MAYFLOWER DESCENDANT OF GOV. WILLIAM BRADFORD AND RICHARD WARREN
4G GRANDDAUGHTER OF GOV. WILLIAM BRADFORD OF THE MAYFLOWER
GRANDMOTHER OF CIVIL WAR MEDAL-OF-HONOR RECIPIENT AXEL HAYFORD REED
DISTANT COUSIN OF SIX U.S. PRESIDENTS: Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush
INHERITED AN IRON MORTAR-PESTLE BROUGHT ON THE MAYFLOWER BY GOV. WILLIAM BRADFORD
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A BIOGRAPHY OF JANE BRADFORD ELLIS READ, by Laurence Overmire (4th great grandson), genealogist and family historian, updated August 2020:
Jane Bradford Ellis was born in Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, on June 14, 1773, the fourth of six children of Revolutionary War veteran Sgt. Freeman Ellis and his wife Sarah "Sally" Bradford, a direct descendant of Gov. William Bradford of the Mayflower.
On Mar. 27, 1797, in Turner, Androscoggin County, Maine, 24-year-old Jane married 24-year-old Sampson Read Jr., the son of Revolutionary War veteran Sampson Read and his wife Lydia Phelps.
Jane gave birth to 10 children in the ensuing years:
1) Mahala (1797-1865, m. Jonathan Holmes)
2) Sampson III (1799-1877, m. Huldah Bisbee, Betsey H. _______)
3) Bradford (1801-1822)
4) Johanna (1803-1812)
5) Amy (1805-1880, m. Col. William Swett)
6) Sullivan I (1807-1808)
7) Sullivan II (1810, died in infancy)
8) Jane Ellis (1811-1895, m. Stephen Swett)
9) Johanna (II) (1813-1903, m. Lewis Clock Swett)
10) Freeman Ellis (1816-1884, m. Mary Pettingill Bisbee) Freeman inherited the mortar -pestle brought on the Mayflower by Wm. Bradford. Its whereabouts are now unknown.
Sampson Read Jr. died in Hartford in 1827 at the age of 53. As a widow, Jane lived with her son Freeman in Canton, Oxford County, Maine.
Civil War veteran Axel Reed, who would later be awarded the Medal of Honor for his gallant exploits at the Battle of Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, made the following note in his diary, dated April 27, 1865:
"Went up to Canton and visited Uncle Freeman Read's family where my dear paternal grandmother [Jane Bradford Ellis Read] lives. She is ninety years old and was much overcome to see me."
Almost a year later, Jane died at the home of her daughter Amy Read Swett at South Paris, Oxford County, Maine, on March 22, 1866, at the age of 92. She was buried alongside her husband in the Starboard Hill burying ground in Hartford.
Jane had inherited an iron "mortar-pestle" which her 4th great grandfather Gov. William Bradford brought with him on the Mayflower in 1620. It was handed down to her son Freeman and reportedly passed to his descendants, but its whereabouts are unknown today.
Note:
Genealogist Laurence Overmire, the author of this sketch, discovered amongst the items handed down from his grandmother Lillian Tifft Overmire, a pocket-sized, mysterious old photograph of an unidentified, regal-looking elderly woman in a sumptuous dress. The photo was contained in a beautiful little gold frame. He had it cleaned up and restored. No doubt it had been at one time a treasured family keepsake. Knowing the ancestry going back on Lillian's family tree, he concluded that the only person it could be was Jane Bradford Ellis Read. Interestingly, Jane was wearing a similar bonnet to the one she wore in a much earlier known image of her, if not the exact same one. Both of these images appear on this Find A Grave Memorial.
