfect in its machinery and arrangement
ready to do the great work of steam-navigation successfully, and
just such a boat as we can now see by the thousand engaged in the
internal and ocean navigation of the world. Such were the parts
combined (prerequisites for all steam-navigation), if in miniature,
yet in proper form and adaptation of the little boat which he con-
structed at Salem, and launched at Danvers ; the drawings and
representations of which he had exhibited in the city of New York,
to Gen. Stevens and others, in 1790 ; and which, in truth, was the
model and prototype that disclosed to the world a new and sublime
agency for its use and progress, and which, in the mean time, intro-
duced a new era in the history of navigation, commerce, and trade.

In 1791, — the very next year, it will be noticed, after the above
exhibition in the city of New York, — Gen. Stevens, who was a man
of enterprise and great wealth, commenced his projects in steam-
navigation. Mr. Eenwick, in his treatise on the steam-engine
(p. 283), says that " Stevens invented the first tubular boiler
during his experiments,* and that his first attempts were made
with a rotary engine ; for which, however, he speedily substituted
one of Watt's." And on p. 284 he says, " Their apparatus was a
system of paddles resembling a horizontal chain-pump (the rowing
machine patented as above), and set in motion by an engine of
Watt's construction." Now, it would be pleasant to know how far
the above tubular boiler, Watt's rotary engine, and system of paddles
resembling a horizontal chain-pump, differed in their construction

* Mr. Eenwick, in his preface to his treatise, expresses his obligation to Mr.
R. L. Stevens for the facts in relation to steamboats, &c. (R. L. is the son of Gen.
Stevens).

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from the plans and drawings of the very same things which the
subject of this notice had exhibited and explained to Mr. Stevens
the year before he began his experiments. The patent having
been taken out for a boat with the rowing-machine attached in lieu
of paddle-wheels, it would be quite natural for Mr. Stevens to sup-
pose that it was deemed by the patentee as the preferable mode of
propelling boats, and that he had best construct a boat with an
apparatus approximating thereto ; but it will be seen that he and
his associate, Chancellor Livingston, afterwards adopted the paddle-
wheels as the preferable mode.

Chancellor Livingston, in 1797, commenced his steam projects
upon the Hudson, and obtained an Act of the Legislature of New
York for the exclusive navigation of that river. He and Stevens
and Nicholas Rosevelt afterwards entered into copartnership, and
united their efforts and means in prosecuting their steamboat expe-
riments,— all of them, says Renwick, having the utmost confidence
of success; adding, " We now know that such a plan (the system of
paddles, and chain-pump apparatus), if inferior to paddle-wheels,
might answer the purpose." But, in 1801, Livingston was sent
minister to France, and his copartnership with Stevens and Rose-
velt terminated.

It was at Paris that Livingston first became acquainted with
Robert Fulton, who had been engaged without success, from 1796,
under the patronage of the French Government, in the construction
of submarine boats as instruments of destruction in war. In 1803,
Fulton is found employed under the patronage and direction of
Livingston, — this being his (Fulton's) first attempt to construct a
steamboat for navigation ; and that same year he launched a small
boat upon the Seine, with paddle-wheels attached, a tubular boiler,
and the rotary engine of Watt. He succeeded in propelling his
boat at the rate of four miles an hour ; and came to the conclusion,
says Renwick (p. 286), "that, of all methods hitherto proposed, the
paddle-wheel possessed the greatest advantages." Indeed, Fulton
went through with a series of experiments, under the direction of
Livingston, before he built the above boat, to determine the compa-
rative advantages of paddle-wheels and the chain of paddles (alias
rowing-machines) ; and thereupon concluded to apply the paddle-
wheels as the preferable mode.

The above trial upon the Seine showing that, with such a combina-

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tion (viz., of tubular boilers, the double-acting rotary engine of Watt,
and paddle-wheels), success was certain, Livingston and Fulton at
once entered into an arrangement to construct a boat of large size
upon the Hudson ; and Livingston furnished Fulton with funds to
carry out the enterprise. Fulton then went to the workshop
of "Watt (which had then become Watt and Bolton), in England,
and there ordered his engine. In 1806, the engine reached the
city of New York ; and, in 1807, the celebrated " Clermont,"
dressed out with said double-acting rotary engine of Watt, tubular
boilers, and paddle-wheels, with Fulton on board, skimmed her way
along the Hudson, with triumphant success, to the city of Albany,
with just such success, and substantially just such machinery, as had
been applied to the little steamer, which, eighteen years before,
had so gallantly borne its projector and builder across an estuary
of the sea, — drawings of which, in 1790, had been exhibited and
explained to Stevens, the after-partner of Livingston ; who became
the patron and director of Fulton, in his first experiment upon the
Seine, in 1803.

And here the subject must be left for every candid person to
determine for himself, whether Fulton or the subject of this notice
was the first inventor and constructor of a steamboat having such a
combination of machinery as is now in general use ; and whether
Stevens or he was the inventor of the tubular boiler which Ful-
ton used, and which is still adopted. One need only refer to his
patent, obtained sixty-seven years ago, to determine the above fact,
and to show, in addition, that he was the first inventor and construc-
tor of a steam-carriage, the principles of which are substantially
and practically carried out by our present locomotives. It is
claimed that "Evans was the first who entertained rational hopes
of being able to move carriages by steam " (see Eenwick, p. 297).
The author must have been ignorant of the above patent, of the
model of the steam-carriage constructed at Salem as preliminary
thereto, and of the fact that the patent was obtained eleven years
before Evans had made his first experiment at Philadelphia (which
was not until 1801), or he would not have made the above assertion.

Prior to 1789, when the little steamer took her passage across
the estuary at Danvers, steam-power had never been applied to any
practical use, except for raising water and emptying sinks and
mines. All attempts to apply it to the purposes of navigation had

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failed ; and it does not appear that any attempt was made before
that time, or the idea entertained, to apply it to land-carriages,
alias locomotives. The subject was then new, and but little under-
stood by the mass of mankind, to whom it appeared mysterious and
visionary. This may be readily seen from the fact, that the mem-
bers of Congress even were so ignorant and sceptical on the
subject, that when the petition for the above-mentioned patent was
read by the Clerk of the House of Representatives, as he came to
that part of it which related to the application of steam to land-
carriages, a general smile was excited among the members. The
petitioner, who was present, was a man of such sensibility, that he
could not endure an indication so trying to his own better know-
ledge and feelings. He felt the sting for many years, and felt it
none the less that those who inflicted it were not conscious of the
injury. They intended no harm or indignity ; and surely they were
not aware that they had trifled with human genius, and extin-
guished the energies of a man who had opened the way to national
honor and wealth, and to the introduction of the greatest of modern
improvements. But so it really was. The effect was paralyzing to
him. He shrunk from the further prosecution of his plans until
a more favorable public sentiment and opportunity should present.
At a later and more favorable period, as has been seen, others,
possessing the means, and consequently the power, took the benefit
of his improvements, and won the fame that of right belonged to
him.

He was too early in his steam projects. The world was incredu-
lous, the country was poor, and business unsettled. Even the blood
of the Revolution had scarcely ceased to smoke from the ground,
and the vast expenditure of treasure in the contest still weighed
heavily upon the people. The country, moreqver, was distracted
with a yet unstable government, and by numerous conflicting inte-
rests ; and there was but a partial opportunity, and indeed but
little occasion, for costly experiments and great practical results in
the mechanic arts. These things, as well as the want of faith and
courage in others, were in the way of his progress ; and he did not,
meanwhile, possess the ample fortune of a Stevens or a Livingston
to carry out his inventions and plans. Hence he derived neither
honor nor profit from the time and money he expended in his expe-
riments : but he lived to see his inventions and improvements

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applied to practical use by other hands, and to feel the gratification,
that the machinery which he for the first time used as the most
eligible for propelling boats (and which he put together and proved
while Fulton was employed as a journeyman painter in the studio
of West, in London), has, since that time, been successfully adopted
and used in every quarter of the globe ; and still more gratified in
seeing locomotive-engines, capable of moving at a speed of a mile in
a minute, put in motion by steam generated in a boiler, and applied
by other apparatus thereto attached, constructed essentially on the
same principles with the steam-carriage he had invented more than
fifty years before, and for which, in connection with his boat, he
obtained a patent the first day that a patent was ever issued by the
authority of the United States ; but more gratified than in all else,
that he lived to triumph over that smile of derision which the mem-
bers of Congress exhibited at the idea of a locomotive-engine.

It is proper to add, that he lived and died an exemplary profes-
sor of the Harvard School, believing in a higher and more perfect
state of existence hereafter, " and looking forward with an eye of
faith to an exaltation which he believed was in store for him beyond
this world."

Children of Nathan Read, — Elizabeth Holyoke, born July 7,
1791, died 1793 ; Elizabeth Holyoke, bora July 27, 1793;
Nancy, July 23, 1795, married Philip Morrill ; Mary, born
March 14, 1798, married Charles H. Tilden, and lives in
Castine ; William Jeffrey, born Oct. 19, 1800 ; George,
March 24, 1803 ; Edward, July 21, 1806 ; Charles, Oct. 10,
1809 ; Charlotte Verstille, Dec. 6, 1811. He died at Bel-
fast, Jan. 20, 1849, in his ninetieth year : his wife died
March 21, 1855, aged eighty-three years. William died
May 28, 1829, aged twenty-eight years ; Charlotte, Jan. 30,
1834, aged twenty-two ; Edward, Aug. 13, 1845, aged thirty-
nine.

Charles, son of Hon. Nathan Reed of Belfast, born Oct. 10,
1809 ; married Rosina Blanchard, Nov. 26, 1837. Chil-
dren, — William, Jefferson, Joseph Bowditch, Charles
Julius, Mary Jane, George Tilden, Helen Letitia, Han-

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nah Elizabeth, Rosetta Ella, Narcissa. He lives on the
old homestead in Belfast, and his sister Elizabeth lives on
the same. Nancy lives at Glensbury.

6. Thomas, son of Thomas, and twin-brother of Isaac of
Sudbury, born Feb. 23, 1704 ; married Sarah, and was the
third man who settled in Rutland, in 1725. Children, —
Jason, born in 1732 ; Thomas, Sept. 10, 1733 ; Mary, May 11,
1736 ; Jonathan, Nov. 2, 1738 ; Micah, May 3, 1742.

7. Jonathan, son of Thomas and Sarah of Rutland, born
Nov. 2,1738; married Hannah. Children, — Molly, born
July 4, 1767 ; John, April 13, 1770 ; and three older sons,
names unknown.

8. John, son of Jonathan and Hannah, born April 13,
1770 ; married Hannah Dwilla, Nov. 17, 1791. Children,
— John, born May 20, 1793; Lemuel, Dec. 16, 1794; Har-
riet, July 3, 1800; Hannah, Sept. 29, 1802. He settled in
Holden, formerly part of Rutland, and in that part of the
town that is now included in West Boylston, where his de-
scendants still reside. .

9. John, son of John of West Boylston, born May 20,
1793. Children, — John G., born in 1821 ; George, 1823.

10. John G., son of John of West Boylston, born in 1821.
Child, — Amelia, born in 1846.

10. George, son of John of West Boylston, born in 1823.
Child, — George C, born in 1856.

6. Isaac, son of Thomas, born Feb. 23, 1704 ; married
Experience Willis, Feb. 11, 1729. Children, — Nathan;
Isaac, born Jan. 15, 1731 ; Samuel, Feb. 19, 1739 ; Mary,
March 19, 1741, married John Goodrew, March 19, 1761 ;
Ruth, born Aug. 31, 1743, married Daniel Noyes, Nov. 1,
1764.

7. Isaac, son of Isaac and Experience, born Jan. 15, 1731 ;
married Lydia Goodrew, Jan. 16, 1765. Child, — Nathan,
born Feb. 5, 1756.

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8. Nathan, son of Isaac and Lydia, born Feb. 5, 1756 ;
married Abigail Plimpton, Oct. 12, 1778. Children, —
Nabby, born July 11, 1779 ; Ruth, June 16, 1781 ; Hannah,
April 21, 1784.

7. Nathan, son of Isaac and Experience, married Susanna,
and settled in Marlborough. Children, — Susanna, who
married Simon Gates ; Mary, who married Seth Adams ;
David, born in Marlborough, Aug. 17, 1753 ; Patty, Sept. 29,
1755 ; Phebe, Feb. 17, 1759, married Timothy Whiting,
Jan. 29, 1777 ; Persis, born Jan. 25, 1768.

8. David, son of Nathan and Susanna, born at Marlbo-
rough, Aug. 17, 1753 ; married Naomi. Child, — Abraham,
born at Marlborough, May 9, 1787.

7. Micah, son of Thomas and Sarah, born at Rutland,
May 3, 1742 ; married Elizabeth Rugg in 1768, and settled
in Westmoreland, N.H. Children, — Alpheus, born Aug. 5,
1768 ; Hannah, Mary, Gunutus, Lovina, Asahel, Jonathan,
Betsy.

8. Alpheus, son of Micah and Elizabeth, born Aug. 5,
1768 ; married Sally White, Dec. 8, 1793. Children,—
Alpheus, born Aug. 6, 1794 ; Betsy, July 25, 1796 ; Joseph
W., March, 1798, died young; Sally, born May 16, 1799;
Maria, June 18, 1801 ; Kesia Britton, April 6, 1805 ; Rhoda,
July 5, 1807, died ; Harriet, born Sept. 12, 1809. He died
Nov. 21, 1810 : his wife died Aug. 18, 1853.

8. Hannah, daughter of Micah, married Joseph Farr,
Nov. 14, 1796. Children, — Lucy, born Sept. 2, 1797 ;
Daniel, Aug. 19, 1799 ; Joseph, July 13, 1803 ; Micah R.,
March 17, 1806 ; Ivah, Aug. 3, 1805 ; Elisha, Sept. 23, 1807 ;
Elijah P., Oct. 10, 1809 ; Nancy, Oct. 1, 1812 ; Emily,
June 14, 1815 ; a daughter, Feb. 27, 1817 ; Elijah, July 1,
1819.

9. Daniel Farr, son of Joseph Farr and Hannah Read,
boi'ii Aug. 19, 1799 ; married Clarissa Esty, Sept. 6, 1819.

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9. Ivah Fair, son of Joseph Farr and Hannah Read, born
Aug. 3, 1805 ; married Miss Danforth, Feb. 28, 1827.

9. Micah R., son of Joseph Farr and Hannah Read, born
March 17, 1806 ; married Miss Stearns, April 2, 1829.

9. Emily, daughter of Joseph Farr and Hannah Read,
born June 14, 1815 ; married Joseph Evans, April 24,
1839.

9. Nancy, daughter of Joseph Farr and Hannah Read,
born Oct. 1, 1812 ; married Warren Webb, Nov. 20, 1839.

9. Betsy, daughter of Alpheus, born July 25, 1796 ; mar-
ried Nathaniel Daggot, Sept. 15, 1819.

9. Alpheus, son of Alpheus and Sally, born Aug. 6, 1794 ;
married Rebecca Kempson in Cincinnati, 0. He died
August, 1834.

9. Maria, daughter of Alpheus and Sally, born June 18,
1801 ; married John M'Clure, in New Jersey, in 1821. She
died March 10, 1854.

9. Kesia B., daughter of Alpheus and Sally, born
April 6, 1805 ; married Francis Pluff in 1821.

9. Harriet, daughter of Alpheus and Sally, born Sept. 12,
1809 ; married Deane E. Knight, Sept. 18, 1829, in Lowell.
Child, — Hattie A., born at Johnson, Vt., Dec. 6, 1840. He
died at St. Anthony's Falls, Min., June 18, 1856. She mar-
ried Dr. A. Morse of Waterbury, Vt, Feb. 10, 1857.

7. Sally Rngg Read, daughter of Alpheus and Sally,
born May 16, 1799 ; married Nathaniel Gates, Sept. 28,
1839.

6. Daniel, son of Thomas and Abigail, born in Sudbury,
May 19, 1714 ; married Rebecca Mead, April 13, 1737.
Children,-— John, born Aug. 13, 1737 ; Daniel, Feb. 24,
1739 ; Rebecca, Feb. 2, 1742, married Daniel Winch, jun. ;
Anna, born in Rutland, April 3, 1747.

6. Joseph, son of Thomas and Abigail, born at Sudbury,
Dec. 4, 1722 ; married Sarah Goodrew, Jan. 16, 1749.

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Children, — Lydia, born Oct. 9, 1751, died; Lydia, born
Aug. 20, 1760 ; Sarah, Dec. 3, 1763, married Ezekiel Howe,
Oct. 15, 1780.

4. Benjamin, son of Thomas of Sudbury, married Mary.
On the third day of April, 1793, he conveyed by deed to his
brother Matthew two hundred acres of land in Natick, near
the line of Sudbury. Edmond Read Had formerly owned a
part of it.

Nathan, son of Isaac and Lydia of Framingham, married
Hannah Brooks, June 14, 1783. Children, — Joseph ;
Jabez. His widow died Oct. 10, 1842.

Joseph, son of Nathan and Hannah, married Mary B. for
first wife, who died Sept. 8, 1822 ; for second wife, Tamer.
Children, — Nathan, born June 17, 1827 ; Joseph P., March
12, 1829 ; Minerva, Oct. 29, 1831. Known as Major or
Esquire Reed, and is one of the present justices of the peace
for the county of Worcester. His second wife died April 20,
1846.

Jabez, son of Nathan and Hannah, born 1797 ; married
Lavina B. Rice, May 5, 1831. Children, — Mary Letitia,
born March 20, 1832 ; Henry J., July 3, 1834 ; Julia Ann,
Aug. 11, 1837 ; Silas Harison, Dec. 20, 1839 ; Harriet La-
vina, Nov. 30, 1842 ; Jabez Eugene, Oct. 5, 1848. He died
March 14, 1845. His son Jabez died March 14, 1845 ; Mary
Letitia, Jan. 12, 1852.

Daniel, son of Thomas and Hannah of Rutland, born
May 9, 1774 ; married Rebecca Ames. Children, — Joseph ;
Davis ; Alexander H., born at Wardsborough, Vt. ; Elijah,
who lives in Hillsborough, N.H. He moved to Wardsbo-
rough, and resided there some forty or fifty years ; and died
Aug. 31, 1845.

Davis, son of Daniel of Wardsborough, had three sons,
whose names are not given.

Alexander H., son of Daniel of Wardsborough, born

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June 16, 1804 ; married Serena Gray, July 6, 1835. Chil-
dren,— Cordelia S., born in Boston, April 6, 1836 ; Alex-
ander D., Jan. 11, 1838 ; Andrew J., born in Cambridge,
Oct. 4, 1845 ; Henry H., Oct. 11, 1847 ; Franklin, Oct. 10,
1849, died in 1850. He lives in Cambridge, and keeps a
shoe and leather store in Boston.

Thomas, son of Thomas and Hannah, born at Rutland,
♦ Feb. 14, 1772; married Lucinda Wheeler. Children, —
Abigail, born at Rutland, Feb. 20, 1794 ; Lucinda, Aug. 26,
1800 ; Abigail Wheeler, Feb. 16, 1804 ; Thomas Lyman,
April 2, 1805 ; Mary Jemima, Jan. 2, 1810 ; Lorenzo and
Lorena, Sept. 20, 1810.

Joel, son of Thomas and Hannah, born at Rutland,
Dec. 5, 1760 ; married Abigail Newton. Child, — Joel.

Joel, son of Joel and Abigail, married Anna Maxwell in
1804, and settled in Princeton. Children, — Anna M., born
June 4, 1805 ; Charlotte, Sept. 24, 1807 ; Joseph M., April 3,
1810.

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CHAPTER VIII.

WILLIAM READE OF WEYMOUTH, AND HIS DESCENDANTS. *

1. William Reade, supposed to be the son of William
Reade and Lucy Henage, was born in 1605, and sailed from
Gravesend, in the county of Kent, in the " Assurance de Lo "
(Isaac Broomwell and George Persey, masters), in 1635. He
settled in Weymouth, Mass ; and was made freeman, Sept. 2,
1635. He bought a house and land of Zachary Bicknall, for
seven pounds thirteen shillings and fourpence, in 1636 ;
which was an average price for homesteads at that early day.
Only one year before the date of William Reade's purchase,
all the land in Boston Proper, with the exception of six
acres in and about Charles and Beacon Streets, was sold by
William Blackstone for thirty pounds. Previous to 1650,
a dwelling-house in Boston, and lot of land, would not com-
mand a greater price than a good cow ; while, in 1857, the
average of the valuation of dwelling-houses was $5,500. Mr.
Reade was among the early settlers of Weymouth, — it hav-
ing been made a plantation, May 8, 1635 ; and Rev. Mr. Hall
and twenty-one families settled there. He was representa-
tive from Weymouth in 1636 and '38. The Christian name
of his wife, it is supposed, was Ivis. Their children were —
William, born Oct. 15, 1639 ; Esther, May 8, 1641 ; Thomas ;
John, 1649 ; Mary, who married Thomas Dyer ; Margaret,
who married John Vining, May 11, 1757, and died May 6,
1659.

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2. William, son of William and Ivis, was born at Wey-
mouth, Oct. 16, 1639. He married Esther Thompson of
Middleborough in 1675. It may be interesting to some
of their descendants to know her parentage and history. It
appears, by a genealogy published by Ignatius Thompson in
1841, that John Thompson, father of Esther, was six years
old when he landed in Wesson's company ; and, when he
came of proper age, married Mary Cook, daughter of Francis
Cook, who was one of the " May Flower's " company. He
settled, and built a log house, thirteen miles west of Plymouth,
on the confines of what was then called Plymouth, now Hali-
fax and Middleborough. He lived there till his house was
burned by the Indians. While living there, either he or his
wife would walk to meeting every Sunday. The only place
where they had an elder to speak to them was Plymouth, —
a distance of more than thirteen miles. We have, says
Thompson, orally received information, that, during one year
of his residence there, his wife, on two of the sabbaths in
June, after breakfast, took a child six months old in her
arms, and walked to Plymouth, attended meeting, and re-
turned home the same day. We have in this a picture of
real life as it existed in those times, as well as a striking
illustration of the indomitable energy and perseverance of the
Puritan ancestors. The descendants of William and Esther
may thus distinctly trace their ancestors through her to the
Pilgrim company of the " May Flower," who landed on
Plymouth Rock. The children of William and Esther were
— William ; John, born July 10, 1687 ; Jacob, Nov. 6, 1691 ;
Bushnor, who married a Mr. Porter ; Porter ; Mercy, who
married a Mr. Whitmarsh ; Mary ; Hester and Sarah, born
March 21, 1694. This William was constable in Weymouth
in 1675 ; which was, in those times, the principal officer of
the town. He was selectman in 1680, an extensive dealer
in land, and a representative to the General Court. His will

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was proved Sept. 12, 1706, and may be found in the Probate
Office in Boston (lib. 16, fol. 73).

2. Thomas, son of William, 1st, of Weymouth, married
Sarah. Children, — Thomas, born Sept. 12, 1671 ; William,
Feb. 4, 1687 ; John, Dec. 30, 1679 ; Mary L. ; Ruth White,
Feb. 20, 1684 ; Hannah Hart, Sept. 25, 1689 ; Sarah S. ;
Samuel, April 12, 1681. He married Mary for second wife :
she died Aug. 21, 1719. He held offices, civil and military,
in his day. He died Nov. 14, 1719.

3. John, son of Thomas and Sarah, born Dec. 30, 1679 ;
married Sarah. Children, — John ; Sarah. His will is
dated 1757 ; and he alludes in it to his estate in Abington,
which he inherited of his deceased brother Samuel, who died
June 25, 1750. He also speaks of his daughter Sarah.

2. John, son of William, 1st, of Weymouth, born in 1649 ;
married Sarah. Children, — Thomas ; William. He served
in Capt. Johnson's company in the Indian War of 1695.

3. John, son of William and Esther, born in Weymouth,
July 10, 1687, and moved to Abington in 1708 ; married
Sarah. Child, — John, born Aug. 10, 1713. Married, for
second wife, Mary. Children, — James, born Oct. 12, 1716 ;
Joseph, Feb. 13, 1717 ; Mary, Dec. 21, 1719, who married
John Dyer, April 17, 1739 ; Ezekiel, born Nov. 14, 1721 ;
Peter, March 29, 1723 ; Squire, 1726 ; Samuel, 1732 ; Ben-
jamin, 1730.

4. John, son of John and Sarah of Abington, born Aug. 10,
1713, at Abington ; married Mary Torrey, June 20, 1734.
Children, — Mary, born April 7, 1735 ; Hannah, May 16,
1738 ; Samuel, Nov. 10, 1740 ; Sarah, June 14, 1744 ;
Frederick, July 28, 1746 ; William and John (twins),
May 9, 1748.

5. Samuel, son of John and Mary Torrey of Abington,
born Nov. 10, 1740 ; married Mary Torrey, Nov. 29, 1764.
Children, — ■ Samuel, born Sept. 16, 1765 ; John, Nov. 9,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 313

1767 ; Hannah, Oct. 4, 1769 ; Thomas, Dec. 10, 1771 ;
Mary, July 17, 1774 ; Philip, July 31, 1777 ; Sarah,
April 20, 1780 ; William, Aug. 12, 1783. He was a school-
teacher, selectman, &c.

6. Thomas, son of Samuel and Mary, born Dec. 10, 1771 ;
married Sarah. Children, — Sally, born in 1793; Hannah,
Feb. 18, 1795 ; Mary, Feb. 13, 1797 ; Margaret, Dec. 16,
1798, married a Harrington, and lives at Quincy ; Mehetabel,
who died young ; Loring W., born Oct. 3, 1803 ; Thomas ;
Susan ; Rachel, who married B. Newcomb.

7. Thomas, son of Thomas and Sarah, married a Howard.
Children, — Charles; Herber A. Lives in Quincy.

5. Frederick, son of John and Mary of Abington, born
July 28, 1746 ; married Rebecca Ayers, Sept. 20, 1770.
Children, — David, born Sept. 30, 1771 ; Frederick, April 19,
1774 ; Asa, May 27, 1777 ; Hannah, April 2, 1782. Mar-
ried, for second wife, Hannah. Children, — Lydia, born
June 13, 1788 ; Isaac, June 23, 1795. He lived in Boston
at the date of his first marriage, and at one time lived in
Abington, and also in Weymouth.

6. Isaac, son of Frederick and Hannah, born June 23,
1795 ; married Cynthia Pratt, May 24, 1819. Children,—
Eliza, born Dec. 22, 1819 ; Cynthia, Dec. 25, 1821 ; Mary
Ann, Sept. 25, 1825 ; Asa T., Jan. 1, 1826 ; Isaac, Feb. 13,
1828, died ; Isaac, bom Nov. 4, 1831 ; Stephen S., May 2,
1838.

4. Joseph, son of John and Mary, and grandson of William
and Esther, born Feb. 13, 1717 ; married Mary. Child, —
Mary, born in 1747. He settled first in Abington, but
moved to Bridgewater.

7. Isaac, son of Isaac and Cynthia, born Nov. 4, 1831 ;
married Elizabeth E. Child, — Estella, born Feb. 25,
1855.

6. Frederick, son of Frederick, born April 17, 1714 ; set-

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tied in New Bedford. He had previously lived in Randolph.
Married Sally Packard in 1797.

6. David, son of Frederick and Rebecca, born Sept. 30,
1771; married Susan Spear. Children, — David A., born
Dec. 6, 1795 ; Susan, Aug. 15, 1797 ; Thomas S., June 9,
1800. He died May 12, 1822 : his wife died Aug. 26, 1801.

7. David A., son of David and Susan, born Dec. 6, 1795 ;
married Nancy Loud, Aug. 6, 1818. Children, — Daniel
Franklin, born May 10, 1834; Mary Ann, Oct. 16, 1820;
D. Augustus, Jan. 12, 1831; Susan S., Nov. 9, 1818;
George W., March 22, 1838 ; Nancy Maria, April 22, 1842,
died Jan. 1, 1849. He lived several years in Lynn, but
now resides in Weymouth.

7. Thomas S., son of David, born in Boston, June 9,
1800 ; married Cynthia Shaw, Nov. 5, 1823. Children,—
George, born April 19, 1824 ; Josiah, April 18, 1826 ; Ellen,
born at "Weymouth, Nov. 25, 1828, died young ; Adeline,
born Oct. 3, 1830 ; Jane Ellen, Sept. 26, 1841.

8. Adeline, daughter of Thomas S. and Cynthia, born
Oct. 3, 1830 ; married Oliver Loud. Child, — Wilbur,
born Sept. 4, 1851.

8. Josiah, son of Thomas S. and Cynthia, born April 18,
1826 ; married Sarah Fogg, Sept. 3, 1845. Children, —
Amelia C, born March 15, 1846 ; Sarah L., Jan. 13, 1848 ;
Josiah B., June 7, 1852 ; Freeman S., July 22, 1856. Lives
at South Weymouth. Is known as Deacon Reed.

8. David A., son of David A. and Nancy, born Jan. 12,
1841 ; married Betsy D. Heath, Nov. 3, 1850, and lives at
Abington. Child, — Herbert A., born June 28, 1851.

8. George, son of Thomas and Cynthia, married Maria
Vinal. Children, — Adeline M., born May 5, 1850 ; George
E., 1846 ; Thomas H, Oct. 5, 1847 ; George E., Aug. 2,
1852 ; Josiah A., Feb. 16, 1855 ; Nathaniel B., July 21,
1857.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 315

8. Susan, daughter of David A. and Nancy, married
John Osburne, April 14, 1839. Children, — Susan Maria,
John E., Mary Ann, Caroline Elizabeth, Ellen, Nancy Fran-
ces, Charles, George. Lives at Nashua, N.H.

8. Mary, daughter of David A. and Nancy, born Oct. 16,
1820 ; married Samuel 0. Breed of Lynn. Children, —
Mary A., Priscilla A., Susan Ellen.

8. D. Augustus, son of David A. and Nancy, born Jan. 12,
1831; married Betsy D. Keith. Child, — Herbert Augus-
tus.

8. Franklin, son of David A. and Nancy, born May 10,
1834; married Joanna Cushing. Child, — Frank Edwin.

6. Samuel, son of Samuel and Mary, born Sept. 16, 1765,
and settled in Hull ; married Polly Greenleaf, daughter of
John and Mary Gould Greenleaf, Nov. 17, 1793. Children,

— Mary, born Feb. 21, 1797, who now lives in Hull ; Sam-
uel, born in March, 1802 : Elizabeth Greenleaf, March 17,
1809, who lives, with her sister, on the old homestead ;
John ; Thomas ; Sally, married a Holstrum of Quincy ;
William ; Philip. He died in Hull, Feb. 28, 1853, aged
eighty-seven : his wife died in 1856.

7. Samuel, son of Samuel and Polly, born March, 1802 ;
married Caroline Nash, and lives at Weymouth. Children,

— Charles A., born June 16, 1836, graduated at Amherst in
1856, and is now the Principal of Hanson Academy ; Caro-
line A., born March 29, 1838 ; George W., Jan. 8, 1840,
at Amherst College ; Samuel W., March 25, 1846, died
Sept. 11, 1848 ; Samuel W., born Dec. 31, 1849.

6. John, son of Samuel and Mary, born May 9, 1767 ;
married Elizabeth, daughter of Elisha and Martha (Loring)
Gould of Hull, Nov. 29, 1792. Children, — Betsy, born in
Hull, Nov. 30, 1793, married James Marble of Hingham
in 1812 ; John, born March 3, 1797 ; Elizabeth, Oct. 9,
1802, died unmarried ; Patty Gould (twin with Elizabeth),

316 WILLIAM READE OF WEYMOUTH,

married Nathaniel Fearing Lane of Hingham, Dec. 21, 1824.
His wife died March 24, 1815, aged forty-four. Married,
for second wife, Martha (Gould) Swain, widow of William
Swain, and sister to his first wife ; who had, by her first hus-
band, a daughter Harriet, who married George Robinson of
Somerville ; at whose house she died, Dec. 29, 1838, but was
buried in Hull. He moved to Scituate after the death of
his second wife ; where he died March 5, 1852, aged eighty-
four, and was buried in Hull.

7. John, son of John and Elizabeth, born March 3, 1797 ;
married Emma Dill, daughter of Daniel and Mary Chubbock
Dill of Hull, Nov. 3, 1818. Children, — Jane Binney, born
July 24, 1819, married John Wesley Power of Hingham,
Feb. 13, 1848 ; John, born Dec. 7, 1822 ; Daniel Dill,
Jan. 13, 1827. He died April 17, 1828. His widow still
lives in Hull.

8. John, son of John and Emma, born Dec. 7, 1822 ;
married Mary Elizabeth, daughter of William and Mary
(Dill) Pope, Dec. 25, 1853. Children, — John W., born at
Hull, Dec. 2, 1854, died Jan. 18, 1855 ; Harriet Swain, born
May 13, 1856 ; Annie Clark, May 7, 1857, died Dec. 14,
1857.

8. Daniel D., son of John and Emma, born Jan. 13,
1827 ; married Esther B. L., daughter of Thomas and Anna
Batchford, of Halifax, N.S., July 14, 1852. Children,—
Esther Sophia, born at Hull, June 12, 1854 ; Emma Jane
Binney, March 3, 1856.

7. Hannah, daughter of Thomas and Sarah of Weymouth,
married Elijah Pierce of Weymouth. Children, — Jere-
miah C, Eliot C, Frances.

7. Mary, daughter of Thomas and Sarah, married Capt.
Clark. Child, — Elizabeth E. She is a widow, and lives in
Boston.

7. Loring W., son of Thomas and Sarah, born Oct. 3,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 317

1803; married Ann Pool of Abington. Children, — Anna
P., born Oct. 13, 1831 ; Charles Loring, Jan. 9, 1833 ; Sarah
Lapham, Oct. 19, 1834 ; Thomas Franklin, Oct. 6, 1836 ;
William Garrison, June 9, 1842.

8. Sarah L., daughter of Loring W., married John M.
Way of Roxbury. Children, — John M. ; Clarence. She
died March 30, 1858.

7. William, son of Samuel and Polly, married .

Child, — Samuel.

7. Philip, son of Samuel and Polly Torrey, born July 31,
1777 ; married Polly Taylor of Hanson, and lives at South
Abington. Children, — Mary, born Oct. 1, 1800; Jane,
Sept. 30, 1804 ; Eliza, Oct. 31, 1806 ; Phebe, April 16,
1809 ; Philip, Sept. 19, 1802. Known as Deacon Reed of
South Abington.

5. John, son of John and Mary, born May 9, 1748 ; set-
tled in Hull, and died March 5, 1832.

8. Philip, son of Philip, born Sept. 19, 1802 ; married
Sapphira Howland, Dec. 15, 1825. Children, — George Wil-
liams, born Sept. 29, 1826 ; Lucy White, May 24, 1833 ;
Charles Warren, Feb. 2, 1842. Lives at South Abington.

9. George W., son of Philip aud Sapphira, born Sept. 29,
1826 ; married Lucy Ann Cook. Children, — George Ban-
croft ; Florence Augusta, born Sept. 9, 1849 ; Frank W. ;
Lucy Ann ; Oliver Henley.

5. John, son of John and Sarah, and grandson of Thomas
and Sarah, married Mary Bate, Dec. 26, 1746. Children, —
John, born Feb. 9, 1748 ; Frederick, July 13, 1750, who mar-
ried Jane Pool ; John, born Feb. 13, 1755 ; Asa, Feb. 12,
1757 ; David ; Noah, Nov. 18, 1759 ; Ezra, Nov. 24, 1762 ;
William ; Samuel, Sept. 16, 1765 ; Deborah ; Sarah ; Mary.

6. John, son of John and Mary, born Feb. 13, 1755 ; mar-
ried Rachel Clark, and settled in Bolton, Mass. Children,
— John, born June 21, 1779; Rachel, Jan. 3, 1782; Elias,

318 WILLIAM READE OP WEYMOUTH,

Feb. 16, 1783 ; Elihu, Feb. 19, 1784 ; Silas, June 13, 1786 ;
David, Oct. 6, 1788 ; Ludovicus, Sept. 18, 1790 ; Charlotte,
May 29, 1793 ; Warren, who died in Scottsville, Va. He
was one of the men who built the fortifications on Dorches-
ter Heights, which caused the British to evacuate Boston ;
and he drew a pension the latter part of his life.

6. Noah, son of John and Mary, born Nov. 18, 1759 ;
married Mehetabel Wild, July 6, 1788, and settled in Milton.
Children, — Betsy, born March 28, 1789, married Jesse
Tucker ; Warren, born Feb. 12, 1793 ; Charlotte, married
Jason Wadsworth ; Rachel.

7. Warren, son of Noah and Mehetabel, born Feb. 12,
1793 ; married Mary H. Wadsworth ; published Dec. 16,
1836; lives in Milton. Children, — Edward Warren, born
March 21, 1841 ; John Henry, April 16, 1843 ; William
Ruggles, Feb. 5, 1845.

6. Ezra, son of John and Mary of Weymouth, born
Nov. 24, 1762; married Mary Lovell. Children, — Ezra,
born May 28, 1788 ; Harvey, Nov. 12, 1791 ; Mary ; Quincy,
Nov. 11, 1793 ; Betsy ; John, Jan. 22, 1804 ; Alvan. Mar-
ried Hannah Tirrell for second wife, May 1, 1823.

6. Frederick, son of John and Mary, married Miss Pool.
Children, — David ; Frederick ; Asa ; Rebecca, who married
Trupont ; Warren ; Hannah, who married Deacon John
Vining.

6. William, son of John and Mary, married Betsy Packard.
Children, — Betsy, Polly, Sarah, Lydia, William, Nancy.

6. Jane, daughter of John and Mary, born July 13, 1750 ;
married Thomas Webb. Children, — Hannah, who married
Zachariah Nash ; Jane, married William Humphrey ; Sarah,

married Samuel Arnold ; Ruth, married Whitmarsh ;

Betsy, married Faxon ; Nancy, married Arnold ;

Polly ; Asa, who married Susan Pratt ; Thomas.

6. Mary, daughter of John and Mary, married Jonathan

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 319

Trupont. Children, — Jonathan, who married Rebecca,
daughter of Frederick Eeed ; Ezra ; Asa ; Sarah.

6. Deborah, daughter of John and Mary, married James
Jeffers. Children, — Ansell B. ; Robert; Harvey; James;
Betsy ; Lucy, who married a French ; Mary, who married a
Bryant.

7. Ezra, son of Ezra, born May 28, 1788 ; married Su-
sanna C. Richards, June 16, 1816. Children, — Susan,
born March 24, 1821 ; Ezra, Oct. 11, 1822 ; Mary, May 17,
1825 ; James A., March 22, 1832.

7. Quincy, son of Ezra, born Nov. 12, 1793 ; married
Lucy Loud, Feb. 11, 1821. Children, — Quincy L., born
April 6, 1822 ; Lucy Ann, Sept. 25, 1825 ; Maria T., Aug. 30,
1830 ; William H., June 16, 1832 ; Harriet P., April 5,
1838. He earned his father over three thousand dollars
before he was twenty-one. He now lives on a beautiful
farm in the village of South Weymouth. His sons have
rendered assistance to the author in procuring statistics for
this work.

8. Ezra, son of Ezra and Susanna, born March 24, 1821 ;
married Jane A. Wright, Feb. 11, 1849, and settled in Wey-
mouth. Children, — Charles S., born Nov. 12, 1851 ; Clara
Jane.

7. Alvan, son of Ezra, married Phebe Arnold of Wey-
mouth. Married, for second wife, Anna Titterton, an Eng-
lish lady from New Orleans. Married, for third wife, Lucy
Vining. Children, — William Titterton, born Sept. 9, 1849 ;
Lucianna, Aug. 31, 1851. Died in 1852.

8. Lucy, daughter of Quincy and Lucy, born Sept. 25,
1825 ; married Joshua E. Crane of Bridgewater. Children,
— Joshua Eddy ; Charles Reed ; Lucy R., died young ;
Morton Eddy.

8. Harriet P., daughter of Quincy and Lucy, born April 5,
1838 ; married William A. Shaw of Weymouth.

320 WILLIAM READE OF WEYMOUTH,

8. Susan, daughter of Ezra, married Winslow Blanchard,
and lives at Weymouth. Children, — Winslow, Susanna,
James Franklin.

8. Mary, daughter of Ezra, married Eleazer Wright.
Children, — George Herbert, Frederick, Alfred, Ezra Sted-
man.

8. James, son of Ezra, married Mary Ann Pratt.

7. Harvey, son of Ezra and Mary, married Lydia Dyer of
Weymouth. Child, — Mehetabel. Married, for second wife,
Jane Pratt in Boston, Sept. 10, 1818. Children, — Har-
vey H., Jane P., George H., Anna F. He lives in Bangor.

8. Jane, daughter of Harvey, married Charles E. Lyon.
Children, — Charles A., George Evans, Edward.

8. Betsy, daughter of Ezra, married Seth Hersey of Hing-
ham. Children, — Lydia Dyer, Mary Storrs, Henry, Anna,
Betsy Reed, Seth Storrs, Henrietta.

8. Mary, daughter of Ezra, married David Lovell. Child,
— David Brigham.

8. John, son of Ezra, born Jan. 22, 1804 ; married Lydia
B. Vining, Nov. 10, 1825. Children, — Augusta, born
Aug. 23, 1826 ; John Bradford, Nov. 3, 1830 ; Henry,
Jan. 27, 1833, died young ; Franklin, born Jan. 30, 1835 ;
Frederick, May 13, 1839 ; Helen Anna T., Nov. 5, 1845.
His family live in Weymouth ; but he resides in New
Orleans.

9. Augusta, daughter of John, married Dana W. Bar-
rows. Children, — Abby L., born February, 1852; John
R., June 15, 1854.

9. John Bradford, son of John and Lydia, married Emily
Jane Loud of Weymouth, Nov. 27, 1850. Children, — Emily
B., born Oct. 12, 1851 ; Henry, Oct. 11, 1853.

9. Franklin, son of John and Lydia, married Pamelia
Thayer of Weymouth, June 8, 1852. Children, — Jennie,
born Oct. 21, 1856 ; Lizzie, May 13, 1858.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 321

7. Betsy, daughter of Ezra and Mary, bom Aug. 15,
1796 ; married Seth S. Hersey of Hingliam, Nov. 28, 1816.
Children, — Lydia B., born Aug. 22, 1847 ; Mary Stowers,
Oct. 13, 1818, married Robert A. Cashing, June 1, 1841 ;
Henry, born May 2, 1820 ; Ann, May 19, 1822, married
Pyam C. Burr, June 1, 1843 ; Betsy R., born Nov. 23, 1823,
married Theophilus Burr, Nov. 27, 1845 ; Seth Stowers,
born Nov. 21, 1833 ; Henrietta, May 6, 1836, married Ebed
L. Ripley, Dec. 23, 1856.

8. Henry, son of Seth S. Hersey and Betsy Reed, born
May 2, 1820 ; married Betsy Shute, Nov. 29, 1845. Chil-
dren,— Elizabeth ; Henry M. He died in New Orleans.

8. Lydia B., daughter of Seth S. Hersey and Betsy Reed,
born Aug. 15, 1817 ; married Joshua Jacobs, Aug. 22, 1847.
Child, — Laura R., born Sept. 13, 1855.

8. Mary S., daughter of Seth S. Hersey and Betsy Reed,
married Robert A. dishing. Children, — Robert A., born
Jan. 17, 1843 ; Alfred, Dec. 9, 1855. He died in Hing-
liam.

8. Ann C, daughter of Seth S. Hersey and Betsy Reed,
born May 19, 1822 ; married Pyam C. Burr, June 1, 1843.
Children, — Frederick ; Henry.

7. John, son of John and Rachel, born in Weymouth,
June 21, 1779, and went with his father to Bolton, where
he married Lucy Houghton. Children, — John Amory
Reed, who married at St. Thomas, and had two children, —
Elizabeth and Catherine. John Reed also had Catherine,
who married a Swanton ; and Charlotte, who married Jo-
seph B. Eaton. His widow lives at No. 19, Hancock Street,
Boston.

7. Elihu, son of John and Rachel, born at Weymouth,
Feb. 19, 1784, and went with his father to Bolton, where he
married Sabra Houghton. Children, — Elihu, who is a
merchant on Long Wharf, Boston ; Charles W., of No. 67,

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Commercial Wharf, born in 1809, and lives in Brighton ;
James H. ; Prank ; William.

8. Charles W., son of Elihu and Sabra, married in Boston
to Martha A. Bullard, for second wife, in 1852.

7. Elias, son of John and Rachel, born Feb. 16, 1783 ;
married Sally Block of Richmond, Va. Children, — Susan,
who married her cousin, David H. Reed (deceased, leaving
children Nannie and Susan) ; Rachel, who married a Bland,
and has a child, named Maggie ; Elias, who died unmar-
ried ; Sarah ; Charlotte, who married Capt. Poythres ; Wil-
liam B., who married Lucy Franklin of Richmond, Va. ;
C ; John H., a sea-captain.

8. Charles W., son of Elihu and Sabra, married a Hearsey
of Hingham ; and, for second wife, Martha Bullard.

8. Silas, son of John and Rachel, born at Weymouth,
June 13, 1786 ; married Miss Betsy Whitcomb of Bolton.
Children, — Charlotte W., who lives in Manchester, 111. ;
Warren, who is in California ; John, in Alexandria ; Emily,
married Haslip, and lives in Illinois ; Joseph ; Silas, who is
in California.

8. David, son of John and Rachel, married Nancy Nurse
of Bolton. Children, — David H. ; Ann.

9. David H., son of David and Nancy, married Susan
Richmond.

8. Henry Ludovicus, son of John and Rachel, born
Sept. 18, 1790; married Charlotte Stickney. Children, —
Henry C, of the firm of Ross, Campbell, and Company, of
Baltimore, who married Kate Ring of York, Pa. ; Thomas
D. ; John W., who died in Norfolk ; Mary E. ; Charlotte S. ;
Julia L. ; John L.

8. Charlotte, daughter of John and Rachel, born at Wey-
mouth, May 29, 1793 ; married Levi Houghton of Bolton,
and moved to Bath. Children, — Levi Warren ; Elizabeth ;
Amory, who married a Miss Jewell ; Clara, who married

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a Kimball of Bath. John R., who married a M'Lellan ;
Henry L. ; Frederick ; Charlotte, who married C. I. Mackee
of New Orleans.

8. Catherine, daughter of John and Lucy, married John
Sivanton of Bath. Children, — Kate, who married a Hasel-
ton ; Ann Eliza ; Henry ; Augusta ; Josephine.

Charlotte, daughter of John and Lucy, married Joseph B.
Eaton of Boston. Children, — Maria, Charlotte, Kate,
Lucy, Elizabeth.

Clara, daughter of John and Rachel, married Joseph
Hartwell of Ware. Children, — John W., who married
Pauline Bachelder ; Warren, married Alice Clarke ; Silas ;
Clara, who married Dr. E. B. Richardson, and had Clara ;
Mary ; Carrie ; Hattie ; Lottie.

Jesse, son of Ezekiel and Mary, born in 1788 ; married
Hannah Haywood in 1800. Children, — Eliza, who mar-
ried John Davenport, and died, leaving two sons and two
daughters ; Hannah H. ; Horatio G. ; Simeon R., died
young ; Thomas, died young ; Harriet W. ; Mary ; Ann M. ;
Roxanna ; George W., died young ; Jesse, died young.
Married, for second wife, Louisa Lindsey, May 28, 1850.
Children, — Mary Louisa, born Aug. 9, 1853; Jesse Ed-
wards, Jan. 17, 1857. He is known as Col. Reed, and lives in
Marshfield. He has probably been the author of more new
inventions, and obtained more patents, than any other person
in the United States ; and is now, in the eighty-third year of
his age, actively employed in a new and important invention.
Among the long list of his useful inventions are the ma-
chines known as the " Odiorne tool," the " Reed tool," the
machine now in almost universal use for making cut-nails,
and machines for pulverizing dyewoods, for steering vessels,
as well as various kinds of pumps, treenail machines, cotton-
gins, <fec. He is said to be a man of great industry and
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on new inventions the fruits of his previous toils. He has
made and lost several fortunes in his day : but, although
poor, has made many rich ; and his name will be remem-
bered by future generations with respect and gratitude.
Though no towering momiment should be raised to his
memory, yet every nail driven in the building of our dwell-
ings speaks forth the benefits of his wonderful ingenuity.

Hannah H., the daughter of Col. Jesse and Hannah,
married Martin McLaughlin in Mansfield, and settled in
Duxbury. Children, — Roxanna, who died young ; Martin
P., now of Wisconsin ; George T. ; Hannah R. ; Mary W.
Mrs. McLaughlin died at East Bridgewater in 1841.

George T. McLaughlin, son of Martin and Hannah, mar-
ried Clara M. Holden of Boston, and keeps at No. 108, State
Street.

Hannah R., the daughter of Martin McLaughlin and
Hannah, married John Richards of West Bridgewater.
Children, — Charlotte, and one infant whose name is un-
known.

Mary W., daughter of Martin McLaughlin and Hannah,
married George H. Carlton of North Bridgewater, and has
one son.

Harriet N., daughter of Col. Jesse Reed and Hannah,
married Joseph Parsons, and lives at Marshfield. Children,
— Joseph ; Julia, who married Joel Moses of the State of
Maine.

Ann M., the only surviving daughter of Col. Jesse Reed
and Hannah, married Charles Walker, and lives at Marsh-
field. Children, — Matilda, Charles, Edmond, Almeda.

3. Jacob, third son of William and Esther of Weymouth,
was born Nov. 6, 1691. He settled in Abington — the part
now called South Abington — in 1708. He married Sarah
Hersey. Their children were — (1.) Sarah, born May 2, 1718 :
she married Rev. Solomon Reed of Titicut Parish, Middle-

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borough ; being bis second wife.* (2.) Jacob, born July 7,
1720 : he married Rebecca Andrews. (3.) Hannah, born
Feb. 26, 1722 : she married Joshua Howe, Dec. 26, 1754.
(4.) William, born Sept. 20, 1725. (5.) Elijah, born
Feb. 14, 1727 : he married, in 1753, Sarah, daughter of
Obadiah Reed. (6.) Betty, born March 1, 1731 : she died
young. After the death of his wife Sarah, he married
Widow Hannah Noyes. Their only child was — (7.) Betty,
born in 1734. He appears to have been a man of influence,
from the fact that he was elected to the office of Town Clerk
of Abington nineteen years. He died in 1766, at the age of
seventy-five years.

4. William, son of Jacob and Sarah of Abington, born Sept.
20, 1725 ; married, in 1750, Silence Nash. Their children
were — (1.) Silence, born Aug. 6, 1753 ; died July 10, 1794.
(2.) William, born June 8, 1755. (3.) Jane, born June 23,
1757 : she married Rev. David Gurney, who was settled as
successor of Rev. Solomon Reed of Titicut Parish, Middle-
borough. (4.) Betsey, born Feb. 23, 1760 : she married
Ebenezer Porter of Abington. (5.) Susanna, born July 26,
1762 : she married Benjamin Bates of Abington. (6.) James,
born Oct. 6, 1764 : he married Ruth Porter of Bridgewater.
(7.) Timothy, born May 29, 1767 ; died Sept. 8, 1775. (8.)
Mehetabel, born Jan. 29, 1770 ; died Jan. 6, 1773. This
William, son of Jacob and Sarah, was an earnestly reli-
gious man, and for many years a leader in the neighbor-
hood religious meetings of his time. He died Dec. 4,
1807, aged eighty-two years : Silence, his wife, died March 9,
1807.

* During her maiden life, she was accustomed to say that there were three con-
ditions with which she would not be connected in marriage; viz., with a widower
who had children, with a clergyman, or with her own cousin. But she seems to
have changed her mind; for, in marrying Rev. Solomon Reed, she married them all

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5. Rev. "William Reed, second child of "William and Silence,
and grandson of Jacob and Sarah, was born in Abington,
June 8, 1755. Being in early life religiously disposed, he
desired a liberal education, with the purpose of entering the
Christian ministry. He graduated at Harvard College in
1782 ; and in April, 1784, was ordained as pastor of the
Congregational Church in Easton, Mass. In May, 1784, he
married Olive Pool * (born Jan. 28, 1767), third daughter of
Samuel Pool of Bridgewater. The children of Rev. William
and Olive were — (1.) Mehetabel, born in Easton, June 20,
1785 : she married Jacob Deane of Mansfield in 1808.
(2.) William, born Dec. 12, 1787. (3.) David, born Feb. 6,
1790. (4.) Olive, born in April, 1792 ; died in August,
1793. (5.) Jason, born Oct. 14, 1794. (6.) Daniel, born
March 22, 1797. (7.) Seth, born Aug. 22, 1799. (8.) Ly-
man, born Dec. 28, 1801. (9.) Lucius, born Oct. 27, 1805.
Mr. Reed died Nov. 16, 1809; having been the pastor of
the church in Easton upwards of twenty-five years. His
ministry, though not distinguished by unusual instances of
religious excitement, was a successful one, considering its
limited duration. The number of church-members was
much increased ; and his labors were believed by disinte-
rested observers to have had an important influence in effect-
ing a decided reformation in the moral character of the town,
whose reputation in the surrounding places had for some
years been low. The staid and reliable character of the
first settlers had not, with some honorable exceptions, been
maintained by their descendants. Many of them had fallen

* I find frequent marriage alliances to hare been formed, and a quartering of
arms, between the Keeds and Pools in the fourteenth century. The name was
then Pole; and the alteration of the orthography is in keeping with the manner in
"which the etymology of words has been, in many cases, entirely lost. Pool is a
corruption of De la Pole, Lord Chancellor under Richard II., and whose sister mar-
ried a Reed; a large amount of property coming into the hands of the Reed Family
by that marriage.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 327

into the vices then common to new settlements ; * and the
immoral tendencies had been aggravated by the disturbed
and unprofitable character of the two preceding ministries, —
one contentious, and the other immoral. There was a call
for reform ; and it was accomplished, as became manifest to
all observers : so that, at Mr. Reed's decease (Nov. 16, 1809,
at the age of fifty-four), the reputation of the town, as to the
maintenance of order and exemplary morals, stood on a full
equality with its neighbors. This reform, aided under Pro-
vidence by the general progress of society, was brought
about, not suddenly with religious excitement, but gradu-
ally and quietly ; the natural result, so far as the minister's
influence was concerned, of a faithful devotion to his duties
as a preacher and pastor, enforcing all by his own steady and
pure Christian example. f

* At the time of Mr. Reed's settlement in Easton, in 1784, probably one-quarter,
if not one-third, of the territory was covered by the original forest.

t The period at which Mr. Reed was settled was peculiarly unfavorable, as
regards worldly support; and his experience not only shows the trials and priva-
tions of a country minister's life from seventy-five to fifty years ago, but reveals
also — what only those who have felt it can fully understand, and what is as true now
as then — the real destitution and distress to which his family is liable, when the
scanty support of his small salary is cut off by death. This destitution and distress,
in the present case, were experienced to the full extent by the death of Mr. Reed in
November, 1809. His original salarj* (one hundred pounds) was very imperfectly
paid for many years, owing to the depressed state of the whole business of the
country just after the Revolutionary War: and, by the great changes in the prices
of provisions and labor, it soon became much less valuable ; so that, during the
twenty-five years of his ministry, the average value of his salary was less than two-
thirds of the cash value of a hundred pounds when he was settled. Under these
circumstances, it was only with the most rigid economy and many privations that
essential family expenses could be met. It is not difficult to understand that the
situation of the widow was one of peculiar anxiety and trial, thus left without
means, with her two oldest sons on their last year in college, and five younger sons
to be supported and educated. By the blessing of Providence, she was carried
through it, and, at the close of a long life, was able to say (Ps. xxxvii. 25), " I have
been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his
seed begging bread." She remained in widowhood amongst her husband's people
upwards of forty years, beloved and respected for her peace-loving spirit, her gentle-
ness and sweetness of temper, and her consistent and exemplary Christian life. She
died on the 26th of March, 1850, at the age of eighty-three ; and her eight surviving

328 WILLIAM EEADE OP WEYMOUTH,

6. Mehetabel, daughter of Rev. William, born June 20,
1785 ; married Jacob Deane of Mansfield, who descended
from John Deane in the following order : John Deane
came from Chard, in England, in 1636. He had a son
John, who had Samuel ; and Samuel had William ; and
William had John ; and John had Jacob, the husband of
Mehetabel Reed. Mr. Deane occupies the paternal estate
of his ancestors, which has been thus occupied for several
generations. The dwelling-house was built by one of them,
in the early part of the eighteenth century.

7. William Reed Deane, son of Jacob and Mehetabel
(Reed) Deane, and the eldest grandson of Rev. William
Reed, born in Mansfield, Aug. 21, 1809; merchant of Bos-
ton, and resides in Brookline, Mass ; married Abby Doggett,
daughter of Rev. Simeon Doggett of Raynham, Mass., May
22, 1834. Children, — William Roscoe, born in Boston,
April 15, 1835, lawyer in Chicago, 111. ; Samuel Blair, born
in Boston, Dec. 19, 1837, merchant of Lacon, 111. ; Abby
Weston, born in Roxbury, Sept. 28, 1839 ; Henry Ware,
born Dec. 1, 1847.

8. William Roscoe Deane, eldest great-grandson of Rev.
William Reed, and son of William Reed Deane and Abby,
married Ellen M. Underwood, daughter of Hon. Abel Under-
wood of Wells River, Vt., July 14, 1858. He is of the firm
of Stiles and Deane, attorneys-at-law, Chicago, 111.

7. Olive Reed Deane, the eldest grand-daughter of Rev.
William Reed and Mrs. Olive, and daughter of Jacob and
Mehetabel (Reed) Deane, born in Mansfield, Sept. 1, 1810 ;
died in Boston, Sept. 29, 1828.

7. Emily Deane, daughter of Jacob and Mehetabel (Reed)

children, from distant locations, after thirty-five years' separation as a whole, and
all in health, at the average age of fifty-four, gathered around her bier, at the old
homestead, to mingle their tears and prayers (for the last time as it proved), and to
lay her precious dust by the side of their honored and lamented father.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 829

Dearie, born in Mansfield, July 27, 1812 ; married Alfred A.
Hall of Raynham, Mass., now of Boston, Sept. 29, 1836.
Children (all born in Raynham), — Josephine Lyman, born
Aug. 18, 1837 ; Marcia Anna, Feb. 1, 1841 ; Stella Deane,
July 7, 1815 ; Louisa Jane, Feb. 28, 1851.

7. David Gurney Deane, son of Jacob and Mehetabel
(Reed) Deane, born at Mansfield, Oct. 28, 1815 ; married
Hannah A. Baxter, daughter of Chester Baxter, Esq., of
Sharon, Vt., March 4, 1840. Children, — Chester Baxter,
born in Boston, Jan. 31, 1841, died Nov. 28, 1841 ; David G.
Deane, died at Sharon, Vt., Feb. 8, 1850.

7. Jane Gurney Deane, daughter of Jacob and Me-
hetabel (Reed) Deane, born in Mansfield, Dec. 12, 1824;
formerly a teacher in Boston ; now (1860) resides in
Mansfield.

6. William, son of Rev. William of Easton, was born Dec.
12, 1787. He graduated at Brown University in 1810. In
November, 1812, he married Betsey Drake, daughter of Be-
thuel Drake of Easton. Their children were — (1.) William
Gurney, born in Plymouth, Sept. 25, 1813. (2.) Lieuphe-
mia Eustatia, born in Easton, Sept. 13, 1815. (3.) Charles
Henry, born in Milton, Feb. 5, 1818. His wife died in Mil-
ton, Aug. 9, 1821. He married, for second wife, Abigail,
widow of Calvin Howe of Boston, in November, 1822. On
leaving college, he spent several years as a teacher, — first
in Plymouth, and then in charge of Milton Academy, — and
was popular and successful. He afterwards completed a
course of study at the Divinity School, Cambridge ; and
preached for several years, but never took permanent charge
of a parish. In middle life, he settled on the homestead
of his father, at Easton ; where for many years he held
the commission and performed the duties of a justice of the
peace.

7. William G., son of William, Esq., and grandson of

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330 WILLIAM EEADE OF WEYMOUTH,

Rev. William, married Sophia Witherell of Chesterfield,
Sept. 17, 1834. Children, — Helen Sophia, born in Middle-
field, June 7, 1835 ; William Elisha, born in Millbury,
June 7, 1837 ; Calvin Howe, born in Boston, March 25,
1842 ; David G., Jan. 29, 1844, died Feb. 18, 1844 ; Ho-
race D., born July 20, 1847, died in Raynham, Sept. 18,
1849 ; Maria L., born in Raynham, Feb. 19, 1849. His wife
died Oct. 31, 1855. In March, 1859, he married, for second
wife, Miss Hyde of Charlestown.

8. Helen S., daughter of William G. and Sophia, married
Francis Copeland of Bridgewater, November, 1854. Chil-
dren,— Anne Sophia, born December, 1855 ; Helen Frances,
January, 1857 ; Mary Louisa, January, 1858.

7. Lieuphemia Eustatia, daughter of William, Esq., of
Easton, married John A. Hall of Raynham in 1837. Chil-
dren,— Selwin E., born May, 1838 ; Euphemia E., March,
1841 ; Francis R., September, 1842 ; Elizabeth D., Novem-
ber, 1850 ; Mary Avery, August, 1853.

7. Charles H, son of William, Esq., of Easton, married
Mary Davis of Westport, November, 1840. Children, —
Charles D., born in Boston, May 6, 1842 ; Henry L., Dec. 3,
1843 ; George William, Sept. 12, 1852.

6. David, second son of Rev. William of Easton, was born
Feb. 6, 1790. He graduated at Brown University in 1810 ;
being a classmate of his older brother William. Immedi-
ately on leaving college, he commenced teaching. In Sep-
tember, 1810, he took charge of the Plymouth Academy, at
Bridgewater, and continued the connection two years ; in
the mean time, and during part of the following year, giving
attention, as far as other duties permitted, to professional
studies with Rev. Dr. Sanger, then minister of the Congre-
gational Society in South Bridgewater. Early in 1813, he
removed to Cambridge, and pursued his studies at the Divi-
nity School. He commenced preaching in 1814 ; and, from

332

1797; married Sally Wild, Sept. 17, 1821. Children,—
Fidelia, born in Easton, Aug. 13, 1822 ; Sally Wild, July 30,
1825. Sally, his wife, died July 14, 1826. Married, for
second wife, Persis C. Hammond, daughter of Thomas Ham-
mond of Carver, Feb. 10, 1828. Child, — Persis H., born
June 2G, 1829. Persis, his second wife, died March 31,

1831. Married, for third wife, Betsey T. Hammond, May 15,

1832. Children,— Charlotte Augusta, born Feb. 21, 1833,
died March 2, 1835 ; Almira Hammond, born Feb. 9, 1835 ;
Melissa Cobb, Feb. 6, 1837 ; Olive Janette, March 20, 1841 ;
Thomas Hammond, March, 1843, died in 1853. Betsey, his
third wife, died Oct. 11, 1843. Married, for fourth wife,
Mary Ann Richardson, Dec. 8, 1847. Child, — Daniel Rich-
ardson, born in 1850, died in 1850.

7. Fidelia Reed and John Jay Heard married April 21,
1853. Children, — John Reed Heard, born Jan. 29, 1856 ;
Mary Ann Heard, Aug. 18, 1858.

7. Sally Wild Reed and Henry Dailey married May 4, 1847.
Children, — Albert Henry, born March 3, 1848 ; Charles
Thomas, May 2, 1853 ; George, January, 1858.

6. Seth, son of Rev. William of Easton, born at Easton,
Aug. 22, 1799 ; married Lucy Holden, July 22, 1827.
Children, — Olive, born in Boston, June 2, 1828, died
Sept. 8, 1828 ; William Edward, born Nov. 16, 1829 ; Sam-
uel Payson, born in Baltimore, March 24, 1833 ; James
Plolden Lander, July 6, 1836 ; Wallace Willard, July 26,
1838 ; Seth Gurney, born July 20, 1840, at a dwelling-house
which has since become a part of the College Building of
St. Timothy's Hall, near Catonsville ; Lucy Holden, Nov. 24,
1842, at Cedar Hill ; Charlotte Whipple, Nov. 12, 1845;
Mary Laura, July 2, 1819. He is a merchant in Baltimore,
and the author is much indebted to him for statistics con-
tained in this work.

7. William Edward, son of Seth and Lucy, born Nov. 16,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 666

1829, took his name from both paternal and maternal
grandparents, who both died the same month, and day
of the month, in which he was born, both aged fifty-four
(although one died in 1809, and the other in 1824) ; married
Sarah Elizabeth Thomas, Dec. 8, 1853, and lives at Damas-
cus, Montgomery County, Md. Children, — Mary Emma,
born Nov. 7, 1855 ; Lucy Holden, May 13, 1858.

7. Samuel P., son of Seth and Lucy, born March 24,
1833 ; married Rachel Ann Brown, Aug. 23, 1855. Chil-
dren, — Samuel Payson, born May 20, 1856 ; Olive Ann,
May 7, 1857. He lives in Howard County, Md.

6. Lyman, son of Rev. William Reed of Easton, born at
Easton, Dec. 28, 1801 ; married Marcia Ann, daughter of
Judge Jedediah Harris of Strafford, Vt., Oct. 22, 1832.
Children, — Jedediah Harris, born in Baltimore, Aug. 2,
1833, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1854 ; Ellen
Jennette, born Feb. 9, 1835 ; Lyman, June 9, 1838, died
Feb. 28, 1839 ; Charles, born Aug. 4, 1840, died Sept. 9,
1842. He lived in Boston from 1832 to '56, and was an
alderman in 1845 and '46. He is a merchant, and, since
1856, has lived in Baltimore ; and has recently obtained a
patent for a prevention of the potato disease, — a discovery
which has met the approbation of an agricultural committee
of Congress as well as of the Patent Office.

6. Lucius, son of Rev. William, born Oct. 27, 1805 ; mar-
ried in Boston, to Abby Sumner Harris, Aug. 19, 1831.
Children, — William Harris, born Aug. 19,1832, in Balti-
more ; Lucius, born in Baltimore, 1834, and died in Texas,
Nov. 4, 1857. He died in Boston, Nov. 1, 1855 : his wife
died Nov. 6, 1839.

Jane Reed, daughter of Silence and William, born
June 23, 1757, was married in 1787 to Rev. David Gurney,
who was settled in that year as pastor of the Congregational
Society in Titicut, Middleborough ; being the successor of

334 WILLIAM READE OF WEYMOUTH,

Rev. Solomon Reed. He died July 30, 1815, at the age
of fifty-six. Their first and only child, a daughter who
lived but two days, was born seventeen years after their
marriage.

Mr. Gurney was a native of Abington, and graduated at
Harvard College in 1784. He sought an education, with
a view to the ministry. He was a fine classical scholar,
prepared many young men for college, and often had pupils
sent temporarily to his care from different colleges. As a
writer and preacher, he was above the ordinary range of the
clergy of his day ; was a great lover of music, and had a fine
poetical taste.

Betty Reed, daughter of William and Silence, born Feb.
23, 1760, was married, 12th of January, 1792, to Ebenezer
Porter. Their children were — (1.) Betsey, born Oct. 17,
1792. (2.) Lydia, born Feb. 16, 1800. (3.) Sarah, born
Feb. 16, 1803. Betsey was married to Christopher Dyer,
Jan. 10, 1810 ; Lydia was married to Edward Vinton,
Feb. 16, 1820 ; Sarah was married to Spencer Vining,
Oct. 14, 1824.

Susanna Reed, daughter of William and Silence, born
July 26, 1762, was married to Benjamin Bates in 1789.
Their children were — (1.) Benjamin, born June 16, 1789.
(2.) Susanna, born in 1791. Benjamin married a Miss
Jenkins, and died July 11, 1825, leaving two daughters.
Susanna married Samuel Blake.

James, son of William and Silence, born Oct. 6, 1764 ;
married Ruth Porter of Bridge water. Their children were —
(1.) Mehetabel, born in 1784. (2.) Hannah, born March 12,
1786. (3.) James, born Aug. 13, 1788. (4.) Jane, born
June 10, 1791. (5.) Samuel P., born May 4, 1793 ; died
Sept. 9, 1815. (6.) Timothy, born March 22, 1796 ; died
Oct. 17, 1815. (7.) Marcus, born Aug. 23, 1798. (8.)
Cyrus, born July 23, 1800. He died at Abington, Oct. 30,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 335

1855, at the age of ninety years. He was a man of a
modest and retiring disposition ; an exemplary and prac-
tically good man ; a lover of the Scriptures and of good
men ; but, from dislike of rigid church requirements, not
a public professor of religion. He died at peace with
the world, and respected and beloved by all who knew
him.

Mehetabel, daughter of James and Ruth, born in 1784 ;
married Samuel Porter. Their children were — Mehetabel,
born May 6, 1804 ; Ruth, Dec. 24, 1810.

Hannah, daughter of James and Ruth, born March 12,
1786 ; married Jacob Fullarton of Abington. Their chil-
dren were — (1.) Hannah, born Nov. 27, 1808 ; (2.) Betsey
Jane; (3.) James R. ; (4.) Jacob; (5.) Timothy.

James, son of James and Ruth, born Aug. 13, 1788 ; mar-
ried Mehetabel Dyer, April 19, 1810 ; died Dec. 23, 1810.

Jane, daughter of James and Ruth, born June 10, 1791 ;
married Daniel Bates, Jan. 10, 1811. Their children were
— (1.) Jane Gumey, born March 19, 1812. (2.) Emily,
born Aug. 15, 1814. (3.) Daniel, born May 10, 1818. (4.)
Mary Brown, born April 27, 1820. (5.) Eliza Ann, born
June 16, 1822. He died June 10, 1826.

Jane Gurney, daughter of Daniel Bates and Jane Reed,
born March 19, 1812 ; married George Chandler, Jan. 1,
1838. Children, — Sarah Jane, born June 17, 1839, died
young ; Eliza Jane, born June 7, 1842. They live in Man-
chester, N.H.

Emily, daughter of Daniel Bates and Jane Reed, born
Aug. 15, 1814 ; married, May 9, 1833, Washington Peterson,
and lives at South Abington. Children, — Emily Bates,
born March 16, 1834 ; Elizabeth, Sept. 30, 1836, died
April 25, 1845 ; Elizabeth Amelia, born Feb. 4, 1848 ;
Henry W., who died Aug. 10, 1850 ; Mary Augusta, born
Dec. 22, 1853.

336 WILLIAM EEADE OP WEYMOUTH,

Daniel, son of Daniel Bates and Jane Reed, born May 10,
1818 ; married Elizabeth Brown, Jan. 28, 1839. He died
Aug. 25, 1839.

Mary B., daughter of Daniel Bates and Jane Reed, born
April 27, 1820 ; married Absalom Osburn, Jan. 2, 1838.
Children, — Orinda Hyde, born March 15, 1839 ; Mary ;
William, July 2, 1843 ; Emma, March 6, 1846 ; Daniel B.,
July 17, 1851 ; Sarah, Jan. 2, 1852, died Dec. 22, 1852 ;
Frederic W., born April 17, 1856.

Orinda H., daughter of Absalom Osburn and Mary B.,
born March 15, 1839 ; married Angus W. Young, March 15,
1856. Child, — Eva Jane Wilson, born Feb. 11, 1858.

Eliza Ann, daughter of Daniel Bates and Jane Reed, born
June 16, 1822 ; married David Reed, son of Jeremiah, as
his second wife, Oct. 9, 1839. Children, — Lucy Harrison,
born Dec. 23, 1840 ; David and Daniel, May 7, 1843 ; Nancy
Smith, Feb. 8, 1846 ; Frank F., Sept. 8, 1855 ; Edward S.,
Jan. 30, 1858, died April 19, 1858.

Marcus, known as Major Reed, son of James and Ruth,
born Aug. 23, 1798 ; married Mehetabel Jenkins, May 17,
1821. Their children were — (1.) Marcus, born Nov. 19,
1823. (2.) James, born Feb. 26, 1831. (3.) Timothy, born
Sept. 25, 1826.

James, second son of Marcus, born Feb. 26, 1831 ; mar-
ried PeddyW. Howland, Sept. 7, 1851. Their children
were — (1.) James L., born in Hanson, Jan. 10, 1853.
(2.) Alice M., born Sept. 23, 1854.

Timothy, son of Marcus, born Sept. 25, 1856 ; married
Lydia Ann Bourne. Their children were — (1.) Mary
Ella, born April 18, 1849, died young. (2.) Ann Eliza, born
Sept. 25, 1855.

Marcus, son of Marcus, born Nov. 29, 1823 ; married
Jennette S. Sprout. Their children were — (1.) Jennette
Augusta, born Oct. 22, 1849. (2.) Susan M., born July 20,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 337

1815. (3.) Marcus Webster, bom Oct. 6, 1856. (4.) Amelia
Francis, born Oct. 2, 1858.

Cyrus, son of James and Ruth, born July 23, 1800 ; mar-
ried Mary Noyes, Nov. 12, 1829. Their children were —
(1.) Cyrus, born Dec. 16, 1834. (2.) Samuel W., born
Dec. 15, 1837.

Samuel W., son of Cyrus and Mary, born Dec. 15, 1837 ;
married Ada Norton. Their children were — (1.) Charles
H. (2.) Adda.

3. William of Middleborough, son of James, married Eli-
zabeth. Children, — William, born July 18, 1715 ; Hannah,
June 7, 1717 ; Benjamin, May 26, 1720 ; Thomas, March 15,
1722; Jonathan, Oct. 22, 1725; Peter, May 7, 1729.

3. John, son of James of Middleborough, married Eliza-
beth. Child, — Mary, born May 13, 1726.

3. William, son of William and Esther, born in Wey-
mouth, May 24, 1682 ; married Alice Nash in 1703. Chil-
dren,— Alice, born in Boston, Oct. 19, 1703, died Oct. 24,
1703; William, born Dec. 15, 1704, died Nov. 21, 1724;
Obadiah, born March 14, 1707, died Nov. 4, 1724 ; Ebene-
zer, born July 13, 1709 ; Alice, April 4, 1711, died Sept. 29,
1724 ; Daniel, born Dec. 6, 1713 ; James, March 3, 1716 ;
Solomon, Oct. 22, 1719 ; Jacob ; Moses, Jan. 15, 1723 ;
Alice, April 19, 1725, married Jacob Reed, Dec. 1, 1748.
He moved to Abington in 1708. At the first town-meeting
held in Abington, March 2, 1712, he was chosen selectman
and town-clerk. Ten of his descendants, at his death, had
been liberally educated. He went by the appellation of
" Capt. Reed." His wife died Dec. 5, 1751 : he died
June 3, 1753.

4. Ebenezer, son of William and Alice, born July 13,
1709 ; married Hannah Thompson of Middleborough, Feb.
21, 1732. Children, — Ebenezer, born Dec. 11, 1733, died
June 4, 1740 ; William, born Oct. 28, 1735 ; Ichabod,

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338 WILLIAM READE OP WEYMOUTH,

April 26, 1738 ; David and Jonathan, July 9, 1740 ; Paul
and Silas, March 3, 1743 (Paul died June 4, 1743 ; Silas
died Aug. 11, 1744); Abigail, born April 10, 1745, married
Jacob Dyer, Feb. 2, 1766 ; Barnabas, born April 5, 1748 ;
Ebenezer, Dec. 18, 1751. Lived in Abington.

5. William, son of Ebenezer and Hannah, born Oct. 28,
1735 ; married Ruth Shaw, Dec. 27, 1759.

5. David, son of Ebenezer and Hannah, born July 9,
1740 (twin-brother of Jonathan) ; married Mary Ford,
April 22, 1762. Children, — Ichabod, born Nov. 25, 1763 ;
Abigail, June 4, 1765 ; David, May 3, 1767 ; Ebenezer,
March 27, 1769 ; Andrew, June 25, 1771 ; Paul, Oct. 12,
1773.

6. David, son of David and Mary, born May 3, 1767 ;
married Elizabeth T. Brown, Sept. 10, 1810. Children,—
Charlotte, born May 16, 1812 ; Woodbridge Brown, Nov. 19,
1810 ; Anson, Sept. 25, 1814 ; Nancy, Dec. 6, 1815 ; David.
Married Nancy Smith. Children, — Lucy Harris, born
Dec. 23, 1840 ; Nancy Smith, Feb. 8, 1846 ; Frank, Sept. 8,
1856.

6. Paul, son of David, born Oct. 12, 1763 ; married Mercy
Noyes, Oct. 4, 1792.

4. Daniel, son of William and Alice, born Dec. 6, 1713 ;
married Ruth White, Sept. 15, 1739. Children, — Rachel,
born Dec. 20, 1740, married Jacob Porter, jun., June 6,
1763 ; Micah, born Feb. 1, 1742 ; Jesse, March 16, 1745,
who moved to Charlemont ; Enoch, born Dec. 23, 1747 ;
Seth, July 16, 1750 ; Ruth, Dec. 4, 1752, married Jacob
Gannet, Aug. 12, 1774 ; Noah, born Dec. 10, 1754. Mar-
ried, for second wife, Widow Sarah Dawes in 1765. He was
one of the first settlers of Cummington, and died April 5,
1781 ; was a captain. His wife died Jan. 2, 1775.

