Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . Obediah Read, son of Esdras Read (i),was born about 1639. He married Anna Swift, ofBoston. She died September 13, 1680. The recordof his death is on his gravestone in Copps Hill ceme-tery, Boston, as February 19, 1721. He was a car-penter by trade. The children of Obediah and AnnaRead: Thomas, born 1665, see forward: Rebecca,1668; Elizabeth, 1669; Sarah, 1671; Anna, 1672;Obediah. 1677; James, 1679. (III) Thomas Read, son of Obediah R
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . Obediah Read, son of Esdras Read (i),was born about 1639. He married Anna Swift, ofBoston. She died September 13, 1680. The recordof his death is on his gravestone in Copps Hill ceme-tery, Boston, as February 19, 1721. He was a car-penter by trade. The children of Obediah and AnnaRead: Thomas, born 1665, see forward: Rebecca,1668; Elizabeth, 1669; Sarah, 1671; Anna, 1672;Obediah. 1677; James, 1679. (III) Thomas Read, son of Obediah Read (2),was born in Boston in 1665. He went back toChelmsford and had a grant of land from the name of his first wife is not known. He mar-ried (second) Hannah . His children by the first wife were: Thomas, born 16S7, see forward;Jonathan. William. Esdras. John. The children ofThomas and Hannah: Benjamin. Timothy. (IV) Thomas Read, son of Thomas Read (3),was born at Chelmsford, Massachusetts. 1687. andmarried Sarah Fletcher. He was a prominent manin the town of Chelmsford and held the office ofjustice of the peace. He died December 24. 1773,. WORCESTER COUNTY 259 agLii eighty-six years. Tlie Reads were the first set-tlers in that part of Chehnsford, now children of Thomas and Sarah: Sarah, born1712; Timothy, 1714, see forward; Elcazcr, 1731;Benjamin. 1732. (V) Timothy Read, son of Thomas Read (4),was born at Chelmsford. Massachusetts, March 21,1714. He married, November 10, 17,32, Mary Cum-mings. He moved from Chelmsford to Dunstable,Massachusetts, when that town included the presenttowns of Dunstable, Nashua, Nashville, Hollis andparts of the towns of Pelham. Londonderry, Hudson,Merrimac and Townsend, some now of New Hamp-shire, some of Massachusetts, having an area of twohundred square miles. For many years Dunstable?was on the frontier and the early settlers were ex-posed to Indian attack frequently. Many outrageswere committed there by the Indians and
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