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GOV. WILLIAM BRADFORD'S MORTAR-PESTLE FROM AXEL H. REED GENEALOGY, p. 18 (transcribed by Laurence Overmire):
"Jane Ellis was a direct descendant of Governor William Bradford, and possessed a so-called iron 'mortar-pestle' which was brought over in the ship Mayflower in 1620, and handed down through the Bradford descendents to Gideon Bradford of Plympton, Mass., and from his family to that of Freeman Ellis of Hartford, Me., who married Sarah Bradford, and at her death it fell to her daughter, Jane Ellis Read, and from her to her son Freeman Read, and remains among his descendents. For many years of her widowhood she lived with her son Freeman Read, at Canton, Me., but the last year or two of her life she lived with her daughter, Amy Swett, at South Paris, Me., where she died March 22, 1866, aged 92 years and 9 months, and was buried by the side of the grave of her husband in the old Starboard Hill burying ground."
Sources:
1) Axel Hayford Reed, "Genealogical Record of The Reads, Reeds, the Bisbees, the Bradfords of the United States of America in the line of Esdras Read of Boston and England, 1635 to 1915. Thomas Besbedge or Bisbee of Scituate, Mass. and England, 1634 to 1915. Governor William Bradford, of Plymouth, Mass., and England, 1620 to 1915." (Glencoe, MN, 1915). See the Minnesota Historical Society catalog at MNHS.org.
4G GRANDDAUGHTER OF GOV. WILLIAM BRADFORD OF THE MAYFLOWER
GRANDMOTHER OF CIVIL WAR MEDAL-OF-HONOR RECIPIENT AXEL HAYFORD REED
DISTANT COUSIN OF SIX U.S. PRESIDENTS: Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush
INHERITED AN IRON MORTAR-PESTLE BROUGHT ON THE MAYFLOWER BY GOV. WILLIAM BRADFORD
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A BIOGRAPHY OF JANE BRADFORD ELLIS READ, by Laurence Overmire (4th great grandson), genealogist and family historian, updated August 2020:
Jane Bradford Ellis was born in Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, on June 14, 1773, the fourth of six children of Revolutionary War veteran Sgt. Freeman Ellis and his wife Sarah "Sally" Bradford, a direct descendant of Gov. William Bradford of the Mayflower.
On Mar. 27, 1797, in Turner, Androscoggin County, Maine, 24-year-old Jane married 24-year-old Sampson Read Jr., the son of Revolutionary War veteran Sampson Read and his wife Lydia Phelps.
Jane gave birth to 10 children in the ensuing years:
1) Mahala (1797-1865, m. Jonathan Holmes)
2) Sampson III (1799-1877, m. Huldah Bisbee, Betsey H. _______)
3) Bradford (1801-1822)
4) Johanna (1803-1812)
5) Amy (1805-1880, m. Col. William Swett)
6) Sullivan I (1807-1808)
7) Sullivan II (1810, died in infancy)
8) Jane Ellis (1811-1895, m. Stephen Swett)
9) Johanna (II) (1813-1903, m. Lewis Clock Swett)
10) Freeman Ellis (1816-1884, m. Mary Pettingill Bisbee) Freeman inherited the mortar -pestle brought on the Mayflower by Wm. Bradford. Its whereabouts are now unknown.
Sampson Read Jr. died in Hartford in 1827 at the age of 53. As a widow, Jane lived with her son Freeman in Canton, Oxford County, Maine.
Civil War veteran Axel Reed, who would later be awarded the Medal of Honor for his gallant exploits at the Battle of Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, made the following note in his diary, dated April 27, 1865:
"Went up to Canton and visited Uncle Freeman Read's family where my dear paternal grandmother [Jane Bradford Ellis Read] lives. She is ninety years old and was much overcome to see me."
Almost a year later, Jane died at the home of her daughter Amy Read Swett at South Paris, Oxford County, Maine, on March 22, 1866, at the age of 92. She was buried alongside her husband in the Starboard Hill burying ground in Hartford.
Jane had inherited an iron "mortar-pestle" which her 4th great grandfather Gov. William Bradford brought with him on the Mayflower in 1620. It was handed down to her son Freeman and reportedly passed to his descendants, but its whereabouts are unknown today.
