The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-17
Read and Rende.

Whether Colonel Clement Read was
descended from Colonel George Reade.
OF yorktown. has never been proved.
although the descent has been claimed
Tor him. Clement Read was born In
, 1907. and was the ward OF John Robin
son. OF Spotsylvania, after the death
OF his father either his daughter or
sranddar,o'c deposed that Clement
Reade's .2t1ar was Thomas Rcade and
his wife Mary HILL George Reade
names his cousin. Thomas Reade. as
one OF his executors. and this Thomas
of Clement Read. The matter OF the
| final e. does not count for much.
for in Clement Reads time everybody
spelt pretty much as they liked. OF
| course. all the Reds, Reades and Reads
would prefer to be descended from
! Colonel George Reade of Yorktown.
burgess. councillor and colonel OF mi
litia and heaven knows what else. lie
was of royal lineage. He was a friend
OF Governor Harvey and Lived in his
| house. and in the absence OF Kemp
was secretary for the colony.
! This distinguished George Reade had
a son Thomas. possibly might have
| been the ancestor Of Clement but for
| the fact that the children of Thomas
were Thomas (2). who had no issue;
| Reverend t2) John, Lucy (2). Mildred
| Clement to he descended from Thomas
! the executor OF George Reade's Will
or none of the Yorktown Reades.
| Not that 1t especially matters, for
Clement Read was fit to start a line
| by himself. Clement Read was trustee
| or william and Mary College. presi-
| dent of the council. and on the de-
| parture OF Governor Gorch. became
Governor. but he only filled the office
| for few days. dying soon after he
| was appointed.
He married Mary. supposedly the
| daughter of Humphrey Hill. The an
| nouncement that this Mary Hill was
| the descendant of the Marquis OF
Lansdowne has never been proved
| Clement Read lived at Bushy Forest
in Charlotte County, and had Isaac CD
| Thomas (2). Clement (2). Margaret CD
| and Edmund (2). Isaac Inherited
| Bushy Forest He married the daugh-
| ter OF Henry Embra, and had (Clem-
| cnt CD. Priscilla (3) and Isaac CD
Isaac (2) Read was associated with
| Washington In many patriotic move
! ments and received from Congress
/ in l776 a commission as colonel Of a
/ Virginia regiment
| He died in Philadelphia and was
buried there. Clement t3) Read be-
| came a minister, securing his educa-
ton at Hampden-Sidney College. In
1889 he married Clarissa, daughter OF
Colonel Thomas Edmunds, OF Bruins
wick, and had thirteen children, who
through their mother. were descended
| from Pocahontas The wife OF Colonel
Thomas Edmunds was a Miss EldridEe
! daughter OF Thomas Eldridge and
! Martha Boiling. Martha Boiling was
| daughter OF John Boiling, OF Cobbs
member of the Houses of Burgesses
and Mary Kernon. John Boiling was
the son OF Colonel Robert Boiling and
Jane Rolfe. who was the granddaugh-
! ter OF Pocahontas.
| Rev. Clement Read and Miss Ed
munds also had DIR. Isaac Read. who
married Pauthea. daughter of ARMS
stead and Lucy Crawley BurweH, OF
I! "Woburn." and granddaughter OF
Colonel Lewis and Anne Spotswood
Burwcu. OF "Stoneland." DR.. Isaac
Read had a daughter Mary Read. who
married DR.. Thomas Claiborne Goode,
c. S. A.
| Paulina, the daughter of DR.. VIII
liam Cabell. married Edmund. son or
Colonel Clement Read. OF Charlotte.
before she married Rev. Mr.. Legrand,
her second husband.
| Colonel Isaac Read, of the Revolu-
| tionary army. son OF Colonel Clement
Read, had son. Isaac Read. OF Green :
field. who married Anne Mayo, daugh-
ter OF Colonel S. w. Venable and Mary
| Darlington. his wife.
Isaac Read. OF Greenfield. had Will
| liam Watkins Read, who married
Paulna Edmonia Darlington. and had
! Maria Darlington Read, Louisa Cabell
Read. William Howard Read, Edmonia
Blair Read. Annie Yenab!e Read, Sarah
Embry Read Henry &. Read. James
Alexander Read, Abram Darlington
Read. Agnes Elizabeth Read Isaac
! are clearly set forth in "Cabells and
| Their Kin" p. sea-
| Letter from John Rodgers to Elias
Il. Caldwell, on the Caldwell family:
| Nashville, May IL, 1926.
! Dear Sir: acknowledge the receipt
of your letter Of March Is. and thank
| you for the information therein con-
tanned. The news OF my dear
| relations Is pleasing to me. as ] am
| now oldest of all my family. and have
| from my youth up been very careful
In collecting all the Information l
could obtain from my oldest reiations
| with regard to our ancestors. l will
! give you short sketch of what ]
know on the subject. 1t may afford
hours.
our grandfather emigrated from
Scotland to Ireland soon after King
williams conquest OF that place. Our
grandfather. John Caldwell. was born
In Ireland, and was there married to a
He remained there till they had five
children. ut which time he got three
of his brotners-in-law. who had mar
ried his sisters, 10 come to America
with him. to-wit, Moor. Ritchey and
Dudgeon, all of whom / we'll remem-
Der. and one brotherin-law who mar
ried his wifes sister. whose name was
Dougherty. grandfather of my wife and
TT omas Dougherty. formerly clerk to
the lower house OF Congress. and. of
course, known to YOU. These set sale
together and landed in Delaware the
very day that King George the Second
was proclaimed there. From thence
they got up the country to a place In
Pennsylvania called Chestnut Level
Our grandfather. naturally OF an en-
terprising spirit. explored the country
southwesterly from a place In Virginia,
now Albemarie County. to which he
moved and was soon followed by all
his kindred. There our grandfather
died and his oldest son and my mother
were married They and their COM
panions moved with him to Roanoke
River. and the fine lands there ex-
plored the country westwardly till he
and his followers fixed on a fine level
natural spot not thirty miles outside
any inhabitants to which Mace he a nd