Joseph Read

Joseph Read

Infobox Military Person
name=Joseph Read
lived=March 6, 1732— ?


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nickname=
placeofbirth=Uxbridge, Massachusetts
placeofdeath=
allegiance=United States
branch=Massachusetts militia, Continental Army
serviceyears=1775–1776
rank=Colonel
unit= Massachusetts Line
commands=
battles=Lexington and Concord
awards=
relations=
laterwork

Joseph Read (born March 6, 1732, date of death unknown) was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War.

Read was born in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, the son of John and Lucy Read.

He was a lieutenant colonel at the battles of Lexington and Concord in April 1775. Thereafter, until the end of 1776, he served as colonel in command of several regiments of the Massachusetts Line. [Francis B. Heitman, "Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution", new, enlarged, and revised edition (Washington, D.C.: Rare Book Shop Publishing Company, 1914), [http://books.google.com/books?id=tZALAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA460&vq=Read,+Joseph p. 460] .]

His brother was Lt. Colonel Seth Read, who commanded the Massachusetts 26th and 15th regiments and founded Erie, Pennsylvania. The Read brothers owned half of the land in the towns of Uxbridge and Northbridge, Massachusetts, in the mid 18th century. cite book|last= Buford|first= Mary Hunter|authorlink=|coauthor=|title="Seth Read, Lieut.-Col.Continental Army; Pioneer at Geneva, New York, 1787, and at Erie, Penn., June, 1795. His Ancestors and Descendants."|date= 1895|location=Boston, Mass.|pages= 167 Pages on CD in PDF Format.]

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