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George Reade

Male 1608 - 1674  (65 years)


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  • Name George Reade  [1, 2, 3] 
    Birth 25 Oct 1608  Linkenholt Manor, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 4] 
    Gender Male 
    Arrival 1623  , , Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Death 1 Oct 1674  Yorktown, York, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Burial Yorktown, York, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Person ID I23466  Master
    Last Modified 13 Apr 2015 

    Father Robert Reade,   b. 1551, Linkenholt Manor, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Dec 1636, Faccombe, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years) 
    Mother Mildred Windebank,   b. 21 Jul 1585, Hurst, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Aug 1656, Yorktown, York, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years) 
    Marriage 31 Jul 1600  Westminster, Middlesex, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F6159  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Martiau,   b. 12 Dec 1615, , Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Feb 1686, Yorktown, York, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years) 
    Marriage 1641  Yorktown, York, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Children 
     1. Thomas Reade,   b. 1633
     2. Colonel Robert Reade,   b. 1641, , Middlesex, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1717, Virginia Beach, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)  [Father: Natural]
     3. George Reade,   b. 1642, Yorktown, York, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1686, Yorktown, York, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 44 years)  [Father: Natural]
     4. Mildred Reade,   b. 2 Oct 1643, Williamsburg, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Oct 1686, Warner Hall, Gloucester, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 43 years)  [Father: Natural]
     5. Frances Reade,   b. 1644, , , Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: Natural]
     6. Andrew Reade,   b. Nov 1646, , Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1697, Cople, Westmoreland, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years)  [Father: Natural]
     7. Benjamin Reade,   b. 1647, , Gloucester, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1731, , Gloucester, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)  [Father: Natural]
     8. Thomas Reade,   b. 1649, Ware Parish, Gloucester, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1716, , Gloucester, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)  [Father: Natural]
     9. Francis Reade,   b. 1650, Abingdon, Gloucester, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1694, Jamestown, James City, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 44 years)  [Father: Natural]
     10. Elizabeth Reade,   b. 1651, Yorktown, York, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Nov 1717, Yorktown, York, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)  [Father: Natural]
     11. Ann Reade,   b. 1652, Yorktown, York, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1653, , , Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 1 year)  [Father: Natural]
     12. Margaret Reade,   b. 1654, Yorktown, York, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1672, Virginia Beach, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 18 years)  [Father: Natural]
    Family ID F6158  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 13 Apr 2015 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 25 Oct 1608 - Linkenholt Manor, Hampshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsArrival - 1623 - , , Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1641 - Yorktown, York, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 1 Oct 1674 - Yorktown, York, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Yorktown, York, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • George Reade, a native of London, came to Virginia 1637 in Sir John Harvey's party. Harvey was returning to Virginia to assume the office of Governor of the Colony. Reade was appointed Secretary of State, pro tem of the colony in 1640 and served as Acting Governor in the absence of Governor Harvey. He was a member of the House of Burgesses and a member of the Colonial Council until his death. His will, no longer extant, is documented in a York County 18th century land transaction.
      York Co, VA Deeds & Bonds Book 5 pp 3 - 6This Indenture made the sixteenth day of May in the fortieth year of the Reign of our Sovernge Lord George the Second King of Great Britain and in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred & forty one between James Mitchell of the Town & County of York and Janet his wife of the one part and Richard Ambler of the same Town & county aforesaid . Whereas George Reade late of the sd county of York Esq decd being siezed in fee of a certain tract or parcel of land lying & being in the said County of York containing by Estimation Eight hundred & fifty acres did by his last Will and Testament in writing bearing date the twenty ninth day of September in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred & Seventy devise the same by the name of all that Tract of Land wherein he lived to his wife during life and after her decease to be equally divided between his sons, George & Robert and the heirs of their bodies but and fault of such heirs in either or both of them or in case either or both of them should dye during their minority then he gave and devises his and their parts of the land aforesaid to his sons Francis and Benjamin and the heirs of their bodies with other remainders over as by the said Will duly proved in the General Court of this Colony being thereunto had may more at large appear and whereas the said George Reade one of the sons of the Testator dyed many years ago without issue and after his death the said Francis & Benjamin Reade intend into one ninety or half part of this premises to as afore devised and afterwards the said Robert Reade, Francis Reade & Benjamin Reade by Deed bearing date the twelfth day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand and six hundred & eighty eight made partition of the premises aforesaid .........
      George Reade married Elizabeth Martiau, daughter of Nicolas Martiau (Father of Yorktown). Their daughter Mildred, wife of Col. Augustine Warner, was the g-grandmother of George Washington.
      George Read, the son of Robert Read of London and his wife Mildred Windebank, was one of the about one hundred colonists, who emigrated to the colonies from England and Wales before the end of the 17th century, known to have legitimate descent from a Plantagenet King of England.
      The illustrious ancestry of George Reade is documented nicely in Colonial Records during the period of 18 January 1638/9 - 11 December 1641. The file includes letters from the Colonial Governor, Secretary of State and George Reade to Sir Francis Windebank and/or Windebank's personal secretary Robert Reade (George Reade's brother.) The correspondence file is quite interesting, alluding to the politics behind George Reade's appointment as Secretary of State during Richard Kemp's sojourn in England. It also includes personal requests from George Reade to his brother for servants and money. Earlier correspondence puts a personal face on George Reade's life. "Sir John Harvey to Robert Reade, 17 Nov. 1637. Hopes to employ Reade's brother against the Indians. He is well and stays at the writer's house." "George Reade to Robert Reade, his brother, 26 Febr. 1637/8. Does not think much of Mr. Hawley. Thanks to the support of the Governor and Mr. Kemp, the writer has survived. Mr. Menephe has brought many servants. Mr. Hawley has promised the writer that the next lot of servants coming to Virginia would be for him but he does not believe it as Hawley is in Maryland."
      "Adventurers of Purse and Person 1607 - 1624/5 and Their Families" published by the Order of First Families of Virginia, indicates in a footnote (pp. 419-420) the discrepancy between the dates inscribed on his Grace Church tablets and the filing of the wills for George Read and his wife Elizabeth as follows: "His and his wife's gravestones were discovered during street excavations in Yorktown in 1931. The inscriptions on both were recut with errors. George Reade's stone now states he died Oct. 1674, "he being in the 66th yr of his age." Since the date should be 1671 (per his will), either the age shown, or his year of birth, is in error as well....The gravestone of Elizabeth (Martiau) Read now states she was born in 1625 and died in 1696, "being in ye 71st yeare of her age." Since the year of death should be 1686 (per her will), again the age or year of birth is in error. Since Nicholas Martiau claimed...his daughter Elizabeth as headrights...it would appear Elizabeth was born prior to his arrival in Virginia in 1620...and that Elizabeth's birth occurred in 1615 rather than 1625."
      The graves of George Reade and his wife Elizabeth were discovered while excavating on Buckner Street in Yorktown. In 1931, descendant Letitia Pate Evans had the tablets restored and moved to the church yard of Grace Episcopal Church. The Reade tablets sit adjacent to the plots of Gov. Thomas Nelson (Declaration of Independence signer), his father, and grandfather (who married a George Reade descendant.)

  • Sources 
    1. [S751] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).

    2. [S747] Ancestry.com, U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc), Place: Virginia; Year: 1623; Page Number: 166.

    3. [S32] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.), Source number: 2916.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: PKS.

    4. [S32] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.), Source number: 1286.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: PJN.


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