Joseph Read

Joseph Read
Joseph Read
Born	March 6, 1732; Uxbridge, Massachusetts
Died	September 22, 1801; Brookfield, Massachusetts
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	Massachusetts militia,; Continental Army
Years of service	1775–1776
Rank	Colonel
Unit	Massachusetts Line
Battles/wars	Lexington and Concord

Joseph Read (March 6, 1732 – September 22, 1801) was a soldier and a colonel in the American Revolutionary War.

Early life

Read was born in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, the son of John and Lucy Read. He married Eunice Taft of Uxbridge on Nov 22, 1753. His father John, served in the French and Indian Wars.

Military service

He was a lieutenant colonel at the battles of Lexington and Concord in April 1775. Thereafter, until the end of 1776, he served as colonel in command of several regiments of the Massachusetts Line.^[1] In war counsels during the 1776 defense of New York City, Read urged the evacuation of the American fortifications, dissenting from generals such as Nathanael Greene who urged that the forts be defended.

Read/Reed family

His brother was Lt. Colonel Seth Read, who commanded the Massachusetts 26th and 15th regiments and founded Erie, Pennsylvania. The Read brothers owned half of the land in the towns of Uxbridge and Northbridge, Massachusetts, in the mid 18th century.^[2] The family is known as "Reed" in Pennsylvania, and the Read name and spelling continued in Massachusetts. At some point after the revolution, Joseph Read moved to Brookfield, Massachusetts, where he died in 1801. He and his wife Eunice are buried in Brookfield. His brother Seth Reed, founded Erie, PA, and died there in 1797.

Notes

↑ Heitman, Francis B. (1914). Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution (new, enlarged, and revised ed.). Washington, D.C.: Rare Book Shop Publishing Company. p. 460.
↑ Buford, Mary Hunter (1895). Seth Read, Lieut.-Col.Continental Army; Pioneer at Geneva, New York, 1787, and at Erie, Penn., June, 1795. His Ancestors and Descendants. Boston, Mass.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (167 Pages on CD in PDF Format.)

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[1] Heitman, Francis B. (1914). Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution (new, enlarged, and revised ed.). Washington, D.C.: Rare Book Shop Publishing Company. p. 460.

[Read-2] Buford, Mary Hunter (1895). Seth Read, Lieut.-Col.Continental Army; Pioneer at Geneva, New York, 1787, and at Erie, Penn., June, 1795. His Ancestors and Descendants. Boston, Mass.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) (167 Pages on CD in PDF Format.)

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