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Billy Mitchell

Father of the U.S. Air Force

John Read

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Billy Mitchell — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 40 
  • Father:
  • Philip Reed 
  • Mother:
  • Thanks Dill   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 Sep 1714 
  • Birth Location:
  • Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abiel Butterfield
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Feb 1736/1737 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Willard Read (Ahnentafel No:20 )

• Sources for John Read

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westford, Vol. 1, p. 96, Birth record for son Willard Read.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westford, Vol. 1, p. 142, Marriage record for John Read Jr and Abiel Butterfield.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Concord, Vol. 1, p. 88, Birth record for John Read.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Littleton, Vol. 1, p. 465, Lineage branch of Reed family of Weymouth.
  • ⁵ Reed, Jacob Whittemore, History of the Reed Family in Europe and America, Boston: John Wilson and Son (1861), 273, 277.