READE Francis

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: Jan 1637
• Living In: Abt 1655, Yorktown, VA

Notes:

George was the original immigrant from England to Virginia

VIII.
16. Mildred Reade (See item 14), died December, 1694, was the daughter of George Reade, and Elizabeth Martieu, or Marthian. (See item 17).

Colonel George Reade of Lincoln Holt Parish, Hants, England; came to Virginia in January 1637. He was then unmarried and lived with Governor Harvey at Jamestown for a year or two. Was Deputy-Secetary of the Colony in 1640-1642; member of the House of Burgesses 1644 and again in 1640, from James City, and voted for the act declaring that the excution of Charles I was treasonable and that his son Charles was the rightful air to the Crown. In 1652 he was also a Burgess and submitted to the English Commonwealth; was a member of the county Court from 1655 to 1657; member of a committee to revise the statutes in 1656-1657, and Councillor from 1657 to his death in 1671, and at all times supported Governor Berkeley's administration. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Martieu, before 1649. He moved to Martieu's home at Yourktown about 1655 and his wife afterwards having fallen heir to Martieu's homestead, he made that his home for the remainder of his life.
George Read was the great-grandfather of George Washington and the Great-grandfather of General Thomas Nelson, and Mildred Wyndebank (was a daughter of Sir Thomas Wyndebank and Frances Dymoke and thourgh the latter Mr. Browning traces Georges Reade's lineage to thirtheen of the signers of Magna Charta 1215 and back to Alfred the Great. This Mildred Wyndebank furnishes the earliest appearance in this genealogy of Mr. Trumbull's mother's name, "Mildred", but we fine it many times since).
Mildred Wyndebank's brother, Sir Francis Wyndebank, was appointed Secretary to King Charles in 1633 on the recommendation of Archbishop Laud and this position he held until the King left London in 1641, never to return, except as a prisoner and to death.
When Governor John Harvey went to England in 1635 to answer charges preferred against him by the Virginians, after having been thrust out of the governorship, he met George Reade who was then visiting his brother, Robert Reade, who was Secretary to Secretary Wyndebank, his uncle. When Harvey returned to Virginia in 1637, Colonel George Reade came with him and stayed with him for a year at Jamestown.

George Reade, a native of London, came to Virginia 1637 in Sir John Harvey's party. Harvey was returning to Virginia to assume the office of Governor of the Colony. Reade was appointed Secretary of State, pro tem of the colony in 1640 and served as Acting Governor in the absence of Governor Harvey. He was a member of the House of Burgesses and a member of the Colonial Council until his death. His will, no longer extant, is documented in a York County 18th century land transaction.

York Co, VA Deeds & Bonds Book 5 pp 3 - 6
This Indenture made the sixteenth day of May in the fortieth year of the Reign of our Sovernge Lord George the Second King of Great Britain and in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred & forty one between James Mitchell of the Town & County of York and Janet his wife of the one part and Richard Ambler of the same Town & county aforesaid . Whereas George Reade late of the sd county of York Esq decd being siezed in fee of a certain tract or parcel of land lying & being in the said County of York containing by Estimation Eight hundred & fifty acres did by his last Will and Testament in writing bearing date the twenty ninth day of September in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred & Seventy devise the same by the name of all that Tract of Land wherein he lived to his wife during life and after her decease to be equally divided between his sons, George & Robert and the heirs of their bodies but and fault of such heirs in either or both of them or in case either or both of them should dye during their minority then he gave and devises his and their parts of the land aforesaid to his sons Francis and Benjamin and the heirs of their bodies with other remainders over as by the said Will duly proved in the General Court of this Colony being thereunto had may more at large appear and whereas the said George Reade one of the sons of the Testator dyed many years ago without issue and after his death the said Francis & Benjamin Reade intend into one ninety or half part of this premises to as afore devised and afterwards the said Robert Reade, Francis Reade & Benjamin Reade by Deed bearing date the twelfth day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand and six hundred & eighty eight made partition of the premises aforesaid .........

George Reade married Elizabeth Martiau, daughter of Nicolas Martiau (Father of Yorktown). Their daughter Mildred, wife of Col. Augustine Warner, was the g-grandmother of George Washington.

