Friday, June 16, 2017

52 Ancestors - Week 179: #258 Isaac Read (1704-1780) of Sudbury, Massachusetts

Isaac Read (1704-1780) is #258 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandfather, who married #259 Experience Willis (1707-1787)  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:                            Isaac Read[1–23]   
*  Alternate Name:             Isaac Reed[24-26, 28]
*  Alternate Name:            Mr. Red[27]

*  Sex:                               Male   

*  Father:                           Thomas Read (1678-1755)   
*  Mother:                         Mary Bigelow (1677-1708)   
  
2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
  
*  Birth:                            23 February 1704, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[24–25]   
*  Deed:                           5 February 1727/8 (age 23), bought 6 acres in Sudbury from Joseph Gibbs for 51 pounds; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1]   
*  Deed:                          27 April 1729 (age 25), bought two tracts of land in Sudbury from Nathaniel Gibbs for 172 pounds; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[2]   
*  Membership:              December 1730 (about age 26), First Parish Church, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3]   
*  Deed:                         13 November 1733 (age 29), bought dwelling house and 4 tracts of land in Sudbury from Joseph Sever for for 173 pounds; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[4]
* Deed:                          24 April 1734 (age 30), sold 1 acre of upland in Sudbury to John Goodenow for 25 pounds; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[5]    
*  Deed:                         26 March 1735 (age 31), sold 3 acres of land in Sudbury to Daniel Goodenow for 10 pounds; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[6]   
*  Deed:                        4 July 1735 (age 31), sold 4 acres of land in Sudbury to Jonathan Puffer for 40 pounds; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[8]   
*  Deed:                       4 July 1735 (age 31), sold 4 acres of land in Sudbury to Samuel Puffer for 40 pounds; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[7]   
*  Military:                 4 June 1738 (age 34), Gentleman of the Horse under command of Capt. Josiah Brown; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[9]   
*  Deed:                      12 September 1738 (age 34), bought 75 acres of land in Sudbury from Joseph Gibbs for 521 pounds; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[10]   
*  Deed:                      7 March 1742 (age 38), sold 1 acre in Sudbury to John Noyes Jr. for 12 pounds; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[11]   
*  Deed:                      19 April 1742 (age 38), bought 4 acres of land in Sudbury from Robert Sever for 120 pounds; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[12]   
*  Deed:                      22 January 1744 (age 39), bought 22 acres of land in Sudbury from Phinehas Brintnall and Josiah Richardson for 650 pounds; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[13]   
*  Deed:                     18 October 1744 (age 40), bought 56 acres of land from Susanna Blanford, Lydia Grayham and Susanah Graves for 31 pounds; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[14]   
*  Military:                 23 September 1747 (age 43), a sentinel in command of Capt. Josiah Browne; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[9,15]   
*  Deed:                      3 January 1748/9 (age 44), bought 80 acres of land in Sudbury from John How for 1300 pounds; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[16]   
*  Membership:          5 August 1752 (age 48), First Parish Church, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[17]   
*  Deed:                     30 March 1756 (age 52), bought 4 acres of land in Sudbury from Nathan Goodenow for 33 pounds; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[18]   
*  Administration:     1759 (about age 55), named administrator of son Isaac Read's estate; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[19]   
*  Property:               17 March 1762 (age 58), Sudbury town rented house for 2 pounds; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[20]   
*  Deed:                   2 August 1770 (age 66), indenture for 80 acres of land in Framingham; Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[21]   
*  Membership:       17 November 1772 (age 68), Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[26]   
*  Deed:                   22 April 1773 (age 69), sold 70 acres of land in Sudbury to Elijah Parmenter for 220 pounds; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[22]   
*  Death:                 28 May 1780 (age 76), Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[27]   
*  Burial:                after 28 May 1780 (after age 76), Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States   
*  Probate:              14 June 1780 (age 76), will proved; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[23]   
   
3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
  
*  Spouse 1:             Experience Willis (1709-1787)   
*  Marriage 1:          11 February 1729/30 (age 25), Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[28]   

*  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):    

Isaac Read was born 23 February 1704 in Sudbury, Massachusetts, the second son of Thomas and Mary (Bigelow) (Bruce) Read[24-25].