5. Micah, son of Daniel and Ruth, born Feb. 1, 1742;
married Deborah Thompson of Halifax, Oct. 20, 1767.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 339

Children, — Susannah, born Sept. 6, 1770, married Benjamin
Bates, Oct. 20, 1767 ; Mehetabel, bom Dec. 23, 1771 ; Mercy,
April 21, 1772, married Benjamin Noyes, Dec. 8, 1793 ;
Enoch, born Feb. 11, 1773 ; Seth, Jan. 9, 1776 ; Ruth,
July 3, 1778, married Bela Blanchard of Weymouth, Sept. 1,
1799 ; Noah, born April 22, 1781 ; Abigail, Nov. 13, 1784.

6. Seth, son of Micah and Deborah, born Jan. 9, 1776 ;
married Catherine Brown, Jan. 10, 1801. Children, —
Seth, born May 2, 1804 ; Noah, Feb. 20, 1810 ; Lucy,
July 20, 1802.

7. Seth, son of Seth and Catherine, born May 2, 1804;
married Sally Blanchard, Sept. 13, 1826. Children, —
Ann M., born Nov. 15, 1829 ; Ruth Torrey, Dec. 24, 1833 ;
Seth Deane, June 19, 1840 ; an infant, name not given,
April 10, 1842 ; Sarah Weston, Oct. 9, 1817.

5. Seth, son of Daniel and Ruth, born July 16, 1750 ;
married Thankful Whitmarsh in 1773. She died in Cum-
mington, June 2, 1775 ; and he married Mary Liswell for
second wife, in 1776. Tradition says, that, as he was pass-
ing where a man was felling a tree, it fell across the road
upon him, and killed him. Children, — Olive, who died at
Cummington, Jan. 2, 1775 ; Seth, who married Catherine,
and had a son Seth, boi*n May 2, 1804 ; Mehetabel, born
June 4, 1806 ; Lucy, July 20, 1802, married Pliny Edson
in 1819. He died at Cummington, Dec. 19, 1853.

5. Noah, son of Daniel and Ruth, born Dec. 10, 1754 ;
married Abigail, daughter of Sylvanus Rice of Charlemont,
July 12, 1784, and settled in Cummington. Children, —
Abigail, born April 16, 1785, married Salem Streeter, Fe-
bruary, 1812, and died at Plainfield, Feb. 14, 1853 ; Daniel,
born Nov. 5, 1786, married Cynthia Warren, September,
1814, settled in Cummington, and died Nov. 29, 1854;
Ruth, born June 21, 1789, married Josiah Shaw, November,
1825, and settled in Cummington ; Nancy, born April 30,

340

1791, who lives at Sharon, Mass; Olive, born Dec. 15, 1793,
married Joseph Tolman, November, 1840, and lives at Sha-
ron ; Jesse, born March 25, 1796, married Mary D. Griswold,
and settled in Cummington ; Orphah, born June 12, 1805,
married Alonzo Gurney, January, 1825, and settled in Cum-
mington. He died at Cummington, Jan. 19, 1832 : his wife
died Oct. 9, 1837.

5. Jonathan, son of Ebenezer and Hannah of Abington,
born July 9, 1740 (twin) ; married Mary Tirrel, April 28,
1763. Children, — Hannah, born July 13, 1764 ; Jonathan,
Feb. 2, 1767 ; Molly, May 6, 1769. He died in 1769.

6. Jonathan, son of Jonathan, born Feb. 2, 1767 ; mar-
ried Deborah Porter, April 13, 1788. Children, — Mary,
born 1788 ; Jonathan L., 1791 ; John P., 1793 ; Deborah,
1795 ; Elizabeth M., 1797 ; Ebenezer, 1801 ; Clarissa, 1805 ;
Almira, 1806 ; David P., 1808 ; Thaxter, 1809. He settled
in East Bridgewater.

7. Jonathan L., son of Jonathan and Deborah, born in
1791 ; married Charlotte Brown, Dec. 18, 1816. Children,

— Charlotte, born May 28, 1821. Married to Lucy Champ-
ney of Brighton for second wife, published Feb. 25, 1827.
Children, — Susan Champney, born Dec. 30, 1827 ; Lucy
Loring, Aug. 5, 1830.

7. John P., son of Jonathan and Deborah, born in 1793 ;
married Polly Kamsdale, 1816. Children, — Mary Loring,
born Aug. 26, 1817, married Edwin Brown of East Bridge-
water, Nov. 30, 1837 ; John Porter, born July 29, 1819 ;
Lloyd Watson, Jan. 7, 1822 ; Mehetabel B. W., Sept. 15,
1824, married David Gurney, Nov. 19, 1843 ; Thomas Bald-
win, born July 29, 1827, of South Abington.

8. Thomas B., son of John P., born July 29, 1827 ; mar-
ried Olive B. Perkins, and lives at East Boston. Children,

— Herbert W., born Feb. 14, 1852 ; Nathan Franklin,
Sept. 4, 1856 ; a son, born April 6, 1858.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 341

8. Lloyd Watson, son of John P. and Polly, born Jan. 7,
1822 ; married Lucy Bryant, and lives in South Abington.

8. John P., son of John P. and Polly, born July 29, 1819 ;
married Adaline Brown, and lives in East Bridgewater.
Children, — Amelia ; Albion B.

Ebenezer, son of Jonathan and Deborah, born in 1801 ;
married Patience Penniman. Children, — Ebenezer, born
Nov. 23, 1829 ; George Augustus, Oct. 3, 1831 ; William
Henry, April 12, 1833 ; Elizabeth Thaxter, Dec. 4, 1834 ;
Emeline Frances, Sept. 29, 1837 ; Maria Frances, Aug. 25,
1840.

7. Thaxter, son of Jonathan and Deborah, born in 1809 ;
married Mehetabel Brown ; published Feb. 4, 1827. Chil-
dren, — Mehetabel, born May 8, 1830 ; Haman Thaxter,
Aug. 5, 1833, married Sophronia Barker of Hanson, pub-
lished July 30, 1837.

3. Thomas, son of Thomas and Sarah, and grandson of
William, 1st, of Weymouth, born Sept. 12, 1677 ; married
Hannah Randall, Jan. 14, 1701, and lived in Abington.
Children, — Thomas, born Oct. 18, 1701; Daniel, Sept. 10,
1704 ; Hannah, March 14, 1706 ; Sarah, Aug. 1, 1715. He
died Oct. 2, 1719.

4. Thomas, son of Thomas and Hannah, born Oct. 18,
1701 ; married Sarah, and settled in Braintree. Children,
— Lydia, born June 28, 1720 ; William.

4. Daniel, son of Thomas and Hannah of Abington, born
Nov. 4, 1704 ; married Ruth Torrey, Feb. 22, 1728. Chil-
dren, — Daniel, born Nov. 10, 1729 ; Thomas, April 17,
1732 ; Ruth, April 3, 1735.

5. Daniel, son of Daniel and Ruth, born Nov. 10, 1729 ;
married Mary Turner of Weymouth, Feb. 1, 1755. Chil-
dren,— Ruth, born Oct. 8, 1756, married Josiah Torrey,
March 20, 1783 ; Daniel, born July 11, 1759 ; Jacob,
Sept. 12, 1762 ; Molly, July 3, 1766. He probably married

342 WILLIAM READE OP WEYMOUTH,

Anna Dowse for second wife. Children, — John, born
Aug. 27, 1769 ; Sarah, Aug. 17, 1762.

6. Daniel, son of Daniel and Mary, born July 11, 1759;
married Anna Blanchard, April 4, 1782. Children, — Da-
niel, born Nov. 18, 1784 ; Deane, May 28, 1787 ; David,
March 27, 1790 ; Jesse, June 20, 1793 ; Amma, Jan. 10,
1795, married Richard Holbrook, March 16, 1815 ; Josiah,
born July 28, 1797 ; Molly, Jan. 7, 1800 ; Cuta, April 10,
1802 ; Gridley, Sept. 6, 1804 ; Lydia, July 2, 1807 ;
Turner.

7. Deane, son of Daniel and Anna, born May 28, 1787 ;
married Elizabeth Norton, July 28, 1812. Children, —
Elbridge, born Sept. 14, 1813 ; Samuel Norton, Oct. 1, 1817.
Moved to Maine.

7. Jesse, son of Daniel and Anna, born June 22, 1792 ;
married Lucy Eeed, Feb. 14, 1818. Children, — Jesse,
born June 27, 1819 ; Sally Thaxter, Feb. 9, 1822, who mar-
ried Seth B. Everson, Oct. 29, 1843 ; Turner, born April 8,
1826 ; Lucy Ann, Feb. 9, 1829.

8. Samuel, son of Deane and Elizabeth, born Oct. 1, 1817 ;
married Serusha Bailey of Scituate ; published Aug. 18,
1833. Children, — Serusha, born June 27, 1834 ; Rowland,
Oct. 13, 1836 ; Martha, Nov. 13, 1838 ; Sophia, Oct. 3, 1840 ;
Anna, Nov. 30, 1844.

8. Jesse, son of Jesse and Lucy, born June 27, 1819 ;
married Eliza Emeline Curtiss, Oct. 23, 1842. Children, —
Sarah Emeline, born March 5, 1844; Eliza Johnson, Nov. 1,
1846 ; Albert Curtiss, April 4, 1850.

8. Turner, son of Jesse and Lucy, born April 8, 1826 ;
married Sarah H. Curtiss, Oct. 3, 1848. Children, — Clif-
ford Wayland, born Dec. 3, 1849 ; Frederick E., Aug. 4,
1853. He was robbed of a large amount of money on the
night of the 23d of March, 1859, and otherwise much
injured.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 343

8. Lucy Ann, daughter of Jesse and Lucy, born Feb. 9,
1829 ; married Calvin P. Powers, Oct. 3, 1848 (the same day
of the marriage of her brother Turner). Children, — Charles
Herbert, born May 24, 1852 ; Anna Lee, Feb. 5, 1855.

8. Sarah, daughter of Jesse and Lucy, born Feb. 9, 1822 ;
married Seth C. Everson. Children, — Lucy W., born
Oct. 27, 1844 ; Emelia B., Nov. 10, 1845 ; Augusta Maria,
Nov. 18, 1856.

6. Daniel, son of Daniel and Anna, born Dec. 18, 1784;
married Hannah Gurney, July, 1808. Children, — Daniel
Edwards, born Feb. 9, 1813 ; John Gurney, July 11, 1817.

7. Daniel, son of Daniel and Hannah, married Eliza
Gurney. Child, — Eliza Kimball, born June 4, 1827.

5. Thomas, son of Daniel and Ruth, born April 17, 1732;
married Mary White, July 10, 1755. She was a widow : her
maiden name was Hobart. Children, — Mary, born June 7,
1758, married Simeon Gannet in 1775 ; Hannah, born
Oct. 24, 1759, married Daniel Bicknall, Oct. 25, 1780;
Thomas, born Dec. 12, 1761; Hannah, June 28, 1764;
Samuel, March 11, 1766 ; Huldah, April 27, 1768, married
Dr. Richard Briggs, Aug. 12, 1784 ; Isaac, born Aug. 4,
1770 ; Abiah, Nov. 22, 1773. Married, for second wife,
Sarah Pulling, widow of John Pulling of Boston : her
maiden name was Thaxter.

6. Thomas, son of Thomas and Mary, born Dec. 12, 1761 ;
married Joanna Shaw, Jan. 24, 1783. Children, — Godard,
born May 3, 1788 ; Elizabeth, March 13, 1784 ; Thomas,
Nov. 16, 1786 ; Ebenezer, July 6, 1790 ; Simeon Gannet,
Sept. 29, 1793 ; Joanna, Dec. 3, 1795 ; Amos, May 22, 1804 ;
Albert ; Theodore ; Adaline, April 22, 1806.

7. Theodore, son of Thomas and Joanna, married Clarissa
Jenkins, Dec. 26, 1830. Children, — Martha, born June 19,
1839 ; Theodore W., Oct. 19, 1833. Married Abigail Wil-
der for second wife, Dec. 31, 1840 : Abigail, born Sept. 8,

344 WILLIAM READE OF WEYMOUTH,

1843 ; Mary Franklin, Oct. 13, 1845 ; Lydia Maria, Dec. 31,
1847, died ; Lydia Maria, born Dec. 21, 1848 ; Thomas
Henry, July 24, 1852.

6. Isaac, son of Thomas and Mary, born Aug. 4, 1770 ;
married Sarah Pulling, daughter of his father's second wife,
May 12, 1793. Children, — John P., born Sept. 15, 1795 ;
Sarah, Sept. 19, 1797, married Charles Lane, and lives in
Boston ; Lucy J., born May 29, 1800 ; Martha P., March 16,
1802 ; Marah Hobart, April 11, 1804 ; Isaac, Jan. 22, 1806 ;
Betsy Gannet, Aug. 25, 1807 ; Ruth Torrey, July 31, 1809 ;
Annis, Dec. 13, 1811. Married Nancy Lincoln for second
wife. Children, — Horace, born Nov. 6, 1820 ; William L.,
Oct. 5, 1825 ; Annis, August, 1828. He was deacon of the
church in South Abington. His widow lives at Taunton.

7. Isaac, son of Isaac and Sarah, born Jan. 22, 1806 ;
married Rachel, daughter of John and Thankful Reed.
Married Eliza P. Shaw of Middleborough for second wife,
Dec. 17,1829. Children, — Isaac, born March 14, 1834;
Eliza Shaw, April 4, 1836 ; Sarah E., Sept. 15, 1838 ; Ellen
M., Dec. 2, 1840 : Henry W., Jan. 13, 1843 ; Rachel,
March 13, 1845 ; Hannah, Sept. 12, 1848 ; Mary F., Oct. 17,
1850.

7. Martha Pulling, daughter of Isaac and Sarah, born
March 16, 1802 ; married Seth Pratt.

7. Marah Hobart, daughter of Isaac and Sarah, born April
11, 1804; married William Cushing.

7. Betsy Gannet, daughter of Isaac and Sarah, born
Aug. 25, 1807 ; married Merrit Jenkins of East Bridge-
water.

7. Ruth Torrey, daughter of Isaac and Sarah, born
July 31, 1809 ; married John W. Jenkins of East Bridge-
water.

8. William L., son of Isaac and Nancy, born Nov. 26,
1820 ; married Deborah. Children, — an infant, born

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 345

March 22^ 1848 ; William B., Feb. 24, 1852 ; Anna G.,
Aug. 24, 1855. He is the present representative from
Abington.

7. Thomas, son of Thomas and Joanna, born Nov. 16,
1786; married Lydia Jenkins. Children, — Thomas, born
April 25, 1812, at Abington ; Lydia Jenkins, June 14, 1814,
married Lysander Cushing ; Henry Watson, Dec. 29, 1819.

Thomas, son of Tbomas and Lydia, born April 25, 1812 ;
married Nancy Hunt. Married Alsea Weston for second
wife. He died Nov. 30, 1844 ; and his widow married Brack-
ley Shaw.

Lydia Jenkins, daughter of Thomas and Lydia, born
June 14, 1814; married Lysander Cushing. Children, —
Lysander Francis ; Thomas Watson.

Henry Watson, son of Thomas and Lydia, born Nov. 29,
1819 ; married Emily Howard.

6. Samuel, son of Thomas and Mary, born March 11,
1766 ; married Mary Pool, Aug. 28, 1787. Children, —
Mary, born March 3, 1789 ; Samuel, Dec. 18, 1790 ; Abiah,
May 19, 1793 ; Hannah, March 24, 1795 ; Marcia, Jan. 19,
1798 ; Joseph, Oct. 28, 1799 ; Ruth, July 16, 1801 ; Charles,
Nov. 2, 1802, went West ; Elias, 1804, died young. He
lived in East Abington, on the premises now owned by his
sons Samuel and Abiah, and gave a piece of land for a
burying-yard, — the site of the present cemetery, — on the
shore of a pond. He died in J\me, 1805 ; and was one of
the first who were buried on the land he had thus appropri-
ated : his wife died September, 1839.

7. Mary, daughter of Samuel and Mary, born March 3,
1789 ; married Peter Ford, and moved to Windsor, Mass.

7. Samuel, son of Samuel and Mary, born Dec. 18, 1790 ;
married Polly Corthell, April 21, 1810. Children, — Sa-
muel, born May 26, 1811 ; Polly, Jan. 16, 1813 ; Levi,
Dec. 31, 1814 ; Dexter, Nov. 10, 1816 ; Mehetabel, Sept. 14,

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346 WILLIAM READE OP WEYMOUTH,

1818, died young ; Mehetabel, born March 31, 1822. His
wife died June 10, 1832. Married, for second wife, Serissa
Lithfield Bailey, widow of Rowland Bailey of Scituate,
Sept. 5, 1833. Children, — Serissa, born June 27, 1834;
Rowland, Oct. 13, 1736, died young ; Martha, born Nov. 13,
1838 ; Sophia, Oct. 3, 1840 ; Anna, Nov. 13, 1844.

8. Samuel, son of Samuel and Polly, born March 26, 1811 ;
married Elizabeth Wilkes, and lives at East Abington.

8. Mary, daughter of Samuel and Polly, born Jan. 16,
1813 ; married John Barrell, and lives at East Abington.

8. Levi, son of Samuel and Polly, born Dec. 31, 1814;
married Louisa C. Drake, April 20, 1837, and lives at East
Abington. Children, — Louisa Maria, born at Abington,
Jan. 10, 1838 ; Henrietta Bryant, born at Dedham, March 17,
1840, died Jan. 13, 1842 ; Samuel Bryant, born Sept. 10,
1841 ; Henrietta Manly, born at Roxbury, Aug. 15, 1846,
died June 21, 1849 ; Mary Emily, born July 27, 1850 ; son,
not named, March 1, 1852, died March 23, 1852 ; George
Baxter Hyde, born July 24, 1853, died Feb. 2, 1857 ; Alfred
Levi, born at Abington, Oct. 9, 1855. He lives at East
Abington, and is a justice of the peace for the county of
Plymouth, and a member of the Senate.

8. Dexter, son of Samuel and Polly, born Nov. 10, 1817 ;
married Catherine Stetson. Children, — Frederick, born
Feb. 11, 1841 ; Lewis, Oct. 26, 1843 ; Edith Catherine,
Sept. 3, 1845 ; Mary Alice, Dec. 21, 1846 ; Ruthena, Jan. 5,
1850, died April 20, 1853 ; Eveline, born Dec. 1, 1851, died
March 31, 1853. Lives at East Abington.

8. Mehetabel, daughter of Samuel and Polly, born March
31, 1822 ; married George Lewis. Children, — George
Howland, born Aug. 16, 1846 ; Henry Martin, Jan. 10,
1848 ; Willard Wright, July 29, 1849 ; Samuel Dexter,
April 20, 1852 ; Charles Sumner, Sept. 2, 1856.

7. Abiah, son of Samuel and Mary, born Nov. 22, 1793 ;

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 347

married Jane Gurney, May 23, 1814. Children, — Abiah,
born Sept. 11, 1815 ; Jane Gurney, Sept. 8, 1817 ; Roxanna,
Aug. 24, 1819 ; Walter, July 24, 1821 ; Rebecca Packard,
Aug. 29, 1823 ; Hannah Perkins, July 6, 1827 ; Clarissa,
June 17, 1830 ; Lucinda Dyke, Sept. 21, 1832 ; Elias,
Sept. 12, 1834 ; Diana, Jan. 12, 1839. Lucinda Dyke died
Aug. 18, 1834 ; Elias, Sept. 14, 1834 ; Abiah, jun., Dec. 7,
1835.

8. Roxanna, daughter of Abiah and Jane, born Aug. 24,
1819 ; married George Totman, May 13, 1835, and lives in
Abington. Children, — Lucinda Ellen, born in 1837 ;
George Anthony, May, 1847 ; Marietta Perkins, 1845 ;
Jessie Maria, July 6, 1856.

8. Walter, son of Abiah and Jane, born July 24, 1821 ;
married Sophrona Joslin. Child, — Edward Stanley, born
Feb. 25, 1847. His wife died Dec. 19, 1847. Married, for
second wife, Cordone Keen, April 1, 1849. Children, —
Sarah Jane, born May 8, 1850 ; Henry Walter, Nov. 27,
1851.

8. Jane Gurney, daughter of Abiah and Jane, born
April 8, 1817 ; married Luther Joslin of Hanson, Jan. 22,
1844. Children, — Luther Austin, born Feb. 25, 1845;
Jane Reed, November, 1848 ; Charles Sumner, March 6,
1853 ; Sophrona, Jan. 29, 1858.

8. Rebecca Packard, daughter of Abiah and Jane, born
Aug. 29, 1823 ; married Augustus N. Warren : she was his
second wife ; his first being Clarissa, her younger sister,
whom he married May 2, 1847 ; and married Rebecca,
Sept. 14, 1851. Children, — Everet Augustus, born July 2,
1852; William Henry, April 22, 1856.

8. Hannah, daughter of Abiah and Jane, born July 6,
1827 ; married Horace Ames of North Bridgewater, Jan. 22,
1855. Children, — Ruth, born Oct. 7,1856; Abby Swett,
Nov. 16, 1858.

348

8. Diana, daughter of Abiah and Jane, born June 12
1839 ; married Benjamin A. Pratt, April 29, 1858.

7. Sarah, daughter of Deacon Isaac, born Sept. 19, 1797
married Charles Lane. Children, — Rachel, Sarah, Annis
Maria, Henry Fayette, Julia, Charles Beverly.

Lucy J., daughter of Deacon Isaac, born May 29, 1800
married Jesse Reed, son of Daniel.

Annis, daughter of Deacon Isaac, born Dec. 13, 1811
married Charles Cook, and lives in Taunton.

6. John, son of Daniel and Mary, born Aug. 22, 1769
married Dorothy Brown, Dec. 1, 1789. Children, — Molly
born March 31, 1790 ; Nancy, Sept. 26, 1792 ; John, Sept. 15
1795 ; Oren, Dec. 5, 1797 ; Ruth, June 20, 1802. Married
Thankful Jenkins for second wife, March 1, 1805. Children
— Molly, born Jan. 1, 1806 ; Rachel, March 25, 1808.

7. Oren, son of John and Dorothy, born Dec. 5, 1797
married Charlotte Harden. Child, — Nancy, born July 11
1822.

6. Jacob, son of Daniel and Mary, born Sept. 12, 1762
married Nancy Porter, Nov. 18, 1799. Children, — Bela
born Dec. 2, 1803 ; Ezekiel, Oct. 14, 1810 ; Jacob, March 7
1801, died Aug. 1, 1819. He died Jan. 21, 1839.

7. Bela, son of Jacob and Nancy, born Dec. 2, 1803
married Joanna S. Lane. Children, — Jacob, born April 5
1827 ; Nancy, Jan. 31, 1832, died young ; Elizabeth Rich
mond, born Oct. 8, 1835.

7. Ezekiel, son of Jacob and Nancy, born Oct. 14, 1810
married Cephisa Studley of Hanover ; published Dec. 18
1831. Children, — Emily Cephisa, born April 29, 1832
died young ; George Fearing, born May 31, 1834 ; Mary
Turner, July 29, 1838, died young ; Mary Augusta, born
Jan. 6, 1843, died young ; Charles, born July 19, 1847.
Lives at Abington Centre, on the tract of land settled by his
ancestor in 1708.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 349

7. Godard, son of Thomas and Joanna, born May 22,
1788; married Marcia Reed, Nov. 13, 1814. Children, —
Hannah, born Feb. 18, 1816, died young ; Diana, born
Feb. 27, 1817, married Isaac Keene, June 14, 1835, died
Jan. 21, 1838 ; Washington, born July 6, 1820 ; Charles
Godard, Jan. 18, 1823, died Sept. 22, 1823 ; Marcia, born
July 22, 1828, died Sept. 4, 1848.

8. Washington, son of Godard and Marcia, born July 6,

1820 ; married Harriet R. Corthell, June 2, 1839. Chil-
dren, — Henry Harrison, born Aug. 12, 1840 ; Joanna,
May 7, 1846 ; Charles G., April 28, 1852 ; Marcia, Nov. 26,
1853. He keeps in Pearl Street, Boston.

7. Amos S., son of Thomas and Joanna, born March 22,
1804 ; married Huldah B. Loud, Nov. 9, 1826. Children,
— Sarah Ann, born June 17, 1832, died Sept. 21, 1849;
Amos Newton, born May 21, 1829. Married Rachel B.
Reed, widow of Simeon G. Reed, Dec. 14, 1834 ; Edward
Payson, son of Amos and Rachel, born Sept. 21, 1836 ;
Elizabeth Waldo, Aug. 4, 1839, died Sept. 5, 1843 ; Miranda,
born April 26, 1843, died Aug. 1, 1846. His wife died
Aug. 1, 1833.

8. Amos N., son of Amos S. and Huldah, born May 21,
1829; married Sarah Boynton. Child, — Harriet D., born
May 22, 1854.

7. Ebenezer, son of Thomas and Joanna, born July 6,
1790 ; married Lucy Jenkins, Nov. 30, 1815. Children, —
Cleora, born Nov. 3, 1816, and married Sylvester Dawes,
Oct. 9, 1836 ; Lorenzo, born May 26, 1818 ; Egbert, June 10,

1821 ; Lucy, July 2, 1827. He married Patience Penni-
man for second wife, Jan. 1,1829. Children, — Ebenezer
F., born Nov. 23, 1829 ; George Augustus, Oct. 3, 1831 ;
William Henry, April 12, 1833 ; Elizabeth Thaxter, Dec. 4,
1834 ; Emeline F., Sept. 29, 1837 ; Maria F., Aug. 25, 1840.

8. George A., son of Ebenezer and Lucy, born Oct. 3,

350 WILLIAM READE OF WEYMOUTH,

1831 ; married Susan. Child, — Ann Josephine, born
Feb. 6, 1855.

8. Lorenzo, son of Ebenezer and Lucy, born May 26,
1818 ; married Sarah P. Weidcrman. Child, — Cordelia,
born in Nassau, Nov. 6, 1841. He died Jan. 28, 1845.

7. Simeon, son of Thomas and Joanna, born Sept. 29,
1793 ; married Rachel Burges, Oct. 11, 1829. Child, —
Simeon Gannet, born April 24, 1830.

4. Moses, son of William and Alice, born at Abington,
Jan. 15, 1723 ; married Phebe. Children,- — Moses, born
at Abington, March 22, 1751 ; Aaron, June 30, 1754 ; Mi-
riam, Jan. 15, 1757, married Jonathan Marsh, and died
May 24, 1804.

4. James, son of William and Alice, born March 3, 1716 ;
married Widow Ruth Pool ; her maiden name being Ford.
Children, — James, born Aug. 9, 1742; Hezekiah, Feb. 23,
1744 ; Jeremiah, April 11, 1747 ; Olive, Feb. 2, 1748 ; Nao-
mi, 1751, married Obadiah Hersey. He lived in East Bridge-
water, and died at the age of thirty-seven years. His widow
married a Porter.

5. Hezekiah, son of James and Ruth, born Feb. 23, 1744 ;
married Deborah Tirrel of Abington, and settled in East
Bridgewater. Children, — Deborah, born in 1768; Olive,
1770 ; James, 1772, died young; Isaac, born in 1774 ; Jere-
miah, 1777 ; Calvin, 1780 ; Joseph, 1782 ; Jared, 1785 ;
Nancy, 1789. He died in 1788 ; and his widow died in
1820, aged seventy-three.

6. Isaac, son of Hezekiah and Deborah, born in 1774;
married Sally Stetson in 1803, and lives in East Bridge-
water. Children, — Sally, born Oct. 22, 1803 ; Isaac,
Jan. 26, 1805 ; Nahum, Dec. 15, 1806 ; Dexter, Jan. 21,
1809 ; James Thaxter, Oct. 8, 1815 ; Calvin, April 3, 1819 ;
Diantha, April 21, 1821.

6. Jeremiah, son of Hezekiah and Deborah, born in 1777 ;

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 351

married Rebecca Jenkins, March 3, 1803. Children, —
Albert, born Aug. 23, 1803 ; Melvin, March 30, 1806 ; Na-
thaniel, Sept. 17, 1807 ; David, July 2, 1812 ; Charles
Spencer, Oct. 12, 1816.

7. Albert, son of Jeremiah and Rebecca, born Aug. 23,
1803 ; married Almira Drake of Hanson in 1832. Children,
— Albert L., born in 1834 ; Sarah S., 1835 ; Augusta, 1847,
died in 1849. He lives in Abington.

7. Melvin, son of Jeremiah and Rebecca, born March 30,

1806 ; married Emily Pool, Nov. 12, 1829.

7. Nathaniel, son of Jeremiah and Rebecca, born Sept. 17,

1807 ; married Betsy Bartlett of Cummington in 1831.
Children, — Elizabeth, born 1831, died 1833 ; Nathaniel L.,
born in 1834 ; Edward, 1836, died in 1847 ; Marshal, born
in 1841 ; Elizabeth, 1843. His wife died in 1843.

7. David, son of Jeremiah and Rebecca, born July 2,
1812 ; married Nancy Smith in 1836 : she died in 1837.
Married Eliza Bates in 1839. Children, — Lucy H., born in
1840 ; Nancy, 1846 ; Frank, 1855.

6. Calvin, son of Hezekiah and Deborah, born in 1780 ;
married Hannah Loudon, Oct. 15, 1807. Children, —
Oakes, born Sept. 11, 1808; Deborah, February, 1810;
Hezekiah, July 1, 1812 ; Susannah Pratt, Dec. 7, 1814. He
lived in Abington.

8. Oakes, son of Calvin, settled in East Bridgewater ;
born Sept. 11, 1808 ; married Letitia B. Hobart in 1832.
Children, — Andrew H., born in 1833 ; Catherine P., 1837,
died in 1855 ; Eliza A., born in 1839 ; Calvin P., 1844.
He died in 1849.

8. Hezekiah, son of Calvin, born July 1, 1812 ; married
Elizabeth Joslin, and lives in Hanover. Child, — Herbert,
born in 1845.

8. Susan, daughter of Calvin, born Dec. 7, 1814 ; mar-
ried Mark Dunbar of East Bridgewater in 1831. Children,

352

— Lavina, born in 1832 ; Adaline, 1835 ; Mark W., 1837 ;
Lucy J., 1839 ; Frank, 1841 ; Watson, 1843. She died in
1849.

8. Deborah, daughter of Calvin, born February, 1810 ;
married Obadiah Reed in 1831, and lives in Abington. Chil-
dren, — Obadiah, born in 1832 ; Webster, 1834 ; Deborah L.,
1852.

9. Andrew H., son of Oakes, born in East Bridgewater,
Sept. 11, 1808 ; married Augusta Keen in 1856. Child, —
Catherine, born in 1857.

6. Joseph, son of Hezekiah and Deborah of Bridgewater,
born in 1782 ; married Charlotte Stetson in 1807, and lives
in East Bridgewater. Children, — Lucius, born in 1808;
Aaron, 1811 ; Charlotte Tirrel, 1814 ; Joseph, 1817 ; Daniel,
1820 ; Marcus S., 1824 ; Gurnsey, 1826 ; Ruth G., died
young.

7. Lucius, son of Joseph and Charlotte, born in 1808 ;
married Celina Dyer, Jan. 7, 1838. Children, — Lucius
Franklin, born May 6, 1840 ; Henry D., 1842.

8. Aaron, son of Joseph and Charlotte, born in 1811 ;
married Hannah Fullerton, Sept. 15, 1836, and lives in
Abington. Children, — Aaron Alden, born April 25, 1839 ;
Hannah M., 1844.

8. Joseph, son of Joseph and Charlotte, born in 1817 ;
married Mehetabel Jenkins in 1843. Lives in East Bridge-
water.

8. Marcus S., son of Joseph, born in 1824 ; lives in East
Bridgewater.

8. Gurnsey, son of Joseph, horn in 1826 ; lives in East
Bridgewater.

8. Daniel, son of Joseph and Charlotte, born in 1820 ;
married Mary A. Smith in 1844. Children, — Daniel L.,
born in 1848 ; Forrest S., 1852 ; Mary A., 1856.

6. Jared, son of Hezekiah, born in 1785, and settled in

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 353

East Bridgewater ; married Mehetabel Gardner, 1811. Chil-
dren,— Samuel P., Timothy, Mehetabel. Married, for second
wife, Electa Phillips, Nov. 25, 1832. He died in 1855.

7. Timothy, son of Jared and Mehetabel, went West.

7. Samuel P., son of Jared and Mehetabel, lives at South
Abington ; married Lemira D. Hurd of New Hampshire in
1840. Child,— Lucina, born Feb. 1, 1846.

7. Mehetabel, daughter of Jared and Mehetabel, married
Alvan Porter of Marsh field in 1844. Children, — Alvan
Clarence, born Sept. 21, 1846, died April, 1848 ; Louisa M.,
born Oct. 17, 1848 ; Frank S., Aug. 5, 1852, died Aug. 9,
1853 ; Ellen Florence, born June 6, 1854 ; Edith M.,
April 9, 1857.

5. Jeremiah, son of James and Ruth, born April 11,
1747; married Sarah Tirrel. Children, — Obadiah ; Olive.

5. David, son of Ebenezer and Hannah, born at Abington,
July 8, 1740 ; married Mercy Ford, April 22, 1762. Chil-
dren,— Ichabod, born at Abington, Nov. 25, 1763, died at
Cummington, Jan. 12, 1778 ; Abigail, born June 4, 1765,
died at Cummington, April 12, 1781 ; David, born May 3,
1767 ; Ebenezer, March 27, 1769 ; Andrew, June 25, 1771 ;
Paul, Oct. 12, 1773 ; William, born at Cummington, May 7,
1777 ; Barnabas, Oct. 16, 1779 ; Ichabod, May 12, 1782.
His wife died March 5, 1787. Tradition says that Mr. Reed
was on a visit to Abington at the time of the death of his
wife, and thought he had a presentiment that she was
dead, by some remarkable appearance at the side of his bed
in the night. He told his friends that his wife was dead ;
and, as soon as it could be ascertained, it proved true. She
was riding through a piece of woods, and a tree fell upon
and killed her. He married, for second wife, Hannah Reed
Bates of Abington, daughter of Ezekiel Reed of Abington,
and widow of Samuel Bates, Jan. 9, 1788. He died at
Cummington, May 10, 1808.

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5. Silas, son of Ebenezer and Hannah, born at Abington,
Aug. 11, 1744 ; married Rebecca. Children, — Abigail,
born at Cummington, Nov. 2, 1768, married George Cole,
Aug. 6, 1789 ; Patience, born June 21, 1770, married Joel
Randall, Jan. 2, 1791 ; Hannah, born Feb. 18, 1772, mar-
ried N. Tower, Dec. 1, 1799 ; John, born Aug. 14, 1773.
Married, for second wife, Mary. Children, — Eunice, born
Jan. 21, 1779 ; Rebecca, Nov. 2, 1780 ; Mary, Jan. 14,
1782; Asa, Nov. 1, 1784. He died Aug. 3, 1797.

6. John, son of Silas and Rebecca of Cummington, born
at Cummington, Aug. 14, 1773 ; married at Worcester,
Jan. 1, 1798, to Hannah Waters. Childi*en, — Henry, born
at Cummington, April 5, 1799; Cbarles, Sept. 27, 1800;
William, April 8, 1807. His wife died April 22, 1811.
Married Jerusha. Child, — Theodore, born at Cummington,
Sept. 1, 1815.

6. Ichabod, son of David and Mercy, born May 12, 1782 ;
married Betsy Robbins at Cummington, Nov. 9, 1804.
Child, — Betsy, who married William Wilder, June 13,
1827. He lives in Cummington at the present time.

5. Barnabas, son of Ebenezer and Hannah, born at Abing-
ton, May 22, 1780; married Silence. Children, — Polly,
born at Abington, March 6, 1775, married Daniel Baker in
Cummington, Sept. 3, 1795 ; Sarah, born Oct. 14, 1776 ;
Barnabas, May 22, 1780 ; Wealthy, March 9, 1782 ; Wil-
liam, May 5, 1783 ; Elizabeth, Dec. 23, 1785 ; Joshua,
March 9, 1788.

6. Barnabas, son of Barnabas and Silence, born May 22,
1780. Children, — Joshua; Barnabas.

6. Joshua, son of Barnabas, born May 9, 1788 ; married
Susanna Noyes, and settled in Plainfield. Children, — Ro-
sander, Susan F., Westa W., Samuel W., Siloma, Edward J.

7. Samuel W., son of Joshua and Susanna, married Adda
Norton. Children, — Charles H. ; Adda. Resides in Boston.

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5. John, son of Daniel and Ann, born at Abington,
Aug. 27,1769; married Hannah. Children, — Henry, born
at Cummington, April 5, 1799 ; Charles, Sept. 27, 1800 ;
William, April 8, 1807. His wife died April 22, 1811.
Married Ruth, who died May 28, 1814. Married Jerusha.
Child, — Theodore, born Sept. 1, 1815.

Albert, married in Cummington, to Almira Bradley,
Aug. 26, 1840. Child, — Charles E., born April 29, 1850.

4. Obadiah, son of William and Alice, born March 14,
1707 ; married Mary Nash, Oct. 19, 1731. Children,—
William, born Feb. 24, 1732 ; Mary, March 27, 1734, mar-
ried Joseph Hersey, jun., Feb. 1, 1755 : Sarah, born March
29, 1736, married Elijah Reed ; Obadiah, born May 15,
1738 ; Silence, June 7, 1741 ; Matthew, Feb. 21, 1750 ;
Silas, Oct. 27, 1751.

5. Obadiah, son of Obadiah and Mary, born May 15, 1738 ;
married, probably, Content Lincoln for first wife, and had
Obadiah, born Jan. 4, 1760. Married Elizabeth Shaw in
1770. Children, — Joel, born Oct. 26, 1771 ; Mehetabel,
Jan. 24, 1775, who married Bela Reed, son of Jacob.

6. Obadiah, son of Obadiah, born in 1760 ; married Eliza-
beth Richmond. Children, — Silas, born Feb. 13, 1789;
Abel Richmond, Sept. 27, 1791 ; Obadiah, Jan. 1, 1796 ;
Elizabeth, March 25, 1797 ; Salmon, Oct. 25, 1798, drowned
in 1823 ; Isaac, born June, 1801 ; Israel, Aug. 10, 1806 ;
Emily, Oct. 26, 1809.

7. Isaac, son of Obadiah, born June, 1801 ; married Sally
Weeks. Child, — Ammis, born Sept. 3, 1828.

7. Obadiah, son of Obadiah, born Jan. 1, 1796 ; married
Deborah, daughter of Calvin, Sept. 27, 1831. Children, —
Obadiah, born Jan. 30, 1832 ; Lawrence Bates, Sept. 1,
1840 ; Helen Augusta, Aug. 19, 1842 ; Emma Lawrence,
Dec. 28, 1845 ; Deborah, July 26, 1852 ; Webster, March 4,
1854.

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6. Joel, son of Obadiah and Elizabeth, born Oct. 26, 1771 ;
married Ruth Gurney, July 4, 1793. Children, — Joel,
born Feb. 8, 1794 ; Ruth ; Matthew, Jan. 4, 1798 ; Lydia,
June 4, 1800 ; Albert, May 5, 1803 ; Harvey, Feb. 27, 1806 ;
Lucius, Sept. 25, 1808 ; James M., May 25, 1815. Married,
for second wife, Widow Raymond.

7. Joel, son of Joel and Ruth, born Feb. 8, 1794 ; mar-
ried Jane Raymond, Aug. 1, 1826. Child, — George Wash-
ington, born Feb. 21, 1827. Married, for second wife,
Bethany Churchill, Nov. 16, 1837. Child, — Pauline Isabel,
born May 19, 1840.

8. George W., son of Joel and Jane, born Feb. 21, 1827 ;
married Lucy Ann. Children, — George Bancroft, born
April 13, 1847 ; Florence Augusta, April 9, 1849 ; Frank-
lin W., May 30, 1852 ; Lucy Ann, July 5, 1854 ; Oliver
Healey, March 4, 1856.

7. Matthew, son of Joel, born Jan. 24, 1798 ; married
Thurza Harris, Sept. 12, 1822, and settled first in East
Bridgewater. Children, — Abigail Harris, born March 16,
1824 ; Eliza Ann, 1826 ; Thurza Maria, born in Abington,
May 11, 1828 ; and the following were also born in Abing-
ton : Henry William, Feb. 14, 1830 ; Hiram, Sept. 10,
1833 ; Lucinda Franklin, Jan. 17, 1835 ; Matthew Gordon,
Feb. 11, 1837 ; Fidelia Amanda, Dec. 17, 1838 ; Lucia Ellea-
nor, Aug. 24, 1840 ; Henry Leudall, March 28, 1842 ; Mar-
tha Ella, April 20, 1846 ; Nahum Augustus, Feb. 4, 1844.

7. Albert, son of Joel, born May 5, 1803; married Polly
Reynolds ; published March 26, 1829. Married Maria Col-
burn, daughter of Rev. S. W. Colburn of Abington ; pub-
lished Nov. 29, 1829. Child, — Samuel Colburn, born
June 2, 1832.

7. Harvey, son of Joel, born Feb. 27, 1806 ; married Sally
Pool, Oct. 30, 1830. Child, — Sarah, born June 29, 1833.
Married Mary T. Nash, Nov. 23, 1837. Children, — An

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infant, born Oct. 1, 1838 ; Harvey Turner, March 29, 1840 ;
Mary Elizabeth, Aug. 13, 1842 ; Francis Baylies, Dec. 30,
1844 ; Abigail Adelaide, May 14, 1847 ; Alsie Carsillia,
Aug. 10, 1850 ; Charlie Etta, April 15, 1854.

7. Lucius, son of Joel, born Sept. 25, 1808 ; married
Lydia Shaw, Nov. 24, 1831. Children, — Lydia Prances,
born Nov. 20, 1836 ; Helen Maria, Feb. 3, 1833 ; Henry,
Feb. 4, 1842 ; Lucretia Adelaide, May 24, 1843 ; Lucius
Alston, Feb. 6, 1847 ; Florence Laurilla, Oct. 22, 1849.

7. Silas, son of Obadiah and Elizabeth, born Feb. 13,
1789 ; married Mahala Harris, April 13, 1818. Children, —
Silas Richmond, born Oct. 9, 1818 ; Edwin Harris, Aug. 30,
1822 ; Salmon, March 31, 1824 ; Evander, May 27, 1827.

8. Edwin, son of Silas and Mahala, born Aug. 30, 1822 ;
married Mahala. Children, — Mary Mahala, born July 24,
1848 ; William F., March 30, 1851 ; Emily P., Jan. 24,
1853.

8. Salmon, son of Silas and Mahala, born March 31, 1824 ;
married Maria Sanford, July 7, 1849. His wife died in West
Bridgewater, April 7, 1857.

8. Evander, son of Silas and Mahala, born May 27, 1827 ;
married Lucy. Children,- — Lucy, born March 9, 1850;
Evander, Aug. 6, 1854.

7. Abel Richmond, son of Obadiah and Elizabeth, born
Sept. 27, 1791 ; married Roxanna Willis, April 3, 1828.

7. Isaac, son of Isaac, and grandson of Thomas, married
Rachel Jenkins Reed, Sept. 7, 1826 ; and Eliza for second
wife. Children, — Isaac Thaxter, born in Roxbury, March
15, 1834 ; Eliza Shaw, born in Bridgewater, April 2, 1836 ;
Sarah Elizabeth, Sept. 15, 1838 ; Ellen Maria, Dec. 2, 1840 ;
Henry Wallis, Jan. 13, 1843 ; Rachel Jenkins, March 3,
1845; Hannah, Sept. 12, 1848; Mary, Oct. 28, 1850.

8. Silas Richmond, son of Silas and Mahala, born Oct. 9,
1818 ; married Josephine Bailey of Duxbury ; published

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June 30, 1839. Child, — Mahala Harris, born April 8,
1840.

7. Israel, son of Obadiah and Elizabeth, born Aug. 10,
1806 ; married Louisa Humble, Nov. 18, 1838. Children, —
Edward Richmond, born Aug. 19, 1839 ; Salmon Willson,
Feb. 24, 1847.

Obadiah, son of Obadiah and Elizabeth, born Jan. 1, 1796 ;
married Deborah, daughter of Calvin and Hannah Reed.
Children, — Obadiah; Deborah L. They live in Abington,
at a place called the Thicket.

Obadiah, son of Obadiah and Deborah, married a lady
from Nashua, N.H.

4. Rev. Solomon Reed, son of Capt. William of Abington
and of Alice Nash, was born Oct. 22, 1719. He graduated
at Harvard College in 1739. There is no record informing
us under whose instructions he pursued his studies for the
ministry ; though it was probably with Rev. Mr. Brown,
the minister of his native town. That he entered the pro-
fession from a conviction of duty, and with an earnest pur-
pose to promote the religious well-being of his fellow-men,
is very manifest from such of his manuscript writings as have
come down to us, as well as from the direct tradition of
those who knew him intimately.

During the few first years of Mr. Reed's ministry, and
afterward as we have reason to suppose, he was very earnest
and devoted in his labors for the spiritual good of others,
both by religious conversation and preaching, as well in
neighborhoods on week-days as in the regular ministrations
of Sunday.

Among the precious antiquarian treasures in the archives
of the Pilgrim Society in Plymouth are a few manuscript
sermons of Mr. Reed, written in a fine, clear hand, in an
easy, flowing style of composition, and indicating decided
ability. With these documents, there is also an original

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manuscript journal kept by him from Oct. 3, 1743, to
Jan. 9, 1745. This journal indicates often a great tender-
ness of religious feeling ; and often, too, a sadly morbid
sensitiveness of conscience, evidently arising from the min-
gled influence of his uncheerful religious views, and a
diseased physical constitution, of which he often speaks.
The brief extracts, given in notes below, from the journal
to which we have referred, help us to a fair estimate of a
man somewhat noted in his day ; and, at the same time,
illustrate the style and tone of religious thought and feeling
of that period.*

It was during the period when Mr. Whitefield was preach-
ing in New England that Mr. Reed was keeping his journal,
and was so self-scrutinizing as to his spiritual state. The
following passages from the journal, relating to Mr. White-
field, cannot fail to be read with interest : —

* " Jan. 9, 1744. — OLord! thou art my God; and thy loving-kindness and faith-
fulness towards me, on looking of me up and redeeming me from my sinful back-
slidings (notwithstanding all my negligence in seeking of thee), calls not only for
my thankfulness, but strong engagements of soul for thyself. And now, 0 God ! I
solemnly renew the covenant I have entered into with thee ; and I am resolved, by
divine grace, to be more careful to keep my covenant with thee than I have ever
yet been. I am resolved never to live one day carelessly, without thee, as I have
done; but, if I should lose thy comfortable presence, I am resolved, as thou shalt
enable me, to make it my business carefully to seek thee until I shall find thee
again."

" Oct. 27, 1744. — I was guilty in the morning of speaking a word too lightly
about Satan and his temptations, or the like ; and I had a very heavy charge lying
against my soul, after this, most all the day: but, in the evening, my weary, sink-
ing, discouraged soul was comfortably supported and refreshed with a sense of
God's mercy and goodness."

"Tuesday, Dec. 18, 1744. — I think I felt something of religion in the morning;
but I grew dull and careless, accused by conscience, and exceedingly sunk down
into discouragements, in the afternoon."

"Wednesday, Dec. 19, 1744. — I was exceedingly barren and lean, and I was
very much sunk down under a sense of my guilt and vileness."

"Monday, Jan. 7, 1745. — I had some accusations of conscience in the morning,
but not totally beaten down."

" Wednesday, Jan. 9, 1745. — I felt something of a sweet religious frame of
spirit."

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"Abington, Sunday, Dec. 23, 1744. — Heard Mr. Brown in the
afternoon. Monday, I travelled to Duxbury, and heard Mr. White-
Held preach in the evening ; and then I travelled with him, and
heard him every day, all the week. Sunday, Dec. 30, preached at
Titicut ; and we had some token of the divine presence. I heard Mr.
Whitefleld again on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, at Bridge-
water, Easton, and Taunton. N.B. — Mr. Wliitefield is exceedingly
filled with the spirit of Jesus, and not ashamed of Christ, his cause
or children ; and a wonderful power attended his administrations.
The assemblies seemed much quickened, melted down ; and some-
times many were overpowered with a sense of divine things, and
crying out. N.B. — Sometimes, since I have been with Mr. White-
field, I have felt guilty, low, and dull ; sometimes I have been
sweetly revived and refreshed."

In 1746, Mr. Reed was ordained as minister of the Second
Congregational Church in Framingham. In 1748, he was
married to Abigail Stoughton of Connecticut. He remained
in Pramingham till 1756 ; when he dissolved his connection
with that church, and was installed as minister of Titicut,
a parish embracing the north-western border of Middle-
borough and the south-west part of Bridgewater.

His children were — Sarah, born in 1750 ; John, Nov. 11,
1751 ; Solomon, in 1752; Samuel, in 1754; and Timothy,
in 1756. Notwithstanding the limited support given to
clergymen in those days, Mr. Reed gave to each of his four
sons a collegiate education. After the death of his first wife,
he married his cousin Sarah Reed, daughter of Jacob, his
father's younger brother. His health, never firm, sensibly
declined in 1784 ; and he died in the spring of 1785, at a
little past the age of sixty-five.

We have been permitted to copy the following interesting-
notice of his funeral. It is from a coarse half-sheet of manu-
script, broken and yellow with age, but clearly written in a
homely hand. It had been carefully kept, probably, from
near that time to the present, in an old Bible of his cousin

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William, son of Jacob, which recently came into the hands
of a grandson.

" Died at his house in Titicut Parish, with a lingering illness, on
the 7th instant (month not named), the Rev. Solomon Reed, pastor
of a church in Middleborough ; and was interred on the 10th: aged
sixty-five. The interment was attended by a numerous concourse,
in procession, to the meeting-house ; where a prayer was made, and
a sermon suited to the occasion, from Isa. xxxiii. 20, was delivered
by the Rev. Mr. Shaw of Bridgewater. The whole was con-
cluded by a pertinent and pathetic prayer by the Rev. Mr. Porter ;
while an effusion of tears marked the affliction of the church and
people, and testified the respect they bore his memory. The
character of Mr. Reed as a disciple of Jesus Christ, and a luminary
in the candlestick in which Providence had placed him, was re-
spectable. The advancement of Christ's kingdom in the hearts of
his flock, and among mankind in general, was a subject in which
he was much engaged. He was a workman that needed not to be
ashamed; for he rightly divided the word of truth, and gave to every
one his portion in due season.

" The doctrine of the gospel, which he fervently inculcated in pub-
lic, and the friendly, pious counsel which he imparted in private,
were proved and enforced by his life and conversation.

" He lived to behold and regret true religion perverted, on the
one hand, into metaphysical disquisition and vain jangling ; and, on
the other, reduced to a level with natural endeavors and human
exertions. That experimental religion which purifies the heart and
overcomes the world was the object which he strove to promote.
Its amiable effects were exemplified in his life : its peculiar consola-
tions were powerful in his death. His natural and his spiritual
children, the people of his charge, and all that knew him, rise up and
call him blessed. May we die his death ! and may our last end be
like his!"

5. Rev. John, son of Solomon, was born in Framingham,
Nov. 11, 1751 ; graduated at Yale College in 1772. He
prepared for the ministry under the instruction of his father,
in Titicut ; and, after the declaration of American Inde-
pendence, was for some time chaplain in the United-States
Navy. On the 7th of January, 1780, he was ordained as

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362 WILLIAM KEADE OF WEYMOUTH,

pastor of the Congregational Church and Society in West
Bridgewater ; being only the third minister of that ancient
parish. In the same year, he married Hannah Sampson of
Middleborough. His children were — John, born Sept. 2,
1781 ; Daniel, Aug. 29, 1783 ; Hannah, Dec. 15, 1785, died
Feb. 20, 1786 ; Solomon, born March 22, 1788 ; Hannah,
July 7, 1790 ; Sally, March 21, 1793, died April 27, 1797 ;
Caleb, born April 22, 1797 ; and Sampson, June 10, 1800.
His wife died in 1815 ; and, in 1822, he married Mrs.
Phoebe Paddock, sister of his first wife.

Mr. Reed was a man of remarkably clear and discrimi-
nating intellect ; was known and acknowledged by the
strong minds of his time as a master of logic, — of the great
art of thinking and reasoning correctly. In the earnest
theological discussions between the Hopkinsians and the Ar-
minians at the large clerical gatherings of fifty years ago,
he always stood forward as the champion of the Liberal doc-
trine. By his ready exposure of sophistry, and his clear and
forcible statements, the success of his argument was gene-
rally triumphant and crushing.

Soon after the adoption of the Federal Constitution, the
almost unanimous sentiment of his Congressional district
pointed to him as eminently qualified, by his ardent patriot-
ism, his sound judgment, and his readiness and power in
debate, for the office of representative in Congress ; and,
in 1794, he was elected to fill the office, which he held for six
years, through three successive Congressional terms ; at the
close of which time, lie declined a re-election. In 1803, he
received the degree of Doctor in Divinity from Brown Uni-
versity. Several of his occasional discourses were published ;
and, about the year 1805, he published a duodecimo volume
on the subject of Infant Baptism.

In his intercourse with men, Mr. Reed's manner, notwith-
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great modesty, and evident humility of spirit. His public
discourses, always clear and convincing, were more notice-
able, perhaps, for strength than for pathos. In his devotional
performances, his manner was most devout and reverential,
and indicated unusual absorption of mind. He had the
entire confidence and respect of his people, and performed
among them, with great discretion and faithfulness, the duties
of the Christian ministry for upwards of fifty years. Near
the close of life, he became entirely blind ; but continued
still to preach, and to perform other duties of his profession.
He died Feb. 17, 1831, in his eightieth year. It is much to
be regretted that there is no print of his remarkably fine
head.

6. John, son of Rev. Dr. John and Hannah Sampson, born
Sept. 2, 1781 ; graduated at Brown University in 1803.
The first two or three years after leaving college he devoted
to teaching, first as preceptor of Plymouth Academy, Bridge-
water ; and then as tutor in Brown University. He chose
the profession of law, and pursued his preparatory studies
with the Hon. William Baylies, an eminent attorney of his
native town. In 18 — , he married Olive Alger, daughter of
Abiezer Alger, Esq., of West Bridgewater. He commenced
the practice of law at Yarmouth, on Cape Cod. He soon
attained eminence in his profession, and was elected a repre-
sentative in Congress. This office he filled for twenty-eight
years. By the impartiality of his course on all important
questions, he early obtained in Congress the confidence of
members of both Houses. His statements of facts and sta-
tistics relating to any subject of debate were always listened
to as reliable and true. He thus exerted, after the first
years of his service, an important influence, especially in the
settlement of all questions involving the interests of his dis-
trict and his State. There were instances, indeed, particu-
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when, by a single speech, he completely revolutionized the
sentiment of the House, and changed the vote from a lean
minority to a triumphant majority. In 1844, he was elected
Lieutenant-Governor ; and was re-elected to the office each
year during the administration of Gov. Briggs. In 1845, he
received the degree of LL.D. from Brown University. His
children were — Sarah, born in 1810 ; John, 1812 ; Martha,
1816 ; Edward, 1817.

7. Sarah, daughter of Hon. John and Olive, born in 1810 ;
married Caleb S. Hunt of Bridgewater. Children, — Mar-
tha, John R., Edward, Mary.

7. John, son of Hon. John, born in 1812 ; married Ame-
lia Crane of Fairhaven. He is Vice-Treasurer of the Boston
Institution for Savings.

7. Martha, daughter of Hon. John, born in 1816 ; mar-
ried James P. Joy, Esq., of Detroit, born Dec. 2, 1810, an
attorney-at-law, who has attained eminence in his profes-
sion, and who holds a position of great influence in connec-
tion with the railroads of that region. She died Feb. 13,
1850. Children, — Sarah R., born in Detroit, June 26,
1842 ; James, Nov. 14, 1847 ; Martha, Jan. 23, 1850.

7. Edward, son of Hon. John, born in 1817 ; married
Catherine, daughter of William Howard, Esq., of Boston,
Nov. 6, 1848. Children, — John, William, Catherine.

6. Daniel, son of Rev. Dr. John, born in 1783 ; married
Nancy, daughter of Gershom Foster of Middleborough, in
1812. Children, — John Montgomery, born Aug. 9, 1814 ;
Charles, Dec. 7, 1815 ; Jane, Feb. 21, 1819.

7. John M., son of Daniel and Nancy, born Aug. 9, 1814 ;
married Elizabeth Broomfield of Folsom, Norfolk County,
Eng., and lives in New- York City. Children, — John M.,
born in 1849 ; Elizabeth B., in 1850, died in 1852 ; Daniel
W., born in 1852 ; Charles Edward, in 1856.

7. Charles, son of Daniel and Nancy, born Dec. 27, 1815 ;

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married Sophia Wilkins Clarke in 1843. Children, — Caleb,
born Sept. 20, 1844 ; Charles Montgomery, 1846 ; Mary,
1848 ; Hubbard Wilkins, 1850 ; William Horton, 1852 ;
Caleb, 1854 ; Samuel A., June 8, 1856. He formerly lived
in New York ; but now lives in West Bridgewater, where
his two youngest children were born.

6. Solomon, son of Rev. Dr. John, born March 22, 1788 ;
married Abigail Howard, daughter of George Howard, in
1811. Children, — Solomon, born in 1811; George How-
ard, 1814 ; William Franklin, 1817. He died in 1822.

7. Solomon, son of Solomon and Abigail, born in 1811 ;
married Lydia Blanchard, Sept. 7, 1838. Child, — Edmond.
He lives in Newton.

7. George H., son of Solomon and Abigail, born 1814;
married Elizabeth Jeffrey, April 19, 1838. Children, —
Isadore, Anna, Walter, Edgar, Alice. He lives in Wal-
tham.

7. William Franklin, son of Solomon and Abigail, born in
1817 ; married Adelaide Arnold. Children, — Frances
Miriam, Georgianna E., John D., William H., Charles
Frederick, Abba Louisa. He resides in Boston.

6. Hannah, daughter of Rev. Dr. John, born in 1790 ;
married Jonathan Copeland, 3d, in 1818. Children (all
born in Bridgewater), — John, born July 4, 1819 ; Hannah
Sampson, July 27, 1821 ; Charles, May 3, 1823 ; Edward,
Jan. 26, 1825 ; Sarah Reed, Feb. 27, 1827 ; Eliza Frances,
Dec. 13, 1828 ; Helen, Jan. 10, 1834.

7. John Copeland, son of Hannah Reed and Jonathan
Copeland, born July 4, 1819 ; married Louisa Packard,
Oct. 15, 1844. Children, — John Reed, born Nov. 21, 1845 ;
Louisa, Nov. 11, 1849.

7. Hannah Sampson, born July 27, 1821 ; married Err
Garfield, Sept. 8, 1856 ; and had Agnes, born Nov. 2,
1858.

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7. Charles, born May 3, 1823 ; married Hannah Elizabeth
Blodgett in March, 1853. Children, — Sarah Prances, born
February, 1854 ; Mary Adelaide, February, 1856 ; Bessie,
January, 1858 ; Alice, February, 1860.

7. Sarah Reed, born Feb. 27, 1827 ; married Elbridge G.
Fifield, September, 1853. Children, — Frank Edward, born
September, 1854 ; Catherine Reed, September, 1856 ; Helen,
November, 1858.

6. Caleb, fourth son of Rev. Dr. John, was born April 22,
1797; graduated at Harvard College in 1817. He adopted
the profession of law, and settled and practised in Yarmouth
till 1827. He then removed to Boston. In July, 1838, he
married Mary E. Minot, who died in 1842. They had two
children, — Helen; Arthur. In November, 1847, he mar-
ried Ruth Cobb. He died in Boston, Oct. 14, 1854. The
following more complete account of his life and character is
selected from an obituary notice published in the " New-
Jerusalem Magazine " of November, 1854 : —

"He entered Harvard College in 1813, and was graduated in
1817. After teaching school in Medford one year, he entered the
office of his brother, the Hon. John Reed (recently Lieutenant-
Governor of this State), and there pursued the study of the law for
three years. He was then admitted to the bar, and practised his
profession in Yarmouth, where he resided until 1827 ; when he
removed to Boston for the purpose of entering into the firm of Cyrus
Alger and Company, which was afterwards incorporated as the
South-Boston Iron Company, and is widely known as one of the
principal iron-founding establishments in the United States. He
remained connected with this company until his death, which was
caused by an attack of dysentery, with fever ; and took place on
Saturday, the 14th of October, 1854. During this fatal illness, he was
cheerful and childlike ; not resigned (for this implies the subdual or
suppression of some unwillingness); and, to use his own expression,
' he had no choice,' but was glad to leave the issues of life and death
in the hands of his Father.

" He received the doctrines of the New Jerusalem while studying

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law ; being one of a circle of young men, of about the same age, who
were in college together, and received these doctrines at nearly the
same time, and have ever since lived near to each other in a com-
panionship, from which the late Mr. Hobart, and now Mr. Reed, are
all that have been called away. The wish to be with the society of
the church in Boston was one of the motives which led him to re-
move to this city. He assumed at once the position which belonged
to his character, and has ever held it ; through all these years, aiding
materially in promoting every good work, and in averting from us
much evil.

" In 1832, Mr. Reed took charge of the Magazine, and has ever
since been its editor. Of the manner in which he has conducted this
work, we need not speak to the readers of it. One thing, however
we cannot forbear from saying : during this long period, he has sus-
tained the Magazine, sometimes with but little of the aid which
might have been rendered, always while pressed by the urgent
cares and duties of a very extensive business, and always without
pecuniary profit or compensation.

" The funeral services took place in the afternoon of Tuesday, the
17th of October, in the New-Jerusalem Church in Boston, and were
attended by a large assemblage.

" As most of those for whom we are writing this notice have long
known Mr. Reed in his relation to the church, it would seem unne-
cessary that we should do more than allude to his eminent utility
there. The offices he has borne, and the habit of the General Con-
vention, during the whole term of his connection with it, to put him
in those places which demanded especial ability and inclination for
the discharge of important duties, constitute the best evidence on
this point.

" Of his character we must speak, although it will not be expect-
ed that we should enlarge upon this topic. Suffice it then to say,
that its prominent and governing elements were exceeding kindness
and benevolence, integrity, deliberate caution, sound judgment, a
steadfast and undisturbed look at the precise use to be accomplished,
and the most inflexible adherence to the principles which he thought
should govern the question before him. Perhaps it was this sinceri-
ty and singleness of purpose, and the quiet firmness that avoided all
violence or unnecessary conflict, but was never to be shaken, which,
more than any thing else, explain his influence and his utility. This

868 WILLIAM READE OF WEYMOUTH,

firmness was adherence to principle, and not to mere opinion ; an
important distinction, which few persons make. Always conciliatory
in manner, he listened, not in silence only, but in good faith, to
whatever was said ; and impressed those who conversed with him
with a conviction, that he was able and disposed to do them full
justice : and he easily, for sufficient reason, modified or relin-
quished an opinion. But his principles were unassailable, and
he saw them clearly.

" He has gone from among us. Externally, we shall see him no
more, and hear him no more ; but it is our hope and our belief, that
we shall still feel his influence, and be the better for it. From the
new home to which he has gone, he may help us more than ever;
for the doctrines which he loved so well permit us to think of him
iis trained by the life of uses which he led here and its varied dis-
cipline, and by the devoting so large a part of his time, his thought,
and his affection, to the good of the church on earth, to enter upon
corresponding uses, but with far wider scope and far ampler means
of active usefulness, in the church in heaven."

6. Sampson, son of Rev. Dr. John, born June 10, 1800 ;
graduated at Harvard University in 1818, where he held a
high rank as a scholar. After graduating, he remained at
the university about two years as a theological student ; but
he finally removed to Boston, and adopted the profession of a
merchant, — a profession for which his honorable practice
and example have uniformly tended to command respect.
In Dec. 25, 1832, he married Catherine, daughter of John
Clark, Esq., of Waltham. His children are — James, born
June 8, 1834 ; Thomas, Feb. 3, 1837 ; Elizabeth, July 10,
1838 ; Joseph Sampson, Dec. 13, 1841. Having early em-
braced the doctrines of the New Church, he has been one of
the principal supporters of the society of this order in Bos-
ton, and of the General Convention of the New Church in
America. His devotion to the interests of this church for a
period of forty years has justly secured to him the confi-
dence and respect of its members throughout the country.
His literary tastes have led him to devote much time to

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 869

books, and particularly to theological inquiries and studies.
Besides his contributions to periodical literature, he has had
the sole charge of the " New-Church Magazine for Children "
from its commencement in 1844 ; and also, since the death
of his brother Caleb, a prominent part in the management of
the "New-Jerusalem Magazine." In 1826, he published a
small work, entitled " Observations on the Growth of the
Mind," which has attracted much attention, and passed
through five editions in this country, and one or more in
England.

Unassuming in manners, and of a retiring disposition, he
has never sought place or influence in public affairs ; though
he has served two or three years in the office of alderman.
The duties of this situation, as also those of membership of
the public-school committee, of bank direction, and of vari-
ous trusts, public and private, he has discharged in a manner
to insure the general respect of his fellow-citizens.

7. James, son of Sampson and Catherine, born June 8,
1834; married Emily E. Ripley, Dec. 19,1858. Child, —
Catherine Clark, born Sept. 21, 1859. He graduated at Har-
vard University in 1855. After leaving college, he taught one
year in the public Latin School in Boston, and then devoted
his attention to theological studies; and in April, 1860, was
ordained as a minister of the New-Jerusalem Church, and
installed as assistant pastor of the Boston Society. He will
be remembered, by the members of the Reed Family who
were present at the celebration of the two hundredth anni-
versary of the settlement of Bridgewater, as the gentleman
who delivered the poem on that occasion.

5. Solomon, son of Rev. Solomon, born in 1752; gradu-
ated at Yale College in 1775 ; was ordained as minister of
the Congregational Church in Petersham, Mass. He mar-
ried Susanna Willard. His children were — Solomon, born
in 1787 ; Susanna ; Mary ; Josiah H. ; Hannah ; Sally ;

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Samuel H., born in 1795 ; John ; William ; Catherine. He
died at Petersham, Feb. 2, 1808, aged fifty-five years.*

6. Solomon, son of Rev. Solomon and Susanna of Peters-
ham, born in 1787 ; lived at Rowe, Mass. ; was a man of
distinction ; a member of both branches of the Legislature.
He died at Rowe, in May, 1846 ; and left no children.

6. Josiah H, son of Rev. Solomon of Petersham, lived
in Rowe ; died in 1835, leaving a son, who is a wholesale
dniggist in Chicago.

6. Samuel H., son of Rev. Solomon of Petersham, born in
1795 ; was associated with his brother Solomon, in Rowe,
in manufacturing. He was a representative to the Legisla-
ture for five years ; was postmaster twenty-five years. In
1847, he was appointed sheriff of the county ; in which office
he still remains. Resides in Greenfield. He has two sons
and two daughters.

5. Samuel, son of Rev. Solomon and Abigail, born in
1755 ; graduated at Yale College in 1777 ; ordained over the
church and society of Warwick, Mass, in 1779 ; married Anna
Shaw, 1780. Children, — Samuel, born March 23, 1781 ;
Anna, April 19, 1784 ; Abigail, Feb. 17, 1786 ; Samuel,
April 25, 1788 ; Stephen, Nov. 5, 1790 ; Timothy, July 10,
1793. He died July 31, 1812, in the fifty-seventh year of

* Mr. Reed is represented as a man of large frame and great physical power.
His boldness and determination of character are illustrated by an incident in
the time of Shay's Rebellion, the account of which comes to us from a reliable
source. It is related that a party of Shay's troops came to the house of Mr. Reed
during a bad snow-storm, one Sunday morning; turned Mr. Reed's cattle out of his
barn, and put their horses in; and, at the same time, took possession of his house,
putting their camp-kettles in the several fire-places, and having things iu their own
way. So great was the confusion, that the sabbath services were entirely inter-
rupted; and when he had time to collect himself, and determine his course of ac-
tion, he went to the barn, turned the horses out, and put his own cattle back in
their place; and, in the house, he passed from room to room, manifesting such reso-
lute determination, that the troops were awed, and restrained from any violence.
The result was, that the report of the near approach of Gov. Bowdoin's troops
induced the Shays party to decamp in such haste as to leave several camp-kettles
behind them, and gave an opportunity of an uninterrupted afternoon service.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 371

his age, and thirty-third of his ministry. He was a man
of sound sense, a devoted Christian, and much beloved by
his people, and by the community generally. After his
death, his bereaved flock erected a monument to his memo-
ry. It is a marble tablet, supported by four pillars over his
grave, with the following inscription : —

EEV. SAMUEL EEED,

SECOND MINISTER IN WARWICK,

Died 31st July, 1812; mt. 57.

He had strong powers of mind; was bold in defence of the truth; severe against
wickedness; mild towards the humble; pitiful to the distressed; affectionate
towards his friends.

Frank and sincere in all his professions; rational and fervent in his piety; faithful
in his pastoral duties.

He taught the Christian doctrine in its simplicity and truth; he maintained the
freedom of the human mind, the unchangeable obligations of moral duty, the im-
partial justice of God, and future retribution.

Under the vital impression of this faith, he felt and communicated the cheering
entertainments of life, and enjoyed the richest solace and triumph in death.

6. Anna, daughter of Rev. Samuel and Anna, married
Deacon Joseph Wilson, December, 1813. She died in War-
wick in 1835.

6. Abigail, daughter of Rev. Samuel and Anna, married
Joel Mayo of Warwick in December, 1805. Children, —
Caleb ; Joel ; Samuel ; Lorin ; Mary, born in 1819, married
William Crosby, a teacher in Providence ; Edwin ; Abby,
born in 1825.

7. Abby Mayo, daughter of Abigail Reed and Joel Mayo,
married C. W. Hastings. Children, — Mary A., Joseph W.,
Herbert. They live in Warwick.

6. Samuel, son of Rev. Samuel and Anna, married Me-
linda Wheelock. Children, — John, born Feb. 26, 1820;
Meliuda A., Oct. 12, 1821. Lived in Greenfield. He died
very suddenly, and was interred in Warwick ; where his
widow resides.

372 WILLIAM READE OF WEYMOUTH,

7. John, son of Samuel and Melinda, married Delia Win-
ter. Children, — Frederick E., born March 1, 1847 ; Ella E.,
Aug. 7, 1856. They live in Worcester. He is a teacher of
music.

6. Stephen, son of Rev. Samuel and Abigail, born Nov. 5,
1790 ; married Jerusha Moor. Children, — Emily, born
March 1, 1821 ; S. Chandler, April 22, 1822 ; Charles, Oct. 3,
1823 ; Abby J., March 24, 1827 ; Samuel, March 22, 1829 ;
Mary A., Sept. 29, 1830. They lived in Warwick, on the
old homestead. He and his wife, and all his children ex-
cept one, are, or have been, teachers. He died in 1847, aged
fifty-six.

7. Emily, daughter of Stephen, married Danford Tyler of
Warwick, May 18, 1843. Children, — Emily Jane, born
Dec. 18, 1845 ; James D., June 15, 1848 ; M. Reed Tyler,
June 19, 1850 ; Mary A., April 18, 1852.

7. S. Chandler, son of Stephen and Jerusha, married Ze-
biah H. Jones, Nov. 25, 1852. After her death, he married
Rhoda G. Tyler, Nov. 25, 1857. He lives in Warwick, and
is a school-teacher.

7. Charles, son of Stephen and Jerusha, resides in Boston.

7. Abby J., daughter of Stephen and Jerusha, married
Nathan Kendall of Laporte, Ind., May 24, 1857.

7. Samuel, son of Stephen and Jerusha, married Maria
H. Barber, November, 1853, and lives in Warwick. Chil-
dren,— Almah M., born in 1855 ; Abby J., June 4, 1857.

7. Mary A., daughter of Stephen and Jerusha, graduated
at Mount-Holyoke Seminary, and is a teacher ; who, with
her elder brother and her widowed mother, resides on the
old homestead, formerly the residence of the Rev. Samuel
Reed : a romantic and beautiful spot.

6. Timothy, son of Rev. Samuel and Anna, married Su-
san Kinsly. Children, — Helen; Eliza D., born in 1823;
Susan K., 1825. He graduated at Dartmouth College,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 878

Hanover ; adopted the profession of law, and was partner in
business with Hon. John Reed in Yarmouth for many years.
He was clerk of the courts for the county of Barnstable,
register of deeds, register of probate, and cashier of a bank.
He died at Barnstable in 1853.

7. Susan, daughter of Timothy and Susan, married Natha-
niel Wales, a trader in Stoughton. Children, — Susan R.,
born in 1854 ; Timothy, 1857.

5. Timothy, youngest son of Rev. Solomon of Titicut,
born in Framingham in 1756 ; graduated at Yale College in
1782 ; married Hannah Kingman in 1788 ; was a lawyer
in West Bridgewater. Children, — Caleb Kingman, born in
1789, died in 1796 ; Caleb Kingman, born in 1799, died
in 1837. He died in 1813 : his wife died May 7, 1849.

4. Jacob, son of Jacob and Sarah of Abington, born
July 7, 1720 ; married Mary Ford, Nov. 26, 1741. Chil-
dren,— (1.) Marcia, born Aug. 31, 1742; married Benja-
min Wood, Dec. 20, 1776. (2.) Abijah, born Aug. 14,
1744. After the death of Mary, he married his cousin
Alice, daughter of Capt. William Reed, Dec. 1, 1748. The

children were — Alice, born , was never married, died

in Easton, aged ninety ; Jacob, born May 6, 1757 ; Bela,
born Sept. 2, 1769. He removed, late in life, to Easton,
where his children Abijah, Alice, and Bela resided ; and died
there, Oct. 11, 1806, at the age of eighty-six.

5. Abijah, son of Jacob and Mary Ford, born Aug. 14,
1744; married Sarah Bates, Oct. 29, 1768. Children,—
Sarah, born April 25, 1770 ; Hannah, June 17, 1774 ;
Abijah, June 5, 1777 ; Noah, June 22, 1780 ; Hannah,
March 16, 1790. About the year 1790, he removed to
Easton. He was afterwards deacon of the church of Rev.
William Reed of Easton. He was a man of extraordinary
biblical knowledge, an independent thinker, and an earnestly
religious man. He died in Easton, June 16, 181G,

374 WILLIAM READE OP WEYMOUTH,

6. Sarah, daughter of Abijah and Sarah, married Lemuel
Lothrop of Bridgewater.

6. Abijah, son of Abijah and Sarah, born Jan. 5, 1777 ;
married Catherine, daughter of Isaac Lothrop of Easton.
His children were — Abijah, who died young; Lydia, born
Feb. 3, 1800, married Edmond Curtis, had children, and
died July 1, 1859 ; Mary, born March 23, 1801, married
Benjamin Buck; Sarah, born Dec. 7, 1804, married Edward
W. Dean, and died July 23, 1829 ; Abijah, born March 14,
1813, died in Boston, Sept. 14, 1835.

6. Noah, son of Abijah and Sarah, born June 22, 1780;
married Lucy Hayward, daughter of Joseph Hayward of
Easton. Children, — Noah1, born March 25, 1804 ; Susanna,
March 22, 1806 ; Malvina, Aug. 26, 1807 ; Lucy, Jan. 24,
1809, married Ebenezer Drake of Stoughton ; Botheus, born
July 26, 1811.

7. Noah, son of Noah and Lucy, born March 25, 1804 ;
married Mary Shaw, Feb. 21, 1830. Children, — Lucy
Catherine, born Sept. 23, 1831 ; Catherine Frances, June 13,
1834; James Austin and John Gurney, Oct. 6, 1841.

7. Kotheus, born July 26, 1811 ; married Miss Howard,
and had a son Albert ; and, for second wife, married Miss
Lewis, and had a daughter Elizabeth Lewis.

6. Hannah, daughter of Abijah and Sarah, born March 16,
1790 ; married James Lothrop.

5. Jacob, son of Jacob and his second wife Alice, born
May 6, 1757 ; married Sarah Noyes, Feb. 21, 1782. Chil-
dren,—Polly, born Oct. 27, 1782; Sarah, April 12, 1784;
Ellis, March 2, 1787 ; Lucretia, June 1, 1789 ; Jacob,
June 30, 1791. He removed from Abington to Farming-
ton, Me., and was a payer of taxes in that town in 1798 ;
and afterwards removed to Springfield.

5. Bela, son of Jacob and Alice, born Sept. 2, 1769 ; mar-
ried Mehetabel, daughter of Obabiah Reed, Aug. 20, 1795.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 375

Children, — Mehetabel, born Sept. 1, 1797 ; Bela, born
Oct. 3, 1800 ; Elbridge, Jan. 22, 1809, was married, died

July 13, 1857 ; Lydia, born , was twice married, and

has children.

6. Mehetabel, daughter of Bela and Mehetabel, born
Sept. 1, 1797 ; married Galen Sylvester ; had children ;
died Jan. 11, 1835.

6. Bela, son of Bela and Mehetabel, born Oct. 3, 1800 ;
married Joanna Lane, Sept. 27, 1826. Children, — Jacob,
and one daughter.

4. Elijah, son of Jacob and Sarah Hersey, born Feb. 14,
1728 ; married Sarah Reed, daughter of Obadiah, July 10,
1755. Children,— Hannah, born Aug. 22, 1756; Elijah,
Sept. 20, 1758 ; Luke, April 28,1763 ; Paul, Dec. 20, 1765 ;
Joshua, July 25, 1768 ; Jacob, June 25, 1771.

5. Elijah, son of Elijah and Sarah Reed, born Sept. 20,
1758; the name of his wife unknown. Children, — Beza-
leel, Sarah, Solomon, Parnel, Elijah, Alice. Sarah married
Amos Keith ; Parnel married N. Edson ; Alice married John
Tripp.

