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- In July 1635, William (at age 48) along with his wife Mabel Kendall (30), and children set sail for America on the ship, 'Defence'. Capt. Edward Fostick, master; and arrived at Boston, October 6, 1635. They settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He was made freeman, 4 Mar 1638.
In August, 1639 William sold his land in Dorchester to Thomas Clark. He then moved to Scituate. In 1644 Willliam was made Constable of Scituate. William then bought land from his brother Esdras. This land was at Muddy River, Boston (now Brookline). William and family lived there until 1648 when he purchased a Woburn farm from Nicholas Davis.
About 1652, William and his wife returned to England where William died at Newcastle-upon Tyne in 1656. Mabel later returned to Massachusetts. William Reed's will was as follows;
The 9th daie of April 1656. My will is that my wife have three score pound for herself. Item, thirty pounds apiece to each of my four youngest children. More, that my wife have the household stuff and to dispose of it: that the three score pounds which is owing to me by Mr. William Breuton in New England be disposed of as followeth, if it can be got, viz., to my wife twenty pounds, to my four youngest children twenty pounds (that is five pounds apiece), to my three children that are married in New England, that is George, Ralph and Abigail, twenty pounds to be equally divided amongst them: that when any of the four youngest children die their portion be divided among the other three, that is if they die in their minority: forty pounds due from Mr. Killingworth, twenty pounds Mark Theaton of Black Callerton, thirty pounds from Mrs. Flora Hall, twenty pounds from Anthony Walker, twelve pounds, three pound in my wife's hand and five pound in Mr. Ogle's hand, forty pound more in the house; George Erington of Loughhouse and his son in law forty shillings, Gawan Anderson forty shillings; Mary Chicken als Watson four pound ten shillings and ten shillings in my wife's hand, is nine pound: more in the house twenty shillings in Commodotoes; in all makes nine score pounds. The mark of William Read Wit: William Cutter, the mark of Thomas Gibson. Commission issued 31 October 1656 unto Mabel Read, widow, the relict and principal legatary of the deceased, to administer &c. according to the tenor and effect of the said will &c.
The widow Mabel married Henry Summers of Woburn on Nov. 21, 1660.
William and Mabel had the following children;
George (1629-) married Elizabeth Gennings Ralph (1630-1711) who married Mary Pierce, Abigail (1633-) who married Francis Wyman, Bethia who married John Johnson
Israel (1642-) married his cousin Frances Kendall
Sarah who married Samuel Walker
Rebecca who married Joseph Winn.
Three of William and Mabels children, Abigail Wyman, George and Ralph lived and died in Woburn, Massachusetts. Abigail's daughter, Abigail, married Stephen Richardson, a son of Samuel Richardson, another early settler in New England.
Sources; "Genealogical Gleanings in England" NEHG Register, Vol..48, July 1894,
History of the Reed Family, Jacob Reed, 1861. Descendants of Reade or Reed, by Fanny Meadows, Cleveland, Ohio: Jennie M. Ames, 1937.
William Reed or Reade is believed to be the son of Thomas and Mary Reade, of Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire, England. He sailed from London in the ship "Defence" in July, 1635, Capt. Edward Fostick, master; and arrived at Boston, October 6, 1635, with his wife, who was Mabel Kendall, born in 1605. Their children, who sailed with them, were--George, born in 1629; Ralph, 1630; and Justice, afterwards Abigail, born in 1633. He settled in Dorchester, but did not remain there. He was made freeman, March 4, 1638.
In August, 1639, he sold his real estate in Dorchester to Thomas Clark, and moved to Scituate. He was constable of Scituate in 1644. He sent his wife to Dorchester, on horseback, in 1644, with an infant named Israel, to be baptized; he being a member of the church in that place. His brother Esdras, who had a grant of land from the town of Boston, situated at Muddy River (now Brookline), sold the same to William, who took up his residence upon it, where he lived till 1648; when he bought a farm in Woburn, of Nicholas Davis of Charlestown, and removed to that place. The bill of sale from Nicholas Davis of Charlestown, to William Reade of Muddy River, of his farm in Woburn, containing fifty acres of upland; four acres of meadow, before the door; four acres of meadow in Rockbrook; and two acres in Brook Meadow; with all barns, outhouses, fences, and all to the same belonging; which is by me an absolute deed of sale. Nicholas Davis. Dated 7/5/1648. The above piece of land is on the old road from Salem to Concord, not far from Kendall's mill. The cellar and well are to be seen at the present time.
The land, after being in the possession of his descendants by the name of Read, passed into the hands of the Fowles, who were also his descendants; from them to Col. Baldwin, through his wife, who was a Fowle; and from the Baldwins to Mr. Samuel R. Durant, who is a descendant in a direct line from said William Read, and is the eighth generation from him.
He purchased other tracts of land in the vicinity; and his descendants settled upon it, and continue to occupy lands in the vicinity, although much of it is, at this time, held by those bearing other names. He is the ancestor of the Woburn, Lexington, Bedford, and Burlington Reads; he is also the paternal ancestor of a large portion of the Reeds in Maine; and almost every State in the Union has some of his descendants.
He returned to England, and died at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1656. The will is recorded in Middlesex Probate Office, Dec. 16, 1661, vol. i. p. 299. The amount of estate appraised in England was two hundred pounds. The amount due him from Mr. William Brenton in New England, not appraised, sixty pounds, with what he had advanced to his three older children in America, made in all over three hundred and fifty pounds; and, by including the amount necessary to convey himself and family to England, it would make his estate, at the time he left America, not less than four hundred pounds: which was among the largest estates in New England at that time. The name of Michael appears to have been a mistake of the recorder for Abigail, as he had no son by that name; but his third child, born in England in 1633, and entered at the time he embarked for America by the name of Justus, was changed to Abigail, who married Francis Wyman as his second wife, and was living in Woburn at the demise of her father.1
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1587 - 1656 (~ 68 years)