Note:
Genealogist Laurence Overmire, the author of this sketch, discovered amongst the items handed down from his grandmother Lillian Tifft Overmire, a pocket-sized, mysterious old photograph of an unidentified, regal-looking elderly woman in a sumptuous dress. The photo was contained in a beautiful little gold frame. He had it cleaned up and restored. No doubt it had been at one time a treasured family keepsake. Knowing the ancestry going back on Lillian's family tree, he concluded that the only person it could be was Jane Bradford Ellis Read. Interestingly, Jane was wearing a similar bonnet to the one she wore in a much earlier known image of her, if not the exact same one. Both of these images appear on this Find A Grave Memorial.
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GOV. WILLIAM BRADFORD'S MORTAR-PESTLE FROM AXEL H. REED GENEALOGY, p. 18 (transcribed by Laurence Overmire):
"Jane Ellis was a direct descendant of Governor William Bradford, and possessed a so-called iron 'mortar-pestle' which was brought over in the ship Mayflower in 1620, and handed down through the Bradford descendents to Gideon Bradford of Plympton, Mass., and from his family to that of Freeman Ellis of Hartford, Me., who married Sarah Bradford, and at her death it fell to her daughter, Jane Ellis Read, and from her to her son Freeman Read, and remains among his descendents. For many years of her widowhood she lived with her son Freeman Read, at Canton, Me., but the last year or two of her life she lived with her daughter, Amy Swett, at South Paris, Me., where she died March 22, 1866, aged 92 years and 9 months, and was buried by the side of the grave of her husband in the old Starboard Hill burying ground."
Sources:
1) Axel Hayford Reed, "Genealogical Record of The Reads, Reeds, the Bisbees, the Bradfords of the United States of America in the line of Esdras Read of Boston and England, 1635 to 1915. Thomas Besbedge or Bisbee of Scituate, Mass. and England, 1634 to 1915. Governor William Bradford, of Plymouth, Mass., and England, 1620 to 1915." (Glencoe, MN, 1915). See the Minnesota Historical Society catalog at MNHS.org.
MAYFLOWER DESCENDANT OF GOV. WILLIAM BRADFORD AND RICHARD WARREN
4G GRANDDAUGHTER OF GOV. WILLIAM BRADFORD OF THE MAYFLOWER
GRANDMOTHER OF CIVIL WAR MEDAL-OF-HONOR RECIPIENT AXEL HAYFORD REED
DISTANT COUSIN OF SIX U.S. PRESIDENTS: Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush
INHERITED AN IRON MORTAR-PESTLE BROUGHT ON THE MAYFLOWER BY GOV. WILLIAM BRADFORD
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A BIOGRAPHY OF JANE BRADFORD ELLIS READ, by Laurence Overmire (4th great grandson), genealogist and family historian, updated August 2020:
Jane Bradford Ellis was born in Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, on June 14, 1773, the fourth of six children of Revolutionary War veteran Sgt. Freeman Ellis and his wife Sarah "Sally" Bradford, a direct descendant of Gov. William Bradford of the Mayflower.
On Mar. 27, 1797, in Turner, Androscoggin County, Maine, 24-year-old Jane married 24-year-old Sampson Read Jr., the son of Revolutionary War veteran Sampson Read and his wife Lydia Phelps.
Jane gave birth to 10 children in the ensuing years:
1) Mahala (1797-1865, m. Jonathan Holmes)
2) Sampson III (1799-1877, m. Huldah Bisbee, Betsey H. _______)
3) Bradford (1801-1822)
4) Johanna (1803-1812)
5) Amy (1805-1880, m. Col. William Swett)
6) Sullivan I (1807-1808)
7) Sullivan II (1810, died in infancy)
8) Jane Ellis (1811-1895, m. Stephen Swett)
9) Johanna (II) (1813-1903, m. Lewis Clock Swett)
10) Freeman Ellis (1816-1884, m. Mary Pettingill Bisbee) Freeman inherited the mortar -pestle brought on the Mayflower by Wm. Bradford. Its whereabouts are now unknown.
