Martha Symonds

Family

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Martha READE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 was christened 9 22 Jul 1602 in North Benfleet, Essex, England. She died 10 1661 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.

• parents: Edmund Reade & Elizabeth Cooke.

married

1. Daniel EPPS on 1622 in London, Middlesex, England
2. Lt. Governor Samuel SYMONDS on 1637 in Earls Colne, Essex, England.

Martha Reade & Daniel Epps had the following children:

1. Elizabeth [3] born about 1662; listed as aged 13 on the passenger list of the Abigail in July, 1635 [8] ; she married James Chute by about 1649. [4] [9]
2. Daniel born about 1625; deposed at age 52 in 1677. [3]; married his step-sister Elizabeth Symonds [7] ; died at Ipswich on January 8, 1692/3, aged 70. [10]
3. Martha born ___; buried on May 31, 1638. [3]
4. Mary baptized on October 8, 1629; married Peter Duncan of Gloucester and Dorchester, Massachusetts. [3]

Symonds Children

1. Ruth born about 1640; married John Emerson of Gloucester by about 1660 [7]; died at Gloucester before before December 23, 1701/2. [11] [12]
2. Priscilla born in Ipswich in 1648. Married to Thomas Baker in 1672. [13]

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Reade-45

Martha Reade was born on July 13 and baptized on July 22, 1602 at North Benfleet, Essex, England, the daughter of Edmund and Elizabeth (Cooke) Reade of Wickford, Essex, England. [1] [2]

Martha married Daniel Epes of London, England by about 1621. [3]

In the will of her grandfather Thomas Cooke the elder of Pebmershe, Essex, written on August 30, 1621, he bequested his grandchild, Edmund and Elizabeth Reade's daughter, Martha Reade, now wife of ___ Epps of London, L10. [2]

Her father Edmund Reade's will, dated on November 20, 1623, mentions Daniel Epps and my daughter Martha Epps, and their children Elizabeth and Daniel. [3]

Her husband Daniel was buried at London on June 26, 1630. [3]

After his death, she married second c 1637, Samuel Symonds, as his second wife. [4] [5]

Martha died about 1662. Her death date is unknown, but her son Daniel testified that before her death, his mother had told him that Mr. Humphrey Vincent, in his will written on January 1, 1661, had left the majority of his estate to Samuel Symonds, Daniel's stepfather. [6]

After her death, Samuel married third, the widow, Rebecca Worcester. [5] He wrote his will on February 16, 1673. In it he left bequests to the following, among others: [7]

• my son and daughter Epps
• my son and daughter Emerson
• my daughter Dunkin
• my son Chewte ( ie. husband of stepdaughter Elizabeth Epes Chute)
• my wives grand daughter Rebecca Stacey [7]

As his son William, executor of the above estate, died intestate, without making provisions for the estate division, on June 18, 1680, administration of Samuel's estate was granted to Mrs. Rebecca Symons, widow, eldest son Harlakinden Symons, and Daniel Epps, husband to Samuel's eldest living daughter Elizabeth. [7]

• 'Martha Reade
• 'F, #43033, b. 13 July 1602, d. 1662
• Father Edmund Reade b. 23 May 1563, d. 1 Dec 1623
• Mother Elizabeth Cooke b. 2 Jul 1568, d. 1637
• ' Martha Reade was born on 13 July 1602 at Wickford, Essex, England. She married Samuel Symonds, son of Richard (Robert) Symonds and Elizabeth Plumb, circa 1637 at Salisbury, Essex, MA. Martha Reade died in 1662 at Ipswich, Essex, MA.
• 'Family Samuel Symonds b. 9 Jun 1595, d. 11 Oct 1678
• Children
  • Ruth Symonds+ b. c 1640
  • Sarah Symonds+ b. 9 Dec 1644, d. 19 Jan 1699
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1432.htm#...

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Sources

1. Davis, Walter Goodwin. Notes: Reade in: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 84, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1930, p, 113
2. Genealogical Gleanings in England in: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 47, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1893, p. 128-9
3. Epps-Linford-Yale-Endicott in: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 71, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1917 p. 91-2
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Anderson, Robert C. George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Elizabeth Epes in: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 2001 p. 458 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.)
5. Stott, Clifford L. John Plumb of Connecticut and His Cousin, Deputy Governor Samuel (1) Symonds of Massachusetts in: The American Genealogist, Volume 70, New Haven, Connecticut, 1995 p. 152-3 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .)
6. Anderson, Robert C. Humphrey Vincent in: Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 2011, p. 178-9 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.)
7. The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts: 1675-1681, Volume 3: 1675-1681. The Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1920 p. 263-76
8. Hotten: James C. The Original Lists of Persons of Quality; Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men sold for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700 : with their ages and the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars; from mss. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England, London, England, 1874, p. 100
9. A Genealogy and History of the Chute Family in America; page 4; by Chute, William Edward; Publication date 1894
10. Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, Volume II- Marriages and Deaths, The Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1910, p. 549
11. Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849: Volume III- Deaths, The Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1924 p. 129
12. Emerson, Peter Henry. The English Emersons: A Genealogical Historical Sketch of the Family from the Earliest Times to the End of the Seventeenth Century, Including Various Modern Pedigrees, with an Appendix of Authorities, David Nutt, Publisher, London, England, 1898, p. 13: 24
13. Ancestry of Priscilla Appleton, William Appleton, Publisher, John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, 1870
14. Source: S00109 Trostel, Helen Cogswell. Cogswell-Haldeman: The Ancestors and Descendants of Asa Ferris Cogswell and Arobinae Haldeman Cogswell. Denver, CO: Big Mountain Press, 1966. Denver Public Library, Denver, Colorado. Call Number: G929.2 C659tr
15. Early Families of New England, 2013 New England Historic Genealogical Society; Alicia Crane Williams, Lead Genealogist. Membership required. Daniel Denison (m.1632) and "John Winthrop,"
16. John Winthrop [brother-in-law to Martha] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 < AmericanAncestors > Martha Reade, who married Samuel Symonds, whose sister Elizabeth was a wife to Gov. John Winthrop, Jr. of CT.