1Ellery Bicknell Crane, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Vol. I, p. 258 (1907)
"(III) Thomas Read, son of Obediah Read (2), was born in Boston in 1665. He went back to Chelmsford and ahad a grant of land from the town. The name of his first wife is not known. He married (second) Hannah -----. His children by the first wife were: Thomas, born 1687, see forward; Jonathan, William, Esdras, John. The children of Thomas and Hannah: Benjamin, Timothy.".