"John (Lake), bapt. at Wickford July 6, 1617; mentioned in the will of his grandfather, Edmund Reade of Wickford, dated Nov. 20, 1623; probably that son of John and Margaret (Reade) Lake who was mentioned as dead by Mrs. Lucy Downing, when she wrote, on Jan. 30, 1657/8, from Edinburgh to Fitz John Winthrop: 'Your uncle, Collonell Reade, was, a month or two since, with us, … and (said) that God had takne (sic) a sonn of his sister Lackes that was with him, and was very hopefull for further preferment.'"