6. Bezaleel, son of Elijah, and grandson of Elijah and
Sarah, married Ruth Edson. Children, — Bezaleel; Paul.

6. Solomon, son of Elijah, married Delaney Shaw. Chil-
dren,— Elijah, Reliance, Iantha.

6. Elijah, son of Elijah, married Jane Thomas. Children,
— William T., Jane D., Henry W., Franklin, Nathaniel T.,
Alexander H.

7. William, son of Elijah and Jane, married Ann M. Wat-
son. Children, — Alexander H. ; Ellen J.

7. Henry W., son of Elijah and Jane, married Emily
Howard, Oct. 30, 1842. Children, — Isabella, Jane, Helen,
W. Shirley.

7. Franklin, son of Elijah and Jane, married Harriet
Richards. Child, — Franklin.

376 WILLIAM EEADE OF WEYMOUTH,

5. Jacob, son of Elijah and Sarah, born June 25, 1771 ;
married Sarah. Children, — David, born Dec. 1, 1800, set-
tled in Cummington ; Cyrus, who lives in New-York City.

6. Cyrus, son of Jacob and Sarah, married Cynthia. Chil-
dren,— James S., born Dec. 3, 1836; Cynthia L., Sept. 5,
1847 ; Cyrus EL, June 27, 1844 ; Cynthia Henrietta, Sept. 5,
1847. Moved from Pembroke to New York.

5. Luke, son of Elijah, married Keziah Leonard. Chil-
dren, — Matilda, who married Silas Hathaway ; Luke ;
Keziah, married Jacob Perkins ; Paul ; Joshua ; Jacob.

6. Luke, son of Luke, married Ann Leach. Children, —
Adam, Julia Ann, Archelaus, Cyrus, Luke, Gustavus.

7. Adam, son of Luke and Ann, married Eliza Staples.

7. Julia Ann, daughter of Luke and Ann, married James
E. Watson.

7. Archelaus, son of Luke and Ann, married Mary Ann
Hilman.

7. Cyrus, son of Luke and Ann, married Nancy Clark.

5. Paul, son of Elijah and Sarah, born Dec. 20, 1765 ;
married Mary Noyes. Children, — Adam; Paul A.

5. Joshua, son of Elijah and Sarah, born July 25, 1768 ;
married Deborah Noyes, Feb. 7, 1788 ; settled in East
Bridgewater. Children, — Deborah, born March 30, 1700 ;
Joshua, July 25, 1792 ; Samuel P. ; Silence, Oct. 19,
1796 ; Daniel Noyes, Aug. 13, 1799 ; John, Jan. 29, 1802 ;
Mary P.

6. John, son of Joshua and Deborah, born Jan. 29, 1802 ;
married Hannah G. Barrel, November, 1833. Children, —
Deborah, born April 8, 1837; Hannah G., Sept. 1, 1S39;
John N., Sept. 8, 1842 ; Joshua, Feb. 3, 1848. He lives in
East Bridgewater, and is a justice of the peace.

7. James S., son of Cyrus and Cynthia, born at Pembroke,
Dec. 30, 1846 ; married Nancy B. Children, — Susan
Aborn, born Feb. 4, 1855 ; James G.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 377

7. Isaac, son of Isaac and Sally Pulling, born June 26,
1805; married Dec. 18, 1831. Children, — George A.,
bora in 1832 ; Nancy A., 1836. His wife died in 1844.
Married Sarah Porter in 1849. Children, — Isaac W., born
in 1853 ; Asa C, 1857. Lives in East Bridgewater.

7. Nahum, son of Isaac and Sally, born Dec. 15, 1806 ;
married Maria Witherell, Oct. 6, 1841. Children, — Frank
Austin, born July 1, 1852 ; Clinton W., Sept. 4, 1842; Na-
hum S., May 6, 1845 ; Ezra A., Oct. 18, 1847, and died
April 8, 1849. He resides in Boston.

8. Dexter, son of Isaac and Sally, born in 1809, and lives
in East Bridgewater ; married Lydia Wright in 1842. Chil-
dren,— Samuel D., born in 1846; Franklin P., 1853 ; John
B., 1856.

7. James, son of Isaac, born in 1815 ; married Eliza A.
Keith in 1844, and lives in East Bridgewater. Children, —
Lurana T., born in 1845 ; Sarah S., 1846 ; James Lewis,
Jan. 5, 1851. His wife died in 1851. Married Mary A.
Severance. Child, — Clarence D., born in 1857.

7. Calvin, son of Isaac, born in 1819 ; married Mary S.
Bates in 1844. Children, — Mary F., born April 20, 1845 ;
Benjamin C, Dec. 24, 1849. Lives in East Bridgewater,
and is a justice of the peace.

7. Diantha, daughter of Isaac, bora in 1821 ; married
Tolman French from Maine, and lives in East Bridge-
water. Children, — Bradford, born in 1844, died the same
year; Isaac R., born in 1845; Eli B., 1847; George T.,
1852.

3. John, second son of William and Esther, and grandson
of William the emigrant, born July 10, 1687 ; married
Sarah ; and had John, born Aug. 10, 1713. After the death
of his wife Sarah, he married Mary, and had children,
— James, born Oct. 12,1716; Mary, Dec. 21, 1719; Eze-
kiel, Nov. 14, 1721 ; Peter, March 29, 1723 ; Squire, May 25,

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378

1725 ; Silence, Aug. 10, 1728 ; Betty, April 8, 1730 ; Sa-
muel, July 13, 1732. The last two children died young.

4. John, son of John and Sarah, and grandson of Wil-
liam and Esther, born July 10, 1713 ; married Mary Torrey,
June 20, 1731. Children, — Mary, born April 7, 1735;
Hannah, May 16, 1738 ; Samuel, Nov. 10, 1740 ; Sarah,
June 14, 1744 ; Frederick, July 28, 1746 ; William, May 9,
1748.

5. William, son of John and Mary Torrey, born May 9,
1748 ; married Elizabeth Stammers of Braiutree, Sept. 3,
1768. Children, — Elizabeth ; William, born Feb. 27, 1774 ;
Mary, May 13, 1776 ; Sarali ; Lydia ; Ruth ; Anna, Jan. 21,
1779. He lived at one time in Randolph ; but his children
(six of them) were born in Weymouth. He afterwards
moved back to Braintree ; where lie died March 29, 1833.
His wife died Oct. 12, 1821, aged seventy-seven.

6. William, son of William and Elizabeth of Braintree,
born Feb. 27, 1774 ; married Relief Penniman of Brain-
tree. Children, — William ; Dorcas Elizabeth. He died
Sept. 14, 1813.

7. William, son of William and Relief, married Susan.
Children, — Susan, born Oct. 11, 1825 ; William, March 10,
1828; Clarissa, Sept. 11, 1829; William, Oct. 30, 1832.

8. William, son of William and Susan, married Hannah.
Child, — Mary Ann.

4. Peter, son of John and Sarah, and grandson of William
and Esther, born at Abington, March 29, 1723 ; married
Lucy Huggins, March 25, 1748. Children, — Sarah, born at
Abington, Aug. 26, 1757 ; Samuel, Nov. 30, 1760 ; Joanna,
Sept. 8, 1763, married Nov. 27, 1788, at Cummington, to
Jacob Nash.

4. James, son of John and Sarah, born Oct. 12, 1716 ;
married Abigail Nash, May 10, 1739. Children, — Tabitha,
born March 3, 1740, married Elisha Lincoln, Oct. 5, 1779 ;

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 379

Experience, born Oct. 23, 1741, married Josiah Joslin,
Dec. 21, 1767 ; Solomon, born Oct. 25, 1743 ; Adam,
Aug. 19, 1745 ; Stephen, July 5, 1748 ; Huldah, April 25,
1751 ; Molly, March 3, 1756 ; James, June 24, 1758 ; Abel,
April 15, 1754.

5. Solomon, son of James and Abigail, born Oct. 25,
1743 ; married Mercy Tirrel, Sept. 28, 1765. Child, —
Molly, born Nov. 22, 1766.

5. Adam, son of James and Abigail, born Aiig. 17, 1745 ;
married Silence Reed, July 14, 1768. Child, — Adam.

6. Adam, son of Adam, married Mary Porter, Feb. 25,
1819. Child, — Mary Porter, born Sept. 16, 1823.

6. James, son of James and Abigail, born June 24, 1758 ;
married Ruth Niles, May 19, 1779. Children, — Abel, born
Sept. 5, 1780 ; Susanna, Feb. 18, 1782 ; Ruth Porter,
Dec. 14, 1783 ; Goddard, who lives in Randolph.

Abel, son of James and Ruth, born Sept. 5, 1780 ; mar-
ried Lydia Loud of Plymouth. Children, — William Cole,
who lives in Roxbury ; James Ward, lives in Roxbury ;
Eliza ; Lydia ; Charles Thayer. He lived in Boston, and
died in 1817.

Charles T., son of Abel and Lydia, married, in Boston,
Sophia E. Critston of Nashua, Feb. 3, 1828. He lives in
Boston.

4. Ezekiel, son of John and Sarah, born Nov. 14, 1721 ;
married Hannah Beal in 1742. Children, — Ezekiel, born
March 3, 1744; Hannah, Nov. 1, 1746; Squire, Nov. 1,
1748 ; Mary, Jan. 1, 1751 ; Zebulon, March 31, 1752 ; Mary,
Nov. 20, 1754, married Simeon Gannet in 1775 ; Samuel,
born Dec. 25, 1756 ; Issachar, Aug. 9, 1759 ; Deborah,
Dec. 6, 1762, married J. Gumey, Dec. 18, 1783.

5. Ezekiel, son of Ezekiel and Hannah, born in Abington,
March 3, 1744 ; married Mary Rogers of Marshfield, April 2,
1768. Children, — Polly, born in 1769 ; Zelotes, 1771 ;

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Ezekiel, Sept. 16, 1772 ; Zebulon, 1774 ; Hannah, 1776 ;
Olive, 1777 ; Jesse, 1778 ; Charles ; Abraham ; Briggs Rogers,
May 2, 1784. The following, from Hayward's " Gazetteer of
Massachusetts," will do justice to the memory of Mr. Ezekiel
Reed better than I can by any effort of my own : —

" The making of tacks by hand commenced very early in Alding-
ton. The first attempt was to cut up old iron hoops into points by a
very imperfect kind of shears, and take them up one by one and
place them in a common vice, and screw up and unscrew for the
purpose of heading each tack with a hammer. From this process
they were called cut tacks : but the mode of making by hand was
much improved by movable dies placed in an iron frame, in the
shape of an ox-bow ; the two ends, in which were placed the dies,
being brought together by a lever pressed by the foot. In the first
process, a man might make one thousand tacks per day ; in the lat-
ter, eight thousand. This was a great improvement ; and the in-
ventor, Mr. Ezekiel Reed, was entitled to a patent. He made some
attempts to conceal the operation ; but it was so simple, and so easily
applied, that others soon got it, and it came into general use. With
machines, or tack-tools as they were called, thus improved, from
three to four hundred men and boys were employed in making tacks
in the town of Abington and vicinity."

6. Ezekiel, son of Ezekiel and Mary, born Sept. 16, 1772 ;
married Rebecca Edson in 1794, and settled in West Bridge-
water. Married Hannah Littlefield in 1807. Children, —
Emma, born Aug. 17, 1795, married Jacob Tirrel in 1813 ;
Lydia B., born May 30, 1797 ; Josiah, March 2, 1799 ; Ed-
win B., Jan. 20, 1804 ; Charles B., May 21, 1806, died
May 3, 1836. His wife died Jan. 23, 1845 ; and he married
Polly Luddens, Dec. 10, 1845.

7. Josiah, son of Ezekiel, born at West Bridgewater,
March 2, 1799 ; married Jennet Heath. Child, — Ann,
born Sept. 10, 1848.

7. Edwin B., son of Ezekiel, born Jan. 20, 1804; married
Furosina Glass of Duxbury, and they live in Kingston. Chil-
dren,— Edwin Theodore, born Sept. 26, 1823; Alphonso,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 381

November, 1830 ; Helen, April 30, 1837 : all born in West
Bridge water.

7. Charles B., son of Ezekiel, born May 21, 1806 ; mar-
ried Eunice B. Harden. Children, — Susan Frances, born
June 13, 1832, married Simeon C. Heath, May 7, 1851 ;
Emily Briggs, born Dec. 17, 1833 ; Eunice Edson, Jan. 3,
1836. His wife died Oct. 22, 1855, aged fifty.

7. Horatio G., son of Col. Jesse, married Wealthy. Chil-
dren,— Horatio G. H., born in Marshfield, April 12, 1828;
Maria W., Feb. 25, 1833, born in Scituate, and married
Henry L. Vinal ; Ellen L., born June 15, 1839, in Marsh-
field ; Mary Forbes, born in Marshfield, Jan. 5, 1841. He
lives in Scituate.

8. Horatio G., son of Horatio G., born April 12, 1828 ;
married Esther M. Cole, April 2, 1850.

6. Briggs Rogers, son of Ezekiel and Mary, born May 2,
1784 ; married Betsey Hutchinson of Danvers, May 21, 1809.
Children, — Mary Ann, born in Boston, Jan. 1, 1810; Eli-
zabeth, born in Weymouth, Dec. 17, 1811, married Richard
Phillips, Esq., of Topsfield; Susan Jane, born in Pembroke,
May 11, 1814; William Briggs, born in Danvers, Dec. 15,
1816; Edward Rogers, March 14, 1819; Augustus, April 13,
1821 ; George W., Aug. 5, 1823, of the firm of Reed and
Hastings, No. 9, Old State House; John, Aug. 13, 1825;
James Hervey, Jan. 28, 1828, is a teacher in St. Louis ;
Joseph Warren, May 7, 1830, died by the explosion of the
boiler on board the " Empire State," at Fall River, July 27,
1856 (he was a Baptist clergyman, very pious and devoted ;
and his sudden and awful death spread a gloom over the
Christian community, wherever his devotion and zeal had
been known) ; Cornelia H., Aug. 28, 1832. He died in
Danvers, Sept. 28, 1835 : his wife died March 31, 1850.

7. Mary Ann, daughter of Briggs and Elizabeth, married
William E. Kimball of Topsfield. Children, — Ann Maria,

382 WILLIAM READE OF WEYMOUTH,

Feb. 11, 1829 ; Mary Jane, Jan. 31, 1833 ; Elizabeth R.,
June 8, 1834 ; William, Sept. 5, 1837 ; Ellen, March 20,
1840.

7. Susan Jane, daughter of Briggs and Elizabeth, married
William Alley. Children, — Susan Jane, William Edward,
George Hervey. Lives in Marlborough.

7. Elizabeth, daughter of Briggs and Betsey, born in
Weymouth, Dec. 17, 1811 ; married Richard Phillips, Esq.,
of Topsfield. Children, — Harriet E., born Jan. 26, 1832,
died June 2, 1842; George Frelinghuysen, born July 17,
1834 ; Susan Jane, Aug. 15, 1841, died July, 1850 ; Charles
Albert, born April 26, 1851. Two children died in in-
fancy.

7. William Briggs, son of Briggs and Betsey, born in
Danvers, Dec. 15, 1816 ; married Eliza Howard of Salem ;
keeps at No. 134, Lincoln Street, Boston. Children, —
William H., born April 9, 1846 ; Benjamin C, Aug. 10,
1850 ; Isabel H., June 20, 1857. Lives at No. 4, Winthrop
Street, East Boston.

7. Augustus, son of Briggs and Betsey, born April 13,
1821; married Laura Ann Leach of Boston. Children, —
Ann Eliza, Emma Cornelia, Warren Augustus, Alice Jane.
Does business in East Boston, corner of Meriden and Paris
Street.

7. George W., son of Briggs and Betsey, born Aug. 5,
1823 ; married Ellen Howard of Salem, Oct. 20, 1852 : she
died May 6, 1855. Married Hannah Elizabeth Maston of
Salem, for second wife, Oct. 29, 1857. He is of the firm
of Reed and Hastings, Old State House. Children, —
George Hervey, born Sept. 7, 1853 ; Anna Josephine,
Sept. 27, 1858.

6. Samuel Licander, son of Ezekiel and Mary, born in
Bridgewater, July 24, 1786 ; married Nancy Gray of Water-
town, Mass., Feb. 27, 1817, and settled in Gardiner, Me. ;

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 383

where he carried on the nail manufactory of that place.
Children, — Samuel Licander, horn Oct. 24, 1817; Harriet
Newell, Aug. 19, 1821, died Aug. 28, 1822 ; Thomas Rogers,
born May 1, 1819 ; Alonzo, Jan. 20, 1821 ; Jesse, Feb. 8,
1826 ; George William, April 21, 1831.

7. Samuel, son of Samuel L. and Nancy, born Oct. 24,
1817, and his brother Alonzo, born Jan. 20, 1824, live
at Mount Auburn, and follow the business of black-
smiths.

7. Thomas R., son of Samuel and Nancy, born May 1,
1819 ; lives in Gardner, Me., and is in the ship plug and
wedge manufactory.

7. Jesse, son of Samuel L. and Nancy, born Feb. 8,
1826 ; lives in Gardiner, Me., and is by trade a house-
carpenter.

7. George William, son of Samuel L. and Nancy, born
April 24, 1831 ; married Hannah Augusta, daughter of Dr.
Currier of Bath, Me. He lives in Bath, and is by occupa-
tion a dentist.

4. Peter, son of John and Sarah, born March 29, 1723 ;
married Lucy Haynes, March 25, 1748. Children, — Sarah,
born Aug. 26, 1757 ; Samuel, Nov. 30, 1760 ; Joanna,
Sept. 8, 1768.

7. Alonzo, son of Samuel L. and Nancy of Gardiner, Me.,
born Jan. 20, 1824 ; married in Watertown, Mass , to Ade-
line White, Aug. 9, 1852.

3. Simeon, son of William and Esther, had John S., who
married Lucy Lucas, July 23, 1747. Children, — Zadock,
born Sept. 1, 1749 ; Rhoda, Feb. 21, 1751 ; Simeon, May 6,
1753 ; Sarah, June 16, 1758 ; John, May 22, 1760 ; Molly,
Sept. 5, 1762 ; Levi, Feb. 12, 1765 ; Oliver, Jan. 8, 1768.
He removed to Pembroke before 1762.

5. Zadock, son of John S. and Mary, born Sept. 1, 1749 ;
married Lucy Gardner, Sept. 16, 1770, and settled in

384 WILLIAM READE OP WEYMOUTH,

Bridgewater. Children, — Olive, born June 2, 1773, mar-
ried Samuel P. French in 1801 ; Miriam, born July 12,
1775 ; Rachel, Feb. 19, 1777, died in 1782 ; Bela, born
Oct. 20, 177G ; Rhoda, Feb. 12, 1781 ; Simeon, Feb. 5, 1779,
died July 12, 1781 ; Obed, born Feb. 20, 1783 ; Luther,
Dec. 17, 1798 ; Anna, Aug. 17, 1785 ; Lucy, May 29, 1793 ;
Polly, March 30, 1795. He died in Hanson, Jan. 17,
1822.

6. Bela, son of Zadock and Lucy, born Oct. 20, 1771 ;
married Polly Beals in 1793. She died in 1795, aged
twenty-five years. Married Sally Thomas, March 7, 1798.
Children, — Daniel, born Sept. 30, 1798 ; Wealthy, June 30,
1800 ; Polly, March 2, 1804 ; Bela, Oct. 6, 1806 ; Sally,
May 2, 1809. He afterwards moved to Pembroke. He died
Aug. 4, 1848.

6. Simeon, son of Zadock and Lucy, born Feb. 5, 1779 ;
married Ruth, and settled in Pembroke. Children, — So-
phia, born June 28, 1802; Isaac T., Oct. 10, 1804; Simeon,
Aug. 3, 1810 ; Deborah, May 26, 1822 ; Calvin, May 26,
1824 ; Adeline, March 30, 1827 ; Joseph. He died in Pem-
broke, Aug. 7, 1847.

7. Bela, son of Bela and Sally of Pembroke, born Oct. 6,
1806 ; married Eunice. Children, — Lucius, born March 26,
1830 ; Charles, Oct. 8, 1832 ; Marcus M., March 13, 1836;
Adeline, July 4, 1842.

7. Isaac, son of Simeon and Ruth of Pembroke, born
Oct. 10, 1804; married Sarah A. Children, — John D.,
born Oct. 18, 1844 ; Mary Eliza, May 3, 1850 ; Ann Maria,
Jan. 14, 1853.

7. Simeon, son of Simeon and Ruth, born Aug. 3, 1810 ;
married Prudence Ford. Child, — William, born April 25,
1846 ; died Sept. 28, 1854.

8. Lucius, son of Bela and Eunice of Pembroke, born
March 20, 1830 ; married Louisa Bryant, Sept. 25, 1851.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 385

Children, — Austin G., born July 12, 1852 ; Waldo P.,
Aug. 4, 1853 ; Wilbur E., April 29, 1855.

7. Calvin, son of Simeon and Ruth of Pembroke, born
May 26, 1824 ; married Deborah Brown of Hanson, July 4,
1853. Children, — Emily Jane, born July 21, 1854 ; So-
phronia, Oct. 28, 1855.

7. Joseph, son of Simeon and Ruth of Pembroke, married
Maria W. Pierce, March 17, 1849. Child, — Benjamin Her-
bert, born July 30, 1850.

8. Marcus M., son of Bela and Eunice of Pembroke, born
March 13, 1836.

6. Luther, son of Zadock and Lucy, born Dec. 17, 1798;
married Deborah Briant. Children, — Calvin T., born in
Pembroke, May 26, 1824 ; Deborah B., May 26, 1822,
married James Brown, May 6, 1854 ; Adeline, born March
30, 1826. His wife died in Pembroke, Oct. 29, 1848, in her
fifty-seventh year.

7. Calvin T., son of Luther, married Deborah Bourne,
July 4, 1853.

7. Isaac T., son of Simeon and Ruth of Pembroke, born
Oct. 10, 1804 ; married Sarah. Children, — Isaac, who
married Peddy W. Howe, Nov. 26, 1851 ; Ichabod M.,
who married Emily J. Howe of Abington, July 24, 1853.

9. Ichabod, son of Isaac and Peddy of Pembroke. Child,
— Albert, born April 16, 1856.

5. Levi, son of John and Lucy, born at Pembroke, Feb. 14,
1765 ; married Lucy Doten of Plymouth, Mass., in 1799, and
settled in Marlborough. Children, — Thomas, born April 7,
1800; Chandler, June 3, 1802; Levi, April 26, 1805;
James D., April 21, 1811 ; Rebecca, May, 1808 ; Harriet.
He died March 7, 1845.

Levi, son of Levi and Lucy, born April 26, 1805, in
Middleborough ; married Harriet Drake of Auburn, Me.,
April 11, 1846. Children, — Levi Edward, born at Middle-

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386 WILLIAM READE OP WEYMOUTH,

borough, July 28, 1849 ; Daniel D., July 7, 1856 ; Diana M.,
June 14, 1858.

Rebecca, daughter of Levi and Lucy, born May, 1808 ;
married John B. Paine, May 18, 1833, and settled in Taun-
ton. They have eight children.

James D., son of Levi and Lucy, born April 21, 1811 ;
married Pamelia Butler, Nov. 20, 1838. Children, — Julia,
born Oct. 21, 1841 ; Pamelia F., Sept. 8, 1843 ; James
Chandler, May 22, 1845 ; Harriet E., May 11, 1849 ; Caro-
line, Oct. 18, 1853. His wife died June 2, 1854. Married,
for second wife, Sarah Morrell of Canaan, Vt., March 12,
1855. Children, — William M., born Jan. 27, 1856; Tho-
mas D., Aug. 13, 1857.

Julia H., daughter of Levi and Lucy, born April 8, 1818 ;
married Willard Shaw, Aug. 12, 1849, and settled in Car-
ver. They have four children.

2. John, son of William, 1st, of Weymouth, born in 1649 ;
married Bashna. Child, — John, born June 5, 1674. Mar-
ried Bethiah Prye for second wife. Children, — William,
Thomas, George, Mary, Ruth, Hannah. He died at Digh-
ton, Jan. 13, 1720 : his wife died Oct. 20, 1730. He was a
house-carpenter, and appeal's to have been a man of conside-
rable property, and an extensive dealer in land. The
records describe about a dozen pieces of land bought by
him in Taunton, and several parcels sold by him. He
was quite a business-man in Taunton, but removed from
there to Dighton. He and his wife were buried in Digh-
ton, on Burying Hill, between Upper and Lower Four
Corners. Their gravestones are in very good condition,
and their inscriptions read thus : " Here lieth ye body of
Bethiah, wife of John Read : died October ye 20, 1730,
aged seventy-seven years. — Here lieth ye body of John
Reed, aged seventy-two years ; and died January ye 13th,
1720-1."

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 387

His estate was valued at a hundred and sixty-two pounds
at his decease. He was the ancestor of the Taunton Reeds.

3. John, son of John and Bashna, born at Weymouth,
June 5, 1674 ; married Bethiah Cobb, June 15, 1697. Chil-
dren,— Mary, who married a Tiffany; John, born August,
1701 ; George, May, 1701 ; William, Feb. 28, 1712, and
Bethiah (twins) ; Bethiah married a Watson. He removed
to Swansey, and bought a tract of land known as Pompa-
numset, or Phebe's Neck. He died in 1739. The tract of
land bought by him is supposed to be located in what is now
Barrington.

4. George, son of John and Bethiah Cobb, born May, 1704.
Child, — John.

5. John, son of George. Child, — William.

4. William, son of John and Bethiah Cobb, born Feb. 28,
1712 ; married Elizabeth. Children, — Bethiah, born at
Barrington, Sept. 12, 1741 ; Jonathan, who lived near Shep-
herd's Factory, in Newport, R.I.

3. Hannah, daughter of John and Bethiah, married Josiah
Talbot of Dighton, Sept. 2, 1713. Children, — Mary, born
March 22, 1725; Josiah, Oct. 23, 1726 ; Ruth, May 2, 1729.'
She died June 4, 1731. Her gravestone is broken, and lies
on the ground near the graves of her father and mother;
and the inscription runs thus: "In memory of Hannah,
wife of Josiah Talbot, Esq. Died June 4, 1731, in the
fortieth year of her age."

3. Mary, daughter of John and Bethiah of Dighton, mar-
ried Joseph Atwood. Children, — Joseph, born August,
1704 ; Benjamin, March 17, 1707, died Feb. 14, 1713 ;
Esther, born Feb. 19, 1711 ; John, Feb. 7, 1713, died
May 21, 1749 ; Benjamin, born July 3, 1715, died July 28,
1753 ; Mary, born March 16, 1719. He died Sept. 26, 1724 :
she died April 23, 1748, aged sixty-six years, seven months,
eight days.

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3. Ruth, daughter of John and Bethiah, married Capt.
Joseph Tisdale of Dighton. Children, — Joseph, Loved,
Job, Seth, Ebenezer, Simeon, Hannah, Bethiah, Mary. He
died before 1748. She made her will, in which she men-
tions her cousins Elkanah Read, Ruth Read, and Elizabeth
Hodges. She died August, 1848, in her sixty-third year.

4. John, son of John and Bethiah of Taunton, afterwards
of Swansey and Barrington, born August, 1701 ; married
Lydia Caswell, Oct. 7, 1713.

4. Bethiah, daughter of John and Bethiah of Barrington,
born Feb: 28, 1712 : married Nathan Watson in 1732.
Children, — Abigail, born Jan. 13, 1733; Molly, March 5,
1734 ; Rachel, July 14, 1736 ; Mercy, March 30, 1738 ;
Bethiah, Oct. 12, 1739 ; Matthew, April 4, 1741 ; Lydia,
Dec. 17, 1742 : William, Jan. 25, 1744 ; John, Oct. 5, 1746.
His wife died Feb. 9, 1778, in her sixty-sixth year. Mar-
ried Sarah for second wife : she died Sept. 3, 1798, aged
eighty-eight years. Mr. Watson was a Scotchman, and emi-
grated to this coimtry from Ireland. Her father opposed
the match, because he said that he was a poor Irishman ;
but he left an estate valued at eighty thousand dollars. He
died at Barrington, Jan. 17, 1803, aged a hundred and
seven years.

3. George, son of John and Bethiah, married Sarah Whit-
marsh. Children, — George, born in Dighton, Aug. 31,
1718, died May 6, 1727 ; Avise, born Sept. 5, 1720, married
John Palmer, Jan. 27, 1736 ; Hannah, born May 21, 1722,
married Reuben Clemens in 1743 ; John, born March 30,
1724 ; Samuel, Nov. 29, 1725 ; Ruth, Nov. 3,1727, married
Joshua Williams, James Macomber, and Ebenezer Myrick ;
Rebecca, born July 16, 1729, married John Coleman in
1752; Sylvester French. Sarah, his wife, died ; and he mar-
ried Abigail Woodward, Jan. 1, 1730. Children, — Isaiah,
born at Rehoboth, Oct. 14, 1730 ; George, Dec. 29, 1731 ;

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 389

Sarah, born at Dighton, Dec. 6, 1734, died young ; Sarah,
born Jan. 22, 1739, married John Gilraore ; Loved, born
Feb. 26, 1741 ; Mary, Feb. 3, 1744, died May 18, 1745 ;
Jonathan, born Oct. 13, 1745 ; Bethiah, who married John
Jacob. He died in Rehoboth, Feb. 8, 1756.

4. John, son of George and Sarah, born March 30, 1724;
married Miriam Talbot, May 11, 1749. She died Dec. 11,
1749 ; and her gravestone is still standing. Married, for
second wife, Mary Perry, March 27, 1752. Children, —
Miriam, born June 6, 1753 ; Mary, July 1, 1755, died
July 28, 1756 ; John, born April 28, 1757 ; William,
March 7, 1761 ; Sarah, March 13, 1759 ; Celia, March 25,
1766 ; Ruth, April 10, 1768 ; Nancy, July 1, 1770 ; Juan,
Feb. 25, 1772 ; Sebra, July 1, 1774 ; George, Jan. 12, 1776.

4. Samuel, son of George and Sarah of Dighton, born
Nov. 29, 1725 ; married Rachel Williams in 1748. Chil-
dren,— Rachel, bom Jan. 28, 1752, died March 30, 1756;
Samuel, born Dec. 23, 1754 ; Mary, Jan. 4, 1757 ; Rachel,
April 20, 1762 ; Seth, May 14, 1765.

4. George, son of George and Abigail, born Dec. 29, 1731 ;
married Mercy Phillips, and died in 1758 ; had a son George,
born July 29, 1757, who was living in 1841 on the road
from Dighton to New Bedford, about four miles from the
Green, aged eighty-three years. He married Elizabeth Pitts
of Taunton, May 7, 1782. Children, — Caleb P., born
Feb. 22, 1790 ; William, July 16, 1791 ; George W.,
May 19, 1796. He lived in Berkeley at the time of their
marriage.

3. Thomas, son of John and Sarah of Dighton, married
Sarah Tisdale of Taunton. Children, — Seth, born Feb. 6,
1716 ; Thomas, Aug. 20, 1718 ; Joseph, November, 1725 ;
Lot, Nov. 6, 1726 ; Sarah, Nov. 26, 1727, married George
Goodwin in 1746 ; Phebe, born Aug. 20, 1729 ; Elkanah,
Oct. 8,1730 ; Job, March 13, 1731 ; Simeon, April 17, 1733 ;

390 WILLIAM READE OF WEYMOUTH,

a daughter, May, 1835 ; Ruth, who married Joseph Talbot,
June 6, 1742 ; Mercy, who married Elijah Bacon of Provi-
dence, December, 1780. He died Feb. 19, 1741.

4. Thomas, son of Thomas of Dighton, born Aug. 20,
1718; married Rebecca Talbot in 1746. Children, — Re-
'becca, born Nov. 1, 1747 ; Thomas, Oct. 7, 1749 ; Sarah,
June 3, 1751.

4. Joseph, son of Thomas and Sarah of Dighton, born
November, 1725 ; married Elizabeth Eliott, Oct. 31, 1747.

4. Seth, son of Thomas and Sarah of Dighton, born Feb. 6,
1717 ; married Peddy Pool. Child, — a daughter, born
April 28, 1748.

4. Job, son of Thomas and Sarah of Dighton, born
March 13, 1731 ; married Jemima Talbot, Feb. 17, 1750,
and moved to Brookfield, Vt. Child, — Job.

5. Job, son of Job and Jemima, had Job, Sarah, Rhoda,
Polly, Sally, Morton, Betsy, Clarissa, Roxanna, Rebecca,
Fanny, Elvira.

6. Job, son of Job, had Freeman, Lavina, Isaac, Rhoda,
Russell, Caroline, and others, whose names are not given.
He was in the Revolutionary War. He died in Williams-
town, Vt.

6. Morton, son of Job, married Lucy Whitney, Jan. 24,
1817. Children, — Samuel, born in 1819; Julia, 1821;
Sally, 1823 ; Betsy, 1824 ; Elijah, 1826, died young ; George,
born in 1827 ; Mary Ann, 1828 ; Maria Perrin.

7. Julia, daughter of Morton and Lucy, married Jeduthan
Rice.

7. Sally, daughter of Morton and Lucy, married Andrew
Kinney. Children, — John, Juliette, Levi.

7. Mary Ann, daughter of Morton and Lucy, married
Calvin Fuller.

6. Rhoda, daughter of Job, married Richard Hodges.
Children, — Louisa and Cynthia.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 391

6. Polly, daughter of Job, married James Hopkins.
Children, — Denison, Marshal, Melissa, Laura, James,
Delsina.

6. Sally, daughter of Job, married Samuel Perrin. Chil-
dren,— Elvira, Louisa, William, Cornelius, Talcutt, Edward,
Calvin, and Clark.

6. Betsy, daughter of Job, married Philetus Robinson.
Children, ■ — Fanny, Sally, Nathaniel, Cornelius, Perley,
Lucy, Parker.

6. Clarissa, married Russell Seaver. Children, — twelve,
names not given.

6. Roxanna, married Ebenezer H. Moyne. Eleven chil-
dren, names not given.

6. Rebecca, married Lyman Davenport. Children, —
William ; John ; Harriet ; Fanny ; Elvira, who died young.

4. Simeon, son of Thomas and Sarah of Dighton, born
April 17, 1733; married Deborah. Children, — Phebe,
born Feb. 25, 1757, married Jonathan Wilkins, May, 1777 ;
Hannah, born Jan. 30, 1758 ; Simeon, July 28, 1763. He
was deacon of the church, and died in 1804, July 4 : his
wife died July 7, — three days after.

3. Hannah, daughter of Job, 1st, of Dighton, married Jo-
siah Talbot of Dighton, Sept. 2, 1713. Children, — Mary,
born March 22, 1725 ; Josiah, Oct. 23, 1726 ; Ruth, May 2,
1729. She died June 4, 1731, and was buried near her
father and mother. Her gravestone is broken, and lies flat
on the ground. The inscription runs thus : " In memory of
Hannah, wife of Josiah Talbot, Esq. Died June 4, 1731,
in the fortieth year of her age."

3. Mary, daughter of John, 1st, and Sarah, of Dighton,
married Joseph Atwood. Children, — Joseph, born August,
1704 ; Benjamin, March 17, 1707, died February, 1713 ;
Esther, bom Feb. 19, 1710 ; John, Feb. 7, 1712, died May 21,
1749 ; Benjamin, born July 3, 1715, died July 28, 1758 ;

392

Mary, born March 6, 1718. He died Sept. 6, 1724: she
died April 23, 1748.

3. Ruth, daughter of John, 1st, of Taunton and Dighton,
born in 1681 ; married Capt. Joseph Tisdale of Taunton.
Children, — Joseph, Loved, Job, Seth, Ebenezer, Simeon,
Hannah Perry, Bethiah Walker, Mary. He died before
1748 : she died August, 1743, in her sixty-third year.

3. William, son of John, 1st, of Taunton, married Mary
Richmond, June 8, 1721. Children, — John, born in 1722 ;
William ; Mary ; Abigail. He was a pious man. At one
time in his life, he became insane, and had to be confined in
his house ; but afterwards obtained his reason at the age
of seventy years, and died in 1734. The homestead is
owned and occupied by one of his descendants at the present
time. His widow married Stephen Andrews, Nov. 6, 1738,
— a man of learning and piety, known by his neighbors as
St. Stephen, — who lived to the age of a hundred years.

4. William, son of William and Mary of Taunton, married
; moved to Rochester about 1744. Children, — Wil-
liam, Abigail, Margaret, Lydia. He died previous to 1780.

4. Mary, daughter of William and Mary, married John
Haskell of Rochester, Mass., in 1751. Children, — Jona-
than, a captain in the Revolutionary War, who afterwards
went to Ohio ; Abigail, who married a Tripp, and went to
New York ; Bethiah, who married John Clarke ; and one
married Nathaniel Sherman, and went to New York ; Polly,
who died single.

4. John, son of William and Mary of Taunton, married
Dorothy Pinnea, a French woman, Dec. 30, 1746. Chil-
dren, — Ruth, born Nov. 20, 1747, married Job Knap ;
Lois, who married David Drake ; John, born March 29,
1752, married Mary Godfrey ; Mary, born June 4, 1754,
married Richard Cobb ; Dorothy, born in 1759, married
Paul Dudley ; Hannah, born April 21, 1762, married Abia-

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 393

thar Hall ; Zilpah, born Dec. 1, 1763, married Gershom
Sullivan ; Enos, born Nov. 22, 1765, died in Boston of small-
pox ; Dydin, born May 30, 1768, married Ebenezer Deane.
His first wife died in 1770. Married, for second wife, Mrs.
Hannah Austin, Jan. 9, 1771. Children, — Nathan, born
Oct. 8, 1771 ; Phebe, July 16, 1773, married a Basset of
Norton ; David, born Oct. 11, 1775 ; Jonathan, twin of Da-
vid. He died December, 1788, aged sixty-six. He was a
blacksmith by trade, and a man of considerable business ;
was one of the Committee of Inspection and Correspondence
in the Revolution ; and was also a pious man. He was above
the middle stature, and rather stern in his manners. His first
wife was the daughter of James Pinnea, a French Huguenot,
who had escaped from France during the persecutions of that
pious and devoted band ; and, after having been secreted in
dens and caves in France, he finally made his way to America,
settled in Lebanon, Conn., and brought up a family of chil-
dren ; one of whom was Dorothy, the wife of John Read. The
Rev. Bazaliel Pinnea of Milford, Conn., is his great-grandson.

5. Ruth, daughter of John and Dorothy, born Nov. 20,
1747 ; married Capt. Joseph Knapp of Taunton, and moved
to Douglas, Mass. Children, — Job; Cyrus; Rufus; Ruth;
Sally ; Dolly, who married Otis Preston (her husband
dying, she married Esquire Whitney, and moved to Ox-
bridge) ; a daughter Abigail, who married a Walker.

5. Lois, daughter of John and Dorothy of Taunton, mar-
ried Daniel Drake, Oct. 4, 1764, and moved to Grafton, N.H.
Children, • — ■ Daniel, who married Lydia Aldrich ; James,
married Abigail Bullock ; John, married Betsy Cogswell ;
Lois, married Daniel Cobb of Connecticut ; Rhoda, married
Eli Haskins of Taunton ; Sibyl, married Benjamin Bullock ;
Betsy, married Baruch Smith ; Dolly, married Jonathan
Aldrich, and Mr. Dustin of Hill, N.H. ; Sally, married Wil-
liam Chellis ; Bethiah, married Samuel Wright.

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394 WILLIAM READE OP WEYMOUTH,

5. Mary, daughter of John and Dorothy of Taunton, born
June 14, 1754 ; married Richard Cobb of Putney, Vt., in
1776. Children, — David, born March 27, 1778 ; Richard,
March 23, 1780 ; Mary, April 5, 1782 ; Tabitha, Sept. 24,
1790 ; Willard, July 11, 1793 ; Alfreda, Sept. 18, 1798.
She died Aug. 9, 1822 : Mr. Cobb died March, 1830.

6. David, son of Richard Cobb and Mary Reed, born
March 27, 1778 ; married Sally White, January, 1808.
Children, — Josiah, born April 21, 1809 ; David R., May 31,
1810 ; Amelia, Nov. 22, 1812 ; David Cobb, died in Putney,
May 27, 1818.

6. Josiah Cobb, son of David, born April 21, 1809 ; mar-
ried Candice Pierce in 1833, and lives in Putney. Child, —
Fanny A., born January, 1834.

6. David, son of David and Sally, born May 31, 1810 ;
married Lucinda R. Crosby in 1834. She died ; and he
married Abigail Brow, February, 1840. Lives in Putney.

6. Amelia Cobb, daughter of David, born Nov. 22, 1812 ;
married John M. Crosby, January, 1834. Child, — David,
born June, 1835 ; died in 1839. Lives in Putney.

5. Richard Cobb, son of Richard and Mary Reed, born
March 23, 1780, and settled in Rockingham, Vt. ; married
Nancy Gilman, May 10, 1811. Children, — Nancy, born
Dec. 23, 1815 ; Eliza, Jan. 5, 1817 ; Mary R., June 29,
1819; Richard R., Jan. 19, 1822; David R., Jan. 2, 1824;
Susan E., Aug. 16, 1825 ; Helen M., Feb. 12, 1830 ; My-
ron J., Jan. 1, 1833. He died July 17, 1837.

6. Nancy, daughter of Richard Cobb, born Dec. 23, 1815 ;
married J. T. Woods of Rockingham, Vt., Sept. 4, 1837.
Child, — Maria E., born March 29, 1838. He died in 1845.

5. Mary Cobb, daughter of Richard and Mary Reed, born
April 5, 1782 ; married Jotham Pierce, March, 1804, and
lives in Montreal, Ca. Children, — Mary C, Charles S.,
Harriet. She died January, 1832.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 395

6. Mary C. Pierce, daughter of Jotham Pierce, married
a Johnson in 1832. Children's names not given. He died
in 1839.

5. Tahitha Cobb, daughter of Richard and Mary Reed,
born Sept. 24, 1790 ; married Alfred White, Sept. 27, 1812,
and lives in Putney. Children, — Willard, born September,
1815 ; Stella A., March, 1818 ; Charles, May, 1820 ; Fanny
M., April, 1822 ; Thomas, August, 1825 ; David J., June,
1831 ; Rawson M., September, 1833 ; two more, whose names
are not given.

6. Willard White, son of Alfred, married Alice Townsend,
February, 1837, and lives in Boston.

5. Willard Cobb, son of Richard Cobb, born July 11,
1793 ; married Dorinda Snow, March, 1821 ; lives in Rock-
ingham, Vt. Children, — Edmond M., born November,
1821 ; Mary J., December, 1822 ; Frances W., March, 1825 ;
Ellen, October, 1828 ; Louisa B., May, 1830 ; Henry W.,
November, 1838 ; Sarah E., February, 1840.

5. Dorothy, daughter of John and Dorothy of Taunton,
born March 1, 1759 ; married Paul Dudley of Douglass,
July 16, 1782. Children, — David, John, William, Willard,
Dolly, Harriet. She died Sept. 20, 1847.

6. David, son of Paul and Dorothy Reed. Children, —
George, Maria, Eliza, David.

7. George, son of Paul and Dorothy, married Susan Rob-
bins.

7. Maria Dudley, married a Carpenter.

6. John, son of Paul and Dorotby, married Submit
Hall. Children, — Emily ; James, who married Eliza
Prentice.

6. William Dudley, son of Paul and Dorothy, married
Hannah Creigen. Children, — Mary ; William ; Sophrona ;
Charles ; Harriet, who married Josiah Adams ; George ;
Edwin.

396 WILLIAM READE OP WEYMOUTH,

6. Willard Dudley, son of Paul and Dorothy, married
Eunice Dalcom. Children, — Paul, Edwin, Dorothy, Fran-
ces, Betsy.

6. Dolly, daughter of Paul and Dorothy, married Benja-
min Hill. Children, — Dolly, Benjamin, Emeline, Frances,
Eliza Ann.

6. Harriet, daughter of Paul and Dorothy, married Josiah
Adams. Child, — Augustus.

5. Hannah, daughter of John and Dorothy of Taunton,
born April 11, 1761 ; married Abiatha Hall of Raynham,
May 24, 1787. Children, — Polly, born July 27, 1788 ;
Hannah, May 18, 1790 ; Dolly, March 28, 1792 ; Deborah,
Dec. 6, 1794 ; Abiatha, Aug. 17, 1797. He died in 1797,
and she married Stephen Deane of Raynham in 1807.

5. Zilpah, daughter of John and Dorothy of Taunton,
born Dec. 1, 1763 ; married Gershom Gulliver of Taunton,
March 8, 1803, and had no children. He died December,
1839 : she died March 7, 1841.

5. Enos, son of John and Dorothy, born Nov. 22, 1715.
He lived in Boston, and died of small-pox.

5. Jonathan, son of John and Dorothy, born Oct. 11,
1775 ; was never married. He died Jan. 30, 1849.

5. Lydia, daughter of John and Dorothy, born May 20,
1768 ; married Ebenezer Deane of Raynham, March 6, 1791.
Children, — Lydia, Enos, Alfred, Ebenezer, Calvin, Camil-
la, Ruth, Louisa.

5. Nathan, son of John and his second wife Hannah, born
Oct. 8, 1771 ; married Acsah Gilmore of Raynham, Dec. 13,
1796, and moved to Maine. Children, — Sylvanus ; John
Gilmore ; Florentius, born in 1801 or '2. He died about
1809 ; and his wife had, in all, three husbands. She was
living recently in Norridgewock, Me., at a very great age.
Second husband was Seth Wyman of Bloomington, Me.,
and had children, — Nathan and Ebenezer, who live in

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 397

Dexter, Me. She married Solomon Bixby of Norridgewock
for third husband. She died August, 1851.

5. Phebe, daughter of John of Taunton and his second wife
Hannah, born July 16, 1773; married Basset Morton, and
settled in Avon, Me. Children, — Elkanah, Phebe, Hannah,
Rebecca. He died Oct. 19, 1847, in his sixty-ninth year.

6. Florentius, son of Nathan and Acsah. Children, —
John, born in 1830 ; Josiah ; Nathan ; David ; and one
daughter. He lives in Windsor, Me.

7. John, son of Florentius, has a wife and daughter, and
is of the firm of Reed and Russ in China, Me.

6. John, son of Nathan and Acsah, settled in North Yar-
mouth, and died at the age of about thirty-five years, leaving
a widow, one son, and a daughter.

5. David, son of John of Taunton and his second wife
Hannah, born Oct. 11, 1775 ; married Phebe Blake, May 25,
1802. Children,— Gilbert B., born Sept. 30, 1804, died
Feb. 2, 1828 ; Phebe H., born April 3, 1808, married Floyd
French of Taunton ; Mary Adaline, born September, 1811 ;
Hannah E., Jan. 29, 1823. He died June 24, 1850.

5. John, son of John of Taunton and his wife Do-
rothy, born March 29, 1752 ; married Mary Godfrey,
Nov. 21, 1775. Children, — John, born Aug. 11, 1776;
William, Oct. 6, 1778; Polly, Aug. 31, 1782, died Nov. 2,
1796 ; Dolly, born May 31, 1785 ; Marshal, Jan. 17, 1788 ;
Hodges, June 3, 1790 ; Sophia, Sept. 2, 1792 ; Zilpah,
Dec. 22, 1796, died May 24, 1798. He died Feb. 24, 1841,
aged eighty-eight years. He was above the middle stature,
athletic, and uncommonly regular in his habits ; was known
in public life, having been selectman and representative
several years. He was often chosen as arbitrator between
parties, and was known as Esquire Reed. He was likewise
distinguished for piety, and filled an important place in
the society to which he belonged. His wife was also a

398 WILLIAM READE OP WEYMOUTH,

woman superior in sound sense and practical piety. She
died Oct. 12, 1843.

6. John, son of Esquire John and Mary, horn Aug. 11,
177G ; married Rebecca Gooding, May 31, 1804. Children,
— Mary Ann, born May 20, 1805; John, June 17, 1808;
Henry G., July 23, 1810 ; Eebecca, April 12, 1813 ; Wil-
liam, Sept. 2, 1816 ; Sophia, Nov. 9, 1818 ; Elizabeth G.,
Sept. 4, 1822.

6. William, son of Esquire John and Mary, born Oct. 6,
1778 ; married Elizabeth D. Dennis, April 24, 1804. Chil-
dren,— a daughter, born Oct. 18, 1805, died at her birth ;
Elizabeth D., born March 2, 1807 ; Mary G., Jan. 10, 1809 ;
Julia, Sept. 11, 1810, married Eev. S. H. Emery; William,
July 16, 1812, died Sept. 9, 1813 ; Nancy D., born July 29,
1814 ; Eleanor S., July 14, 1817 ; William ; Amelia, Feb. 25,
1821 ; a daughter, born Jan. 27, 1823, and died same day ;
Chester I., born Nov. 25, 1823. Married, for second wife,
Mary Dennis, Feb. 19, 1825. Children,- — a daughter, born
Dec. 26, 1825 ; John D., March 15, 1827; Charles E., Jan. 27,
1830, minister at Maiden ; Erastus M., July 28, 1832, who
married Sarah Crocket at the family gathering of the Reeds
on the 21st of August, 1857, at Taunton. He is a lawyer in
Mansfield.

7. William, son of William and Elizabeth of Taunton,
married Eliza Deane.

7. Chester I., son of William and Elizabeth of Taunton,
born Nov. 25, 1818 ; married Elizabeth Allyne ; is Judge
of the Police Court in Taunton, and member of the Senate of
Massachusetts.

6. Dolly, daughter of John, Esq., and Mary, born May 31,
1785 ; married Zephaniah L. Hodges, Oct. 1, 1809. Chil-
dren,— John R., born July 1, 1812; Zephaniah, March 22,
1814 ; Harriet, May 31, 1816 ; George F. H, April 18, 1820 ;
Charles H., March 26, 1823.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 399

7. Julia, daughter of William and Elizabeth, born Sept. 11,
1810 ; married Rev. Samuel H. Emery, March 7, 1838.
Children, — William R., born June 4, 1839 ; Samuel H.,
Aug. 3, 1840.

6. Hodges, son of John, Esq., and Mary, of Taunton, born
June 3, 1790; married Clarissa Hodges, daughter of Joseph
Hodges of Norton, May, 1813. Children, — Edgar Hodges,
born July 3, 1814; Clarissa W., June 6, 1817; William
Frederick ; Frederick Alonzo, Dec. 7, 1821, — a clergyman,
settled in Cohasset ; Eveline, born May 7, 1825; Charlotte
Augusta, Oct. 1, 1825. He has been a member of the Legis-
lature, and is the author of some religious works.

6. Marshal, son of John Reed, Esq., of Taunton, born
Jan. 17, 1788; married Clarissa C. Willis, June 11, 1817.
Children, — Sarah Almey, born Aug. 20, 1818 ; Clarissa
Willis, Aug. 13, 1830 ; Edwin, May 6, 1822 ; Philomela,
Sept. 13, 1824.

7. Edgar Hodges, son of Hodges Reed, Esq., of Taunton,
born July 3, 1814; married Ellen Augusta Reed, Aug. 30,
1837. Children,— Ellen Dutton, born Sept. 9, 1838 ; Eu-
gene Godfrey, July 30, 1841, died Aug. 13, 1841 ; Clarissa
Maria, born May 9, 1843, died Aug. 6, 1843 ; Alice Maria,
March 13, 1848. He lives in Taunton ; is a merchant; and
is one to whom I am much indebted for assistance in getting
the statistics for this work. He is a great antiquarian ;
has, at the sacrifice of much time and money, examined the
old and dilapidated records in many towns in Plymouth
and Massachusetts Colonies ; and has accumulated many
facts interesting to those bearing the name or blood.

3. Thomas, son of Thomas and Sarah, born at Dighton,
Aug. 20, 1718 ; married Rebecca Talbot, Children, — Re-
becca, born Nov. 1, 1747 ; Thomas, Oct. 7, 1749 ; Sarah,
June 3, 1751.

5. Samuel, son of Samuel and Rachel, born at Dighton,

400 WILLIAM READE OF WEYMOUTH,

Dec. 23, 1754 ; married Mercy Gilmore, April 17, 1788.
Child, — Alpheus, born March 21, 1790.

5. Seth, son of Samuel and Rachel, born at Dighton,
May 14, 1765 ; married Cassandra Dean, May 18, 1788.
Children, — Seth, born Oct. 14, 1790 ; Salmon, Dec. 23,
1795, died March 18, 1843 ; Cassandra, born Aug. 14, 1798 ;
Otis, Sept. 16, 1801 ; Stephen D., March 3, 1810. His wife
died Jan. 4, 1840.

4. Loved, son of George and Sarah, born at Dighton,
Feb. 26, 1741 ; married Charity Phillips. Children, —
Loved, born May 22, 1764, died ; Charity, born June 11,
1765 ; Lydia, Sept. 19, 1766 ; Phebe, July 22, 1768 ; Phy-
lene, March 24, 1770 ; Mary, April 22, 1772 ; Betsy,
April 12, 1774 ; Joshua, April 17, 1776 ; Loved, Jan. 17,
1778 ; Sarah, July 13, 1780, died in 1795 ; John, born
April 13, 1782. His wife died March 25, 1784. Married
Mary French, Oct. 15, 1786, for second wife. Children, —
Rebecca, born Oct. 27, 1787 ; David, Dec. 26, 1789 ; Mary,
June 2, 1793.

5. William, son of John and Miriam, born at Dighton,
March 19, 1761 ; married Betsy Carter, Dec. 20, 1786.
Children, — George, born Oct. 20, 1787 ; Betsy, Nov. 6,
1789 ; William, Dec. 27, 1793 ; Sally, Oct. 20, 1791 ;
Charles L., Feb. 15, 1796 ; John, Oct. 17, 1798 ; James,
May 7, 1801, died Aug. 23, 1820 ; Patty, born Aug. 11,
1803 ; Anthony, July 10, 1805 ; Mary, Aug. 19, 1812. He
died Aug. 17, 1739.

4. Thomas, son of Thomas and Rebecca, born at Dighton,
Oct. 7, 1749 ; married Mary Briggs, June 9, 1773.

5. Simeon, son of Simeon and Deborah, born at Dighton,
July 28, 1763 ; married Hannah. Children, — Simeon, born
June 10, 1784 ; Hannah, Jan. 21, 1788 ; Deborah, March 12,
1793. His wife died May 8, 1804. Married Elizabeth for
second wife. Child, — Eliza, born Aug. 20, 1804.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 401

5. David, son of Loved and Rebecca, born at Dighton,
Dec. 26, 1789; married Jemima. Children, — Clarinda,
born at Dighton, July 22, 1812 ; Nancy, April, 1814.

5. John, son of Loved and Charity, born at Dighton,
April 13, 1782 ; married Polly. Children, — George, born
Nov. 20, 1805 ; Betsy J., July 20, 1807 ; John C, April 22,
1813 ; Charles P., Aug. 21, 1814.

6. Seth, son of Seth and Cassandra, born at Dighton,
Oct. 14, 1790 ; married Matilda Smith, April 24, 1823.
Children, — Alfred H., born Oct. 26, 1823; Benjamin F.,
Aug. 11, 1825 ; Clarinda S., Dec. 5, 1827 ; Joseph B.,
May 12, 1830.

6. Anthony, son of William and Betsy, born at Dighton,
July 10, 1805 ; married Elizabeth Bliss. Children, — Anne
A., born Dec. 10, 1846 ; Lucy A., June 3, 1848 ; John M.,
June 10, 1852 ; Charles A., Nov. 20, 1852.

7. Alfred H., son of Seth and Matilda, born Oct. 6, 1823 ;
married Eunice E. Paul, Aug. 10, 1846. Children, — Lau-
ra A., born Sept. 17, 1853 ; Franklin A., June 1, 1855 ;
Charlie, June 17, 1857.

6. Stephen, son of Seth and Cassandra, born at Dighton,
March 30, 1810 ; married Matilda. Children, - — Clara, born
Oct. 24, 1849 ; Emma F., June 2, 1851 ; Caroline A.,
Sept. 21, 1853 ; George F., Sept. 16, 1856.

6. Otis, son of Seth and Cassandra, born at Dighton,
Sept. 16, 1801 ; married Ann E. Hilton, Oct. 28, 1832;
and Amanda Paul, for second wife, Feb. 25, 1844. Chil-
dren,— James C, born Jan. 21, 1845 ; Susan A. and Sibyl,
Aug. 21, 1847 ; William B., April 8, 1849. He died Jan. 15,
1854.

5. Elijah A., son of Deacon Simeon and Deborah, born at
Dighton ; married Delight Brown, April 26, 1796. Chil-
dren,— Rev. Augustus Brown, born at Rehoboth, Nov. 19,
1798; Harriet, March 1, 1802; Delight, April 26, 1804;

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John Newton, Nov. 18, 1806 ; Gustavus A., Dec. 23,
1811.

6. Gustavus A., son of Deacon Elijah A. and Delight, horn
at Rehoboth, Dec. 23, 1811 ; married Celesta A. Miller,
March 16, 1836. Children, — Charles L., born at Rehoboth,
Sept. 30, 1837 ; Celesta A., June 13, 1839 ; Almira M.,
Dec. 10, 1844 ; Almond A., Dec. 2, 1848 ; Jane A., Feb. 22,
1851 ; Delight, Feb. 14, 1856.

6. Rev. Augustus B. Reed, born at Rehoboth, Nov. 9,
1798, son of Deacon Elijah A. ; married Malinda Boydon.
Children, — Theodore C, Delight B., William A., John R.,
Theophilus. He was a settled minister in Ware ; where he
died Sept. 30, 1838.

William, son, probably, of William and Mary of Ro-
chester. Children, — William, Ichabod, George. Lived
in Taunton.

George, son of William, born October, 1733 ; died Janu-
ary, 1820 ; married Elizabeth Harvey. She died November,
1822. Children, — Isaiah, born at Taunton, Feb. 12, 1757,
died Oct. 14, 1814; George, Nov. 21, 1759; Percy; Oliver,
1769 ; Betsy, May, 1772, married Jonathan Thayer, and is
living. Lived in Taunton.

Isaiah, son of George and Elizabeth, born at Taunton,
Feb. 12, 1757 ; married Abigail Briggs of Berkeley. Chil-
dren,— Abigail, born at Taunton, Aug. 21, 1781; Salome,
May 15, 1784, died February, 1815 ; Sylda, born Oct. 25,
1783 ; Allen, 1788, died in 1789 ; Axie, born 1790, died
December, 1816 ; Lucretia, January, 1796 ; Sophronia,
April, 1799. His wife died April 17, 1841. He lived in
Taunton.

George, son of George and Elizabeth, married Experience
Blackman of Canton, Mass. Children, — George, born
Feb. 15, 1787 ; Luther, July 4, 1790 ; Jason, June 28,
1796, died Oct. 18, 1824 ; Experience, born May 4, 1802,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 403

married John Corey, Dec. 2, 1824 ; Betsy, died young ;
Olive, died young. He moved to Augusta, Me., with his
family ; where they now live.

George, son of George and Experience of Augusta, Me.,
horn Feb. 15, 1787 ; married Lucinda B. Sawtell in 1813.
Children, — Eliza C, born Oct. 13, 1814; married Virgil
Ballard; Lucinda S., born May 9, 1813, married Isaac Hil-
ton. He died Feb. 3, 1820 : his wife died Aug. 27, 1836.

Luther, son of George and Experience of Augusta, born
July 4, 1790 ; married Betsy Hamilton, March 5, 1816.
Children, — Betsy H., born Feb. 28, 1818, married AVilliam
A. Springer ; Luther W., born Feb. 25, 1822 ; Julia A.,
Aug. 25, 1826. Married, for second wife, Fanny Howard,
daughter of Major Rewel Howard, Nov. 21, 1839.

Luther W., son of Luther and Betsy, born Feb. 25, 1822 ;
married Lucy D. Cummins. Child, — Ella Augusta, born
Oct. 2, 1855.

Oliver, son of George and Elizabeth, born in 1769 ; mar-
ried Bethiah Leonard, May 13, 1788. Children, — Oliver,
born June, 1788 ; George L., June 9, 1791 ; Barney, Dec. 4,
1797 ; Isaiah ; Stimson ; Barzillai ; William H. ; Betsy H.,
1794; Bethiah L., 1781, died in 1794. He died in 1850:
his wife died October, 1853.

Oliver, son of Oliver and Bethiah, born at Taunton, June,
1788 ; died January, 1834 ; married Chloe Briggs. Chil-
dren,— Chloe, born Jan. 9, 1816 ; Oliver D., April 9, 1817 ;
Harriet W., Nov. 10, 1818 ; George L., Nov. 9, 1820 ; Sa-
rah T., July 8, 1822; Lydia B., Feb. 22, 1825, died Dec. 21,
1848 ; Huldah W., born Jan. 17, 1828, died Dec. 28, 1829 ;
Rebecca L., born Dec. 6, 1829; Lorenzo R., Sept. 11, 1833.
He died in 1834.

George L., son of Oliver and Chloe, born at Taunton,
Nov. 9, 1820; married Hannah. Children, — Charles E.,
born March, 1852 ; William W., June, 1854.

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Barzillai, son of Oliver and Bethiah, born April 16, 1808 ;
married Deborah Churchill. Children, — Deborah C, born
Aug. 20, 1838 ; Rachel, June 28, 1838 ; Stephen 0.

William Hodges, son of Oliver and Bethiah, born March 14,
1810; married Amanda Goff. Child, — William H., born
in 1844. Lives in Rehoboth.

Betsy, daughter of George and Elizabeth, born May, 1772 ;
married Jonathan Thayer, who died April 28, 1831.

Oliver D., son of Oliver and Chloe, born Aug. 9, 1817 ;
married Sally Wilbur. Children, — Emma Jane, born
Nov. 12, 1850 ; Mary A., April 19, 1855.

George L., son of Oliver and Chloe, married Hannah
Field. Children, — Charles E., born March, 1852; Wil-
liam W., June, 1854; Ardelia A., August, 1856.

Lorenzo R., son of Oliver and Chloe, married Martha
Hodges. Children, — Martha M., born March 18, 1853;
Henry J., June 27, 1858.

George L., son of Oliver and Bethiah, born June 29, 1791 ;
married Betsy Lincoln. Children, — Betsy H., born Oct. 30,
1815 ; Bethiah L., June 10, 1817.

Barney, son of Oliver and Bethiah, born Dec. 4, 1797 ;
married Rachel Woodward. Children, — Jarvis B., born
March, 1820 ; Salmon, 1822, died January, 1851 ; John
G. A., 1824, died 1853 ; Louis, July 22, 1834 ; Isaiah,
August, 1839, died July, 1852.

Stimson, son of Oliver and Bethiah, born Nov. 12, 1805 ;
married Fanny Briggs. Children, — Clarissa D., born
Aug. 26, 1837 ; Stimson L., Oct. 6, 1840. His wife died
May 8, 1841.

Jarvis B., son of Barney, born March, 1820 ; married
Elizabeth. Child, — Arthur W., born July, 1852.

John G. A., son of Barney and Rachel, born in 1824 ;
married Irene Makepeace of Norton. Children, — John F.,
born in 1846 ; Arvilla J., 1844.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 405

Isaiah, son of Oliver and Betliiah, married Fanny Thomas,
Child, — Fanny M.

The Taunton branch of Reeds are in the habit of having a
yearly meeting. The following, taken from a newspaper,
will describe one of these gatherings : —

"Reed Family Gathering. — The annual gathering of the
Reed Family was held in the orchard of the old homestead in
Taunton. The oration was by John R. Hodges of Fall River ;
the poem, by Mrs. B. W. Williams of Boston ; the report of re-
markable events, by Samuel G. Tucker of Taunton ; report of Spe-
cial Committee on the same subject, by Mrs. Sophia J. Reed of
Taunton. The original hymns were by Mrs. Sophronia Hodges
of Fall River, and Mrs. Eleanor Dean of Taunton. The oldest
living member of the family, John Reed of Taunton, presided. He
is about eighty-three years of age, is still in active business, and has
more of vigor and energy than many of the younger members. The
morning was devoted to the regular exercises, including the annual
business ; after which the whole company sat down, under a large
tent prepared in the orchard for the occasion, to a sumptuous dinner.
Songs and toasts were the order after dinner. The afternoon was
spent in playing ball, and various other amusements. Shortly before
supper, at the call of the bell, the family assembled to listen to the
poem and reports. The report of remarkable events was a very
amusing affair, introducing all the odd adventures and laughable in-
cidents of individual members of the family. As the person who
prepares this report omits, of course, all allusion to himself, a special
committee is appointed to look after him. This was prepared after
the manner of ' Hiawatha,' and brought down roars of laughter.
Supper at half-past five o'clock, with singing and prayer, closed up the
exercises. The following original hymn, composed by Mrs. Dean,
entitled the ' Dying Patriarch,' was sung at the supper-table. It
refers to the grandfather of John, William, Hodges, and Marshall
Reed. The author of the hymn was sitting near him during his last
illness, and but a short time before his death, in company with some
others. He was possessed of an unutterable calm, and was the only
one who spoke much. ' The nearer,' he said, ' I approach the

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heavenly country, the more do I behold and love the beauty and
glory of my Redeemer.'

1 Ah, methought the peace of Heaven,
Heaven's sweet peace, was in that mien.'

Drawing near the heavenly country,

Where ray dearest treasures be, —
Treasures in a lifetime gathered,

And through Christ assured to me, —

I behold the gracious beauty

And the glory of my Lord;
And my soul with love is kindled, —

Kindled by his precious word: —

' I am with thee, with thee alway,

Even till the world shall end;
I a mansion have prepared thee ;

I a Comforter will send.'

Am I weak? my blest Redeemer,

With his 'everlasting arm,'
Bears me up and bears me onward,

And my soul feels no alarm.

Earth is fading from my vision ;

Heaven spreads out before my view:
When the floods roll dark beneath me,

He will bear me safely through.

" After prayer by Hodges Reed of Taunton, the family dispersed.
It was a joyous time for all present, and old men and children en-
tered into the sports of the day with energy and zest."

2. James, son of William, 1st, of Weymouth, born at
Weymouth ; married Susanna Richmond of Bridgewater,
April 18, 1683. Children, — James, who died Feb. 1, 1734 ;
William ; John ; Thomas ; Mary, born 1697, died July 17,
1724 ; Martha ; Ann ; Susanna. He moved from Wey-
mouth to Taunton in 1680, to Middleborough in 1705, and
served in Capt. Johnson's company in 1695.

John, son of James and Susanna of Middleborough, mar-
ried Susanna Rounds, Feb. 8, 1709. Children, — Elizabeth,
born Nov. 22, 1711 ; Oliver, June 18, 1715.

Benjamin, supposed to be son of James and Susanna of

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 407

Middleborough, born in 1699 ; married Hannah Chase,
Dec. 1, 1720. Children,— Benjamin, born Feb. 12, 1724;
Hannah, Jan. 29, 1727 ; Samuel, April 7, 1729 ; Stephen,
Nov. 7, 1732.

Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Hannah, born May 21,
1721 ; married Elizabeth. Children, — Elizabeth, born
Sept. 3, 1750 ; Anna, April 16, 1754 ; Benjamin, Nov. 13,
1757.

3. William, son of James of Middleborough, married
Elizabeth. Children, — William, born at Middleborough,
July 18, 1715 ; Hannah, Jan. 7, 1717 ; Benjamin, May 26,
1720 ; Thomas, March 15, 1723 ; Peter, May 7, 1729 ; John,
July 8, 1749; Samuel, Sept. 17, 1750 ; Deliverance, July 13,
1752 ; Mercy, Sept. 21, 1754 ; Ichabod, Dec. 20, 1755 ;
Thankful, March 2, 1757 ; Anna, May 10, 1758 ; Mercy,
April 25, 1763 ; a son, April 23, 1744, died in twenty-six
days ; a daughter, born July 17, 1759, died in three months.

4. Samuel, son of William and Elizabeth, born at Middle-
borough, Sept. 17, 1750 ; married Rebecca Knowlton, Nov. 5,
1785. Children, — Bethiah, born April 23, 1782; Lucy,
July 16, 1784; Samuel, Dec. 11, 1786; Eunice, Jan. 21,
1789; Polly, Aug. 4, 1791 ; John, July 21, 1793 ; Nathaniel,
Nov. 27, 1796 ; Watson, April 19, 1804. He died March 9,
1822: his wife died Sept. 19, 1831, aged seventy-one.

Samuel, son of Samuel and Rebecca, born Dec. 11, 1786 ;
married Ruth. Child, — William, born at Middleborough,
Dec. 7, 1819. He lives in Middleborough.

William, son of William and Elizabeth, born July 18,
1715 ; married Sarah Warren, June 24, 1740. Children, —
Priscilla, born Dec. 8, 1742 ; William, Jan. 4, 1744 ; Benja-
min, Jan. 29, 1746 ; Sarah, Jan. 15, 1748 ; Elizabeth, May 4,
1750 ; Israel, March 7, 1752 ; Elizabeth, Sept. 9, 1759 ;
Abner, Aug. 12, 1764. William married Alice Richards,
Sept. 22, 1763.

408 WILLIAM READE OP WEYMOUTH,

Watson, son of Samuel and Rebecca, born April 19, 1804 ;
married Sylvia Lamson, Nov. 20, 1825.

Ichabod, son of William and Elizabeth, born at Middle-
borough, Dec. 20, 1755 ; married Sarah Vaughan, Dec. 3,
1778. Children, — Ichabod, born July 6, 1789, married
Lucy ; Thomas V., who settled in Middleborough, Vt.
Josiah V., settled in Rochester, Mass. ; Susanna ; Huldah
Sarah, who settled in Brookfield, Vt. ; Priscilla ; Lois
Betsey.

Benjamin, son of William and Sarah, born at Middlebo-
rough, Jan. 29, 1746 ; married Abiah Macomber, Oct. 23,
1763.

Joshua, son of , married Ruth Snow, Dec. 3, 1772.

Children, — Darius, born at Middleborough, Jan. 14, 1774;
Levi, March 3, 1775 ; Jonah, Jan. 3, 1777 ; Noah, Feb. 3,
1779 ; Deliverance, April 8, 1781 ; William, April 8, 1783 ;
Ruth, April 5, 1785 ; Betsey, April 5, 1785 ; Joshua, Feb. 16,
1787 ; George, Sept. 17, 1788. He probably married De-
borah for second wife. Children, — Deborah, born May 30,
1790; Joshua, July 24, 1792; Silence, Oct. 11, 1796.

Noah, son of Joshua and Ruth, born Feb. 3, 1779 ; mar-
ried Tabitha. She died Jan. 11, 1856, aged seventy-sis.

Luke, son of , born ; married Keziah Leo-
nard, Oct. 19, 1786. Children, — Mehetabel, born at Mid-
dleborough, May 19, 1787 ; Luke, Aug. 18, 1788 ; Keziah,
May 8, 1791. His wife died Aug. 26, 1831, aged eighty-one.

Luke, son of Luke, born Aug. 18, 1788 ; married Ann.
Children, — Adam, born May 26, 1818; Julia A., Sept. 3,
1822 ; Cyrus P., born at Middleborough, Dec. 24, 1831 ;
Luke, Feb. 22, 1833 ; Gustavus L., Aug. 15, 1836. He
lives in Middleborough.

Cyrus P., son of Luke, born Dec. 24, 1831 ; married
Nancy. Child, — Cyrus A., born at Middleborough, Feb. 17,
1756.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 409

Silas, son of , bora ; married . Children,

— Sophia, born at Middleborougb, Jan. 31, 1794; John C,
March 30, 1807.

John C, son of Silas, born March 30, 1807 ; married
Mercy B. Swift, April 4, 1844. Children, — Isaac N., born
at Middleborough, March 27, 1835 ; Charles E. and Mercy
B., Sept. 10, 1850. He lives in Middleborough.

Ichabod, son of Ichabod, born July 26, 1789 ; married
Lucy. Children, — Huldah, born at Middleborough, April 5,
1814 ; Lucy, June 1, 1818 ; Jeremiah W., July 6, 1819 ;
Sarah, Aug. 11, 1821 ; Ichabod, June 4, 1831, died Sept. 3,
1854 ; Sylvanus, born Jan. 4, 1818. He still lives in
Middleborough.

Sylvanus, son of Ichabod and Lucy, born Jan. 4, 1818, at
Middleborough; married Olive P. Children, — Lydia "W. ;
Mary E. Lives at Middleborough, Mass.

Jeremiah W., son of Ichabod, born at Middleborough,
Mass., July 6, 1819 ; married Mary G. Lives at Middle-
borough, and has no children.

Nathan, son of , born ; married . Chil-
dren,— Allen, born at Middleborough, May 14, 1793; Na-
than, Oct. 16, 1795 ; Hosea, March 7, 1797 ; Levi, Dec. 28,
1797.

Levi, son of Nathan and , born Dec. 28, 1797 ; mar-
ried Sophia Hathaway, Oct. 5, 1820. Children, — Levi,
born at Middleborough, Jan. 27, 1821 ; Clarinda, Oct. 4,
1824.

Levi, son of Levi, born at Middleborough, Jan. 27, 1821;
married Hannah. Child, — Levi E., born July 28, 1849.
Married, for second wife, Mahala Caswell, Nov. 7, 1851, and
lives in Marlborough.

Allen, son of Nathan, born May 14, 1793 ; married Sophia
Beed, March 27,1814. Children, — Otis, born at Middle-
borough, Oct. 27, 1814 ; William, Aug. 14, 1816 ; Francis,

62

410 WILLIAM READB OP WEYMOUTH,

June 16, 1818 ; Louisa, April 14, 1820 ; Nathan, Nov. 17,
1824 ; Charles, 1827, died March 30, 1840, aged thirteen.

Elijah, son of , born ; married Lucy Washburn,

July 3, 1799. Children, — Beza, born at Middleborough,
Feb. 10, 1780 ; Sally, Oct. 26, 1782 ; Solomon, April 26,
1785 ; Pacoral, Sept. 11, 1787 ; Elijah, Dec. 28, 1790 ; Lucy,
Jan. 4, 1793 ; Alice, July 5, 1797. He died Aug. 31, 1816.

Elijah, son of Elijah and Lucy, born Dec. 28, 1790 ; mar-
ried Jane. Children, — William, born at Middleborough,
March 31, 1814 ; Jane D., May 4, 1816 ; Henry W., Nov. 15,
1818; Franklin, March 30, 1821.

Solomon, son of Elijah and Lucy, born April 26, 1785 ;
married Delany Shaw, Feb. 23, 1809. Children, — Delany
S., born at Middleborough, March 31, 1814 ; Solomon,
Sept. 28, 1812 ; Elijah, Sept. 11, 1816 ; Reliance, Feb. 22,
1822.

Beza, son of Elijah and Lucy, born Feb. 10, 1780 ; mar-
ried Ruth Edson, Oct. 10, 1798.

William, son of Elijah and Jane, born March 31, 1814
married in Boston to Anna M. Watson, Sept. 24, 1851.

Cyrus, son of , born Feb. 15, 1802 ; married Sally

Children, — Elizabeth, born at Middleborough, June 18
1802 ; Hannah, April 24, 1824.

Ebenezer, son of , born ; married in Middle-
borough to Hannah Thompson, Feb. 21, 1732.

Jonathan, son of , born ; married Joanna Tiuk-

ham in Middleborough, Oct. 11, 1750.

John, son of , married Lydia Booth in Middleborough,

March 9, 1763.

3. John, son of Thomas of Weymouth and of Sarah, and
grandson of William the emigrant, born Dec. 30, 1679 ;
married Sarah. Child, — John, born Aug. 10, 1713. Mar-
ried Mary for second wife. Children, — James, born Oct. 12,
1716 ; Joseph, Feb. 13, 1718 ; Mary, Dec. 21, 1719.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 411

4. John, son of John and Sarah, born Aug. 10, 1713 ;
married Abigail Niles, Dec. 28, 1738. Child, — John, born
April 26, 1741.

4. Joseph, son of John and Sarah of Abington, born
Feb. 13, 1718 ; married Mary, and settled in Abington, in
what is now included in the town of Bridgewater. Child,
— Mary, born in 1741.

6. Seth, son of Micah and Deborah, born at Abington,
Jan. 9, 1776 ; married Hannah Shaw at Cummington,
July 4, 1804. Children, — Allzida, born at Cummington,
April 3, 1805, died April, 1805 ; Olive, May 10, 1806, mar-
ried Jonas Tirrell, Oct. 28, 1824 ; Betsy, born Dec. 30, 1808 ;
Lucia, May 9, 1819, married Jonas F. Luce, Sept. 1, 1839 ;
Robert, born Oct. 4, 1822. He died Dec. 19, 1853.

7. Robert, son of Seth and Hannah, born Oct. 4, 1822 ;
married Nancy. Child, — Clara, born at Cummington,
Oct. 4, 1850.

Noah, son of Daniel and Ruth, born at Abington, Dec. 10,
1754 ; married Abigail. Children, — Nabby, born at Cum-
mington, April 16, 1785 ; Daniel, Nov. 5, 1786 ; Ruth,
June 21, 1789, married Josiah Shaw, Oct. 10, 1825 ; Nancy,
born April 30, 1791 ; Olive, Dec. 15, 1793 ; Jesse, March 25,
1796 ; Orpha, Dec. 31, 1805, married Alonzo Gurney,
Jan. 25, 1825. His wife died Oct. 9, 1837 : he died
Jan. 19, 1832.

