William Reade

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• The Reades came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635 with Rev. Joseph Hull's Company, sailing on or near March 20, 1634-5 from Weymouth, Dorset. William was listed as a tailor from Batcombe, Somerset, aged 28 years with Susanna, 29 years old, and daughters Hannah, age 3, and Susanna, age 1. The shipping list also states that traveling with the Reades was Richard Adams, servant, age 29.

William Read was made freemen on Sept. 2, 1635. 

The next year he was chosen the deputy from Weymouth to the General Court. He was again elected deputy in 1638 and was the constable in 1644. 

The Reades left Weymouth and moved to Boston about 1646, where they were admitted to membership of the church May 15, 1647 "upon letters of Dismission from the Church at Waymouth". They had been in Boston for some time already as their son John was baptized at the Boston church Sept. 27, 1646, "sonne of Willyam Reade, a Recommended Member from the Church at Weymouth" .Despite having lived in Boston for five years, William was made a selectman of Weymouth in 1651, perhaps as a means to entice him to move back there.

William married Susannah Hayme on 12 Oct 1629 in Gillingham, Dorset, England. (Susannah Hayme was born about 1606 and died on 12 Oct 1653 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.)

William next married Ruth Crooke.