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Fifth Generation
52. Ruth TALCOTT30 was born on 12 Sep 1677 in Hartford,
Hartford County, Connecticut. Ruth, daughter of Lieut.-Col.
John Talcott and Mary Cook, his second wife, was born in Hartford,
Sept. 12, 1677, married John Read, of Boston, Mass.
"John Read died in Boston in 1749. He was the son of Samuel
Read and Hopewell Holebrook, of Mendon, and was born about 1673, graduated at
Harvard College 1697, and was for a time a distinguished preacher at Hartford,
Conn., and owner of a large landed estate, which involved him in several law-suits.
Thinking he was better calculated for the Forum than the Pulpit, he left the
ministry for the law, and practised it in Boston with great success and was 'unquestionably
the greatest lawyer of his time.' He was a man of great wit and eccentricity
of character, which peculiarities have handed down to his descendants who are
numerous in New York, Vermont and the Western States. William, of Albany, and
his son Joel, who married Mariana Townsend, are of this family.
Samuel Read, the father of John, was the son of John Read, who came to America
in the great fleet of 1630, who was supposed to be son of William Read and Lucy
Henage, and brother to William, of Wymouth, and born 1598; was of Wymouth, 1637,
Dorchester, 1638, and Braintree, 1643-4, and went with Rev. Mr. Newman to Rehoboth
(Attleborough). He was a man of large property for the times, and held various
public offices. He lived at what was called the 'Run,' now Seekonk; he married
Sarah -------- and had 13 children, of whom Samuel the above was the oldest.
Samuel married 1st Hopewell Holebrook in 1668, and 2d Hannah. John was the
fourth child by Hopewell, and born about 1673. His wife Hopewell died Jan. 12,
1706. His 2d wife, Hannah, died Jan. 24, 1717." Ruth TALCOTT and John
READ were married in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. John
READ (son of Samuel READ and Hopewell HOLEBROOK) was born in 1673 in Boston,
Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He died in 1749 in Boston, Suffolk
County, Massachusetts. Ruth TALCOTT and John READ had the following
children:
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