The New England historical and genealogical register . CAVERSHAM, FROM THE FORBURY PARK, READING. 1906.] Our English Parent Towns. 57 OUR ENGLISH PARENT * By Oscar Fay Adams, Esq., of Boston. The borough and market town of Reading cannot point withcertainty to the period of its origin. It was in existence when theDanes came up the Kennet and made the spot their headquartersin 871, but history does not go further back. In Domesday Bookit is mentioned as Radynges. From the thirteenth to the sixteenthcenturies parliaments were occasionally held here, and in the CivilWar it
The New England historical and genealogical register . CAVERSHAM, FROM THE FORBURY PARK, READING. 1906.] Our English Parent Towns. 57 OUR ENGLISH PARENT * By Oscar Fay Adams, Esq., of Boston. The borough and market town of Reading cannot point withcertainty to the period of its origin. It was in existence when theDanes came up the Kennet and made the spot their headquartersin 871, but history does not go further back. In Domesday Bookit is mentioned as Radynges. From the thirteenth to the sixteenthcenturies parliaments were occasionally held here, and in the CivilWar it surrendered to the Parliament forces under Essex in 1643. The Massachusetts town, incorporated May 29, 1644, named inhonor of the Radynges of Domesday, remains a quiet rural commu-nity, and the Pennsylvania Reading, surrounded by its cordon ofhills in the heart of Berks County, though founded a century afterthe New England town, bears in population and importance fargreater resemblance to the mother town across the sea. In Ver-mont is found another Reading, chartered July 6,
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