George Read, the son of Robert Read of London and his wife Mildred Windebank, was one of the about one hundred colonists, who emigrated to the colonies from England and Wales before the end of the 17th century, known to have legitimate descent from a Plantagenet King of England.

The illustrious ancestry of George Reade is documented nicely in Colonial Records during the period of 18 January 1638/9 - 11 December 1641. The file includes letters from the Colonial Governor, Secretary of State and George Reade to Sir Francis Windebank and/or Windebank's personal secretary Robert Reade (George Reade's brother.) The correspondence file is quite interesting, alluding to the politics behind George Reade's appointment as Secretary of State during Richard Kemp's sojourn in England. It also includes personal requests from George Reade to his brother for servants and money. Earlier correspondence puts a personal face on George Reade's life. "Sir John Harvey to Robert Reade, 17 Nov. 1637. Hopes to employ Reade's brother against the Indians. He is well and stays at the writer's house." "George Reade to Robert Reade, his brother, 26 Febr. 1637/8. Does not think much of Mr. Hawley. Thanks to the support of the Governor and Mr. Kemp, the writer has survived. Mr. Menephe has brought many servants. Mr. Hawley has promised the writer that the next lot of servants coming to Virginia would be for him but he does not believe it as Hawley is in Maryland."

"Adventurers of Purse and Person 1607 - 1624/5 and Their Families" published by the Order of First Families of Virginia, indicates in a footnote (pp. 419-420) the discrepancy between the dates inscribed on his Grace Church tablets and the filing of the wills for George Read and his wife Elizabeth as follows: "His and his wife's gravestones were discovered during street excavations in Yorktown in 1931. The inscriptions on both were recut with errors. George Reade's stone now states he died Oct. 1674, "he being in the 66th yr of his age." Since the date should be 1671 (per his will), either the age shown, or his year of birth, is in error as well....The gravestone of Elizabeth (Martiau) Read now states she was born in 1625 and died in 1696, "being in ye 71st yeare of her age." Since the year of death should be 1686 (per her will), again the age or year of birth is in error. Since Nicholas Martiau claimed...his daughter Elizabeth as headrights...it would appear Elizabeth was born prior to his arrival in Virginia in 1620...and that Elizabeth's birth occurred in 1615 rather than 1625."

The graves of George Reade and his wife Elizabeth were discovered while excavating on Buckner Street in Yorktown. In 1931, descendant Letitia Pate Evans had the tablets restored and moved to the church yard of Grace Episcopal Church. The Reade tablets sit adjacent to the plots of Gov. Thomas Nelson (Declaration of Independence signer), his father, and grandfather (who married a George Reade descendant.)

Born in Linkenholt, England to Robert & Mildred (Windebank) Reade. He married Elizabeth Martiau in 1641 in York Co., Virginia. George was the Secretary of the Colony and Acting Governor of Virginia (1638-39); member of the Council of Virginia; member of the House of Burgesses from James City Co.,VA in 1649 and frequently thereafer. He became a member of the Governor's Council on 13 Mar 1657-58, which office he held until his death in 1671. Father of Mildred (Warner).
Adventurers of Purse and Person 1607 - 1624/5 and Their Families" published by the Order of First Families of Virginia, indicates in a footnote (pp. 419-420) the discrepancy between the dates inscribed on his Grace Church tablets and the filing of the wills for George Read and his wife Elizabeth as follows: "His and his wife's gravestones were discovered during street excavations in Yorktown in 1931. The inscriptions on both were recut with errors. George Reade's stone now states he died Oct. 1674, "he being in the 66th yr of his age." Since the date should be 1671 (per his will), either the age shown, or his year of birth, is in error as well....The gravestone of Elizabeth (Martiau) Read now states she was born in 1625 and died in 1696, "being in ye 71st yeare of her age." Since the year of death should be 1686 (per her will), again the age or year of birth is in error. Since Nicholas Martiau claimed...his daughter Elizabeth as headrights...it would appear Elizabeth was born prior to his arrival in Virginia in 1620...and that Elizabeth's birth occurred in 1615 rather than 1625."


