Prominent merchant in Colonial New York
Portrait of Reade by
John Wollaston .
Joseph Reade (1694 – March 2, 1771)
[1] was a merchant,
vestryman , and politician from New York.
[2]
Early life
Reade was a second-generation English prominent merchant. He was the son of English merchant Lawrence Reade, who arrived in New York from
Saint Michael, Barbados ,
[3] around 1691.
[4] His brother was John Reade.
[5] His sister, Mary Reade, was first married to
William Vesey , the first rector of
Trinity Church in
Manhattan .
[6] After his death, she married
Daniel Horsmanden , a chief justice of the supreme court in the
Province of New York and member of the governor's
executive council .
[7]
Career
Reade was prominent in New York business, political and social life. He was first a member of the vestry of
Trinity Church in 1715, and later a warden of the Church, a role in which he served for over fifty years.
[2]
In 1725, the same year he endorsed "a petition to ban the sale and export of spoiled flour", he was elected assessor of the East Ward of New York. Reade was appointed a member of the
governor's council by then
Governor of the Province of New York ,
Robert Monckton , in 1761,
[2] serving until his death in 1771.
[8] While on the council, he advised the next governor,
Sir Henry Moore , and his Lt. Governor,
Cadwallader Colden , to "delay the issuance of the stamped paper required by the unpopular
Stamp Act ."
[2]
Reade participated in the grand jury, with
Frederick Philipse II as Justice of the
Supreme Court of Judicature , of
New York Slave Conspiracy trials of 1741 which,
[2] based upon questionable testimony, resulted in death sentences for thirty-four defendants and the deportation of ninety-one others away from the colony.
Personal life
Portrait of Anna French Reade by
John Wollaston .
In 1720, Reade married Anna French (1701–1778). Anna was the daughter of
Phillip French , who served as the
Mayor of New York City from 1702 to 1703, and Annetje (née Philipse) French, the daughter of
Frederick Philipse , 1st Lord of
Philipsburg Manor , a Dutch merchant and one of the richest men in colonial New York.
[9] Anna was the sister of Philip French III, who married Susanna Brokholst,
[10] daughter of
Anthony Brockholst , acting
Governor of Colonial New York under Sir
Edmund Andros .
[11] Together, they were the parents of seven children,
[2] including:
Laurence Reade (
c. 1721 –1773), who was a merchant in partnership with
Richard Yates .
[12] In his will, Laurence acknowledged and provided for the three children he had with "a mulatto woman on the Island of Jamaica."
[13]
Joseph Reade.
[1]
John Reade.
[1]
Anne Reade (1726–1772), who married Gerrit Van Horne (1726–1765), a grandson of
Robert Livingston the Elder .
[1]
Sarah Reade (1728–1802), who married James de Peyster (1726–1799), a son of treasurer
Abraham de Peyster and grandson of New York mayor
Abraham de Peyster .
[14]
[10]
Mary Reade, who married Francis Stephens.
[1]
Reade died on March 2, 1771,
[1] at which point he had considerable holdings in mines, minerals, and ores, which were left to his three surviving sons in his will.
[1]
Descendants
Through his daughter Anne, he was the grandfather of Gerrit Van Horne Jr. (1758–1825), who married Ann Margaret Clarkson (1761–1824), the sister of General
Matthew Clarkson , both children of David Clarkson and Elizabeth (née French) Clarkson, a cousin through the French family.
[15]
Through his daughter Sarah, he was the grandfather of James Abraham de Peyster (1753–1798), a
Loyalist during the
Revolutionary War who married Catherine Livingston (1759–1839) and moved to
Saint John, New Brunswick , where he eventually became
treasurer of the province; Sarah de Peyster (1761–1802);
[16] and Mary Reade de Peyster (1765–1790), who married Dr. Jacob Ogden Jr. (1762–1802) in 1789 (the parents of
James de Peyster Ogden , the President of the
New York Chamber of Commerce and
Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York ).
[17]
Joseph was also the grandfather of Joseph Reade (d. 1809) and John Reade (1745–1808), who established a prominent freighting business and married
Catherine Livingston (1756–1829) in 1774.
[18] They were the parents of Catherine Livingston Reade (1777–1863), wife of
Nicholas William Stuyvesant (1769–1833); Helen Sarah Reade (1790–1879),
[19] wife of
Erie Canal Commissioner
James Hooker (1792–1858);
[20]
[21] and Anne Reade, the wife of Robert Kearney (grandparents of
Anna Morton , the
Second Lady of the United States ).
[22]
Legacy
Reade Street in
New York City 's
Lower Manhattan is named after him.
[23]
[24]
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