Isaac married Experience Willis, daughter of Samuel and Susanna (Gleason) Willis,  on 11 February 1729/30 in Sudbury[28].  They had 11 children between 1731 and 1753.

Isaac Read had many land transactions during his lifetime.  His homestead and most of his land holdings are located in the south part of Sudbury in the place called Lanham, on the west side of the Sudbury River, east of Nobscot Hill, and just north of the Framingham town line.  He accumulated a large estate, bequeathing 12,000 pounds to four of his daughters via his will written in 1780[23].

On 5 February 1727/8, Isaac Read, husbandman of Sudbury, bought land in Sudbury from Joseph Gibbs of Sudbury for 51 pounds in bills of public credit[1].  The land was a 6 acre parcel of meadow in Sudbury on the east side of the river, in what was known as Pugge (?) Meadow. The parcel was bounded northwesterly by the river, northeasterly by meadow land of Captain Ephraim Curtis (?), southwesterly by meadow land granted to John Parmenter, and southeasterly by land of Moses Maynard. 

Isaac Read, husbandman of Sudbury, bought land in Sudbury from Nathaniel Gibbs, cooper of Sudbury, for 172 pounds of currant money of New England on 27 April 1729[2].  One piece of land was a third of the land that Nathaniel Gibbs purchased from John How of Hopkinton which was the thirds belonging to Sarah How, deceased widow of Lieutenant Samuel How of Sudbury.  This property was located in the part of Sudbury called Lanham, bounded northerly by land of Nathaniel Read, easterly by the road to Framingham, southerly by land of Thomas Read, northwesterly by land of Elisha Howe and Nathaniel Gibbs.  The second tract was 10 acres of land in Sudbury adjoining the first parcel.

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[3].  Several of their children were subsequently baptized in the church .

On 13 November 1733, Isaac Read, husbandman of Sudbury, bought land in Sudbury from Joseph Sever, yeoman of Framingham, for 173 pounds.13 shillings and 9 pence in currant money[4].  The property included a dwelling house on one acre of land in Sudbury in a place called Lanham, bounded easterly on a highway, southerly and westerly on land of Thomas Read, and northerly on land of the said Isaac Read.  A second tract of 7 acres of upland and meadow in Sudbury was bounded northerly and easterly by land of Elisha How, southerly and westerly by land of the said Isaac Read.  A third parcel of six acres of upland in Sudbury was bounded by Isaac Hunt and Joseph Gibbs.  A fourth parcel of 3 acres of land was bounded by Nathaniel Rice, Joseph Goodenow and David Haynes. .

The first mention of Isaac Read in the Sudbury town records is in 1734 when a highway was laid out "from Landham to Sudbury part of the way to go through the land of John Goodnow and Isaac Reed.

On 24 April 1734, Isaac Read, husbandman of Sudbury, sold a tract of land in Sudbury to John Goodenow of Sudbury for 25 pounds in province bills[5].  The land comprised 1 acre of upland on the west side of Sudbury River, being the most easterly part of the land bought by Isaac Read from Paul Brintnall.

On 26 March 1735, Isaac Read, yeoman of Sudbury, sold a tract of land in Sudbury to Daniel Goodenow, husbandman of Sudbury, for 10 pounds[6]. The land was in Sudbury on the west side of the river, containing 3 acres and 90 rods, lying on both sides of an old highway, and was originally a gift from the town proprietors to Nehemiah How.  The land was bounded northerly by land of Capt. David Haynes and David Goodenow, easterly by land of ???? Rice, southerly by land on the right of Pelham and land of David Haynes.

