Hannah Read

Also Hannah Reed · Hannah (Read) Tyler

Wife of Col. Ebenezer Tyler of Attleborough, married in 1762. In 1775 she lost her mother, two brothers and three of her sons within three weeks. By family tradition her lost will left a silver spoon "To my granddaughter, Hannah Read Tyler". Probably a daughter of Daniel Read and Mary White, and probably the mother of Rowland Tyler, who married Sally Ginn.

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Life

  1. 1744
    Born
    26 June 1744

    Lothrop, from the Attleborough records. Brigham gives July 7, eleven days later, probably a New Style conversion (inference).

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    Sources· 1 found
  2. 1762
    Married Ebenezer Tyler
    1 or 4 May 1762

    Bailey's court return gives May 1, Brigham May 4. Unresolved.

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    Sources· 2 found
  3. 1822
    Died
    18 Sept 1822

    "in her 79th y."

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    Sources· 1 found
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Family

Father
Daniel Read c. 1716–1801
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Sources· 1 found
Mother
Mary White 1720–1775
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Sources· 1 found
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Pedigree

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Notes

Wife of Col. Ebenezer Tyler of Attleborough. In the autumn of 1775 her household and her parents’ lost seven people in under three weeks. By date (Attleborough VR deaths): her brother David, 12 Sept; her brother Ezra, 21 Sept; her mother Mary (White) Read, 23 Sept; her son Leander, 26 Sept; her sons Rowland and Habijah, 1 Oct. No cause is recorded.

Her younger brother Daniel, born in November 1757, was very probably the hymn-tune composer Daniel Read (1757-1836) of New Haven, whose tunes “Windham” and “Sherburne” are still sung (inference; the evidence is set out on her father’s page).

Mollie Pfeiffer recalled her lost will as saying “To my granddaughter, Hannah Read Tyler, I leave a silver spoon.” That is tradition; the will has not been found.

Open questions

  • Bristol County probate, 1822: is there a will, and does it name the spoon?
Mollie's typescript· 2 passages · 1 claim checked

What Mollie wrote about her in The Holbrook and Low Families, and her claims about her checked against the records.

  1. She outlived her husband by eleven years; Mollie read her will, since lost, which named her son Samuel to administer the estate and left her granddaughter Hannah Read Tyler a silver spoon.

    Hannah White Read, who married Ebenezer Tyler outlived her husband by 11 years. ... The compiler read her will, then in the possession of a great aunt; she left her son Samuel to administer her property
    p. 149 →

  2. Mollie's White chart gives her birth on 26 June 1744, her marriage to Col. Ebenezer Tyler on 4 May 1762, and her death on 18 Sept 1822.

    Born June 26, 1744 Died Sept. 18, 1822. Married, May 4, 1762 Col Ebenezer Tyler
    p. 157 →

Checked against the records

  • Possible
    Hannah (Read) Tyler's will left her granddaughter Hannah a silver spoon

    Mollie's memory of reading the will is the only source. The will has not been found, and the Bristol County probate for 1822 has not yet been searched.

    Read it in the book, p. 149 →
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Connections

In her ancestry
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Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Hannah's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to her.

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