Ancestry of
William Rufus Day

36th U.S. Secretary of State

Esdras Read

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of William Rufus Day — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 434 
  • Father:
  • Esdras Reade 
  • Mother:
  • Bathsheba -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1595 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Jul 1680 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Copps Hill Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Child:

  Bethia Read (Ahnentafel No:217 )

  • Notes: 

  • Esdras Read possibly had three wives, Elizabeth Watson, Alice _____, and Sarah _____. Which of these, if any, are the mother(s) of his children is not known.

    Esdras Read's surname is also seen as Reade and Reed.

• Additional marriages for Esdras Read

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  • Spouse:
  • Alice - - - - - -

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah - - - - - -

• Sources for Esdras Read

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/26/2016).
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1988, Vol. 5, pp. 110-111.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1914, Vol. 68, p. 142.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1906, Vol. 60, pp. 137-139.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1952, Vol. 28, pp. 149-150.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 279.