Lionel, Duke of Clarence, married Lady Elizabeth de Brugh, and their only daughter, Lady Philippa Plantagenet, married Edward Mortimer, Earl of March; their daughter, Lady Elizabeth Mortimer, married Sir Henry Percy, surnamed Hotspur, first Earl of Northumberland, b. 1366; killed at the battle of Shrewsbury. His son, Henry Percy, second Earl of Northumberland, married Lady Eleanor Nevil, and was killed at the battle of St. Albans, 1455. His son, Henry Percy, third Earl of Northumberland, married Lady Eleanor Poynings. Their daughter, Lady Margaret Percy, married Sir William Gascoigne. Their daughter, Lady Elizabeth Gascoigne, married Sir George Telboise, who was descended from Ivo de Tailleboise, a Norman Knight, and follower of William the Conqueror. Their daughter, Lady Anne Telboise, married Sir Edmond Dymoke, "Hereditary Champion of England," and Master of Scrivelsby Court. His daughter, Frances Dymoke, Aug. 20, 1566, married Sir Thomas Windebank, "Clerk of the Signet, to the good Queen Bess." Their daughter, Mildred Windebank, married Robert Reade, Esq., of Yorkshire. Their son, George Reade, Hon., married Elizabeth Martain, daughter of Capt. Nicholas Martain; and their daughter, Mildred Reade, married Speaker, the Hon. Augustine Warner, of Warner's Hall, Gloucester Co., Va.

The Hon. George Reade came to Virginia in 1637, settled in York Co.; one out of five or six other children of Andrew Reade, of Linkbout, Hampshire. Will proved, Oct. 24, 1623.     
    
I. Andrew, mentioned in House of Lords calendar, as "Andrew Reade, D. D., of Lugershall Hall, Wiltshire."     
    
II. William.     
    
III. Dr. Thomas Reade, b. Linkenholt, 1606; admitted student, New College, Oxford, Dec. 10, 1624; Fellow, Jan. 15, 1626; LL. D., 1638; Principal Med. Hall, Oxford, 1643. In 1642, he volunteered in the King's army and saw some service in the decline of the royal cause. He went to France and became a Catholic priest. In 1659, he published a work in defense of Catholicity. He returned to England at the restoration of King Charles II, and died, 1669.     

IV. Robert, private secretary to his uncle, Sir Francis Windebank; Secretary of State to Charles I. March, 1641, he went to Paris with Secretary Windebank, to escape prosecution by Parliament. He was living in 1669.     

V. George((1)), who came to Virginia. There was a Benjamin Reade, probably of the same English family, who came to Virginia about the same time, and is supposed to have been a son of Robert Reade and Mildred Windebank, but his name is not included in any definite record of relationship I have seen.     

Mildred Windebank was the daughter of Sir Thomas Windebank, of Harnes Hill, parish of Hurst, Berkshire (Clerk of the Signet to Queen Elizabeth and King James I), who married, Aug. 20, 1566, Frances, daughter of Sir Edmond Dymoke, Hereditary Champion of England.     

George Reade came to Virginia in 1637. He was a friend and adherent of Governor Harvey, and Secretary Kemp, and when Kemp went to England, in 1640, George Reade was appointed Secretary of State, pro tem., and acted as governor, when Harvey was absent. He was burgess for James City County in 1649, and again in 1656; then probably for Gloucester Co. He was a member of the Council, appointed March 13, 1658, and reappointed, May 3, 1658, and held the office until his death, in 1671. On Nov. 20, 1671, the will of Col. George Reade was admitted to probate in the General Court.     
    
George((1)) Reade married Elizabeth Martain, daughter of Captain Nicholas Martain, born in Belgium, and came to Virginia with her parents. Capt. Nicholas Martain represented Kent Island, York, and Chiskiack, in the House of Burgesses, in 1632. They had issue:     
    
I. George((2)) Reade, to whom Sir William Berkeley, Governor, gave a bay mare, in 1665. This son died without issue.     
    
II. Mildred((2)) Reade, married, about 1665, Colonel Augustine Warner, of Warner's Hall, Gloucester Co., Va.; Speaker of the House of Burgesses, in 1675, and member of the Council until his death, June 19, 1681.     
    
