Esther Doyle Read, copyright 1998

Updated 24 February 2004

READ FAMILY CONNECTIONS

JOSEPH READ AND SARAH SUTTON'S FAMILY PAGE

1. JOSEPH READ I1 was born in either June or July 1733 and died 18 April 1792, in Knowlton Township, Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey. In 1761, he married
 2. SARAH SUTTON1, daughter of James Sutton and Hannah Freeman of Hackettstown, Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey. She was born 20 February 1742/43, possibly in Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey, and died 31 August 1792, in Knowlton Township, Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey. They are buried in Union Brick Cemetery, Blairstown Township, Warren County, New Jersey.

Joseph and Sarah had 11 children who were born between 1762 and 1786. They had at least 77 grandchildren who were born between 1783 and circa 1830.

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CHILDREN OF JOSEPH READ AND SARAH SUTTON:

3. (i.) ISAAC R. READ, Sr.2, was born 30 December 1762 in Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey and died 1 March 1838 in Knowlton Township, Warren County, New Jersey. He married Mary Shackleton. They are buried in Union Brick burial ground, Blairstown Township, Warren County, New Jersey (Kern 1938; Union Brick Cemetery).

4. (ii.) JAMES READ2, was born 1765 in Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey and died before 20 October 1794 in Knowlton Township, Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey. He married Mehitable Coleman (Kern 1938).

5. (iii.) HANNAH READ2, was born 3 February 1767 in Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey and died 9 June 1839 near Burdette, Schuyler County, New York. She married first, Benjamin Ogden and second, after Benjamin's death in 1794, Daniel Vaughn. Benjamin Ogden and Daniel Vaughan are buried in Union Brick burial ground, Blairstown Township, Warren County, New Jersey. Hannah is buried in Union Cemetery in Burdette, New York (Armstrong 1979; Kern 1938).

6. (iv.) JOHN READ2, was born 16 February 1769 in Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey and died 20 April 1814, location unknown. He married Elizabeth Ogden. They are buried in Union Brick Cemetery, Blairstown Towwnship, Warren County, New Jersey (Armstrong 1979; Kern 1938; Union Brick Cemetery).

7. (v.) PHEBE READ2, was born 8 August 1771 in Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey and died 1814 in Ohio. She married Andrew Kirkpatrick in Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey (Armstrong 1979; Kern 1938).

8. (vi.) AZUBA MARY READ2, was born 12 September 1773 in Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey and died 20 January 1797 in Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey. She married Joseph Newman. Joseph is buried in Union Cemetery in Hope Township, Warren County, New Jersey (Armstrong 1979; Kern 1938).

9. (vii.) JOSEPH READ II2, was born 10 January 1777 in Knowlton Township, Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey and died 11 November 1806 in Knowlton Township, Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey. He married Mary Kirkpatrick. They are buried in Union Brick Cemetery, Blairstown Towwnship, Warren County, New Jersey (Armstrong 1979; Kern 1938; Union Brick Cemetery).

10. (viii.) SARAH READ2, was born 10 April 1779 in Knowlton Township, Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey and died before June 1862, possible in New York State. She married Ephraim Manning on 6 February 1798 in Sussex County, New Jersey (Armstrong 1979; Kern 1938; Sussex County, New Jersey Marriage Records, hereinafter SCMR).

11. (ix.) DAVID READ2, was born 12 August 1781 in Knowlton Township, Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey and died 25 April 1831 in Warren County, New Jersey. He married Ann Middlesworth, on 3 November 1804 in Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey. They are buried in Union Brick Cemetery, Blairstown Township, Warren County, New Jersey (Kern 1938; SCMR; Union Brick burial ground).

12. (x.) SAMUEL READ2, was born 16 August 1783 in Knowlton Township, Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey and died 20 February 1853 in Warren County, New Jersey. He married Mariah Freese, on 1 December 1803 in Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey. They are buried in Union Brick Cemetery, Blairstown Township, Warren County, New Jersey (Kern 1938; SCMR; Union Brick Cemetery; Warrell and Freese 1967).

13. (xi.) AARON READ2, was born 24 February 1786 in Knowlton Township, Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey and died 19 January 1861 in Warren County, New Jersey. He married first, on 28 March 1807, Margaret Fortune, in Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey. She died between 1810 and 1813. Aaron married second, on 7 October 1813, Margaret Ann "Peggy" Cooke, in Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey. Aaron and Margaret (Cooke) Read are buried in Union Brick burial ground, Blairstown Township, Warren County, New Jersey (Kern 1938; Newman c. 1934; SCMR; Union Brick Cemetery).

