Occupation lawyer Resting place Rowayton Allegiance Roundhead | Role Connecticut politician Name John Read | |
Preceded by Joseph Platt,
Samuel Comstock Succeeded by John Bartlett,
Samuel Marvin Spouse(s) Anne Samson Derby (widow of Francis Derby) (m. 1652, Providence, Rhode Island), widow Scofield of Stamford Children John Read, Jr., Thomas Read, William John Read, Mary Read Tuttle, Abigail Read Residence Providence, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,
Rye, Province of New York (1684–1687),
Norwalk (present day Rowayton), Connecticut Colony (1687) Died 1730, Stamford, Connecticut, United States Battles and wars English Civil War, Corfe Castle | ||
John Read (also John Reed) (1633 – 1730) was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk, Connecticut Colony in the May 1715 and October 1717 sessions.
He was the son of James Read.
He was an officer in Oliver Cromwell's army, and a soldier from the age of sixteen. When Charles II of England was restored to the throne, Read left for America. He settled first in Providence, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. In Providence, he married Anne Samson Derby. He later moved to Rye, Province of New York, in 1684, where he lived for three or four years. He then established himself in the western part of Norwalk, at a house he built on the eastern side of the Five Mile River, north of the Old Post Road and nearly two miles from the Long Island Sound at a place called Reed's Farms. His name is found among the records of the town of Norwalk in 1687. John Read was admitted to the bar in 1708 in Norwalk, Connecticut. His house was used for a meeting place for some years. His wife died and he married again to the Widow Scofield from Stamford.
He died in Norwalk, in the ninety-eighth year of his age, in 1730, and was interred in a tomb on his own farm.