III. Elizabeth((2)) Reade. Married Capt. Thomas Chisman.     

IV. Robert((2)) Reade. Married Mary, daughter of John Lily.     

V. Francis((2)) Reade. Married, first, Chisman; married, second, Ann -.     
    
VI. Benjamin((2)) Reade. Married Mary Gwynn.     
    
VII. Thomas((2)) Reade. Married Lucy, daughter of Edmund Gwynn.     

Mildred((2)) Reade (George((1))) married Colonel and Speaker Augustine Warner, of Warner's Hall, Gloucester Co., and had six children:     

A son, Augustine Warner, b. June 17, 1666; died, unmarried, March 17, 1687.     
    
A son, George Warner, died young; unmarried.     

Buried:
Here lyeth intered Coll George Read Esqr who was born ye 25th day October in ye yeare of our Lord 1608 and deceased October 1674 he being in the 66th yr of his age.
http://www.gracechurchyorktown.com/home/home.asp

"These Ledgers in Memory of Colonel George Read and his wife Elizabeth Martiau Read Discovered while excavating on Buckner Street, Yorktown Were restored and preserved by their descendant Letitia Pate Evans 1931 The graves of George Reade and his wife Elizabeth were discovered while excavating on Buckner Street in Yorktown. In 1931, descendant Letitia Pate Evans had the tablets restored and moved to the church yard of Grace Episcopal Church. The Reade tablets sit adjacent to the plots of Gov. Thomas Nelson (Declaration of Independence signer), his father, and grandfather (who married a George Reade descendant.)
Yorktown, Va.

Headstone Details
     Cemetery name Grace Episcopal Church Cemetery
     Name on headstone George Read and Elizabeth Martiau Read
     Birth
     Death

George married MARTIAU Elizabeth in 1641 in Yorktown, VA. Elizabeth (daughter of Capt. MARTIAU Nicolas and BERKELEY Elizabeth Jane) was born on 12 Dec 1625 in Elizabeth City, VA; died on 10 Feb 1685 in Yorktown, VA; was buried in Yorktown, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married WINDEBANK Mildred. Mildred (daughter of WINDEBANK Thomas and DYMOKE Frances) was born on 21 Jul 1585 in Hiene Hill, Berkshire, England; died in 1630 in Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1620

Notes:

Birth: Apr. 2, 1591
Île-de-France, France Death: Apr. 24, 1657
Yorktown
York County
Virginia, USA
Legal representative in Virginia of Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon. Married 1st Elizabeth, 2nd Jane widow of Lieut. Edward Berkeley, 3rd Isabella widow of Robert Felgete and George Beech.(Submitted by Daniel Estefano, 9/27/2012)
Martiau appeared in the first Virginia census of 1623 and became a member of the House of Burgesses, the oldest continuous legislative body in the western hemisphere. His marriage to the widow of a prominent settler further established his position, and the prominence of his descendent, George Washington, affirmed his intellect and acumen.(Celebrate Yorktown Committee notes 2/17/2013)
Strangely the muster of January 1624-25, reveals that Nicholas Martiau came to the colony aboard the "Francis Bona Venture", a 240-ton ship. Captain Martiau went to Virginia as the legal representative of the fifth Earl of Huntington. On October 8, 1630, the Virginia Council passed a decree granting 50 acres of land to every person who would settle within a year or two on the York in the Chiskiake (Yorktown) area. Captain Martiau moved onto the York peninsula, settling at the Yorktown on the York River. The Captain had 600 acres confirmed to him for moving to Chiskiake the first year, plus 700 more acres for paying for the adventure of other headrights, in March 1639. This total of 1,300 acres had the chief commodity of tobacco. Years later, Captain Martiau was granted letters-patent for 2,000 acres on the south side of the Potomac River (1654); he gave this tract to his son-in-law, Colonel George Reade, who had patent on it dated March 1657. He would buy and sell other minor properties over the years.
(Ref: Extracted from Jonathan Kennon Smith notes on Captain Nicolas Martiau, Lib of Wm & Mary College)
In 1931, an 11 foot Vermont granite monument, with comemorative bronze plaque was erected near the site of Martiau's home and graveyard on Ballard and Buckner Streets, in the village of Yorktown. The monument was erected by the Huguenot Society of Pennsyvania, in cooperation with the National (Federation of) Huguenot Societies and the Yorktown Sesquicentennial Commission.(Ref: Jonathan K. Smith notes as above.)
The National Park Service (NPS) exhumed his body in May 1936 from the original grave on Buckner Street in the family cemetery. The NPS concluded the body as in grave number 6 was likely at of Nicolas Martiau. (Ref: The Huguenot Publication No. 12, 1943-45)
See Martiau Family Cemetery in FIND A GRAVE for additional details on the original burial site.
Family links:
Spouse:
Elizabeth Jane Page Martiau (1593 - 1640)

