Thomas Reade served as a captain of militia and was a resident of Ware Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia. He owned 2,400 acres of land in Gloucester County in 1704; 400 acres lying in Ware Parish and 2,000 acres lying in Petsworth Parish.
His date of birth has been given as 1649 by some researchers, but this is incorrect. He was still a minor when his mother, Elizabeth (Martiau) Reade, wrote her will, February, 1685/6. He has been confused with another Thomas Reade who belonged to an earlier generation and whose relationship, if any, to this family is unknown.
Traditionally, Captain Thomas Reade and his wife, Lucy (Gwyn) Reade are said to have had eleven children, but proof only exists to establish the following: Thomas, John, Joyce, Lucy, Mary, and Mildred.
For more on this family, please see Dorman, John Frederick. Adventurers of Purse and Person, 4th edition, volume 2, page 509.
A family cemetery, or burial ground, for the family of Captain Thomas Reade and his wife, Lucy (Gwyn) Reade, was located in the woods on the southeast edge of the present Gloucester Courthouse. The tombstones of two of their children, Thomas Reade, Junior, and Lucy (Reade) Dixon, were removed from the family cemetery in 1939 and taken to the A. P. V. They may be viewed at Ware Episcopal Church (see Epitaphs Of Gloucester And Mathews Counties In Tidewater VA Through 1865, page 72). Only two surviving tombstones were removed, but their remains are still interred in the family cemetery.
His date of birth has been given as 1649 by some researchers, but this is incorrect. He was still a minor when his mother, Elizabeth (Martiau) Reade, wrote her will, February, 1685/6. He has been confused with another Thomas Reade who belonged to an earlier generation and whose relationship, if any, to this family is unknown.
Traditionally, Captain Thomas Reade and his wife, Lucy (Gwyn) Reade are said to have had eleven children, but proof only exists to establish the following: Thomas, John, Joyce, Lucy, Mary, and Mildred.
For more on this family, please see Dorman, John Frederick. Adventurers of Purse and Person, 4th edition, volume 2, page 509.
A family cemetery, or burial ground, for the family of Captain Thomas Reade and his wife, Lucy (Gwyn) Reade, was located in the woods on the southeast edge of the present Gloucester Courthouse. The tombstones of two of their children, Thomas Reade, Junior, and Lucy (Reade) Dixon, were removed from the family cemetery in 1939 and taken to the A. P. V. They may be viewed at Ware Episcopal Church (see Epitaphs Of Gloucester And Mathews Counties In Tidewater VA Through 1865, page 72). Only two surviving tombstones were removed, but their remains are still interred in the family cemetery.
Thomas Reade served as a captain of militia and was a resident of Ware Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia. He owned 2,400 acres of land in Gloucester County in 1704; 400 acres lying in Ware Parish and 2,000 acres lying in Petsworth Parish.
His date of birth has been given as 1649 by some researchers, but this is incorrect. He was still a minor when his mother, Elizabeth (Martiau) Reade, wrote her will, February, 1685/6. He has been confused with another Thomas Reade who belonged to an earlier generation and whose relationship, if any, to this family is unknown.
Traditionally, Captain Thomas Reade and his wife, Lucy (Gwyn) Reade are said to have had eleven children, but proof only exists to establish the following: Thomas, John, Joyce, Lucy, Mary, and Mildred.
For more on this family, please see Dorman, John Frederick. Adventurers of Purse and Person, 4th edition, volume 2, page 509.
A family cemetery, or burial ground, for the family of Captain Thomas Reade and his wife, Lucy (Gwyn) Reade, was located in the woods on the southeast edge of the present Gloucester Courthouse. The tombstones of two of their children, Thomas Reade, Junior, and Lucy (Reade) Dixon, were removed from the family cemetery in 1939 and taken to the A. P. V. They may be viewed at Ware Episcopal Church (see Epitaphs Of Gloucester And Mathews Counties In Tidewater VA Through 1865, page 72). Only two surviving tombstones were removed, but their remains are still interred in the family cemetery.
His date of birth has been given as 1649 by some researchers, but this is incorrect. He was still a minor when his mother, Elizabeth (Martiau) Reade, wrote her will, February, 1685/6. He has been confused with another Thomas Reade who belonged to an earlier generation and whose relationship, if any, to this family is unknown.
Traditionally, Captain Thomas Reade and his wife, Lucy (Gwyn) Reade are said to have had eleven children, but proof only exists to establish the following: Thomas, John, Joyce, Lucy, Mary, and Mildred.
For more on this family, please see Dorman, John Frederick. Adventurers of Purse and Person, 4th edition, volume 2, page 509.
A family cemetery, or burial ground, for the family of Captain Thomas Reade and his wife, Lucy (Gwyn) Reade, was located in the woods on the southeast edge of the present Gloucester Courthouse. The tombstones of two of their children, Thomas Reade, Junior, and Lucy (Reade) Dixon, were removed from the family cemetery in 1939 and taken to the A. P. V. They may be viewed at Ware Episcopal Church (see Epitaphs Of Gloucester And Mathews Counties In Tidewater VA Through 1865, page 72). Only two surviving tombstones were removed, but their remains are still interred in the family cemetery.
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