Hannah Read

Biography

The Granberry family and allied families, including the ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry, based on data collected by and for Edgar Francis Waterman and compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus. < Hathitrust > Page 299-301

JOHN² READ, born at Boston, Mass., 25 Sept. 1646, died at Windham, Conn., 4 Mar. 1727/8, aged 81; married first, about 1672, Hannah Holloway, daughter of William and Grace (- -) Holloway, of Marshfield, Mass.; married second, by 1694 and probably much earlier, Sarah He was living in Norwich, Conn., as early as 1673. He was named as one of the proprietors of the tract of land which was established in May 1703 as town of Windham. [Conn. Col. Rec., 4-417.] He sold 50 acres north of Suckscatomscot Brook in Norwich to Peter Cross, 5 Jan. 1687, which Cross resold the following day to Jonathan Ginings. [Land Rec. Norwich, 1-86, 45.] On 24 Oct. 1694, John Read of Norwich, yeoman, for £30 current provision pay of the Colony of Connecticut, conveyed to Moses Firgo [Fargo] of Norwich, "with the consent of my Wife Sarah . . . all that my Dwelling House & Barn with six acres and three quorters of Land," bounded south-east on John Calkin, Jr., and John Backus, north on the commons, west on ahighway, and east on Hammer Brook. John signed, Sarah made her mark. Witnesses: Samuell Whiting, Joshua Ripley. John Read made acknowledgment in Windham, 24 Oct. 1694, before Joshua Ripley, Commissioner. [Land Rec. Norwich, 2-109.]

He was of Windham, yeoman, when he sold 19 Feb. 1694/5, for £10 current silver money, to Joshua Abell of Norwich, 424 acres in five parcels 22 acres at Yantick, 34 acres on westward end of the hill southward from 15 acres, 32 acres in northeast corner of John Calkin's plaine, with 3/4 of an acre on north side of Bradford's Brook, also 1½ acres at Scotchcap Barre. Witnesses: Richard Bushnell [Recorder], Thomas Leffingwell. [ib., 2-122.] He also, "of Windham," sold 23 May 1695 to Benjamin Armstrong of Norwich, 7 acres in two parcels; witnesses, Joshua and Hannah Ripley; and 7 Dec. 1699 to John Calkin of Norwich, 26½ acres; witnesses, Thomas Waterman, Stephen Gifford. [ib., 2-279, 239.]

His will, dated 14 Sept. 1724, recorded 27 June 1728, named his daughters,

• Sarah Hall,
• Mary Hebard, and
• Constant Fuller;

sons

• John and
• Thomas Read;
• had formerly given £20 to daughter Christian Flint before her decease,and now gives to her children two shillings;
• wife Sarah and son John, executors.
• Witnesses: Jonathan Crane, Joseph Hebard, Richard Abbe. [Probate Rec. Windham, Vol. 1 (Regular), p. 258.]

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1. His youngest child, Nathaniel, was born at Windham, 9 Mar. 1696, and died there 3 Apr. 1696.
2. The daughter Mary married at Windham, 3 Dec. 1702, Robert Hibard, and died 7 Mar. 1763.
3. The daughter Christian had married, 5 May 1709, John Flint, and died 27 Sept. 1721.
4. (uncertain mother) Sarah, born ?died? ; married at Windham, Conn., 24 Apr. 1700, Isaac Hall, born probably at Yarmouth, Mass., about 1675, died at Mansfield, Conn., in 1738.

Of the two sons,

1. John married first, 14 Mar. 1711, Mary Branch, and second, 27 Apr. 1721, Hannah Palmer ; and
2. Thomas married first, 28 Feb. 1711/12, Rebecca Palmer, and second, 9 Nov. 1726, Esther Webb.

A discussion of his wives, in connection with the question of which was mother of Sarah³ Read, will be found in the "Note on the Holloway Family" below.

