Person:James Read (10)

Watchers
James Read
b.Abt 1665 England
  • HJames ReadAbt 1665 - 1734
  • WSarah BatsonAbt 1685 - 1721
m. 12 Aug 1714
  1. James Read1721 - 1722
  • HJames ReadAbt 1665 - 1734
  • WMary Oldham1679 - 1751
m. 3 Apr 1722
  1. James Read1723 - 1770
Facts and Events
Name[3] James Read
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1665 England
Marriage 12 Aug 1714 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Sarah Batson
Marriage 3 Apr 1722 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Mary Oldham
Death[1] 6 May 1734 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year of 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1914-15)
    Vol. 2, p. 712.

    Reed, James, [died] May 6, 1734, a. abt. 69 y. GR1
    {Birth about 1665. GR1=Cemetery at Harvard Square]

  2.   FHL film 0421500, in Massachusetts. Probate Court (Middlesex County). Probate records, 1648-1924. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1964-1967)
    Case 18521 James Read 1734.

    Will of "James Read of Cambridge in New England, Tanner", dated 30 Aug 1728, proved 10 Jun 1734, mentions "my Dear Wife" "my Child James read", "my Two sisters, in Old England my Sister Sarah Gl??? & Sister Elisabeth Culoerry".
    11 Jun 1734 "Mary Read Widow" admitted "administratix cum Testamento aexo[?] on the Estate of her late Husband James Read late of s'd Cambridge Dece'd Testate"
    14 Jun 1734 Inventory
    28 Jun 1736 Accounting of "Mrs Mary Reed the administ'x" allowed.

  3. Daughters of the American Revolution. Hannah Winthrop Chapter (Massachusetts). An Historic guide to Cambridge. (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms, 1989)
    p. 91.

    Capt. Josiah Parker sold in 1725 the land to James Read " [sic, quoted in original, but no closing quote mark?] who came from Kent, England, and lived near the meeting house in 1705, and who owned land opposite ... He {James Read] died in 1734. He had married Sarah Batson in 1714, and, after her death Mary Oldham, who was the mother of his only child who lived, James Read, Jr., who was born in 1723, and inherited the house.