Daniel, son of Noah and Abigail, born at Cummington,
Nov. 5, 1786 ; married Cynthia Warner, Oct. 20, 1814.
Children, — Noah Warner, born at Cummington, Nov. 25,
1815 ; Daniel E., March 17, 1818 ; John C, July 4, 1820;
Paul D., Feb. 24, 1823 ; Lucius F., Sept. 24, 1829. His
wife died Sept. 10, 1849.

Jesse, son of Noah and Abigail, born March 25, 1796 ;
married Mary Davis, Feb. 19, 1829. Children, — Frances
Jane, born at Cummington, July 3, 1830 ; William Lewis,

412 WILLIAM READE OP WEYMOUTH,

May 5, 1832 ; Hiram Davis, Nov. 1, 1833 ; Myron Winslow,
Jan. 16, 1837. He lives in Cummington.

Noah W., son of Daniel and Cynthia, born Nov. 25, 1815 ;
married Nancy. Children, — Mary Jane, born at Cumming-
ton, June 17, 1839 ; Cynthia W., March 20, 1841 ; John S.,
March 31, 1843 ; Nancy E., Oct. 18, 1848 ; a son, Oct. 19,
1850 ; Horace E., May, 1855. He lives in Cumming-
ton.

John C, son of Daniel and Cynthia, born July 4, 1820 ;
married Sarah. Children, — a son, born at Cummington,
March, 1854 ; Mary A., Jan. 9, 1856. Lives in Cum-
mington.

William L., son of Jesse and Mary, born May 5, 1832 ;
married Julia Sampson, Jan. 1, 1856. Child, — a daughter,
born at Cummington, Aug. 25, 1857. Lives in Cumming-
ton.

Simeon G., son of Thomas, jun., and Joanna, born at
Abington, Sept. 29, 1793 ; married Rachel Burges of Har-
vard, June 3, 1829. Child, — Simeon G., born at Abington,
Sept. 23, 1830. He died Oct. 1, 1831.

Simeon G., son of Simeon G., married at Quincy, Oct. 17,
1850, to Amanda Wood ; and lives in Portland, Oregon.

Bela, son of Jacob and Nancy, born Dec. 2, 1803 ; mar-
ried Joanna. Children, — Jacob, born April 5, 1827 ;
Nancy, Jan. 31, 1832 ; Elizabeth Richmond, Oct. 8, 1835.

5. Naomi, daughter of James, married Obadiah Hersey of
Abington in 1777. Children, — Luther, Polly, Galen, Jere-
miah, James, Olive.

7. Charles S., son of Jeremiah, born Oct. 12, 1816 ; mar-
ried Clarissa S. Gurney of East Bridgewater. Children, —
Rebecca, born in 1849 ; Mary J., 1844; Charles, 1846. His
wife died in 1849. Married, for second wife, Stetson.

Jacob, son of , married Rebecca Andrews, April 23,

1795.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 413

Daniel, son of , married Nancy Foster at Middle-
borough, Feb. 21, 1813.

John, son of , married Irene Lampson at Middle-
borough, April, 1832.

414 PHILIP READE OP WEYMOUTH,

CHAPTER IX.

PHILIP READE OF WEYMOUTH, AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

1. Philip Reade, who was of Weymouth in 1640, married
Mary. Children, — Philip, born at Weymouth, Aug. 24,
1641 ; Margaret ; Samuel ; Mary, who married John Vin-
ing, Nov. 27, 1669. He was made freeman in 1654, and died
Feb. 29, 1675. His will was proved March 6, 1676.

2. Philip, son of Philip and Mary, born at Weymouth,
Aug. 24, 1641 ; married Hannah. Children, — Mary, born
March 21, 1669 ; Philip, Nov. 2, 1674 ; Hannah, Feb. 18,
1671 ; John, Aug. 16, 1676. Married Abigail for second
wife. Children, — Samuel, born Sept. 21, 1681 ; Prudence,
Oct. 7, 1685 ; Stephen, Oct. 15, 1690 ; Deborah, Aug. 30,
1692.

3. Stephen, son of Philip, born Oct. 15, 1690 ; married
Mary Whitmarsh in 1714. Children, — Mary, born at
Abington, March 16, 1715 ; Stephen, March 26, 1717;
Ruth, Oct. 30, 1719 ; Abigail and Rachel, Jan. 23, 1721;
Philip, Feb. 14, 1724.

3. Philip, son of Philip, born Nov. 2, 1674.

3. John, son of Philip, born Aug. 16, 1676 ; married
Sarah. Children, — John, born about 1700 ; Thomas ;
William ; Sarah, who married Adam dishing ; Ruth. His
will is dated 1757. He had inherited some portion of his
brother Samuel's estate, in Abington.

4. John, son of John and Sarah, born about 1700 ; mar-
ried Sarah. Children, — Sarah, born July 7, 1721 ; Ruth,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 415

Oct. 28, 1724 ; John, June 22, 1728 ; Samuel, July 13, 1732.
His will is dated 1784. Had a grandson Robert Pratt.

3. Samuel, son of Philip and Hannah, born Sept. 21,
1681 ; married Mary Davis in 1705. His residence was in
Abington, nearest to the town of Bridgewater. Child, —
Mary, who married Ebenezer Shaw.

4. Samuel, who married Elizabeth Haywood in 1737.
His widow married Timothy Haywood.

Samuel of Abington, probably son of Samuel and Eliza-
beth, married Mary Young, May 26, 1763. Children, —
Sarah, born in Abington, July 6, 1765; Deborah, July 25,
1768, married Christopher Dyer, March 5, 1786. Married
Mary Pool for second wife, Aug. 23, 1787. Children, —
Mary, born March 23, 1789 ; Samuel, Dec. 18, 1790 ; Abiah,
May 18, 1792, died young ; Abiah, born May 19, 1793 ;
Hannah, March 25, 1795 ; Joseph, Oct. 29, 1798 ; Ruth,
July 19, 1800 ; Charles, Oct. 2, 1802.

Joseph, son of Samuel and Mary, born in Abington,
Oct. 29, 1798 ; married Jane Stoddard, Nov. 17, 1822.

Samuel, son of Samuel and Mary, born in Abington,
Dec. 18,1790; married Polly. Children, — Samuel, born
in Abington, May 26, 1811 ; Polly, Jan. 16, 1813 ; Levi,
Dec. 31, 1814 ; Dexter, Nov. 10, 1816 ; Mehetabel, March 31,
1822.

Levi, son of Samuel and Polly, born Dec. 31, 1814 ; mar-
ried Louisa E. Drake, April 20, 1837. Child, — Louisa
Maria, born in Abington, Aug. 10, 1838.

Dexter, son of Samuel and Polly, born Nov. 10, 1816 ;
married Catherine Stetson, Aug. 29, 1839. Children, —
Frederick, born in Abington, Feb. 11, 1841 ; Lewis, Oct. 26,
1842 ; Catherine, Sept. 3, 1844 ; Mary Ann, Dec. 22, 1846 ;
Ruthven, Jan. 5, 1850 ; Eveline S., Dec. 1, 1851.

416 JOHN REEDE OF PLYMOUTH COUNTY.

CHAPTER X.

JOHN REEDE OF PLYMOUTH COUNTY.

John Reede was brought to this country by James Garret
of Charlestown, with others, who were sold to pay their
passage and expenses. He was bid off by one Michael
Pierce of Hingham, to serve from July 16, 1653, to Sept. 10,
1662, for seven pounds ; the said John consenting thereto.
After he had served out his apprenticeship, he found his
way to Scituate, an adjoining town, and married Mary
Winter, daughter of Christopher Winter. Mr. Winter was
formerly of Plymouth ; but left there when quite young, on
account of having been fined for getting himself published
to Jane Cooper, a young damsel of Plymouth, without her
consent. He lived at Marshfield when Mr. Reede married
his daughter, in 1668. He afterwards lived at Jones River,
what is now Kingston.

Mr. Reede lived in Marshfield, and is progenitor of the
Marshfield Reeds and others of the name in that vicinity.
The will of his father-in-law is dated Sept. 6, 1680. He
died May 20, 1694 ; and his widow and son John settled his
estate.

JOHN READ OP FREETOWN. 417

CHAPTER XI.

JOHN READ OF FREETOWN, AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

1. John Read was one of the first settlers of Newport,
R.I. Tradition says that he came from Plymouth, England.
Children, — John, Ebenezer, Oliver.

2. John, son of John of Newport, married Hannah, and
settled in Freetown in 1677, — eighteen years after the first
settlement of the town by people who felt oppressed by the
arbitrary laws of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Colonies ;
which originated the word Freetown. He was a cordwainer.
Children, — Joseph; John; Hannah, who married a Sher-
man. He died Jan. 23, 1721 : his wife died April 12,
1727.

2. John, son of John and Hannah, married Mary. Chil-
dren,— Mary, born Nov. 19, 1690; John, June 12, 1694;
Thomas, May 9, 1696 ; Hannah, Oct. 12, 1697, died Oct. 17,
1718; William, born Sept. 9, 1699; Oliver, Oct. 11, 1701 ;
Penelope, Oct. 12, 1703, married Stephen Border ; Jona-
than, born Jan. 23, 1705, married Hope Durfee of Tiverton ;
Joseph, born March 5, 1708 ; Sarah, Feb. 1, 1709, died
June 3, 1728 ; Nathan, born Feb. 23, 1711 ; Susannah,
Feb. 27, 1715. His wife died May 6, 1726. He was town-
clerk of Freetown thirty years.

3. John, son of John and Mary, born at Freetown,
June 12, 1694 ; married Sarah Burden of Freetown, Oct. 31,

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418 JOHN READ OP FREETOWN,

1719. Children, — John, born Nov. IT, 1720 ; Oliver,
Nov. 10, 1725 ; Thomas ; William ; Jonathan ; Mary ; Pe-
nelope ; Susanna. He lived in Swansea, and died 1751.

4. Oliver, son of John and Mary, born at Freetown,
Oct. 14, 1701, married Martha. Children, — Joseph, born
at Freetown, Dec. 11, 1732; Oliver, Aug. 21, 1734; Mary,
March 31, 1736; Jonathan, Nov. 13,1737; Wait, Dec. G,
1739; Nathan, June 16, 1742.

4. Jonathan, son of John and Sarah, married Eunice
Weaver, April 24, 1757. Child, — James. Pie died before
the date of his father's will, 1750.

5. Oliver, son of Oliver and Martha, born at Freetown,
Aug. 21, 1734 ; married Patience Braiton, of Swansea,
Feb. 14, 1754. He was a captain in the Revolutionary War,
and a distinguished man. Children, — Nancy, who mar-
ried Thomas Freelove ; Ruth ; Stephen ; Oliver ; Thomas ;
Deborah, married William Gifford ; Phcbe; Anna, married
George Read, and married Perlcy Willson for second hus-
band.

5. Joseph, son of Oliver and Martha, born at Freetown,
Dec. 11, 1732 ; married Mary Knowles of Swansea, Jan. 10,
1760. Children,— Joseph, born in 1761, died in 1791;
James, born in 1768. He died in 1791, and his son Jo-
seph died the same year. His wife died in 1816. The
gravestones of these three are standing, in good condition,
in the burying-ground in the close of the late Joseph E.
Read, Esq.

3. William, son of John and Mary, born at Freetown,
Sept. 9, 1679 ; married Sarah. Children, — John, born at
Swansea in 1729 ; Mary, 1733 ; Betty, 1736 ; Nathan, Nov. 8,
1741. Lived in Swansey.

4. John, son of William and Sarah, born at Swansea in
1729 ; married Mary Carey. Children, — William, born at
Newport, June 11, 1755, died 1756 ; William, born July 5,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 419

1761, died in 1763; Sarah, born Jan. 12, 1763, married
Eben Page ; John, born May 25, 1765, died in 1818 ; Mary,
oorn Dec. 27, 1766, married Epaphras Jones ; Nathan, born
Nov. 18, 1768, died 1773 ; Nathan, born Jan. 24, 1774 ;
William, July 5, 1776. He moved from Newport to Swan-
sea in the Revolutionary War.

4. Nathan, son of William and Sarah, born Nov. 8, 1741,
atSwansey; married Content Braiton. Child, — Preserved,
born at Swansea, Dec. 18, 1777.

5. Preserved, son of Nathan and Content, born Dec. 18,
1777 ; married Nancy Winslow. Children, — Catherine,
born at Swansea, June 12, 1807 ; Nathan, Sept. 8, 1809 ;
Francis, July 5, 1812; Eveline M., Feb. 18, 1815, married
William Mitchell ; Elizabeth, born Feb. 17, 1817, married
George W. Carr ; Ebenezer, born Feb. 1, 1821 ; Maria,
Nov. 16, 1823 ; Charles G.,,May 27, 1829. Was formerly a
sea-captain.

6. Francis, son of Preserved, born July 5, 1812; mar-
ried Frances Sanderson. Children, — Cata, born at San
Francisco in 1852 ; Charles G., 1855.

5. John, son of William and Mary, born at Newport,
May 25, 1765 ; married Eliza Dennis. Children, — Mary J.,
born at Newport, Oct. 15, 1798, married Dr. Simmons ;
Frances, April 25, 1804. He died in 1818.

5. Nathan, son of John and Mary, born at Newport,
Jan. 24, 1774 ; married Phebe Chase. Children, — Sarah,
born at Swansea, Dec. 15, 1804, married Joseph Earle ;
Nathan, born March 22, 1806 ; Mary Ann, May 31, 1708 ;
John, Feb. 8, 1810 ; Phebe, Dec. 18, 1814, married Richard
Peckham. He went from Newport to Swansea with his
father in the Revolution.

6. Nathan, son of Nathan and Phebe, born March 22,
1806; married, first, Rebecca B. Hathaway; and, second,
Sarah Olney. Children, — Lydia H., born at Fall River,

420 JOHN READ OF FREETOWN,

Jan. 22, 1838 ; Rebecca Judson, Oct. 30, 1849. He keeps
at No. 9, Granite Block, Fall River.

6. John, sou of Nathan and Phebe, born Feb. 8, 1810 ;
married Rowena H. Pierce. Children, — Theodore E.,
born at Fall River, May 13, 1839 ; Ellen Scott, Sept. 28,
1843, died 1847 ; Charles A., June 17, 1846. He keeps at
No. 9, Granite Block, Fall River.

5. William, son of John and Mary, born at Newport,
July 5, 1776; married Ruth Chace. Children, — Wil-
liam Eben, born at Swansea, April 2, 1786 ; Ruth A.,
March 8,1807, married 0. H. Bush ; William, born Oct. 18,
1808 ; Eben S., Oct. 16, 1810 ; Mary C, Feb. 3, 1812, mar-
ried John Brayton ; Epaphras J., born Dec. 31, 1814 ;
George, Nov. 25, 1816 ; Sarah, June 14, 1819 ; Elizabeth,
June 30, 1821, married John Lindsey. He was a sea-captain,
and lived at Swansea.

6. Eben S., son of William and Ruth, born Oct. 16, 1810 ;
married Sarah A. Cutts. Children, — Sarah E., born at
Fall River in 1836 ; Charles M., at Swansea, 1841. Lives in
Providence.

6. William, son of William and Ruth, born at Swansea,
Oct. 18, 1808; married Eliza Bartlett. Children, — Wil-
liam Freeman, born at Taunton in 1838, died in 1840;
Rufus S., born at Philadelphia, 1840 ; George, 1843 ; Mary
B., 1845.

7. George, son of William, born Nov. 25, 1816 ; married
Emeline Howell. Children, — Albert M., born at New-
York City, Oct. 30, 1846 ; Henry H., at Philadelphia, Feb. 3,
1849 ; George E., at Swansea, Feb. 23, 1850. They live on
the old place in Somerset, formerly Swansea.

6. Epaphras, son of William and Ruth, born at Swansea,
Dec. 31, 1814; married Anna G. Luther. Children, —
William A., born at Swansea, December, 1843 ; Her-
bert V., October, 1846 ; Lydia S., 1848 ; Charles, 1850.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 421

Married Deborah Willson for second wife. Children, —
Frederick M., born July, 1855 ; Anna E., 1857. Lives at
Fall River.

4. Thomas, son of John and Sarah of Swansea, married.
Children, — Elisha ; Thomas. He died before the date of
his father's will, 1750.

Joseph, son of John and Mary, born March 5, 1708 ;
married Grace Pray, Jan. 25, 1733.

3. Joseph, son of John and Hannah, born at Freetown ;
married Sarah Deane, of Taunton, Dec. 29, 1708. Chil-
dren,— Benjamin, born at Freetown, Nov. 13, 1711, died
Oct. 25, 1732; Joseph, born Aug. 31, 1710; Elizabeth,
April 19, 1713 ; Dorothy, Nov. 6, 1714 ; Samuel, Dec. 23,
1715 ; Hannah, April 22, 1719, single ; Sarah, Oct. 3, 1721,
died single ; Phebe, born Feb. 6, 1717 ; Mary, Sept. 12,
1728, married Henry Brightman. His wife died Nov. 13,
1738. He was a prominent man in Freetown.

4. Joseph, son of Joseph and Sarah, born at Freetown,
Aug. 31, 1710 ; married Mary, and was known as Esquire
Reed. Children, — Joseph; Lydia, born in 1747 ; William;
David, 1754 ; Hannah, who married a Whitwell.

5. Daniel, son of Joseph, was a sea-captain ; married
Mary, and died at Hispaniola, Aug. 5, 1795 : his wife died
Dec. 11, 1806.

6. James, son of Joseph and Mary, married Rebecca
Burton, and was a settled minister many years in Attle-
borough. Children, — James H., born Aug. 30, 1801 ;
Samuel Stillman, Nov. 14, 1803, died 1831.

7. James H., son of Rev. James and Rebecca, born
Aug. 30, 1801 ; married Mary Ann Taylor of Provi-
dence. Children, — Cyrus B. ; Sophia F. Married, for
second wife, Rebecca C. Sessions ; and, for third wife,
Hannah Eddy. He keeps a wholesale dry-goods store in
Providence.

422

3. Stephen, son of ; married Ann Luther, Dec. 5,

1722. Children, — Samuel, born at Swansea, Feb. 28,
1723; Simeon, Feb. 10, 1726.

3. Benjamin, son of Joseph, born in 1700 ; married Han-
nah Chace, Dec. 1, 1720. Children, — Benjamin, born
May 31, 1721, at Swansea ; David, Jan. 20, 1723 ; Barnard,
Feb. 12, 1725 ; Hannah, Jan. 29, 1730 ; Samuel, April 7,
1727 ; Stephen, Nov. 7, 1732. He died March 19, 1733, in
his thirty-fourth year.

4. Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Hannah, born at
Swansea, May 31, 1721 ; married Elizabeth. Children, —
Elizabeth, born at Swansea, Sept. 3, 1750 ; Anna, April 16,
1754; Benjamin, Nov. 13, 1757 ; John, Oct. 28, 1761.

5. William, son of Joseph of Freetown, married, first, Ruth
Evans ; and, second, Dorothy, daughter of Deacon Samuel
Read, his cousin. Children, — William; Joseph E. ; John;
Nancy ; Rachel ; Betsy ; Anna ; Ruth ; Phebe, married
Henry Brightman ; Rebecca. He was deputy-sheriff.

6. William, son of William, married Prudence Valentine.
Children, — Edmond, who lives, unmarried, on the old
homestead ; William V. ; George W. ; Samuel ; John B. ;
Joseph B. ; Ruth ; Harriet ; Rebecca ; Elizabeth.

7. William V., son of William and Prudence, born
Feb. 15, 1804 ; married Susanna Ruggles, April 10, 1845,
and lives at No. 164, North Main Street, Fall River. Chil-
dren, — William V., born at Fall River, Dec. 29, 1845, died ;
William V., born June 8, 1853 ; Henry R, March 10, 1857 ;
a son, Feb. 4, 1859.

7. George W., son of William and Prudence, married
Eveline Bordon. Children, — Edmond V., born December,
1842 ; Susan R, March, 1844 ; George F., Oct. 27, 1845.
They live at No. 166, North Main Street, Fall River.

6. John, son of William, married Sarah Robinson, and
lives at Fall River.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 423

6. Joseph E., son of William and Ruth, born September,
1776 ; married Sybil Valentine, Jan. 17, 1803. Children,
— Sarah Ann, born April 17, 1804; Joseph E., Jan. 25,

1806 ; Rachel, Dec. 5, 1809 ; Henry, May 3, 1812 ; Paddock
Richmond, Nov. 16, 1807 ; James M., April 24, 1817 ; Wil-
liam S., Oct. 28, 1814; Francis B., July 14, 1819; Caroline
V., March 20, 1825. He was a representative several years ;
was a justice of the peace, &c. ; and was much in public
life. He died July 6, 1857 ; and his wife died July 5.
They both occupy the same grave.

7. Sarah Ann, daughter of Joseph E., Esq., born April 17,
1804 ; married Abraham Bowen, a man of eccentric views,
who is a printer and teamster, and editor of a newspaper
called the " All Sorts." They live at No. 31, Rock Street,
Fall River. Children, — Allen A., born Feb. 15, 1830;
Joseph A., Oct. 10, 1832 ; Sarah V., Dec. 8, 1839.

7. Joseph E., son of Joseph E., Esq., born at Fall River,
Jan. 23, 1806 ; married Catherine Norris of New Jersey. Chil-
dren,—Sybil V., born Sept. 13, 1848 ; Willct S., Oct. 15,
1852. His wife died Oct. 8, 1856. He lives at Fall River.

7. Paddock Richmond, son of Joseph E., Esq., born Nov. 16,

1807 ; married Belinda Morey, and lives at Taunton. Chil-
dren,— Emily P., Harriet M., Francis Richmond.

7. Rachel, daughter of Joseph E., Esq., born Dec. 5,
1809; married Charles B. Weaver, Dec. 11, 1834, and lives
at No. 14, Bank Street, Fall River. Children, — Lydia C,
born May 17, 1837 ; Henry R., May 10, 1840 ; John W.,
May 10, 1840, died ; Charles S., born Aug. 5, 1842 ; Frank
B. R., April 30, 1845; Francis Milton, April 3, 1847 ; Lou-
isa V., July 21, 1849 ; George K., died.

7. James M., son of Joseph E., Esq., born April 24, 1817;
married Catherine Garners of New- York City. Children, —
Eveline, Ella, Gertrude, Oscar. He lives in New- York City,
and is a broker in Wall Street, No. 40.

424 JOHN READ OF FREETOWN,

7. Francis Bailey, son of Joseph E., born July 14, 1819 ;
married Angelina Grinnell. Children, — Ella V., Walter G.,
Eliza. He lives at Collins Station, Clinton County, 111.

7. Caroline, daughter of Joseph E., born March 20, 1825 ;
married Milton A. Clide, and lives at Springfield. Chil-
dren,— Eveline Louisa; Caroline M. ; Harriet P.

6. Phebe, daughter of William and Ruth, married Henry
Brightman of Fall River. Children, — Sheffield W., Samuel,
Thomas, Joseph, William, and several daughters.

4. Samuel, son of Joseph and Sarah, born Dec. 23, 1715 ;
married Marcia. Children, — Dorothy, born in 1745, mar-
ried William Read, father of Joseph E., she being his'second
wife ; Priscilla, born in 1747, married Pardon Davall ; Ruth,
born in 1750, died single. He was a prominent man in town-
affairs, and known as Deacon Read ; and, leaving no sons,
his nephew and son-in-law, William Read, succeeded to his
estate, — it being the same where Joseph E. Read lived
and died. There is an old family burying-ground on this
farm, and also another in an adjoining close, which is or has
been the burying-place of some of the Brightman Family, in
which is the grave of Mary Reed Brightman, wife of Henry.

5. Jonathan, son of Oliver and Martha, born Nov. 13,
1737 ; married Eunice Weaver, April 24, 1757. Children,
— James ; Ichabod, born in 1760 ; Jonathan ; Lydia, who
married a Weaver ; Elizabeth, married Capt. Robert Gibbs ;
Susan, married Luther Willson ; Eunice ; Hannah, married
a Whitwell. He lived at Steep Brook.

6. Ichabod, son of Jonathan, born in 1760 ; died Dec. 5,
1796, and his gravestone is standing in a burying-ground on
an eminence in Steep-Brook Village. He was called Capt.
Read.

6. Lieut. Jonathan, son of Jonathan, married Ellen Law
of Somerset. Child, — Betsy, who married Spooner Wins-
low. Married, for second husband, William Baker ; and, for

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third, a Lobdell. Children, — Benjamin W. ; Ichabod ;
James ; Ruth, died Oct. 20, 1793, aged twenty-two years ;
Clarissa, married a Cornall ; Richmond.

7. Benjamin W., son of Jonathan, married Cynthia Fierce.
Children, — Mary, born April 21, 1823 ; Richmond, Jan. 21,
1825. They live at No. 62, Spring Street, Fall River.

4. John, son of John and Sarah, born at Freetown, Nov. 7,
1720; married Ruth Lawton, Jan. 9, 1745. Children, —
George ; Stephen, died unmarried ; Martin ; Daniel.

5. George, son of John and Ruth, married Ruth Hatha-
way. Children, — George; Firman; Lawton; Washington;
Emery ; Betsy, who married Asa Read ; Susan, married
Warner Cook ; Sarah, married Warren Read, brother of
Asa ; Almira, married Thomas D. Chandler ; Ruth, married
Abel Davis, and married, for second husband, Benjamin
Ellsbury.

6. George, son of George and Ruth, married Anna,
daughter of Oliver. Child, — George. He died, and she
married Perley Willson.

6. Firman, son of George and Ruth, married Elizabeth
Reynolds, and settled at a village, in Fall River, called New
Boston, near Steep Brook. Children, — Firman, born at
Steep Brook, May 27, 1825 ; Elizabeth, who married An-
drew Wade ; Julia W., married Leonard Tabor of Little
Compton ; Sarah, died young ; Emily C, married Robert
Frazier ; Sidney H.

7. Firman, son of Firman, married Susan B. Morey of
Warwick. Children, — Walter, born at Fall River, Dec. 18,
1852 ; Maria Louisa, died young. They live at No. 19,
Bank Street.

5. Martin, son of John and Ruth, married Abigail Hatha-
way, sister to the wife of his brother George. Child, —
Frederick.

5. Daniel, son of John and Ruth, married Sarah Whit-

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426 JOHN READ OF FREETOWN.

well, daughter of Mr. Whitwell and Hannah Read. Chil-
dren, — Daniel, George, John, Bradford, James, Oliver,
Nancy.,

6. Daniel, son of Daniel and Sarah, married Mary Wins-
low. Child, — Mary Pelham, born Feb. 13, 1815. His
widow lives at No. 44, Bank Street, Fall River.

6. George, son of Daniel and Ruth, married Anna Bennett.
Children, — Daniel, Bradford, Harriet. Married, for second
wife, Nancy Chase. Child, — Phebe. He lives at Steep
Brook, and is a retired sea-captain.

6. Nancy, daughter of Daniel and Ruth, married Joseph
Bennett in 1826. Children, — James W., born July 3, 1827 ;
John R., May 13, 1829 ; Sally R., Dec. 23, 1830, died in
1844 ; George, born March 10, 1831, died young ; Anna,
born Dec. 3, 1833 ; George R., Aug. 29, 1835 ; Phebe,
Aug. 4, 1837, died young. They live at Steep Brook.

JOHN READE AND OTHERS. 427

CHAPTER XII.

JOHN READE AND OTHERS.

John Reade, one of the early settlers in Boston, was made
freeman, May 13, 1640, and had a grant of eleven heads or
forty-four acres at Muddy River, Feb. 20, 1640 ; was an ap-
praiser of Thomas Brittlestone's estate, Oct. 30, 1643. Chil-
dren,—John, born June 29, 1640 ; Thomas, Sept. 20, 1641.
He was known as Major John Reade ; and there are some
circumstances tending to show that he was brother to Col.
Reade of Salem, Capt. Reade of Boston, and Col. Edward
Reade of England, who was father-in-law of John Winthrop,
jun., the first Governor of Connecticut. Major Reade moved
to Barbadoes, and was an extensive merchant. His family
appears to have been in some way related to the family of
Abraham Palmer, a prominent member of the Massachusetts
Colony. The mercantile house appears to have been repre-
sented at a later date by one Joseph Reade, who was proba-
bly a son of Major John.

1. John Read was one of the first settlers of Newtown, on
Long Island, in 1655. Children, — John and Joseph, who
were freeholders in Newtown in 1686. They left Newtown ;
and I find William, son of one of them, in Ewing, N.J.,
about the year 1700, who was one of the first settlers of that
place. William, a distinguished nursery-man of Elizabeth,
N.J., is supposed to be of this family.

428 JOHN READE AND OTHERS.

Stephen Reade, born in 1611, came to America in 1G31,
and lived at one time in Lynn.

Benjamin Reede was of Duxbnry, and capable of bearing
arms in 1643.

JOHN READ OF ALEXANDRIA. 429

CHAPTER XIII.

JOHN READ OF ALEXANDRIA, AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

John Read came from London in 1725, and settled in
Alexandria, District of Columbia ; married Miss Nancy Se-
bastian, a Spanish lady, and sister to the Hon. Benjamin
Sebastian, formerly Governor of Louisiana. Children, —
John ; Benjamin ; Philip, born in 1759 ; Heusby, who mar-
ried a Jones ; Nancy, married a Southerland of Virginia ;
Ann, married a Murphy ; Rachel, married a Levins. He
moved to Kentucky, and settled at Lewisville in 1791. He
was a merchant-tailor.

2. John, son of John, married a Miss Foster. Children,
— John, who is a distinguished lawyer in Tennessee; An-
thony, who went to Indiana, and was a representative to the
Legislature many years ; James T., who lives in Indiana,
and has been senator twenty-two years, and Register of the
Land Office under the United-States Government many
years. He was a captain in the United-States Army, and
was in the battle of the Blue Licks with the Indians.

3. Benjamin, son of John, settled first in that part of
Kentucky which now forms a portion of Ohio, and finally
moved to Philadelphia in 1787. Children, — George C, a
commodore in the navy, and lives in Philadelphia ; Benja-
min S., who was appointed inspector of the navy in 1841.

3. Philip, son of John, born in 1759, and died in 1828 ;
was United-States senator from Maryland from 1806 to '13 ;

430 JOHN READ OP ALEXANDRIA.

married Anna Adgelotli, daughter of Capt. Adgelotb, of
French extraction. Children, — Edward, born in 1814, a
distinguished lawyer in Brownville, Tenn., of the firm of
Reed and Shepherd ; Henry ; William ; George ; John ;
Burgan ; Joshua ; Philip.

3. Heusby, son of John, lived in Kentucky ; married
Charlotte Kirck. Children, — Lewis ; John : Heusby ;
Philip ; William, who was in the battle of the River Rasin :
Lucretia ; Nancy ; Charlotte ; Sally ; Rachel ; Mary.

4. Lewis, son of Heusby, married Alcy Brown of Virginia.
Children, — James ; William, an attorney-at-law in Hoyen-
ville, Ky. ; Natbaniel ; Nancy ; Henry ; Charles ; Lewis ;
Joseph ; Joshua ; Wesley ; Mary ; Burgan.

5. Henry, son of Lewis, was in the Mexican War as color-
bearer to Col. Andrews, and was badly wounded in three
places, but has recovered, and has since been in the Legisla-
ture of Kentucky. A sword was presented to him by the
Legislature, which cost two hundred and fifty dollars. He
is a lawyer by profession.

JOHN READ, SEN. 431

CHAPTER XIV.

JOHN READ, SEN., AND HIS DESCENDANTS IN AMERICA.*

First Generation in America. — John Eead, Sen., de-
scended from an ancient and honorable family originally
seated in England, was born in Dublin, Ire., in the last year
of the reign of King James the Second, A.D. 1688. His
parents were persons of high position, wealth, and influence.
Of a bold and adventurous disposition, he early determined to
visit the British Colonies in America. This determination,
in spite of much opposition on the part of his parents, he
carried into effect after reaching man's estate. Of his early
experiences in this country, little is known. Tradition says,
that, after remaining here some time, he was so much pleased
with the new country, that he decided to cast his lot in it for
life. He accordingly bought lands in Cecil County, in the
Province of Maryland, and became a planter. Shortly after
taking this important step, Mr. Read's father wrote to him
from Dublin, commanding him instantly to return to Ireland,
and at the same time informing liim that the penalty of dis-
obedience to this command would be the loss of his inherit-
ance, which should pass to his adopted nephew. Notwith-
standing this, Mr. Read resolved to remain, and replied to
his father to that effect, declaring that he preferred the ad-
venturous and stirring life in the Colonies to the quiet and
luxuries of the home he had left in the Old World.

* This chapter has been communicated by John Meredith Read, Jun., mem-
ber of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, &c.

432

His birthright having been given to another, and the
ties which had bound him to the land of his birth being-
severed, his love for the country of his choice was in-
creased tenfold ; and he felt that he was now entirely
identified with it.

He soon married Miss Mary Howell, an aunt of the late
Gov. Howell of New Jersey, a lady of fine personal appear-
ance and cultivated mind, whose family (originally AVelsh)
had been for some time established in the Province, where it
held a highly honorable position.

Mr. Read, after his marriage, continued to reside at his
plantation in Maryland Province until the birth of his eldest
son George. Soon after this event, in the year 1734, he
removed to the head-waters of the Christiana River, in the
Province of Delaware. Here he possessed a plantation, upon
which was a spacious mansion, surrounded by the usual
offices and out-buildings, all built of brick, in the old Colo-
nial style. There were besides upon the plantation a large
storehouse, and a wharf situated on the Christiana Creek.
He held other property in Christiana and its vicinity, and
continued to retain his plantation in Maryland. Mr. Read
owned also, like many of the landed gentry of his day, a
large flouring-mill, which was situated at North-east. This
mill contained some rare and costly machinery, which was
the object of general admiration. Gen. Washington, when
a very young man, visited and inspected it at the request of
his brother, who was about to erect a mill upon his estate,
and desired to have similar machinery. In that day, and in
that portion of the Colonies, a mill was considered a neces-
sary adjunct to an estate.

Mr. Read continued to reside at his place near Christiana
during the remainder of his life. He was a prominent
member of the Presbyterian Church in Christiana, and was
greatly interested in its establishment and subsequent pro-

AND HIS DESCENDANTS IN AMERICA. 433

gress.* Mr. Read departed this life, at his mansion in the
Delaware Province, on the fifteenth day of June, 1756, aged
sixty-eight years. Mrs. Read survived her husband many
years, but never married again. She deceased on the 22d
of September, 1784. The children of John Read, sen., and
Mary his wife, were — (1.) George ; (2.) William ; (3.)
John ; (4.) Thomas ; (5.) James ; (6.) Mary; (7.) Andrew.
Second Generation in America. — George Read, the
eldest child of John Read, sen., and Mary his wife, was born
on his father's plantation, in Cecil County, in the Province
of Maryland, on the 18th of September, 1732. He received
a classical education ; commencing his studies at a seminary
at Chester, in the Province of Pennsylvania, and continuing
them afterwards under the care of that very learned man
and admirable teacher, the Rev. Dr. Francis Allison, then
residing at New London, in the Province above mentioned.
Among his fellow-pupils at the latter place were Charles
Thomson, the able Secretary of Congress ; Hugh Williamson,
a member of that body, from North Carolina ; and Dr. Evv-
ing, for many years Provost of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, and eminent as a mathematician and astronomer. At
the age of seventeen, Mr. Read commenced the study of the
law in the office of John Moland, Esq., a distinguished
lawyer of the city of Philadelphia. He applied himself with
so much ability, industry, and integrity, to his professional
duties and studies, that Mr. Moland soon testified his respect
and esteem by relinquishing to Mr. Read a part of his prac-
tice. At the early age of nineteen, Mr. Read was called to
the bar in the city of Philadelphia. On the 6th of March,
1754, he removed to New Castle, in the Province of Dela-

* In the original deed, dated 1735, conveying to the Trustees of the Presby-
terian Church a lot of land upon which a church edifice was to be erected, the
name of John Kead, sen., stands first; and, in the body of the deed, his name
is mentioned.

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434 JOHN READ, SEN.,

ware, and commenced the practice of the law in the three
lower counties on Delaware and the adjacent ones of Mary-
land. He found himself in the midst of powerful competi-
tors,— men of unquestioned talents, and thoroughly learned
in the law, — among whom were John Ross, then Attorney-
General ; Benjamin Chew, Joseph Galloway, George Ross,
John Dickinson, and Thomas M'Kean. To have rapidly
acquired a lucrative practice, and achieved a high reputa-
tion for great legal abilities, in the midst of such rivals, is of
itself sufficient praise. On the 30th of April, 1763, he suc-
ceeded John Ross as Attorney-General. Mr. Road held this
office until elected a delegate to the Congress of 1774 ; when
he resigned it, saying that he would not enter that august
body trammelled with an office from his Britannic majesty.
Mr. Read was very eminent as a lawyer. His profound legal
knowledge, his solidity of judgment, and his habit of close
and clear reasoning, gained him great influence with juries
and judges ; and he evinced such unswerving integrity in all
his acts, that he was popularly styled " the honest lawyer."
His studies were not confined to the law ; for he ever main-
tained an intimate acquaintance with works on science and
art, as also with those of classic and miscellaneous literature.
In the year 1763, Mr. Read married a daughter of the Rev.
George Ross, for more than fifty 3rears the Rector of Im-
manuel Church, in the town of New Castle, Del. Mrs. Read
possessed a naturally fine understanding, which had been
thoroughly cultivated by her father. Her person was beau-
tiful, her manners elegant, and her piety exemplary. In
1765, Mr. Read was elected a member of the Assembly
of Delaware : this station he continued to occupy for twelve
successive years. About this time, lie was one of the com-
mittees which reported the numerous addresses made to
George the Third by the Delaware Legislature. He was
also active and prominent in urging the non-importation

AND HIS DESCENDANTS IN AMERICA. 435

agreement ; and, as Chairman of the General Committee for
its enforcement, rendered valuable services to the cause.

On the 13th of August, 1774, Mr. Read was elected by the
General Assembly of Delaware, together witli Cassar Rodney
and Thomas M'Kean, to represent the State in the American
Congress, which met in the month of September in Phila-
delphia. From this period he continued to represent the
State of Delaware in Congress during the whole Revolu-
tionary War. On the 4th of July, 1776,* he signed the
Declaration of Independence. Joseph Galloway soon after
tauntingly told him that he signed with a halter about his
neck. Mr. Read replied, that it was a measure demanded by
the crisis ; and he was prepared to meet any consequences
which might ensue. In September, 1776, Mr. Read was Pre-
sident of the Convention which framed the first Constitution
of Delaware. In 1777, he was President of the State of De-
laware. On the 5th of December, 1782, he was appointed a
Judge of the Court of Appeals in Admiralty Cases. This
appointment was announced to him in the most flattering-
manner by Mr. Boudinot, then President of Congress. Mr.
Read held this office till its abolition. In 1785, he was
appointed by Congress one of the commissioners who consti-
tuted a Federal Court created by that body (conformably
with the petitions of the States of New York and Massachu-
setts) for the purpose of determining a controversy which had
arisen in relation to territory. In 1786, he was nominated
by the Legislature of Delaware as one of their delegates to
Annapolis to consult with commissioners from other States
relative to the formation of a system of commercial regu-
lations for the Union. In 1787, he was a member of the
Convention which framed the Constitution of the United

* Nominally, none of the members of Congress really signed until the 3d
August.

436

States ; being one of the five signers of the Declaration
of Independence who were also framers of the Constitution.
Immediately after the adoption of the Constitution, he was
elected to the Senate of the United States. At the expira-
tion of his term, he was re-elected. He resigned his seat in
the Senate in September, 1793 ; and was immediately ap-
pointed Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware.
He performed the duties of this high station with great
ability and integrity until the autumn (21st September) of
1798 ; when, after a short illness, he died at his residence*
in New Castle.

Mrs. Readf survived him, dying in 1802. The children
of George Read, and Gertrude his wife, were — John,
George, William, and Mary.

* The mansion of George Read (" the signer"), at New Castle, was situated on
the bank of the river Delaware, of which it commanded an extensive view, and in
the midst of an extensive garden which ran back to the grounds where were the
offices and stables. It was a large, old-fashioned mansion, built of brick, with a
spacious hall running through it; on one side of which was a very large drawing-
room ; and, on the other, the library and dining-room ; and, still further in the rear, a
roomy kitchen. Above were the spacious sleeping apartments. In the garden
about the house bloomed a profusion of flowers, among which the tulips were
particularly conspicuous on account of their great variety and beauty. Here Mr.
Read resided for many years in the style of the Colonial gentry, who maintained a
state and etiquette which has long since disappeared.

Mr. Read always travelled on his circuits in a yellow chariot drawn by bay
horses.

There are two original portraits of George Read, — one by Gilbert Stuart,
the other by Charles Edge Pine, — and both painted about the year 1785. John
Meredith Read, jun., of Albany, N.Y., has a copy of these portraits of his great-
grandfather, made by Sully, the distinguished artist and pupil of Gilbert Stuart.

t Mrs. Read's father, the Rev. George Ross, was, for more than fifty years,
Rector of the Episcopal Church in New Castle. George Ross, jun., an eminent
lawyer, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and a Judge of the Court of
Appeals in Admiralty, was a brother of Mrs. Read's; as were also John Ross, At-
torney-General under George the Second ; and the Rev. .'Eneas Ross, who became
Rector of Immanuel Church soon after the decease of his father in 1754. One
of the sisters of Mrs. Read married Gen. William Thompson, a distinguished officer
in the Revolution; another sister married Mr. Biddle, who was presiding officer of
the Pensylvania legislative body before the Revolution ; still another sister married
the Rev. William Thompson, Rector of an Episcopal church in the Province of
Maryland.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS IN AMERICA. 437

Third Generation in America. — John Read, jun., son of
George Read (the signer), and Gertrude his wife, was born
at his father's mansion at New Castle, in the present State of
Delaware, on the 7th July, 1769. When only seven years
old, he was a witness to the attack made by the row-galleys
upon the " Roebuck " and " Liverpool " frigates off the
mouth of Christiana Creek ; and afterwards accompanied his
mother in her various removals during the Revolutionary
War, which the exposed situation of their residence at New
Castle made necessary for their safety. These things were
often referred to in after-life. After graduating at Prince-
ton College in 1787, then under the presidency of the Rev.
Dr. Withcrspoon, an old and intimate friend of his father's,
Mr. Read commenced the study of the law at New Castle,
in the office of his father ; and, being admitted to the bar,
removed to the city of Philadelphia, where he practised with
ability and success for many years. In 1796, Mr. Read
married Miss Martha Meredith, eldest daughter of Samuel
Meredith, the first Treasurer of the United States, and
eminent among the patriots of the Revolution for his zeal,
sacrifices, and services in behalf of his country.*

Mrs. Read's mother was a daughter of Dr. Thomas Cad-
walader, and sister of Gen. John Cadwalader, the brave and
active Revolutionary hero, who challenged and wounded
Gen. Conway because he had traduced and endeavored to
supplant Washington. George Clymer, a signer of the De-

* Of Reese Meredith, the father of the Treasurer, a very wealthy merchant of
Philadelphia, the following well-known anecdote is told: —

When Gen. Washington was a young man, and before he had attained distinc-
tion, he visited Philadelphia, and made his appearance at the Coffee House, where
he had not a single acquaintance, and was therefore unnoticed. Sir. Meredith
coming in, and finding a stranger in this awkward situation, went up to him, took
him by the hand, inquired his name, introduced himself, took him to his house, and
behaved with so much kindness and hospitality, as not only to induce his guest to
continue at his house while he remained in the city, but afterwards to make it his
home when he visited Philadelphia.

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claration of Independence, and a framer of the Constitution
of the United States, was an uncle of Mrs. Read's.

In 1797, Mr. Read was appointed Agent-General of the
United States to act on their behalf in relation to such claims
as might be made against the United States before the com-
missioners appointed to carry into effect the sixth article of
Jay's treaty. Some of his labors are to be found in a book,
published in Philadelphia, called " Arguments on British
Debts," which contains some able papers written by Mr.
Read.

Mr. Read was also for some years a member of the City
Council ; and, in 1815, was elected to the House of Repre-
sentatives of Pennsylvania, and was appointed Chairman of
the important Committee on Roads and Inland Navigation,
composed, at that day, of thirty-four members. In 1816,
he was re-elected, and, while presiding over the deliberations
of this committee, took a severe cold, which produced an
illness which brought hini to the brink of the grave. Mrs.
Read, who went to Harrisburg to tend her husband, fell a
sacrifice to her devotion to him.

Having recovered from the immediate effects of his illness,
Mr. Read was elected to the Senate to fill the vacancy oc-
casioned by the resignation of Nicholas Biddle, Esq. ; and,
whilst a member of that body, was elected by them, in 1818,
a director on the part of the State of the Philadelphia Bank.
In 1817, on the revival of the office, he was appointed City
Solicitor by the Mayor, Gen. Robert Wharton. In 1819, he
was elected President of the Philadelphia Bank, and ably
and faithfully filled this office until his resignation in 1811.
A few months afterwards, he removed to the city of Trenton ;
where, amidst the friends and connections of his wife, he
spent his remaining days, surrounded by his books, which
formed a never-failing soxirce of pleasure and information.
He died on the 13th of July, 1854, at the very advanced age
of eighty-five, leaving a large estate.

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Mr. Read was a communicating member of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, and, for many years, the rector's warden
of the united churches of Christ Church, St. Peter's, and
St. James's ; and, upon his removal to Trenton, took a deep
interest in the welfare of St. Michael's Church at that place.
He was characterized by ability, sound judgment, and indus-
try, coupled with scrupulous integrity, modesty, piety, and
benevolence. He was, moreover, of a very courteous and
pleasing address ; ever evincing the thorough politeness of
the old school.

He was a devoted husband, a kind father, and a warm
friend ; a man of peaceful habits. He lived through three
wars (two with the mother-country); and he always remem-
bered with pleasure that his maternal uncle, George Ross,
was a signer of the Declaration of Independence ; and that
his own father, George Read, and his wife's uncle, George
Clymer, were two out of the five signers who were also
framers of the Constitution of the United States.

Mr. Read married but once. He had three children, —
John Meredith, Henry, and Margaret Meredith. Of these,
only one (John Meredith Read) survived him. Henry Read,
his second child, born at Philadelphia in 1802, was a physi-
cian of excellent abilities, thorough education, and industry.
He died at Carbondale, Penn., at the early age of twenty-
six, unmarried. Mr. Read's only daughter, Margaret Mere-
dith Read, died at Trenton, N.J., in the early part of March,
1854, unmarried.

Fourth Generation in America. — John Meredith Read,
eldest son of John Read, and Margaret his wife, was born at
Philadelphia in the year 1800. He married, on the 20th
of March, 1828, Miss Marshall of Boston, Mass. Their first
child, Emily, was born in December, 1829. They had, be-
sides, an only son, John Meredith Read, jun. ; and also three
daughters, who died in infancy. Mrs. Read died in the
month of February, 1841.

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Miss Emily M. Read married W. H. Hyde, Esq., in June,
1849 ; and died in March, 1854, leaving one daughter (sixth
Generation in America), Emma Habicht Hyde, born No-
vember, 1851.

Mr. Read married, in 1855, a sister of the Hon. J. R.
Thompson, United-States senator from New Jersey. He has
no children by his second marriage.

He is one of the ablest lawyers in the country, and filled
the various offices, from City Solicitor to that of Chief-
Justice of Pennsylvania ; which office he now holds. He
has also been a prominent member of Congress.

Fifth Generation in America. — John Meredith Read,
jun., only son and only surviving child of John Meredith
Read by his first wife, was born at Philadelphia ; was edu-
cated at Brown University ; and travelled extensively in this
country, in Europe, and the West Indies. He is a lawyer,
residing at Albany, N.Y. ; where he married, on the 7th
April, 1859, the youngest daughter of Hannon Pumpelly,
Esq. He is a member of various literary and historical
societies, and devotes a portion of his time to literary
labors.

Of his generation, Mr. Read is the only surviving repre-
sentative of George Read, the signer, who bears the family
name. He has in his possession a number of interesting
and valuable family portraits and relics.

"When resident in Providence, R.I., Mr. Read was captain
of a fine company, — the " National Cadets," or "Tigers."
This company has always been noted for its thorough drill
and soldierly bearing. Mr. Read also served as aide-de-camp
to his excellency Gov. Hoppin, with the rank of colonel.

Second Generation in America. — William Read, second
son of John Read, sen., and Mary his wife, was born at his
father's mansion, at Christiana, in the Delaware Province, in
the year 1735 (?). He was a merchant, and resided for

AND HIS DESCENDANTS IN AMERICA. 441

some time at Philadelphia, and afterwards in the Havana in
the West Indies, where he was assassinated in the year 1763.
He was married, and left one child, a daughter, who died
unmarried.

Second Generation in America. — John Read, 2d, third
son of John Read, sen., was born at Christiana in the latter
part of the year 1737 ('!). He was a man of independent for-
tune, and had no regular profession, but attended to his own
and the family property. He never married. He died at
Pottsgrove, Penn., in the year 1808, at an advanced age.

Second Generation in America. — Thomas Read, fourth
son of John Read, sen., was born at his father's mansion, at
Christiana, about the year 1740. He was a captain in the
Continental Navy. He was present at the battle of Trenton,
and commanded the guns which raked the stone bridge
across the Assanpink. During the war, he commanded the
thirty-two-gun frigate " George Washington." Several years
after the close of the war, in 1787, he effected for the first
time the out-of-season passage to China (vide " Encyclo-
paedia Americana "). Capt. Read married a widow (Mrs.
Field of New Jersey), who had two children by her first
marriage. One of them (the son) was the father of the Hon.
Richard S. Field of Princeton : the other child (a daughter)
was the mother of Commodore R. F. Stockton.

Capt. Read resided at Whitehill, near Bordentown, N.J. ;
and his mansion was for a number of years the seat of much

elegant hospitality. Capt. Read died A.D. . He had

no children.

Second Generation in America. — James Read, fifth son
of John Read, sen., was born in his father's mansion, at
Christiana, in the Province of Delaware, A.D. 1743. He
was a lieutenant-colonel in the war of the Revolution, and
served with great credit at the battles of Trenton, Princeton,
Brandywine, and Germantown. He was first-paymaster to

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442 JOHN READ, SEN.,

the Continental Navy ; also commissioner of the navy for the
Middle States during the Revolution. He was, besides, a
member of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania.

He married Miss Susan Cowey, and had five children ;
all of whom died unmarried, except his third child, Susan
Read, born twenty-fifth day of December, 1776 : she married
J. P. Eckard, Esq., Danish consul for the Middle States.
They had three children, — (1.) Mary Read Eckard, born
1803 ; died 1823, unmarried. (2.) James, now the Rev.
Dr. James Read Eckard. (3.) Frederick S., M.D., after-
wards a skilful practising physician of Philadelphia, who
died on the 20th June, 1856. Mrs. Susan Read Eckard
still survives, in her eighty-fourth year, and is a truly re-
markable woman : she is still able to hold a pen ; and her
letters to her friends are always full of originality, both in
thought and expression.

Col. James Read died at Philadelphia the 31st Decem-
ber, 1822, aged seventy-nine years. His wife died some
years before him.

Second Generation in America. — Mary Read, sixth child
and only daughter of John Read, sen., and Mary his wife,
was born at her father's mansion, at Christiana, about the
year 1745. In the year 1769, she married Gunning Bed-
ford, sen. He had served in the war of 1755 with the rank
of lieutenant in the Pennsylvania levy, and was a gentle-
man of independent fortune. As lieutenant-colonel of the
famous Delaware Regiment, he took a prominent part in
the Revolutionary War. He distinguished himself in vari-
ous battles, and was wounded at the battle of the White
Plains while gallantly leading his regiment to the attack.*
After the war, he filled a variety of important public offices.

* John Meredith Read, jun., of Albany, N.Y., has in his possession the sword
which belonged to his great-uncle, Gov. Bedford; and which was used by him in
the old French War in 1755-6, and also in the various battles of the Revolution.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS IN AMERICA. 443

He finally became Governor of Delaware ; and died, while
holding that office, on the 30th September, 1797. His wife
survived him ; dying at Pottsgrove, Penn., in 1820. They
never had any children.

Second Generation in America. — Andrew Read, seventh
child of John Read, sen., was born at Christiana, in the

Delaware Province, A.D. . He was a planter. He

lived and died in Cecil County, Md. He was married, and
had one son, William, who, after the war of 1812, removed
to Ohio. There are none of his descendants living who bear
the family name.

Third Generation in America. — George Read, 2d, the
second son of George Read the signer, and Gertrude his
wife, was born at his father's mansion in New Castle, in
the then Province of Delaware, on the 29th of August, 1765.
He resided at New Castle, Del. He was a very distinguished
lawyer, and filled a number of important offices. He mar-
ried his cousin, Miss Mary Thompson, a daughter of the dis-
tinguished Revolutionary officer, Gen. William Thompson.
He had seven children {fourth Generation in America), —
(1.) George, born June 4, 1788 ; died 1st November, 1856.
(2.) William Thompson Read, born 22d August, 1792, mar-
ried a great-niece of James Booth, the able Secretary of
Delaware during the Revolution. Mr. William T. Read is
by profession a lawyer. Being entirely independent, he has
devoted much time to literary pursuits, and has collected
materials for a life of George Read the signer. Mr. Read
was Secretary of Legation when the late Caesar A. Rodney
was Minister to Buenos Ayres. He has no children. (3.)
Gunning Bedford Read, who died in 1826, unmarried.
(4.) Charles Henry Read, born 1800 ; died 1834, unmar-
ried. (5.) John Dickinson Read, born 1803 ; died 1831,
unmarried. (6.) Catharine Ann Read, born 1794; married,
in 1812, Allan M'Lane, M.D., brother of the Secretary of

444 JOHN READ, SEN.

State of the United States : Mrs. M'Lane died in 1826.
(7.) Anna Gertrude, born 1805 ; unmarried.

George Read died on the 3d September, 1836, aged
seventy-one years.

Third Generation in America. — "William Eead, third son
of George Read the signer, was born at his father's mansion,
in New Castle, on the 10th October, 1767. He was a mer-
chant, largely engaged in the East-India trade, and resided
at Philadelphia. He married, on the 22d September, 1796,
Ann M'Call, whose family had been long honorably known
in Philadelphia, where it held a high position. Mr. Read
died at Philadelphia on the 25th September, 1846, aged
seventy-nine years ; Mrs. Read, the 17th July, 1845, aged
seventy-three years. They had five children (fourth Gene-
ration in America') : (1.) George Read, for many years
consul at Malaga, and now residing in Philadelphia, unmar-
ried. (2.) Mary Read, who married Coleman Fisher, Esq.,
and has five children, — Elizabeth Rhodes Fisher, married
to Eugene A. Livingston, Esq., of Livingston Manor ; Cole-
man P. Fisher, William Read Fisher, Sallie West Fisher,
and Mary Read Fisher. (3.) William Archibald Read, un-
unmarried ; residing on a large plantation, which he owns,
near New Orleans. (4.) John Read, married ; no children ;
died in 1845. (5.) Samuel M'Call Read, born 1805 ; mar-
ried, and lives on his plantation near New Orleans : he has
no children.

Third Generation in America. — Mary Read, fourth child
and only daughter of George Read the signer, and Gertrude
his wife, was born Sept. 1, 1770. She married Matthew
Pearce, Esq., of Poplar Neck, Cecil County, Md. ; and died
there on the 12th of January, 1816. Her eldest daughter,
Anastasia Gertrude Pearce, became the second wife of Dr.
Louis M'Lane, the brother of the Secretary of State of the
United States.

JOHN READ OP NORWALK. 445

CHAPTER XV.

JOHN READ OF NORWALK, AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

1. John Read, from Cornwall, Eng., born in 1633, had
been a subaltern in Cromwell's army, and a soldier from
the age of sixteen. On the restoration of Charles II., he
fled to this country, and settled first in Providence, and
married a Miss Derby. He moved to Rye, in West-Chester
County, N.Y., in 1684, and remained there three or four
years. He then moved to Norwalk, Conn., on Five-mile
River, at a place called Read's Farms ; and his name is found
upon the records of Norwalk in 1687. He died in Norwalk,
in the ninety-eighth year of his age, in 1730 ; and was
interred in a tomb on his own farm. His house in Norwalk
was used as a substitute for a meeting-house. He was
strongly marked with that strong will and high-toned moral
character so peculiar to Cromwell's officers. Children, —
John ; Thomas ; William ; Mary, who married David Tut-
tle ; Abigail.

2. Thomas, son of John, 1st, of Norwalk, married Mary
Olmstead, May 9, 1694. Children, — Mary, born May 2,
1695 ; Eunice, Feb. 26, 1696 ; Thomas, May 7, 1699 ; John,
Aug. 7, 1701 ; Elizabeth, Oct. 7, 1703 ; Ann, July 6, 1706 ;
Temperance, Oct. 16, 1708; Elias, March 16, 1711 ; Nathan,
Aug. 13, 1713.

3. Thomas, son of Thomas of Norwalk, born May 7, 1699 ;
married Sarah Bennam, June 2, 1730. Children, — Thomas,

446 JOHN BEAD OF NORWALK,

born 1731 ; Ebenezer, April 3, 1732 ; Jesse, July 29, 1734 ;
Peter, April 3, 1736 ; Sarah, June 19, 1736 ; Eli, Sept. 24,
1743.

3. Nathan, son of Thomas of Norwalk, born Aug. 13,
1713; married Mary Peck, Dec. 22, 1737. Children,—
Mary, born July 17, 1740 ; Ann, Jan. 18, 1742 ; Hannah,
July 16, 1745 ; Nathan, July 27, 1747 ; David, Sept. 2,
1750 ; Elizabeth, June 7, 1752 ; Elias, Nov. 3, 1756.

3. John, son of Thomas of Norwalk, born Aug. 7, 1701.
Children, — Josiah, John, Ithiel, Jonathan.

3. Elias, son of Thomas of Norwalk, born March 10, 1711.
Children, — Elias, Joel, Daniel, Stephen, John.

4. John, son of John, 3d, of Norwalk, married Abby
Whitney, July 6, 1775. Children, — John, born Nov. 1,
1778 ; Moses, Dec. 14, 1787 ; Roswell, June 8, 1795.

John, son of Thomas, with his brother Elias ; Moses, son
of Eleazer ; and Moses, jun., — were among the principal
grantees of the towns of New Haven, Middlebury, Salisbury,
and Cornwall, Vt., about the year 1760 ; and Readsborough,
Vt., which was granted to John Read and twenty-nine others
in 1770.

2. John, son of John of Norwalk, born in 1697 ; married
Miss Tuttle. Children, — John, Daniel, Eleazer, Samuel,
William, Mary, Experience, Mehetabel.

3. John, son of John, 2d, of Norwalk. Children, — John;
Thaddeus.

3. Daniel, son of John, 2d, of Norwalk, born in 1697.
Children, — Daniel ; Abraham ; Eliakim ; James, born
March 29, 1736 ; Benjamin ; Ezra, born March 16, 1740 ;
Elijah, settled in Amenia, N.Y. ; Elizabeth ; Lydia ; Joanna.
He built a mansion-house on the old paternal estate in Nor-
walk, which is now standing in good condition, and likely to
be preserved another century. The antiquated style of the
house, and faded images about it, make it an interesting

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 447

relic of former days. He was a man of considerable distinc-
tion in his day. He died in 1775.

3. Eleazer, son of John, 2d, of Norwalk. Children, —
Moses and Eleazer, who were among the principal grantees
of the towns of New Haven, Middlebury, Salisbury, and
Cornwall, about the year 1760 ; and including what is now
Vergennes, in the State of Vermont.

3. William, son of John, 2d, married Rachel Kellogg,
Nov. 28, 1721. Children, — William Joseph, born Feb. 17,
1723 ; Joanna, Feb. 29, 1725 ; Hannah, Nov. 23, 1727 ;
Sarah, Dec. 27, 1730 ; Jacob.

3. Samuel, son of John, 2d. Children, — Samuel, Abijah,
Timothy, Nathaniel, Hezekiah, Hannah, Phebe.

4. Timothy, son of Samuel. Children, — Uriah; Timo-
thy ; Lebbeus ; Ezra ; Thaddeus ; Rufus ; Susanna ; Sarah ;
Betsy; Polly; Nancy, born in 1786.

5. Rufus, son of Timothy, born in 1788. Children, —
Ezra, John and Edwin, Ezra and Jane Maria. The sons all
died young.

6. Jane Maria, daughter of Rnfns, married Richard H.
Mitchell of Nantucket. They live in Hudson, N.Y. He is
a retired merchant.

5. Daniel, son of James and Joanna, born April 15, 1761 ;
settled in Camillus, N.Y., about the year 1801, and died in
about one year after. Children, — William, Nancy, Joanna,
Maria.

6, William, son of Daniel, born April, 1783 ; settled near
the residence of his parents ; but finally removed to Bald-
winsville, Onondaga County, N.Y., where he now resides.
Children, — Daniel, born Sept. 14, 1803 ; John M., August,
1807, died in Jackson County, Mich., in 1844 ; Nancy, mar-
ried J. B. Chapin of Olivet, Mich.; Maria, died young;
Elizabeth, married Rev. Charles Jerome of the Presbyterian
Church, Cattaraugus County, N.Y. She died in 1858.

448 JOHN BEAD OF NORWALK,

7. Daniel, son of William, born Sept. 14, 1803 ; married
Cinda T. Meigs of Oswego, N.Y., May 1, 1828. Children,
— William, born May 5, 1829; Helen, Oct. 28, 1831;
Kate, Dec. 14, 1833 ; James H., born in Illinois, Jan. 26,
1836 ; Jennie, March 26, 1838 ; Harriet Elizabeth, May 15,
1841, died Sept. 6, 1844. He lives at Fulton City, 111.

8. William, son of Daniel and Cinda, born May 5, 1829 ;
married Anna M. Johnson, July 15, 1857. Child, — Emma,
born in 1858.

8. Helen, daughter of Daniel and Cinda, born Oct. 28,
1831 ; married William P. Culbertson, Oct. 28, 1852. Chil-
dren,— Carrie J., born April, 1854; Charles, 1857. She
died Nov. 6, 1857.

8. Kate, daughter of Daniel and Cinda, born Dec. 14,
1833 ; married J. B. Hall, Nov. 5, 1856. Child, — a
daughter, born in 1858.

4. William, son of William and Rachel, married Mary
Nash of New Canaan, Conn. Children, — William, who,
with Lieut. Gilmore, was the first to enter the fort at Stony
Point, and was also at the massacre of Paoli ; Matthew ;
Jacob ; Eli ; Isaac ; Abigail, who married Moses Ells ;
Mary, who married a Fitch ; Nathan, who lived at Ballston
Springs.

5. Isaac, son of William and Mary, married Elizabeth
Lockwood, and at one time lived in Nova Scotia ; but died
in Stamford, which was in the neighborhood of Norwalk.
Children, — Isaac, born Feb. 1, 1773; Nathan H, 1776;
Elizabeth, 1774, married Benjamin Hoyt of New-York City.

6. Isaac, son of Isaac and Elizabeth, born Feb. 1, 1773 ;
married Elizabeth Ann Wiggins, Dec. 14, 1799. Children, —
Martha, born at Frankford, Pa., Oct. 10, 1801 ; Isaac T., No-
vember, 1805, who was shipwrecked at Matamoras ; George
W., born July 31, 1817. He is now associated with his son,
in active business, at the age of eighty-eight years.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 449

7. Martha A., daughter of Isaac, married Conrad Myers,
a piano-forte manufacturer, of 728, Arch Street, Philadel-
phia. Children, — Isaac R., born 1834 ; Charles B., Feb. 6,
1838.

7. Osman, son of Isaac and Elizabeth, married Anna M.
Saunders, May 1, 1833. Children, — Isaac G., Eva Anna,
Osman, Reginald H., John S., Anna M., George W., Wil-
liam B., Henry, Conrad M., Charles E. He lives at Great
Bend, Susquehannah County, Pa.

7. George W., son of Isaac and Elizabeth, born July 31,
1817 ; married Anna M. Gebhard, March 28, 1839. Chil-
dren, — Lewis G., born at Philadelphia, Oct. 11, 1840 ;
Anna E., Dec. 19, 1842 ; Isaac, Aug. 4, 1844 ; George W.,
Feb. 4, 1847 ; Martha M., Sept. 1, 1854 ; William B. S.,
March 19, 1857. He was one of the progenitors of the Na-
tive-American party in 1844, and was their candidate for
Sheriff for the County of Philadelphia. He is now in the
jewelry business, in connection with his father, at No. 240,
North Second Street, Philadelphia. The want of genealogi-
cal knowledge is significantly illustrated in the fact, that
George W. was in New- York City, upon business, when his
cousin Henry was blown up, and was compelled to serve on
the jury of inquest, and reluctantly served ; but did not
know the connection between himself and the deceased till
some years afterwards.

2. Nathan H, son of Isaac and Elizabeth, married Mary
Hoyt. Children,— - Isaac B. ; Jacob W. ; John H. ; Benja-
min H. ; J. Warren ; James H. ; N. Henry ; Mary A., mar-
ried William Atherton of Patterson ; Martha A., married
John Galleton, and lives at Walden, Orange County, N.Y. ;
Elizabeth S., married Edson Knapp of Shawanunk, N.Y.

3. Isaac B., son of Nathan H, married Caroline Gedney.
He was collector and constable at White Plains, and died in
1857.

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450 JOHN READ OP NOEWALK,

3. Jacob, married Ruth Rush, and had two children. He
died of consumption in 1834.

3. John H., son of Nathan H., married Sarah Taylor.
Has three children. He is a baker in Bushwick, L.I.

3. Benjamin H., son of Nathan H., married Eliza Young.
Has two children. He lives in New- York City, and is by
trade a marble finisher.

3. J. Warren, son of Nathan H, married Henrietta Tay-
lor. Has one child. He is a steam-engine builder, and lives
in New- York City.

3. Nathan H., son of Nathan H., married Caroline Towns-
end. Has two children. He was a machinist, and was burned
to deatli in February, 1850, in Hayne Street, New York, by
the explosion that took place there. He was so burned, that
there was nothing by which to identify him, except a small
piece of his shirt, about as large as a man's hand, which his
wife identified on account of its being of some peculiar ma-
terial. His wife died of grief two years afterwards.

3. James H., son of Nathan H., married Martha Taylor.
Has two children. He lives at Swift Island, 111.

4. James, son of Daniel of Norwalk, born March 29, 1736 ;
married Joanna Castle, April 17, 1760. Children, — Daniel,
born April 15, 1761 ; Reuben, Sept. 2, 1763 ; Elijah,
March 12, 1766 ; Jesse, July 16, 1768 ; Stephen, Sept. 14,
1770 ; Amos, Dec. 28, 1772 ; Gilbert, Sept. 25, 1775, lives
in Avoca, Steuben County, N.Y. ; Jacob and Joanna, born
Feb. 15, 1778 ; Betsy, April 21, 1780 ; Robert and Rhoda,
June 29, 1784 ; Phila, April 3, 1787. He was a distin-
guished business-man in Amenia, Dutchess County ; being
a farmer, merchant, and miller. He died July 20, 1814,
aged eighty-seven years.

5. Jesse, son of James and Joanna, born July 16, 1768 ;
married Joanna Carpenter, Feb. 22, 1797. Children, —
Julia A., born Oct. 19, 1799 ; Joanna, Oct. 8, 1802, lives in

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 451

Amenia ; Betsy B., Jan. 26, 1805 ; Eliza A., March 18,
1808 ; James C, Sept. 2, 1810; Susan M., April 18, 1813;
Abigail M., Sept. 2, 1815. His father bought a soldier's right
of bounty-land; and Jesse, with his brother Amos, searched
out the lot, and settled upon it. The lots were laid out one
mile square ; which made each of them a farm of three
hundred and twenty acres, situated in Aurelius, Steuben
County, N.Y. ; where he died Aug. 25, 1831, aged sixty-
three years.

6. James C, son of Jesse and Joanna, born Sept. 2, 1810 ;
has no children. Lives on the homestead of his father, and
is a postmaster.

4. Jacob, son of William, and grandson of John, 2d, born
in Norwalk ; married Miss Ruhamah Benedict. He set-
tled in South-east, Dutchess County, N.Y., now the county
of Putnam ; and was a farmer and tavern-keeper. Chil-
dren, — Ruth, horn in 1769, married a Reed, and married
an Ellis for second husband, and died at South-east in 1856,
— no children ; Ruhamah, born in 1772, married a Howes of
South-east ; Jacob, who died at New Canaan, leaving a
family ; Stephen, who lives at Ridgefield, Conn. ; Esther,
born about 1779, lives in Ridgefield ; Doty ; Isaac, who died
in New York about 1829 ; Abigail, born about 1785, mar-
ried a Woodruff, and lives in Illinois ; Matthew, born 1787,
who settled in New- York City, and died about 1844, was an
alderman, and president of a bank, in New York ; Lewis B.,
born Aug. 28, 1789 ; John, 1791 ; Eli, born about 1783,
lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.

5. Eli, son of Jacob and Ruhamah. Children, — Jacob
R., who is a butcher in New- York City; David B. ; Eli H.,
an alderman of New- York City ; William H. ; Dickinson ;
Piatt B., in New- York City ; Charlotte ; Lucretia, married
John C. Jones, a publisher in New York. This is quite an
enterprising and thriving family.

452 JOHN READ OP NORWALK,

5. Matthew, son of Jacob and Kuhamah. Children, —
Edwin, deceased ; George, living in New York ; Addison,
deceased, leaving a family in New York ; Matthew, living in
Norwalk, Conn. ; B, who, by the fancy of his father, had no
name except the letter B, lives in New- York City.

6. B, son of Matthew of New York. Children, — C, a
daughter, married Charles Sherwood of Port Chester, NY ;
Eliza, who married Charles Deane of Port Chester ; Henry.

6. Lewis B., son of Jacob and Kuhamah, born Aug. 28,
1789 ; went to New- York City in 1810, and married Maria
Brown, January, 1815. They are both living. Children, —
Addington, born Oct. 3, 1815, a merchant, unmarried ; Fer-
dinand, born July 7, 1817, married, and is with his elder
brother, No. 42, Courtland Street, New York, — wholesale
shoe-dealers ; Elvira, born March 24, 1819 ; Amanda,
May 10, 1821, married James P. Cogswell of Janesville,
Wis. ; Adeline, born Oct. 10, 1822, married Hiram H.
Lamport of New York, and has two children ; Lewis Bene-
dict, born July 11, 1824 ; Catherine, Nov. 10, 1826, married
James H. Wheeler, a merchant of Boston ; Emma, born
Jan. 4, 1835, married Gould H. Thorp, a merchant of New
York ; Anna, born Dec. 18, 1837.

7. Lewis Benedict, son of Lewis B. and Maria, born
July 11, 1824. Children, — Palmer Townsend Reed, born
Nov. 13, 1850; Prank, born in Brooklyn, June 28, 1856.
He is a lawyer in New-York City.

6. John, son of Jacob and Ruhamah, born 1791. Chil-
dren,— John J., born in 1824; Benjamin Franklin, 1826;
Mary. He died in New York in 1837.

4. Ezra, son of Daniel, and grandson of John, 2d, of Nor-
walk, Conn., born March 16, 1740 ; married Sarah Kellogg,
May 22, 1763. Children, — Sarah, born Feb. 24, 1765, died
April 30, 1765 ; Sarah, born April 19, 1766, died Jan. 27,
1834 ; Lois, born Sept. 10, 1767, died June 23, 1843 ; Ros-

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 453

well, Nov. 9, 1769, died May 4, 1839 ; Aaron, born April 29,
1771 ; Jemima, Aug. 29, 1773, died Sept. 9, 1773 ; Epinitas,
born Aug. 29, 1773, died March 1, 1847 ; Lediana, born
Oct. 8, 1775, died Feb. 10, 1780 ; Lydia, born Sept. 28,
1777, died July 8, 1838 ; Huldah, born Sept. 23, 1780, died
January, 1853 ; Ezra, born May 20, 1783. He died April 4,
1807: his wife died April 15, 1818.

5. Epinitas, son of Ezra, born Aug'. 29, 1773 ; married
Jane Reed. Children, — George, born Feb. 17,1800; Isa-
bella, Oct. 2, 1801, died Sept. 14, 1819 ; Egbert, born July 8,
1805 ; Sarah, Sept. 1, 1807 ; Rebecca, May 14, 1810 ; Ed-
ward, Oct. 31, 1812 ; Alexander, March 13, 1815 ; Rodol-
phus, April 17, 1818, died July 22, 1822 ; Jane, bom
June 30, 1824, died July 20, 1824. He died March 11,
1847 : his wife died July 1, 1824. He settled in Coxakin,
N.Y. ; and married his wife in that place.

6. George, son of Epinitas, born Feb. 17, 1800 ; married
Esther Kempton, Sept. 1,1822. Children, — Jane Maria,
born July 25, 1823 ; Benjamin F., July 23, 1828 ; Rebecca,
April 22, 1832 ; Sonora, Aug. 1, 1830, died Aug. 24, 1830 ;
"William R., born April 6, 1838. He lives at Coxakin,
N.Y.

5. Roswell, son of Ezra, married a Reed, sister of his
brother Epinitas's wife, and lives in Coxakin.

5. Aaron, son of Ezra, moved to Coxakin, N.Y. ; had five
sons, one of whom was Aaron, who had Theron of Rock-
ville, 111.

4. Eleazer, son of Eleazer, son of John, son of John of
Norwalk, born in 1728 ; married Hannah ; settled in
Newport, R.I., and was a miller. Children, — Isaac, born
March 22, 1747 ; Elizabeth, Nov. 29, 1749 ; Eleazer, Aug. 19,
1751 ; John, March 22, 1753 ; David, March 15, 1755 ;
Hannah, March 27, 1757, married a Marshall ; William,
born April 6, 1759. He died in 1803.

454 JOHN READ OF NORWALK,

5. Eleazer, son of Eleazer and Hannah, born at Newport,
Ang. 19, 1751; married Elizabeth. Children, — David,
born at Barrington in 1770 ; "William, 1772 ; Eleazer,
Ang. 20, 1777 ; Elizabeth, 1776, married an Albro ; Re-
becca, born in 1778, married a Locke ; Samuel M., born
in 1780. Lived in Newport, and was a miller ; died in
1826.

5. John, son of Eleazer and Hannah, born at Newport,
March 23, 1753; married Frifenda Heath. Children, —
John, born at Newport, November, 1791 ; Isaac, April 25,
1797 ; William H, May 11, 1796 ; Oliver A., March 10,
1799 ; Nathaniel H. and Sarah H., April 18, 1804 (Sarah
married Sanders Vars) ; Mary Ann, April 18, 1801, married
William Eldridge ; Edward and Eliza, March 16, 1806 ;
Silas J., July 28, 1808 ; Emeline, Aug. 11, 1810, married
John D. Correll ; Ann Eliza, born Feb. 7, 1813, married John
Bachclder. Lived at Newport ; died in 1830.

5. William, son of Eleazer and Hannah, born at Newport,
April 6, 1759. Children, — George, born at Newport in
1782 ; Thomas, 1784 ; Sally, 1786. Lived in Newport ;
died in 1829.

5. David, son of Eleazer and Hannah, born at Newport,
March 15, 1755. Children. — David, born in 1802 ; Re-
becca, 1804. Lived in Newport.

6. William, son of Eleazer, born in 1772. Child, — Eliza,
born in 1803. He lived in Newport, but died in Dart-
mouth.

6. Eleazer, son of Eleazer and Elizabeth, born Ang. 20,
1777; married Elizabeth Umphrey. Children, — Oliver,
born at Newport in 1797 ; Eliza M., August, 1798, married
James M. Boon ; Penelope, born in 1800, died in 1800 ;
Oliver, born July 14, 1801 ; Samuel M., July 23, 1803 ; Ca-
therine, 1805, married William F. Smith ; John, born in
1807, died in 1808 ; Mary, born in 1809, died in 1857;

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 455

Eleazer J., born May 30, 1811 ; Phebe Ann, born at Bar-
rington, Feb. 15, 1815. He lived in Newport, but carried
on tbe mercantile business in South Carolina, and was acci-
dentally killed on bis passage home.

7. Eleazer J., son of Eleazer and Elizabeth, born May 30,
1811; married Mary Ann Cook. Children, — Harwood,
born at Newport, July 26, 1838 ; Charles, May 26, 1845,
died in 1845. Lives in Newport.

6. Isaac, son of John, born at Newport, April 25, 1797 ;
married Patience Munroe. Children, — Natlian ; Elsea
Ann, who married a Hersey ; Sarah. Lived at Newport.

7. Nathan, son of Isaac and Patience, married Mary,
daughter of Henry G. Reed. Child, — George W., born at
New Bedford in 1851. Lives at New Bedford.

7. Samuel M., son of Eleazer and Elizabeth, born at New-
port in 1780; married a Dayton. Child, — Samuel M.,
born at Newport in 1808. Lived at Dartmouth.

6. William H., son of John and Frifenda, born May 11,
1796; married Hannah Butts. Children, — William Oliver,
born at Newport, Dec. 29, 1818 ; Matilda and William H.,
May 22, 1821 ; George P., June 8, 1823 ; Charlotte E.,
Feb. 15, 1828, married William H. Gardner; Edward C,
May 14, 1834. Lived at Newport.

7. Samuel M., son of Eleazer and Elizabeth, born
July 23, 1803 ; married Sylvina D. Bennet. Children,
— Sarah, born at Newport in 1825, married Dr. Mercer ;
Charles B., born in 1827 ; Emma F., 1833. Lives in
Mystic, Conn.

