Experience Read

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Experience Willis was born in about 1707 in Sudbury, Massachusetts, the second child of Samuel Willis and his second wife, Susannah Gleason. The article, "Willis Family of sudbury, Massachusetts" by McTeer and Waters provides athe estimated birth date and a baptism date of 10 April 1709 (from the "Sudbury, Massachusetts, 1st Church Parish" which is available in manuscript form at the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston).

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 in the Sudbury town records and the published Vital Records book. Isaac and Experience (Willis) Read had ten 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. 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.

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.

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. 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. Red, consort of Isaac, age 80" was reported in Jacob Bigelow's Record Book as 26 August 1787 in Sudbury. 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.

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