William Read married "(2) Boston 20 March 165[3/]4 Ruth Crooke [BVR 48], daughter of Roger Crooke [NEHGR 63:279-80, 159:40-42; Aspinwall 68]. She married (2) by 1681 [Robert?] Percy [NLCR 3:156]. (The court record of 7 June 1681 calls her 'Ruth Percy' without identifying her husband. The only person of this surname in New London at the time was 'Robert Persey' [New London Hist 265].)"