6. Nathaniel H., son of John and Frifenda, born April 18,
1804 ; married Eliza Edgeforth.

6. John, son of John and Frifenda, born November, 1791 ;
married, first, Sally Swan ; and Betsy Barker for second
wife. Children, — Joanna, born at Newport ; John (by
second wife) ; Edwin ; Sally, who married Dr. Turner;

456 JOHN READ OF NOEWALK,

Elizabeth, married a Shubcth ; William H. Mumford ; Mary-
Aim. He lived at Newport, and died in 1839.

7. John, son of John and Betsy, lives in Providence.

7. Edwin, son of John and Betsy, lives in Providence.

Oliver, son of Eleazer and Elizabeth, born July 14, 1801 ;
married Clarissa Gardner. Children, — Catherine, born at
Newport, April 5,1821, married Edward Hammet; William
G., born Oct. 11, 1823 ; Hannah E., Feb. 7, 1825, died in
1843 ; Henry, born Feb. 25, 1827 ; Edwin 0., April 25,
1829. He is a retired merchant in Newport.

7. William 0., son of William H. and Hannah, born
Dec. 29, 1818 ; married Mary Ann Bates, and lives in New-
port.

7. Edward C, son of William H. and Hannah, born
May 4, 1834 ; married Caroline Sherman. Children, —
Ella F., born at Newport, Dec. 19, 1853 ; Ida, August, 1856.
Lives in Newport.

8. William G., son of Oliver and Clarissa, born Oct. 11,
1853 ; married Agnes M. Clark. Children, — Kate W. ;
Taylor ; Oliver C, born at Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1854. Mar-
ried, for second wife, Emma ; married also a third wife.
Child (by third wife), — William G., born in 1856. He
is a banker in Wall Street, N.Y.

7. George P., son of William H, born June 8, 1823 ;
married Martha Wilbur. Child, — William H., born June,
1855. Lives at Newport.

4. Benjamin, son of Daniel of Norwalk, married Bethiah
Weed, April 25, 1715. Children, — Bethiah, born May 22,
1766 ; Sarah ; Benjamin, March 31, 1770 ; Elizabeth, June 3,
1776 ; Daniel, Dec. 11, 1778 ; Enos, Oct. 30, 1787.

5. Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Bethiah, born May 31,
1770 ; married Betty Bouton, Jan. 12, 1793. Children, —
Wilbur, born April 26, 1794 ; Stephen, Feb. 18, 1796 ;
Benjamin ; James M.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 457

4. Eliakim, son of Daniel of Norwalk. Child, — Ezra.
He settled in Amenia, Dutchess County, N.Y., in 1773 ; and
the farm on which he settled is still occupied by his de-
scendants.

5. Ezra, son of Eliakim of Amenia, N.Y., married Esther
Edgarton. Children, — Newton, Fitch, Horace, Columbus,
Harriet, Almira, Betsy, Catherine, Emeline. He lived and
died on the homestead of his father, in Amenia.

6. Newton, son of Ezra, married Ann Vandyke. Chil-
dren, — Henry Vandyke, Albert, Frances, Catherine. He
lives on the old farm of his father and grandfather, in Ame-
nia; and has taken great interest in hunting up the genea-
logy and history of his ancestors.

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458 JOSEPH OF LYNN,

CHAPTER XVI.

JOSEPH OF LYNN, AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

1. Joseph Reed, a native of Carrickfergus, in the North
of Ireland, near Londonderry, came to America in the ship
" Arabella" (Richard Sprague, master) in 1671, and settled
in Lynn, Mass. ; made freeman, May 11, 1681, and lived in
Salem. He was a purchaser of land in Salem in 1684.
Children, — Thomas, Andrew, Joseph.

2. Andrew, son of Joseph, married Theodosia Bowes for
second wife. He settled in Trenton, N.J. He was a mer-
chant, and moved to Philadelphia, where he spent several
years in active business life, but finally returned to Tren-
ton in 1752. He died Dec. 16, 1769. Children, — Joseph ;
Bowes.

3. Joseph Reed, son of Andrew and Theodosia, born at
Trenton, Aug. 27, 1741 ; graduated at Princeton in 1757,
at the age of sixteen ; studied law with Richard Stockton,
one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence ; ad-
mitted to the bar in May, 1763 ; sailed for England the same
year, and entered the Inns of Court, where he remained till
the spring of 1765 ; married in St. Luke's Church, London,
to the daughter of Denis De Burht, a noted merchant of
London, and agent for Massachusetts ; returned to America,
and established himself in the practice of his profession, and
was one of the most distinguished lawyers of his time. He
was Gen. Washington's military secretary; was adjutant-

a

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 459

general in the American Army. He was appointed Chief-
Justice of Pennsylvania, but declined the appointment ; was
a member of Congress, and President of Pennsylvania. He
was the man above all others, Washington excepted, who had
the confidence of all parties ; and, had his life been spared,
would undoubtedly have filled the Presidential chair. It was
Gen. Reed, who, in reply to an offer, by the British Commis-
sioners, of the most important office in the Colonies, and ten
thousand pounds in cash, to act in the interest of the British
Government, said that the King of Great Britain had nothing
within his gift that would tempt him. For a more minute
account of his public life, I refer the reader to a work on
the subject, published by his grandson, Hon. William B.
Reed, entitled " Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed."
He had a son Joseph, born in 1772 ; Denis De Burht, 1778,
died, unmarried, in 1804 ; George Washington, born in
1780, who was a commander in the United-States Navy, and
died in 1813 ; Esther and Martha, unmarried daughters.

4. Joseph, the son of Gen. Reed, married Maria Ellis
Watmaugh in 1805. Children, — William B., born in 1806 ;
Henry, 1808 ; Maria Emily, who married Francis West, and
died in 1847 ; Joseph, who was drowned. He was, for many
years, Recorder of Philadelphia. He died in 1846.

5. William B., the son of Joseph and Maria E., married
Louisa Whilcn of Baltimore. Children, — Anna, who mar-
ried Francis R. Lewis ; William ; George Washington ; and
Louisa. William B. Reed was Attorney-General in 1839 ;
State senator in 1841 ; minister plenipotentiary to China in
1857 ; negotiated the treaty of Tienstin, between China and
the United States, June 18, 1858. He lives at No. 905,
Walnut Street, Philadelphia. He married, for second wife,
Mary Love, daughter of Robert Ralston, in 1850. Children,
— Mary Love, who died in 1852 ; Robert Ralston, born in
1852 ; Emily De Burht, 1853.

460 JOSEPH OF LYNN.

5. Henry, the son of Joseph and Maria, married Elizabeth
W., daughter of Enos Bronson, and grand-daughter of Bishop
White. Children, — Mary Bronson, Annie, Henry. He
was a professor in the University of Pennsylvania, and
perished in the ill-fated steamer " Arctic," on his homeward
passage from Europe, in 1854.

LYME, HALIFAX, AND WISCONSIN STOCK. 461

CHAPTER XVII.

LYME, HALIFAX, AND WISCONSIN STOCK.

Enoch Reed of Lyme, Conn., was colonel in the war of the
Revolution. Children, — Joseph, born Dec. 18, 1762 :
John, of Exeter, Conn. ; Christopher, of Montgomery County,
N.Y. ; Enoch, of Rochester, N.Y.

Joseph, son of Col. Enoch, born Dec. 18, 1762 ; married
Phebe Reid, sister of Ahimihas Reid of Rutland, Mass.,
Dec. 18, 1783, — the day of his majority. Children, — Abi-
gail, born Dec. 20, 1784 ; Sally, Dec. 14, 1786 ; Caroline,
April 22, 1789 ; Nancy and Lanna, June 4, 1791 ; John,
Dec. 18, 1793 ; Henry, May 11, 1796 ; Emily, Feb. 13,
1799 ; Charles William, Dec. 18, 1802, who lives at Sacket's
Harbor, Jefferson County, N.Y. He was his father's aid,
and died June 11, 1825 : his wife died Feb. 11, 1816. He
lived in Lyme, Conn. ; and his children were all born there.

Abigail, daughter of Joseph and Phebe, born Dec. 20,
1784 ; married Jonathan Hayes, Sept. 12, 1805, who died
Sept. 5, 1850.

Sally, daughter of Joseph and Phebe, born Dec. 14, 1786 ;
married Samuel Goodnew in 1808. He died July 15, 1845.
She died April 13, 1843. Child, — Walter, who died
Sept. 13, 1850.

Caroline, daughter of Joseph and Phebe, born April 22,
1789 ; married William Brown, February, 1808.

462

Nancy, daughter of Joseph and Phebe, born June 4, 1791 ;
married Stephen Allen, May 30, 1816.

Lanna, daughter of Joseph and Phebe, born June 4, 1791 ;
married Stephen Shepherdson, Nov. 3, 1818.

Emily, daughter of Joseph and Phebe, born Feb. 13,
1799 ; married Benjamin H. Peck. She died May 2, 1849.
Child, — Mary Elizabeth, who died at Shelburnc Falls,
Mass., July 9, 1851, aged thirteen years. He is deceased,
date unknown.

John, son of Joseph and Phebe, born in Lyme, Conn.,
Dec. 18, 1793 ; married Ann Wallace, March 7, 1824, at
Halifax, Vt. Children, — Phebe Ann, born May 19, 1825,
in Halifax, Vt. ; John Williams, Jan. 19, 1828 ; Charles
Henry, June 26, 1829 ; Helen Maria, March 13, 1831;
Walter Goodnew, March 18, 1833, lives in Madison, Wis.
His wife died April 26, 1857. He lived thirty-five years in
Halifax, Vt. ; but has now sold out.

Phebe Ann, daughter of John, born May 19, 1825 ; mar-
ried George H. Sawyer, Sept. 23, 1851. Children, — Wil-
liam Bradstreet, born Nov. 11, 1852 ; George Augustus,
April 14, 1856 ; Flora H. L., Sept. 14, 1854.

Henry, son of Joseph and Phebe, born May 11, 1796 ;
married Laura Sumner, Jan. 11, 1818, and lives in Bethany,
Genesee County, N.Y.

Helen Maria, daughter of John and Ann, born at Halifax,
Vt., March 13, 1831 ; married Leander M. Lincoln, July 23,
1850. Child, — Flora Helen, born Sept. 14, 1854. Lives in
Wisconsin.

John W., son of John and Ann, born Jan. 19, 1828, at
Halifax, Vt. ; married Susanna F. Hay ward, Oct. 10, 1854.
Child, — Lena, born Sept. 13, 1856. Lives at Marzomania,
Wis.

Charles Henry, son of John and Ann, born at Halifax,
June 26, 1829 ; married Francelia Call, March 10, 1855.

LYME, HALIFAX, AND WISCONSIN STOCK. 463

Child, — Walter Clinton, born Aug. 25, 1856. Lives in
Madison, Wis.

John William, son of John and Ann, born Jan. 19, 1828 ;
married Susanna I. Hayward, Oct. 10, 1854.

4G4 THE LONDONDERRY REIDS.

CHAPTER XVIII.

THE LONDONDERRY REIDS.

2. James Reid, born in Scotland in 1695, graduated at
Edinburgh ; married Mary ; was one of the first settlers of
Londonderry, N.H. He was an influential man, and deacon
of the church. Children, — Matthew, born April 2, 1728 ;
Thomas, May 3, 1730 ; Elizabeth, who married John Nes-
mith ; John, born in 1745 ; George, 1733.

2. George, son of Deacon James of Londonderry, born in
1733; married Mary Woodburn. Children, — Elizabeth,
who married Robert M'Gregor, son of Rev. David M'Gregor
(she died in 1847, aged eighty-one); James, a noted banker
of Lisbon, Portugal, of the firm of Brown, Reid, and Compa-
ny, and died in London, in May, 1827, aged sixty years;
Mary, who married Hon. Samuel Dinsmore, Governor of New
Hampshire (she died at Keene, in June, 1834, aged sixty-
four ; her son has also been Governor of New Hampshire) ;
John, a distinguished merchant in Philadelphia, and died
December, 1834, aged sixty-three ; George, born Jan. 29,
1774, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1797, married
Mary Borland in 1807, and married (for second wife) Har-
riet Davison in 1805, — entered the profession of law, and
practised with much success in Maine, and died in Boston,
Jan. 30, 1848, aged seventy-four years. He was a colonel
in the Revolutionary Army ; was intimately associated
with Stark ; and was in nearly all the hot battles of the

THE LONDONDERRY REJDS. 465

Revolution ; was appointed by Gov. Sullivan to command
the troops raised in the time of Shay's Rebellion, and mani-
fested great skill, sound judgment, and true patriotism ; was
sheriff of the county of Rockingham many years, as well as
a leading man in town and county affairs. His wife was
also a very superior woman, distinguished for sound judg-
ment, cool, deliberate, and persevering industry, and an
uncommon sweetness and amiableness of disposition ; and
peculiarly calculated for an helpmeet to a man in the position
of Gen. Reid. It is said that Gen. Stark used to speak in his
latter days of Molly Reid, as he called her, as the most per-
fect pattern of what a woman should be. The farm on which
Gen. Reid lived is now owned by John Taylor, Esq. ; and is
one of the best and most beautiful situations in the vicinity.
Gen. Reid has three grandsons living: viz., George Reid, an
engineer in -Illinois ; Gov. Dinsmore, of New Hampshire ;
and Daniel M'Gregor, of New- York City.

2. Matthew, son of Deacon James, born April 2, 1728,
and was a noted boxer. Children, — Abraham, John,
George, Matthew.

3. Abraham, the son of Matthew, married Martha Hum-
phrey. They had — Matthew ; David, born in 1765 ; Ste-
phen H. ; John Holland ; William V. ; Sally ; Jane, who
married a Noyes of Atkinson, N.H. ; Martha ; Betsy ; Mary
A. He was lieutenant of the Derry Company in the battle
of Bunker Hill. He lived at one time on Ziou's Hill, in that
part of Londonderry which is now in Salem, N.H. ; but
moved back to Londonderry, and died in that part of the
town which is now in Manchester.

4. David, the son of Abraham, married Martha M'Murphey.
Their children were — Isabella, born Jan. 24, 1797, who
married Samuel Mentor ; Stephen H., born Nov. 7, 1799 ;
Martha, Feb. 10, 1802, married Josiah Hall of Chester, N.H. ;
David, born March 7, 1804 ; Ann, May 7, 1807, who mar-

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466 THE LONDONDERRY REIDS.

ried a Wliiddon, and lives in Manchester ; James Mac, born
June 4, 1809 ; Mary Jane, Nov. 2, 1811. He lived upon
the homestead of his father, in what is now Manchester.

5. David, the son of David and Martha, married Mary S.
Marsh of Chesterfield, Nov. 4, 1834, and settled in "West
Boylston. Child, — Mary Jane, born April 29, 1849.

5. Stephen H., son of David and Martha, born Nov. 7,
1799 : married Rebecca Nichols of Londonderry, and settled
in Auburn. Children, — James, who now lives in Deny;
John, of Haverhill, Mass. ; Israel S., of Lawrence, Mass. ;
and Alexander H., of Derry.

6. James, the son of Stephen H. and Rebecca. Children,
— George, Walter, Orison, Helen, Elizabeth, and one whose
name is not given.

6. Alexander H., son of Stephen H. and Rebecca, married
Abigail Stickney. Child, — Charles J.

4. Matthew, the son of Lieut. Abraham, settled in that
part of Chester, N.H., which is now Auburn. He married
a Crombie. Their children were — Moses, Hiram, Gilman,
George W., Stephen H., True C, Abby, Noah B.

5. Noah B., the son of Matthew, married Mary E. Carr
in 1853. Children, — Abby, born Feb. 22, 1855; Oscar;
Matthew, Aug. 5, 1856 ; Moses ; Hiram ; George W. and
Stephen H., live in Auburn ; Gilman and True, live in
Manchester ; Abby, also lives in Auburn.

2. John, the son of James, born in 1745 ; married Cathe-
rine Morrison, and lived on the old homestead of his father.
Children, — Matthew, who died unmarried ; Jeannette ;
Margaret ; Mary Ann ; Polly ; Jane ; John.

3. Jeannette, the daughter of John and Catherine, married
Peter Moore. Children, — Josiah ; Eliza; Jeannette, who
married a Boyse of Londonderry ; Margaret, who married
Little Day of Londonderry as his second wife ; Mary Ann ;
Polly ; Jane ; John.

THE LONDONDERRY REIDS. 467

3. Mary Ann, the daughter of John and Catherine,
married Joseph Morrison. Children, — John, Mary, and
Jane.

4. John, the son of Joseph Morrison and Mary Ann Reid,
married Rebecca, the daughter of Amos Kimball of London-
derry. Children, — -William K., Sarah Jane, Mary Ann,
Ida H., John Burton, Louisa, Maria. He died Jan. 2,
1836, aged thirty-two.

4. Polly, the daughter of Joseph Morrison and Mary Ann
Reid, married Joseph Gregg. Children, — Joseph, Melvina,
and one other daughter.

3. John, the son of John and Catherine, married Isabella
Hopkins. Children, — Adeline, who married a Blake, and
lives in Danvers ; Isabella, who also is married, and lives in
Danvers. He lived on the old homestead of his father and
grandfather.

2. Thomas, son of James, born May 3, 1730 ; was in
Bunker-hill Fight. There appears to be no record of him
at a later period ; but he probably went to Maine, as his
descendants were found very early among the inhabitants of
Boothbay, Belfast, and other places. He probably had a son
Jonathan, who was with his father in the battle of Bunker
Hill ; Ebenezer, who died in Marblehead ; Esther, who
married her cousin, John Reid of Boothbay ; Thomas,
went to Belfast ; Robert and James, who both settled in
Boothbay.

3. Thomas, son of Thomas, married Sally Reed of Booth-
bay, and settled in Belfast. Children, — Thomas, born
Aug. 20, 1793; David, July 1, 1796; Silas; Mary Ann ;
Sally, July 20, 1798, married Capt. John Shute (who was
lost at sea) ; George W., born April 13, 1803 ; Polly,
March 9, 1801 ; James, Dec. 31, 1805 ; Charles, who died
Jan. 11, 1829.

Thomas, son of Thomas and Sally, was burned to death

4G8 THE LONDONDERRY REIDS.

on board the schooner " Albert," lying at the wharf in Bel-
fast ; the fire having caught in the forecastle while the men
were asleep.

4. George W., son of Thomas and Sally, born April 13,
1803 ; married Sally B. Ellis, Dec. 29, 1825. Children,—
Charles, born Dec. 3, 1827 ; Thomas, April 28, 1829 ; Frank-
lin P., Sept. 8, 1830 ; Adaline, Jan. 17, 1832 ; George H.,
Sept. 19, 1833 ; Lucy Ann, Feb. 9, 1835. He lives in Belfast.

3. Jonathan, son of Thomas of Londonderry. Children,

— Robert Barnard, David, Betsy, Jane, Clarissa. He went
to Belfast, Me. ; and was a tanner by trade. He had a shock
of palsy, which deprived him of the use of his limbs. I find
him a witness to the will of Ebenezer Reed of Londonderry,
about the year 1785, who died about 1788.

4. Clarissa, daughter of Jonathan, married a M'Donald in
Belfast, and had a family of children. The remainder of the
children of Jonathan left Belfast, and settled in Newbury-
port. Betsy married a Hunt : she afterwards became a
widow, and moved to Wakefield, N.H.

4. David, son of Jonathan, lived in Newburyport. Child,

— Moses, who lives in Portsmouth, N.H.

4. Robert B., son of Jonathan, married Mary. Children,

— Abel H., born in 1808; Robert B., 1810; Elizabeth,
1812; Daniel T., born in 1814; John C, 1816, who set-
tled in Mount Vernon, 0. ; William P., born in 1815, lives
in New York ; Mary Ann, born in 1821 ; Harriet, 1823 ;
Melissa, 1826 ; Abel H. He moved back to Londonderry
in the time of the Embargo, and died in Deny in 1826.

5. Robert B., son of Robert and Mary, born in 1810;
married Mary Marshall, and settled in Mount Vernon, O.
Children, — Leander, born in Lowell, Mass., June 19, 1836 ;
Lucillus, 1838 ; Robert B., died Jan. 4, 1850. He married,
for second wife, Mary Mulurge ; and, for third wife, Eliza
Wilkins, who survives him.

THE LONDONDERRY REIDS. 469

5. Abel H., son of Robert B., lives in Chester, N.H. Chil-
dren,— Vivuldin Sylvia, Eosalvo Alvan, Vulledo Suvillian,
Floral Cleora.

5. Daniel T., son of Robert B., lives in Newburyport ;
married Margaret T. Jaques. Children, — Alphonzo B.,
born Feb. 10, 1840 ; Luclarion, July 25, 1841 ; Allen A.,
April 16, 1843 ; Leroy C, April 24, 1844 ; Selion C,
Dec. 18, 1845.

The early generations of the Reids of Londonderry were
large and athletic ; but the later ones are of less size, and
many of them have died comparatively young, of pulmonary
complaints.

470 BURLINGTON STOCK.

CHAPTER XIX.

BURLINGTON STOCK.

1. Swtthtn, born in 1712 ; came to Burlington from Not-
tingham "West, formerly part of Dunstable, now Hudson,
N. H., in 1710. Wife, Margery. Children, — Robert ;
James. He died Feb. 19, 1790, aged seventy-seven : his
wife died May 25, 1806, aged ninety-five.

2. Robert, son of Swithin and Margery, married Elizabeth
Hartwell of Bedford, July 2, 1771. Children, — Swithin,
born in 1773 ; Daniel Robert, Sept. 4, 1775. He was
drowned, when out on a fishing excursion outside of Boston
Lighthouse, June 5, 1805.

3. Swithin, son of Robert and Elizabeth, born Aug. 13,
1773 ; married Anna "Wyman, Nov. 19, 1795.

3. James, son of Swithin, born 1758 ; married Eliza-
beth Wellington, Sept. 24, 1778. Children, — Elizabeth ;
James, born April 12, 1783 ; John, Nov. 26, 1787 ; Joseph ;
Lucy ; Luke ; Samuel ; Ploranna, who married Jonas Hor-
sey of Charleston, S.C. He was known as Capt. James
Read of Burlington.

4. James, son of Capt. James of Burlington, born April 12,
1783; married Susanna Johnson, Jan. 11, 1810. Children,
— Artemas, born June 28, 1811 ; James, March 16, 1813 ;
Susan, July 11, 1818 ; Edward, Sept. 2, 1823 ; Luke W.,
Nov. 11, 1820. He was also distinguished as Capt. Read ;
and died Nov. 29, 1844, aged sixty-one. His widow still
lives in the old mansion with her son Edward.

BURLINGTON STOCK. 471

5. Artemas, son of Capt. James, born June 28, 1811 ;
married Abigail Fox, April 23, 1827 ; married Elizabeth
Winn of Salem, for second wife, Jan. 10, 1846. Children,
— William Gage, born Feb. 8, 1856 ; George Henry and
Georgianna, April 23, 1849. He lives upon a portion of the
old homestead in Burlington.

4. Joseph, son of Capt. James and Elizabeth, married
Marah S. Walker, Sept. 3, 1811. Children, — John ; Jo-
seph W., who lived in New Orleans, and died at Bay St.
Louis in 1859, aged thirty-nine. His wife died Nov. 13,
1830. He was formerly an innholder, and kept on the Mid-
dlesex Turnpike in Burlington.

5. John, son of Joseph and Marah, married Mary C.
Briggs, daughter of Billings Briggs, Esq., of Boston, April 22,
1845. Children, — Billings Briggs, Mary Olive, John Par-
sons, Joseph Wellington. He carried on a very extensive
sboe-store in Washington Street, Boston ; and died suddenly,
of the heart complaint, Nov. 3, 1854. His widow lives
at No. 54, Pinkney Street.

5. James, son of Capt. James and Susanna of Burlington,
born March 16, 1813 ; married in Boston, Dec. 25, 1849, to
Mary Jane Magee of Cornwallis, N.S. Children, — James
Russell, born Jan. 4, 1851 ; Henry M., Aug. 29, 1852 ; Ann
Brimmer, Dec. 13, 1855. He lives at No. 44, South Russell
Street, Boston.

5. Luke, son of Capt. James, married Barbary M' Murphy
of South Carolina. He lost the most of his family by the
yellow fever ; has one son now living, by the name of Eras-
tus. He died in Madisonville, La., near New Orleans.

5. Edward, son of Capt. James and Susanna, born Sept. 2,
1823; married Emily Nichols, April 25, 1847. Child,—
William Henry, born July 13, 1849. His wife died Sept. 19,
1849. Married Emily Smith. He lives upon the old home-
stead in Burlington. Children, — Emily; Ella.

472 BURLINGTON STOCK.

5. Susan, daughter of Capt. James, married Jesse Fowle
of Woburn, and lives near the old mansion.

4. John, son of Capt. James of Burlington, born Nov. 26,
1787 ; married Clarissa Clapp of Woburn, Oct. 6, 1819.
Child, — John, who lives in New- York City. He was a shoe
merchant, and lived at Woburn, but did business in Charles-
ton, S.C.

Daniel, son of Robert and Elizabeth, lived many years in
Burlington, but finally moved to Oakham. Children, —
William, who now lives at North Woburn ; Augusta, who
married Prescott Barrott ; Hiram, who died in Woburn of
consumption.

THE READS OF THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN STOCK. 473

CHAPTER XX.

THE READS OF THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN STOCK.

1. John Eead, born in England in 1677 ; emigrated to
America about the commencement of the eighteenth century,
and was Recorder of Phildelphia. He died Sept. 2, 1724.
Children, — Deborah, and probably John.

2. Deborah, the daughter of John, married Benjamin
Franklin, Sept. 1, 1730 ; died Dec. 19, 1774. Children,—
William, born about 1731 ; Francis Folger, June 20, 1732,
died Nov. 21, 1736 ; Sarah, Sept. 11, 1743, O.S.

3. William, the son of Benjamin Franklin and Deborah
Read, was Governor of the Province of New Jersey, and con-
tinued his fidelity to the British Government, very much
against the wishes of his parents. He died in London,
Nov. 17, 1813, leaving a son, William Temple, who was the
editor of Dr. Franklin's Works, and died at Paris, May 25,
1823.

3. Sarah, the daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Debo-
rah, married Richard Bache, Oct. 29, 1767 ; died Oct. 5,
1808. Children, — Benjamin Franklin, born Aug. 12, 1769,
died Sept. 10, 1798 ; William, born May 31, 1773 ; Sarah,
Dec. 1, 1775, died Aug. 17, 1776 ; Eliza Franklin, born
Sept. 10, 1777 ; Louis, Oct. 7, 1779 ; Deborah, Oct. 1, 1781 ;
Richard, March 11, 1784; Sarah, Sept. 12, 1788.

4. Benjamin F., son of Richard Bache and Sarah, married
Margaret H. Markoe ; died Sept. 10, 1798. Children, —

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474 THE READS OP THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN STOCK.

Franklin, who married Anglae Dabadie, and left children ;
Richard ; Franklin, who married Maria Meade, and left
children.

4. William Bache, son of Richard and Sarah, married
Catherine Wister, and died in 1814. Children, — Sarah,
who married Rev. Charles Hodge, and left children ; Benja-
min F., who married Mrs. Anna Cambridge and (for second
wife) Mrs. Elizabeth Hart, and left children by both ; Emma
Mary, died unmarried ; Catherine Wister.

4. Eliza F., daughter of Richard and Sarah, married John
E. Harwood, and died in 1820. Children, — Benjamin
Franklin ; Andrew Allen, who married Sarah Wood and
(for second wife) Margaret Luce ; Elizabeth ; Mary.

4. Louis, son of Richard Bache and Sarah, married Mary
Ann Swift and (for second wife) Esther Egree, and died in
1819. Children, — William, who married Antoinette Bene-
zet, and left children ; Theophilact, who died young ; Eliza-
beth, who married Alexander Burnett ; Theophilact, by the
second wife.

4. Deborah, daughter of Richard Bache and Sarah, mar-
ried William John Duane. Children, — William, who
married Louisa Brooks, and has children ; Sarah Frank-
lin ; Mary, who married Charles Williams, and has chil-
dren ; Catherine ; Ellen, who married John B. Shatter-
thwaite, and has children ; Franklin B. ; Elizabeth, who
married Archibald H. Gillespie ; Richard B., who married
Margaret Ann Tarns; Benjamin Franklin, who married Ma-
tilda Dennison, who died Feb. 14, 1859, — they have chil-
dren.

4. Richard Bache, son of Richard and Sarah, married
Sophia Dallas, and died in 1847. Children, — Alexander
Dallas, who married Ann C. Fowler; Mary Blichenden, who
married Robert J. Walker, and has children ; George
Mifflin, who married Eliza Patterson, and has children ;

THE READS OF THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN STOCK. 475

Richard ; Sophia, who married William W. Irwin, and has
children ; Matilda, who married William F. Emery, and
has children ; Constantia, who married Charles Abert,
and has children ; Sarah, who married Richard Wain-
wright, and has children ; Maria, who married Allen
M'Lane.

4. Sarah, daughter of Richard Bache and Sarah, married
Thomas Sergeant. Children, — Henry Jonathan ; Frances,
who married Chr. Grant Perry, and has children ; Thomas ;
William.

2. It is supposed that John, the son of John, married one
Elizabeth for first wife, and Rachel for second wife ; that he
had a daughter Rachel by the first wife, who was born in
1750, and died in 1756 ; and that he also had a daughter
by the same name, by his second wife, who died in 1839.
The elder John Read, his daughter Deborah and her hus-
band Benjamin Franklin, with their daughter Sarah and her
husband Mr. Bache, are all buried at the corner of Christ's
Churchyard in Philadelphia ; and their gravestones are to
be seen by an opening in the brick wall on Arch Street, —
an iron fence having been substituted for a brick one, to give
the passing traveller an opportunity to view the plain marble
slab that covers the graves of Franklin and his wife. The
graves of the two Rachels, above described, are in another
part of the same yard. Nearly across the street from the
grave of Franklin and Deborah, in an old Presbyterian
churchyard, is the grave of John Read, covered by a flat
marble slab, with the following inscription : " Here lieth
the body of John Read, Esq., who departed this life, Dec. 2,
1776, aged thirty-eight years." This is supposed to be the
person who published a map of the city in 1774, and a pam-
phlet about the same time ; and was probably a nephew to
Deborah by her brother John, and had a son named Frank-
lin, and another by the name of John.

476 THE READS OP THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN STOCK.

4. Franklin Read, the son of John, was in the battle of
Germantown. He married Catherine Currie. Children, —
William, who died in Baltimore, leaving children ; John
Franklin and William, who died at New Orleans ; Mary,
who married a Brant ; Ann, who married a Cnrtiss ; Sarah,
married a Sines ; Martha, married Jacob Anderson ; John,
who was born June 29, 1783, and married Tabitha Andrews
(children, — Franklin, born Feb. 4, 1804 ; Elizabeth, Dec. 12,
1811 ; John, Jan. 10, 1814 ; Samuel, April 5, 1816 ; Rebecca,
June 19, 1819 ; Benjamin Franklin, Jan. 16, 1822 ; Mary
Ann, July 10, 1826 ; William, Jan. 3, 1828, died young).

6. John Franklin, son of William, married Ann Carty,
and is in the Custom House at Philadelphia. Children, —
William Franklin, who keeps at the corner of Chestnut and
Strawberry streets ; Mary ; Roxanna, who married John
Morton ; Martha.

Franklin, son of John and Tabitha, married Catherine
Snovell. Child, — John Randolph.

Elizabeth, daughter of John and Tabitha, married Samuel
Babb. Children, — Tabitha E., Amanda, Eliza, Mary, Anna.

Tabitha, daughter of Tabitha and Samuel Babb, married
Benjamin F. Weckerly ; and they live with her father, at
No. 25, Maryland Street.

John, the son of John and Tabitha, married Ann Snovell.
Children, — Sarah Jane, Franklin, Benjamin F., Emma,
Harriet, George W., Clara.

Samuel, son of John and Tabitha, married Ellen Feeney.
Children, — Mary Jane; William. He died Feb. 1, 1859.

Rebecca, daughter of John and Tabitha, married Abraham
Bower. Children, — George W., William, John, Mary,
Alvira, Matilda.

Benjamin F., son of John and Tabitha, married Elizabeth
Baron, and lives in Illinois. Children, — George W., Tho-
mas J., Emma, Franklin.

THE READS OF THE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN STOCK. 477

Mary Ann, daughter of John and Tabitha, married Wil-
liam Thompson. Children, — Frances, Henry B., Mary.

John Randolph, son of Franklin and Catherine, married
Catherine Winegarden, and lives in Philadelphia. Child, —
Henry.

George W., son of Rebecca Read and Abraham Bower ;
married Ann Johnson, and lives in the city of Philadelphia.

John Read, the son of John, Esq., was an officer in the
Navy, under Com. Truxton, and was drowned off the Capes
of the Delaware.

478 THE BOOTHBAY STOCK.

CHAPTER XXI.

THE BOOTHBAY STOCK.

3. Paul, son of Joseph, born in 1735, in the county of
Derry, Ireland ; settled first in Yarmouth, Me. ; but, his
house having blown down after it was raised, he looked
upon it as an unfavorable omen, and left Yarmouth, and
went to Boothbay. He married a Maxwell. Children, —
Andrew ; William Maxwell. He commanded a privateer
in the Revolution, and took several valuable prizes. He
died at Salem, Mass., Jan. 21, 1799.

4. Andrew, son of Paul, born in 1765 ; married Betsy
M'Oobb. Children, — John, Alpheus, Nathaniel C, Samuel
D., Thomas M., William M., Parker M. He commanded a
regiment of militia, stationed at the mouth of the Kennebec
River, in the war of 1812 ; built a fort on what is called
Cox's Head ; and had some skirmishes with the British, who
had blockaded the mouth of the river, and menaced, at times,
Bath, and other places near the mouth of the river.

5. William M., son of Col. Andrew, is one of the Gover-
nor's Council of the State of Maine, and has a son Edwiu in
Bowdoin College.

Thomas M., son of Col. Andrew, is one of the firm of
Clarke, Sewell, and Company, ship-builders ; is a large
and wealthy ship-owner ; and occupies the homestead of his
father, upon the bank of the river.

THE BOOTHBAY STOCK. 479

5. Nathaniel C, son of Col. Andrew, resides in Phips-
burg.

5. Samuel D., son of Col. Andrew, lives in Bath.

5. Parker M., son of Col. Andrew, lives in Michigan City.

4. William Maxwell, son of Capt. Paul, born in Boothbay
in 1766 ; was powder-monkey on board the privateer com-
manded by his father ; married Rosanna Auld. Children,
— Paul M., born at Boothbay, Nov. 27, 1797, died at New
Orleans in 1829 ; Maxwell, born May 9, 1798, died Nov. 4,
1799 ; Charles, born June 23, 1800, died at sea ; Maria, born
Sept. 17, 1803, died Aug. 2, 1848 ; Rufus K., born Sept. 20,
1805 ; Elizabeth A., April 8, 1808. Married, for second
wife, Martha Rust, Oct. 6, 1811. Children, — Maxwell,
born Sept. 19, 1812 ; Rosanna M., Jan. 21, 1813 ; Mary E.,
Jan. 28, 1815 ; Margery J., April 8, 1819, died Nov. 14,
1826 ; Isaac W., born Oct. 18, 1822 ; Susan Caroline,
Jan. 29, 1827. He was a man of considerable distinction ;
commanded the forces at Boothbay Harbor in the war of
1812 ; and was an officer of the revenue many years. He
died in 1850.

5. Paul M., son of William M. of Boothbay, born Nov. 27,
1797 ; married Mary Sparr, in Boston, Jan. 7, 1819. Chil-
dren,— Mary Ann, born April 6, 1820, died Jan. 10, 1822 ;
Sarah Ann, born Feb. 22, 1822 ; Paul M., May 25, 1825,
died June 7, 1825 ; Maxwell, born May 12, 1827. He died
at New Orleans, June 19, 1829, aged thirty-two years and
eight months.

6. Maxwell, son of Paul M. and Mary, born May 12, 1827 ;
married Rebecca S. Oliver, Nov. 16, 1848, in Boston ; mar-
ried, for second wife, Sarah G. Tirrell. Children, — Mary
Alice ; Charles Henry. He is a pilot at Boston.

6. Sarah A., daughter of Paul M. and Mary, born Feb. 22,
1822 ; married Hon. Nathan Porter of Providence, R.I.
Children, — Sarah E., Clara B., Rena B. Mr. Porter is a

480 THE BOOTHBAY STOCK.

lawyer, and is practising his profession at San Francisco,
Cal. He has been a senator of considerable distinction in
Ehode Island, and his1, family yet remain in Providence.

5. Elizabeth, daughter of William M. and Eosanna, born
at Boothbay, April 8, 1808 ; married Dr. D. H. Kennedy, a
practising physician in Wiscasset, Me., where they reside.

5. Isaac W., son of William M. and Martha, born at
Boothbay, Oct. 18, 1822 ; is one of the officers of the revenue
for the district of Boothbay at the present time, as was his
father before him.

REEDS OF VARIOUS FAMILIES. 481

CHAPTER XXII.

REEDS OF VARIOUS FAMILIES.

1. Robert Reed ; was captain of a ship, and perished by
some accident in coming into Newport Harbor. He left a
wife, and one son by the name of Martin, who married Mary
Dixon. He was a sensible man, and a pillar in the church.
Child, — John, who is the Rev. Dr. John Reed. He gradu-
ated at Unity College ; was ordained pastor of the Union
Church at Poughkeepsie in 1810, and remained pastor
thirty-five years. His wife died in 1832. Children, — Rev.
Thomas C. Reed, professor in Union College ; and a daugh-
ter, who is the wife of Thomas L. Davis of Poughkeepsie.

1. Cornelius Read, born in the county of Antrim, Ire.,
Aug. 3, 1740; married the only daughter of Benjamin Wil-
liams of Saybrook, Conn., born in 1770. Children, — Jane,
born April 28, 1771 ; Temperance, March 1, 1773 ; Philip-
ana, Feb. 12, 1773 ; Elizabeth, June 8, 1777 ; Nancy,
Aug. 21, 1779 ; Charlotte, Nov. 27, 1784 ; Anna, Nov. 15,
1781; George, March 22, 1787; Ursula, April 23, 1789;
David, May 31, 1794. He died in 1802.

2. George, son of Cornelius, born March 22, 1787 ; mar-
ried- in 1814. Children, — Catherine P., born July 22,
1815 ; Aurelia S., Aug. 29, 1818 ; George A., July 29, 1827.
He has been long celebrated for the manufacture of ivory
combs in Seabrook, where he recently died.

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482 REEDS OP VARIOUS FAMILIES.

3. George A., son of George, born July 29, 1827. Child,

— George Henry, born Dec. 25, 1848.

2. David, son of Cornelius, born May 31, 1794 ; married
in 1816. Children, — Spencer, born April 23, 1817 ;
Charles P., April 6, 1819; Mary, April 2, 1821; Tempe-
rance, Nov. 18, 1823.

3. Spencer, son of David, born April 23, 1817. Child, —
Henry S., born in 1844.

4. Jonathan Reed of Greenwich, Columbia County, N.Y.
Children, — Jabez, Amos, Carey, Polly.

Amos, son of Jonathan, lives in Cayuga County, N.Y.
Jabez, son of Jonathan, married Sally Gay, and settled in
Wilton, about four miles from Saratoga Springs. Children,

— Jabez, who lives in Michigan ; Calvin P., who is the post-
master of Grangerville, N.Y. ; Hiram, lives in Grangerville ;
John, lives in Cayuga County, N.Y. ; and four daughters,
whose names are not given.

John, born Feb. 18, 1776 ; married Miss Bishop in Virgi-
nia, and settled in Alabama. Children, — John, who is in
California ; James and Thomas, live in Bay County, Mo. ;
William, lives in Alabama ; Isaac P., is the postmaster of
Farmington, Miss. ; Jane ; Margaret ; Eveline ; Huldah ;
Nancy; Frances. He died of yellow fever, as did also seve-
ral of his children.

Kitchel Reed ; was one of the pioneer settlers in
Northern New York, and was in the Revolutionary War.
Children, — ■ Silas, Kitchel, Ezra. He lived in Gran-
ville.

Silas, son of Kitchel, married Elizabeth Boms in 1793.
Children, — Ezra; Mary; Eliza; Julia; James, who moved
to Toronto, Can., in 1842 ; Vioni ; Edward B. ; Silas K.

REEDS OF VARIOUS FAMILIES. 483

Married, for second wife, Mrs. Kellogg. He died in Oswego,
N.Y., in 1841.

Ezra, son of Silas of Oswego, born in Granville, N.Y.,
June 29, 1807. Children, — William Samuel; James Ezra.
He is the postmaster of Jordan's Valley, Rutherford County,
Tenn.

Kitchel, son of Kitchel. Children, — Orville ; William.
He lived in Dutchess County, N.Y.

Ezra, son of Kitchel, kept tavern in Stillwater ; but
moved to Troy, and from Troy to New- York City, where he
now lives.

Stephen Read, of Suffolk, Eng., had a son Stephen ; who
had a son Samuel, now living in Lowell, Mass.

Matthew Reid and Bridget came from Ireland, and live
in Weymouth, Mass. Children, — Mary A., born Nov. 1,
1852; Martin, Oct. 11, 1854.

John Read died in captivity, Nov. 1, 1746.

Reed's Blockhouse, twenty-five miles from Pittsburg, Pa.

Thomas Read ; taken by Indians, at Hadley, in the begin-
ning of April, 1676.

Michael Reid, of Dublin, died at the Marine Hospital at
Charlestown, March 2, 1821, aged thirty-one.

John Reed, of Marblehead, died at the Marine Hospital at
Charlestown, July 20, 1822.

Jacob Reed, a convict in the State Prison, Charlestown,
died July 17, 1822, aged seventeen.

484 EEEDS OP VARIOUS FAMILIES.

1. James Reid of Tyrone County, Ire. Children, — Da-
niel and William (twins), Andrew, James.

2. Daniel, son of James, married Elizabeth Reed. Chil-
dren. Ellen and Ann.

2. William, son of James, married Molly Irwin. Four
children, names not given.

2. Andrew, son of James, is in St. John's.

2. James, son of James, married Elizabeth Cahan. Chil-
dren,— Ann, John, Martha, Joseph.

3. Ann, daughter of James and Elizabeth, married Tho-
mas Hallicks, and has three children.

3. John, son of James, married Elizabeth Macconnell.
Children, — James, born in 1832 ; James, 1834 ; Susan A. J.,
1842 ; Robert A., 1844 ; John W., 1845 ; Mary E., 1848 ;
Albert C, 1851 ; Martha A., 1853. He lives in West Enos-
bury, Vt. ; and is an independent farmer.

3. Joseph, son of James and Elizabeth. Children, — ■
Arabella, John, Joseph.

Rev. Isaac Reed ; went from Henderson County, Tenn.,
and made a settlement at what is called Reed's Settlement,
in Panola County, Tex., when that section was in a wild
state, and the savage Indians roamed at large over its wild
and unfrequented forests. He had a large family of sons and
daughters, and sons-in-law. His son Samuel A. Reed re-
mains there ; and William B. lives in Fairfield, Freestone
County, Tex. This family are mostly members of the Bap-
tist-Mission Church, and are a very respectable family.

Reed; a soldier of the Revolution. Children, —

Robert, Mary, Adam, Jane, Joseph, James, John, William,
Samuel, George, Dorcas. At the close of the war, he took a
soldier's claim in Westmoreland County, Pa. ; and moved
from thence to some other place in the same county.

REEDS OF VARIOUS FAMILIES. 485

Robert. Children, — Robert, born May 9, 1812 ; James,
April 29, 1815 ; Thomas S., Sept. 3, 1816 ; Dorcas, March 16,
1818 ; Sarah, Sept. 21, 1819 ; Hervey Niell, March 3, 1821 ;
Harriet, June 26, 1825.

James, son of Robert, born April 29, 1815. Children, —
Maria, born Aug. 10, 1810; Thomas S., June 25, 1843;
Lavinia J., Jan. 31, 1847 ; Margaret, Feb. 16, 1851. He is
the postmaster of Harrietsville, Pa.

Reed, who came from Ireland, and lived in several

of the Southern States. Children, — Alexander, Samuel,
George. The sons settled in North Carolina in the time of the
Revolution, and were more or less engaged in the war. They
afterwards moved to the Ogeecha River. Alexander was
killed by the Indians. George had a ball pass through him
in a battle with the British and Tories : the ball entered at
the hollow of the breast, and came out the left side of the
back-bone ; but he lived to do much service after. They
had a fort on their plantation, and the whites kept watch
and guard while the blacks cultivated the soil. George
afterwards moved to Jackson County, Ga., and from there
to Dekalb County ; and died about 1825. Children, — Ro-
bert, Alexander, George, Henry, Samuel.

George, the son of George, had seven sons.

Robert A., son of George, is postmaster of Burnt Stand,
Ga.

James Reed of Clarion County, Pa. Children, — Joseph,
Eben, Martin, James, Mary, William, Jane, John.

John, son of James, is the postmaster of Warsaw, in Jef-
ferson County, Pa. Children, — Webster, born Feb. 26,
1850 ; Samuel Curtiss, April 7, 1852 ; Caroline Amelia,
Aug.' 26, 1854 ; John Franklin, Oct. 7, 1855.

486 REEDS OF VARIOUS FAMILIES.

Reed, who emigrated to America before the Revolu-

tion, settled in Fairfax County, Va., and had six sons, —
Robert ; James ; Nelson ; William ; Saunders A. ; John,
who was a sea-captain.

Nelson Reed ; was a Methodist minister, and lived in Balti-
more.

Saunders A. Reed ; settled in Wyandot County, 0., where
he died at the age of eighty-one.

Edwin S., son of Saunders A., is the postmaster of West
Elkhart, Ind. ; and has two sons and five daughters, names
not given.

John Reed ; married a Campbell ; they were Scotch High-
landers : came to America, and drew four hundred acres of
land, for Revolutionary services, in the town of Argyle,
Washington County, N.Y. Children,- — Peter, Alexander,
Daniel.

Alexander settled in Argyle, and had ten children ; one
of whom is John, born in 1790, who has been postmaster of
North Greenwich forty-two years.

Peter, the son of John, settled in Rockland County, N.Y.

Calvin Reed of ; was out in all the Revolutionary

War, and in the war of 1812. Children, — Luther; Cal-
vin W.

Luther, son of Calvin, was an apprentice in New-York
City during the latter part of the Revolution, and was in
Gen. Harrison's army in 1813. He married a Miss Thorp
of New Jersey in 1802, and emigrated to the West the same
year. Children, — Luther, Calvin W., and John T. He
died in the latter part of 1813. His children live in George-
town, 0. ; and Calvin W. is the postmaster of that place.
He was about a fair specimen, in size, of the Reeds who
were born before the Revolution ; being about six feet one

REEDS OF VARIOUS FAMILIES. 487

inch in height, and what would be called " raw-boned," like
those in the North of England and in Scotland.

Luman Reed of New- York City ; distinguished in business,
and a celebrated character for taste and the fine arts.

1. David Reid of Auchester, in Ayrshire, Scot., married
Jean Stevenson. Child, — James.

2. James Reid of Dalmellington, Ayrshire, Scot., married
Helen Morton. Child, — James M.

3. James M., son of James, married Mary Jane Burr, and
lives in Lawrence, Mass. Children, — Helen Morton, born
Sept. 1, 1853 ; Alice Jane, Feb. 8, 1857. This branch of
the Reids have been residents of the southern part of Ayr-
shire for about two hundred years ; but came there from
Loch Hannock, Renfrewshire, and settled in Craigonill,
near Ayr, about two hundred yards from the place which
the poet Burns has since made famous as "Alloway's auld
haunted kirk." There is a tradition in the family, that
Loch Limerick was not the original place of this family ; but
that, in the time of Robert the II. of Scotland, they came
there from Perthshire, Highlands, having been driven out in
consequence of taking active part in some of the civil wars
of that period, — about 1284. The same tradition also says
that the name was originally Readeugh, or Reideuch, — a
branch of the powerful clan Chattan, mentioned by Sir
Walter Scott in the "Pair Maid of Perth."

John Reid of Chelmsford, formerly from Ireland, married
Bridget. Child, — William, born June 8, 1851.

1. Nicholas Reid of Greece, in the State of New York,
was born at Baile Readh, or Reath (which is, in our dialect,
Reedstown), in the county of Westweath, Ire. ; which was

488 REEDS OF VARIOUS FAMILIES.

the capital of one of the provinces of Ireland while under the
Reid dynasty. The ruins of the castle, church, town, grave-
yard, <fcc, are yet remaining; and the remains of the ances-
tors of Nicholas have been resting there from before the
Christian era. He came to America in 1820, and settled in
Greece. He has been a judge, and is a distinguished farmer.

1. William Reid, born in the county of Antrim, Derraigh-
phy Parish, in the north of Ireland, about seven miles from
Belfast, November, 1789 ; landed in Boston, May 6, 1818,
and has lived in North Andover to the present time ; mar-
ried Ann Parker of Chelmsford, in Boston, Aug. 5, 1821.
Children, — Laura Ann, who married a Johnson; James,
married Mary Bumford, and lives in Danvers ; Sarah Jane,
married William Real ; Martha W. ; William Henry, lives
in Cambridge.

1. Robert Reed, commander of a merchant-ship, was acci-
dentally killed in coming into Newport Harbor. Children,
— Martin, who was seven years old at the time of his father's
death, distinguished himself in business, and was a man of
remarkable piety, — noticed in the history of Narraganset
Church, and died at the age of eighty-one ; Rev. Dr. John
Reed, Rector of Christ's Church, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

John Read of Gravesend, Eng., was a branch pilot from
Gravesend to London. Children, — Thomas, George, John,
Nancy, Clifford.

Clifford, son of John, came to America, and married Cor-
delia Ann Perkins. Children, — Clarissa, born Oct. 15,
1822, married Elijah S. Griffin of Salem ; Cordelia ; Charles
Chase ; Benjamin Clifford, April 21, 1825 ; George W. P.,
June 5, 1828. He lived at one time in Charlestown, and
likewise in Boston.

REEDS OF VARIOUS FAMILIES. 489

Benjamin Clifford, son of Clifford, born in Chariest-own,
June 5, 1828 ; married Cordelia P. Hodges of Salem, Oct. 4,
1855. Child, — Prank Perkins. Pie lives in Springfield,
Mass.

George W. P., son of Clifford, born June 5, 1828 ; married
Susan Elizabeth Brooks of Salem, Nov. 30, 1854 ; lives at
No. 22, Hanson Street, Boston.

James, of East Boston, came from Nova Scotia to Boston,
but was born in Scotland ; married in Nova Scotia to Eliza-
beth M'Kenen. Children, — William, born Jan. 6, 1845;
James F., May 7, 1846 ; Catherine, Dec. 22, 1847 ; Delano,
Oct. 7, 1849 ; Mary Elizabeth, Jan. 13, 1855 ; Margaret
Ann, Aug. 7, 1856.

1. James Reed of Fermanagh, Ire. ; lives in Boston.
Children, — George, William, Isaac, John.

2. John, son of James, lives at No. 22, South Cedar
Street ; married Magdalen Henderson. Children, — Ann,
who married a Folley ; Joseph, married a Livingston, and
keeps at No. 102, Carver Street ; Mary E. ; Joseph H. ;
Margaret A. ; Eliza J. ; James.

2. James H., son of John and Magdalen, married Mary
Livingston in Boston, Feb. 14, 1856 ; and keeps with his
brother, at No. 102, Carver Street.

Gen. Jacob Read, was an attorney-at-law in South Caro-
lina ; and I find him the proctor in behalf of the captors and
claimants for vessels taken at Ogechee River by Col. White,
and his bill of twenty-five hundred dollars for the same, set-
tled April 14, 1780. He was United-States senator for
South Carolina in 1795 ; President, pro tern., of the United-
States Senate in 1797.

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490 REEDS OP VARIOUS FAMILIES.

Capt. Samuel C. Reid, the hero of the battle of Fayal, in
the command of the " Gen. Armstrong," and the designer
of the present American flag, which was made at his house
in New York- York City, and was first hoisted over the Hall
of the House of Representatives of the United States,
April 13, 1818.

William Reed, married Sarah Matthews. He served in
the early part of the Revolutionary War, and died of a
wound received in Virginia, about 1777. His widow mar-
ried Aaron Osburn of Goshen, N.Y. Her second husband
was also in the army, but survived the war. She then mar-
ried John Benjamin, and settled in Mount Pleasant in 1812.
Her third husband died in 1816. She had five children, the
youngest of whom was born in 1788, and was seventy years
old at the date of the death of her mother. She has left four
generations of descendants. She accompanied her second
husband in the army as a page. She died April 20, 1858,
aged a hundred and fourteen years, five months, and three
days.

Robert Reed, born at Ryde, Eng. ; was compelled to leave
England before the Revolution, and served in the American
Army, and settled in Virginia. He had four sons : two of
them live in Lafayette, Ind. ; and one in Holmes County, 0.
One of his sons had — Robert, born in 1803 ; Thomas N.,
1819; Simeon P., 1821 ; James M., 1823 ; William P., 1825 ;
Theodore P., 1835.

Capt. William Reed of Duxbury, was born in Virginia in
1785; married Polly Glass. Children, — Betsy, who mar-
ried Lewis Hunt of Duxbury ; Hannah, married Jared
Alden of South Abington ; Samuel H. He died in Ha-
nover, May 9, 1851.

REEDS OF VARIOUS FAMILIES. 491

Samuel H., son of Capt. William of Duxbury, married
Lucy J. Estes in June, 1835, and now lives in Hanover.
Children, — William E., born Sept. 24, 183G ; Bethia,
June 13, 1838 ; Mary G., Dec. 26, 1839; Lucy P., Feb. 10,
1842 ; Celia J., June 28, 1844 ; Eliza B., March 8, 1846 ;
Augustine, March 14, 1848 ; Jane L., June 31, 1851 ; Cora
W., Feb. 14, 1854 ; Samuel H., Aug. 3, 1856.

John W. Reed of Brookfield, married Abigail. Child, —
William W., born Feb. 14, 1837.

1. Joseph Reid, lived in Georgia, on the Savannah River.
Child, — Jesse.

2. Jesse, son of Joseph. Child, - — Samuel, who is an
attorney in Blairsville, in the State of Georgia.

1. Jonathan Reed of Montgomery County, in the State of
Maryland, was a native of Maryland ; married Miss Metcalf ;
and married Miss Gatten for second wife. Child, — George,
born in 1790.

2. George, son of Jonathan, born in 1790, and settled in
Adams County, 0. Child, — William EL, a counsellor-at-
law in Piketon, 0.

1. Henry Reed, who emigrated from Ireland to America
previous to the Revolution. He was in the war, and was
wounded in the battle at Whitsil's Mills, in Guilford County,
N.C. Children, — Robert; James; Henry, who now lives
in Alabama.

1. William Reid, a brother of Henry, lived in Illinois.
Children, — Henry ; Thomas.

2. Henry, son of William. Child, — John D.

3. John D., son of William. Children, — Henry J.;
Thomas B.

492 REEDS OF VARIOUS FAMILIES.

Thomas Reid, a son of a Presbyterian clergyman by that
name, of German extract, in New Jersey, was a surgeon in
the Revolutionary War, and afterwards a distinguished
physician in Johnstown, N.Y., Fulton County, formerly
a portion of the county of Montgomery ; married Catherine,
daughter of Dr. William Adams of Schenectady, a gentleman
of Irish extraction, who lived to the age of a hundred and
three years. Children, — William Adams, born in 1781;
Archibald, 1782, who studied for a physician, but became
deranged by study, and is now living in that state of mind
at Johnstown.

William A., son of Dr. Thomas, was a skilful physician in
Johnstown, and had a very extensive practice ; married
Jane, daughter of John S. Henry of New York, an Irish
gentleman born in Dublin, and left with Emmett, and for the
same cause. Children, — John Henry, born Oct. 3, 1804;
Thomas, Sept. 23, 1806 ; James Adams, June 26, 1808;
Helen Kelso, July 20, 1810 ; Catherine, Dec. 15, 1812,
married George Barber, and has two children. He died in
1819.

John H., son of Dr. William A. Reid, born at Johnstown,
Oct. 3, 1804 ; married a Miss Files, and has a large family
of children.

Thomas, son of Dr. William A., born at Johnstown,
Sept. 23, 1806 ; married Margaret, daughter of Hon. John
Edwards. Children, — Jane H. ; Margaret; William A.,
who now lives in Sutton, Mass. ; Catherine ; Elizabeth ;
John H. ; Helen M. ; Nancy E. The ancestors of this
family, by both lines, have mostly been clergymen or physi-
cians down to the present generation.

2. James Reed, born in Snow Hill, Worcester County,
Md., of English parents. Child, — William B., born in 1767,
married Elizabeth of Truro, Mass. Children, — William B.,

REEDS OF VARIOUS FAMILIES. 493

born in Bucksport, Me., in 1795, lives in Frankfort, Me. ;
John, who is in California ; Elizabeth, born in Truro, Mass.,
1796, lives in Bucksport ; Littleton, born at Truro in 1793.
He lived, when young, mostly at Truro and Provincetown,
on Cape Cod ; and the children were most of them born
there, but lived a portion of the time at Bucksport, Me.
He was killed in the battle of Hampton, Me., Sept. 3, 1814,
by a thirty-six-pound shot from the sloop-of-war " Sylph,"
commanded by Com. Barry.

4. Littleton Reed, Esq., son of William B., born at Truro
in 1793; married a Miss Lewis of Bucksport. Children, —
Littleton, born at Bucksport, March 11, 1820 ; Joseph B.,
March 11, 1830; Mary Ann, Dec. 25, 1826, married Charles
Snow ; Elizabeth, born July 8, 1828, married J. L. Chip-
man ; George W., born Feb. 20, 1834 ; Maria A., March 30,
1832 ; Charles D. ; Henry L. He lives at North Bucksport.

5. Littleton, son of Littleton Reed, Esq., born at Bucks-
port, March 11, 1820 ; married Ellen Chipman.

5. Joseph B., son of Littleton Reed, Esq., born March 11,
1830 ; married Annette Bartlett.

1. Philip Reed (or Reidt), from Germany, came to what
is now Montgomery County, Penn. Children, — Jacob, who
was a colonel of militia in the Revolution, and was in the bat-
tle of Brandy wine ; Michael, who settled in Franklin County,
and had a son, known as Esquire Reed of Shelsburg, in Bed-
ford County ; Andrew, who settled in Montgomery County,
and married Mary Leidy. Children of Andrew and Mary, —
Philip ; Andrew ; John ; Michael, born in 1780 ; Margaret,
who married Abraham Beidelman.

Philip, son of Andrew, married Margaret Mourer. Chil-
dren,— Charles; John; William, Esq. ; George; Jonas.

Michael, son of Andrew, married Catherine Horn, and
lives at No. 216, Franklin Street, Philadelphia. Children,

494 REEDS OP VARIOUS FAMILIES.

— Willoughby H, of New-York City ; Henry H., of Chestnut
Street; Henry J., of Arch Street, above Seventh ; George
W., of Arch Street ; James M., who married Sarah H. Bid-
lack, and keeps at No. 119, South Second Street (child, —
James M., born March 12, 1858).

Joseph Reed, from Wales, served in the Revolutionary
War, and settled in Berlin, N.J., on the Rancorus Creek,
where he owned a large tract of land. He married Rachel
Eldridge. Children, — William P., Obadiah, Joseph, Samu-
el, John, Acsa, Rachel, Allen, Abby.

William P., son of Joseph, married Sarah Taylor, and set-
tled in Lamberton, N.J. Children, — -Charles T., Wills T.,
Ruth, Sarah A., Martha, Rachel.

Charles T., son of Joseph, married Almira Vezey, and
keeps at No. 321, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Children,
■ — William P., Almira, Elizabeth, Clara.

Alexander Reed, son of of Tolland, Conn., born in

1784; married Abigail Daniels. Children, — Francis, de-
ceased ; James, who lives in Oregon; Belinda, married Wil-
liam Chaffee ; Lucy Maria ; John, lives in West Stockbridge ;
Luther A., born at Tolland, May 12, 1819 ; Samuel H. He
died in Chelsea, Sept. 7, 1854.

Belinda, daughter of Alexander and Abigail, married
William Chaffee of Summersville, Conn. Child, — Ella.

Luther A., son of Alexander and Abigail, born May 12,
1819; married Ruth R. Pulsifer of Ipswich. Children, —
George Henry, born in Charlestown ; Mary Frances ; Ruth
Little. Married in Boston, for second wife, Lucy R. Inger-
soll, June 24, 1851 ; and lives at 193, Poplar Street, Chelsea.

Samuel H. Reed, came from Ireland, and died in Phila-
delphia, leaving a son (John A.), who keeps at the corner of
Thirteenth and Market Streets.

EEEDS OP VARIOUS FAMILIES. 495

Moses Read carne from Ireland, and married Elizabeth
M'Lellan. Children, — George, Robert, Moses, Samuel,
Anne, Thomas, William J., Robert. He died in Delaware
County. He was in the war of 1812.

Moses, the son of Moses and Elizabeth, married Esther A.
Phimple. Children, — Robert ; Ida.

Thomas, son of Moses and Elizabeth, married Hannah
Hibbard. Child,— Charles W.

William J., son of Moses and Elizabeth, married Caroline
F. Oat. Children, — Eliza B. ; Cara L. He keeps at No.
1707, Market Street, Philadelphia.

George, son of Moses and Elizabeth, married Laviiia Evans,
and keeps at No. 1828, Race Street, Philadelphia.

William Reed ; went from Glasgow to Londonderry,' and
had a son William Reed, who died at Manchester, Eng.
Child, — Frank, who came to America in 1848, and lives in
Lowell ; married Anna Marshall of Maine.

William Reed, a Scotchman, was in the Revolutionary
War ; and, after the war was ended, moved to Nova Scotia.
Children, — William, James, George, Margaret.

James, son of William, died in Nova Scotia. Children, —
Thomas W., in California ; James ; Isaac ; Jane ; Harriet ;
Mary A. ; Eliza ; Margaret.

Margaret, daughter of James, married William Wether-
bee, and lives in Portland.

496 REED OF THE BOSTON-POLICE NOTORIETY.

CHAPTER XXIII.

REED OF THE BOSTON-POLICE NOTORIETY.

George Read, was son of a German emigrant by that name,
who was a ship-builder ; at which business George served
an apprenticeship, and married Miss Church, a descendant
of Capt. Church, of King Philip's War notoriety, and a
deputy sheriff in Waldoborough, Me. Meeting with some
difficulty in the business of sheriff in Maine, he came to
Boston, and was appointed constable of Boston in 1812;
which office he held till his death in 1843. He was the most
distinguished rogue-catcher that ever lived in New England.
There were many rumors afloat in his day in reference to
his infamous conduct, which were the most of them founded
in the terror which he caused in the hearts of the wicked, as
nothing was ever substantiated against him detrimental to
his reputation for integrity. He at one time owned a farm
in Quincy, called " Bighill," where he lived, and came into
town daily ; but, when Mr. Quincy came into office as mayor,
he informed him, that, if he wished to retain his position as
constable, he must live in the city. He accordingly aban-
doned his farm, and ever after lived in town. Children, —
Michael ; George ; one daughter, who married a Coy, and
went West ; one daughter, married a Glover of Quincy ;
James ; one daughter, married a Kneeland ; Benjamin C. ;
Lemuel, who was constable of Boston.

REED OP THE BOSTON-POLICE NOTORIETY. 497

Benjamin C, son of George, settled in West Cambridge,
and was a baker. Children, — Cyrena, born Nov. 29, 1831 ;
Benjamin C, Aug. 2, 1833, died Oct. 22, 1833 ; Nehemiah C,
Feb. 4, 1835.

George, the son of George, moved to Maine.

Jacob, the brother of George, married a Swanser. Chil-
di'en, — Catherine, who married a Hock of Waldoborough ;
another daughter, married a Wagner, and lives in Belmont ;
Margaret, married a Simmons ; Jane, married Aaron Brown
of Belfast, who is a school-teacher ; Barbara, married a
Moody ; Berthia, married Isaac Brown ; Zenas, married Elsey
Light, and lives in Waldoborough.

Michael, the brother of George, settled in Lubec. Waldo-
borough was formerly called Dutch Neck, on account of its
being first settled by Dutch ; which accounts for so many
Dutch names among this family.

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498 EEED OF THE " CONSTITUTION :

CHAPTER XXIV.

REED OF THE "CONSTITUTION" AND "GUERRIERE'
NOTORIETY.

Thomas, born in Boston in 1759. His mother died in Scitu-
ate in 1814. Married Alsea Chesley, and settled in Har-
wich, now Brewster. Children, — -Thomas and Priscilla,
born Dec. 15, 1793 (Priscilla married Albert Clapp of Scitu-
ate, April 4, 1813) ; Polina, married a Devereux of Boston ;
Betsy, who married Seth Gannet of Abington in 1821 ;
Polly, died young ; Alsea, married Lyman C. Gaskell ; Sa-
muel, who lives in South Abington. Married, for second
wife, Mehetabel Crosby. Children, — Joseph, who was born
in Scituate, lives in Chatham; George (formerly Barney),
lives in Chatham. He died in February, 1843, at Hanson,
aged eighty-four.

Thomas, son of Capt. Thomas of Brewster, and Alsea.
He was a seaman on board the schooner " Sophronia," Capt.
Jenkins, master ; and was pressed by the British frigate
" Guerriere," April 8, 1811. He was on board of her Aug. 19,
1812 ; and, being called to duty at the gun, saw the stars
and stripes in the distance, floating in the breeze, and making
towards the " Guerriere ; " which was to him an assurance
that his redemption was nigh. He objected to fighting, and
was ordered below. The " Guerriere " soon began to fire ;
but the "Constitution" saved her powder till she got the

AND " GDERRIERE " NOTORIETY. 499

right distance and position, and then her chain-shot soon did
the work. He represents that the slaughter made on board
the British frigate was terrible, as was also the destruction to
her rigging. He was thirty years of his life a seaman, fifteen
of which he was ship-master ; but the day he arrived in Bos-
ton, and landed from on board of the " Constitution " amidst
the cheers and congratulations of his countrymen and the
joy of his friends, was probably the happiest of his eventful
life. He now lives in Boston, having retired from the ha-
zardous pursuits of the seas. He married Rebecca Griffith.
Children, — Thomas G. ; Samuel B., who was killed Nov. 2,
1852, master of the bark "Lyman," — born at Abington,
Dec. 16, 1828 ; Lyman G., born Aug. 14, 1830. Married,
for second wife, Hannah Gear, in 1834. Married Charlotte
Clark for third wife, widow of Noah M. Clark. Child, —
Harrison T., born Sept. 22, 1840.

Samuel, son of Capt. Thomas and Alsea, married Hannah
W. Noyes, Oct. 22, 1834, and lives at South Abington.

Joseph, son of Capt. Thomas and Mehetabel, born in
Scituate ; married Miss Kent, and lives in Chatham. Chil-
dren, — Joseph, who is at sea ; Mary ; David.

Lyman G., son of Capt. Thomas and Rebecca, born
Aug. 14, 1830 ; married Matilda Clark, May 1, 1852, and is
now at sea. Children, — Samuel B., born June 20,1857;
John P., born in Brewster, Feb. 14, 1859.

500 EEEDS OP VARIOUS FAMILIES.

CHAPTER XXV.

REEDS OF VARIOUS FAMILIES.

Hugh Eeed, Esq., one of the principal proprietors of what is
now Keedsburg, Clarion County, Penn. ; and from whom
that place took its name. He is still living in that place.

Samuel, married Lucy, and settled at what is now Reed's
Corner, Dutchess County, N.Y. Children, — Silas ; Co-
lumbus ; John J. ; Mason H. ; Towner ; Ezra, who lives in
Wisconsin.

John J., son of Samuel. Child, — Samuel H., who keeps
a public-house at Reed's Corner.

Mason H., son of Samuel, is the person from whom the
village and post-office took their names. Child, — Alva C.

Silas Reed, brother of Samuel, settled at Reed's Corner,
and had four sons ; viz., Seneca, Samuel, Carlo, Harry.

Carlo, son of Silas, married a Pherson, and settled in
Michigan.

Alva C, son of Mason H. Reed, is married, and lives with
his father.

Reed, an Irishman, had two sons, — James and Charles,
— born in Virginia. He moved to Ohio.

Charles, son of the above, settled in what is now Reed's
Grove, in Illinois ; and the place took its name from him, —

REEDS OF VARIOUS FAMILIES. 501

lie being the first prominent settler. He now lives at Rock
River, at a place called Rockbottorn ; and his son remains
at the Grove.

John Reid, born in the county of Tyrone, Ire. ; married
Miss Treanus. Children, — Thomas, who died in Scotland,
and left a family, some of whom are in Boston ; Philip, who
died in this country in 1849, leaving issue.

Philip, son of John, came to America. Children, —
Owen ; Patrick.

Owen, son of Philip, lives in Providence. Child, — Tho-
mas 0., born Dec. 20, 1852.

William Reed, of Devonshire, Eng., had a son George,
who came to America, and married Ann Hellyer, and died
in Clinton, Me. Children, — Mary Grace, William H., Eli-
zabeth Ann, Sibilla, John W., Anna, Martha Jane, George
Edmond, Emma F.

Mary, daughter of William, married a Soper. Children,
— Ann, George, John, Jabez, Mary, Edward, Samuel W.,
William Reed.

John Soper, married 0. Butman, daughter of Henry But-
man of Gardiner, Me.

William R. Soper, married Miss Rice. Children, — Em-
ma Prances ; Georgianna.

Robert Reede came to Boston with Rev. John Wheel-
wright, and settled with Mr. Wheelwright and his church at
Braintree, then a part of Boston. Mr. Wheelwright was a
brother of Mrs. Hutchinson, and was a man of learning, piety,
and zeal. He warmly advocated the doctrines of Antinomian-
ism ; and the General Court, Oct. 2, 1637, sentenced him to
be disfranchised, and banished from the Colony. He and his
followers went to Exeter, and formed a settlement there ; and

502 REEDS OF VARIOUS FAMILIES.

Mr. Reede went with him, but returned to Boston, and lived
in Boston in 1646." He was sealer of leather in Boston in
1653, but had not then dissolved his connection with the
church at Exeter. His wife's name was Hannah, who died
June 24, 1665 ; and he married Susannah. Children, —
Rebecca, born in Boston, May 29, 1646 ; Sarah, baptized in
Boston, 1st of second month, 1650 ; and Samuel, who died
in infancy. His daughter Hannah married John Souter,
Jan. 11, 1660. He was drowned by the upsetting of a boat,
going out from Hampton, in 1668. It appears that he had
moved to Hampton a short time previous, but owned pro-
perty in Boston at the time of his death.

Nathan, of New Boston, a portion of Fall River, married
Mehetabel Lawton for second wife. Children, — Asa, who
lives at New Boston ; James, who lives at New Boston ;
Warren, died ; Rubie, married Bradford Bennet ; Ruth,
married Lucius Biglow ; Rhoda, married Job Chase of Dart-
mouth ; Patience, married Robert Barrett : the above were
by a former wife. Children by Mehetabel, — John D. ;
Lois, who married George Sawyer ; Lucinda, married Je-
remiah Russell of Dartmouth ; Fanny, married Caswell ;
Jirah.

John D., son of Nathan and Mehetabel, married Peace L.
Macomber of Westport. Children, — Robert C, born at
Fall River, March 20, 1856 ; Ann Eliza, April 29, 1858.

1. William Read, a slave, who ran away from Cloverick,
N.Y., married Peggy Stedman of Connecticut, and settled
first in Keene, N.H. Children, — William, born Sept. 25,
1791 ; Susanna, 1793 ; Celia, 1795 ; Abel, 1797 ; Peggy,
1799; Andrew, 1805.

2. William, son of William and Peggy, born Sept. 25,
1791 ; married in Boston, by Rev. Dr. Wisner, to Eliza
Brooks, Nov. 23, 1823. Children, — Joseph Abel, born

REEDS OF VARIOUS FAMILIES. 503

April 12, 1824 ; Eliza Ann, Jan. 20, 1826 ; Mary Jane,
Jan. 24, 1828 ; William Edward, Jan. 28, 1830 ; Edna
Louisa, Jan. 24, 1832 ; Caroline Prances, Nov. 17, 1837.
Lives in Salem.

3. Joseph Abel, son of William and Eliza, born April 12,
1824 ; married Martha White. Children, — Eliza, born
about 1846 ; William, 1848.

3. Mary Jane, daughter of William, born March 24, 1828 ;
married William Freeman of Lynn. Child, — Mary Eliza-
beth, born 1849. They live in Lynn.

3. Edna L., daughter of William and Eliza, born Jan. 24,
1832; married John Lane. Child, — Emma.

2. Peggy, daughter of William of Keene, married Jacob
Depreise. Children, — Jacob Henry ; Ellen Ann.

504 THE LANCASTER STOCK.

CHAPTER XXVI.

THE LANCASTER STOCK.

Thomas Eeade, had a son Thomas, born in Lancaster
County, Pa., Sept. 1, 1750, and served in the Revolution;
married Steda M. Knight. Child, — Thomas, born April 20,
1791, at Shippingsburg, Pa.

Thomas, son of Thomas and Steda, born April 20, 1791 ;

served as lieutenant, under Gen. Cass, in the war of 1812.

.Married. Children, — Thomas, born in 1827; James P.,

1815, who lives at San Antonia, Tex., and is a druggist ;

Susan, who married S. L. Guice, Esq., of St. Paul, Ma.

Thomas, son of Thomas, born in 1827 ; was formerly a
lawyer in Natchez, but lives, and practises law, in Fayette,
Miss. He is known as Major Reed, and has been Grand
Master of the order of Odd Fellows, and Grand Patriarch
of the State. He married Mary Jane Forman. Children,
— Kate, Charlie, Mollie, Susan H. Married, for second
wife, Lovina A. West, a grand-daughter of Col. Cato West.

Thomas B. Read, a descendant of Joseph, was born in
Kentucky ; was United-States senator from Mississippi in
1826 ; and died in office, March 3, 1829. Children, — Isaac
Shelby, born in 1810 ; Letitia E., born at Natchez, and mar-
ried Spence Grayson, Esq. (formerly a lawyer, now a planter
in Yazoo Valley, and a distinguished author).

THE LANCASTER STOCK. 505

Isaac Shelby, son of Hon. Thomas B. Reed, born in 1810 ;
married the daughter of the celebrated Duff Green of Wash-
ington City, and lives at Fayette, Miss.

John Read, whose grandmother was an Indian woman
of the tribe of Benjamin. His paternal ancestry was also
a mixture of Indian and African. He was many years a
steward of a Liverpool packet. He married Nancy Day.
Children, — John, who lives in New Jersey ; Esther, died
young; Edward; Thomas; Josiah ; and Jesse M., — all of
No. 101, South Eighth Street, Philadelphia.

John Read, who was born in England, came to Ame-
rica in the latter part of the last century, and settled in
Philadelphia. He married Nancy Johnson. Children, —
Sarah, who married a Morris ; William H. J., who married
Margaret Gorges, and keeps at No. 41, South Second
Street.

Henry Read, of German origin, lived in Philadelphia.
His children were — Mary ; Henry, who now lives in Wash-
ington ; George and Peter, both of Philadelphia ; Catherine,
who married Henry Robinson of West Chester ; Charles,
also of Philadelphia ; Harriet, who married Andrew Coff-
man ; Sophia, who married Frederick Hofner.

George, the son of Henry, married Catherine Gallinger,
and lives at No. 926, North Third Street. Children, —
William, Kate, Harriet, David, Henry.

Andrew Read came from near Hamburg previous to the
Revolution, and settled in Philadelphia. Children, — John ;
Henry, who died in Norfolk, Va. ; Bernard ; Philip ; Chris-
tian ; Andrew ; Mary. The fourth and fifth sons are now
living in Philadelphia.

Andrew, the son of Andrew, married Elizabeth Linsey.
Children, — Theodore F., Ambrose W., Roseman A., An-
drew, Alfred, Edwin, Emily.

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506 THE LANCASTER STOCK.

Theodore F., the son of Andrew, married Sarah Bennct,
and keeps at No. 438, Market Street, Philadelphia. Chil-
dren, — Albert, Rachel, Theodore.

Noah Reed went from Salem, N.J., to Ohio, many years
ago. His son William married Rhoda Barton. Children, —
Samuel B., Ruth, Rebecca, Avaline, Charles N., Mary, Wil-
liam M. Samuel B. died at Pittsburg, Pa., in 1843 ; William
M. lives at North Benton, Mohoning County, 0. ; Charles N.
married Mary H. Herriot, and keeps at No. 601, Market
Street, Philadelphia. They have one son, by the name of
Woodward H.

Hugh Reed of Newcastle, Cumberland County, Pa., had
John and William of Chambersburg, and James M. of No.
130, North Third Street, Philadelphia, who married Anna
Covode. Children, — John Covode and Jennie.

John Reed of Snow Hill, Worcester County, Md., married
an Oliver. Children, — John, who died in Iowa; Jacob;
Mary ; Vashti ; Sarah ; Eliza.

Jacob, the son of John, married Martha Lackey. Chil-
dren,— William A., Mary, Anna J., Joseph R., Jacob 0.,
Lucy C, Edward H., George K., Alvan H. He lives at No.
301, South Second Street, Philadelphia ; and is a prominent
member ami deacon of a Baptist church.

