Josiah Read, of Norwich

Josiah Read

• Birth 1643 Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
• Death 3 Jul 1717 (aged 73–74) Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, USA
• Burial Founders Cemetery Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, USA Memorial ID 113281617 ·

Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Reed-8165

Josiah married in November 1666, at Lisbon, Connecticut[3] (recorded at both Marshfield and at Norwich, where they settled) to Grace Holloway, daughter of William Holloway.[4][2] She died May 9, 1727 at Norwich, Connecticut.[5][6]

A duplicate profile claimed the marriage took place on 4 Nov. 1666 in Norwich (without evidence, source was user-submitted).[7]

Josiah Read was born "say 1643," possibly at Weymouth, or at Boston, Massachusetts.[2] Apparently the record of his birth has not been located. His next younger sibling was born at Weymouth, and his next older sibling at Boston. He was a son of William Read and Susanna Hayme.[2]

Children of Josiah and Grace:[6]

1. Josiah Read b April, 1668, d 9 January 1752 in Norwich; mar Elizabeth Amsden
2. William Read b April, 1670; mar Anna Stark
3. Elizabeth (Read) Brewster b September 1672, d 1692; mar William Brewster
4. Experience Read b February 27, 1675; mar Shadrack Lamphere
5. John Read b August 15, 1679; mar Deborah Niles
6. Joseph Read b March 12, 1681; mar Mary Guppie
7. Susanna b 29 September 1685; mar Isaac Lawrence
8. Hannah Read b July, 1688; mar Benjamin Fitch

Josiah's younger half-brother, Hezekiah, born 6 July 1663 in Boston, chose Josiah and brother, John, as guardians.[4]

Notes

“John Phillips (d 1691) m(arried), secondly, Grace, widow of William Holloway, 1654. They had Joseph, b. 1655, killed at Rehoboth fight 1676, and Benjamin, b. 1658. ... Mrs. Grace Phillips had two daughters by her first husband, William Holloway, Hannah and Grace, who m. Josiah Read, 1666. He was one of the thirty-five purchasers of Norwich, Conn.”

"The marriage of Josiab Read to Grace, the daughter of William Holloway, took place at Marshfield in November, 1666. At this time he had probably eleared his home-lot and prepared his domicile in Norwich. About the year 1687, be removed from the town-plot to a farm "over Showtucket," and was probably the first permanent settler upon that gore of bud which was then called the Crotch, but afterward Newent. He had a brother John, at that time living "near Pease's farm," within the present limits of Bozrah.

It is probable that the brothers Josiah and John Read married sisters. The farm of William Holloway in Marshfield fell to his two daughters. It was Fold, one half in 1670, by "Josiah Reed of Norridge, in the Colony of Connecticut," as the inheritance of his wife Grace, and the other half in 1673, by " Hannah Read, formerly Holloway," whom we suppose to have been the wife of John. The only proof, however, is the coincidence of name.

A third brother, Hezekiah Read, was considerably younger than the others. The father, whose Christian name has not been recovered, died in 1679, leaving Hezekiah a minor, who, in accordance with his own request, was committed by the court to the guardianship of his brothers, Josiah and John, "for his good education in the fear of God, good literature, and some particular calling."f

John and Hezekiah Read do not come again within the range of our history. It is probable that they removed from the town, as in the next generation we find only five of the name earolled as householders, and these were Josiah and his four sons, Josiab, Jr., William, John, and Joseph,—all of them " farmers in ye Crotch of ye Rivers."

Josiah Read, the elder, died July 3, 1717.

Mrs. Grace Read, his wife, died May 9, 1727.

William Read died Aug. 13, 1727, leaving a wife, Mary, and an estate valued at £407."

- History of Norwich, Connecticut By Frances Manwaring Caulkins

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"Josiah Read was by trade a tailor. Miss Caulkins says that he removed to Newent, then known as "over Showtucket," to a farm he had purchased, in 1687, but the deed of the homestead to Richard Bushnell is dated 1698. He had eight children, four of whom were sons, Josiah, Jun., William, John and Joseph, who became "farmers in ye crotch of ye Rivers." Josiah, Sr., died in 1717, his wife Grace in 1727."

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JOSIAH READ OF CONNECTICUT, AND HIS DESCENDANTS.

Josiah, the son of Josiah, married Grace Holloway of Marshfield, Mass., in November, 1666, — Rehoboth and Marsh field being then contiguous towns ; though the increase 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. Children,— 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.

Sources

• History of the Reed family in Europe and America.  By Jacob Whittemore Reed.  "Josiah Read of Conecticut, and his Descendants.". Page 529.
• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/p/o/p/Sandra-Popiel/FILE...
• https://van-horn.us/pages/boslinage