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Colonel John Reading

Male 1657 - 1717  (60 years)


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  • Name John Reading  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 
    Prefix Colonel 
    Born 14 Sep 1657  Litchfield, Herefordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 
    Gender Male 
    Died 30 Oct 1717  Amwell, Hunterdon, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 
    Buried Buckingham Friends Cemetery Lahaska, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Person ID I1807  Clark-Hart
    Last Modified 17 Dec 2018 

    Father Thomas Reading,   b. 1634, Hill, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Hill, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Mary Reading,   b. 1638, Weston Patrick, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Litchfield, Herefordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F934  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Charles,   b. 1657, Weston Patrick, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Jan 1714, Hunterdon, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 57 years) 
    Married 30 May 1682  Weston Patrick, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Children 
     1. Sarah Reading,   b. 26 Aug 1691, Gloucester, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Aug 1691, Gloucester, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)  [natural]
     2. Elizabeth Reading,   b. 05 Jun 1684, Gloucester, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Jun 1692, Gloucester, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 8 years)  [natural]
     3. Governor John Reading,   b. 06 Jun 1686, Gloucester City, Camden, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 05 Nov 1767, Amwell, Hunterdon, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years)
     4. Elsie Reading,   b. 26 Sep 1688, Gloucester, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 07 Feb 1732, Amwell, Hunterdon, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 43 years)  [natural]
    Last Modified 15 Mar 2017 
    Family ID F589  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 14 Sep 1657 - Litchfield, Herefordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 30 May 1682 - Weston Patrick, Hampshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 30 Oct 1717 - Amwell, Hunterdon, New Jersey, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Buckingham Friends Cemetery Lahaska, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Link to Google Earth
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  • Headstones
    Find A Grave    		Find A Grave
    Buckingham Friends Cemetery
    Lahaska, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

    Histories
    Biography of Reading Family in New Jersey    		Biography of Reading Family in New Jersey

  • Notes 
    • ** Notes from Find A Grave Page
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      John Reading and Elizabeth his wife, the father and mother of the Governor, emigrated from England with their two children, John and Elsie. They were Quakers, and left their country on account of the persecution to which the Quakers were subjected They settled in the town of Gloucester, New Jersey, previous to the year 1683, as he was that year a member of the Council meeting in Burlington.

      He was a landholder in and about Gloucester, of which town he was Recorder from 1693 to 1701, inclusive. He was one of the proprietors of west Jersey and a prominent member or the council, being often appointed on important committees. He, with William Biddle, Jr., and John Mills, was sent to purchase in 1703, the great tract or one hundred and fifty thousand acres, between the Raritan and the Delaware. He was a surveyor and appointed one or the commissioners to define the boundary line between New York and North Jersey, in 1719.

      He removed to his tract of land above Lambertville, where he died, and was buried in the ground or the Buckiagham Meeting House in Bucks County, Pa.

      The first century of Hunterdon County, state of New Jersey by Mott, George Scudder, 1829-1901

  • Sources 
    1. [S22] Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online.
      Record for Governor John Reading

    2. [S23] U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).
      Record for John Reading

    3. [S22] Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online.
      Record for Colonel John Reading

    4. [S22] Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online.
      Record for Elizabeth Charles

    5. [S70] U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;).
      Record for Elizabeth Reading

    6. [S22] Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online.
      Record for Elizabeth