Person:Robert Read (8)

READ, READE, REED, REEDE, etc.,

Robert, Boston, frm. April 17, 1644. Land gr. in Bo. 1637, having been a res. in 1635. Sealer of leather. Rem. to Exeter, N. H.

Signed the combination 5 (4) 1639; took freeman's oath at Pisc. court 17 (2) 1644.

Rem. to Hampton.

Wife Hannah d. 24 (4) 1655. Second wife Susanna survived him and m. John Presson. Ch. Hannah, (m. John Souter,) Mary, Rebecca b. and bapt. at Bo. 29 (7) 1646, Deborah bapt. 28 (n) 1648, ae. about 3 days. Sarah bapt. 1 (7) 1650, Samuel bapt. 3 (2) 1653, d. 31 (1) 1654. Samuel b. Feb. 28, 1654.

He was lost in a vessel which sailed from Hampton for Boston Oct. 20, 1657. [See Whittier's poem, "The Wreck of Rivermouth."] His goods and lands were appraised at 84 pounds, 29 (8) 1657 and 5(1) 1657-8.

The daughter Hannah, with her husband John Souter, brazier, of Boston, the dau. Mary, and the dau. Sarah by her guardian, John Souter, sold their shares in house and land in Boston owned by their father Robert Read, late of Hampton, deceased, 6 Jan. 1662-3, and Susannah, wife of John Presson of Boston and relict of said Robert Read, con-

veyed her right the following day; recorded n June, 1668. See also Walford, West.