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REFERENCES

PRIMARY

Cemeteries

Hackettstown Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Hackettstown, Warren County, New Jersey
Tombstone of James Sutton
Tombstone of Joseph Sutton

 Union Brick Cemetery, Blairstown Township, Warren County, New Jersey
Tombstone of Aaron Read
Tombstone of Ann Read (nee Middlesworth)
Tombstone of David Read
Tombstone of Elizabeth Read Wintersteen (nee Ogden)
Tombstone of Isaac Read, Sr.
Tombstone of John Read
Tombstone of Joseph Read (Sr.)
Tombstone of Joseph Read (Jr.)
Tombstone of Margaret Read (nee Cooke)
Tombstone of Maria H. Read (nee Freese)
Tombstone of Mary Read (nee Kirkpatrick)
Tombstone of Mary Read (nee Shackleton)
Tombstone of Samuel Read
Tombstone of Sarah Read (nee Sutton)

Marriages

Sussex County Marriages 1788-1850 (SCMR)

Films #1294801-1294803, Family History Library, Church of the Latter Day Saints, Salt Lake City.

New Jersey State Archives

Revolutionary War Records

Manuscript W.M.G. Department, Book 1, folio 42.

Sussex County, Surrogate Court Records (WCSCR)

File 537S.
File 538S.

Warren County, Land Records (WCLR)

Book Q, pages 432, 434.

Warren County, Surrogate Court Records (SCSCR)

Wills Book 1, page 109.

SECONDARY

Arbor, Marilyn

1993 Tools & Trades of America's Past: The Mercer Museum Collection. Bucks County Historical Society, Doylestown.

Armstrong, William C.

1979 Pioneer Families of Northwestern New Jersey. Hunterdon House, Lambertville.

Birdenbaugh, Carl

1950 the Colonial Craftsman. Phoenix Books, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Bucklew, J.S.

1869 Inscriptions on Tomb Stones in "Topanemus" Grave Yard, (Near Freehold, N.J.). Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society. Second Series, I (1):71.

Chase, Wilda T.

n.d. Some Descendants of James Sutton of Hackettstown, New Jersey. Detroit Society for Genealogical Research. Vol. XXII.

Crockett, James Underwood

1972 Vegetables and Fruits. Time-Life Books, Alexandria.

Dally, Joseph

1873 A History of New Jersey Quakers from 1686-1788. A.E.Gordon.
Available on line:Plainfield Friends

Fischer, David Hackett

1989 Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. Oxford University Press, New York.

Garrett, Elizabeth Donaghty

1990 At Home: The American Family 1750-1870. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York.

Honeyman, A. Van Dorn (editor)

1918 Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the state of New Jersey Vol. XXX. Calender of New Jersey Wills, Administration, Etc. Vol. II 1730-50. The Unionist-Gazette Association Printers, Somerville.

Kern, William MacKellar

1938 Kern and Ogden Ancestors. Also allied families of Lanterman, Read, Crissman, etc. Manuscript on file, New York City Public Library.

Larkin, Jack

1988 The Reshaping of Everyday Life: 1790-1840. The Everyday Life in America Series, Edited by Richard Balkin. Harper Perennial, New York.

Nelson, William (editor)

1894 Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the state of New Jersey Vol. XI. Newspaper Extracts Vol. I 1704-1739. The Printing Press and Publishing Co., Paterson.

Newberry, Florence Cooke.

c. 1934 The Family of Elisha Cooke. Manusript on file, Family History Library, Salt Lake City.

Noel Hume, Audrey

1974 Archaeology and the Colonial Gardener. Colonial Williamsburg Archaeological Series No. 7. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg.

1978 Food. Colonial Williamsburg Archaeological Series No. 9. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg.

Pascal, Nancy

1997 Sussex County Tax List.

Race, Henry

1891 Greenland in New Jersey: A Historical Sketch of the Moravian Settlement in Sussex County, 1768 to 1808. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society. Second Series, XI(4):197-205.

Read, Patsy Ann McKnight

1989 Read All About It: An incomplete history of the Read Family in America since 1630. Privately published, Berea, Ohio.

Regensteiner, Else

1970 The Art of Weaving. Van Nostrand Reinhold company, New York.

Rutherford, John

1869 Notes On The State of New Jersey. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society. Second Series, I(3):79-89.

Scheer, George F. and Hugh F. Ranklin

1957 Rebels & Redcoats: The American Revolution Through the Eyes of Those Who Fought and Lived It. Da Capo Press, Inc., New York.

Simmons, Amelia

1958 The American Cookbook: A Facsimile of "American Cookery," 1796 by Amelia Simmons. 1984 reprint of the 1958 Oxford University Press Edition. Dover Publications, Inc., New York.

Snell, James P. (Compiler)

1881 History of Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Everts and Peck, Philadelphia.

Stryker-Rodda, Kenn

 1965 New Jersey Rateables 1773-1774. The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey. 40(3):127-144.

1972 Revolutionary Census of New Jersey: An Index Based on Rateables of the Inhabitants of New Jersey During the Period of the American Revolution. Polyanthos, Cottonport, LA.

Stutz, Bruce

1992 Natural Lives, Modern Times: people and places of the Delaware River. Crown Publishers, New York.

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher

1990 A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary 1785-1812. Vintage Books, New York.

Warrell, Mary N. Freese and Frank Dellwood Freese

1967 Freese Families in America. Privately Published, Wheeling.

 

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