Isaac Read, yeoman of Sudbury, sold land on 4 July 1735 to Jonathan Puffer, yeoman of Sudbury, for 40 pounds in current money[8].  The land comprised 4 acres and 100 rods of meadow and upland, which was one half of the land bought from Ephraim and Mary Curtis on the west side of the Sudbury River.  The land was bounded southeasterly by the river, northeasterly by a meadow of Reverend Israel Loring, northwesterly by a ditch and fence, and southwesterly by the other half of the lot.

The other half of the land, containing 4 acres and 100 rods, was sold to Samuel Puffer, weaver of Sudbury, for 40 pounds[7].  It was bounded southeasterly by the Sudbury river, southwesterly by the meadow of Jonathan Muzzy, northwesterly by the ditch and fence, and northeasterly by the other half of the lot sold to Jonathan Puffer.

Joseph Gibbs, yeoman of Sudbury, sold land in Sudbury to Isaac Read, yeoman of Sudbury, for 521 pounds in currant money and bills of credit on 12 September 1738[10].  The land included 75 acres with a dwelling house and barn on the west side of the Sudbury River, in the place called Lanham.  It was bounded easterly by the highway, southerly by the road leading to Nathanael Gibbs and by land of Isaac Gibbs, westerly and northerly by land of Isaac Gibbs.

On 4 June 1739, Isaac Reed was listed as a "...Gentlemen of the Horse under the command of Capt. Josiah Brown"[9,15].  Later, Isaac Reed is listed as a sentinel in the muster roll of Captain Josiah Browne on the alarm from September 23 to 27, 1747 in Framingham[15].

Isaac Read, husbandman of Sudbury, sold one acre and a quarter of land in Sudbury to John Noyes Junior, yeoman of Sudbury, for 12 pounds 5 shillings in hand on 7 March 1742[11].  The land was on the west side of the Sudbury River, bounded northerly by meadow formerly owned by Benjamin Parmenter and currently owned by Benjamin Bolt, easterly by the river, southerly by the meadow of John Noyes Junior.

Isaac Read, yeoman of Sudbury, bought land in Sudbury from Robert Sever, husbandman of Sudbury, for 120 pounds on 19 April 1742[12].  The land was on the west side of the Sudbury River and contained 4 and a quarter acres of meadow, bounded easterly by Elisha How, northerly by Paul Brintnal, westerly by Nathan Goodenow and Josiah Richardson, and southerly by a brook.

On 18 October 1744, Isaac Read, yeoman of Sudbury, bought land from Susanna Blanford, Lydia Grayham and Susanah Graves for 31 pounds, 14 shillings and 8 pence[13].  The tract of land was in Sudbury on the west side of the Sudbury River, contained 56 acres, and was the westerly part of a tract of land in the southeast corner of land called the New Grants and was the lot that was formerly John Blanford's, deceased  of Sudbury, who was the son of Susanna Blanford.  The lot was bounded southerly on Framingham line, easterly by land claimed by Benjamin and Samuel Easterbrook, northerly on the Common Grant land, and westerly by the highway.

Isaac Reed, yeoman of Sudbury, bought 22 acres of land in Sudbury on 22 January 1744 from Phinehas Brintnal and Josiah Richardson, gentlemen of Sudbury, for 650 pounds old tenor[14].  The tract of upland, lowland and orchard and a barn, lying in the west side of Sudbury known by the name of Smithfield, was bounded southerly by the meadow of Nathan Goodenow,, Thomas Bogle, Elisha How and the said Isaac Reed, westwardly by the land of Josiah Richardson, northerly by Marlborough road and easterly by Lanum road.

On 3 January 1748/9, John How, innholder of Framingham, sold 80 acres of land in Framingham to Isaac Read, yeoman of Sudbury, for 1,300 pounds in good bills of credit[16].  The land had a house and a barn, and was bounded westerly by the road leading to Lanham, northerly by the line between Sudbury and Framingham, easterly by the river and land of the heirs of Lt. Micah Stone deceased, and southerly by the highway to the new bridge and by land of Lt. Stone.

Isaac and Experience Read are on the list of Sudbury church members on the west side of the river on 5 August 1753[17].

