"Christopher Read, the tanner, lived in Dunstable a few years. If his residence here was brief, his name is firmly written into the early annals of the settlement. He was a selectman, was appointed on many committees and his signature appears on the petitions of his time. In 1672, he was a tanner of Boston, and was taxed in 1674 and presumably in other years. His wife, Katharine, was admitted to the Old South Church in 1673. In 1674, he removed to Cambridge and the same year he bought a homestead there. He was chosen a constable of Cambridge, November 12, 1677, collector January 13, 1678-9, surveyor November 12, 1683, tithing-man March 17, 1683-4. He sold his homestead in Cambridge, June 20, 1685, and the same year removed to Dunstable, where he and John Lovewell, senior, were tanners. During the troublous times of King William's War, he removed from Dunstable to Boston, where he died 1696. Administration was granted to his widow, Katherine, September 3, 1696, and in the inventory of his estate was a house and land in Dunstable, under mortgage to Peter Town of Cambridge. In 1710, on the petition of Elizabeth Whiting, who says she is the wife of Samuel Whiting of Dunstable and the only child of Christopher Read, deceased, Col. Joseph Varnum of Dracut was appointed administrator to sell two hundred acres of land in Dracut, belonging to estate of the late Christopher Read. Katherine, widow of Christopher Read, married second, William Green of Groton. The intention of marriage, in Boston, November 19, 1696. In 1710 she was deceased."
