Friday, November 22, 2019

52 Ancestors - Week 305: #516 Thomas Read (1678-1755) of Massachusetts

Thomas Read (1678-1755) is number 516 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandfather, who married #517 Mary (Bigelow) Bruce (1677-1708) in 1701, in Watertown, Middlesex  County, Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

*  their son #258. Isaac Read (1704-1780) who married #259 Experience Willis (1707-1787) in 1730.
*  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 (1764-1832) 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:                         Thomas Read[1–8]    

*  Sex:                             Male    

*  Father:                        Thomas Read (1653-1733)    
*  Mother:                      Mary Goodrich (1650-1724)  

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Birth:                          22 March 1677/8, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1]    

*  Deed:                          10 January 1712 (age 33), Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[4]    
*  Deed:                          2 November 1713 (age 35), Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[5]    
*  Deed:                          15 June 1719 (age 41), Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[6]    
*  Residence:                  17 March 1724/5 (age 46), west side of the river; Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[7]    

*  Deed:                          9 September 1740 (age 62), Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.[8]

*  Death:                         about 1 May 1755 (age 77), Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States  

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Spouse 1:                   Mary Bigelow (1677-1708)    
*  Marriage 1:                3 December 1701 (age 23), Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[2]    

*  Child 1:                     Nathaniel Read (1702-1785)    
*  Child 2:                     Thomas Read (1706-1788)    
*  Child 3:                     Isaac Read (1704-1780)    
*  Child 4:                     Katherine Read (1707-    )    

*  Spouse 2:                  Abigail Bacon (1687-1745)    
*  Marriage 2:               1 July 1708 (age 30), Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3]    

*  Child 5:                    Mary Read (1709-    )    
*  Child 6:                    Abigail Read (1710-    )    
*  Child 7:                    Daniel Read (1714-1760)    
*  Child 8:                    Betty Read (1716-1784)    
*  Child 9:                    Lydia Read (1718-    )    
*  Child 10:                  Joseph Read (1722-1808)  
 
4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  
Thomas Read was born on 22 Mar 1677/8, the first child of Thomas and Mary (Goodrich) Read in Sudbury, Massachusetts.[1]  

Thomas married Mary (Bigelow) Bruce on 3 December 1701 in Watertown, Massachusetts,[2]  after Mary's first husband, David Bruce, died on July 22, 1701 in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Mary was the daughter of Samuel and Mary (Flagg) Bigelow of Watertown, Massachusetts.  They had four children, all born in Sudbury and recorded in the town vital records:

*  Nathaniel Read (1702-1785), married 1729 Phebe Lamb (1708-1788).
*  Isaac Read (1704-1780), married 1730 Experience Willis (1707-1787).
*  Thomas Read (1706-1788), married 1734 Sarah Maynard (1704-1776).
*  Katherine Read (1708-????), married 1725 Joseph Joslin (1699-????).

Mary (Bigelow) Read died on 21 February 1707/8 in Sudbury, Massachusetts shortly after the birth of their daughter, Katherine.

Thomas married, secondly, Abigail Bacon on 1 July 1708 in Sudbury, Massachusetts.[3]  They had six children all born in Sudbury and recorded in the town vital records: 

*  Mary Read (1709-????), married 1730 Samuel Burbank (1706-1781).
*  Abigail Read (1711-????), married 1742 Daniel Winch (1702-1758)
*  Daniel Read (1714-1760), married 1737 Rebecca Mead (1718-????)
*  Betty Read (1716-1784), married 1751 Joshua Harrington (1718-1784).
*  Lydia Read (1718-????), married 1735 Edward Grout (1718-????).
*  Joseph Read (1722-1808), married 1749 Sarah Goodenow (1730-????)

On 10 January 1712, Thomas Read junior, yeoman  of Sudbury, bought six acres and 140 acres of land from John Gibbs of Sudbury for seven pounds and ten shillings.[4]  The land was situated on the west side of the Sudbury River at a place called Lanham at the west end of the neck, so-called;  it was bounded westerly and northerly by lands of Benjamin Waight, Thomas Frost and the said Thomas Read, easterly by land of John Bent, and southerly by marked trees and the mill meadow by the plat of said land.

On 2 November 1713, Thomas Read junior of Sudbury bought land from Joseph Parmenter of Sudbury in Sudbury for six pounds and ten shillings.[5] The land description is in the margin of the deed book and is impossible to read.

On 15 June 1719, Thomas Read junior of Sudbury sold 4 acres of meadow land in Sudbury for 40 pounds to Joseph Parmenter of Sudbury, with wife Abigail releasing her dower rights.[6]

At the time of the division of the Sudbury church, Thomas Read Junior was on the list of members on the west side of the river on 18 March 1724/5 when he subscribed in the Sudbury Church Records.[7] His wife, Abigail, is listed as a member on 26 May 1728.

On 9 September 1740, Thomas Read and his wife Abigail bought a portion of a 25 acre tract in Sudbury from Robert Auchmuty etal for 120 pounds in bills of credit, and took a mortgate for the land.[8]

Abigail (Bacon) Read died 10 July 1745 in Sudbury, Massachusetts.  There is no death record or known burial site.

Thomas Read died on 1 May 1755 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. The exact location of his gravesite is unknown at this time, but is believed to be in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

Neither Thomas Read nor his second wife Abigail left a will and no administration was made on their estates in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

5.  SOURCES

1. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903), Births, page 118, Thomas Reed entry, 1678.

2. "Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com), "Watertown > Births, Marriages and Death," page 16 (penned) (image 191 of 3991), Thomas Read and Mary Bruce marriage, 1701.

3. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts to the year 1850, Marriages, page 257, Thomas Read and Abigail Bacon entry.

4. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org :), Middlesex County > 1678-1684, Vol. 7-8, Volume 7, page 377, John Gibbs to Thomas Read, executed 10 January 1712, recorded 27 November 1714, accessed on FHL US/CAN Microfilm 0,554,007.

5. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Middlesex County > 1678-1684, Vol. 7-8, Volume 7, page 378, Joseph Parmenter to Thomas Read, executed 2 November 1713, recorded 27 November 1714.

6. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Middlesex County > 1740-1743, Vol. 41-42, Volume 42, page 138, Thomas Read to Joseph Parmenter, executed 15 June 1719, recorded 4 December 1740.

7. First Parish Church (Sudbury, Mass.), "Church Records, 1704-1956, Sudbury, Massachusetts," Family History Library, on FHL US/CAN Film 0,185,464, page 25, Thomas Read residence on west side of the river.

8. "Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, FamilySearch, Middlesex County > 1740-1743, Vol. 41-42, Volume 42, page 253, Thomas Read mortgage to Robert Auchmuty &al, executed 9 September 1740, recorded 30 January 1740/1.

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NOTE:  In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2019 to 364 Ancestors in 364 Weeks.

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