On 30 March 1756, Nathan Goodenow, yeoman of Sudbury, sold 4 acres of meadow in Sudbury to Isaac Read, yeoman of Sudbury, for 33 pounds seven shillings and 11 pence in hand[18].  The land was located near Lanham Bridge and the northerly side of Lanham brook;  no other landowners were listed.  The deed was recorded 12 April 1756.

Isaac Read was named administrator of the estate of his son, Isaac Read Jr, in 1759, and guardian of Nathan Read, son of Isaac Jr. and Lydia (Goodenow) Read[19].

On 14 October 1761, Sudbury sent the town doctor "to Mr. Isaac Reed for sledding wood and assisting to repair a House, for those who may have the small pox."  The site of one these "pest houses" was on Nobscot Hill in the southern part of Sudbury, on land owned by Mr. Hubbard Brown.

On 17 March 1762, Sudbury town decided "to hire some suitable house for a Work House that the Idle Persons in sd Town might be kept to Labor."[20]  A building was rented from Isaac Reed, for which he was to receive two pounds eight shillings.  In 1765, the town "voted to give Mr. Reed two pounds eight shillings for his house (and garden spot) & his putting sd house in good Tenantable Repair."  In 1763, the town chose "overseers of the poor for sd house," and Isaac Reed was one of the board.

On 2 August 1770, an indenture was made by Isaac Read, yeoman of Sudbury, with Nicholas Boylston, esquire of Boston, for land in Framingham with a good house and a barn[21].  The tract of land is the one bought by Isaac Read from John How in 1748/9.  Isaac Read promised to pay 100 pounds of lawful money with lawful interest to Nicholas Boylston.  Daniel Goodenow, gentleman of Sudbury, was bound with Isaac Read.  Experience, wife of Isaac Read, willingly surrendered her right of dowry and power of thirds.  The indenture was witnessed by their sons Samuel Read and Asahel Read.

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[26].

On 22 April 1773, Isaac Read, yeoman of Sudbury, sold a messuage and a tract of land in the western part of Sudbury to Elijah Parmenter, yeoman of Sudbury, for 220 pounds lawful money[22].  The tract contained 70 acres and was bounded by Framingham line at John Winn's land, southerly by Framingham town land, westerly by a town way, northerly by land of John Moore, Elijah Parmenter and Oliver Moore, and easterly by land of Captain John ____.  Experience Read signed her dower rights.

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

Isaac Read died and was buried on 28 May 1780 in the Sudbury church yard[28].  While the record says "Mr. Red," the date is between the day Isaac Read wrote his will (16 May 1780) and the day his will was proved (14 June 1780).
The will of Isaac Read of Sudbury was written 15 May 1780, and proved on 14 June 1780.  The will reads[23]:

"In the Name of God, Amen.  I, Isaac Read of Sudbury in the County of Middlesex in the State of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, yeoman, being of sound disposing mind, though infirm in body, sensible of my own frailty and mortality, do make and ordain this my last will and testament.  Firstly committing my soul into the hands of God, hoping for salvation through Jesus Christ the only Saviour of Men, and my body to be decently buried, at the discretion of my executor, hereafter named, in hopes of a Reformation to a blessed immortality --- and as to the temporal estate which God has given me, I dispose of that in manner following ---

"Item.  I give unto my beloved Wife Experience the use, improvement and the disposal of all my moveable estate within Doors, and if not disposed of by her, in her life time, my will is that it be equally divided among my five daughters, my clock excepted, which I mean shall remain in my house and be considered as the property of my son Jacob, after my wife's decease.  I also give my sd wife, the improvement of the third part of my dwelling house and barn and one third part of all my lands, which will remain after the lands shall be taken off which I give to my daughter Lois Hill and to my grandson Nathan Read, hereafter mentioned, and also one third part of my stock of cattle, and one third part of my husbandry utensils, these to be for her life and improvement, during her natural life.