William A., the son of Deacon Jacob, is a physician, and
lives at No. 1103, Arch Street ; and is also a professor of
physiology in the Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn-
sylvania. He married Mary, the daughter of Rev. Thomas
Brown, Jan. 2, 1849. Children, — William A., born
Aug. 19, 1851 ; Ella D., Aug. 20, 1856.

REID OF ETHAN ALLEN NOTORIETY, AND OTHERS. 507

CHAPTER XXVII.

REID OF ETHAN ALLEN NOTORIETY, AND OTHERS.

John Reid, son of Alexander of Stralock, Scot., was born
Jan. 13, 1722 ; graduated at Edinburgh, and entered the
army. He served under Gen. Amherst in the French War.
He was stationed at Albany till 1763 ; when he was sent to
the relief of Fort Pitt, then besieged by Indians. He ob-
tained a grant of a large tract of land on Otter Creek, in
Vermont ; and was the Col. Reid against whom the cele-
brated Ethan Allen figured so conspicuously. He became
major-general in 1781, and lieutenant-general in 1793. He
died at his residence in London, Feb. 6, 1807, aged eighty-
five. He was a celebrated flute-player. He left a large
fortune, which he gave to the founding of a music-college
after the decease of an only daughter.

1. James Read came from the county of Kent, in Eng.,
to America, in 1705, and settled in Cambridge, near the
Meeting-house. A portion of the burying-ground was taken
from his house-lot in 1767. Married, for his first wife, Sarah
Batson, Aug. 12, 1714: she died Dec. 25, 1721. Child,—
James, born Oct. 9, 1721. Married, for second wife, Mary
Oldharn, April 3, 1722. He was a tanner, and an influential
and wealthy man.

2. James, son of James and Sarah, born in Cambridge,

508 RE1D OP ETHAN ALLEN NOTORIETY, AND OTHERS.

Oct. 9, 1721 ; married Hannah Stacy, daughter of the
Rev. Mr. Stacy of Kingston, Sept. 24, 1744 : she died
Sept. 22, 1788. Children, — Mary C, born Oct. 8, 1745,
died April 10, 1748 ; James, born Feb. 1, 1750, died July 29,
1750 ; Sarah, born Oct. 30, 1747 ; James, July 21, 1751,
died Sept. 14, 1814 ; Joseph, born Sept. 10, 1753, died
Sept. 14, 1753 ; Joseph Stacy, born Oct. 31, 1754 ; Hannah,
Sept. 21, 1757. He died July 31, 1770.

3. James, son of James and Hannah, born July 21, 1751 ;
married Betsy Wait of Ipswich, Dec. 3, 1772. Child, —
James, born June 27, 1773.

4. James, son of James and Betsy, born June 27, 1773 ;
married Mary Stebbins Brown, Aug. 1, 1799. Children, —
Eliza, born on the Island of Tobago, Aug. 13, 1800 ; James
Barnard, born on the Island of Tobago, Aug. 26, 1802.

5. James B., son of James and Mary S. B., born Aug. 26,
1802; married Emily Wyeth, Nov. 9, 1828. Children,—
George James, Charles A., Emily B. He keeps at No. 680,
Washington Street, Boston.

3. Joseph Stacy Read, son of James and Hannah, born at
Cambridge, Oct. 21, 1754; married Esther Goodwin of Ply-
mouth, Sept. 5, 1783. He was postmaster in Cambridge
for many years. Children, — Sally, born July 11, 1784;
Esther, Oct. 17, 1785 ; Joseph Stacy, Aug. 17, 1787 ; James,
Nov. 19, 1789; John, Sept. 10, 1793; Elizabeth, Aug. 2,
1795 ; William, May 10, 1798, died July 15, 1799 ; Wil-
liam, born April 12, 1800 ; Mary, Sept. 19, 1802, died
Jan. 4, 1854 ; Lucy, born Oct. 29, 1804, died Sept. 7, 1805.

4. Joseph Stacy, son of Joseph Stacy and Esther, born at
Cambridge, Aug. 17, 1787 ; married Sally Goodwin of Ply-
mouth, Mass., Oct. 25, 1819. Children, — Sarah, born
Aug. 11, 1820 ; Joseph Stacy, Jan. 21, 1824, died young;
Lucy Esther, born Jan. 3, 1826, died young ; Lucy Esther,
born March 2, 1827 ; Mary Elizabeth, April 12, 1830, died

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REID OP ETHAN ALLEN NOTORIETY, AND OTHERS. 509

young ; Joseph Stacy, born Oct. 1, 1832 ; James John,
Jan. 10, 1835. He was a prominent member of the Mecha-
nics' Charitable Association. He died May 24, 1853, aged
sixty-six years and ten months. He was engaged in the
harness-business, at No. 11, Exchange Street, Boston ; and
carried on an extensive traffic in all manner of wares, to such
an extent, that his store became proverbial as the place where
all manner of odd articles could be obtained. It is said that
a wager was once laid between two men, that an article could
not be called for which he had not on hand : and the party
taking the negative called for a second-hand pulpit, and be-
hold he had it stored away in one of the lofts ; and the next
article called for was a second-hand wheelbarrow-wheel, with
the same result. The business is still carried on by his sons,
who have moved to Tremont Row ; but the family make
Cambridge their residence.

James, son of Joseph Stacy and Esther Goodwin Read,
born Nov. 19, 1789 ; married Hannah Palmer, daughter of
Capt. Joseph and Jerusha Johnson Palmer, Dec. 6, 1815.
She was a descendant of Stephen Palmer, who settled in
Cambridge the latter part of the seventeenth century.
There is a tradition that he came from the county of Kent
in England. He was a tanner. The Palmer Family, for a
long time, owned the estate adjacent to and lying on the
south side of the old Cambridge Burying-ground. The last
of the name who owned and lived on this estate was Major
John Palmer, whose house was near the magnificent elm
which was cut down a few years since. The children of
James and Hannah Read are four : viz., Lucy Richmond ;
Helen Maria, wife of George Gardner of Boston ; Louisa,
wife of Christopher C. Chadwick of Boston ; Sarah Eliza-
beth. Mr. Read has for many years been an active and pro-
minent merchant of Boston, and is now the senior partner of
the mercantile house of Reed, Gardner, and Company, con-

512 REID OF ETHAN ALLEN NOTORIETY, AND OTHERS.

now rests on a solid foundation, not to be affected by the
revulsions of business ; and the character for sagacity, intel-
ligence, and integrity, which he has borne during his whole
career, shines with increased brightness with his advancing
years. Mr. Read has often been called on to render timely
assistance, when merchants and friends have found them-
selves in embarrassment and perplexity ; and no one can be
named who has rendered more valuable aid as referee, as
adviser and composer of difficulties, or who has been more
ready than he to contribute his full share of labor towards
forming new arrangements, and reconstructing or settling-
old concerns in the best possible manner, or to exert his
practical wisdom for the benefit of others, and to put his
hand in his pocket for every good purpose at the right time
and in the right way.

While it is intended to refrain from alluding, on this
occasion, to matters and circumstances of a private charac-
ter, yet it seems not improper to say, that at the time his
business was interrupted, in 1842, he was sustained and con-
soled by the kindest sympathy, and by timely assurances of
co-operation, from the several members of his family, all
of whom were ready to pass with smiling fortitude through
a season of apparent adversity, and to do all in their power
to regain the means of carrying out honest and benevolent
purposes in a future career of prosperity.

4. John, son of Joseph Stacy Read and Esther, born
Sept. 10, 1793 ; married Lucy G. Atkins of Newburyport.
Children, — John; Horace; Herbert and Cornelia (twins),
born March 22, 1850 ; Lucy, Nov. 17, 1853. He is an ex-
tensive dealer in English and fancy goods, near the College,
in Cambridge.

4. Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Stacy Read and Esther,
born Aug. 2, 1795 ; married Josiah N. Marshall, July 23,
1823. Mr. Marshall died Nov. 23, 1852. Children,—

REID OP ETHAN ALLEN NOTORIETY, AND OTHERS. 513

Mary Elizabeth ; Sarah ; Joseph Stacy, died March 8, 1848 ;
Caroline Esther; Emily, died Sept. 11, 1836.

4. William, son of Joseph Stacy and Esther, born April 12,
1800 ; married Sally G. Atkins of Newburyport, Jan. 3,
1828. Children,— Sarah A., born Aug. 2, 1829, died 3d;
William, born March 16, 1832 ; Mary S., Nov. 10, 1835,
died May 26, 1838 ; Sarah A., born Feb. 24, 1838 ; John,
May 19, 1840 ; Charles C, March 1, 1843 ; Edward, May 16,
1847 ; Nathaniel Goodwin, Aug. 15, 1849 ; Anna, March 25,
1852. He keeps hardware, guns, &c, in Faneuil-hall
Square ; and, though he keeps one of the largest establish-
ments of the kind in the country, he never gives his note,
doing wholly a cash business.

5. William, son of William and Sally, married Anna
Maria Wheeler of Worcester, Nov. 13, 1856, and keeps with
his father in Faneuil-hall Square.

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514 KEEDS, READS, OR REIDS, NOT FULLY TRACED.

CHAPTEK XXVIII.

KEEDS, READS, OR REIDS, NOT FULLY TRACED.

Ebenezer of Jericho, Vt., had Zantha, Miron, and Phi-
lander.

Philander, the son of Ebenezer, settled in Plattsburg ;
married Electa Richardson. Children, — Sarah Ann, who
died young ; Clela Maria ; Elbridge H. ; Joshua R., who
lives in Cincinnati, 0. ; Harriet G.

Elbridge H., son of Philander, married Nancy Chaffee, at
Thompson, Conn., Oct. 3, 1841. Children, — Sarah Ann,
born July 7, 1844 ; Charles K. E., July 13, 1857.

Josiah Read of Swansea, N.H. Children, — Aldrich, born
in 1814; Asa, 1816.

Aldrich, son of Josiah, married in Sherburne, Mass., to
Louisa Mann, Nov. 27, 1856.

Asa, son of Josiah, married in Sherburne to Hannah
Mann, Nov. 24, 1853. Child, — Sybell Marshall, born
Oct. 31, 1854.

Henry H. Reed of Nashua married Ann M. Jones,
Sept. 21, 1847. Children, — a daughter, born March 1,
1851 ; a son, Nov. 15, 1852.

John Reed married Lucinda. Children, — John, born at
Nashua, June 15, 1837 ; Ann Lucinda, June 16, 1842.

James M. Reed married Joanna. Children, — Lucy Ann,
born at Nashua, Aug. 30, 1837 ; James Augustus, Dec. 13,
1840 ; Bethiah E., Jan. 29, 1842 ; a son, July 21, 1852.

REEDS, READS, OR REIDS, NOT FULLY TRACED. 515

John married Hannah. One child, born at Nashua,
April 8, 1855.

Calvin Reed had a son, born in Nashua, May 7, 1856.

Moses Read married Esther. Child, — ■ Mary, born at At-
tleborough, Sept. 26, 1812.

Abijah of Nashua had a son Abijah, who married Lydia
Hardy of Dunstable, Nov. 20, 1794.

James T. of Pembroke, who was son of Cyrus and Cynthia,
married Nancy, the daughter of Benjamin and Sophia Pierce.
Children, — James B., who died May 31, 1856; Susan A.,
born in Pembroke, Feb. 4, 1855, and died June 7 of the
same year ; James, born May 31, 1856.

Thomas of Hanson married Charlotte. Child, — Hope,
who died Dec. 23, 1846, aged ten months and eleven
days.

Obadiah married Abigail. Child, — Appleton.

Appleton, son of Obadiah, married in Hanson to Mehala
dishing, March 6, 1849. Child, — Prank Abbot.

Joseph of Barrington, Mass., known as Esquire Read, had
a daughter Lydia, born in 1747.

William H., of the Taunton stock, married Amanda.
Child, — William H., born at Rehoboth, Dec. 2, 1843.

Robert of Wrentham married Elizabeth J. Wiggin.
Child, — John P., born May 11, 1854.

Oliver of Wrentham married Betty Force, Nov. 4, 1770.
Child, — Oliver.

Oliver, son of Oliver and Betty, married Chickering Read,
March 26, 1801.

Adam Reed of Boston married Margaret Derkin, June 11,
1699. Child, — Adam, born in Boston, Feb. 18, 1702.

Thomas married in Boston to Mary Fifield, March 1, 1707.
Child, — James, born Sept. 16, 1707. Married, for second
wife, Sarah Niles, Sept. 14, 1709. Child, — Sarah, born
May 12, 1711.

516 REEDS, EEADS, OR REIDS, NOT FULLY TRACED.

Bridges Reed of Marblehead married in Boston to Mary.
Child, — Mary, born May 12, 1712.

John of Boston, whose wife was Hannah, had a son Tho-
mas, who was born in 1759, and died in Boston, Oct. 8,
1765, and buried in the Granary Burying-ground.

John of Milton had a son John, who married Amanda M.
J. Baker, Dec. 13, 1851.

Robert of Boston had a son James, who married Mary
Todd, June 19, 1851.

Edward married Susan Palmer. Child, — James G., born
in Boston, Oct. 19, 1855.

John T. of Weymouth married Sarah J. ' Child, — Maria
A., born Aug. 22, 1850.

John B. married Emily Loud. Child, — Emily B., born
in Weymouth, Oct. 12, 1851.

Daniel F. married Joanna. Child, — Frank E., born at
Weymouth, Oct. 8, 1854.

J. F. Reed married Sarah J. Tirrell, Sept. 23, 1849.
Child, — Linnie, born at Weymouth, Sept. 16, 1855.

Silas married Louisa Richmond, Aug. 22, 1841. Child,
— Levi R., born at Weymouth, March 27, 1851 ; Elbridge,
July 7, 1853.

Thomas of Mendon married Sarah Burder, July 23, 1838.
Children, — Edward, born Aug. 22,1839; Walter, July 6,
1841.

Robert of Abington married Polly. Child, — Alonzo
Harrington, born Nov. 3, 1829.

Thomas of Abington married Lydia Jenkins, April 12,
1810. Children, — Thomas, born April 25, 1812 ; Lydia J.,
June 15, 1814 ; Wolston, Dec. 29, 1819 ; Lucinda C,
Dec. 11, 1834.

Thomas, son of Thomas and Lydia, born April 25, 1812 ;
married Acsah Wesson of Wayland. Child, — Thomas F.
Thomas died, and his widow married Brackley Shaw, jun.

REEDS, READS, OR REIDS, NOT FULLY TRACED. 517

Brewer Reed of Boston had William C, and Eliza, who
married James Whitney.

Justus 0. of East Windsor, Vt., had a son John H., born
in 1823, and married in Boston to Mary M. Warren, July 4,
1854. Children, — James, who was married in Boston to
Mary Todd, June 19, 1851 ; Robert, who married Sarah G.
Huntress, and had Susan E., born at Charlestown, June 15,
1854 ; Samuel R. ; Robert H., May 31, 1857.

Abraham of Dorchester married Mary Rollins, Sept. 25,
1818. Children, — George T., born in 1823, and married
Mary Higgins, Dec. 15, 1856 ; Nathaniel, 1827, married Mary
Ann Ayers, May 3, 1852.

Joseph of Newburyport had a son William, born in 1820,
who was married in Boston to Julia A. Murphy, for second
wife, June 1, 1854.

Jacob of Charlton married Desire Skelton, June 4, 1816.
Child, — Rebecca, born in Woburn, June 16, 1821.

Charles C. Reed of Brookfield married Jane. Children,
— Caroline E., born Sept. 3, 1842; Maria Jane, July 31,
1844.

Durfee Read married Wealthy Keene of Somerset. Chil-
dren,— Elizabeth, born at Somerset, and married Simpson
Jones ; William D., born July 18, 1795.

William Read married Clinda Tingley. Children, — ■
Maria, born at Attleborough, June 24, 1793 ; Ezra C,
June 27, 1798 ; Herbert A., Nov. 18, 1801.

Nathan married Phebe. Child, — Robert, born at Swan-
sea, March 3, 1779.

Samuel married Mary. Children, — Andrew Jackson,
born at Swansea, Jan. 15, 1815 ; Mary Ann, Jan. 15, 1819 ;
Nelson Stillman, Oct. 6, 1821 ; Julia M., Jan. 25, 1823 ;
Hannah G., March 10, 1826.

William M. of Swansea married Elizabeth. Child, —
Ella W., born at Providence.

518 REEDS, READS, OR RE1DS, NOT FULLY TRACED.

Jacob of Littleton. Children, — Elizabeth, born June 20,
1839 ; Mary G., May 30, 1841.

Joseph E. of Littleton married Frances M. Tnttle, May 1,
1851. Child, — Lorenzo G., born Aug. 25, 1851.

Jefferson Reed of Littleton married Susan. Children, —
Lucy Ann, who married Alvan Rhodes ; Mary, born Oct. 15,
1853.

Benjamin, son of Col. Jonathan of Littleton, was born
Jan. 13, 1779 ; married Mary Litchfield ; published Novem-
ber, 1797.

John W. of Brookfield married Abigail. Child, — Wil-
liam Wirt, born Feb. 14, 1837.

George of Brookfield had a son George, who died October,
1840.

Joseph married Susan, and had a son Joseph, who mar-
ried Nancy M. Lincoln, Dec. 5, 1847.

Thomas of Framingham had a daughter Mary, born
July 12, 1846.

Daniel B. married Martha. Children, — Charles B., born
at Framingham, Nov. 18, 1852 ; Emma A., Nov. 11, 1856.

Jonathan of Wrentham, born in 1745 ; married Susanna
Shepherd, July 31, 1771. Children, — Jonathan, born at
Wrentham, Sept. 4, 1773 ; Susanna, Sept. 4, 1775. He
died Nov. 9, 1806, in a fit, while at work at his bench.

David of Westminster, Mass., had three sons : viz., Asa,
who now lives on the homestead of his father ; Abraham ;
and David, who died in 1855, leaving a widow.

John C. of Nova Scotia married Elizabeth, and lives in
Abington. Child, — Clarence Herbert, born Aug. 25, 1852.

James of Plymouth married Lucy Fish, Nov. 6, 1788.
Children, — Betsy, born June 1, 1789 ; James, Nov. 24,
1791 ; Polly, April 28, 1794 ; Ruth, Oct. 26, 1796 ; Samuel,
April 24, 1803 ; Hezekiah B., June 10, 1805 ; Henry, March,
1808 ; Sally, June 7, 1811.

REEDS, READS, OR REIDS, NOT FULLY TRACED. 519

Nathan of Plymouth married Rebecca Morton, April 7,
1796.

Levi of Pembroke married Lucy Dotan of Plymouth,
Jan. 7, 1799.

James, jun., son of James and Lucy, married Sally Hatha-
way, Aug. 29, 1812. Children, — James, born at Plymouth,
Oct. 10, 1813 ; Silas, June 22, 1815, died Oct. 8, 1816 ; Silas,
born June 2, 1817; Lemuel, Aug. 25, 1819; Lucy Ann,
Jan. 1, 1820, died 1821 ; Joseph Allen, born July 19, 1822 ;
Sarah ; James, Aug. 14, 1825.

Lemuel, son of James, jun., of Plymouth, born Aug. 25,
1819 ; married Lydia D. Hutchinson, Feb. 13, 1840.

Hezekiah, son of James and Lucy, born at Plymouth,
June 10, 1805. Child, — Deborah A., born at Plymouth,
Dec. 3, 1846.

Silas, son of James and Sally, born June 2, 1817. Chil-
dren,— John G., born at Plymouth, Oct. 15, 1848 ; Lemuel,
Oct. 2, 1846.

James, son of James. Child, — Judith, born at Plymouth,
Aug. 28, 1846.

George Reid of Ireland had a son James M., who was mar-
ried in Boston to Ann Powell, July 31, 1854.

Mitchel Read of England had a son Peter, who was mar-
ried in Boston to Barbary Brogan, Jan. 18, 1855.

Edward of Boston had a son James, born in 1834, married
in Boston Susan Palmer, Oct. 19, 1855.

James of Ireland had James, born in 1832 ; married in
Boston to Margaret Collins, June 30, 1856.

John of Bangor, Me., had Samuel H., born in 1831 ; mar-
ried in Boston to Parmelia Vose, April 22, 1856.

William of Ireland had Joseph in 1833, married in Bos-
ton to Maria Paradise, Oct. 23, 1856, and settled in Lowell.

John of Nova Scotia had James M. in 1839; married in
Boston Catherine T. M'Carty, Nov. 5, 1852.

520 REEDS, READS, OR REIDS, NOT FULLY TRACED.

Abraham of Fitchburg, Mass., had a Benjamin A., who
married in Boston Eliza Howe, Jan. 9, 1852, and settled in
Worcester.

Robert of Nova Scotia had Stephen C, who married in
Boston to Eliza P. Crowe, June 5, 1854.

Joseph of England had Joseph, who was married in Boston
to Caroline White, Feb. 24, 1854.

William of Scotland had James ; married in Boston to
Margaret Graham, Jan. 16, 1854.

James of Boston, a harness-maker, came from New
Brunswick.

John of Newport had John D., born at Newport, Dec. 16,
1777, and married Lydia Chase, July 15, 1798.

Robert Reed came from Balla Willa in Ireland, and set-
tled in Lancaster, Pa., about the year 1798. He married
Mary Walker. Child, — Robert S.

MISCELLANEOUS LIST OP MARRIAGES. 521

CHAPTER XXIX.

MISCELLANEOUS LIST OF MARRIAGES.

The following is principally a list of marriages found upon
the records ; and the author, unable to attach them to their
respective families, inserts them, as they may be of use to
those interested.

John of Nashua married Dolly Lenned, Sept. 15, 1794.

James of Dunstable married Rhoda Farnam, Feb. 24,
1828.

Merrick Read of Westford married Lucinda J. Bennett,
Aug. 8, 1844.

Elbridge G. of Lowell married Martha Bicknall, Oct. 11,
1844.

Alonzo of Nashua married Mary A. Holt, Dec. 6, 1846.

Hiram of Nashua married Sarah W. Powers, June 26,
1847.

George married Fanny Colburn of Pittston, Me. ; published
Aug. 9, 1802.

William Augustus Reed of Groton married Almira Gil-
son, June 8, 1848.

Alpheus J. of Westford married Sarah Parker, July 17,
1849.

Warren H. of Tyngsborough married Martha M. Davis,
Oct. 27, 1849.

522 MISCELLANEOUS LIST OF MARRIAGES.

. James H. of Lowell married Elizabeth C. Kingsbury of
Keene, N.H., Feb. 28, 1858.

Ira W. of Nashua married Caroline H. Newton, Feb. 23,
1851.

Abraham of Westford married Mary A. Cummings of
Tyngsborough, Dec. 26, 1852.

David of Weymouth to Joanna F. Cushing of Bi*aintree,
July 6, 1853.

G. W. of Nashua to Sarah A. Balcom, May 26, 1855.

Erastus B. of Peterborough, N.H., to Mary H. C. Green-
wood, Sept. 1, 1856.

William of Merrimack, N.H., to Mary A. Clark of Nashua,
May 6, 1856.

Oliver of Wrentham to Betty Force, Nov. 14, 1700.

Edwin of Mansfield to Sarah T. Cobb, Oct. 2, 1839.

John of Wrentham to Catherine Murphey, Nov. 5, 1848.

Joseph, jun., of Taunton, to Mrs. Abigail Harvey, April 8,
1776.

Amos to Lydia Walker, Nov. 16, 1769.

Capt. Z. L. Reed of Dighton to Mary Brown, Sept. 19,
1802.

John W. to Mary A. Border, Jan. 14, 1833.

Jonathan, jun., of Berkeley, to Abigail Axtell, Nov. 5,
1772.

Jonathan, jun., of Berkeley, to Hannah Chase, Aug. 9,
1778.

Charles of Swansea to Zilpha Myrack, Feb. 17, 1773.

Ebenezer of Taunton to Lydia Haskin, Aug. 24, 1782.

George, 3d, of Freetown, to Isabel Evan, July 10, 1789.

Thomas of Taunton to Mary Briggs, Sept. 18, 1783.

Gilbert of Dighton to Delia Ann Peck, Oct. 26, 1834.

Alfred of Dighton to Eunice E. Paul, Aug. 10, 1846.

Olaudo H. of Dighton to Abby E. Williams, Oct. 12,
1847.

MISCELLANEOUS LIST OP MARRIAGES. 523

Marcus of Attleborough to Maiy E. Cobb of Foxborough,
Oct. 20, 1839.

Thomas J. of Randolph, Mass., married Mary D. Cope-
land of North Bridgewater, Feb. 8, 1831.

William Reed and Huldah Tubbs married in Pembroke,
Mass., Jan. 21, 1776.

Luther of Pembroke to Deborah Briant, Aug. 9, 1821.

Daniel A., son of David A. of Abington, married in Han-
son to Betsy D. Keith, Nov. 3, 1850.

William of Boston to Ann Robinson, Nov. 17, 1712.

John of Boston to Elizabeth, Aug. 14, 1734.

John of Boston to Dorcas Lang, June 3, 1770.

Nathan of Boston to Susanna Wood, Feb. 9, 1742.

Joseph of Boston to Sarah Wiley, Jan. 1, 1765.

Andrew of Boston to Mary Stors, June 4, 1774. He died
in 1770, as appears by the administration of his estate in
Essex County.

William of Taunton, now of Dighton, to Sally Hathaway,
Feb. 22, 1818.

Harvey Reed of Wrentham to Sally Briggs of Wellington,
now Dighton, May 16, 1825.

Seth of Dighton to Matilda Smith, April 24, 1823.

Thomas of Boston to Mary Hunnewell, Aug. 29, 1756.

Thomas of Boston to Sarah Ridgeway.

Thomas of Boston to Elizabeth Porter, Feb. 20, 1734.

John of Boston to Margaret Dolphin, May 9, 1732.

William of Boston to Elizabeth Smith, June 30, 1732.

John of Boston to Eliza Barnes, July 17, 1729.

Aaron of Boston to Mary Soper, June 22, 1727.

Jonathan of Boston to Mary Winkull, June 21, 1724.

William of Boston to Mary Howell, April 22, 1723.

Joel of Boston to Elizabeth Johnson, March 30, 1807.

John of Boston to Hannah Burns, July 11, 1803.

John of Boston to Sally May, April 9, 1801.

524 MISCELLANEOUS LIST OF MARRIAGES.

William of Boston to Nancy Gregory, July 16, 1797 : had
probably been previously married to Elizabeth Hull, June 6,
1793.

John H. married in Boston to Hannah Mason, Oct. 15,
1804.

Andrew married in Boston to Bridget Davis, Dec. 3,
1835.

Holland married in Boston to Mary R. Sawyer, July 26,
1835.

Nicholas G. married in Boston to Almira Larry, Aug. 19,
1835.

William in Boston to Mary Brooks, April 21, 1836.

Abel M. in Boston to Bebecca Planter, Nov. 1, 1835.

Stephen A. of Mendon to Lydia Williams, Oct. 17, 1830.

John in Boston to Mary Winslow (colored), Dec. 9, 1813.

John in Boston to Elizabeth Newcomb, Jan. 14, 1810.

Thomas in Boston to Sally Thorning, Sept. 11, 1788.

Charles S. in Boston to Frances J. Grant.

Charles E. in Boston to Mahala R. Williams, March 18,
1834.

George in Boston to Caroline E. Godfrey, Sept. 3, 1837.

John of Rosbury to Charlotte Tyrell, May 4, 1837.

William C. in Boston to Lydia Thorndyke, Nov. 14, 1834.

James W. in Boston to Mary F. Sanborn, Oct. 19, 1836.

William in Boston to Hassen, March 2, 1836.

Benjamin H. in Boston to Elizabeth A. Tukesbury, Sept. 10,
1834.

Thomas in Boston to Mary Porter, Nov. 7, 1834.

Dean S. in Boston to Hannah Merser, July 25, 1833.

John in Boston to Mary Barrey, Sept. 18, 1833.

John in Boston to Mary Gilbert, Nov. 22, 1829.

Henry in Boston to Ann Howard, Jan. 30, 1828.

Thaddeus in Boston to Catherine O. Dow, July 27, 1825.

Henry in Boston to Rhoda Crosby, 1825.

MISCELLANEOUS LIST OF MARRIAGES. 525

John in Boston to Eliza Gilbert, Dec. 26, 1824.

Joseph in Boston to Eliza Cummings, July 16, 1821.

John of Brighton married in Boston to Phebe Manly,
Nov. 28, 1821.

John in Boston to Miranda Barker, Nov. 12, 1820.

James in Boston to Mary Huntington, March 25, 1819.

George, jun., in Boston, to Jerusha Gould, Nov. 9,
1851.

Amos in Boston to Abigail Davison, May 1, 1817.

Augustus in Boston to Lydia Walcott, Oct. 30, 1817.

James in Boston to Abigail Wilson (colored), June 5,
1816.

Andrew in Boston to Lydia Burbank, July 2, 1799.

Edward in Boston to Rachel Lovekin, May 9, 1797.

Joseph in Boston to Mary Hanley, Aug. 21, 1814.

Silas in Boston to Betsy Whitcomb, June 14, 1818.

Edmond in Boston to Mahala Rex, April 7, 1814.

Charles in Boston to Sophia W. Clark, June 11, 1845.

William G. in Boston to Caroline E. Brown, April 9,
1845.

Samuel H. in Boston to Ann B. Crehore, July 30, 1844.

James W. in Boston to Ann dishing, May 14, 1845.

Albert in Boston to Margaret Leavett, July 14, 1844.

Augustus in Boston to Mary Ann, Dec. 23, 1844.

George B. in Boston to Hannah M. Farrell, Nov. 13,
1843.

Thomas P. to Jane Jeffers (colored), Dec. 21, 1843.

John in Boston to Mary Sweeney, April 26, 1843.

George in Boston to Susan A. T. Cutler, May 1, 1843.

James in Boston to Harriet Meer, Dec. 17, 1842.

Charles H. in Boston to Mary B. Davis, Nov. 27, 1840.

Henry in Boston to Eliza Collins, Nov. 11, 1841.

Thomas in Boston to Charlotte Clark, September, 1839.

William in Boston to Jane Jones, Oct. 24, 1838.

526 MISCELLANEOUS LIST OP MARRIAGES.

Timothy in Boston to Abigail Frothingham, Jan. 11,
1853.

James of Scotland, son of Thomas, married in Boston to
Mary Welch, Nov. 10, 1851.

George, son of Reuben of Freeport, Me., married in Bos-
ton to Maria Carney, July 8, 1851.

Thomas in Boston to Ann Sinclair, June 22, 1851.

Daniel of Sharon married in Boston to Mary Ann Rich-
ardson, Dec. 8, 1847.

Thomas B. in Boston to Mary J. Pratt, June 8, 1843.

Charles in Boston to Ann Shields, Sept. 2, 1845.

Alonzo in Boston to Rebecca T. Clark, April 19, 1845.

Francis of Tolland, Conn., married in Westborough, Mass.,
to Harriet Alexander, April 28, 1828.

Rufus W. of Westborough to Mary Ann Bower, Nov. 30,
1837.

Andrew P. of Westborough to Martha B. Stone, April 8,
1851.

Jonathan married in Chelmsford to Deborah Farrer,
June 27, 1781.

Anson of Warren, Mass., to Tryphenia Tyler, Sept. 11,
1833.

Nathan of Brookfield to Rachel Streeter, Aug. 20, 1720.

John, jun., of Brookfield, Mass., in Boston, to Martha
Richmond, May 11, 1772.

Daniel of Framingham to Mary Parmenter of Sudbury,
Sept. 9, 1822.

Dr. William W. Reed of Rochester, N.Y., in Framingham,
Mass., to Eliza Manson, Sept. 12, 1836.

Jonathan of Framingham to Mary E. Belcher, March 13,
1842.

Horatio of Natick to Mary Phillips of Framingham, Oct 25,
1844.

Franklin to Emily Crosby, Aug. 10, 1834.

MISCELLANEOUS LIST OF MARRIAGES. 527

William of Belcliertown to Alvira P. Hale of North Brook-
field, April 5, 1842.

Sampson of North Brookfield to Maria J. Henshaw of
Charlton ; published April 3, 1843.

Daniel B. of Wayland to Martha A. Marden, March 15,
1842.

Benjamin F. of Natick to Louisa Coggin, Oct. 30, 1848.

Hiram T. of Providence to Susan W. Northup, Nov. 13,
1842.

John M. of Franklin to Mary Ann Shepherdson, Oct. 22,
1843.

Horatio N. to Susan F. Sunderland, Oct. 19, 1845.

Aaron H. to Sophronia Cook, both of Douglass, June 26,
1847.

James L. of Worcester to Nancy B. Johnson, Jan. 20,
1847.

James of Sekonk to Amanda Read, June 24, 1847.

George A. to Sophia C. Smith, April 1, 1849.

Thomas to Lucretia Moffet, Aug. 1, 1849.

Cyrus B. to Hannah M. Bigsby, both of Thompson, Conn.,
June 21, 1852.

John to Phebe Paddock of Middleborough, Oct. 30, 1832.

Nathaniel to Sophronia Lovell at Middleborough, April 17,
1828.

William to Eunice R. Sturdivant, June 6, 1839.

Otis A. to Stelta Raymond at Middleborough, November,
1837.

John of Old Dunstable to Dolly Lund, Sept. 15, 1794.

James Wheeler to Hannah Reed, Feb. 11, 1794.

James Reed of Killingly, Conn., to Margaret Hunnewell
in Charlestown, Oct. 6, 1764.

John of Boston to Hannah Eustice of Chelsea ; published
in Boston, April, 1756.

Noah Read to Fear Read, Jan. 28, 1773.

528 MISCELLANEOUS LIST OP MARRIAGES.

Moses, 3d, of Sharon, to Lucy Dogget of Rehoboth, Oct. 12,
1780.

John of Wrentham to Lydia Jones of Rehoboth, April 19,
1804.

Andrew at New Providence to Eliza S. Staples, March 7,
1842. Lives at Central Palls.

Timothy in Boston to Abigail Frothingham, Jan. 11, 1853.

JOSIAH READ OF CONNECTICUT. 529

CHAPTER XXX.

JOSIAH READ OF CONNECTICUT, AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

Josiah Read was probably elder son of John of Rehoboth,
Mass., and was among the early emigrants from that State
to Connecticut, — Massachusetts being the cradle of emigra-
tion as well as of liberty ; and one of his first adventures was
to the vicinity of New London. He was there, as of record,
in 1652, and probably earlier. He had two sons ; viz.,
John and Josiah. His descendants were formerly very
numerous in Norwich and Windham ; but have much dimi-
nished there, since the commencement of the last century, by
emigration to other States.

2. Josiah, the son of Josiah, married Grace Holloway of
Marshfield, Mass., in November, 1666, — Rehoboth and
Marshfield being then contiguous towns ; though the in-
crease of inhabitants, and the incorporations of precincts and
parishes into towns, has long since made the two places
socially far distant. He settled in Norwich, Conn. Chil-
dren,— Josiah, born April, 1668; William, April, 1770;
Elizabeth, September, 1672 ; Experience, Feb. 27, 1675;
John, Aug. 15, 1679 ; Joseph, March 12, 1681 ; Susanna,
Sept. 20, 1685 ; Hannah, July, 1688. He died at Norwich,
July 3, 1717 : Grace, his wife, died May 9, 1727.

3. Josiah, the son of Josiah and Grace, with some de-
scendants, may be found on p. 217, and from there to the

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580 JOSIAH READ OP CONNECTICUT,

middle of p. 222 ; he being there inserted as the son of
Samuel.

3. William, the son of Josiah and Grace, born April,
1670 ; married Anna Stark, May 4, 1699. He died March 16,
1756 : his wife died Nov. 2$, 1748. Children, — William,
born March 24, 1700 ; Aaron, Oct. 11, 1702 ; Daniel, Feb. 16,
1705 ; Sarah, Dec. 28, 1710 ; Anna, July 4, 1712; Daniel,
Oct. 31, 1714 ; Jerusha, March 6, 1717 ; Nathan, July 2,
1720.

3. John, the son of Josiah and Grace, born Aug. 15,
1679 ; married in Rehoboth to Lydia Caswell, Oct. 8, 1713.
He died at Norwich, April 16, 1768. Children, — Lydia,
born April 23, 1715 ; John, Nov. 14, 1716 ; Silas, Aug. 25,
1720, died Nov. 21, 1748 ; Lucy, born April 16, 1723 ;
Thankful, Oct. 31, 1725 ; Zeruiah, Nov. 11, 1727, died
June 3, 1756; Joanna, born Feb. 26, 1729 ; Anna, Feb. 19,

1732, died March 11, 1737 ; Judith, born March 26, 1733;
Elizabeth, Sept. 19, 1735 ; Anna, March 29, 1738 ; Jabez,
May 20, 1745. The elder John died April 16, 1768.

3. Joseph, the son of Josiah and Grace, born March 12,
1681 ; married Mary Guppie, Aug. 25, 1708. Children,- — ■
Joseph, born May 23, 1709 ; Abigail, Feb. 7, 1712 ; Marcy,
Nov. 28, 1711 ; Esther, Nov. 22, 1714 ; Mary, Aug. 19,
1717; Elizabeth, June 28, 1719; Samuel, Oct. 16, 1721.

4. Isaac, son of Josiah and Elizabeth Armsdale, born at
Norwich, Conn., Aug. 31, 1699 ; married Abigail Leonard,
July 4, 1722. Children, — Abigail, born at Norwich,
April 29, 1723 ; Amity, June 10, 1725 ; Isaac, July 4,
1729.

4. Jacob, son of Josiah and Elizabeth, born at Norwich,
Feb. 1, 1702; married Sarah Gale of Canterbury, Conn.,
Dec. 12, 1728. Children,— Sarah, born Sept. 23, 1729;
Lydia, Feb. 7, 1733. His wife died in child-bed, Feb. 11,

1733. He married, for second wife, his cousin Esther,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 581

Dec. 21, 1738. Children, — Jacob, bora March 9, 1710.
His second wife died Feb. 13, 1741. He married Widow
Lydia Long-bottom, Jan. 30, 1750. Children, — Jedediah,
born Oct. 27, 1750 ; Silas, Oct. 21, 1752; Josiah, Aug. 18,
1756 ; Esther, June 21, 1758 ; Jacob, April 27, 1761, died
Feb. 12, 1763 ; Lucy, born July 29, 1764.

4. Aaron, son of William and Anna, born at Norwich,
Oct. 11, 1702 ; married Hannah Knight, Jan. 10, 1723.
Children, — Hannah, born at Norwich, Sept. 2, 1724; Aaron,
Nov. 29, 1727 ; Zipporah, April 30, 1731 ; Jonathan, May 20,
1734; William, May 30, 1736, died May 12, 1752; Charity,
bora May 25, 1739.

5. Aaron, son of Aaron and Hannah, born Nov. 29, 1727 ;
married Sarah Bingham, March 18, 1763. Child, — Rox-
anna, born at Norwich, June 30, 1764.

4. William, son of William and Anna, born March 24,
1700 ; married Mary Caswell of Taunton, Mass., April 30,
1724. Children, — Joshua, born at Norwich, Conn., July 4,
1725; Abiah, Aug. 18, 1727, died Oct. 19, 1728.

4. Joseph, son of Joseph and Mary, born at Norwich,
May 28, 1709 ; married Thankful Andrews, Sept. 16, 1740.
Children, — Jabez, born Oct. 11, 1741 ; Esther, Dec. 24,
1742 ; James, Nov. 23, 1745 ; Asa, July 29, 1748 ; Lydia,
July 18, 1751 ; Hannah, June 29, 1754 ; Amos, April 25,
1758.

5. Joshua, son of William and Mary, born July 4, 1725 ;
married at Norwich to Sarah Underwood, Dec. 24, 1747.

5. James, son of Joseph and Thankful, bora Nov. 23,
1745 ; married Sarah Burdick of Hopkinton, R.I., March 22,
1768.

4. John, son of John and Lydia, born at Norwich, Nov. 14,
1716 ; married at Norwich to Dorothy Gallop, Aug. 22,
1744. Children, — Lucy, bora Oct. 7, 1745 ; John, Nov. 28,
1748.

532 JOSIAH READ OP CONNECTICUT,

4. Samuel, son of Joseph and Mary, born at Norwich,
Oct. 16, 1721 ; married Mary Andrews, Oct. 3, 1745. Chil-
dren,— Samuel, born Oct. 28, 1746 ; Jonathan, Feb. 12,
1749 ; Mary, June 10, 1751 ; Elisha, Jan. 5, 1753 ; David,
June 1, 1755 ; Prudence, Aug. 20, 1757 ; Benjamin, Sept.
24, 1762. The elder Samuel died at Lisbon, Jan. 17, 1801.

4. Silas, son of John and Lydia, born Aug. 25, 1720 ;
married Jemima Kinnie of Preston, May 15, 1746. Child,

— Amy, born May 13, 1747.

4. Nathan, son of William and Anna, born at Norwich,
July 2, 1720 ; married Mary Gay, May 21, 1747. Children,

— Susannah, born June 20, 1748 ; Nathan, Oct. 18, 1750 ;
William, May 11, 1758.

5. Asa, son of Joseph and Thankful, born July 29, 1748 ;
married, for second wife, Jerusha Buddington, Oct. 19,
1777. Children, — Hannah, born at Lisbon, Oct. 8, 1776;
Solomon, April 1, 1778; Stephen, May 25, 1779; Esther,
Oct. 25, 1782 ; Laura, April 27, 1786 ; Weltha, April 30,
1790 ; Selenda, 1st, born of second wife, Sept. 6, 1798 ;
George, Aug. 17, 1800 ; Ozias, Dec. 28, 1802 ; Charlotte,
July 4, 1805 ; Horace, April 9, 1807 ; Harriet, March 17,
1809 ; Eliza, April 1, 1811.

4. Amos, son of Joseph and Thankful, born April 25,
1758 ; married Mary Bennett of Scituate, E.I., July 9, 1778,
and settled in Lisbon. He was a clergyman. He died at
Lisbon, Conn., Nov. 2, 1838 : his wife died Jan. 11, 1831.
Children, — Daniel, born May 17, 1779; Caleb, Nov. 24,
1780 ; Levi, March 16, 1783 ; Walter, June 5, 1785 ; Josiah,
April 22, 1788, settled at New Hartford, N.Y. ; Sydid, born
July 27, 1790, married Rev. Oliver Tuttle ; James, born
Sept. 8, 1793, — a clergyman ; Amos, July 27, 1796 ; Sala,
Aug. 17, 1798 ; Asher, Nov. 27, 1800 ; Thomas G., Aug. 7,
1803.

5. Daniel, son of Rev. Amos, born at Lisbon, May 17,

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 533

1779, and settled in Brookfield, NY. Child, — Lemuel,
born at Lisbon, Jan. 24, 1801.

5. Caleb, the son of Rev. Amos, born at Lisbon, Nov. 24,
1780; married Mary Leffingwell of Montville, Sept. 6, 1804,
— he was a clergyman. Children, — Mary, born at Brook-
field, N.Y., July 28, 1805 ; Caleb, born at Germania, N.Y.,
July 10, 1807, — a clergyman ; Benjamin L., June 14, 1809,
wounded at Ossawatomy ; Amos H., born at Lisbon, Conn.,
Feb. 22, 1811 ; Allen L., Oct. 24, 1812 ; John, Feb. 6, 1814 ;
Russell, March 26, 1816 ; Lois, born at Colchester, April 21,
1817 ; Hiram W., born at Griswold, July 17, 1819, formerly
missionary in New Mexico.

5. Levi, son of Rev. Amos, born March 16, 1783 ; married
Elley Potter of Brookfield, N.Y., in 1817. Children,—
Adoniram J., born Jan. 1, 1819 ; Benjamin, Dec. 31, 1820 ;
Charles B., Jan. 23, 1822, — a clergyman ; Daniel, April 11,
1824, LL.D., and President of Shurtleff College ; Elon,
Oct. 18, 1827, died at the age of twenty years ; Fayette,
born Sept. 5, 1831. The father is a clergyman of the Bap-
tist denomination.

5. Thomas C, son of Rev. Amos, was born Aug. 7, 1803 ;
married Emily Williams, April 6, 1825. Children, — Tho-
mas H., born Feb. 11, 1826 ; Emily M., May 16, 1829 ;
Duane B., April 20, 1831 ; Huldah D., May 30, 1833 ; Mercy
Ann, July 28, 1835 ; Nelson, Aug. 26, 1838 ; Augustus F.,
Oct. 16, 1841 ; Horatio M., Sept. 6, 1844 ; Rausaw, June 20,
1847. His wife died June 23, 1854. Married, for second
wife, Widow Eliza Bacchus of Bozrah, March 22, 1856. They
live in Lisbon, Conn., on the old homestead of his father.

4. David, son of Josiah and Elizabeth, married Waitstill.
Children, — Augustus, born in New Marlborough, Mass.,
Nov. 31, 1761 ; Hannah, Jan. 12, 1763, died June 23, 1786 ;
Abigail, born March 18, 1766, died March 8, 1788 ; Eliza-
beth, born Nov. 8, 1768 ; Ruby, April 18, 1771 ; Eliphalet,

534 JOSIAH READ OP CONNECTICUT,

July 18, 1772 ; Reuben, Nov. 6, 1774 ; Molly, March 30,
1777 ; Abijah, Sept. 6, 1778 ; Phebe, April 27, 1782 ; Cla-
rissa, Jan. 25, 1788.

John, supposed to be the son of John and Dorothy, born
Nov. 23, 1748 ; married Ruth Chapel, March 7, 1783.

Elijah, son of , born ; married Sarah Peck,

Jan. 3, 1805. Children, — John P., born Dec. 24, 1805;
Elisha, Nov. 3, 1807 ; Jemima, Oct. 20, 1809 ; Thomas N.,
Aug. 11, 1811 ; Sally D., July 8, 1814.

5. Sala, son of Rev. Amos, born Aug. 17, 1798 ; married
Lydia C. Hamilton, Feb. 6, 1820. Children, — Lydia Ann,
born at Lisbon, June 8, 1821 ; Betsy H., Sept. 1, 1823;
Sala H., Aug. 24, 1825 ; Jonathan H., Feb. 22, 1827 ; Han-
nah B., Jan. 1, 1829 ; Sarah S., Sept. 19, 1831 ; Amos.

Andrew Read's pedigree I cannot give. He is supposed
to be of the Norwich stock. Married Rebecca. Children,

— Margaret, born at Norwich, March 22,1740; Elizabeth
and Mary (twins), Oct. 28, 1741 ; James, Nov. 1, 1743;
Rebecca, March 27, 1748.

5. Eliphalet Reed, son of Abijah and Anna, married Sibyl
Tracy, April 1, 1784. Children, — Festus, born at Norwich,
Aug. 24, 1786 ; Roxanna, Jan. 22, 1788 ; Abner, Aug. 24,
1792.

Joseph Read, jun., married Sarah Kimball, June 5, 1740.
Children, — Sarah, born at Norwich, March 21, 1741 ; Anna,
July 8, 1743 ; Eunice, March 21, 1748 ; Abel, Aug. 1, 1753.

5. Asa, son of Joseph and Thankful, born at Norwich,
July 29, 1748 ; married Phebe Kinne of Preston, Sept. 5,
1771. Children, — Lemuel, born July 3, 1774; Hannah,
Oct. 8, 1775 ; Solomon, April, 1777.

5. Samuel, son of Joseph and Mary, born Oct. 28, 1746 ;
married Lucy Kilham of Preston, Sept. 24, 1769. Children,

— Sarah, born at Norwich, Aug. 12, 1775, died April 7,
1795 ; Lucy, born June 30, 1778 ; Elijah, Aug. 5, 1780.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 535

2. John Read of Windham, Conn., son of Josiah, born in
1647. John Read bought of John Denison, of Saybrook,
"a thousand -acre right" of land in Windham, Dec. 21,
1695; consideration, £8. 10s. His will is dated Sept. 14,

1724. His wife was Sarah . He died March 4, 1727-8,

aged eighty-one. His wife survived him. The following
children are mentioned in his will, in the order here given :
Sarah, married Isaac Holt ; Mary, married Robert He-
bard ; Constant (daughter), married Fuller ; John ;

Thomas ; Christian, married John Flint. The following is
on our records of births : Nathaniel, son of John and
Sarah Reed, born March 9, 1696, died April 3, 1696. Most
of his property had been disposed of in portions to his chil-
dren before the date of his will. In his will, he mentions
his land and buildings on the " east side of the town street,"
which he had given to his son John. By this it appears that
he lived in Windham Centre, and was here about six or
eight years after the first settlement.

3. John Read, son of John and Sarah, married, first, Mary
Branch, March 14, 1711, and by her had five children : she
died Oct. 8, 1718. He married, second, Hannah Palmer,
daughter of Jonah, April 27, 1721 ; and by her had seven
children. He died March 3, 1735, aged about fifty: Han-
nah, his second wife, died Oct. 12, 1755, aged fifty-nine.
Children by first wife, — Nathaniel, born March 2, 1712,
died March 12, 1712; Mary, born Aug. 7, 1713; Elizabeth,
Sept. 18, 1715 ; John, Jan. 10, 1716-17, died Nov. 10, 1717 ;
Nathan, born Sept. 1, 1718, died Nov. 11, 1718. Children
by second wife, — Hannah, born April 7, 1722, married
Hezekiah Follet ; John, born Aug. 4, 1723, married Rebecca
Turner ; Elihu, born June 16, 1725, died July 11, 1726 ;
Seth, born Dec. 22, 1726, died Feb. 6, 1734 ; Amasa, born
May 15, 1729 ; Irena, Feb. 4, 1730-1 ; Susannah, Feb. 24,
1733-4, died April 16, 1735.

586 JOSIAH READ OF CONNECTICUT,

4. John married Rebecca Turner, March 6, 1745. Jona-
than, their son, born March 18, 1746 ; Silas; Dolly ; John.

5. John, the son of John and Rebecca, married Rachel
Averill. Children, — Lucy, born at Lisbon, Oct. 19, 1775,
who married Daniel Bishop of Lisbon, and settled in Warren,
Henniker County, N.Y. ; John, born Sept. 1, 1777, died in
1815 ; Rachel, born July 15, 1779, married a Button of
Griswold, Conn. ; Dolly, . born April 17, 1782 ; Silas,
March 22, 1784 ; Darius, April 17, 1787, died in Rome,
N.Y., in 1858 ; Averill, born March 18, 1792, died some
years since.

6. Dolly, daughter of John and Rachel, born April 17,
1782 ; married in January, 1802, to Col. Freeman Tracy,
who figured at New London and Stonington in the war of
1812, and was for several years a conspicuous member of the
Legislature, and deacon of the church. Children, ■ — Sophro-
nia, born November, 1802, and died, unmarried, in 1857 ;
Hiram A., born September, 1804, married Mary Ann, daugh-
ter of Henry Sabin, Esq., of Plainfield, Conn, (he was a
graduate of Andover Theological Seminary, and settled in
Sutton, Mass., in 1835, dismissed December, 1840 ; Secre-
tary of the A. B. C. F. M. at Cincinnati from 1851 to 1860) ;
Jesse, born November, 1806 ; John R., January, 1807 ;
Thomas, 1811 ; Douglass, 1813 ; Angelina, 1815 ; Edward
F., 1818 ; Lucy, 1823 ; Andrew R., 1825.

7. Hiram A., son of Dolly Read and Freeman Tracy, born
September, 1804 ; married Mary Ann Sabin. Children, —
Harriet G., born Feb. 6, 1837, died April 9, 1846 ; Frederick
S., born Aug. 2, 1839 ; Mary L., Feb. 24, 1842.

6. Silas, son of John and Rachel, born March 22, 1784 ;
married Sarah Meech, Oct. 4, 1826. Child, — Hezekiah L.,
born at Lisbon, Oct. 1, 1827. Silas and his son live on the
old homestead in Lisbon ; it having been occupied by the fa-
mily since 1695.

AND HIS DESCENDANTS. 537

Amasa, son of John and Hannah, born May 15, 1729.
For further particulars, see p. 201.

3. Thomas Read, son of John and Sarah, married, first,
Rebekah Palmer, daughter of Jonah, Feb. 28, 1711-12 : by
her he had seven children. She died March 7, 1725-6. He
married, second, Esther Webb, Nov. 9, 1726, and by her had
eight children. Children by first wife, — Ruth, born
Dec. 12, 1712, married Joseph Hutchinson ; Mehetabel,
born Aug. 10, 1714, married Joseph Robinson ; Joshua, born
Aug. 27, 1726 ; Solomon, Aug. 19, 1718 ; Hezekiah, Feb. 23,
1720-1 ; David, Sept. 28, 1722 ; Thomas, May 5, 1725,
died May 5, 1725. Children by second wife, — Rebekah,
born June 15, 1728, died July 25, 1728 ; Rebekah, born
Jan. 17,1729-30; Josiah, Nov. 21, 1731; Sarah, Nov. 15,
1733 ; Seth, March 28, 1735 ; Thomas, July 15, 1736, died
Sept. 12, 1736 ; Esther, born Nov. 13, 1737 ; Jeremiah,
May 8, 1740.

4. Joshua Read, son of Thomas and Rebecca, first married
Hannah Follet, daughter of Benjamin, Dec. 26, 1745, and
by her had one child : she died Dec. 26, 1750. He married,
second, Dorothy Woodward, July 2, 1751 : she died Dec. 26,
1753. He married, third, Hannah Palmer, Aug. 7, 1754 :
she died June 13, 1755. He married, fourth, Edith Bidlack,
April 7, 1756, and by her had seven children. Child by first
wife, — Beriah, born Dec. 4, 1749. Children by fourth wife,
— Sarah, born July 3, 1757 ; Hannah, Jan. 17, 1759, died
Sept. 8, 1759 ; Ruth, born March 18, 1761 ; Edith, Feb. 17,
1763 ; Ella (son), Jan. 27, 1766 ; Phinehas, Feb. 24, 1768 ;
Lucy, March 23, 1770.

4. David Read, son of Thomas and Rebecca, married
Mary Ellis, Dec. 28, 1746, and had by her nine children, —
Thomas, born November, 1747; Abner, Aug. 19, 1749;
Mary, Sept. 2, 1751 ; Eunice, July 17, 1753 ; Tryphena,
Oct. 19, 1756 ; Lydia, July 31, 1758, died April 29, 1760;

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538 JOSIAH READ OF CONNECTICUT.

Josiah, born July 6, 1760 ; Elizabeth, July 29, 1762 ; Lydia,
May 25, 1764.

4. Josiah Reed, son of Thomas and Rebecca, married
Eunice Kingsbury, Jan. 2, 1755. Hannah, their daughter,
born Sept. 27, 1755. Josiah Reed was killed by Indians, in
the year 1756, in his march from Fort Edward to (ille-
gible), with Lieut. Grant and party.

APPENDIX.

6. Ozias, the son of Asa (noticed on p. 532), was born at Lisbon,
Conn. ; married Martha Kelley of Harwich, Mass.

8. Abraham, son of Roswell and Polly (noticed on p. 165), mar-
ried Mary A. Cummings of Tyngsborough, Mass., and lives in
Tyngsborough. Children, — Otis H. ; Ellen A. ; Horace H. ; and
an infant, whose name is not known.

Rev. Ahab Read, a settled minister in Blackstone, Mass., had a
son Stephen ; who had a son William H., born at Blackstone,
Aug. 7, 1836, — a boat-builder.

Washington, son of John, and grandson of John, born at Free-
town, Mass., July, 1812; married Caroline Chase. Child, — Allen
W., born May 28, 1839.

Edward of London, Eng., had John, born Dec. 17, 1823 ; who

married Eliza Randall, in Providence, Nov. 9, . Child, —

Anna F. He is a machinist,

John of Newport, R.I., had a son known as Capt. John, who had
a son John, born March 21, 1823 ; married Sarah J. Sherman.
Children, — John, born Dec. 9, 1846; William H., born at New-
port, Dec. 23, 1851.

Alexander of Greenwich had Alexander, who had Alexander,
who was father of Peter, born at Greenwich, N.Y., March 24,
1823 ; and married Amanda H. Hunt of Providence. Children,
— Susan B., born Jan. 7, 1848, at Providence; Alexander; James
H., born September, 1854. Peter is a harness-maker at Provi-
dence.

Brayton Read had Simeon ; and Simeon had Spencer P., born
at Olneyville, July 30, 1828; and Patrick of Taunton. Spencer mar-

540 APPENDIX.

ried Alice H. Henly, at Providence. Children, — Amey H., born
Feb. 4r, 1853 ; Sarah E., Aug. 17, 1855 ; Julian M., Sept. 15, 1857.

Crawford Reed had a son Crawford, born at Paisley, Scot.,
July 4, 1808. Children, — Jennette, born at Pawtucket, Feb. 25,
1836 ; Sarah, Nov. 21, 1837 ; Mary C, born at Baltimore, Dec. 8,
1839 ; Catherine, born at Norwich, Conn., Nov. 16, 1841.

Laura Ann, the daughter of William and Ann (noticed on p. 448
as having married a Johnson, — a mistake in copying), was mar-
ried to James Anderson, April 12, 1846. Children, — Samuel
H., born April 26, 1847 ; Edmond C, March 20, 1849, died
April 16, 1850 ; George F., born June 15, 1850; William G.,
Nov. 24, 1853, died Dec. 19, 1854 ; James H., born April 21, 1855 ;
Charles A., Aug. 17, 1857 ; Anna P., March 24, 1860, died
April 19, 1860. They live at South Groveland.

Continuation of the New-London and Lyme Stock.

Enoch Reed and Mrs. Phebe Peck were married at Lyme,
Conn., Jan. 7, 1762. Children, — Joseph, born at Lyme, May 17,
1763; Hepsibah, March 17,1764; Caroline, April 12, 1766 ; John,
July 20, 1768; Mary, Nov. 26, 1770; Rebecca, Jan. 3, 1778.

Joseph, son of Enoch, born May 17, 1763 ; married Phebe Reed.
Children, — Abigail, bora Dec. 20, 1784; Sally, Dec. 14, 1786;
Caroline, April 20, 1789 ; Nancy and Laura, June 4, 1791 ; John,
Dec. 18, 1792; Henry, May 4, 1796; Amelia, July 13, 1799;
Charles W., Dec. 18, 1802.

Jonathan Reed married Abigail Comstock, April 15, 1756.
Child, — Jonathan, born at Lyme, Dec. 21, 1757. The elder
Jonathan died at Lyme, April 8, 1759.

Mary A. P. Reed, of Lyme, was married to Alpheus Thompson,
May 4, 1790. Children, — Fanny, born at Lyme, May 31, 1791 ;
Isaac, June 7, 1794; Lyna, Oct. 23, 1796; Erastus, June 5, 1803.
She died at Lyme, May 19, 1805.

William Watson and Betsy Reed were married at Lyme, Sept. 16,
1798. Child, — Henry, born Oct. 27, 1799.

George W. Phelps and Sally Reed were married at Lyme,
April 14, 1830.

Albert L. Huntly and Lydia B. Reed were married at Lyme,
March 16, 1831.

APPENDIX. 541

Selden P. Mason and Phebe Reed, both of Lyme, were mar-
ried Sept. 1, 1831.

Joseph W. Huntley and Mary E. Reed were married at Lyme,
Nov. 10, 1835.

John A. Russ and Ruth A. Reed were married at Lyme, Nov. 24,
1836.

Richard Reed of Lyme had a son Lynd Reed, known as a cap-
tain, and married a Tillotson. He died at New London about the
year 1825. Children, — Richard, Washington, Ansel, and Jere-
miah. The two last named are living in East Lyme.

Robert Reed, of that part of Waterford which was included in
East Lyme, died about the time "Waterford was chartered, but while
it was a part of New London. He left three sons : viz., Robert ;
James, who died in 1813; and Charles, who now lives in Water-
ford, having sons (viz., James, now living in Waterford ; and Timo-
thy R,, in East Lyme).

There is a Baptist clergyman by the name of Reed in the vicinity
of New London ; and there is one by the name, who keeps the
lighthouse at New London, and has a son in Waterford. But I am
unable to give any further account of them.

The foregoing are supposed to be of one stock, and, on that
account, are given in connection ; although it is impossible to trace
their genealogy, as there are no data to take it from.

8. Adeline M., the daughter of Hon. David and Judith (noticed
on p. 289), married Rev. M. Colburn of South Dedham, Mass.
Children, — John D., born Sept. 17, 1857, died in infancy; Judith
M., born Aug. 3, 1860.

5. The children of Thomas and Rhoda (noticed on p. 92) were

— Rhoda, born July 13, 1762, who married Frederick Johnson;
Seth, born June 21, 1765, and married Fanny Harrington at Lex-
ington, July 26, 1796, and afterwards married Lydia Harrington for
second wife. William C, the son of Thomas, was born Sept. 11,
1766 ; married a Miss Pollard, and lived many years where the
M'Lean Asylum now stands ; and was foreman for the celebrated
Mr. Barrel, the former owner of that estate. Their children were

— Susanna W., who married Prescott Pomroy Pond ; Electa B.,
who married Luther Rand ; William C, who died in infancy ; Ben-
jamin F., also died in infancy; William C, born Sept. 19, 1806,
married Sarah G. Johnson ; Margaret W., born Sept. 15, 1808,

542 APPENDIX.

married Aaron E. Whittemore ; Rebecca Theresa, authoress of
the narrative entitled " Six Months in a Convent ; " Mary J., mar-
ried John Ewee ; Francena M., married Henry D. Dutch; Almira
A., married Joseph L. Stone.

4. William, the son of William and Mary, noticed on p. 392 ;
and, in addition to the children there named, he had daughters Mary,
Rebecca, and Eunice. He died in 1769, and his will was proved
April 14 of the same year.

2. William, the son of William and Elizabeth (on p. 407), had a
son Elijah (noticed on p. 410). Administration of the estate of
William was granted to William, 2d, May 6, 1777.

The following has reference to Timothy and Martha, on p. 229,
and their descendants on several succeeding pages ; and is inserted
to show life as it was in those times : —

Gathering of the Read Family, — a Remarkable Meeting.

To the Editor of the " Boston Journal."

A general family gathering of children, grandchildren, and great-
grandchildren, embracing every living member, to the number of three-
score, to greet the old folks, near fourscore years and ten, hale and
hearty, is a thing of no common occurrence. Such a gathering took place
on Thursday, Aug. 16, at the house of Mr. Josiah P. Read in Swansey,
N.H. About eighty of his descendants and near relatives enjoyed the
privilege of sitting down to Great-grandfather Read's extension-table.

The hearts of the old folks were large : but the old house was not large
enough for this large family ; so the young folks contrived to meet the
difficulty by sending the boys out into the woods, and collecting materials
for making a little birch arbor on the lawn. This done, the table was
drawn out just long enough ; and was quickly filled with a bountiful sup-
ply of food and fruit, and tastefully decorated with bouquets made by the
little folks, and a beautiful wreath, formed of oak-leaves, placed in an
oblong circle, extending from end to end and across the table. The vene-
rable couple were conducted to their seats, at the head, by their oldest
son, — William Read, Esq., of Swansey. Rev. John G. Wilson, their be-
loved pastor, was seated next to them ; and the families, with their children,
in genealogical order. The divine blessing was invoked by W. S. Wilder
of New York. After a very pleasant and social discussion of the contents
of the table, the aged father briefly related some incidents of his early life.
He was born in Rehoboth, Mass. His father, grandfather, and great-
grandfather bore the name of Timothy Reed. His father was a soldier
in the Revolution, and was also engaged in the French War. Many

APPENDIX. 543

things connected with the Revolution were fresh in his memory, — such
as the frequent alarms, the assembling of men at the Town Hall, the form-
ing of companies, the Beacon-Hill heights, and the burning of Charles-
town, &c. He well remembered the dark day ; and said, " It was as dark as
a very cloudy night at the full of the moon." Two years before the close
of the war, his father moved to this town. Ox-teams were employed to
carry the goods and the children, — the weights of all being taken. The
minister was called in, and religious services were held appropriate to the
occasion. They travelled about twenty miles per day, and were ten days
in reaching Swansey. They spent the sabbaths on the road religiously, —
making about seven days' travel. A log-house was built, and two acres
of timber-land cleared, the first year. The Indians had been very trouble-
some in this vicinity; but they had disappeared. Bears and wolves were
plenty, and made sad havoc among the sheep and the grain. One night,
nearly fifteen sheep were killed by the wolves. A few families had pre-
viously commenced settlements in this town, and all but one lived in log-
huts. A rudely constructed meeting-house had been raised, where divine
service was regularly held on the sabbath. The upper part of the house
was filled with swallows, which built their nests there and reared their
young ; and the basement was used as a sheep-pen, to protect them from
the wolves. He helped to build a new meeting-house, and the first school-
house in town.

On becoming of age, he built a house of his own, procured some land,
and then looked out for a wife ; and was married to his present beloved
companion, Mary Forbes of Barre, Mass., when she was but seventeen
years of age. For over sixty years, they had lived happily together ; and
now their eyes were rejoiced to see their children and their children's
children gathered around this festive board. While the old patriarch was
giving utterance to the history of his early life, the younger members drew
near, and listened with great interest; and, if we mistake not, when the
old man touched upon some of the trying scenes of his early experience
in the then wilderness of Swansey, an occasional tear stole its way down
the furrowed cheeks of some of the oldest members of the family, soou
chased away with a cheerful smile, as the agreeable tones of the family
melodeon sounded the notes of a familiar tune, in which all joined in
singing an appropriate song. This done, then commenced a regular
family chit-chat about old times. William told of his remembrance of
Grandfather and Grandmother Reed, who lived to the age of fourscore,
and were kindly cared for during their last days by his respected father
and mother, now present ; how he used to yoke up the oxen, and, with a
sled, take his little brothers and sisters to the distant schoolhouse by
a rough and crooked path through the woods. Josiah M., Benjamin, and
Edwin F., each had their turn ; and it was pleasantly, and, we think, pro-
fitably improved. Rev. Mr. Wilson then closed this interview with some

544 APPENDIX.

very timely and exceedingly impressive remarks to parents and children;
and offered a fervent prayer to God, that this festal gathering might be as
truly profitable as it had been pleasant, and that, when gathered in our
Father's house above, there might none be left out.

It was remarked by one of the brothers, that none of the family ever
irrived to any marked distinction. Still, we learn, the highest offices in
'Jie gift of the town have been honorably filled by some, the Legislature
uas had its representative, the military honors its recipient, among them.
The Christian Church has in it many of its worthy members, including
grandparents and grandchildren. If there are none very rich, there are
none very poor. In the cause of temperance, this may be called the
" banner " family. The use of intoxicating drinks is not known to exist
among them. Many of them have privately and publicly labored to have
the land as free from the curse of rum as it now is from the ravages of the
Indians, the bears, and the wolves. E. '

A continuation of Chap. XXI., p. 480.

4. David, the son of Paul Reed of Boothbay, had a son An-
drew, who married Jane, the daughter of Col. Andrew Reed.

4. Robert, the son of Paul of Boothbay, born about 1760; mar-
ried Sarah Stevens of Salisbury, Mass. Children, — William, born in
Salisbury, Jan. 18, 1787; John, of Boothbay ; Robert, of Boothbay.

5. Capt. William, son of Robert and Sarah, married Hannah P.
Hutchins, who died Jan. 24, 1852 ; and moved to Vassalborough
in 1835. Children, — Sally S. ; William, born Oct. 11, 1811;
Abigail, born May 30, 1813 ; Joseph, Jan. 10, 1815 ; Benjamin H.,
July 13, 1816; Elbridge G., Jan. 11, 1819; Newell B., Nov. 10,
1820; Hannah, Feb. 20, 1825; Bradford G., March 21, 1827;
Roxanna, March 31, 1832, died young ; Elizabeth, died young.

6. Sally S., daughter of Capt. William Reed of Vassalborough,
married Enoch Brown, and lives in Vassalborough. Children, —
William ; Hannah ; Adelaide, who married Edward Stackpole;
Melvin ; Horace ; Oscar ; Henry ; Edgar ; Enoch L.

6. William, son of Capt. William, married Hannah Hall, and
settled in California. Children, — Elizabeth R., Charles G., and
George.

6. Abigail H., daughter of Capt. William, married in 1839 to
Amaziah Trask ; and they live in Vassalborough. Children, —
Ardeen, born in 1840; Bradford R. ; Diodore A.; Smith S. ; and
Estelle.

APPENDIX. 545

6. Joseph, son of Capt. William, married in 1840 to Frances
Homans ; and they live in Vassalborough. Children, — John H.,
born in 1841 ; Thomas B. ; Mary F. ; Joseph H. ; Liander C.

6. Benjamin H., son of Capt. William, married Adeline Stevens,
and settled in Vassalborough. Children, — Eliza, Sara Emma and
Martha E. (twins), William S., Prescott 0., Medora A., Alonzo EL,
and one pair of twins died young.

3. Elbridge G., son of Capt. William, married in 1842 to Susan
Randall, and lives in Red Bluffs, Cal. Children, — Susan, died
young; Ellen; Almira ; a daughter, born in 1860, whose name is
not given.

6. Newell B., son of Capt. William, married, Nov. 10, 1820,
Frances Libbey, and settled in Vassalborough. Children, — Willie
T. ; Newell S., who died young; and a daughter, born in 1860.

6. Hannah, daughter of Capt. William, married in 1844 to
Joseph H. Cai'lton, and settled in Berlin, Wis. Children, — Rox-
anna R., Emma, Frances.

6. Bradford Y., son of Capt. William, married in 1847 Frances
Stevens, a sister of his brother Benjamin's wife ; and is in Califor-
nia. Children, — Franklin L., born June 26, 1848 ; Clara H.,
July 21, 1850; Arlenza, June 9, 1852; Etta Ann, Sept. 20, 1859.

6. Hannah, the daughter of Enoch Brown and Sally S. Reed,
married William T. Libbey. Children, — Felicia, Edward, Mark,
and William T.

Samuel, the son of Capt. William (noticed on p. 181), settled in
Mason, N.H.

William, the son of Capt. William, settled in Boston.

Asa, the son of Capt. William, married Polly Wright. Chil-
dren,— Lucinda, born Nov. 8, 1800, married James Hutchinson of
Wilton, N.H. ; James G., born March 6, 1802, married Sophia
Woods ; Abigail, born May 8, 1803, married Capt. William P.
Woods, and had a daughter Harriet ; Julia, born Nov. 23, 1804,
married George W. Parker, and had four sons (she died in 1836 at
Nashua) ; Asa, born March 19, 1807 ; John L., Feb. 25, 1810 ;
Luther W., March 8, 1812.

Asa, the son of William and Polly, married Priscilla French.
Children,— Sarah B., born March 1, 1831 ; Angelina M., April 6,
1833; Hannah S., April 16, 1835; Franklin L., 1837; Mary M.,
1839; Charles H., September, 1841 ; Caroline E., Feb. 3, 1845.

69

546

APPENDIX.

John L., son of Asa and Polly, married Lucy A. Green, and
lives at Thornton's Ferry, N.H. Children, — Lucy J., born
April 8, 1838, married Henry Wilson ; Mary A., born July 5,
1839 ; Ellen E., June 21, 1847, married Phineas Collings ; John
G., born April 3, 1843; Sarah E., Aug. 24, 1844; Caroline Z.,
Oct. 7, 1845 ; Eliza F., May 17, 1847 ; Charles F., Aug. 19, 1848 ;
Louis J., Aug. 3, 1850 ; Harriet, April 16, 1855 ; George L.,
Oct. 31, 1857. Lucy, the wife of John L., died Dec. 15, 1860, aged
thirty-eight years.

Luther "YV., son of Asa, married Patty Eitteredge, and lives at
Merrimack, N.H. Children, — Adeline, born Oct. 24, 1836, married
Augustus Crocker; Lucretia J., born April 11, 1838, married Da-
vid T. Jones; Clarissa IL, born Jan. 11, 1840; Luther, July 4,
1842.

The subject of the following sketch is of no blood relation to
Reeds or Reads ; but the intimate connection between his Puritan
ancestor and the first John Read of Rehoboth, with the interest he
has manifested in this work and the assistance rendered by him,
makes it proper to insert the following genealogical account : —

Rev. Samuel Neioman, son of Richard; and Sybil, daughter of-

Parents*
Christian

Names.

Town and State
of Birth.

Born A.D.

Died A.D.

Date of Marriage,
and Remarks.

Samuel .
Sybil . .

Banbury, Oxford-
shire, Eng. . . .

Banbury, Oxford-
shire, Eng. . . .

May 10, 1602
Nov. 21, 1604

July 5, 1663
Not. 2, 1672

Dec. 25, 1623, at Banbury,
Eng. ; and removed to Ame-
rica in ship ''James," from
London, 1635. [Mather at
fault.]

Children's
Christian
Names.

Town and State
of Birth.

Born A.D.

Died A.D.

When and to whom married.

Samuel .
Antipas .
Noah . .
Hopes till

Weymouth, Mass.

July 6, 1625
Oct. 15, 1637
Jan. 10, 1631
May 29, 1641

Dec. 14, 1710
October, 1672.
April 16, 1678
March 7, 1674

Bathsheba Checkering, Dec. 6,
1659.

Elizabeth, daughter of Gov.
Winthrop, 1658.

Joanna, daughter of Rev.
Henry Flint.

Rev. George Shove, first of Dor-
chester, then of Taunton. ■

Note. — Rev. Samuel Newman was educated at Oxford University, Eng. He
was minister at the chapelry of the parish at Midhope, about a dozen miles from
Sheffield, in Yorkshire. He removed to America in 1635; paid a short visit to
Dorchester, and settled over the church at Weymouth. In 1644, he, with most of his
church, removed to a new purchase, where he was the first minister and founder of
the town, which he named Kehoboth ; where he died at the age of sixty-one. He

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547

was a pious, hospitable, and learned divine. He was the author of a large Con-
cordance of the Bible, the first of much extent in the English language, published
at London in 1658, — a rare work, and of great labor; and the third known copy
now in the world is the one he reserved for his own use, and is now in the posses-
sion of a descendant in the seventh generation (S. C. Newman, Esq., of Pawtucket,
E.I.).

The oldest son (Samuel, as above) was a prominent citizen of Rehoboth;
for several years the representative of the town at the General Court at Boston ;
was deacon of the church which his father had founded; and died at the age of
eighty-five.

The second son ( Antipas) was minister of Wenham: his wife was a daughter of
Gov. Winthrop, of the Massachusetts Colony; and, after this son's death, his widow
married a son of Gov. Endicot. The third son (Noah) succeeded his father in the
ministry at Rehoboth, and died in that office: his wife was a daughter of Rev. Henry
Flint, minister of Braintree; and her mother was Margery, sister of Rev. Leonard
Hoar, third President of Harvard University. Hopestill, the fourth and last child of
Rev. Samuel Newman, became the wife of Rev. George Shove of Dorchester, who
was settled as the third pastor of the church at Taunton, of which he was the
founder; and his family, of the old staid town of Rehoboth, Mass., which has since
become, by division, the mother of seven towns, each of which now contains
a much larger population than did the mother herself, when, in 1692, she gave
her first child (Attleborough) its dower and freedom.

The following is a lineal descent from Rev. Samuel Newman to S. C. Newman
of Pawtucket, R.I., author of a genealogical chart of the descendants of John Read
of Rehoboth, and several other genealogies. This line were all born at Rehoboth;
and it may be remarked, that the founder of that ancient town was the friend and
pastor of John Read, who removed from Weymouth with him to Rehoboth, as
referred to at p. 186.

A LINEAL TABLE FROM REV. SAMUEL NEWMAN.

Gene-
ration 3.

Names.

Born.

Died.

Aged.

Had Children as below.

l

Rev. Samuel . .

May

10, 1602

July 6, 1663

61

Three sons and one daugh-
ter.
Four sons and four daugh-

2

Dea. Samuel . .

July

6, 1625

Dec. 14, 1710

85

ters.

3

Dea. Samuel . .

Feb.

21, 1662

June 25,1747

85

Three sons and three
daughters.

4

Dea. Samuel . .

July

30, 1699

Dec. 8, 1762

63

Four sons and one daugh-
ter. He had three wives.

6

March 22

July 10,1822

84

Six sons and four daugh-

ters. One daughter liv-

ing in 1858.

6

Samuel

Oct.

12, 1777

July 15,1832

55

Three sons and two daugh-
ters. One son and one
daughter living in 1858.

i

Sylvanus Chace

Feb.

5, 1802

Living in 1858

Three sons and one daugh-
ter. One son living in
1858.

8

Jan.

13, 1843

Living in 1858

John Winthrop, jun., Governor of Connecticut Colony (noticed
on p. 36), married two Elizabeth Reads. His first wife was
daughter of Edward of Meckford, Eng. ; and his second was cousin

548 APPENDIX.

to the former, and was daughter of Col. Thomas (noticed on p. 47).
Fitz John, the son of John Winthrop, jun., born at Ipswich,
March 14, 1639, was son of the second wife. The celebrated Hugh
Peters married the widow of Col. Thomas Read.

6. David Reed, son of John and Mary of Bolton, lived in Gard-
ner, Mass. : his wife was Naomi Wright. Children, — Asa, born
June 18, 1789, married Rhoda Brooks, Feb. 1, 1820, and lives on
the homestead ; Abraham, who married Widow Polly Taylor,
Oct. 17, 1820, and settled at Pitcher Springs, N.Y.

7. David, who was born Feb. 13, 1793, and died in Westminster
in 1855. He married Mary Smith, who died March 3, 1831.
Children, — David, Joel, Mary. He married, for second wife,
Frances Gill, in 1834. Child, — Frances Ann, born Dec. 12, 1835.
David Reed died Feb. 22, 1855.

7. Asa, son of David and Naomi, born June 18, 1789 ; married
Rhoda Brooks of Westminster, and lives on the homestead of his
father. Children, — Mary Ann, Rhoda E., David W.

