Linkenholt Manor
arrival in Virginia, British American Colonies
Founder of the city of Yorktown, Virginia, British American Colonies, Colonial America
11 Gens. (AC: Rbt Fox, 1911)
see citation notes
President George Washington is named after this great great grandfather George Reade
member of the House of Burgesses
acting governor of Virginia Colony
Great great grandfather of President George Washington.
Il est marié avec Elizabeth Jane Martiau Martin.Source 4
Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1641 à Yorktown, Charles River Cnty, Virginia, Colonial America, il avait 32 ans.
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Biography
Colonel George Reade
Immigrated to Virginia in 1636
Married Elizabeth Martiau in 1641
Virginia Secretary, Acting Governor, House of Burgesses, King's Council
Origin
Colonel George Reade was born at the Linkenholt Manor, Hampshire, England, probably in 1608, into a very prominent and well-documented English family, the Reade family of Facombe.[1] George Reade was baptized at Linkenholt, Hampshire, England in 1610.[2] He was a son of Robert Reade[3] and Mildred Windebank.[4]
Associations
Brother Robert Reade was the private secretary to Sir William Windebanke who was Secretary of State to Charles I: IV.[3][5]
Immigrated to Virginia
George immigrated to Virginia in 1637, with Sir John Harvey's party.[1] Harvey was returning to Virginia to fulfill the office of Governor.[1] In a letter written to family in England in 1637, George wrote, "still at the Governor's House."[1] Reade was appointed Secretary of the colony in 1637.[6][2] George was a friend and loyal supporter of Governor Harvey and Secretary Kempe.[3]
Family
George married in 1641, at Charles River County, Virginia to Elizabeth Martiau daughter of Nicholas Martiau.[7] They were probably married at her father's plantation, at the site of present-day Yorktown. She would have been a young girl of around 15 at the time.
Researchers disagree about the children of Col. George Reade and Elizabeth Martiau. According to du Bellet in Some Prominent Virginia Families, and also Richardson in Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, there were seven children: five sons, George, Robert, Thomas, Francis, Benjamin, and two daughters, Mildred (Reade) Warner and Elizabeth (Reade) Cheesman.[2][8] Van horn of the Nicolas Martiau Descendant Association agrees, identifying both George and Elizabeth as children.[9] According to McAllister, George and Elizabeth had five children, four sons: Robert, Francis, Benjamin and Thomas,[6] and one daughter, Mildred (Reade) Warner.[1]
The oldest child was daughter, Mildred Reade, married Col Augustine Warner Jr., of Warner Hall, and the daughter of this marriage, Mildred Warner, married Lawrence Washington, the grandfather of George Washington."[1] Robert was the oldest son of Col. George and Elizabeth (Martiau) Reade.[10]
Children of George and Elizabeth Martiau:[6]
Mildred Reade b 2 Oct 1643, d 1694; mar Col Augustine Warner Jr.
Robert Reade b ca 1644, d Bef. 16 Mar 1722/23 in York Co, Virginia; mar Mary Lilly ca 1688
George Reade b c. 1648, d without issue, Gov Berkeley gave him a bay mare in 1665.
Francis Reade b 1650 York Co., d ca 1694; mar 1) Jane Chisman, 2) Anne Unknown
Elizabeth Reade b c. 1654, d 18 Nov 1717 in Charles Parish, York Co, Virginia; mar Capt. Thomas Chisman
Benjamin Reade b c. 1667, one of the two youngest, minor in 1687; mar Mary Gwynne/Gwyn, daughter of Edmund/Edmond Gwyn
Thomas Reade one of the two youngest, minor in 1687; mar Lucy Gwynn, daughter of John Gwynn and granddaughter of Col. Hugh Gwynn
Note: Apparently the two wives of Thomas and Benjamin, Lucy Gwynn and Mary (AKA Lucy) Gwyn/Gwynne, were not closely related. The wife of Thomas is described as the granddaughter of Col. Hugh Gwynn, and the wife of Benjamin is described only as "Miss Gwyn."[7]
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