Ancestry of
T. S. Eliot

Poet and Playwright

Abigail Read

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of T. S. Eliot — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 49 
  • Father:
  • Ebenezer Read 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Chapin   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Mar 1716/1717 
  • Birth Location:
  • Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 2 Sep 1750 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Stearns
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Apr 1743 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Uxbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Ebenezer Stearns

  John Stearns

  Josiah Stearns (Ahnentafel No:24 )

  Abigail Stearns

• Sources for Abigail Read

  • ¹ Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784, Corey, Oliver (Rockingham), p. 2.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1999, Vol. 74, pp. 226-229.
  • ³ Chapin, Gilbert Warren, The Chapin Book of Genealogical Data with Brief Sketches of the Descendants of Deacon Samuel Chapin, Vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut: Chapin Family Association (1924), 25.
  • ⁴ Van Wagenen, Mrs. Avis Stearns, Genealogy and Memoirs of Isaac Stearns and His Descendants, Syracuse, New York: Courier Printing Co. (1901), 51-53, 101, incorrectly identifies Abigail as the first wife of Thomas Stearns.