Michael Reade, born in Kilkenny, Ire., in 1742 ; came to Ame-
rica when young, and settled in Dover, N.H. He was a ship-
builder. He married Deborah Horn. He died Jan. 28, 1812:
his wife died May 23, 1839. Children, — Michael, born Sept. 28,
1778; Polly, Dec. 14, 1780, died Jan. 24, 1846; William, born
April 14, 1783, and was lost at sea, Dec. 6, 1808; Nancy, born
July 31, 1785, and married William Perkins ; Sally, born March,
1788, died Oct. 17, 1853 ; Lydia, born July 14, 1793, married John
Tapley of Danvers, Mass.

Thomas Reed, of Virginia, had a brother Jacob. Thomas mar-
ried in Indiana, and settled in Kentucky. Children, — John;
George W., who lives in Indiana ; William F., of Texas ; Thomas,
of Indiana ; David and Jonathan, of Illinois.

John, the son of Thomas, married Mary A. Short, and is post-
master of Monegan, St. Clair County, Miss. Children, — Elizabeth
M., born June 28, 1849 ; George S., Sept. 2, 1850, died Sept. 17,
1855 ; Catherine, born Oct. 15, 1851, died Aug. 17, 1852 ; Margaret
Jane, born March 20, 1853 ; William, April 11, 1854; Martha E.,
Feb. 23, 1856; John F., Feb. 10, 1859.

1. John Reed, of the Scotch-Irish stock, settled in Topsham, in
the State of Maine. He had brothers, William and David. Chil-
dren,— William, John, David.

APPENDIX. 549

2. William, the son of John, married Mary Dunning, a relative
of John H. Dunning, otherwise Lord Ashburton. Children, —
James, William, John, Robert, Thomas, David, Susan, Martha,
Mary.

3. John, the son of William and Mary, married Lettice, and set-
tled in Harpwell. He was a payer of direct taxes in Harpwell
in 1798. Children, — Joseph C, William, Mary, Lettiee, John,
Charles, Arthur, Susan.

4. John, son of John and Lettice, married Alice, and lives in
Benton. Children, — William, Mary, Isaac, Susan, Lettice, Alice.

Further Notice of Silas, of Hootstoivn, 0. ; and his Descendants.

Silas (who is noticed on p. 220) was the son of Jacob and Lydia
(see pp. 530 and 531), and grandson of Josiah and Elizabeth
(noticed on p. 217). He was born Oct. 21, 1752.

Jacob Reed, the eldest son of Silas, was born in Ellington, Conn.
He removed his family to Rising Sun, Ind., in 1815 ; while he con-
structed the steamboat " Pike," at Louisville, with which he entered
the port of St. Louis in July, 1817, — it being the first steam-craft
that ever landed there, or stemmed the current of the Mississippi
above the mouth of the Ohio. He afterwards owned the " Frank-
lin " and " Yankee," steamboats ; the former being sunk in the
Mississippi while he owned her. He settled in St. Louis, 1817:
and, in 1820, he, as captain of one of his steamers, and his son (D;ijr-
ton) clerk of another, sailed from St. Louis to New Orleans ; and
both died there, in September of that year, of yellow fever. His
wife died the year after, and left the family orphans from that time.
His children were seven in number, born in the order named, —
I^meline, Dayton, John Harris, Parma, Milton, Julia Ann, and
Wallace.

Emeline, born in Ellington, Conn., about 1800; was married to

Cook of St. Louis, who died soon. She afterwards married

Dr. Chandler of Jacksonville, 111. He removed to Warsaw,

111., about twenty-five years since ; where he still resides, engaged in
farming and in practising medicine. They have several children.

Dayton, born in Ellington, Conn., about 1802; died in 1820, at
New Orleans, of yellow fever.

John Harris, born in Rootstown, O., about 1805 ; learned the

550 APPENDIX.

printing-business in die St. Louis " Missouri Republican " office,
and then started a newspaper at Little Rock, Ark., about 1832 ;
where he married, and has left a wife and several children. He
has been dead some years.

Parma, born in Rootstown about 1807 ; married Asa "Wilgus of
St. Louis, who emigrated from Kentucky. He started in life a
mechanic, became wealthy and influential, and is now living at St.
Louis. Parma had no children ; and died at St. Louis in July,
1859.

Milton, born in Rootstown about 1809 ; learned a trade at St.
Louis ; married at Shawneetown, 111. ; and is now dead. His
widow and only child (a daughter) live at Paducah, Ky. ; she
having married again.

Julia Ann, born about 1811 ; never married ; and lived with her
sister, Mrs. Wilgus, at St. Louis, until her death by cholera in
May, 1849.

Wallace, the youngest child, born about 1815, is a large farmer
near Warsaw, 111. ; and has several children.

Abraham Reed, born in Ellington, Conn. ; married Sally Hitch-
cock of same place, and left a large family of children, all of whom
are now residing within sight of the old homestead, except two
daughters (one dead, and the other residing in Racine, Wis.). His
children were nine in number, born in the order named, — Emily,
Horace, Maritta, Pomeroy, Mary Ann, Otis, Jerusha, Julia Ann,
and Dayton.

Emily, born in Ellington, Conn., in ; married James Wright

of Coventry, Conn., at Rootstown, in ; and has four or live

children.

Horace, born about 1805; resides in Rootstown; married Miss
Louisa Baldwin of Atwater, and has several children settled around
him.

Maritta married a farmer (James Austin) at Rootstown, where
they now reside, and have several children.

Pomeroy married Esther Chapman of Rootstown, where he still
resides as a farmer, and has no children.

Mary Ann married Marcus Spellman of Rootstown, a farmer.
They have two children (son and daughter), and all live in Roots-
town.

Otis, married to Marissa Spellman, is settled in Rootstown as a

APPENDIS. 551

farmer, and has four children (one a daughter, who married and set-
tled last year in Kansas).

Jerusha married Nelson Pendleton, and settled in Racine, Wis.,
a few years since, as a merchant and trader.

Julia Ann married Dr. Joel Burnett, now of St. Louis ; and had
one son. She is dead.

Dayton married Ellen Barnum of Rootstown, where he now
lives as a trader, and has four small children.

Mary, third child of Silas Reed, was born at Ellington, Conn., in

. She married Josiah Strong of Middle Haddam, Conn. ; who

removed to the State of New York about A.D. 1800, and settled
sixty or seventy miles west of Schenectady, " on the Turnpike " of
that day. This is all we know of him or his family.

Charles Reed, fourth child of Silas Reed, was born at Ellington,
Conn., May 1, 1783. He removed to Rootstown, O., with his two
older brothers, in the fall of 1804 ; and commenced a farm at that
place, on land purchased of E. Root of Hartford, Conn. On the
6th of July, 1806, at Deerfield, Portage County, 0., he married
Miss Rejoice Diver, a native of Blanford, Mass., who had removed
to Ohio with her father (Daniel Diver) in the fall of 1803. In
January, 1807, her brother Daniel had both eyes shot out by the
Indians, and lived until 1851. A few years after, he removed to
and settled permanently in Deerfield upon a farm, where he still
resides (1860), the only survivor of the family of Silas Reed of
Connecticut. He enlisted as a soldier in the war of 1812, started
for the head-quarters of Gen. Hull in the North-west, took sick on
his way out, hired a substitute, and returned to his family. He had
eleven children, as follows, — Silas, Mary, Charles, Harriet, Daniel,
Calvin, Almena, Warren, Winchester, Alcinda, and Julia.

Silas, born in Deerfield, May 29, 1807; went to Cincinnati in
1827 to study medicine in the Medical College of Ohio. On the
5th of April, 1829, he married Miss Sarah Flannigan Ogden of
New Haven, Conn., at the residence of her uncle in Stow, Portage
County, O. (Judge William Wetmore). He removed to Cincinnati
to practise his profession, where he graduated ; and, on the breaking-
out of cholera in 1832, he was appointed one of the two physicians
to the Cholera Hospital by the City Council of Cincinnati. His
colleague was the late Dr. G. Bailey of the "National Era" at
Washington, D.C. In 1833 and '34, he edited and published the

552 APPENDIX.

"Western Medical Gazette." In 1835, he purchased an interest in
Dr. D. Drake's " Western Journal of the Medical and Physical
Sciences," and became co-editor with Prof. Drake. In the spring
of 1837, his (Silas Reed's) wife died ; when he removed to St. Louis,
Mo., with the intention of founding a medical institution in that
city. On the 15th of May, 1838, he married, at St. Louis, Miss
Henrietta M. Rogers of Boston, Mass. (sister of John H. Rogers,
No. 1, Tremont Street, of that city). In March, 1839, several of
his letters, addressed to Hon. Amasa Walker of Massachusetts on
the subject of a continuous line of railroad from Boston to St. Louis,
were published in the " Boston Post," in which he predicted the
completion of such road within fifteen years ; and in March, 1854,
it was realized by the arrival of Eastern cars on the banks of the
Mississippi, at Alton, and Rock Island. In 1841, he was appointed
by the President of the United States surveyor-general of the public
lands of Illinois and Missouri ; which office he held until 1845. For
several years afterwards, he engaged in mining and smelting copper
at Stanton, Franklin County, Mo. He is now in the land and real-
estate business at St. Louis. He had six children.

Ogden, born Jan. 29, 1832 ; and died at Cincinnati, Sept. 18,
1833.

Isabella Ogden, born at Cincinnati, 1834; and married to Jo-
seph Robison of Dubuque, la., in 1856 ; where she now lives, and
has one daughter, Clara E., born November, 1858.

Clara James, born April 16, 1840; not yet married.

Edwin, born July, 1843 ; died July, 1844.

Mary, twin of Edwin, born July, 1843 ; died July, 1844.

Silas, born May 16, 1845 ; died Feb. 6, 1846.

Mary, born at Deerfield, O., April 8, 1809 ; married in 1834 to
Mason Gibbs, merchant at Deerfield (formerly of Cheshire, N.H.),
where both still reside. They have only one child living, — a
daughter, Julia Alice, not yet married. Rosella Adelaide, born
, died .

Charles, born June 18, 1812 ; graduated in medicine at Cincin-
nati in 1835 ; married Miss Ann Canfield at New Philadelphia, O.,
February, 1839 ; practised medicine there and at Massillon, 0., se-
veral years. Removed to Fairfield, la., in 1856. Had four
children, — Charles, Mary, George, and Henry. Mary is dead.
The three sons are living with their parents.

APPENDIX. 553

Harriet, born May 5, 1815 ; married Dr. Jonathan Gibbs of
New Hampshire in 1838; now lives at Omro, Wis. ; have three
children (daughters), — Gertrude, Mary, and Eveline, — not mar-
ried.

Daniel, born Aug. 8, 1817 ; removed to and died near Alton,
111., Aug. 10, 1837.

Calvin, born July 14, 1819 ; died at Deerfield, April, 1842 ; was
married to Miss Eliza Cook of Virginia, April, 1838 ; had two chil-
dren, — Frances and Edward.

Frances, aged seventeen, was married to Edgar Day of Deer-
field, Dec. 9, 1860.

Almena, born Oct. 21, 1821 ; was married to Edmund Day of
Deerfield, June, 1846 ; had four children, — Edwin, born February,
1848; Charles C, now dead; Mason, born Jan. 28, 1856; Frank
C, dead.

"Warren, born May 29, 1824; married in 1848 to Augusta Day
at Deerfield, O. ; removed to Metomen, Fond-du-Lac County, Wis.,
April, 1854; has four children, — Josephine, Albert, Henry, and
Frederick, — all living.

Winchester, twin-brother of Warren, born May 29, 1824; and
died same year.

Alcinda, born Oct. 8, 1827; died at Deerfield, July 25, 1856.

Julia, born April 28, 1832 ; died Dec. 27, 1833.

Lydia, daughter of Silas, married George P. Collins of Ellington,
Conn., who removed to Rootstown, O., thirty-five or forty years
since ; became a farmer, and had seven children, — John, Mary,
Maria, Orry, Sally, Charlotte, and Selden. The parents are dead.

John Collins, a farmer, married, and lived in Rootstown until
1859 ; then removed to Mantua, Portage County. He has several
children : the oldest, Nelson, is married to Miss Spellman of Roots-
town.

Mary married A. Case of Rootstown (a farmer), and settled there.

Maria married Bradshaw, farmer, of Rootstown ; and is

settled there.

Orry married Chapman of Rootstown ; and now lives at

Berea, 0.

Sally and Charlotte married, and removed to Michigan.

Selden married Miss Bosworth of Rootstown, where he yet
resides, — a farmer.

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554 APPENDIX.

Timothy, sixth child of S. Reed, born in Ellington about 1786;
married Miss Elizabeth Burdick of that place ; and removed with
his step-father to Rootstown, 0., in 1812. A few years after, he
settled in Canton, Stark County, O. ; where he was many years high-
sheriff of the county. He then settled as a merchant at Paris,
Stark County; where he died about 1835. His widow and three
children removed to Marshall, Clark County, 111. ; where she died
some years since. The children were — Herbert, Mortimer, and
Clarine ; all yet living at same place.

Herbert married in Wellsville, O. ; settled and resided several
years in Cincinnati as a wholesale merchant ; and then removed to
Marshall, 111., where he is an extensive dealer in pork and produce.
He has one daughter, not yet married ; her mother being dead.

Mortimer married in Paris, O. ; and is now a merchant at Mar-
shall, 111. Has several children.

Clarine married Mr. Barber of Paris, 0. They live at

Marshall, 111. ; and have several children.

Sally, seventh child of Silas Reed, married David Kneeland
(from Vermont) at Ellington, Conn.; and removed to Ohio (Roots-
town) in 1812 with Mr. Goodrich. He removed to St. Louis with
Jacob Reed in 1817 ; thence, a few years aftewards, to Opelousas,
La.; and, about the year 1836, removed to Denmark, la., and set-
tled on a farm, where he died about 1841. Sally died about 1850.
They had three daughters.

Lory, the oldest, is married to Harrison, late sheriff at

Opelousas, La. ; and still lives there. They have several children.

The other two daughters are married, and live near Denmark, la.

GENERAL INDEX.

A.

Aaron, 48, 49, 55, 140, 177, 215, 216, 224,

229, 267, 269, 350, 351, 453, 523, 527,
530, 631.

Aaron A., 351.

Abby, 54, 84, 466, 494.

Abby B., 237.

Abby E., 237, 522.

Abby G., 171.

Abby J., 137, 232, 372.

Abbv L., 365.

Abby S., 333.

Abbv T., 246.

Abel", 139, 140, 159, 173, 174, 178, 225,

230, 231, 232, 233, 255, 256, 257, 264,
280, 379, 446, 502, 534.

Abel H., 468, 469.

Abel M., 524.

Abel R., 355, 357.

Abel W., 137.

Abiata, 326, 346, 408, 415, 531.

Abial, 102, 225, 232, 247.

Abial S., 183, 184.

Abiel, 277.

Abigail, 31, 42, 51, 53, 54, 55, 59, 61, 67,
69, 70, 71, 72, 75, 76, 77, 78, 90, 91, 98,
102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 108, 122, 123,
124, 125, 128, 129, 130, 137, 139, 149,
150, 153, 158, 162, 164, 165, 166, 168,
173, 177, 178, 181, 186, 192, 193, 194,
195, 196, 198, 200, 201, 203, 207, 210,
217, 221, 224, 234, 236, 239, 240, 241,
244, 247, 248, 255, 267, 270, 272, 274,
275, 276, 277, 278, 283, 284, 287, 306,
309, 325, 329, 338, 339, 343, 353, 354,
360, 364, 370, 371, 378, 388, 391, 392,
394, 402, 411, 414, 425, 445, 447, 451,
461, 466, 471, 491, 494, 515, 518, 522,
525, 526, 528, 530, 533, 540, 544, 545.

Abigail A., 247, 357.

Abigail D., 59.

Abigail H., 216, 544.

Abigail M., 191, 196, 198, 451.

Abigail W., 278, 284.

Abijab, 80, 187, 189, 193, 217, 219, 221,
275, 276, 343, 345, 346, 373, 374, 447,
515, 533.

Abion B., 341.

Abion R., 279.

Abner, 204, 205, 217, 221, 407, 434, 537.

Abner L., 221.

Abraham, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 56,

86, 167, 220, 306, 380, 446, 465, 517,

518, 520, 622, 539, 648, 550.
Acsah, 204, 616.
Ada, 251, 337, 354.
Adabule, 84, 365.
Adalaide L., 185.
Adaline, 127, 179, 255, 256, 268, 283, 284,

289, 314, 341, 343, 351, 383, 384, 385,

452, 467, 468, 482, 506, 545, 546.
Adaline B., 189.
Adaline L., 185.
Adaline M., 289, 314, 541.
Adaline S., 92.
Adam, 379, 408, 484, 515.
Addington, 452.
Addison, 452, 468.
Adoniram J., 533.
Adrian, 51, 57, 58.
Agnes, 36, 37.
Agnes C, 50.
Agnes M., 456.
Ahab, 539.
Alanson, 289.
Albert, 62, 53, 218, 236, 243, 250, 283,

343, 350, 351, 365, 356, 374, 385, 420,

457, 506, 525, 553.
Albert C, 342, 484.
Albert D., 50.

Albert L., 234, 269, 350, 351.
Albert M., 255.
Albert N., 240.
Albert: O., 255.
Alcinda, 551, 553.
Alden, 74, 159.
Alden P., 235.
Aldrich, 514.
Aletha, 181.
Alexander, 36, 37, 38, 73, 201, 268, 453,

485, 486, 494, 539.
Alexander D., 285, 308.
Alexander H., 285, 308, 375, 466.
Alfreda, 394.
Alice, 31, 33, 37, 39, 50, 83, 92, 151, 227,

232, 260, 336, 337, 365, 366, 373, 375,

395, 407, 410, 549.

556

GENERAL INDEX.

Alice H., 540.

Alice J., 382, 487.

Alice M., 399.

Alia, 188.

Allen, 54, 250, 402, 409, 494.

Allen A., 469.

Allen L., 533.

Allen W., 539.

Allison, 36, 249.

Allzida, 411.

Alma M., 372.

Alraena, 551, 553.

Almira, 54, 133, 145, 146, 148, 155, 158,

162, 179, 184, 284, 286, 332, 340, 350,

351, 355, 425, 457, 494, 521, 524, 545.
Almira A., 542.
Almira H., 68.
Almira J., 156.
Almira M., 402.
Almira S., 198, 278, 279.
Almon, 263, 264, 402.
Almon H., 202.
Alpha, 240.
Alpheus, 277, 278, 279, 306, 307, 400,

478.
Alpheus J., 521.
Alphonso, 380.
Alphonso B., 469.
Alsea, 47, 134, 345, 357, 497.
Alsea S., 134.
Alton G., 249.
Alva 0., 500.
Alvada L., 278.
Alvan, 62, 30, 318, 353.
Alvan A., 256, 265.
Alvan C, 353.
Alvan 0., 265.
Alvin, 56, 319.
Alvin H., 506.
Alvin O., 265.
Alvina N., 155.
Alvira P., 527.
Ama, 232, 283.
Amanda, 224, 233, 404, 412, 452, 515,

527.
Amanda F., 239.
Amanda H., 539.
Amanda L., 279.
Amanda M., 516.
Amanda P., 401.
Amasiah, 238.
Ambrose W., 505.
Amelia, 154, 227, 286, 305, 341, 364, 398,

451, 540.
Amelia 'C., 314, 394.
Amelia F., 336.
Amelia M., 224, 251.
Amherst E., 254.
Amity, 630.
Amma, 57.
Ammi, 55.
Ammis, 355.
Amory, 278.
Amos, 69, 70, 83, 87, 89, 93, 95, 130, 160,

162, 181, 207, 235, 236, 237, 266, 267,

343, 450, 482, 522, 525, 531, 532, 534.

Amos A., 90.

Amos F., 90.

Amos H., 283, 533.

Amos M., 237.

Amos N., 349.

Amos S., 349.

Amy, 189, 244, 250, 251, 272, 532, 540.

Auabasaba, 182.

Anan, 279.

Andrew, 45, 56, 57, 129, 225, 226, 353,
433, 443, 458, 478, 484, 493, 502, 505,
523, 524, 525.

Andrew A., 184.

Andrew F., 180.

Andrew G., 155, 156.

Andrew H., 351, 352.

Andrew J., 124, 285, 517.

Angelina, 255, 424.

Angelina A., 85.

Angelina M., 545.

Angelia, 57.

Angerette, 262.

Ann, 30, 31, 33, 35, 37, 40, 46, 51, 53, 84,
88, 89, 90, 93, 95, 96, 163, 167, 182,
192, 225, 243, 284, 316, 322, 375, 380,
406, 408, 418, 422, 429, 444, 446, 457,
462, 465, 476, 484, 488, 489, 501, 524,
526, 526, 552.

Ann B., 471, 523.

Ann C., 321.

Ann E., 52, 258, 260, 336, 382, 401, 454,
502.

Ann J., 181, 350.

Ann L., 514.

Ann M., 84, 225, 323, 339, 381, 384, 514.

Ann P., 68.

Anna, 30, 31, 32, 33, 46, 51, 71, 88, 90,
102, 107, 123, 126, 131, 133. 142, 144,
146, 151, 152, 154, 155, 163; 175, 192,
201, 216, 217, 219, 221, 223, 224, 227,
232, 242, 249, 250, 255, 260, 273, 277,
278, 283, 288, 307, 309, 319, 341, 342,
346, 365, 370, 371, 378, 384, 407, 410,
420, 422, 425, 430, 452, 459, 470, 481,
495, 501, 530, 534.

Anna A., 401.

Anna D., 180.

Anna E., 421, 158, 263.

Anna F., 262, 317, 320, 539.

Anna G., 345.

Anna J., 506.

Anna M., 448, 513, 309.

Anna P., 540.

Anna W., 144.

Annette, 493.

Annie, 95, 267, 316, 460.

Annis, 44, 275, 344, 348.

Ansel, 641.

Anson, 238, 526.

Anthony, 260, 261, 400, 401, 429.

Anthony S., 236.

Aphia, 134, 140.

Appleton, 515.

Arabella, 484.

Arathusa, 179.

Arba, 125.

GENERAL INDEX.

557

Archimedes, 262, 263.

Archibald, 492.

Ardelia A., 404.

Arienna, 94.

Arimanilly, 137.

Arlenza, 545.

Anion, 235, 238.

Artemas, 240, 470, 471.

Arthur, 31, 219, 221, 366.

Arthur B., 155.

Arthur H., 133.

Arthur M., 222.

Arthur W., 226, 404.

Arvilla, 219.

Arvilla J., 404.

Asa, 52, 68, 107, 181, 246, 248, 249, 277,

313, 317, 318, 354, 425, 502, 514, 518,

531. 532, 534, 545, 548.
Asa C., 377.
Asa F., 276.
Asa S., 51.
Asarael, 235.
Asenath, 193, 220.
Asher, 219, 279, 432.
Augusta, 51, 106, 128, 135, 188, 190, 221,

320, 350, 351, 472, 553.
Augusta A., 57, 244, 248.
Augusta H., 352.
Augusta M., 162.
Augustine, 491.
Augustus, 68, 146, 189, 237, 260, 382,

396, 336, 401, 525.
Augustus A., 58.
Augustus F., 533.
Augustus K., 402.
Aurelia M., 270.
Aurelia S., 481.
Austin G., 385.
Avise, 388.
Axie, 494.

B.

B, 452.

Barbara, 36, 190, 240, 471, 497, 519.

Barbara A., 240.

Barnabas, 338, 353, 354.

Barnard, 277, 279, 280, 422.

Baron Von, 40.

Barrett E., 155.

Barrett R., 155.

Bartholomew, 29, 55, 56.

Bartlett W., 245.

Barton S., 244.

Barrey, 403, 404.

Barzela, 78, 79, 240.

Barzela H., 80.

Barzillai, 403, 404.

Bashua, 311, 386.

Bebe, 240.

Bela, 339, 348, 355, 373, 374, 375, 384,
412.

Belinda, 142, 423, 494.

Benjamin, 42, 45, 46, 49, 67, 68, 70, 71,
75, 77, 102, 103, 107, 122, 124, 125, 126,
127, 128, 129, 130, 134, 145, 150, 152,

153, 159, 160, 164, 173, 177, 178, 179,
183, 184, 191, 192, 200, 203, 216, 221,
229, 230, 231, 232, 234, 241, 243, 245,
247, 248, 250, 255, 260, 261, 262, 263,
287, 308, 312, 337, 338, 387, 391, 406,
407, 408, 421, 422, 428, 429, 446, 456,
518, 532, 533.

Benjamin A., 266, 520.

Benjamin B., 103, 233.

Benjamin C, 50, 189, 382, 488, 489, 496,
497.

Benjamin F., 155, 251, 401, 452, 453, 527,
541.

Benjamin H., 449, 450, 524, 544.

Benjamin J., 262.

Benjamin L., 533.

Benjamin M., 37.

Benjamin R., 104.

Benjamin T., 43.

Benjamin W., 425.

Benton H., 163.

Beriah, 234.

Berthia, 255, 497.

Berthia E., 142.

Bessie, 366.

Bethia, 62, 78, 145, 158, 241, 265, 286,
386, 387, 388, 392, 393, 403, 407, 456,
491.

Bethia E., 514.

Bethia L., 403, 404.

Bethsheba, 233.

Betsey, 51, 52, 55, 68, 72, 75, 81, 94, 95,
104, 106, 125, 126, 127, 129, 143, 145,
146, 149, 158, 162, 163, 166, 167, 181,
182, 184, 189, 190, 191, 192, 196, 207,
208, 215, 218, 220, 227, 232, 233, 236,
238, 239, 240, 243, 244, 245, 246, 250,
256, 257, 260, 262, 266, 268, 276, 277,
279, 281, 283, 287, 306, 307, 318, 320,
321, 322, 329, 334, 351, 354, 381, 390,
391, 393, 400, 402, 403, 404, 408, 411,
418, 422, 424, 425, 447, 450, 455, 457,
465, 468, 478, 490, 498, 508, 515, 518,
525, 540.

Betsey B., 133, 314, 451.

Betsey D., 523.

Betsey G., 344.

Betsey H., 196, 315, 403, 404, 534.

Betsey J., 401.

Betsey T., 332.

Betsey W., 278.

Betty, 145, 378, 456, 522.

Beulah, 80, 273.

Beverly S., 155.

Beza, 410.

Bezaleel, 375.

Bill, 147.

Billings B., 471.

Bowes, 458.

Boz, 182.

Brackley, 152, 153.

Bradford, 262, 377, 426.

Bradford G., 544.

Bradford Y., 545.

Bransby, 31.

Brayton, 539.

558

GENERAL INDEX.

Brewer, 517.
Brianus, 28.
Bridges, 516.
Bridget, 32, 33, 34, 39, 42, 164, 166, 168,

183, 483, 524.
Briggs, 381.
Briggs R., 380.
Buler, 123.
Burgan, 430.
Burgess, 45.
Byron, 263.

Calvin, 55, 58, 158, 184, 219, 220, 330,
350, 351, 377, 8S4, 385, 391, 396, 486,
515, 551, 553.
Calvin B., 158.
Calvin D., 158.
Calvin L., 154.
Calvin P., 351, 482.
Calvin R., 158.
Calvin T., 385.
Calvin W., 57, 486.
Caleb, 274, 275, 362, 365, 366, 389, 532,

533.
Caleb K., 373.
Camille, 217, 396.
Candace, 134.
Carance, 156.
Carey, 482.
Carlisle, 54.
Carlo, 500.
Carlton, 92, 267.

Caroline, 76, 79, 80, 84, 88, 129, 138, 175,
188, 193, 196, 207, 218, 236, 237, 253,
261, 277, 315, 386, 390, 424, 449, 450,
456, 461, 520, 539, 540.
Caroline A., 84, 85, 185, 278, 401, 485.
Caroline E., 208, 517, 525.
Caroline F., 495, 503, 524.
Caroline H., 522.
Caroline M., 140, 236, 243.
Caroline P., 81.
Caroline W., 281.
Caroline Z., 546.
Carrie, 281.
Carrie A., 238.
Cassandra, 400.

Catherine, 42, 46, 85, 92, 94, 128, 146,
158, 176, 181, 195, 216, 224, 247, 248,
250, 262, 287, 321, 323, 326, 339, 346,
352, 364, 368, 369, 370, 374, 415, 419,
423, 452, 454, 456, 457, 466, 476, 489,
492, 493, 497, 505, 522, 540, 548.
Catherine A., 207, 278.
Catherine D., 158.
Catherine F., 374.
Catherine L., 154.
Catherine 0., 524.
Catherine P., 351, 481.
Catherine T., 519.
Catherine W., 57, 477.
Celestia A., 402.
Cecilia, 28, 192.
Celia, 389, 602.

Celia A., 266.
Celia J., 491.
Celina, 222.
Celina D., 352.
Celina L., 141.
Celista, 288.
Cephisa S., 348.
Chandler, 385.
Charitv, 217, 250, 400, 531.
Charles, 32, 39, 52, 56, 59, 60, 68, 81, 82
84, 91, 95, 106, 129, 138, 139, 148, 149
159, 162, 165, 178, 179, 182, 189, 190
204, 205, 206, 216, 220, 221, 231, 237
239, 247, 250, 254, 256, 273, 276, 281
304, 313, 322, 326, 333, 345, 348, 349
354, 355, 364, 366, 372, 380, 384, 395
409, 415, 420, 430, 454, 467, 468, 479
493, 500, 505, 522, 525, 526, 551, 552.
Charles A., 60, 88, 104, 138, 155, 156
239, 254, 267, 268, 315, 337, 401, 420
508.
Charles B., 59, 141, 276, 285, 380, 454,

518, 533.
Charles C, 488, 513, 517.
Charles D., 202, 268, 330, 493.
Charles E., 50, 1S4, 254, 284, 286, 355,

364, 398, 403, 404, 409, 449, 524.
Charles F., 158, 171, 192, 203, 276, 365,

482, 546.
Charles G., 137, 138, 176, 247, 849, 419,

544.
Charles H., 85, 179, 180, 191, 215, 258,
266, 270, 276, 329, 330, 354, 398, 443,
462, 479, 525.
Charles I., 269.

Charles J., 196, 226, 290, 304, 466.
Charles K. E., 514.
Charles L., 68, 142, 221, 248, 317, 400,

402.
Charles M., 148, 237, 280, 365, 420.
Charles N., 237, 247, 506.
Charles O., 72, 254.
Charles P., 125.
Charles R., 290.

Charles S., 278, 319, 351, 394, 412, 524.
Charles T., 239, 379, 494.
Charles W., 270, 317, 321, 322, 495, 540.
Charlie, 401, 504.
Charlie E., 357.

Charlotte, 31, 50, 85, 88, 96, 124, 165, 178,
200, 203, 234, 236, 254, 268, 270, 281,
309, 318, 321, 322, 323, 338, 340, 348,
352, 399, 430, 451, 454, 481, 499, 515,
624, 525, 532.
Charlotte A., 255, 332.
Charlotte L., 73, 74.
Charlotte M., 74.
Charlotte S., 221, 322.
Charlotte T., 352.
Charlotte V., 304.
Charlotte W., 322.
Cheeney, 129, 195.
Chester, 266.
Chester J., 398.
Chisibeth, 222.
Chickering, 515.

GENERAL INDEX.

559

Chloe, 217, 219, 220, 222, 238, 242, 254,

265, 403.
Christian, 505, 535.
Christiana, 29, 31, 33.
Christopher, 27, 42, 46, 123, 145, 263,

461.
Christopher V., 260.
Christopher W., 60.
Cinda, 448.

Clara, 256, 323, 401, 476, 494.
Clara A., 206, 234.
Clara C, 156.
Clara E., 194.
Clara J., 319, 552.
Clara L., 495.
Clara M., 133.
Clarence, 377.
Clarence, H., 518.
Clarine, 554.

Clarinda, 55, 56, 256, 283, 340, 401, 409.
Clarinda S., 401.
Clarissa, 132, 153, 167, 202, 203, 215, 264,

277, 286, 343, 347, 378, 390, 391, 399,

411, 425, 456, 468, 472, 488, 534.
Clarissa A., 133, 283.
Clarissa C, 153.
Clarissa D., 261, 404.
Clarissa H., 545, 646.
Clarissa S., 412.
Clark, 191, 205, 391, 207.
Clarkson T., 155.
Clela, 514.
Clement, 40.
Clement 0., 255.
Clementine, 190.
Clementine B., 134.
Cleora, 349.
Cleora E., 138.
Clifford, 488.
Clinda, 517.
Columbus, 457, 500.
Columbus F., 289.
Comfort, 203.
Compton, 35.
Conrade, 449.
Constant, 535.
Content, 355, 419.
Converse, 94, 95.
Cora A., 290.
Cora W., 297.
Cordelia, 94, 350, 488.
Cordelia A., 488.
Cordelia P., 489.
Cordelia K., 85.
Cordelia S., 285, 309.
Cordone, 347.
Cornelia, 253, 512.
Cornelia A., 50, 204.
Cornelia G., 202.
Cornelia H., 381.
Cornelia S., 252.
Cornelius, 56, 391, 481.
Corsel, 256.
Crawford, 540.
Crelilia, 202.
Cummings, 158.

Curtis, 280.

Cuta, 342.

Cynthia, 51, 52, 53, 167, 205, 227, 229,

239, 250, 264, 265, 313, 314, 339, 411,

425.
Cynthia M., 255.
Cynthia P., 235.
Cynthia W., 412.
Cyral, 227, 263.
Cyrena, 497.
Cyrus, 133, 142, 145, 146, 163, 179, 184,

205, 232, 240, 289, 336, 337, 393, 408,

410, 421.
Cyrus A., 408.
Cyrus B., 125, 527.
Cyrus P., 125, 408.
Cyrus T., 256.

D.

Damaris, 45.

Dan, 235, 238.

Dana, 239, 240, 279.

Daniel, 49, 66, 57, 65, 74, 75, 76, 93, 94,
96, 106, 126, 127, 128, 159, 160, 161,
187, 190, 191, 193, 194, 203, 204, 207,
208, 222, 223, 225, 229, 231, 234, 235,
237, 240, 244, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254,
284, 285, 2S6, 287, 288, 307, 308, 331,
334, 337, 339, 341, 342, 343, 352, 354,
362, 364, 393, 411, 413, 421, 425, 426,
446, 447, 448, 450, 455, 472, 484, 486,
526, 530, 532, 583, 561, 553.

Daniel A., 94, 190, 253, 523.

Daniel B., 129, 236, 262, 518, 527.

Daniel D., 226, 227, 316, 386.

Daniel E., 144, 253, 343, 411.

Daniel F., 255, 314, 616.

Daniel H., 124, 159, 162, 258.

Daniel L., 352.

Daniel M., 127, 154.

Daniel P., 129, 251.

Daniel R., 332, 470.

Daniel S., 184.

Daniel T., 468, 469.

Daniel W., 127, 255.

Darius, 140, 408, 536.

David, 28, 49, 54, 65, 70, 71, 93, 95, 96,
102, 159, 174, 181, 200, 202, 203, 217,
224, 225, 227, 235, 238, 250, 251, 254,
255, 256, 264, 266, 267, 268, 272, 273,
274, 289, 306, 313, 317, 318, 322, 330,
338, 342, 351, 353, 393, 395, 397, 400,
401, 421, 422, 446, 453, 454, 465, 466,
467, 468, 481, 482, 486, 499, 505, 518,
522, 532, 533, 537, 544, 548, 549.

David A., 314, 523.

David B., 451.

David H., 226, 240, 269.

David P., 340.

David S., 184.

David T., 445.

David W., 155, 185, 548.

David W. A., 252.

Davis, 280, 308.

Dayton, 549, 550, 551.

oGO

GENERAL INDEX.

Deane, 328, 342.

Deane S., 524.

Deborah, 52, 103, 137, 141, 167, 192, 194,

210, 214, 216, 217, 226, 232, 23S, 256,

317, 319, 325, 326, 338, 340, 344, 350,

351, 352, 355, 358, 379, 384, 388, 891,

396, 400, 404, 408, 414, 415, 418, 421,

473, 523, 526, 548.
Deborah A., 619.
Deborah C, 404.
Deborah L., 352, 358.
Deborah P., 257.
Delano, 489.
Delany. 410.
Delany S., 410.
Delia, 275, 372.
Delia A., 224, 522.
Delia G., 216.
Delia S., 245.
Delight, 401, 402.
Delight B., 402.
Deliverance, 407, 408.
Delos, 257.
Delos L., 233.
Delphina, 76.
Delsina, 391.
Dennis, 459.
Dennison, 390.
Desire, 517.
Dexter, 189, 283, 326, 345, 346, 350, 397,

415.
Diademor, 277.
Diana, 202, 347, 348, 349.
Diana M., 388.
Diantha, 72, 350, 375, 377.
Diantha C, 270.
Diantha P., 289.
Dickinson, 451.
Dillie, 225.
Dinah, 219.
Direza, 250.
Dollv, 68, 140, 182, 248, 266, 393, 395,

396, 397, 521, 527, 536.
Dorcas, 124, 130, 225, 255, 261, 378, 484,

485, 523.
Dorothy, 38, 40, 75, 133, 190, 236, 251,

264, 276, 348, 392, 395, 396, 421, 422,

424, 531, 537.
Dorinda, 395.
Doty, 451.
Diaper P., 245.
Drusilla, 148, 266.
Duane B., 533.
Dudley, 174.
Durfee, 517.
Dwight, 138.
Dydin, 393.

E.

E., 237.

Eben, 55, 158, 485.

Eben F., 128.

Eben G., 246, 247, 420.

Edgar, 239, 365.

Edgar H., 399.

Edith, 537.

Edith C, 346.

Edith 11., 357.

Edmond, 29, 31, 32, 39, 91, 128, 130, 146,

159, 287, 308, 365, 422, 525.
Edmond J., 129.
Edmond SI., 395.
Edmond N., 422.
Edmond S., 163.
Edna L., 503.
Edward, 29, 30, 31, 35, 36, 37, 42, 56, 90,

152, 163, 183, 217, 229, 231, 261, 265,

304, 351, 354, 391, 396, 430, 453, 454,

470, 471, 505, 513, 516, 519, 525, 539,

553.
Edward A., 126, 242, 275.
Edward B., 482.
Edward C., 455, 466.
Edward D., 204.
Edward E., 255, 265.
Edward G., 207.
Edward H., 506.
Edward J., 354.
Edward L., 162, 206.
Edward M., 280.
Edward O., 160.
Edward P., 141, 349.
Edward R., 358, 381.
Edward S., 265, 347.
Edward T., 229.
Edwin, 56, 59, 162, 230, 232, 239, 242,

243, 395, 399, 447, 451, 455, 456, 478,

505, 522, 552.
Edwin B., 380.
Edwin H., 357.
Edwin J., 154.
Edwin R., 176.
Edwin S., 486.
Edwin T., 380.
Edwin W., 318.
Egbert, 349, 453.
Elbert H., 86.

Elbridge, 167, 342, 375, 516.
Elbridge G., 248, 249, 521, 544, 545.
Elbridge H., 514.
Eldon, 289.

Eleanor, 46, 107, 130, 203, 216, 299, 405.
Eleanor G., 398.
Eleazer, 152, 158, 176, 177, 254, 446, 447,

453, 454, 456.
Eleazer J., 455.
Electa, 353, 514.
Electa B., 641.
Elusia, 51.

Eli, 215, 216, 446, 448, 451.
Eli H., 451.
Eliab, 139, 141.
Eliab G., 124.
Eliab H., 141.
Eliakim, 176, 178, 446, 457.
Elias, 50, 56, 272, 317, 322, 347, 445,

446.
Elihu, 176, 179, 318, 320, 535.
Elijah, 51, 53, 163, 217, 285, 308, 355,

375, 390, 401, 410, 446, 450, 534, 542.
Elijah A., 249.

GENERAL INDEX.

561

Elijah F., 218, 238.

Elijah M., 68, 279.

Elijah R., 265.

Elijah W., 54.

Eliphalet, 221, 243, 245, 246, 247, 249,
250, 533, 534.

Eliphas, 105, 106, 205.

Elisha, 49, 153, 183, 184, 253, 378, 421,
432, 534.

Eliza, 72, 76, 80, 103, 126, 127, 128, 138,
141, 159. 160, 161, 164, 165, 180, 204,
205, 217, 223, 227, 231, 235, 236, 237,
252, 253, 281, 283, 284, 286, 289, 313,
317, 327, 331, 343, 345, 351, 357, 382,
394, 395, 398, 400, 403, 419, 420, 424,
452, 454, 465, 466, 468, 482, 495, 503,
506, 508, 517, 519, 523, 525, 526, 532,

533, 539, 545, 553.

Eliza A., 73, 94, 191, 192, 336, 351, 356,
377, 396, 451.

Eliza B., 103, 495.

Eliza C, 56, 180, 281.

Eliza D., 372.

Eliza E., 342.

Eliza F., 191, 218, 344, 546.

Eliza J., 253, 342.

Eliza K., 343.

Eliza L., 235.

Eliza M., 197, 454.

Eliza P., 56, 519.

Eliza S., 147, 204, 230, 344, 528.

Eliza W., 240, 284.

Elizabeth, 30, 31, 33, 35, 36, 37, 45, 46,
48, 49, 50, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71, 75,
76, 83, 85, 87, 88, 90, 94, 101, 102, 103,
104, 105, 106, 109, 122, 124, 125, 126,
127, 128, 129, 137, 138, 147, 148, 149,
150, 151, 152, 156, 160, 177, 179, 183,
1S7, 188, 189, 195, 203, 207, 216, 217,
218, 219, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 234,
235, 238, 240, 241, 243, 244, 246, 247,
249, 250, 251, 252, 255, 256, 262, 263,
267, 269, 270, 273, 274, 276, 284, 285,
287, 288, 292, 306, 315, 320, 321, 326,
333, 337, 342, 343, 346, 351, 354, 355,
364, 365, 368, 374, 378, 381, 382, 389,
398, 400, 401, 402, 404, 406, 407, 410,
415, 419, 421, 422, 424, 425, 445, 446,
447, 448, 450, 453, 454, 456, 464, 466,
468, 470, 471, 475, 476, 480, 481, 482,
484, 489, 492, 493, 494, 495, 505, 508,
512, 517, 518, 523, 524, 529, 530, 533,

534, 535, 538, 544, 553.

Elizabeth A., 140, 250, 448, 479, 501,

524.
Elizabeth B., 491, 130, 364.
Elizabeth C, 275, 522.
Elizabeth D., 398.
Elizabeth E., 313.
Elizabeth G., 398, 615.
Elizabeth H., 65, 196, 197, 199, 276,

304.
Elizabeth J., 515.
Elizabeth L., 140, 141, 280, 331.
Elizabeth R., 207, 208, 348, 882, 412,

544.

Elizabeth M., 129, 340, 548.

Elizabeth S., 449.
Elizabeth T., 349.

Elizabeth W., 349, 460.

Ella, 423, 471, 537.

Ella A., 403.

Ella D., 506.

Ella E., 372.

Ella F., 456.

Ella M., 233, 267.

Ella N., 424.

Ella W., 517.

Ellen, 50, 53, 219, 240, 244, 250, 286, 314,
382, 395, 424, 476, 484, 493, 545, 551.

Ellen A., 129, 188, 191, 276, 399, 539.

Ellen D., 399.

Ellen E., 546.

Ellen F., 137, 185, 254, 265, 353.

Ellen H., 240.

Ellen J., 154, 333, 375.

Ellen L., 260, 381.

Ellen M., 344, 357.

Ellen S., 154, 240, 420.

Elliott, 123, 143, 161.

Ellis, 374.

Elmira, 132, 167, 224.

Elmira E., 155.

Elnathan, 159, 160.

Elow, 533.

Elsea, 257.

Elsea A., 455.

Elson, 202.

Elvah, 256.

Elvina, 127.

Elvira, 263, 276, 390, 391, 452.

Elvira M., 276.

Emeline, 103, 155, 179, 251, 289, 420,
454, 457, 549.

Emeline F., 341, 349.

Emeline H., 103.

Emeline N., 247.

Emeline K., 129, 179.

Emer, 264.

Emery, 425.

Emily, 54, 59, 85, 133, 140, 144, 192, 222,
224, 238, 244, 258, 274, 289, 290, 320,
322, 345, 351, 355, 372, 375, 439, 461,
462, 471, 505, 508, 516, 526, 533, 550.

Emily B., 381, 508, 516.

Emily C, 348, 425.

Emilv D., 204.

Emily De B., 459.

Emily E., 369.

Emily F., 162, 256.

Emily H., 258, 259.

Emily J., 264, 385.

Emily L., 208.

Emilv M.,440, 533.

Emily N., 208.

Emilv P., 357, 423.

Emma, 69, 75, 155, 176, 227, 230, 244,
256, 258, 316, 380, 448, 452, 456, 476.

Emma A., 518.

Emma C, 382.

Emma E., 401.

Emma F., 162, 455, 501.

71

562

GENERAL INDEX.

Emma J., 56, 316, 404.

Emma L., 355.

Emma S., 155.

Enoch, 51, 52, 158, 338, 339, 461, 540.

Enoch M., 51, 57, 58, 175.

Enos, 83, 84, 140, 283, 393, 456.

Kpaphras J., 420.

Ephraim, 128, 135, 166, 181, 182, 187, 224,
225, 229, 241, 242, 250, 267.

Ephraim S., 290.

Epinitas, 453.

Erastus, 219, 220, 471.

Erastus B., 522.

Erastus N., 398.

Ernest R., 155.

Ersula, 30.

Ervin, 236, 237.

Esdras, 61, 151, 152, 167.

Esquire, 312.

Essanah A., 246.

Estella, 313.

Esther, 42, 45, 55, 71, 75, 107, 124, 146,
193, 200, 214, 221, 223, 227, 234, 236,
242, 248, 255, 260, 271, 310, 311, 387,
391, 451, 453, 457, 459, 467, 505, 508,
514, 530, 531, 532, 357, 550.

Esther A., 495.

Esther B., 316.

Esther M., 381.

Esther S., 316.

Ethelday, 201.

Etta A.,' 545.

Eugene, 82.

Eugene G., 399.

Eugene H., 226.

Eu.iice, 84, 85, 95, 130, 131, 134, 137,
191, 195, 227, 231, 235, 246, 250, 254,
255, 256, 258, 260, 280, 286, 287, 354,
384, 396, 407, 418, 424, 445, 534, 637,

. 538, 542.

Eunice A., 281.

Eunice B., 227, 381.

Eunice E., 381, 401, 522.

Eunice M., 240.

Eunice R., 627.

Eunice W., 285.

Eva, 246, 265.

Eva A., 52, 249.

Evander, 367.

Eveline, 88, 244, 275, 346, 399, 415, 422,

Eveline E., 180.
Eveline M., 419.
Eveline S., 326.
Experience, 205, 225, 280, 305, 379, 402,

446, 629.
Ezekiel, 67, 83, 90, 187, 241, 242, 260,

280, 312, 348, 377, 379, 3S0.
Ezekiel S., 132.
Ezra, 55, 76, 178, 203, 204, 205, 225, 226,

230, 232, 235, 241, 242, 251, 252, 254,

264, 271, 317, 318, 319, 446, 447, 452,

453, 457, 482, 483, 500.
Ezra A., 377.
Ezra C., 254, 517.
Ezra G., 252.

Fanny, 76, 88, 90, 95, 196, 220, 224, 225,
229, 243, 252, 256, 390, 391, 404, 405,
424, 502, 521, 541.

Fanny K., 270.

Fanny L., 137, 238.

Fanny M., 405.

Fausta, 185.

Favette, 533.

Fear, 232, 527.

Ferdinand, 452.

Fidelia, 90, 332.

Fidelia A., 356.

Firman, 425.

Fitch, 457.

Floranna, 470.

Florence A., 317, 356.

Florence L., 357.

Florence M., 184.

Florentius, 396, 397.

Forrest G., 352.

Francelia, 462.

Francena M., 542. [548, 553.

Frances, 94, 396. 419, 457, 482, 518, 545,

Frances A., 154, 155, 237, 276, 548.

Frances E., 134, 144, 237, 238, 240, 289.

Frances J., 236, 524.
Frances M., 144, 365.

Frances W., 133, 395.
Francis, 30, 32, 66, 81, 130, 131, 132, 134,
149, 159, 162, 174, 189, 190, 233, 235,
245, 247, 249, 251, 409, 419, 494, 526.
Francis A., 124, 155, 236.
Francis B., 233, 357, 423, 424.
Francis D., 68.
Francis F., 248.
Francis G., 129.
Francis J., 411.
Francis M., 92.
Francis P., 155, 156.
Francis R., 52, 133, 134, 423, 459.
Frank, 159, 163, 224, 246, 247, 322, 338,

351, 352, 451, 495.
Frank A., 234, 377, 515.
Frank E., 516.
Frank H., 265.
Frank L., 133.
Frank M., 56.
Frank P., 489.
Frank W., 317.
Franklin, 72, 74, 84, 88, 90, 178, 221, 309,

315, 320, 375, 410, 476, 526.
Franklin A., 401.
Franklin D., 269, 285.
Franklin E., 315.
Franklin L., 545.
Franklin O., 74.
Franklin P., 191, 377.
Franklin W., 103.

Frederick, 78, 163, 175, 237, 215, 216, 233,
240, 256, 257, 312, 313, 317, 318, 320,
326, 346, 378, 415, 425, 553.
Frederick A., 57, 233, 399.
Frederick E., 342, 372.
Frederick F., 171.

GENERAL INDEX.

563

Frederick M., 278, 420.
Frederick P., 226.
Freelove, 224, 241, 262, 267.
Freeman, 56, 289, 390.
Freeman S., 314.
Frilenda, 454.
Fry, 266.
Furosina, 380.

G.

Gabrilla, 54.

Galfrinus, 28.

Gardner, 129.

George, 30, 32, 35, 37, 40, 49, 51, 52, 53,
54, 55, 61, 65, 66, 69, 72, 81, 82, 84, 94,
102, 105, 106, 107, 161, 162, 163, 180,
181, 182, 188, 189, 190, 192, 193, 204,
205, 216, 217, 220, 237, 262, 266, 267,
279, 285, 286, 289, 304, 305, 314, 347,
386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 395, 400, 401,
402, 407, 408, 420, 425, 426, 430, 433,
436, 443, 444, 452, 453, 454, 464, 465,
466, 481, 484, 485, 488, 489, 491, 493,
494, 495, 496, 497, 498, 501, 505, 518,
519, 521, 522, 524, 525, 526, 532, 544,
552

George A., 85, 185, 238, 267, 341, 349,
377, 481, 482.

George B., 57, 204, 226, 227, 246, 262,
265, 317, 346, 356, 525.

George C., 305, 429.

George D., 54, 107, 166. [501.

George E., 155, 226, 256, 278, 314, 420,

George E. W., 281.

George F., 88, 248, 252, 254, 269, 270,
348, 401, 422.

George F. H., 253.

George G., 86, 155.

George H., 59, 133, 137, 146, 190, 286,
320, 365, 382, 468, 471, 482, 494.

George J., 49, 508.

George K., 506.

George L., 403, 404, 546.

George M., 57, 140, 142, 175, 270.

George M. D., 193.

George P., 81, 142, 192, 347.

George R., 260.

George S., 144, 236, 237, 548.

George T., 94, 227, 304, 517.

George W., 71, 88, 142, 147, 149, 175, 179,
181, 191, 195, 261, 262, 263, 268, 281,
288, 289, 314, 315, 317, 323, 330, 356,
381, 382, 383, 389, 422, 448, 449, 455,
459, 466, 467, 468, 476, 493, 548.

George W. L., 73.

George W. P. 488, 489.

Georgianna, 176, 177, 204, 226, 230, 276,
281, 286, 365, 471.

Georgianna D., 236.

Georgianna H,, 104.

Gerry, 129.

Gertrude, 30, 423, 436.

Gertrude H., 204.

Gideon, 68, 69, 250.

Gideon F. T., 268.

Gilbert, 276, 450, 522.
Gilbert B., 397.
Giles, 32, 35.
Oilman, 181, 466.
Godard, 343, 349, 379.
Goldsmith, 30.
Gordon, 46.
Grace, 143, 421, 529.
Grace G., 188.
Gracv T. H., 181.
Gridfey, 342.
Gunutus, 306.
Gurnsey, 352.
Gustavus A., 402.
Gustavus L., 408.

H.

Haddassa, 205.

Haffield, 188.

Hainan T., 34.

Hammond. 137, 145, 150.

Handel, 255.

Hannah, 42, 43, 45. 46, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54,
55, 56, 57, 59, 65, 66, 69, 70, 71, 75, 80,
81, 85, 91, 94, 102, 103, 123, 124, 126,
127, 129, 130, 142, 144, 145, 146, 148,
152, 163, 164, 166, 168, 174, 176, 179,
181, 182, 188, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195,
196, 200, 205, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219,
223, 224, 225, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233,
234, 235, 236, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242,
243, 244, 245, 247, 249, 250, 251, 252,
255, 256, 261, 264, 274, 277, 280, 281,
283, 284, 285, 288, 290, 304, 305, 306,
308, 312, 313, 316, 318, 323, 325, 326,
328, 335, 336, 337, 340, 341, 343, 344,
345, 349, 351, 352, 353, 354, 355, 357,
362, 365, 366, 369, 373, 374, 375, 378,
379, 380, 386, 387, 388, 391, 392, 393,
395, 396, 397, 400, 403, 404, 407, 408,
410, 411, 414, 415, 417, 421, 422, 424,
446, 447, 453, 455, 490, 495, 499, 502,
508, 509, 515, 516, 522, 623, 524, 527,
629, 531, 532, 533, 534, 535, 537, 538,
544.

Hannah A., 158, 281, 383, 481, 482.

Hannah B., 534.

Hannah C, 53, 429.

Hannah E., 382, 397, 456.

Hannah F., 167.

Hannah G., 517.

Hannah H., 312, 323, 324.

Hannah M., 77, 191, 253, 352, 525, 527.

Hannah P., 544.

Hannah R., 71, 197, 198.

Hannah W., 49, 96, 190, 499.

Hanson, 49, 50.

Hanson L., 197, 198.

Harmond, 123, 131.

Harriett, 57, 85, 104, 127, 163, 166, 167,
215, 219, 236, 261, 262, 285, 286, 305,
306, 307, 375, 383, 385, 394, 395, 396,
401, 422, 426, 457, 464, 468, 476, 485,
495, 505, 514, 525, 526, 532, 545, 546,
551, 653.

504

GENERAL INDEX.

Harriett A., 127, 276, 284, 286.

Harriett B., 260.

Harriett D., 185, 349.

Harriett E., 252, 262, 386, 447.

Harriett F., 164.

Harriett G., 514.

Harriett J., 84, 127.

Harriett L., 82, 308.

Harriett M., 423.

Harriett N., 57, 197, 237, 262, 323.

Harriett P., 319.

Harriett R., 239, 349.

Harriett S., 289, 316, 218.

Harriett W., 129, 323, 403.

Harrietta. 84.

Harrietta S., 179.

Harrv, 500.

Harvey, 248.

Harwood, 455.

Hassen, 524.

Hattie D., 156.

Hattie F., 188.

Hattie U., 238.

Haywood E., 162.

Helen, 36, 54, 168, 172, 180, 183, 190,
230, 232, 366, 372, 375, 381, 394, 448,
466, 467.

Helen A., 141, 208, 320, 355.

Helen F., 155.

Helen J., 133.

Helen K., 492.

Helen L., 304.

Helen M., 84, 357, 462, 492, 509.

Helen S., 330.

Hepsah, 225.

Hepzibah, 122, 126, 146, 148, 149, 241,
540.

Heman, 288.

Henrietta, 161, 290, 346, 350, 552.

Henrietta F., 90.

Henrietta M., 185.

Henrietta S., 84.

Henry, 27, 29, 30, 31, 39, 68, 69, 77, 83,
84, 96, 138, 142, 163, 174, 175, 181, 185,
190, 191, 202, 203, 205, 226, 229, 237,
246, 253, 263, 264, 267, 320, 321, 354,
355, 430, 439, 456, 459, 460, 462, 477,
491, 505, 518, 524, 524, 525, 540, 552,
553

Henry A., 134, 192, 252, 274.

Henry C, 125, 142, 191, 237, 240, 322.

Henrv D., 220, 288, 352, 542.

Henry F., 77, 233, 257.

Henry G., 155, 455.

Henry H., 206, 244, 285, 308, 349, 420,
494, 514.

Henry J., 82, 103, 195, 308, 404, 491,
494.

Henry L., 192, 322, 330, 356, 381, 493.

Henry M., 37, 254, 321, 471.

Henry N., 269, 449, 457.

Henry 0., 166, 188, 254.

Henrv R., 153, 154, 180, 422.

Henry S., 482.

Henry W., 138, 269, 344, 345, 347, 356,
357, 375, 395, 410.

Hensbv, 429, 430.

Herber A., 313.

Herbert, 85, 189, 220, 233, 351, 512,

Herbert A., 254, 314, 315, 517.

Herbert G., 255.

Herbert P., 191.

Herbert R., 182.

Herbert V., 420.

Herbert W., 340.

Hervey N., 485.

Hester, 311.

Hezekiah, 187, 204, 214, 216, 241,

351, 447, 519, 537.
Hezekiah B., 518.
Hezekiah L., 536.
Hinds, 78, 79, 80.
Hiram, 94, 106, 143, 145, 249, 356,

472, 482, 521.
Hiram A., 158.
Hiram D., 412.
Hiram S., 224.
Hiram T., 527.
Hiram W., 533.
Hodges, 397, 399, 406.
Hope, 328, 417.
Hopestill, 194, 224, 267.
Holland, 524.
Holland H., 197.
Holland N., 198.
Hollis, 207.
Homer J., 202.
Horace, 202, 218, 235, 236, 261, 289,

457, 512, 532, 550.
Horace D., 330.
Horace H., 559.
Horatio, 146, 266, 267, 526.
Horatio G., 327, 381.
Horatio M., 226.
Horatio N., 527, 533.
Hosea, 409.
Howard, 176.
Hubbard, 219.
Hubbard W., 365.
Hugh, 500, 506.
Huldah, 83, 86, 105, 184, 214, 215,

223, 225, 229, 232, 238, 242, 244,

256, 257, 343, 408, 409, 453, 482, 5
Huldah I)., 533.
Huldah W., 403.

554.

350,

344,

216,

23.

Ichabod, 200, 234, 235, 238, 239, 337, 338,
353, 354, 385, 402, 407, 408, 409, 424,
425.

Ichabod M., 385.

Ida, 456, 495.

Ira, 133.

Ira W., 522.

Irene, 182, 404, 413, 635.

Isaac, 40, 51, 55, 58, 59, 81, 83, 93, 94,
124, 125, 126, 143, 159, 187, 188, 189,
193, 217, 242, 273, 280, 286, 287, 305,
313, 343, 344, 350, 355, 377, 384, 385,
387, 390, 449, 451, 453, 454, 455, 484,
489, 495, 530, 549.

GENERAL INDEX.

565

Isaac B., 449.

Isaac C, 126.

Isaac G., 126, 449.

Isaac M., 409.

Isaac P., 482.

Isaac R., 377.

Isaac S., 504, 505.

Isaac T., 357, 384, 385, 448.

Isaac W., 479, 480.

Isabella, 50, 125, 129, 375, 453, 465, 466,

467, 522.
Isabella A., 163.
Isabella H., 382.
Isabella 0., 552.
Isabella S., 281.
Isadore, 865.
Isaiah, 69, 72, 73, 124, 160, 162, 163, 3S8,

402, 403, 404, 405.
Isiod, 29, 32.
Israel, 62, 66, 67, 68, 181, 187, 243, 249,

355, 358, 407.
Issachar, 379.
Ithiel, 446.
Ivis, 310.

J.

Jabez, 67, 81, 82, 308, 482, 530, 531.

Jabez E., 82, 308.

Jabez W., 261.

Jackson, 147, 268.

Jacob, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 56, 58,
82, 83, 87, 88, 93, 106, 139, 142, 153,
164, 176, 183, 187, 217, 220, 238, 272,
280, 281, 311, 337, 338, 341, 348, 373,
374, 375, 376, 411, 412, 447, 448, 450,
451, 483, 489, 493, 497, 506, 517, 518,
530, 531, 548, 549.

Jacob H., 71.

Jacob O., 506.

Jacob P., 48.

Jacob R., 451.

Jacob S., 54.

Jacob W., 140, 141, 449.

Jaletta, 224.

James, 35, 36, 40, 54, 55. 58, 59, 71, 72, 75,
78, 79, 80, 84, 92, 93, 104, 107, 126, 148,
149, 151, 152, 154, 155, 158, 161, 167,
175, 179, 181, 182, 183, 187, 1S8, 190,
193, 203, 220, 223, 224, 237, 242, 249,
250, 254, 255, 261, 264, 267, 273, 312,
320, 335, 336, 337, 350, 368, 378, 379,
391, 400, 406, 410, 418, 421, 424, 425,
426, 433, 441, 446, 447, 450, 464, 466,
467, 470, 471, 482, 484, 485, 486, 487,

488, 489, 491, 494, 495, 502, 507, 508,
515, 516, 517, 541, 549.

James A., 149, 158, 319, 374, 402, 492, 514.

James B., 82, 184, 268.

James C, 94, 386, 401, 451.

James D., 159, 385, 386.

James E., 50, 483, 515.

James F., 489.

James G., 129, 181, 195, 516.

James H., 84, 276, 322, 381, 421, 449,

489, 522.

James H. L., 332.

James H. P., 194.

James J., 509.

James L., 249, 356, 377.

James M., 83, 195, 276, 283, 290, 423,
456, 465, 486, 490, 494, 506, 511.

James N., 258. 260, 423, 514.

James R., 204, 471.

James S., 154.

James T., 350, 429, 515.

James W., 336, 524, 525.

Jane, 33, 35, 36, 42, 46, 55, 74, 127, 149,
152, 159, 163, 184, 204, 237, 239, 247,
248, 249, 250, 252, 258, 260, 265, 317,
318, 320, 326, 333, 335, 336, 347, 356,
364, 375, 410, 415, 453, 465, 466, 468,
481, 482, 484, 485, 492, 495, 496, 497,
500, 517, 525, 544.

Jane A., 266, 319.

Jane A. M., 221.

Jane B., 92, 316.

Jane C, 51, 73.

Jane D., 155, 375, 410.

Jane E., 314.

Jane G., 347.

Jane H., 492.

Jane L., 491.

Jane M., 141, 168, 242, 447, 453.

Jane P., 320, 504.

Jane W., 263.

Jared, 219, 350, 352.

Jarvis P., 404.

Jason, 154, 155, 254, 283, 305, 331, 402.

Jason W., 206.

Jedediah, 531.

Jefferson, 128, 304, 518.

Jemima, 66, 165, 249, 250, 273, 390, 401,
453, 532, 534.

Jennette, 73, 237, 336, 380, 466, 540.

Jennette B., 251.

Jennie, 320. 447, 506.

Jepthah, 177.

Jeremiah, 45, 51, 57, 67, 68, 243, 250,
350, 353, 537, 541.

Jeremiah B., 57, 58.

Jeremiah W., 409.

Jeremv, 276.

Jeremy B., 276.

Jerome, 248.

Jerusha, 178, 217, 222, 253.

Jerusha, 354, 355, 372, 525, 530, 532, 550,
551.

Jesse,' 86, 143, 148, 149, 177, 201, 227,
250, 252, 323, 338, 339, 342, 380, 383,

411, 446, 450, 491.
Jesse E., 323.
Jesse N., 505.
Jesse W., 246.
Jessie, 225.

Jirah, 502.

Joan, 30, 37, 177, 389.
Joanna, 89, 93, 131, 166, 191, 229, 315,
343, 348, 349, 375, 378, 383, 408, 410,

412, 446, 447, 450, 455, 514, 516, 530.
Joanna F., 522.

Joanna P., 133.

566

GENERAL INDEX.

Job, 389, 390, 392, 393.

Joel, 58, 93, 94, 95, 106, 166, 176, 229,
230, 232, 235, 248, 254, 283, 309, 355,
356, 446, 523, 548.

John, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37,
38, 39, 42, 44, 46, 48, 49, 51, 55, 56, 58,
59, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 78, 80, 81,
91, 92, 94, 100, 102, 103, 104, 123, 130,
143, 144, 150, 152, 153, 159, 163, 164,
175, 181, 182, 184, 186, 187, 188, 190,
194, 195, 200, 201, 203, 205, 209, 210,
214, 216, 217, 219, 220, 222, 223, 226,
229, 231, 234, 236, 242, 243, 246, 247,
249, 257, 258, 264, 271, 273, 277, 279,
283, 284, 285, 286, 305, 307, 310, 311,
312, 315, 316, 317, 320, 321, 322, 325,
326, 327, 328, 337, 342, 348, 354, 355,
360, 361, 362, 363, 364, 370, 371, 372,
377, 383, 386, 387, 388, 389, 391, 392,
393, 397, 398, 400, 401, 406, 407, 410,
411, 413, 414, 415, 416, 417, 418, 419,
420, 422, 424, 426, 427, 429, 430, 431,
433, 436, 441, 444, 445, 446, 447, 450,
451, 452, 453, 454, 455, 456, 461, 462,
464, 465, 466, 467, 470, 471, 472, 473,
475, 476, 477, 478, 481, 482, 483, 484,
485, 486, 488, 489, 491, 493, 494, 501,
505, 506, 507, 508, 512, 513, 514, 515,
516, 519, 520, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525,
526, 527, 528, 529, 530, 531, 533, 534,
535, 536, 539, 540, 544, 548, 549.

John A., 134, 198, 254, 266, 321, 494.

John B., 103, 233, 234, 237, 248, 249, 275,
289, 320, 377, 422, 516.

John C, 36, 166, 365, 401, 409, 411, 412,
468, 506, 518.

John D., 236, 365, 384, 398, 443, 491, 502,
520, 441.

John E., 422.

John F., 68, 88, 104, 404, 476, 485, 499,
515, 548.

John F. H., 60.

John G., 248, 285, 286, 305, 343, 374, 396,
519, 546.

John G. A., 404.

John H., 43, 53, 192, 203, 258, 260, 318,
322, 449, 465, 492, 617, 524, 545, 549.

John J., 452, 500.

John L., 140, 181, 322, 545.

John M., 146, 160, 161, 364, 401, 440, 447,
527.

John N., 402.

John O., 517.

John P., 134, 144, 154, 238, 340, 341, 344,
471, 534.

John R., 402, 476.

John S., 84, 149, 174, 240, 247, 412, 449.

John T., 195, 196, 250, 486, 516.

John T. F., 19.

John W., 154, 262, 316, 322, 462, 463,
484, 501, 518, 522.

Jonah H., 84.

Jonas, 106, 107, 124, 125, 126, 127, 130,
149, 182, 183, 250, 278, 493.

Jonas H., 127.

Jonas L., 163.

Jonas P., 163.

Jonathan, 45, 49, 65, 70, 71, 72, 74, 82
93, 94, 102, 124, 126, 152, 167, 187, 224
225, 235, 236, 264, 266, 283, 285, 305
306, 328, 337, 338, 340, 350, 387, 388
391, 392, 396, 402, 410, 417, 418, 424.
446, 467, 468, 482, 491, 518, 522, 523.
526, 531, 532, 536, 540, 548.

Jonathan E., 93.

Jonathan H., 534.

Jonathan L., 340.

Jonathan M., 278.

Joseph, 37, 52, 54, 65, 67, 68. 75, 78, 81
82, 83, 85, 91, 92, 96, 130, 148, 149, 159
160, 161, 166, 175, 176, 181, 182, 183
188, 195, 196, 203, 205, 206, 217, 230
232, 243, 244, 245, 246, 248, 249, 250
260, 263, 277, 278, 284, 285, 286, 287
304, 307, 308, 312, 313, 322, 326, 328
345, 352, 384, 385, 387, 388, 391, 392
410, 411, 415, 417, 418, 421, 430, 458
459, 461, 470, 471, 484, 485, 489, 491
494, 498, 499, 508, 615, 517, 520, 522
523, 525, 529, 530, 531, 534, 544, 545.

Joseph A., 81, 163, 308, 502, 503, 619.

Joseph B., 244, 249, 281, 401, 422, 493.

Joseph C, 549.

Joseph E., 144, 153, 154, 204, 422, 423,
518.

Joseph F., 190.

Joseph G., 76.

Joseph H., 162, 192, 489.

Joseph M., 68, 92, 198, 237, 309.

Joseph N., 68.

Joseph P., 81, 144, 308.

Joseph R., 164, 233, 606.

Joseph S., 82, 153, 154, 191, 368, 508,
509.

Joseph T., 238.

Joseph W., 60, 73, 74, 124, 128, 167, 188,
190, 258, 278, 306, 381, 471.

Josephine, 147, 357, 553.

Josephine L., 329.

Josephus, 234, 421, 427.

Josephus E., 424.

Josephus F., 233, 234.

Josiah, 55, 56, 124, 150, 162, 179, 180,
188, 194, 195, 200, 201, 217, 218, 219,
220, 221, 263, 314, 342, 369, 379, 380,
394, 397, 446, 466, 605, 514, 529, 531,
532, 537, 538, 551.

Josiah A., 314.

Josiah B., 314, 408.

Josiah C, 230.

Josiah H., 203, 370.

Josiah M., 68, 230.

Josiah P., 159, 229, 230, 232.

Josiah T., 73.

Joshua, 56, 70, 71, 72, 75, 76, 81, 82, 122,
147, 148, 149, 154, 159, 160, 162, 177,
178, 201, 203, 241, 242, 243, 244, 250,
287, 288, 354, 375, 400, 408, 430, 531,
537.

Joshua B., 142.

Joshua H., 154.

Joshua L., 196.

GENERAL INDEX.

567

Joshua R., 514.

Joshua T., 153.

Joshua V., 153.

Jude, 95, 96.

Judith, 53, 54, 70, 72, 106, 174, 188, 190,

191, 223, 227, 230, 243, 287, 519, 530.
Judith E., 206.
Judith M., 289.
Julia, 49, 55, 56, 84, 181, 217, 218, 240,

267, 386, 390, 398, 399, 482, 645.
Julia A., 82, 85, 94, 155, 162, 233, 254,

260, 263, 265, 279, 284, 288, 289, 308,

403, 408, 450, 517, 549, 550.
Julia F., 156.
Julia H., 386.
Julia L., 206, 322.
Julia M., 198, 517.
Julia W., 240, 258, 259, 425.
Julian, 540.
Juliette E., 185.
Julius, 225.
Julius A., 218.
Julius H., 290.
Justus, 217, 221, 238.
Justus C, 222.

K.

Kate, 247, 322, 448, 456, 504, 505.

Kersey, 82, 93.

Kersia, 107.

Kerziah, 70, 91, 408.

Keziah, 91, 106, 107, 229.

Keziah C, 95.

Kitchel, 482, 483.

L.

Lafayette, 79.

Lamia, 461, 462.

Lanson, 290.

Laura, 94, 96, 167, 179, 193, 240, 289,

391, 462, 532, 540.
Laura A., 382, 401, 488, 540.
Laura E., 193.
Laura M., 155.
Laurelia A., 84.
Lauretta, 139.
Lavina, 91, 92, 261.
Lawrence B., 355.
Lawton, 425.
Leafe, 267.
Leander, 462, 468.
Learned, 205.
Lebbens, 447.
Lediana, 453.
Let'a R., 92.
Lefe, 224.
Lemira D., 353.
Lemuel, 168, 235, 238, 239, 267, 285, 496,

519. 533, 534.
Lena, 462.
Leonard, 92, 158, 159, 175, 176, 207, 221,

237, 245, 271.
Leonard D., 236.
Leonard R., 92.

Lenora, 176, 279.

Leroy C., 469.

Lerov S., 129.

Leslie O., 179.

Letitia, 308, 351, 504.

Lettice, 549.

Levi, 81, 176, 177, 214, 235, 255, 288, 326,

345, 346, 383, 385, 408, 409, 415, 519,
532, 533.

Levi B., 263, 264.

Levi E., 409.

Levi H., 73, 74.

Levi R., 516.

Levina C, 245.

Lewellyn, 96.

Lewis, 55, 129, 167, 238, 264, 270, 326,

346, 415, 430, 449.
Lewis B., 451, 452.
Lewis G., 270.
Lewis L., 226, 227.
Liander C., 545.
Lienphena E., 329, 330.
Lilla E., 53.
Lincoln, 81.

Linnie, 516.

Littleton, 493.

Lizzie, 220, 320.

Lizzie M., 279.

Lizzie S., 174.

Llovd, 341.

Lloyd W., 340.

Lois, 53, 54, 55, 125, 176, 223, 226, 227,

238, 240, 250, 256, 273, 280, 288, 393,

404, 408, 452, 502, 533.
Lois J., 546.
Lois M., 125.
Loren, 316.
Loren B., 179.
Loren G., 518.
Loren R., 403, 404.
Loren W., 313.
Lorena, 219, 284, 309.
Lorena S., 190.
Lorette, 179.

Lorenzo, 229, 284, 309, 349.
Lorenzo E., 144.
Lorenzo H., 224.
Lorinda, 92, 106.
Lot, 143, 266, 389.
Louisa, 31, 37, 92, 143, 174, 175, 206, 218

219, 236, 273, 276, 284, 286, 288, 323

346, 358, 365, 384, 391, 410, 415, 516,

527.
Louvisa, 175.
Loved, 389, 392, 400.
Lovina, 306.
Lovina A., 504.
Lucetta M., 206.
Lucia E., 358.
Lucian O., 202.
Luciana, 319.
Lucilia W., 202.
Lucilla, 146, 190.
Lucilia P., 138.
Lucillus, 468.
Lucina, 222, 353.

568

GENERAL INDEX.

Lucinda, 50, 140, 166, 176, 178, 180, 181,
230, 256, 265, 268, 273, 274, 284, 309,
402, 502, 514, 545.

Lucinda C, 516.

Lucinda D., 347.

Lucinda F., 356.

Lucinda J., 521.

Lucinda R., 394.

Lucinda S., 403.

Luclarion, 469.

Lucretia, 92, 374, 402, 430, 451, 527.

Lucretia A., 357.

Lucretia J., 546.

Lucv, 37, 50, 52, 67, 71, 72, 107, 128, 129,
131, 146, 154, 159, 164, 165, 174, 177,
178, 179. 180, 181, 183, 184, 195, 203,

219, 224, 225, 231, 240, 244, 254, 255,
267, 268, 272, 276, 277, 283, 310, 319,
321, 332, 339, 340, 341, 342, 349, 357,
374, 378, 383, 384, 385, 390, 391, 403,
407, 408, 409, 410, 411, 470, 500, 508,
512, 518, 519, 528, 530, 531, 535, 536,
537

Lucv A., 43, 44, 56, 179, 317, 319, 342,
343, 356, 401, 468, 515, 518, 519, 546.

Lucy C, 506.

Lucy D., 192.

Lucy E., 188, 206, 508.

Lucy F., 94.

Lucy H., 332, 333, 338, 351.

Lucv J., 180, 344, 347, 352, 491, 546.

Lucy M., 60, 53, 494.

Lucv N., 193, 195.

Lucv P., 185, 491.

Lucy R., 494, 509.

Lucy S., 268.

Lucy W., 200, 211, 218, 317.

Luke, 76, 97, 214, 375, 408, 470, 471.

Luke W., 470.

Luinan, 221, 487.

Luther, 166, 1S4, 385, 402, 403, 486, 494,
523, 541, 546.

Lutlier A., 494.

Luther F., 167.

Luther W., 167, 181, 546.

Lydia, 46, 51, 53, 56, 59, 60, 71, 75, 86,
87, 91, 94, 125, 145, 149, 153, 154, 163,
165, 174, 176, 177, 178, 181, 182, 190,
193, 195, 196, 199, 203, 207, 208, 219,

220, 222, 229, 230, 232, 241, 243, 244,
250, 251, 252, 254, 255, 256, 257, 266,
273, 277, 283, 284, 287, 305, 308, 317,
318, 320, 342, 345, 357, 365, 373, 375,
377, 378, 393, 394, 396, 400, 410, 421,
424, 453, 515, 516, 520, 522, 524, 525,
528, 530, 531, 537, 538, 541, 548, 553.

Lvdia A., 53, 220. 336, 534.

L'vdia B., 174, 321, 380, 403, 540.

Lydia C, 534.

Lydia D., 519.

Lvdia E., 357.

L'ydia H., 419.

Lvdia J., 345.

Lvdia M., 344.

Lvdia R., 403.

Lydia S., 281, 420.

Lydia W., 284, 409.
Lyman, 55, 219, 220, 232, 333.
Lvraan G., 499.
Lynd, 641.

M.

Mabel, 61, 214, 216.

Madaline, 31, 50.

Mahala, 180, 357, 358, 409, 515, 525.

Matiala R., 524.

Malinda, 230.

Malvina, 374.

Malvina M., 68.

Marab, 214.

Marah H., 344.

Marah S., 471.

Marcellus, 246.

Marcia, 345, 349, 424.

Maroia A., 329, 333.

Marcia J., 138.

Marcus, 242, 336, 337, 384, 623, 550.

Marcus M., 385.

Marcus S., 352.

Margaret, 28, 29, 30, 33, 34, 42, 55, 75,
82, 103, 187, 188, 238, 248, 249, 261,
263, 275, 310, 313, 325, 392, 414, 466,
482, 4S5, 492, 493, 496, 497, 505, 515,
619, 520, 523, 525, 534.