Sampson Read Jr. died in Hartford in 1827 at the age of 53. As a widow, Jane lived with her son Freeman in Canton, Oxford County, Maine.
Civil War veteran Axel Reed, who would later be awarded the Medal of Honor for his gallant exploits at the Battle of Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, made the following note in his diary, dated April 27, 1865:
"Went up to Canton and visited Uncle Freeman Read's family where my dear paternal grandmother [Jane Bradford Ellis Read] lives. She is ninety years old and was much overcome to see me."
Almost a year later, Jane died at the home of her daughter Amy Read Swett at South Paris, Oxford County, Maine, on March 22, 1866, at the age of 92. She was buried alongside her husband in the Starboard Hill burying ground in Hartford.
Jane had inherited an iron "mortar-pestle" which her 4th great grandfather Gov. William Bradford brought with him on the Mayflower in 1620. It was handed down to her son Freeman and reportedly passed to his descendants, but its whereabouts are unknown today.
Note:
Genealogist Laurence Overmire, the author of this sketch, discovered amongst the items handed down from his grandmother Lillian Tifft Overmire, a pocket-sized, mysterious old photograph of an unidentified, regal-looking elderly woman in a sumptuous dress. The photo was contained in a beautiful little gold frame. He had it cleaned up and restored. No doubt it had been at one time a treasured family keepsake. Knowing the ancestry going back on Lillian's family tree, he concluded that the only person it could be was Jane Bradford Ellis Read. Interestingly, Jane was wearing a similar bonnet to the one she wore in a much earlier known image of her, if not the exact same one. Both of these images appear on this Find A Grave Memorial.
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GOV. WILLIAM BRADFORD'S MORTAR-PESTLE FROM AXEL H. REED GENEALOGY, p. 18 (transcribed by Laurence Overmire):
"Jane Ellis was a direct descendant of Governor William Bradford, and possessed a so-called iron 'mortar-pestle' which was brought over in the ship Mayflower in 1620, and handed down through the Bradford descendents to Gideon Bradford of Plympton, Mass., and from his family to that of Freeman Ellis of Hartford, Me., who married Sarah Bradford, and at her death it fell to her daughter, Jane Ellis Read, and from her to her son Freeman Read, and remains among his descendents. For many years of her widowhood she lived with her son Freeman Read, at Canton, Me., but the last year or two of her life she lived with her daughter, Amy Swett, at South Paris, Me., where she died March 22, 1866, aged 92 years and 9 months, and was buried by the side of the grave of her husband in the old Starboard Hill burying ground."
Sources:
1) Axel Hayford Reed, "Genealogical Record of The Reads, Reeds, the Bisbees, the Bradfords of the United States of America in the line of Esdras Read of Boston and England, 1635 to 1915. Thomas Besbedge or Bisbee of Scituate, Mass. and England, 1634 to 1915. Governor William Bradford, of Plymouth, Mass., and England, 1620 to 1915." (Glencoe, MN, 1915). See the Minnesota Historical Society catalog at MNHS.org.
4G GRANDDAUGHTER OF GOV. WILLIAM BRADFORD OF THE MAYFLOWER
GRANDMOTHER OF CIVIL WAR MEDAL-OF-HONOR RECIPIENT AXEL HAYFORD REED
DISTANT COUSIN OF SIX U.S. PRESIDENTS: Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush
INHERITED AN IRON MORTAR-PESTLE BROUGHT ON THE MAYFLOWER BY GOV. WILLIAM BRADFORD
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A BIOGRAPHY OF JANE BRADFORD ELLIS READ, by Laurence Overmire (4th great grandson), genealogist and family historian, updated August 2020:
Jane Bradford Ellis was born in Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, on June 14, 1773, the fourth of six children of Revolutionary War veteran Sgt. Freeman Ellis and his wife Sarah "Sally" Bradford, a direct descendant of Gov. William Bradford of the Mayflower.
