Sarah Lessie

Also Sarah Read · Sarah Reade

Wife of John Read of Braintree and Rehoboth, and daughter of Will Lessie of Blyborough, Suffolk; in 1644 she and her husband gave a letter of attorney to collect debts and legacies due to either of them. Probably the mother of Daniel Read (b. 1655), who married Hannah Peck.

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Family

Spouse
John Read c. 1598–1685

"John Reade of Braintree & Sarah his wife the daughter of Will Lessie of Blyborough in Suffolke" (Nov. 1644).

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1 child

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Pedigree

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Notes

Wife of John Read of Braintree and Rehoboth. In Nov. 1644 she and her husband gave a letter of attorney to receive “all deb[ts] duties gifts Legacie due to either of them” as “Sarah his wife the daughter of Will Lessie of Blyborough in Suffolke” (Aspinwall Notarial Records p. 11). “Blyborough in Suffolke” is presumably Blythburgh, Suffolk; the Blyborough in Lincolnshire is ruled out by the record’s “Suffolke” (inference).

Open questions

  • Her death: 23 Apr 1702 is given, but it has not been verified.
Mollie's typescript· 1 passage · 1 claim checked

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

  1. Mollie's Read chart names her as the daughter of William Lessie of Blyborough, Suffolk, and wife of John Read, dying at Rehoboth on 23 Apr 1702.

    Married Sarah Lessie daughter of Wm. Lessie of Blyborough Suffolk, Eng. She d. Rehoboth, Apr. 23, 1702.
    p. 147 →

Checked against the records

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    John Read, son of William and Lucy Heneage, came with Winthrop

    Even her source, J. W. Reed (1861), only "supposed" the parentage, and his first record of John is at Weymouth in 1637. The Reade Society (1907) dates Lucy Heneage's birth to 24 Feb 1586 and says her son John died unmarried in England. John's wife was a daughter of William Lessie of Blyborough, Suffolk (1644).

    Read it in the book, p. 148 →
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