Margaret A., 489.

Margaret D., 167.

Margaret J., 548.

Margaret M., 439.

Margaret T., 469.

Margaret \V., 541.

Margery, 470.

Margerv J., 479.

Maria, 50, 68, 70, 81, 161, 177, 201, 215,
230, 232, 234, 238, 247, 249, 266, 290,
306, 307, 314, 356, 357, 372, 394, 395,
419, 447, 452, 459, 467, 479, 485, 517,
519, 526, 553.

Maria A., 281, 493, 616.

Maria 0., 253.

Maria E., 459.

Maria F., 181, 341, 349.

Maria H., 344.

Maria J., 517, 627.

Maria L., 37, 218, 268, 269, 330, 425.

Maria S., 390.

Maria T., 319.

Maria \V., 377, 381, 385.

Marian, 82, 252, 278.

Marianna, 31.

Marianna M , 229.

Marietta, 53, 277, 284.

Marietta S., 265.

Manila, 132, 133.

Marissa, 550.

Maritta, 550.

Mark, 239, 352.

Marshal, 351, 391.

Martin, 289, 425, 481, 483, 4S5, 488.

Martin E., 278.

Martin P., 179.

GENERAL INDEX.

569

Martha, 43, 44, 67, 68, 70, 95, 102, 103,
147, 148, 149, 163, 175, 176, 188, 203,
204, 205, 223, 227, 229, 230, 232, 238,
239, 241, 245, 246, 247, 254, 260, 265,
287, 316, 322, 342, 343, 344, 346, 364,
373, 404, 406, 418, 437, 448, 450, 456,
459, 465, 476, 479, 484, 494; 503, 506,

518, 521, 526, 539, 549.

Martha A., 85, 184, 185, 270, 281, 322,

449, 484, 527.
Martha B., 526.
Martha E., 159, 198, 208, 279, 356, 545,

548.
Martha G., 260.
Martha H., 192.
Martha J., 103, 237, 279, 501.
Martha L., 275.
Martha M., 254, 260, 404, 521.
Martha 0., 263.
Martha P., 344.
Martha S., 143.

Martha W., 84, 188, 193, 254, 488.
Mary, 32, 35, 36, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48,

49, 50, 51, 52, 55, 57, 58, 59, 65, 66, 67,

68, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75,76,""

86, 88, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95,

104, 106, 107, 122, 123, 125,

129, 130, 134, 138, 140, 142,

145, 147, 148, 149, 150, 152

156, 159, 161, 163, 164, 165

175, 177, 178, 179, 187, 188

196, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204

215, 217, 220, 221, 223, 224,

230, 232, 233, 235, 236, 237

241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246

251, 252, 253, 254, 257, 260

265, 266, 267, 269, 274, 275

280, 283, 284, 287, 288, 304

308, 310, 311, 312, 313, 316:

319, 320, 322, 323, 325, 326

330, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341

346, 354, 355, 357, 365, 369

377, 378, 379, 386, 3S7, 389

394, 400, 406, 410, 411, 414

417, 418, 421, 425, 430, 432

442, 443, 444, 445, 446, 447

452, 454, 459, 464, 467, 46S

481, 482, 484, 4S5, 488, 489

505, 506, 507, 608, 515, 516

519, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526
632, 533, 534, 535, 537, 540
549, 551, 552, 553.

Marv A., 37, 72, 84, 124, 154,

178, 181, 184, 188, 190, 191

226, 230, 235, 236, 255, 256

276, 279, 280, 288, 289, 313

326, 331, 332, 346, 348, 352

377, 381, 390, 397, 398, 404

421, 449, 454, 455, 456, 465

476, 477, 479, 483, 493, 495

522, 525, 526, 527, 539, 546
Marv A. P., 540.
Marv B., 73, 75, 76, 81, 204, 245, 246,

308, 336, 420, 460, 525.
Marv C, 143, 154, 233, 246, 395, 420, 471,

508, 540.

79, 81, S4,

101

102,

126

128,

143

144,

154

155,

168

174,

193

194,

205

210,

225

227,

238

239,

248

249,

261

264,

277

278,

305

306,

317

318,

327

328,

343

345,

373

374,

391

392,

415

416,

433

436,

446

449,

476

479,

493

501,

517

518,

530

531,

542

548,

158

163,

220

221,

267

274,

314

320,

366

372,

412

415,

466

467,

512

521,

548

550.

Mary D., 192, 237, 523.

Marv E., 50, 52, 68, 81, 92, 93, 133, 138,
142, 143, 146, 183, 197, 217, 218, 236,
237, 246, 251, 254, 289, 316, 333, 336,
346, 357, 366, 384, 409, 466, 479, 484,
489, 508, 523, 526, 541.

Mary F., 59, 137, 168, 244, 334, 377, 381,
494, 524, 548.

Mary G., 56, 79, 196, 398, 409, 491, 506,
518.

Mary H., 174, 175, 506.

Mary H. C, 522.

Marv J., 127, 141, 166, 175, 194, 239, 281,
284, 288, 304, 309, 3S2, 395, 412, 419,
466, 476, 487, 503, 604, 526, 542.

Mary J. M., 471.

Mary L., 82, 164, 265, 284, 308, 312, 323,
332, 340, 459.

Mary M., 129, 163, 184, 253, 269, 357,
517, 545.

Mary 0., 471.

Mary P., 256, 268, 426.

Mary E., 235, 524, 534.

Mary S., 196, 321, 377, 466, 513.

Mary T., 348, 356.

Mary W., 50, 253.

Mason, 224.

Mason H., 500.

Mason W., 142.

Matthew, 37, 151, 235, 251, 287, 308, 355,
356, 447, 451, 452, 464, 466, 466, 483.

Matthew H., 251.

Matthew W., 188.

Maxwell, 479.

Medora A., 545.

Mehitabel, 56, 59, 93, 94, 95, 187, 219,
222, 313, 318, 320, 326, 335, 336, 338,
339, 341, 345, 346, 352, 355, 374, 375,
408, 415, 446, 498, 502, 537.

Mehitabel C, 74.

Mehitabel F., 153, 154.

Mehitabel N., 281.

Mehitabel R. W., 340.

Melinda, 267, 371, 402.

Melinda A., 371.

Melissa, 220, 264, 283, 332, 391, 468.

Melissa A., 185.

Melvin, 351.

Micah, 130, 137, 283, 305.

Micah S., 68.

Micah T., 139.

Micajah, 281.

Miea'jah H., 155.

Micajah S., 274, 275.

Michael, 266, 483, 493, 496, 497, 548.

Mildred, 30.

Milo F., 266.

Millev, 124, 271.

Milton, 242, 243, 550.

Milton S., 243.

Mindol, 179.

Minerva, 81, 267, 308.

Mira A., 281.

Miranda, 226, 255, 349, 525.

Miranda A., 255.

Missouri, 268.

72

570

GENERAL INDEX.

Mitchel, 519.

Mollv, 144, 159, 173, 177, 181, 184, 232,

280, 285, 305, 340, 341, 342, 348, 379,

383, 484, 504, 533.
Molly A., 72.
Molly D., 72.
Molly M., 125.
Montgomery S., 141.
Mortier L., 205.
Morton, 390.
Mortimer, 554.
Moses, 91, 130, 139, 140, 183, 187, 220,

222, 225, 235, 241, 247, 273, 274, 337,

350, 446, 447, 466, 468, 495, 515, 528.
Myron, 202, 514.

Myron J., 394.
Myron W., 412.

N.

Nabby, 70, 105, 106, 159, 179, 190, 283,
306, 411.

Nabby H., 80.

Nahu'm, 72, 205, 216, 220, 350, 377.

Nahum A., 356.

Nahum C, 144.

Nancy, 51, 54, 55, 57, 59, 81, 92, 94, 107,

127, 147, 163, 164, 165, 176, 182, 183,

184, 196, 202, 225, 230, 232, 233, 236,

239, 245, 250, 253, 254, 258, 262, 264,

270, 273, 275, 276, 280, 282, 286, 304,

314, 318, 322, 338, 339, 344, 348, 350,

351, 364, 382, 394, 389, 401, 408, 411,
412, 413, 418, 419, 422, 426, 429, 430,
447, 461, 462, 481, 488, 505, 514, 515,
524, 540, 548.

Nancy A., 377.

Nancy B., 527.

Nancy D., 398.

Nancy E., 127, 331, 412, 492.

Nancy F., 143.

Nancy H., 258, 345.

Nancy J., 276.

Nancy L., 73, 74.

Nancy M., 58, 92, 314, 518.

Nancy P., 268, 270.

Nancy S., 338.

Nancy W., 196, 198.

Nannie, 322.

Naomi, 55, 57, 219, 229, 306, 350, 412, 548.

Narcissa, 51, 52.

Nathan, 59, 81, 89, 95, 107, 108, 123, 124,

125, 126, 127, 128, 145.
Nathan A., 265.
Nathan B., 81.
Nathan C, 127.
Nathan D., 270.
Nathan F., 68, 340.
Nathan G., 289.

Nathan H., 143, 145, 265, 449, 450.
Nathan O., 143.
Nathan P., 49.
Nehemiah C., 497.
Nehemiah L., 71.
Nelly, 84.
Nelly M., 175.

Nelson, 225, 486, 533, 551.

Nelson S., 517.

Nettie E., 256.

Newell, 106.

Newell B., 544.

Newell S., 545.

Newton, 268, 457.

Nicholas, 46, 58, 487.

Nicholas G., 46, 57, 524.

Noah, 223, 225, 227, 233, 234, 255, 256,

257, 258, 317, 318, 338, 339, 373, 374,

408, 411, 506, 527.
Noah B., 466.
Noah W., 411, 412.

0.

Oakes, 351.

Obadiah, 93, 94, 151, 152. 222, 225, 229,

232, 267, 269, 337, 350, 352, 353, 355,

358, 494, 515.
Obadiah S., 269.
Obed, 384.
Ogden, 552.
Ogdon B., 290.
Olin P., 155.
Olive, 68, 72, 107, 130, 166, 168, 172, 174,

176, 178, 235, 241, 246, 251, 254, 256,

264, 277, 279, 322, 339, 350, 353, 363,

380, 384, 403, 409, 411.
Olive A., 333.
Olive B., 340.
Olive J., 332.
Olive M., 245.
Olive S., 138.
Oliver, 49, 83, 85, 123, 142, 143, 176, 178,

236, 239, 241, 242, 328, 383, 402, 403,

406, 417, 418, 426, 454, 456, 515.
Oliver A., 454.
Oliver C, 456.
Oliver D., 403, 404.
Oliver F., 73.
Oliver H., 317, 356, 522.
Olney, 261.
Opha, 56.
Orail, 205.
Oren, 240, 267.
Oren A., 239.
Oren J., 245.
Orinda, 223.
Orinda H., 336.
Orison, 279, 466.
Orlando, 106, 522.
Ormond F., 233.
Orpha, 178, 276, 278, 398, 411.
Orpha A., 182.
Orphana, 203.
Orphena, 203.
Orphoso, 203.
Orrin, 127, 133, 267, 348.
Orvill, 4S3.
Oscar, 423, 466.
Osman, 449.
Osmand F., 257.
Otho, 250.
Otho B., 250.

GENERAL INDEX.

571

Otis, 144, 162, 220, 254, 266, 400, 401,

409, 550.
Otis A., 527.
Otis H., 539.
Owen, 500.
Ozias, 532, 539.

Paooral, 410.

Paddock, 423.

Palmer T., 452.

Pamelia, 164, 226, 274, 276, 320, 386, 519.

Pamelia F., 386.

Parker, 180, 391.

Parker M., 478, 479.

Parma M., 549, 550.

Parnel, 375.

Paskell G., 269.

Patieuce, 66, 129, 219, 222, 223, 225, 232,

235, 239, 250, 271, 273, 280, 341, 349,

354, 418, 455, 502.
Patrick, 501, 539.
Patty, 107, 138, 174, 175, 178, 181, 182,

198, 204, 242, 246, 251, 252, 283, 306,

400, 546.
Patty G., 315.

Paul, 193, 338, 353, 374, 375, 478.
Paul D., 411.
Paul M., 479.
Pauline I., 356.
Payson, 236.
Peace L., 502.
Peddy W., 336, 385, 390.
Peggy, 75, 502, 503.
Pendy, 280.

Penelope, 328, 417, 418, 484.
Percy, 20, 402.
Perez, 227.
Perin, 245.
Perintha, 245.
Perley, 391.
Permelia, 552.
Persis, 65, 82, 287, 288, 306.
Persis A., 332.
Persis C, 332.
Persis J., 288.
Phicinda, 165.
Phila, 195, 450.
Philander, 57, 58, 514.
Pluline, 400.
Philemon P., 57.
Philip, 28, 39, 175, 272, 274, 313, 315,

317, 325, 414, 429, 430, 493, 500, 505.
Philipa, 30, 32.
Philipaua, 481.
Philomela, 399.
Phineas, 160, 174, 175, 537.
Phineas W., 125.
Piatt B., 457.
Pling L., 270.
Polina, 498.
Polly, 43, 54, 70, 75, 106, 125, 129, 144,

145, 149, 153, 154, 165, 181, 183, 190,

195, 201, 220, 222, 224, 226, 245, 246,

247, 262, 266, 273, 277, 280, 315, 317,

318, 326, 340, 345, 354, 356, 374, 379,
380, 384, 390, 391, 397, 401, 407, 415,
447, 466, 467, 482, 490, 497, 516, 518,
545, 548.

Polly 0., 412.

Porter, 166.

Poulter, 143, 144.

Precilla, 75, 77, 148, 164, 224, 250, 266,
407, 408, 424, 454, 498.

Precilla G., 220.

Prescott, 124, 269.

Prescott O., 545.

Preserved, 247, 419.

Prudence, 51, 52, 53, 56, 57, 69, 224, 256,
325, 384, 414, 422, 532.

Pruuda, 203.

Purington, 250.

Q.

Quincey, 318, 319.
Quincey L., 319.

R.

Rachel, 31, 55, 56, 134, 147, 158, 162,
175, 176, 201, 222, 223, 229, 234, 238,
240, 248, 313, 317, 318, 322, 325, 344,
348, 350, 357, 384, 389, 404, 412, 414,
422, 423, 429, 430, 475, 494, 505, 525,
426, 536.

Rachel A., 333.

Rachel B., 349.

Rachel J., 357.

Ralph, 40, 61, 65, 69, 70.

Ralph H., 202.

Randall, 159.

Ransom, 159, 277.

Rapina, 80.

Rausaw, 533.

Rawson, 231.

Reading, 25.

Rebecca, 37, 43, 44, 46, 51, 53, 54, 55, 56,
57, 62, 66, 67, 69, 73, 81, 82, 84, 96,
122, 124, 126, 128, 130, 131, 132, 133,
136, 138, 148, 149, 151, 165, 158, 166,
168, 173, 174, 177, 178, 179, 187, 188,
190, 221, 235, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244,
249, 250, 253, 260, 262, 266, 275, 277,
284, 286, 307, 308, 313, 318, 319, 351,
354, 380, 385, 386, 388, 390, 391, 398,
399, 400, 407, 412, 421, 422, 453, 454,
466, 476, 499, 502, 506, 519, 524, 534,
535, 537, 540, 542.

Rebecca C, 421.

Rebecca G., 77.

Rebecca J., 268, 420.

Rebecca L., 403.

Rebecca P., 137, 199, 235, 347.

Rebecca S., 147, 479.

Rebecca T., 268, 526, 542.

Rebecca W., 263.

Reginald, 18.

Reinsford, 184.

Rejoice, 551.

Reliance, 265, 375, 410.

572

GENERAL INDEX.

Relief, 91, 266, 280, 378.

Remember, 48, 232.

Reuben, 52, 56, 83, 84, 251, 287, 288, 290,
450, 534.

Reuben C, 288.

Reuben M., 51.

Renel G., 72.

Rhoda, 56, 72, 92, 107, 126, 128, 158, 252,
279, 306, 383, 384, 390, 393, 450, 500,
506, 521, 524, 541, 548.

Rhoda A., 72.

Rhoda E., 548.

Rhoda G., 372.

Richard 28, 30, 34, 37, 39, 41, 42, 45,
105, 178, 182, 255, 266, 394, 541.

Eichard L., 104.

Richmond, 250, 425.

Robert, 19, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 39,
S3, 94, 159, 167, 168, 171, 174, 175, 229,
251, 255, 411, 450, 467, 470, 481, 484,
485, 486, 488, 490, 491, 495, 501, 515,
516, 517, 520, 541, 544, 549.

Robert A., 484, 485.

Robert B., 468.

Robert C, 502.

Robert H., 517.

Robert M., 185.

Robert P., 415.

Robert R., 459.

Robert S., 620.

Robin, 27.

Rodman S., 261.

Rodolphus, 219, 453.

Roger, 27, 40, 75, 143, 144.

Roina, 201, 203.

Rosa, 239, 264.

Rosalvo, 469.

Rosander, 354.

Rosanna, 219, 243.

Rosetta E., 305.

Roseman A., 505.

Rosina, 304.

Roswell, 165, 166, 218, 446, 453.

Rothens, 374.

Rowland, 342, 346.

Roxanna, 72 166, 217, 286, 323, 347, 357,
390, 391, 476, 531, 533, 544.

Rubie, 502, 533.

Rut'us, 125, 164, 165, 236, 248, 252, 255,
257, 260, 279, 447, 517.

Rul'us F., 164.

Rulus K., 479.

Rul'us S., 246, 260, 271, 420.

Ruhamah, 143, 216, 451.

Ruhamah B., 141.

Russell, 239, 390, 391, 533.

Ruth, 56, 65, 66, 72, 75, 82, 106, 107, 124,
140, 143, 147, 150, 159, 175, 176, 187,
195, 196, 206, 207, 210, 214, 232, 241,
243, 246, 250, 258, 262, 280, 281, 282,
286, 287, 305, 306, 325, 326, 336, 338,
339, 341, 345, 348, 350, 355, 356, 366,
375, 378, 379, 384, 385, 388, 389, 390,
393, 407, 408, 410, 411, 414, 415, 418,
420, 422, 424, 425, 450, 451, 494, 502,
506, 518, 537.

Ruth A., 90, 420, 541.
Ruth E., 250.
Ruth G., 352.
Ruth R., 494.
Ruth T., 344.
Ruth W., 312.
Ruthena, 346.
Ruthven, 326, 415.

S.

Sabra, 321.

Sabrina, 229, 230.

S. Chandler, 372.

Safons, 94.

Sala, 632, 534.

Sala H., 534.

Sallv, 51, 52, 54, 58, 59, 73, 87, 107, 125
126, 132, 133, 143, 144, 149, 180, 189
190, 196, 197, 216, 224, 226, 242, 246
247, 248, 263, 265, 267, 270, 277, 278
279, 290, 306, 313, 314, 322, 332, 339
350, 355, 356, 362, 369, 384, 390, 391
393, 394, 400, 403, 410, 430, 454, 455.
461, 465, 467, 482, 508, 519, 523, 524
540, 548, 550, 554.

Sally A., 195.

Sally B., 468.

Sally D., 534.

Sally E., 226.

Sally G., 513.

Sally M., 191.

Sally P., 71.

Sally R., 307.

Sally T., 342.

Sally W., 332.

Sally Y., 332.

Salmon, 355, 357, 400.

Salmon W., 358.

Salome, SO, 402.

Sampson, 159, 182, 190, 277, 278, 362, 368.

Samuel, 39, 42, 45, 46, 48, 50, 56, 58, 59,
60, 65, 72, 75, 90, 92, 94, 95, 105, 122,
123, 124, 127, 128, 130, 131, 132, 133,
136, 138, 139, 142, 148, 149, 153, 154,
156, 163, 164, 165, 166, 176, 177, 181,
183, 186, 187, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196,
200, 207, 215, 216, 224, 225, 233, 234,
236, 238, 239, 240, 242, 246, 247, 248,
282, 305, 312, 315, 317, 325, 326, 342,
343, 345, 356, 360, 370, 371, 372, 378,
379, 383, 388, 389, 390, 399, 407, 414,
415, 421, 422, 424, 444, 446, 447, 476,
483, 484, 485, 491, 494, 495, 500, 502,
617, 518, 530, 632, 535, 545.

Samuel A., 183, 201, 205, 277, 365, 484.

Samuel B., 216, 217, 346, 499, 506.

Samuel C, 53, 356, 485, 490.

Samuel D., 206, 377, 478.

Samuel P., 198, 201, 284.

Samuel F. W., 201.

Samuel G., 137, 281, 289.

Samuel H., 53, 138, 266, 370, 491, 496,
619, 525.

Samuel L., 382, 383.

Samuel M., 454, 455.

GENERAL INDEX.

573

Samuel N., 342.

Samuel 0., 133.

Samuel P., 133, 248, 332, 333, 336, 353.

Samuel R., 86, 164, 494, 517.

Samuel S., 421.

Samuel T., 149, 189, 201.

Samuel W., 192, 275, 315, 337, 354.

Sapphira, 317.

Sarah, 31, 45, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55,
56, 57, 59, 62, 65, 67, 68, 69, 71, 73, 74,
75, 78, 83, 84, 85, 90, 91, 93, 95, 96, 97,
102, 103, 106, 107, 123, 125, 126, 128,
129, 131, 139, 142, 144, 145, 146, 148,
151, 152, 161, 163, 165, 166, 168, 176,
177, 178, 180, 181, 183, 186, 187, 188,
189, 190, 193, 194, 195, 199, 200, 201,
203, 206, 214, 216, 217, 218, 219, 222,
223, 229, 232, 233, 234, 235, 237, 238,
240, 243, 244, 246, 247, 248, 250, 255,
257, 259, 260, 261, 262, 264, 265, 275,
276, 277, 278, 280, 282, 283, 284, 285,
286, 288, 305, 307, 308, 311, 312, 313,
314, 317, 318, 325, 326, 328, 338, 341,
342, 343, 344, 348, 349, 353, 354, 355,
356, 360, 366, 374, 375, 377, 378, 383,
385, 386, 388, 389, 390, 398, 400, 407,
408, 409, 410, 412, 414, 417, 418, 419,
420, 421, 422, 425, 445, 446, 447, 450,
452, 453, 455, 485, 490, 494, 502, 505,
506, 507, 508, 515, 516, 519, 521, 523,
530, 531, 534, 535, 536, 537, 540, 544.

Sarah A., 135, 141, 183, 188, 190, 205,
219, 232, 242, 244, 247, 265, 274, 349,
384, 399, 420, 423, 479, 494, 513, 514,
522

Sarah A. F., 171.

Sarah B., 255, 262, 373.

Sarah C, 253, 262.

Sarah E., 88, 89, 127, 137, 178, 188, 191,
247, 256, 265, 269, 333, 342, 344, 357,
396, 420, 509, 540, 546.

Sarah F., 162, 265, 366, 651.

Sarah G., 347, 479, 517, 541.

Sarah H., 53, 147, 155, 260, 342, 454,
494.

Sarah J., 92, 159, 4?6, 516. 539.

Sarah L., 92, 314, 317.

Sarah L. G., 155.

Sarah M., 248, 249, 288.

Sarah N., 190, 240.

Sarah P., 350.

Sarah R., 158, 176, 220, 236, 270.

Sarah S., 197, 234, 279, 290, 312, 351,
377, 534.

Sarah T., 403, 522.

Sarah W., 190, 193, 339, 521.

Sardine, 140.

Saunders A., 486.

Savira, 242.

Sebra, 389.

Selena, 263.

Selenda, 253, 2G4, 532.

Selion C, 469.

Selwin S., 133.

Seneca, 500.

Serena, 224, 285, 308.

Serissa, 346.

Serusha, 342.

Seth, 75, 76, 134, 195, 277, 279, 332, 339,

389, 390, 392, 400, 401, 411, 523, 535,

637, 541.
Seth D., 339.
Seth G., 332.
Seulah, 234.
Sewell, 52, 129.
Sewell B., 239.
Sheffield, 264.
Sheffield W., 263, 264.
Sheldon, 263.
Sheridan P., 205.
Shirley W., 375.
Sibra, 75, 103, 263.
Sibilla, 501.
Sidney H., 425.
Silas, 59, 129, 164, 166, 174, 180, 220, 225,

273, 318, 322, 338, 364, 355, 357, 378,

385, 409, 467, 482, 500, 516, 519, 525,

530, 531, 532, 536, 549, 551, 552.
Silas C, 167.
Silas H., 82, 290, 308.
Silas J., 454.
Silas K., 482.
Silas R., 357.

Silence, 203, 221, 354, 355, 378.
Silonia, 354.
Simeon, 39, 40, 68, 277, 350, 383, 384,

389, 391, 392, 400, 422, 539.
Simeon G., 343, 350, 412.
Simeon R., 323.
Simmons, 103.
Simon, 106, 107, 276.
Solomon, 240, 245, 275, 337, 358, 360,

365, 369, 370, 375, 378, 404, 410,

535.
Sonora, 453.
Sophia, 138, 179, 181, 195, 202, 221,

278, 330, 342, 346, 365, 384, 397, 398,

405, 409, 505, 545.
Sophia C., 627.
Sophia E., 379.
Sophia F., 421.
Sophia H., 331.
Sophia J. A., 202.
Sophia P., 281.
Sophia S., 155.
Sophia W., 92, 525.
Sophronia, 288, 347, 395, 402, 527.
Sophronia B., 341.
Spencer, 482.
Spencer P., 539.
Squire, 377.
Steda M., 504.
Stella A., 395.
Stella D., 329.
Stelta, 527.
Stephen, 55, 57, 77, 93, 129, 162, 165,

166, 190, 191, 217, 224, 273, 325, 370,

372, 378, 401, 407, 414, 418, 422, 425,

428, 446, 450, 451, 456, 465, 483, 532.
Stephen A., 524.
Stephen C., 520.
Stephen D., 400.

362,
532,

,274,

574

GENERAL INDEX.

Stephen F., 191.

Stephen G., 232.

Stephen H., 238, 259, 466.

Stephen 0., 404.

Stephen S., 191, 313.

Stillman, 256.

Stimson, 403, 404.

Stimson L., 404.

Submit, 196, 236, 395.

Sukey, 277.

Sumner, 137, 138, 163, 237.

Sumner I., 181.

Supply, 180.

Susan, 42, 46, 54, 55, 58, 72, 75, 77, 128,
130, 138, 149, 175, 180, 217, 232, 238,
239, 242, 247, 248, 251, 263, 276, 313,
314, 315, 319, 320, 322, 340, 350, 351,
372, 373, 378, 395, 424, 442, 470, 472,
489, 504, 516, 518, 519, 545, 549.

Susan A., 401, 515, 525.

Susan A. J., 484.

Susan B., 425, 539.

Susan C, 479.

Susan E., 138, 155, 156, 198, 517.

Susan F., 354, 381, 527.

Susan H., 504.

Susan J., 381, 382.

Susan K., 372.

Susan M., 242, 336, 451.

Susan R., 422.

Susan S., 314.

Susan W., 527.

Susanna, 42, 48, 69, 70, 74, 75, 76, 77, 83,
95, 102, 103, 118, 145, 148, 149, 150,
152, 163, 165, 180, 224, 227, 239, 241,
246, 247, 276, 282, 306, 319, 328, 334,
338, 351, 354, 369, 374, 406, 408, 417,
418, 422, 425, 447, 470, 502, 518, 523,
529, 532, 535.

Susanna F., 462.

Susanna I., 463.

Susanna W., 541.

Suthron G., 79.

Swithin, 470.

Sybil, 105, 160, 166, 173, 177, 393, 401,
423, 534.

Sybil M., 514.

Sybil N., 423.

Sydrid, 532.

Sylda, 402.

Sylvanus, 78, 79, 396, 409.

Sylvanus A., 79.

Sylvanus S., 125.

Sylvester, 79, 180, 349.

Sylvester F., 388.

Sylvia, 200, 231, 408.

Sylviua, 455.

Tabitha, 45, 46, 125, 257, 259, 378, 394,

395, 408, 476.
Talcutt, 391.
Tamar, 308.

Tamerson, 288, 289, 291.
Tammy, 288.

Tenty, 242.

Thaddeus, 123, 124, 130, 146, 195, 196,
198, 216, 217, 446, 447.

Thaddeus R., 196.

Thadeus, 176, 524.

Thankful, 176, 203, 235, 339, 348.

Thanks, 273.

Thaxter, 128, 340, 341.

Theopila, 31.

Theodore, 85, 166, 229, 253, 277, 343, 354,
355, 490, 506.

Theodore A., 263.

Theodore C, 402.

Theodore E., 420.

Theodore P., 84, 505.

Theodotia, 179, 458.

Theophilus, 402.

Theron, 256.

Thiah, 184.

Thomas, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37,
38, 39, 40, 47, 48, 50, 65, 72, 73, 80, 82,
83, 90, 91, 92, 103, 104, 126, 130, 147,
151, 152, 154, 156, 163, 164, 165, 166,
173, 177, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 187,
194, 195, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208,
222, 223, 226, 233, 234, 240, 246, 247,
253, 261, 262, 267, 275, 276, 278, 280,
283, 284, 286, 287, 289, 305, 309, 310,
312, 313, 315, 325, 328, 337, 341, 343,
345, 368, 383, 385, 386, 390, 399, 406,
407, 414, 417, 418, 421, 427, 433, 441,
445, 454, 458, 467, 468, 4S2, 483, 485,
488, 491, 492, 495, 498, 501, 504, 505,
615, 516, 518, 522, 523, 524, 525, 535,
537, 541, 548, 549.

Thomas B., 180, 340, 408, 491, 504, 526,
545.

Thomas C, 481.

Thomas D., 322.

Thomas E., 104.

Thomas F., 317, 516.

Thomas G., 155, 499, 532, 533.

Thomas H., 137, 180, 262, 314, 332, 344,
533.

Thomas I., 73.

Thomas J., 180, 476, 523.

Thomas L., 51, 57, 284.

Thomas M., 478.

Thomas N., 490, 534.

Thomas O., 501.

Thomas P., 126, 525.

Thomas R., 383.

Thomas S., 104, 314, 485.

Thomas \V., 495.

Thorndike, 191, 193.

Thurissa, 142.

Thurza, 356.

Thurza M., 356.

Tinson, 250.

Tobias D., 188.

Tooley, 30.

Towner, 500.

True C , 466.

Tryphenia, 208, 526, 537.

Tryphenia H., 208.

Turner, 342.

GENERAL INDEX.

575

U.

Ulilln, 216.
Ulrich, 94.
Uriah, 181, 447.
Urith, 46.
Ursula, 481.

Vashti, 506.
Venterman, 45.
Vienna, 267.
Vioni, 482.
Virgis, 289.
Vivuldin S , 469.
Vulledo S., 469.

w.

Waitstill, 533.

Waldo, 222, 274, 288.

Waldo E., 288.

Waldo P., 385.

Waldo R., 221.

Wallace, 549, 550.

Wallace W., 332.

Wallev, 276.

Walter, 164, 165, 279, 347, 355, 365, 425,

466, 485, 516, 532.
Walter A., 53, 126.
Walter B., 237.
Walter C, 463.
Walter G., 424, 462.
Walter H., 180.
Ward, 106.
Warren, 86, 142, 147, 288, 318, 425, 502,

551 553
Warren A., 94, 248, 249, 279, 382.
Warren F., 133.
Warren H., 521.
Warren J., 450.

Washington, 349, 425, 539, 541.
Waterman, 141, 248.
Watson, 352, 407, 408.
Wealthy, 354, 517, 532.
Webb, 95.
Webber, 183
Webber H., 84.
Webster, 236, 286, 352.
Wesley, 193, 430.
Westa W., 354.
Weston S., 84.
Wilbur, 456.
Wilbur E., 385.
Willard, 182, 219, 277, 278, 279, 394,

395
Willard A., 181.
Willard B., 181.
Willard IX, 396.
Wilier, 188.
Wilier, 423.
Willey C., 135, 236.

William, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 36, 37, 41, 42,
43, 46, 49, 50, 51, 53, 58, 59, 61, 63, 67,
68, 72, 73, SO, 81, 83, 84, 86, 91, 92, 94,
96, 101, 102, 105, 106, 107, 122, 123,
124, 125, 127, 128, 141, 146, 149, 150,
152, 153, 159, 163, 164, 167, 168, 169,
171, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 181,
182, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 193, 206,
210, 214, 216, 217, 219, 227, 229, 230,
232, 233, 235, 242, 243, 244, 246, 247,
248, 249, 250, 253, 262, 266, 267, 268,
272, 273, 274, 280, 286, 288, 304, 310,
311, 312, 313, 315, 317, 318, 322, 325,
328, 329, 337, 338, 341, 353, 354, 355,

364, 370, 378, 386, 387, 389, 391, 392,
397, 398, 402, 404, 406, 407, 408, 409,
410, 414, 417, 418, 419, 420, 421, 422,
423, 424, 427, 430, 433, 436, 440, 443,
444, 445, 446, 447, 448, 449, 453, 459,
472, 473, 476, 482, 483, 484, 486, 488,
489, 490, 491, 493, 495, 501, 502, 503,
505, 506, 508, 513, 515, 517, 520, 522,
523, 524, 527, 529, 530, 531, 632, 542,
544, 548, 549.

William A., 73, 233, 331, 402, 412, 420,

444, 491, 492, 506, 521.
William B., 50, 57, 84, 236, 269, 322, 345,

382, 401, 459, 484, 492.
William B. S., 449.
William C., 102, 155, 204, 246, 517, 524,

541.
William D., 71.
William E., 158, 246, 332, 420, 491,

503.
William F., 246, 357, 365, 399, 420, 476,

548.
William F. M., 154.
William G., 125, 179, 317, 319, 329, 456,

471.
William H., 73, 74, 83, 153, 154, 221, 245,

251, 255, 265, 319, 331, 333, 341, 349,

365, 382, 403, 404, 451, 454, 455, 456,
471, 488, 601, 539.

William H. J., 505.

William J., 204, 280, 304, 447, 495.

William L., 92, 93, 344.

William M., 224, 225, 248, 250, 267, 386,

478, 479, 506, 517.
William N., 185, 492.
Wiiliam 0., 56, 261, 262, 455, 456.
William P., 129, 468, 490, 494.
William R., 155, 180, 318, 453.
William S., 253, 483.
William T., 175, 319, 375, 443.
William V., 465.
William W., 175, 220, 229, 263, 265, 403,

404, 411, 478, 518, 526.
Williams, 261.
Willie T., 545.
Willis M., 156.
Willis N., 142.
Willis T., 494.
Willoughby H., 494.
Winchester, 551, 553.
Winship, 95, 96.
Withred, 26.

576

GENERAL INDEX.

Zacbary, 226.

Zachariah, 147, 187, 225, 240.
Zachariah W., 192.
Zaccheus, 159, 162.
Zadoc, 174, 175, 383.
Zaliome, 227.
Zalmon, 214, 215.
Zantha, 514.

Zeaner, 216.

Zebiah H., 372.

Zenas, 497.

Zebulon, 51, 52, 57, 58, 379, 380.

Zelenda, 251.

Zelottes, 379.

Zeruiah, 283, 530.

Zilpah, 205, 393, 396, 397, 522.

Zipporah, 531.

Zorusha, 94.

Z. L., Capt., 522.

INDEX TO COLLATEKAL FAMILIES.

Abbott, 143, 168, 250.

Abert, 475.

Adams, 44, 85, 97, 195, 205, 284, 306,

395, 396, 492.
Adjeloth, 430.
Aiken, 110, 118, 174.
Albv, 239.
Alden, 56, 90.
Aldrich, 134, 199, 230, 393.
Alexander, 72, 73, 526.
Alf'ord, 217.
Alger, 363.
Allen, 54, 85, 89, 153, 154, 227, 250, 259,

462.
Allenpul, 54.
Allev, 382.
Allyne, 398.
Alphen, 34.
Ames, 284, 308, 347.
Ammidown, 115.
Anderson, 31, 250, 477, 540.
Andrews, 256, 264, 392, 412, 477, 531,

532.
Angell, 232, 264.
Appleton, 142.
Archer, 190.

Arnold, 261, 318, 319, 365.
Armsdale, 217.
Atherton, 108, 449.
Atkins, 512, 513.
Atwater, 253.
Atwood, 387, 391.
Auld, 479.

Austin, 84, 232, 242, 393.
Averill, 536.
Axtell, 522.
Ayers, 313.

B.

Babcoek, 125.

Bachelder, 79, 116, 196, 197, 19S, 275,

323, 454.
Bache, 473, 475.
Bacon, 99, 101, 143, 287, 390.
Bailev, 53, 138, 148, 209, 260, 273, 342,

345", 357.

Baker, 40, 85, 231, 354, 424, 516.

Balch, 182.

Balcom, 522.

Baldwin, 69, 179, 182, 252, 255.

Ballard, 403.

Banks, 216.

Barber, 264, 372, 492, 554.

Bardine, 251.

Bardwell, 138, 220.

Barn, 137.

Barns, 117, 207, 250, 523.

Barnard, 204.

Baron, 90, 476.

Barrell, 346. 376.

Barrett, 106, 217, 472, 502.

Barrows, 320.

Barrv, 524.

Barttett, 55, 351, 420, 493.

Barton, 506.

Basset, 215, 393.

Bates, 166, 179, 237, 265, 317, 334, 335,

336, 351, 373, 377, 456.
Bateman, 146.
Batson, 507.
Baxter, 158, 329.
Beal, 379, 384.
Bean, 239.
Beaverstocks, 72.
Bedford, 442.
Beedy, 248.
Beidelman, 493.
Belcher, 526.
Belknap, 96.
Bellamy, 84.
Bemis, 256.
Benedict, 451, 452.
Benezel, 474.
Benjamin, 180, 183, 490.
Bennam, 445.
Bennet, 88, 114, 426, 455, 502, 506, 521,

532.
Berard, 140.
Berkley, 33.
Bicknall, 343, 521.
Bidlack, 494, 537.
Bigelow, 287, 502.
Billings, 75, 115.
Bingham, 631.
Bird, 207.

73

578

INDEX TO COLLATERAL FAMILIES.

Bisoo, 280, 282.

Bishop, 482.

Black, 61.

Blacklev, 43.

Blackmail, 402.

Blackstone, 52.

Blake, 247, 256, 334, 397, 467.

Bianchai'd, 131, 180, 304, 320, 339, 342.

Bland, 322.

Blanding, 265.

Blengrehasset, 32.

Blichenden, 474.

Bliss, 228, 401.

Block, 322.

Blodgett, 101, 158, 196, 222, 366.

Blood, 149, 218.

Bloodgood, 121.

Bond, 91.

Booth, 410.

Border, 328, 417, 522.

Bordon, 422.

Borland, 204, 464.

Bossill, 221.

Bosworth, 140, 234.

Bourne, 233, 336, 385.

Bouton, 456.

Bowen, 45, 423.

Bowers, 54, 96, 97, 235, 236, 476, 477.

Bowes, 458.

Bowman, 123.

Boyd, 206, 234.

Boydon, 102, 402.

Bovnton, 276, 349.

Boyse, 466.

Bradford, 168, 252.

Bradley, 214, 239.

Bradshaw, 553.

Bramwell, 84.

Bran, 55.

Branch, 535.

Brant, 476.

Brayton, 233, 418, 419, 420.

Breckenridge, 111, 118.

Breed, 90, 315.

Breen, 269.

Bridge, 76. 97, 125, 142, 149.

Briggs, 227, 262, 343, 400, 402, 403, 404,

471, 522, 523.
Brigham, 117, 285.
Brightman, 421, 422, 424.
Brhiley, 103.
Brithen, 188.
Brockett, 35.
Brogan, 619.
Branson, 460.
Brooks, 81, 96, 142, 147, 30S, 474, 489,

502, 524.
Broomfield, 364.
Brown, 50, 140, 141, 143, 195, 204, 205,

227, 238, 265, 286, 333, 336, 338, 339,

340, 341, 348, 385, 401, 430, 452, 461,

497, 506, 508, 522, 525, 544.
Browning, 129.
Bruce, 36, 67.

Bryant, 108, 142, 319, 341, 384, 3S5, 523.
Buck, 374.

Bucklin, 243.
Buckminster, 280, 282.
Buddington, 532.
Budlong, 226.
Buffam, 255.
Bullard, 148, 322.
Bullock, 154, 393.
Bumford, 488.
Burbank, 60, 135, 525.
Burden, 328.
Burder, 526.
Burdick, 531.
Burgess, 219, 350, 412.
Burke, 122.
Burley, 203.
Burnet, 474, 550.
Bumham, 97, 222, 239.
Burns, 482.
Burr, 321, 487.
Burrill, 114.
Burrows, 143, 235.
Burton, 187, 421.
Bush, 420.
Butter, 51, 53, 386.
Butman, 501.
Butterfield, 277.
Butters, 71.
Butterworth, 223.
Button, 536.
Butts, 455.
Buxton, 190.
Byam, 180.
Byles, 81.

c.

Cadwallader, 437.

Cady, 121.

Cahan, 484.

Call, 93, 462.

Cambridge, 474.

Cann, 42.

Capron, 198, 199.

Carey, 418.

Carlton, 324, 545.

Carney, 526.

Carpenter, 225, 227, 228, 232, 264, 265,

267, 395, 450.
Carr, 193, 419, 467.
Carrie), 207.

Carter, 31, 148, 230, 400.
Carty, 476.
Case, 553.
Cash, 179.
Castle, 450.

Caswell, 3S8, 409, 502, 530, 531.
Center, 174.
Chaff, 255.

Chaffee, 225, 228, 235, 494, 514.
Chamberlain, 162, 163, 166.
Chambers, 182.
Chandler, 87, 145, 176, 248, 335, 425,

549.
Chapel, 534.
Chapin, 194, 200, 221.
Chaplin, 288.

INDEX TO COLLATERAL FAMILIES.

579

Chapman, 77, 217.

Cbappel, 250.

Chase, 232, 273, 419, 420, 422.

Chellis, 393.

Cheney, 288.

Chesley, 498.

Chesman, 103.

Chickering, 92.

Childs, 159, 280.

Chipman, 493.

Church, 215, 233, 496.

Churchill, 356, 404.

Clapp, 472, 498.

Clark, 101, 166, 171, 189, 204, 219, 223,
247. 267, 275, 281, 316, 317, 323, 368,
376, 392, 456, 499, 522, 525, 526.

Clay, 133.

Clements, 129, 147, 388.

Clide, 424.

Clifford, 255.

Clifton, 273.

Clough, 166.

Coates, 331.

Cobb, 366, 387, 393, 394, 522, 523.

Coburn, 174, 177, 235.

Coffman, 505.

Coggin, 100, 526.

Cogswell, 393, 452.

Colburn, 521, 541.

Cole, 221, 245, 275, 354, 381.

Coleman, 276, 356.

Collings, 546.

Collins, 217, 255, 519, 525, 553.

Colton, 243.

Comstock, 540.

Couch, 93, 95.

Congdon, 261.

Conn, 181.

Converse, 75, 82, 93, 273.

Cook, 59, 74, 84, 190, 317, 348, 425, 455.

Cooper, 31, 94, 224.

Copeland, 330, 305, 523.

Corey, 180, 403.

Corliss, 133, 275.

Cornell, 173.

Cornwall, 35, 425.

Correll, 454.

Corthell, 345, 349.

Corwall, 36.

Cotton, 237.

Cousens, 52.

Covode, 506.

Cowan, 53.

Cowey, 442.

Cowperthwait, 269.

Coy, 496.

Craig, 249.

Cran, 57, 58.

Crane, 268, 319, 364.

Crawford, 90.

Crehore, 525.

Creigen, 395.

Critson, 379.

Crooke, 187.

Crombie, 466.

Crossman, 226.

Croswell, 121.

Crowe, 520.

Culbertson, 448.

Cummings, 98, 156, 158, 164, 522, 525,

539.
Cunningham, 119.
Curbey, 253.
Currie, 476.
Currier, 135, 180, 383.
Curtis, 200, 247, 342, 374, 476.
Cushing, 315, 321, 325, 344, 345, 414,

515, 522, 525.
Cushman, 238.

Cutler, 71, 97, 102, 117, 287, 525.
Cutter, 196.
Cutts, 420.

D.

Dabadie, 474.

Daggett, 267, 307.

Dalcom, 396.

Dale, 37.

Dallas, 474.

Dame, 189.

Damon, 128, 288.

Dana, 239.

Danforth, 71, 168, 287, 307.

Daniel, 494.

Daniels, 198.

Daughton, 385.

Davall, 424.

Davenport, 101, 323, 391.

Davis, 62, 107, 124, 130, 167, 226, 285,

330, 411, 415, 425, 479, 521, 524, 525.
Davison, 36, 464, 525.
Dawes, 338, 349.
Day, 160, 466, 505, 553.
Dayton, 455.
Deane, 72, 100, 101, 252, 329, 393, 394,

396, 397, 400, 421, 452.
Deary, 230.
Deggins, 179.
Delano, 97.
Deming, 117.
Dennis, 198, 398, 419.
Dennison, 474.
Depreise, 502.
Derhy, 445.
De Burht, 458.
Dere, 223.
Deskin, 515.
Desmond, Earl of, 33.
Devreux, 498.
Dickinson, 451.
Dile, 273.
Dillance, 256.
Dinsmore, 484.
Dixon, 481.
Dixwell, 37.
Dodge, 79, 163, 279.
Dodson, 205.
Dogan, 154.
Dogget, 528.
Dolphin, 523.
Donaldson, 31.

580

INDEX TO COLLATERAL FAMILIES.

Dorman, 59.

Dorsey, 183.

Dotan, 519.

Douglass, 219, 222, 238, 527.

Dow, 260, 524.

Dowse, 342.

Drake, 77, 132, 326, 329, 346, 351, 374,

385, 392, 393, 415.
Drew, 81.
Drown, 237.

Dudley, 206, 245, 392, 395.
Dummer, 253.
Duane, 474.
Dunbar, 351.
Duncan, 112, 113.
Dunlap, 135.
Dunn, 207.
Dunton, 207.
Dupee, 162.
Durant, 62.
Duren, 86, 87.
Durfie, 328, 417.
Durham, 187.
Dustan, 393.
Dutch, 542.
Dutton, 35, 141, 165.
Dwilla, 285, 305.
Dwinnell, 270.
Dver, 259, 310, 312, 320, 325, 334, 335,

336, 352, 415.

E.

Earl, 419.

Eastman, 44, 288.

Eaton, 37, 113, 189, 278, 280, 282, 288,

321, 323.
Eckard, 442.
Eddy, 197, 421.
Edes, 102.
Edgeforth, 455.
Edgerton, 457.

Edson, 189, 339, 375, 3S0, 410.
Egree, 474.
EUesworth, 73.
Elliott, 173, 390.
Ellis, 192, 263, 468, 537.
Ells, 448.
Ellsbury, 425.
Elbridge, 454, 494.
Elmore, 222.
Elmy, 31.
Elson, 65.

Emerson, 173, 193, 203, 244, 280.
Emery, 398, 399, 475.
Ensign, 151.

Estabrooks, 125, 129, 130, 250.
Esterbrooks, 249.
Estis, 237, 491.
Esty, 245, 306.
Eustice, 527.
Eveleth, 270.
Everett, 254.
Everson, 342, 343.
Ewee, 642.

Fabins, 46.

Fairbanks. 82, 163.

Faii-field, 119.

Fanning, 252.

Fansel, 277, 278.

Farer, 79, 174, 178, 276, 526.

Farley, 192.

Farnam, 521.

Farnsworth, 231.

Farr, 307.

Farrell, 525.

Fassett, 173, 177.

Faxon, 318.

Fay, 116.

Feeney, 476.

Felton, 192.

Fenno, 149, 153.

Fenton, 201.

Fernald, 59, 136, 185.

Fernley, 30, 33.

Field, 404, 441.

Fifield, 366.

Files, 492.

Finner, 260.

Finney, 249, 279.

Fish, 518.

Fisher, 444.

Fiske, 65, 71, 73, 104, 105, 120, 122, 182,

191.
Fitch, 143, 164, 176, 217, 235, 241, 44S.
Fitzwater, 33.
Fleming, 216.
Fletcher, 108, 111, 126, 152, 164, 165,

175, 177, 278, 279.
Flint, 117, 164, 180, 246, 535.
Flood, 106.
Flye, 53, 54.
Fogg, 314.
Foley, 489.
Follet, 535, 537.
Foot, 93, 95, 266, 273.
Forbes, 230.
Force, 515, 522.

Ford, 338, 345, 350, 353, 373, 384.
Forman, 504.
Foss, 132.
Fossett, 176.
Foster, 44, 90, 111, 112, 256, 288, 364,

413, 429.
Fowle, 75, 76, 87, 472.
Fowler, 474.
Fox, 87, 471.
France, 134.
Franklin, 264, 322, 473.
Frazier, 425.
Freelove, 418.
Freeman, 242, 503.

French, 83, 136, 168, 225,240, 319,376,400.
Frost, 46, 76.

Frothvngham, 102, 526, 528.
Frye, 59, 89, 386.
Fu'llarton, 335, 352.
Fuller, 112, 188, 242, 266, 390.
Furbush, 159.

INDEX TO COLLATERAL FAMILIES.

581

G.

Gale, 199, 530.

Galleton, 449.

Gallinger, 505.

Gallop,' 79, 221, 531.

Gammons, 85, 89.

Gandy, 30.

Gannet, 338, 343, 379, 498.

Gardner, 125, 353, 383, 455, 456.

Garfield, 3(36.

Garners, 423.

Gameys, 31.

Garrison, 89.

Garsley, 275.

Gaskell, 498.

Gates, 88, 307.

Gatten, 491.

Gay, 482, 532.

Gear, 499.

Geary, 100.

Gebhard, 449.

Gedney, 449.

Gellison, 264.

Gennison, 64.

George, 241, 402.

Germain, 289.

Gerrish, 260.

Gibbs, 217, 424, 552, 553.

Gibson, 55, 57, 145.

Gifford, 272, 418.

Gilbert, 252, 523, 524, 525.

Gilman, 134, 181, 394.

Gilmore, 389, 396, 400.

Gilson, 181, 521.

Glass, 380, 490.

Gleason, 124, 280, 281.

Glover, 496.

Godard, 80, 125, 255.

Godfrey, 161, 392, 397, 524.

Goff, 238, 404.

Goldingham, 30.

Goodale, 250.

Goodrew, 280, 305, 307.

Gooding, 398.

Goodnew, 461, 462.

Goodrich, 220, 252.

Goodwin, 72, 81, 389, 508.

Gordon, 45.

Gorges, 505.

Gould, 100, 132, 525.

Graham, 520.

Graig, 285.

Granger 137.

Grant, 57, 154, 523, 524.

Graves, 111, 231.

Gray, 82, 215, 216, 309, 382.

Grayson, 504.

Gree, 287.

Green, 49, 57, 114, 121, 122, 278, 505.

Greenleaf, 77, 315.

Greele, 172.

Greeley, 53, 168, 172.

Gregg, 467.

Gregory, 523.

Greville, 35.

Gridley, 207.
Griffin, 488.
Griffith, 499.
Grinnell, 424.
Griswold, 340.
Guice, 504.
Gulliver, 396.
Guppie, 530.

Gurney, 46, 333, 340, 343, 347, 379, 411,
412.

H.

Hacker, 259.

Haddock, 241.

Hager, 193.

Hale, 97, 188, 284, 527.

Hall, 218, 260, 329, 330, 393, 395, 396,

448, 465, 544.
Hamilton, 288, 289, 403, 534.
Hammet, 456.
Hammond, 125, 332.
Hancock, 101, 203.
Handall, 253.
Hanley, 525.
Hann, 210.
Hanson, 49.
Harden, 348, 381.
Harding, 255, 256.
Hardy, 35, 92, 234, 515.
Harlow, 137, 138.
Harriden, 122.

Harrington, 103, 106, 287, 313.
Harris, 45, 51, 55, 238, 333, 356, 357.
Harrison, 554.
Hart, 238, 239, 474.
Hartwell, 144, 323, 470.
Haskell, 110, 392.
Haskins, 118, 393, 522.
Haslet, 218.
Haslip, 322.
Hassen, 524.
Hastings, 371.
Hatch, 95, 266.

Hathaway, 376, 409, 419, 425, 519, 523.
Hathorn, 93, 95, 245.
Haughton, 182, 321, 322.
Hawley, 214.
Hayden, 161.
Hayes, 461.
Haynes, 383.

Hayward, 69, 374, 462, 463.
Haywood, 118, 162, 323, 326, 415.
Heald, 175.
Heard, 332.
Hearsey, 322, 375.
Heath, 133, 193, 314, 380, 381, 454.
Hellyer, 501.
Henage, 37.
Henderson, 489.
Henley, 539.
Henry, 492.
Henshaw, 526.
Herd, 59, 353.
Herrick, 54, 269.
Hersey, 203, 320, 321, 350, 355, 412, 455.

582

INDEX TO COLLATERAL FAMILIES.

Hibbard, 495, 535.

Hicks, 52, 249.

Higgins, 517.

Higginson, 132.

Hildreth, 276.

Hill, 217, 219, 229, 274, 280, 396.

Hilton, 132, 401, 403.

Hinds, 78.

Hiscock, 248, 249.

Hitcbcook, 221.

Hoch, 497.

Hodge, 474.

Hodges, 180, 390, 398, 399, 404, 489.

Hodgdon, 53.

Hodgkins, 190.

Hodgman, 127.

Hodsdon, 258.

Hofraan, 505.

Holbrook, 142, 194, 342.

Holden, 100, 324, 332.

Holstrum, 315.

Holt, 521, 535.

Hoo, 35.

Hooper, 43.

Hopkins, 67, 206, 391, 467.

Horn, 493.

Horsey, 470.

Horton, 50, 258.

Hoskins, 36.

Hosley, 164, 165.

Hotchkiss, 251.

Houlding, 69, 104.

Hovey, 85.

Howard, 168, 220, 313, 345, 364, 365, 374,

375, 382, 385, 403, 524.
Howe, 109, 219, 279, 282, 283, 308, 329.
Howell, 288, 420, 432, 523.
Howes, 451.
Howland, 317, 336.
Hubbell, 207.
Huffmaster, 77.
Huggins, 378.
Hull, 216, 524.
Humble, 358.
Humphrey, 226, 31S, 465.
Hunnewell, 523, 527.
Hunt, 74, 109, 195, 227, 255, 345, 364,

468, 539.
Hunter, 134, 178.
Huntington, 190, 525.
Huntly, 540, 541.
Huntress, 517.
Hurlbut, 202.
Hurlburt, 117.
Huse, 141.
Hussey, 249.
Hutchens, 55, 204, 544.
Hutchinson, 248, 381, 519, 537.
Hyde, 189, 330, 440.

I.

Ide, 227, 234, 235, 241.
Ingalls, 193.
Ingersoll, 494.
Ingraham, 237.

Inman, 204.
Irons, 104.
Irwin, 475, 482.
Ivis, 310.

Jackson, 121, 268.

Jackman, 52, 274.

Jacobs, 321, 389.

James, 55.

Jaques, 469.

Jayne, 155.

Jeffers, 319, 525.

Jeffrey, 365.

Jenkins, 154, 163, 275, 334, 336, 343, 345,

348, 349, 351, 352, 516, 544.
Jennings, 183, 278.
Jepson, 192.
Jerome, 447.
Jewell, 322.
Jewett, 44, 146, 235.
Johnson, 62, 65, 66, 67, 72, 74, 100, 101,

104, 122, 232, 395, 448, 470, 477, 488,

505, 523, 527, 541.
Jones, 49, 180, 372, 419, 429, 451, 514,

517, 525, 528, 546.
Joslin, 347, 351, 379.
Joy, 96, 364.
Judkins, 133.

K.

Kay, 250.

Keen, 347, 349, 352, 517.

Keith, 315, 375, 377.

Kellogg, 197, 447, 452, 483.

Kelly, 194, 231, 240, 539.

Kempson, 347, 349, 352, 517.

Kempton, 49, 155, 453.

Kendall, 61, 65, 66, 82, 86, 98, 101, 104,

122, 177, 193, 372.
Kennedy, 480.
Kent 499.

Keye's, 85*, 120, 164, 184.
Kilham, 534.

Kimball, 203, 208, 323, 381, 467.
King, 93, 96.
Kingman, 373.
Kingsbury, 522, 538.
Kinney, 390, 532, 534.
Kinsman, 140.
Kireck, 430.

Knapp, 250, 392, 393, 449.
Knight, 237, 263, 268, 307, 504, 531.
Knowles, 418.

Lackey, 506.
Ladd, 57, 58, 274.
Lake, 236.
Lamb, 164, 287.

INDEX TO COLLATERAL FAMILIES.

583

Lamphreys, 193.

Lamport, 452.

Lainson, 408, 413.

Lancaster, 52.

Lane, 140, 316, 344, 348, 375, 503.

Lang, 523.

Lapole, 29, 33.

Larry, 524.

Lathrop, 218, 249, 374.

Law, 424.

Lawrence, 51.

Lawton, 110, 425, 502.

Leach, 192, 193, 232, 376, 382.

Leathers, 148.

Learned, 205.

Leavett, 145, 525.

Lefavour, 237.

Leffingwell, 533.

Leidey, 493.

Leighton, 277.

Leland, 108, 198.

Lemon, 31.

Lenned, 521.

Leonard, 180, 376, 403, 408, 530.

Leonardson, 228.

Lervey, 273.

Levins, 289, 429.

Lewis, 52, 346, 374, 459, 493.

Libbey, 154, 545.

Light, 497.

Li'llev, 93, 94.

Lincoln, 119, 205, 206, 344, 378, 404, 462,

518.
Lindley, 240.
Lindsey, 323, 421.
Liswell, 339.
Litchfield, 518.
Little, 174, 175, 275.
Littlefield, 128, 380.
Livingston, 36, 489.
Locke, 77, 87, 90, 99, 276, 454.
Lockshart, 245.
Lockwood, 216.
Lomden, 103.
Longbottom, 531.
Loomis, 219, 222, 266, 267.
Lorene, 192.
Loring, 56, 221.

Loud, 314, 319, 320, 349, 379, 516.
Loudon, 350.
Lovekin, 525.
Loveland, 219.
Lovell, 56, 114, 318, 527.
Lovering, 221.
Lovett, 173.
Low, 279.
Lowell, 56, 260.
Lucas, 383.
Luce, 411, 474.
Luddens, 380.
Luf kin, 54.
Lund, 527.
Lunt, 54, 141.
Luther, 421, 422.

Lyon, 166, 174, 216, 217, 265, 320.
Lynsey, 90, 505.

M.

Mackee, 323.

Macomber, 408, 502.

Maconnell, 484.

Makepeaoe, 404.

Malcolm, 44, 56.

Manchester, 122, 262.

Mandell, 114.

Manley, 525.

Mann, 226, 514,

Manning, 188.

Mansfield, 115, 178.

Manson, 526.

Marble, 315.

Marden, 73, 527.

Markoe, 473.

Marks, 220.

Marsh, 231, 290, 350, 400, 466.

Marshall, 223, 439, 453, 467, 495, 512.

Mason, 139, 283, 524, 541.

Massey, 92.

Masters, 244.

Matherson, 264.

Matherton, 263.

Mathews, 490.

Maverick, 42.

Maxwell, 309, 478.

May, 103, 173, 217, 523.

Maybury, 149, 259.

Mayers, 94.

Ma'yhew, 285.

Maynard, 113, 125, 281.

Mayo, 57, 180, 269, 371.

M'Call, 444.

M'Carty, 519.

M'Clure, 307.

M'Cobb, 478.

McDonald, 140, 468.

McElvoy, 185.

M'Gregor, 464.

McHolster, 256.

McKeene, 244.

M'Kenen, 489.

McKenzie, 89.

McLain, 96, 174, 217.

M'Lane, 443, 444, 475.

McLaughlin, 325.

McLellan, 171, 323, 495.

McLoud, 184, 185.

McMurphy, 175, 465, 471.

Meach, 536.

Meacher, 288.

Mead, 216, 266, 284, 307, 474.

Mears, 230, 525.

Meigs, 146, 448.

Mellen, 284.

Melvin, 285.

Menis, 37.

Mentor, 465.

Meredith, 431.

Merriam, 144.

Merrifield, 207.

Merrill, 81.

Merriman, 253.

Mersitt, 87.

584

INDEX TO COLLATERAL FAMILIES.

Meservey, 188.

Metcalf, 491.

Miller, 18S, 229, 255, 402.

Mills, 289.

Minot, 277, 278.

Mitchell, 52, 56, 262, 419, 447.

Moar, 372.

Moffat, 527.

Monies, 59.

Moody, 175, 497.

Moon, 46.

Moore, 466.

Moors, 181, 280.

Morey, 423, 425.

Morgan, 289.

Morrill, 142, 304, 386.

Morris, 505.

Morrison, 466, 467.

Morse, 164, 184, 199, 307.

Morton, 397, 519.

Moses, 324.

Moulton, 103, 184, 222, 267.

Mourer, 493.

Mousal, 65, 102, 104.

Mousey, 55.

Moyne", 391.

Mulurge, 468.

Mulliken, 54.

Mumford, 121.

Munroe, 83, 108, 122, 263, 455.

Munson, 39.

Murdock, 194, 196, 284.

Murphy, 76, 226, 499, 517, 522.

Mussey, 124, 128, 129, 145, 148, 149.

Myers, 449.

Myrack, 522.

N.

Nash, 238, 315, 318, 337, 355, 386, 378,

448.
Neal, 258.
Nettleton, 222.
Nesmith, 464.
Neweomb, 313, 524.
Newell, 102, 106, 127.
Newman, 230, 254, 546.
Newton, 309, 522.
Nichols, 131, 146, 192, 466, 471.
Nicholson, 253.
Niles, 379, 411, 515.
Norris, 423.
Northrop, 526.
Norton, 77, 337, 342,354.
Norwood, 190.
Nourse, 174.
Noyes, 280, 305, 337, 338, 339, 354, 374,

376, 465, 499.
Nurse, 283, 322.

0.

Oat, 495.
Oglevie, 36.
Oldham, 507

Olin, 267.

Oliver, 479.

Olmsted, 202, 445.

Orne, 46.

Osborn, 162, 315, 336, 490.

Outhouse, 249, 250.

Oxinden, 37.

Pachodie, 235.

Packard, 314, 318, 365.

Paddock, 362, 527.

Page, 50, 105, 109, 131, 137, 145, 163, 175,

419.
Paine 173 227.
Palmer, 48, 94, 250, 266, 267, 388, 427,

509, 516, 519, 535, 537.
Paradise, 519.
Park, 203, 204.
Parker, 76, 98, 100, 117, 162, 230, 276,

278, 279, 488, 521, 545.
Parmenter, 234, 526.
Parsons, 208, 256, 324.
Patch, 96, 176.
Patridge, 74, 156.
Patten, 156, 188.
Patterson, 245, 474.
Paul, 234, 401, 522.
Pearson, 147.
Peck, 234, 240, 250, 446, 462, 522, 534,

540.
Peckham, 419.
Pedder, 183.
Pendleton, 550.
Penniman, 341, 349, 378.
Perkins, 152, 220, 262, 275, 340, 376, 488,

548.
Perrin, 223, 226, 391.
Perry, 106, 273, 3S9, 475.
Peters, 548.
Petit, 274.
Petre, 39.
Phelps, 99, 540.
Pherison, 500.

Phillips, 108, 126, 353, 381, 389, 400,
Phimple, 495.
Pickett, 46.
Pidge, 228.
Pierce, 60, 65, 66, 70, 81, 82, 91, 92,

105, 118, 173, 178, 203, 316, 385,

420, 425, 443, 515.
Pinney, 218, 392, 393.
Pippin, 183.
Pitcher, 281.
Pitman, 103, 191.
Pitts, 256, 389.
Planter, 525.
Plimpton, 306.
Pluff, 307.
Plummer, 247.
Pollard, 541.
Pond, 116, 541.
Poole, 29, 98, 317, 318, 326, 345, 350, 351,

390, 415.
Poore, 125, 188, 190, 273, 274.

526.

101,
394,

INDEX TO COLLATEEAL FAMILIES.

585

Pope, 316.

Porter, 85, 119, 310, 334, 335, 338, 340,

348, 350, 353, 377, 379, 523, 524.
Potter, 121, 122, 142, 204, 262, 533.
Pottle, 94.
Poulter, 123.

Powell, 244, 266, 267, 519.
Powers, 56, 182, 183, 316, 343, 521.
Poythres, 322.
Pratt, 82, 158, 184, 313, 318, 320, 325,

344, 348, 526.
Pray, 51, 54, 161, 421.
Prentice, 199, 395.
Prescott, 146, 162, 279.
Preston, 393.
Proctor, 70, 71, 160, 163, 165, 173, 177,

178, 191.
Puffer, 227, 290.
Pulham, 31.
Pulsifer, 191, 494.
Purington, 250.
Pushley, 181.
Putnam, 99, 177.

R.

Ralston, 459.

Ramsdale, 340.

Randall, 238, 354, 539.

Ratchford, 316.

Eathbone, 229.

Rawson, 207.

Raymond, 70, 110, 126, 153, 154, 356,

527.
Raynis, 238.
Raynor, 84.
Real, 488.
Reinsford, 179, 217.
Remington, 261.
Reudexter, 53.
Rex, 525.

Reynolds, 356, 425.
Rice, 78, 105, 108, 180, 196, 286, 308, 339,

390, 501.
Rich, 138, 256.

Richards, 256, 319, 324, 375, 407.
Richardson, 65, 91, 94, 99, 100, 101 116

146, 147, 158, 277, 332, 514, 526.
Richer, 238.

Richmond, 322, 355, 392, 406, 516, 526.
Rider, 196, 197.
Ridgeway, 523.
Rindall, 128.
Ring, 322.

Ripley, 232, 321, 369.
Robbins, 160, 354, 395.
Robinson, 55, 65, 94, 104, 114, 140, 235,

257, 258, 316, 391, 422, 505, 523, 537.
Roberts, 59, 265.
Robertson, 46.
Rockwell, 65.
Rodgers, 233, 379.
Rollins, 246, 247, 507.
Root, 290.

Ropes, 44.

Ross, 246, 434.

Rounds, 245, 246, 406.

Rowell, 189.

Rowland, 42.

Rugg, 306.

Ruggles, 111, 114, 118, 243, 282, 422.

Runnels, 158.

Rush, 450.

Russ, 541.

Russell, 52, 83, 86, 89, 90, 148, 238,

502.
Rust, 479.

Sabin, 536.

Salisbury, 243.

Sampson, 362, 412.

Sanborn, 135, 524.

Sanderson, 419.

Sanford, 357.

Sargent, 166, 182, 230, 475.

Saunders, 132, 133, 134, 449.

Savage, 108, 109.

Sawtill, 403.

Sawyer, 502.

Sayles, 132.

Scolley, 188.

Scouv'el, 137.

Scripture, 173.

Seaman, 244.

Searles, 87.

Seaver, 391.

Sebastian, 429.

Sellock, 216.

Sessions, 421.

Severance, 377.

Sewell, 173.

Seymore, 92.

Shaw, 52, 314, 319, 325, 338, 339, 343,

344, 345, 355, 357, 370, 375, 386, 410,

411, 415, 516.
Shed, 180.
Sheldon, 262.
Shepherd, 154, 518.
Shepherdson, 462, 526.
Sherlock, 138.

Sherman, 253, 328, 392, 417, 456, 539.
Sherwood, 452.
Shields, 46, 526.
Shubeth, 456.
Shute, 321, 467.
Sidney, 198.

Simonds, 70, 72, 87, 145, 188, 419, 497.
Simpson, 254.
Sinclair, 526.
Sines, 476.
Sivanton, 323.
Skelton, 517.
Skinner, 139, 207.
Slater, 232, 240.
Small, 48, 237.
Snovell, 476.

74

586

INDEX TO COLLATERAL FAMILIES.

Smith, 42, 51, 52, 90, 117, 119, 121, 140,
146, 148, 165, 181, 182, 215, 232, 245,
247, 248, 249, 262, 267, 277, 288, 290,
338, 351, 352, 393, 401, 454, 471, 523,
527

Snowj 66, 74, 101, 107, 130, 155, 233, 395,
408, 493.

Soames, 51, 52.

Soper, 501, 523.

Soule, 117.

Souter, 502.

Southwick, 88, 192.

Sparks, 141.

Sparr, 479.

Spaulding, 87, 96, 159, 165, 173, 174, 176,
177, 191, 204, 278.

Spear, 92, 314.

Spellman, 550.

Spencer, 33, 52.

Spofford, 206.

Spooner, 207.

Sprague, 77, 161, 239, 277.

Spring, 198, 206.

Springer, 403.

Sprout, 336.

Stackpole, 544.

Stacy, 44.

Stammers, 378.

Stanhope, 33, 80.

Stanley, 239, 254, 347.

Staples, 54, 267, 280, 282, 376, 528.

Stark, 530.

Stearns, 307.

Stebbins, 205.

Stedman, 502.

Steele, 222.

Steples, 54.

Stetson, 326, 346, 350, 352, 412, 415.

Stevens, 56, 108, 164, 165, 181, 185, 277,
544.

Stiles, 144, 221.

St. John, 38, 40.

Stockman, 249.

Stockton, 441.

Stoddard, 326, 415.

Stone, 72, 84, 105, 108, 112, 115, 122, 123,
124, 130, 149, 188, 232, 233, 2S0, 526.

Stoneham, 35.

Storer, 239.

Storrs, 523.

Story, 289.

Straight, 262.

Strickland, 109.

Strickney, 322.

Strong, 551.

Studley, 348.

Sturdivant, 527.

Sturgis, 238.

Sullivan, 393.

Sumner, 462.

Sunderland, 33, 226, 527.

Swain, 316.

Swan, 90, 455.

Swanton, 321.

Sweeney, 525.

Sweet, 256, 261.

Swett, 182.

Swift, 151, 239, 409, 474.
Sykes, 206.
Symmes, 77, 147.
Sylvester, 375.

T.

Tabor, 425.

Taft, 195, 203, 206.

Talbot, 387, 389, 390, 391, 399.

Tarns, 474.

Taplev, 548.

Tarr, 176.

Tay, 72.

Tavlor, 55, 79, 94, 133, 134, 161, 196,

261, 317, 421, 450, 494.
Temple, 129.
Tenney, 141.
Tewks'bury, 524.
Thacher, 235.
Thaxter, 167, 343.
Thayer, 85, 268, 320, 402, 404.
Thomas, 83, 84, 178, 332, 333, 375, 405.
Thompson, 55, 56, 67, 183, 190, 256, 310,

337, 338, 410, 440, 443, 477, 540.
Thorndike, 524.
Thorning, 524.
Thorp, 452, 486.
Thurstain, 137, 184.
Tibbets, 178, 286.
Tidd, 68, 122.
Tiffany, 265, 387.
Tilden, 304.
Tillotson, 541.
Tilton, 137.
Tinellv, 58.
Tingley, 250, 253, 517.
Tinkham, 410.
Tisdale, 388, 389, 392.
Tirrell, 318, 340, 350, 353, 379, 380, 411,

479, 516.
Titterton, 319.
Titus, 220, 240, 264.
Torrey, 201, 312, 341, 378.
Totman, 347.
Tottingham, 99.
Towle, 193.
Towne, 155, 286.

Townsend, 188, 228, 250, 395, 450.
Tracy, 534, 536.
Trask, 544.
Treanus, 501.
Trevis, 275.
Trip, 375, 392.
Trowbridge, 282.
Trupont, 318, 319.
Tubbs, 523.
Tucker, 45, 52, 317.
Tudor, 221.
Tufts, 101, 280.
Tukesbury, 134.
Turbell, 128.

Turner, 59, 72, 155, 341, 455, 535, 536.
Tuttle, 50, 144, 250, 445, 446, 518.
Tyler, 42, 118, 119, 204, 241, 372, 526.
Tyrell, 624.

INDEX TO COLLATERAL FAMILIES.

587

U.

Umphrev, 126, 198, 266, 454.
Underwood, 159, 164, 219, 531.

V.

Valentine, 3S2, 422, 423.

Van Dyke, 154, 457.

Van Sou, 84.

Vars, 454.

Vaughn, 138, 260, 408.

Veazey, 494.

Venterman, 45.

Verry, 192.

Vinal, 314.

Vining, 310, 318, 319, 320, 325, 334,

414.
Vinton, 334.
Vose, 53, 153, 226, 519.

w.

Wade, 425.

Wadsworth, 284, 318.

Wagner, 497.

Wainwright, 475.

Wait, 82, 149, 263, 508.

Waitstill, 533.

Walcott, 525.

Waldron, 197.

Waldridge, 287.

Wales, 73, 373.

Walker, 45, 62, 97, 100, 105, 131, 209,

237, 252, 270, 324, 393, 471, 474,

520.
Wallace, 220, 462.
Ware, 138.
Warren, 85, 208, 2S0, 281, 290, 339, 347,

407, 517.
Washburn, 410.
Waters, 119, 354.
Watmaugh, 459.

Watson, 263, 376, 387, 388, 410, 540.
Weaver, 418, 423, 424.
Webb, 95, 200, 259, 307, 318, 537.
Webber, 144, 145.
Webster, 111, 239, 281.
Weckerly, 476.
Weed, 456.
Weeks, 355.
Weiderman, 350.
Welch, 55, 526.
Weld, 81, 113.
Welles, 218.
Wellington, 148, 470.
Wentworth, 248.
Wescott, 266.
Wesson, 516.
West, 499, 505.
Weston, 345.
Wheat, 97.

Wheaton, 228.

Wheeler, 114, 143, 203, 284, 309, 452,

513.
Wheelock, 371.
Whidden, 466.
VVhilen, 458.
Whitaker, 208.

Whitcomb, 112, 199, 232, 322, 525.
White, 103, 130, 194, 199, 217, 218, 221,

227, 232, 235, 278, 306, 338, 343, 383,

394, 395, 503, 520.
Whitehouse, 60.
Whitman, 269.
Whitmarsh, 311, 318, 325, 339, 388,

414.
Whitney, 118, 159, 193, 196, 306, 390,

393 517
Whittemore, 66, 116, 139, 161, 190,

542.
Wiggins, 448, 515.
Wilbur, 281, 404, 456.
Wilcox, 270.
Wild, 165, 232, 31S, 332.
Wilder, 343, 354.
Wildes, 281.
Wiley, 523.
Wilgus, 550.
Wilkins, 365, 391.
Wilkinson, 265.
Willard, 369.
Williams, 44, 135, 150, 155, 192, 262,

331, 388, 389, 474, 481, 522, 524,
Willington, 103.
Willis, 201, 244, 357, 399.
Willoughby, 34.
Wills, 140.
Wilson, 31, 84, 125, 156, 197, 269,

371, 418, 421, 424, 425, 525, 546.
Winden, 273.
Winder, 275.
Winegarden, 477.
Wing, 55.
Winkley, 255.
Winkull, 523.

Winn, 62, 76, 96, 97, 99, 100, 278, 471.
Wiuship, 88, 95, 144.
Winslow, 85, 120, 419, 424, 524.
Wise, 274.
Wister, 474.
Witherell, 330, 377.
Wood, 102, 103, 106, 118, 228, 232, 230,

287, 373, 394, 412, 474, 523.
Woodbridge, 44.
Woodburn, 464.
Woodbury, 104, 188.
Woodford, 258.
Woodruff, 240, 451.
Woods, 545.

Woodward, 388, 404, 537.
Worc6stcr 113.
Wright, 99, 124, 163, 165, 167, 181, 205,

208, 232, 270, 276, 279, 319, 320, 377,

393, 550.
Wveth, 508.
Wyman, 64, 66, 70, 71, 74, 75, 76, 80, 96,

147, 396, 470.

265,
533.

287,

588 ERRATA.

Yates, 120.
Yeaton, 248.
Yocum, 141.

Hooper Family, 43, 44.
Paige Family, 109, 110-122.
Stone Family, 108, 109.

York, 59. ' Winn Family, 96, 97, 98.

Young, 156, 220, 239, 326, 336, 415, 450. i Wyman Family, 9S, 99, 101.

ERRATA.

Page 42. — " Samue Smith " should read, " Samuel Smith."

Page 73. — -The date of the death of the wife of Daniel Reed, 1703.
He married Susanna Johnson, June 6, 1704.

Page 76. — Mary B., daughter of Luke, "born in 1801," should read,
"born June 22, 1802, and married Oliver Bacon; Luke, born July
22, 1804, married Martha Fay; Abigail, born Aug. 12, 1806, married
Caroline, March 31, 1809; Delphina and Delphia, born Jan. 15, 1815, —
Delphina married George Trull ; Delphia married John D. Carlton."
" Carolina and Delphina " should read, " Caroline Delphia."

The name of " Tuft," as connected with the Reads of Mendon and
vicinity, should read, " Taft."

Page 145. — Instead of "Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Bethiah," it
should read, " Hammon Benjamin died in 1860, aged seventy."

Page 171. — The " three " friends spoken of should read, "two:" they
were John Hancock and Samuel Adams.

Page 201. — "John, son of Ebeuezer and Sarah," should read, "John,
son of John and Sarah ; " and all in relation to him, on the last section of
p. 202, has reference to John, the grandson of Josiah, and his descend-
ants.

Page 217. — "Josiah, the son of Samuel and Hopestill," should read,
"Josiah, the son of Josiah and Grace." — " Elizabeth Amsdon " should
read, "Elizabeth Armsdale."

Page 311. — Read "Bashna" instead of "Bushnon."

Page 321. — The birth of Phillip, " 1741," should be " 1641."

Page 529. — The birth of William, the son of Josiah and Elizabeth,
" 1770," should read, " 1670."