Children:
Sarah Martiau Fuller (1625 - 1694) *
Elizabeth Martiau Reade (1625 - 1686) *

*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Grace Episcopal Churchyard
Yorktown
York County
Virginia, USA
Plot: E13
GPS (lat/lon): 37.23582, -76.50771

Immigration:
Citation Information
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Detail Place: Virginia; Year: 1620; Page Number: 127
Strangely the muster of January 1624-25, reveals that Nicholas Martiau came to the colony aboard the "Francis Bona Venture", a 240-ton ship.
    
Date     
Other information     
    
Source Information
Source Title ( view source details ) Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s     
Source Repository ( view repository details ) Ancestry.com     

Nicolas married BERKELEY Elizabeth Jane in 1624 in Elizabeth City, VA. Elizabeth was born in 1593; died in 1645. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married DYMOKE Frances. Frances (daughter of DYMOKE Edward and TAILBOYS Anne) was born in 1539 in Lincolnshire, , England; died in 1611 in Haines Hall, , Hurst Parish, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Legal representative in Virginia of Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon. Married 1st Elizabeth, 2nd Jane widow of Lieut. Edward Berkeley, 3rd Isabella widow of Robert Felgete and George Beech.(Submitted by Daniel Estefano, 9/27/2012)
Martiau appeared in the first Virginia census of 1623 and became a member of the House of Burgesses, the oldest continuous legislative body in the western hemisphere. His marriage to the widow of a prominent settler further established his position, and the prominence of his descendent, George Washington, affirmed his intellect and acumen.(Celebrate Yorktown Committee notes 2/17/2013)
Strangely the muster of January 1624-25, reveals that Nicholas Martiau came to the colony aboard the "Francis Bona Venture", a 240-ton ship. Captain Martiau went to Virginia as the legal representative of the fifth Earl of Huntington. On October 8, 1630, the Virginia Council passed a decree granting 50 acres of land to every person who would settle within a year or two on the York in the Chiskiake (Yorktown) area. Captain Martiau moved onto the York peninsula, settling at the Yorktown on the York River. The Captain had 600 acres confirmed to him for moving to Chiskiake the first year, plus 700 more acres for paying for the adventure of other headrights, in March 1639. This total of 1,300 acres had the chief commodity of tobacco. Years later, Captain Martiau was granted letters-patent for 2,000 acres on the south side of the Potomac River (1654); he gave this tract to his son-in-law, Colonel George Reade, who had patent on it dated March 1657. He would buy and sell other minor properties over the years.
(Ref: Extracted from Jonathan Kennon Smith notes on Captain Nicolas Martiau, Lib of Wm & Mary College)
In 1931, an 11 foot Vermont granite monument, with comemorative bronze plaque was erected near the site of Martiau's home and graveyard on Ballard and Buckner Streets, in the village of Yorktown. The monument was erected by the Huguenot Society of Pennsyvania, in cooperation with the National (Federation of) Huguenot Societies and the Yorktown Sesquicentennial Commission.(Ref: Jonathan K. Smith notes as above.)

The National Park Service (NPS) exhumed his body in May 1936 from the original grave on Buckner Street in the family cemetery. The NPS concluded the body as in grave number 6 was likely at of Nicolas Martiau. (Ref: The Huguenot Publication No. 12, 1943-45)

See Martiau Family Cemetery in FIND A GRAVE for additional details on the original burial site.

Family links:
Spouse:
Elizabeth Jane Page Martiau (1593 - 1640)

Children:
Sarah Martiau Fuller (1625 - 1694) *
Elizabeth Martiau Reade (1625 - 1686) *

*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Grace Episcopal Churchyard
Yorktown
York County
Virginia, USA
Plot: E13
GPS (lat/lon): 37.23582, -76.50771

Nicholas married DESORMIERS Éléonore. Éléonore was born in 1560; died in 1610. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]