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State of Service: MA
Qualifying Service: Captain / Patriotic Service
Author: Thomas Jacques
Captain Joseph Read is one of the 116 known members of the Boston Tea Party which took place December 16, 1773 and at the age of 57 – he was one of the oldest participants. In 1775 Captain Joseph Read was a member of the Massachusetts Third Provincial Congress. “At a Congress of Delegates from the several towns and districts in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, began and held at the Meetinghouse, in Watertown, the 31st of May, 1775. Mr. Samuel Freeman was unanimously chosen Secretary, and the Hon. Joseph Warren, Esq., President.” Ruth Underwood was the sister of Captain Timothy Underwood who led the Westford minutemen at Concord – following Paul Revere’s ride. This company of minutemen included Amaziah Hildreth, his brother in laws Benjamin and Leonard Read and Jonas Kemp. Amaziah’s son Benjamin would marry Jonas’s daughter Polly on September 6, 1790.
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