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Male Josiah Read Click to view Josiah Read in the family tree

Josiah was born in 1675 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts.1   Josiah's father was Samuel Read and his mother was Hopestill Holbrook.  His maternal grandparents were William Holbrook and Elizabeth Pitts. He had three brothers and a sister, named Samuel, John, Ebenezer and Mercy.  He was the third oldest of the five children.

1 "Genealogical Research of Kirk Larson"
Further sources/citations:
"New England Marriages: Prior to 1700" @ p.615, "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came before May 1692 on the Basis of Farmer's Register.  4 vols. 1860–62; rpt. ed." @ 3:516, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2640299&id=I545352893

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