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Col. George Reade
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Name George Reade [1, 2] Prefix Col. Alternate birth 25 Oct 1608 [3, 4] Birth Abt 1610 Linkenholt, Hampshire, England [5]
Gender Male Death Between 29 Sep 1670 and 21 Nov 1671 Virginia [3, 5, 6]
Alternate death 1671 Virginia [7, 8, 9, 10]
Burial Grace Episcopal Churchyard, Yorktown, York, Virginia [5]
Siblings
2 siblings Person ID I36770 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LMW Last Modified 7 Feb 2024
Father Robert Reade, b. Abt 1568, of Faccombe, Hampshire, England d. Bef 20 Mar 1627 (Age ~ 59 years)
Mother Mildred Windebank, b. 1584 d. Bef 26 Jan 1631 (Age < 47 years) Marriage 31 Jul 1600 St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, England [4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12]
Family ID F21616 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Elizabeth Martiau, b. 1625 d. Between 10 Feb 1686 and 24 Jan 1687, Virginia (Age 61 years)
Marriage Abt 1641 Yorktown, York, Virginia [6, 13, 14]
Children + 1. Mildred Reade, b. Williamsburg, Virginia d. Aft 4 Jan 1695
+ 2. Elizabeth Reade Family ID F21613 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 12 Nov 2021
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Notes - "George Reade, born 25 Oct. 1608, son of Robert and Mildred (Windebank) Reade, who had come to Virginia in Sir John Harvey's party upon his return as governor of Virginia, 1637. On 27 Aug. 1640 George Reade was appointed by the King 'to the place of Secretary [of the Colony] in the absence of Richard Kemp who has lately arrived in England.' Reade was clerk of the Council, 1648, burgess for James City, 1649, and for York, 1656, and was appointed to the Council in 1658, holding that office until his death." [Adventurers of Purse and Person, citation details below]
He is a "gateway ancestor" for PNH's sister-in-law, a descendant of Edward III and over five thousand other medieval people. A daughter of Edward III's son John of Gaunt, Joan Beaufort, was married twice; through her second marriage, to Ralph de Neville, George Reade is an 8X-great grandson of Edward III. Through her second marriage, to Robert Ferrers, Reade is a 9X-great grandson of the same king, and also a 9X-great grandson through another of Edward's sons, Lionel of Antwerp.
He and his wife Elizabeth Martiau were great-great grandparents of George Washington:
George Reade = Elizabeth Martiau
Mildred Reade = Col. Augustine Warner
Mildred Warner = Lawrence Washington
Augustine Washington = Mary Ball
George Washington
It has been suggested that George Washington was named George after this particular great-great-grandfather. It does appear that George Reade represents the most recent, and possibly the only, previous instance of a George in Washington's ancestry.
George Reade and Elizabeth Martiau were also ancestors of Queen Elizabeth II:
George Reade = Elizabeth Martiau
Mildred Reade = Col. Augustine Warner
Mary Warner = Col. John Smith
Mildred Smith = Robert Porteous
Robert Porteous = Judith Cockayne
Mildred Porteous = Robert Hodgson
Rev. Robert Hodgson = Mary Tucker
Henrietta Mildred Hodgson = Oswald Smith
Frances Dora Smith = Claude Bowes-Lyon
Claude George Bowes-Lyon = Cecilia Nina Cavendish-Bentinck
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon = King George VI
Queen Elizabeth II
And of Meriwether Lewis:
George Reade = Elizabeth Martiau
Mildred Reade = Col. Augustine Warner
Elizabeth Warner = Col. John Lewis
Col. Robert Lewis = Jane Meriwether
William Lewis = Lucy Meriwether
Meriwether Lewis
And of General George S. Patton:
Thomas Reade = Lucy Gwynne
Mildred Reade = Philip Rootes
Elizabeth Rootes = Rev. John Thompson
Philip Rootes Thompson = Anna Davenport
Eleanor Thompson = William Thorton
Susanna Thompson Thorton = Andrew Glassell
Susan Thornton Glassell = George Smith Patton
George Smith Patton = Ruth Wilson
General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
- "George Reade, born 25 Oct. 1608, son of Robert and Mildred (Windebank) Reade, who had come to Virginia in Sir John Harvey's party upon his return as governor of Virginia, 1637. On 27 Aug. 1640 George Reade was appointed by the King 'to the place of Secretary [of the Colony] in the absence of Richard Kemp who has lately arrived in England.' Reade was clerk of the Council, 1648, burgess for James City, 1649, and for York, 1656, and was appointed to the Council in 1658, holding that office until his death." [Adventurers of Purse and Person, citation details below]
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Sources - [S5773] Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography ed. Lyon Gardiner Tyler. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915.
- [S6079] Lyon G. Tyler, "Maj. Edmund Chisman, Jr." The William and Mary Quarterly 1:89, Oct 1892.
- [S6108] Adventurers of Purse and Person: Virginia 1607-1624/5. Fourth edition, ed. John Frederick Dorman. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004-07.
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- [S1842] John Meredith Read, "The English Ancestry of Washington." The Atheneum number 3465, 24 Mar 1894., year only.
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- [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013., year only.
- [S6108] Adventurers of Purse and Person: Virginia 1607-1624/5. Fourth edition, ed. John Frederick Dorman. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004-07., year only.
- [S5773] Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography ed. Lyon Gardiner Tyler. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915.