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     Jonathan is described as a husbandman in the 1745 marriage record of his daughter Elizabeth in Salem. This family supposedly moved to Smithfield, RI, in 1746. Daughter Anna "of Smithfield" married in 1747, but Jonathan is supposedly described as being from Salem in the administration of his son Jacob's estate in 1748. Jonathan probably became a Friend before he married. This was a faith that was denounced, sometimes violently, in Salem, and this may have been the impetus to move to Smithfield, a Friends stronghold. Anna's great-grandfather Boyce lost his public office for his "Quaker" conversion. The births of Jonathan's children are not recorded in the Salem vital records. His will, written on 15 March 1776, appears in Reade Record.5

children of Jonathan and Anna (Hanson) Read: (in order as named in will *)

i. Elizabeth* b. ca1725
ii. Jacob b. ca1727 d. ca. 1748
iii. Anna (of Smithfield)* b. ca1729
iv. Benjamin (of Smithfield)* b. ca1731
v. John
vi. Hanson* b. ca1734
vii. Daniel* b. ca1736
viii. David b. ca1738
ix. George b. ca1740
x. Jonathan* b. ca17426

children of John and Sarah (Kempton) Read:

xi. Oliver* b. ca1745
xii. Sarah* b. ca1747
xiii. Aaron* b. ca1749



vital records sources: John's birth is published in the Salem, MA, vital records. What is the evidence for his first marriage? His second marriage is in the Salem vital records. His death date is noted in Smithfield probate records 1:164.

5. Reade Record, compiled by the Reade Society for Historic-Genealogical Research (1908).
6. His mother may have died in childbirth. She was 41 if she had Jonathan in this year, and his father remarried very early in 1744.

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