Draft:Samuel Joseph Read
Samuel Joseph Read (December 11, 1771 – October 2, 1836) "commanded a battalion of infantry in Brigadier-General Ebenezer Elmer's New Jersey Detailed Militia Brigade between 19 September and 22 December 1814".[1]
Born in Mount Holly, New Jersey to Joseph Read and Martha (Rossell) Read.
This source describes Read's command as the Burlington Battalion. Another short biography here.
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Read-3916
Samuel Joseph Read, son of Joseph and Martha (Rossell) Read, was born in Mount Holly December 14th, 1771, died October 2nd, 1836. He also became a leading member of the bar, having been admitted in 1792, and was its oldest practitioner in Mount Holly at the time of his death. He was an officer in the War of 1812, commanding a battalion of New Jersey infantry under General Elmer, with title of Major. He was commissioned September 19th, 1814, and served until December 22nd of the same year, being stationed at Billingsport, on the Delaware River, below Philadelphia ; subsequently he became Colonel of the ist Regiment, Salem Brigade, in the New Jersey militia. He was vestryman of St. Andrew's Church from iSog to 1836, and lay delegate to the Con- vention of 1814-15. He married December 9th, 1799, Sarah Budd, daughter of Dr. Stacye and Sarah (Monrow) Budd. She was born March 8th, 1781, and died October 2nd, 1851.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Records of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the War against Great Britain p. 132.
- ^ Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the descendants of Thomas French who came to America from Nether Heyford (1909-13), p. 341.
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