History of the Reed family in Europe and America

80 WILLIAM EEADE OP WOBURN,
1780 ; Nabby Hinds, 1779, married Oliver C. Wyman, who
died in Boston, Jan. 7, 1850 (she died at Nahant, Jan. 3,
1851) ; Salome, born Dec. 30, 1781 ; James, July 30, 1784 ;
Caroline, March 16, 1787 ; Beulah, Oct. 17, 1789 ; Abijah,
June 4, 1792; Hinds, Nov. 16, 1794; Rapina, April 11,
1797 ; Eliza, May 14, 1799.
7. Barzela H., son of Hinds, born May 25, 1780 ; lives
in Albany, Vt. He has three sons and six daughters, whose
names are not given.
5. John, son of Joseph and Sarah, born in 1728. In
1730, after the prevailing epidemic had carried off several of
the family, he was taken by the wife of Daniel Bugbee
of Roxbury, his mother's sister, who carried him before
her, on horseback, to her residence in Roxbury, where he
lived till his majority, and learned the trade of a tanner of a
Mr. Williams. He afterwards became a kind of steward or
agent for Gov. Bowdoin, who owned great estates near Cape
Cod, among which was Naushon Island and its dependencies,
constituting the group known as the Elizabeth Islands, be-
tween Buzzard's Bay and Martha's Vineyard Sound, in whose
employ he continued many years. He afterwards moved
back to Roxbury, and was much in public life ; being repre-
sentative to the legislature, governor's council, justice of
the peace and quorum throughout the Commonwealth, and
land-agent for Massachusetts, which was at that time an
important office. The town of Readfield in the State of
Maine was named in honor of him. He named the town
of Bowdoinham in honor of his early patron, Gov. Bowdoin ;
he being proprietor of both townships. His residence was
what was afterwards the residence of Gov. Eustis. He died
in Roxbury, June 3, 1813. Known as Major Read, from his
having acted as paymaster of militia before the Revolution.
He married Hannah Godard. Children, — John; William;
Thomas, born Nov. 24, 1767.