"Item.  I give and bequeath to my son Jacob Reed, the remainder of all my estate, both real and personal, including my Bonds and Notes of hand (excepting the lands, herein after named, which I give to my daughter Hill, and to my grandson Nathan Read);  to him and to his heirs and assigns, that is the remainder of my dwelling house and barn and lands with all their appurtenances, he paying all the debts, dower and legacies, ordered in this my will, and twelve thousand pounds lawful money, to be equally divided between my four daughters Experience, Sarah, Mary and Ruth.

"Item.  I give to my Daughter Lois Hill my house and barn, with all my lands, lying in Framingham, where now they dwell, with all the appurtenances thereof; also about four acres of meadow adjoining said farm, though lying in Sudbury.  The east side of Sd meadow lies on the River, the North and west sides thereof lie against other of my land. I also give her another piece of meadow near Capt. Moses Stone's, containing by estimation about two acres, the south side of which lies on the River, the north side bounded by a woodland side hill belonging to me, and ye westerly side by lands which I improved as a pasture; but out of what I thus give to my daughter Hill, my will is that there be paid one thousand pounds, to be equally divided among my other four daughters, which with what my son Jacob is to pay them, and what they have already received, is each of their full portions of my estate.

"Item.  I give unto my grandson Nathan Reed, in addition to what I had before given to his father Isaac Reed deceased, a piece of land known by the name of the Clay Pitts, which is now inclosed by itself with a fence;  also four acres of west meadow, so called, lying in East Sudbury, and on the side which joins to and of Silas Goodenow, running from Lannum Brook, so called, to the shore.  Also a piece of woodland lying near Mr. Jonathan Graves, containing about three acres, be the same more or less - also ten acres of woodland, lying in what is called the new Grant in Sudbury bounded upon the highway and running from the lands of Uriah Hayden to the lands of Mr. Osborn - which together with the money he has already had with other favors, is to be considered as his full portion, and as a consideration for my use of his place.

"And my will is that the money which is to be paid by my son Jacob, and also that which is to be paid out of what I have given to my daughter Lois Hill, shall be paid in the same proportion, according as money shall depreciate or appreciate from this present day; and that it be all paid within two years next after my decease.

"And I do hereby constitute and appoint my son Jacob sole executor to this my last will and testament in full power and trust, ratifying and confirming this my last will and testament, revoking and disannulling all others, this fifteenth day of May Anno Domini, one thousand seven hundred and eighty."

"Signed, sealed and declared to be the last will and testament,

Jonathan Robinson                                           his
Aaron Haynes                                          Isaac  +  Read
Joseph Read                                                   mark"

Jacob Read and Nathan Read apparently disagreed on some aspects of the estate, prompting the following:

"At a Court of Probate held at Concord within and for the county of Middlesex on Wednesday the 14th day of June 1780, by the Honorable Oliver Prescott Esquire, Judge of said Court -- Came into court on one part Jacob Read executor to the last will and testament of Isaac Read late of Sudbury in the said County, yeoman deceased, and on the other part Nathan Read one of the legatees therein named, and agreed to submit all matters of difference between them respecting ye deceased's estate to Jonas Dix of Waltham, Esqr and Ephraim Wood Jr and Joseph Hosmer both of Concord Esquires and that the determination of them by the said judge, all three being first notified and all parties warned of the time and place of meeting.  And they are to report to the Judge as soon as conveniently may be.

"By the order of the Judge
James Winthrop Regr"

A month later it was reported:

"Middlesex ye July 15th 1780 -- to the Honorable Oliver Prescott Esqr Judge of Probate -- in observance of the within commission we attended the service and after spending ????? days reasoning with the parties upon the premises we prevailed upon them to agree in such manner as both rejoiced therein -- all which is humbly submitted,
Jonas Dix
Ephraim Wood Jr
Joseph Hosmer"

There is no inventory mentioned or shown, nor a distribution of the estate included in the probate packet.  It is not known whether the legatees received the sizable inheritance from their father.

