Thomas Read 2
- Marriage: Priscilla Bankes
- Died: 6 Nov 1662
 General Notes:
From Genealogical Gleanings in England:
"of Wickford, Essex, a relative by marriage to Governor John WInthrop."
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Thomas Reade of Wickford, Essex, gentleman, 25 July 1662, proved 6 Nocember 1662.
I do give and bequeath unto my beloved wift Mr.s Priscilla Read my farm, called or known by the name of Soppers, in the parish of Wickford, Essex, during her life. I give her seven hundred and fifty pounds during her life. And it is my will that if she should marry he that she should have should give good security, before marriage, unto my overseers for the repayment of this sum, after the death of my wife, for the use of my children. After her decease my son Samuel shall have five hundred pounds of the aforesaid sum if he be of the age of one and twenty years, or when he attaineth thereunto, and my son Thomas shall have two hundred and fifty pounds thereof, if of the age &c. And after my wife's decease Samuel Read shall have my farm called Soppers, if of the age &c., and shall also have two thousand three hundred pounds over and above the five hundred mentioned. Also it is my will that my son Samuel shall have all that my farm called Wickford near Salem in New England &c. and all my public "heeles" when he attaineth to the age &c., paying one third part thereto to my son Thomas when he attaineth to the age &c. To Thomas I give fourteen hundred and fifty pounds, over and above the two hundred and fifty mentioned, when of age. To my daughter Priscilla Read one thousand pounds at one and twenty or day of marriage. Provisions in case of deaths of the children. Wife Priscilla to be executrix and brother Caleb Banckes Esq., Thomas Cooke of Pedmeshe (Pebmershe) Esq., Sir John Banckes, Baronet, Allyn Reade Gentleman, and Jacob Willett, cit. to be overseers and guardians to my children during their nonage.
Thomas married Priscilla Bankes, daughter of John Bankes and Mary Fisher. (Priscilla Bankes was born in 1613 in Maidstone, Kent, England and died after 1669.)
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