Ancestry of
Obadiah Johnson

(1664–a1740)

Bethia Read

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• • Mother of Obadiah Johnson — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3 
  • Father:
  • Esdras Read 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1637 
  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 31 May 1640 
  • Christening Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 2 Dec 1717 
  • Death Location:
  • Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Johnson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Apr 1657 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Obadiah Johnson (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  Joseph Johnson

  • Notes: 

  • Bethia Read is not the daughter of William and Mabel Reade as is sometimes claimed in published sources.

    Bethia Read's maiden name is also seen as Reade and Reed.

• Sources for Bethia Read

  • ¹ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1988, Vol. 5, p. 110.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1905, Vol. 59, pp. 81, 83.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1914, Vol. 68, pp. 142-143.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1913, Vol. 67, p. 173.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1952, Vol. 28, pp. 150-152.
  • ⁶ Cleveland, Edmund Janes and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: An Attempt to Track in Both the Male and the Female . . ., Vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1899), 63.
  • ⁷ Johnson, Edward Francis, Captain Edward Johnson of Woburn, Massachusetts, and Some of His Descendants, Boston: David Clapp and Son (1905), 7-8.