On Mar. 27, 1797, in Turner, Androscoggin County, Maine, 24-year-old Jane married 24-year-old Sampson Read Jr., the son of Revolutionary War veteran Sampson Read and his wife Lydia Phelps.
Jane gave birth to 10 children in the ensuing years:
1) Mahala (1797-1865, m. Jonathan Holmes)
2) Sampson III (1799-1877, m. Huldah Bisbee, Betsey H. _______)
3) Bradford (1801-1822)
4) Johanna (1803-1812)
5) Amy (1805-1880, m. Col. William Swett)
6) Sullivan I (1807-1808)
7) Sullivan II (1810, died in infancy)
8) Jane Ellis (1811-1895, m. Stephen Swett)
9) Johanna (II) (1813-1903, m. Lewis Clock Swett)
10) Freeman Ellis (1816-1884, m. Mary Pettingill Bisbee) Freeman inherited the mortar -pestle brought on the Mayflower by Wm. Bradford. Its whereabouts are now unknown.
Sampson Read Jr. died in Hartford in 1827 at the age of 53. As a widow, Jane lived with her son Freeman in Canton, Oxford County, Maine.
Civil War veteran Axel Reed, who would later be awarded the Medal of Honor for his gallant exploits at the Battle of Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, made the following note in his diary, dated April 27, 1865:
"Went up to Canton and visited Uncle Freeman Read's family where my dear paternal grandmother [Jane Bradford Ellis Read] lives. She is ninety years old and was much overcome to see me."
Almost a year later, Jane died at the home of her daughter Amy Read Swett at South Paris, Oxford County, Maine, on March 22, 1866, at the age of 92. She was buried alongside her husband in the Starboard Hill burying ground in Hartford.
Jane had inherited an iron "mortar-pestle" which her 4th great grandfather Gov. William Bradford brought with him on the Mayflower in 1620. It was handed down to her son Freeman and reportedly passed to his descendants, but its whereabouts are unknown today.
Note:
Genealogist Laurence Overmire, the author of this sketch, discovered amongst the items handed down from his grandmother Lillian Tifft Overmire, a pocket-sized, mysterious old photograph of an unidentified, regal-looking elderly woman in a sumptuous dress. The photo was contained in a beautiful little gold frame. He had it cleaned up and restored. No doubt it had been at one time a treasured family keepsake. Knowing the ancestry going back on Lillian's family tree, he concluded that the only person it could be was Jane Bradford Ellis Read. Interestingly, Jane was wearing a similar bonnet to the one she wore in a much earlier known image of her, if not the exact same one. Both of these images appear on this Find A Grave Memorial.
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GOV. WILLIAM BRADFORD'S MORTAR-PESTLE FROM AXEL H. REED GENEALOGY, p. 18 (transcribed by Laurence Overmire):
"Jane Ellis was a direct descendant of Governor William Bradford, and possessed a so-called iron 'mortar-pestle' which was brought over in the ship Mayflower in 1620, and handed down through the Bradford descendents to Gideon Bradford of Plympton, Mass., and from his family to that of Freeman Ellis of Hartford, Me., who married Sarah Bradford, and at her death it fell to her daughter, Jane Ellis Read, and from her to her son Freeman Read, and remains among his descendents. For many years of her widowhood she lived with her son Freeman Read, at Canton, Me., but the last year or two of her life she lived with her daughter, Amy Swett, at South Paris, Me., where she died March 22, 1866, aged 92 years and 9 months, and was buried by the side of the grave of her husband in the old Starboard Hill burying ground."
Sources:
1) Axel Hayford Reed, "Genealogical Record of The Reads, Reeds, the Bisbees, the Bradfords of the United States of America in the line of Esdras Read of Boston and England, 1635 to 1915. Thomas Besbedge or Bisbee of Scituate, Mass. and England, 1634 to 1915. Governor William Bradford, of Plymouth, Mass., and England, 1620 to 1915." (Glencoe, MN, 1915). See the Minnesota Historical Society catalog at MNHS.org.
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