Friday, June 23, 2017

52 Ancestors - Week 180: #259 Experience (Willis) Read (1707-1787) of Sudbury, Massachusetts

Experience (Willis) Read (1707-1787)  is #259 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandmother, who married #258  Isaac Read (1704-1780)  in 1730, in Sudbury, Massachusetts.


I am descended through:

*  their daughter, #129 Sarah Read (1736-1809) who married #128 Norman Seaver (1734-1787)  in 1755.
*  their son, #64 Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816) who married #65 Martha Whitney (1763-1832) in 1783.
*  their son #32 Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825) who married #33 Abigail Gates (1797-1867) in 1817.
*  their son #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) who married #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884) in 1851.
*  their son #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) who married #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) in 1874.
*  their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):


*  Name:                          Experience Willis[1–4]   
*  Alternate Name:          Experience Read[5–10]
*  Sex:                             Female   

*  Father:                         Samuel Willis (1675-1758)   
*  Mother:                       Susannah Gleason (1675-1756)   
  
2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
  
*  Birth:                          about 1707, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1]   
*  Baptism:                    10 April 1709 (about age 2), Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[2]   
*  Membership:             December 1730 (about age 23), First Sudbury Church, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[5]   
*  Membership:             5 August 1753 (about age 46), First Sudbury Church, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[6]   
*  Membership:             17 November 1772 (about age 65), First Sudbury Church, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[7]   
*  Distribution:             14 May 1780 (about age 73), will of Isaac Seaver written; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[8]   
*  Death:                       26 August 1787 (about age 80), Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United State[9–10]   
   
3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
  
*  Spouse 1:                  Isaac Read (1704-1780)   
* Marriage:                  11 February 1729/30 (about age 23), Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[2–3]   

*  Child 1:                    Isaac Read (1730-1759)   
*  Child 2:                    Jacob Read (1732-1797)   
*  Child 3:                    Experience Read (1734-    )   
*  Child 4:                    Sarah Read (1736-1809)   
*  Child 5:                    Samuel Read (1738-    )   
*  Child 6:                    Mary Read (1740-1831)   
*  Child 7:                    Ruth Read (1743-1812)   
*  Child 8:                    Samuel Read (1745-1780)   
*  Child 9:                    Lois Read (1747-1814)   
*  Child 10:                  Eunice Read (1749-    )   
*  Child 11:                  Asahel Read (1753-1775)   
  
4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):   

Experience Willis was born in about 1707 in Sudbury, Massachusetts[1], the second child of Samuel Willis and his second wife, Susannah Gleason, and was baptized on 10 April 1709[2].  The article, "Willis Family of Sudbury, Massachusetts" by McTeer and Waters provides the estimated birth date and a baptism date of 10 April 1709 (extracted from the "Sudbury, Massachusetts, 1st Church Parish" record book which is available in manuscript form at the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston and on FHL US/CAN Microfilm at the Family History Library).  

Undoubtedly, Experience was named after her father's first wife, Experience Newell (1677-1703) whom he married in Roxbury in 1700.  

Experience Willis married Isaac Read on 11 February 1729/30 in Sudbury; record is in the Sudbury town records and the published Vital Records book[3-4].  Isaac and Experience (Willis) Read had eleven children between 1731 and 1753.

Isaac and Experience Read are on the list of Sudbury church members who owned the covenant after the separation of the church, dated December 1730[5].  Several of their children were subsequently baptized in the church.  Isaac and Experience Read are also on the list of Sudbury church members on the west side of the river on 5 August 1753[6].

Many of Isaac's Read's descendants are listed in the record book of Jacob Bigelow, the minister at the Sudbury Church from 1772 until about 1816.  Isaac Read and his wife Experience were listed as members of the First Church of Sudbury at the start of Jacob Bigelow's ministry there on 17 November 1772[7].

At the start of the Revolutionary War, Asahel Read, youngest son of Isaac and Experience Read, was one of two Sudbury men killed on 19 April 1775 at Lexington.  His body was brought to Sudbury, and probably was buried at Sudbury Centre.

Isaac Read died and was buried on 28 May 1780 in the Sudbury church yard.  Isaac Read of Sudbury wrote his will on 15 May 1780, and it was proved on 14 June 1780[8].  He named his wife Experience and bequeathed all indoor moveables to her, except for the clock which he bequeathed to son Jacob Read after his wife's decease.  

The death of "Mrs. Read, consort of Isaac, age 80" was reported in Jacob Bigelow's Record Book as 26 August 1787 in Sudbury[8-10].  Her burial location is not known, but was probably in the Sudbury Church yard with her husband.

There is no known probate record for Experience (Willis) Read.

5)  SOURCES
 
1 . Francis (David) McTeer and Frederick C. Waters,  "Willis Family of Sudbury, Massachusetts," New England Historic Genealogical Register, Vol. 114, No. 1 ((January 1960), pages 20-42 , page 32, Experience Willis sketch, birth entry.

2. Francis (David) McTeer and Frederick C. Waters,  "Willis Family of Sudbury, Massachusetts," New England Historic Genealogical Register, Vol. 114, No. 1 ((January 1960), pages 20-42 , page 32, Experience Willis sketch, baptism entry.

3. Francis (David) McTeer and Frederick C. Waters,  "Willis Family of Sudbury, Massachusetts," New England Historic Genealogical Register, Vol. 114, No. 1 ((January 1960), pages 20-42 , page 32, Experience Willis sketch, marriage entry.

4. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903), Marriages, page 256, Isaac Reed and Experiance Willis entry.

5. First Parish Church (Sudbury, Mass.), Church Records, 1704-1956, Sudbury, Massachusetts, Family History Library, on FHL US/CAN Film 0,185,464, page 45, Isaac and Experience Read entries.

6. First Parish Church (Sudbury, Mass.), Church Records, 1704-1956, Sudbury, Massachusetts, Family History Library, on FHL US/CAN Film 0,185,464, pages 27-28, Isaac and Experience Read entries.

7. Jacob Bigelow, The Record Book of Jacob Bigelow, 1772-1800, Family History Library (on FHL US/CAN Microfilm 0,185,462), frame 29, Isaac Reed membership entry.

8. "Probate Records 1648-1924 (Middlesex County, Massachusetts),"  886 FHL US/CAN Microfilms, Probate Packet 18,507, Isaac Read of Sudbury, on FHL Microfilm 0,421,500.

9. Jacob Bigelow, The Record Book of Jacob Bigelow, 1772-1800, frame 13 of 46, Deaths, "Mrs. Read, consort of Isaac age 80" entry.

10. Francis (David) McTeer and Frederick C. Waters,  "Willis Family of Sudbury, Massachusetts," New England Historic Genealogical Register, Vol. 114, No. 1 ((January 1960), pages 20-42 , page 32, Experience Willis sketch, death entry.

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NOTE:  Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post Challenge:  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2017 to 208 Ancestors in 208 Weeks.




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