Capt. Adam Read and Mary [Unk]

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Husband Capt. Adam Read ¹

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            AKA: Adam Reed 2
           Born: 1703 - Ulster, Northern Ireland 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 2 Feb 1769 3
         Buried: 

       Marriage: 

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Wife Mary [Unk] ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1712 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 11 Jun 1783 3
         Buried: 

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Children

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1 F Mary Read ¹

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            AKA: Mary Reed 4
           Born: 1730 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 1 Nov 1787 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 5
         Buried:  - Old Paxtang Church, Dauphin Co, PA

         Spouse: John Harris (Abt 1726-1791) 4 6
           Marr: Nov 1764 5

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2 F Eleanor Reed ²

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            AKA: Eleanor Read 7
           Born: 11 Mar 1734 7
     Christened: 
           Died: 15 Jul 1785 7
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Hon. Robert Whitehill (1735-1813) 8
           Marr: 1 Feb 1759 2

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Adam Read

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He located in Hanover Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on the Swatara about 1725, and secured the possession of large tracts of land. He was a gentleman of education and became quite prominent in Provincial days. He was for many years one of His Majesty's justices, and during the French and Indian wars held the commission of captain, doing gallant service on the frontiers. Considerable of his correspondence is found among the archives of the State, mostly relating to Indian forays and earnest appeals for protection. Captain Read was an elder in Hanover church, and in the old graveyard on Bow creek rest his remains.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 80, 169.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 52.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 169.

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 77.

5 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 80.

6 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 520.

7 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 151.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1042.