NOTE ON THE HOLLOWAY FAMILY

William Holloway seems to have come to New England as an apprentice of William Bassett and is first mentioned 2 Jan. 1637/8 when Francis Sprague was fined for beating him. He was propounded for freeman, 7 Mar. 1642/3, and is in the 1643 list of freemen of Marshfield, another of the same name being then a freeman of Taunton. On 29 Oct. 1649, he was presented for fighting with Peregrine White, both of Marshfield.

Administration on his estate was granted to his widow Grace, 1 Mar. 1652/3. The estate was small, inventoried at £65.15.00; the larger items were upland and meadow (£20), four cows (£20), dwelling house and housing for cattle (£5), and bed and bedding (£5). On 7 Mar. 1653/4, "The widdow Hallowell . . . . . . doth allow vnto her two daughters ten pounds apeece to either of them." Mr. Edward Bulkeley (the Marshfield minister) was her bondsman, but he was cleared of his engagement 8 June 1654 and replaced by John Phillips. The latter married (the widow) Grace Holloway at Marshfield, 6 July 1654. She died there and was buried 24 June 1666. It appears that she and her son Jeremiah Phillips (aged about ten years) were killed by lightning on 23 June. On 31 Oct. 1666, "John Phillips, of Marshfield, tendered to make payment of ten pounds vnto Grace Halloway, the daughter of Willam Halloway, deceased being now of age to receiue the said sume as her portion." The marriage of Josiah Read to (the daughter) Grace Holloway in Nov. 1666 was recorded at both Marshfield, Mass., and Norwich, Conn., where they settled. Josiah Read was elder brother of John² Read. The latter married the younger Holloway sister, Hannah, probably about 1672. Both parents of Hannah were then dead, and her step-father, John Phillips, signed a marriage contract, 23 Feb. 1666/7, with Faith Doty of Plymouth and married her 14 Mar. following. It seems quite probable, in these circumstances, that Hannah accompanied her sister, the wife of Josiah Read, to Norwich, and there met and married the latter's brother John, but the marriage has not been found recorded. It is proved by a conveyance dated Marshfield, 6 Sept. 1673, given by "Hannah Read (somtymes Hannah Hollaway) wife to John Read of the Towne of Norwich in the Collony of ConnetiCote, hauing the whole halfe part of two pCells of Land which was sometymes her fathers william Holloway," consisting of the half of 24 acres of orchard purchased by William of Arthur Howland, Sr., and the half of 30 acres of upland granted to William by the Town of Marshfield, all which she sold for £15 "with the Consent of my husband" to William Ford, Sr., of Marshfield. The deedn seems to have been improperly drawn, for a confirmation deed was given 1 Sept. 1674 by John Read of Norwich and Hannah his wife.

The death of Hannah and the marriage of John Read to his second wife Sarah have not been found of record. It is therefore uncertain which was mother of his children, except that the youngest child, in 1696, was by Sarah. From their dates of marriage, all the children could have been born after 1680. There was no surviving daughter named Grace, and no grandchild was named Grace. It is quite possible that all the surviving children were by Sarah. It remains possible, however, that the mother of Sarah Read, who married in 1700, was Hannah Holloway. She bore the name of John Read's second wife, but herself named a daughter Hannah.

References

1. Jacobus, Donald L., and Waterman, Edgar F., The Granberry Family and Allied Families, Including the Ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry ..." (Page 299-301) Hartford: E. F. Waterman, 1945, HathiTrust.org accessed March 15, 2015. < Hathitrust > cites
2. G. W. Chamberlain: History of Weymouth (1923), 4-566.
3. Windham, Conn., Vital Records (original), A-12; 1-6, 20, 40, 46.
4. F. M. Caulkins: History of Norwich (1874), p. 197.
5. J. W. Reed: History of the Reed Family (1861), p. 535.
6. John Flint and John H. Stone: Genealogical Register of the Descendants of Thomas Flint (1860), P. 17.
7. Ninth Report of Boston Record Commissioners, pp. 24, 25.
8. New England Hist. and Gen. Register, 58-404.
9. page 84 of Memorials of Marshfield and Guide Book to Its Localities at Green Harbor By Marcia Abiah Thomas
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14. Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Volume 1- Births, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 1909 p. 292 baptisms site CR2