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.