5)  SOURCES
 
1. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950); 1780 rolls of microfilm, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, FHL microfilm US/CAN 0,554,020, Volume 36, page 72, Joseph Gibbs to Isaac Read, recorded 11 February 1734.

2. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), FHL microfilm US/CAN 0,554,019, Volume 35, page 465, Nathaniel Gibbs to Isaac Read, recorded 6 February 1733.

3. 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.

4. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), FHL microfilm US/CAN 0,532,455, Volume 35, page 465, Joseph Sever to Isaac Read, recorded 6 February 1733/4.

5. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), FHL microfilm US/CAN 0,554,023, Volume 41, page 222, Isaac Read to John Goodenow, recorded 12 November 1740.

6. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), FHL microfilm US/CAN 0,554,024 Volume 44, page 161, Isaac Read to Daniel Goodenow, recorded 20 June 1743.

7. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), FHL microfilm US/CAN 0,554,038 Volume 68, page 377, Isaac Read to Samuel Puffer, recorded 13 December 1768.

8. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), FHL microfilm US/CAN 0,554,025, Volume 45, page 308, Isaac Read to Jonathan Puffer, recorded 9 February 1745.

9. Alfred Sereno Hudson, The History of Sudbury, Massachusetts, 1638-1889 (Boston, Mass. : Town of Sudbury, 1889), page 326.

10. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), FHL microfilm US/CAN 0,554,022, Volume 39, page 665, Joseph Gibbs to Isaac Read, recorded 23 April 1739.

11. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), FHL microfilm US/CAN 0,554,047 Volume 81, page 591, Isaac Read to John Noyes Jr., recorded 31 January 1786.

12. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), FHL microfilm US/CAN 0,554,025 Volume 45, page 59, Robert Sever to Isaac Read, recorded 25 February 1744.

13. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), FHL microfilm US/CAN 0,554,030 Volume 52, page 29, Phinehas Brintnall and Josiah Richardson to Isaac Read, recorded 20 April 1753.

14. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), FHL microfilm US/CAN 0,554,025 Volume 45, page 122, John Blanford heirs to Isaac Read, recorded 16 April 1745.

15. William Barry, The History of Framingham, Massachusetts, Including the Plantation, From 1640 to the Present Time (Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, 1847).

16. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), FHL microfilm US/CAN 0,554,030, Volume 52, page 29, John How to Isaac Read, recorded 20 April 1753.

17. 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.

18. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), FHL microfilm US/CAN 0,554,031, Volume 54, page Nathan Goodenow to Isaac Read, recorded 12 April 1756.

19. "Probate Records 1648-1924 (Middlesex County, Massachusetts),"  886 FHL US/CAN Microfilms, Probate Packet 18,505, estate of Isaac Read, Jr., on FHL microfilm US/CAN 0,421,500.

20. Alfred Sereno Hudson, The History of Sudbury, Massachusetts, 1638-1889 (Boston, Mass. : Town of Sudbury, 1889), page 328.

21. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), FHL microfilm US/CAN 0,554,040, Volume 70, page 395, Isaac Read indenture to Nicholas Boylston, recorded 7 Aug 1770.

22. Record books of the registry of deeds, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 1649-1900; indexes: grantee (1639-1905) and grantor (1639-1950), FHL microfilm US/CAN 0,554,054, Volume 93, page 383, Isaac Read to Elijah Parmenter, recorded 28 March 1786.

23. "Probate Records 1648-1924 (Middlesex County, Massachusetts)" , Probate Packet 18,507, Isaac Read of Sudbury, on FHL Microfilm 0,421,500.

24. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903), Births, page 118, Isaac Ree? entry, 1704.

25. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Sudbury, "Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1663-1829," Volume 4, page 16 (image 12 of 142), Isaac Reed birth entry, 1704.

26. 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.

27. Jacob Bigelow, "The Record Book of Jacob Bigelow, 1772-1800," frame 12, "Mr. Red" death entry.

28. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts to the year 1850, Marriages, page 256, Isaac Reed and Experiance Willis 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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