READING, Thomas

1734 - 1814  (80 years)

• Name	READING, Thomas
  Born	27 Sep 1734	New Jersey
  Gender	Male
  Died	15 Dec 1814
  Person ID	I14362	Uriah Davis I - Genealogy
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	READING, John Governor,   b. 6 Jun 1686, Mills Pond, Suffolk, England ,   d. 7 Nov 1767, Hunterdon, New Jersey  (Age 81 years)
  Mother	RYERSON, Mary,   b. 19 Jul 1699, New York City ,   d. 11 Apr 1774, Amwell, Hunterdon County, New Jersey  (Age 74 years)
  Married	30 Nov 1720	Bergen, New Jersey
  Family ID	F4412	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  1 NAME Thomas Ryerson /Reading/ [Joe Nunn's Ancestors RK.FTW] The Provincial Congress appointed him, Feb. 9, 1776, Captain of the sixth company, third New Jersey regiment, First Establishment, and he was in service with hiscommand in northern New York and Canada until his regiment was discharged, March 23, 1777. By act of the Legislature, June 22, 1778, he was appointed one of the agents of the State for procuring provisions for the use of the army, ad other supplied for carrying on the war. He was commissioned a justice of the peace for Hunterdon County, Dec. 18, 1782; Sept. 14, 1788; Oct. 25, 1793; and Nov. 1, 1798; and was appointed judge of the common pleas for said county nov. 26, 1794 and Oct. 30, 1799. Each of the said appointments was for 5 years. He was one of the founders of the Presbyterian Church in Flemington, was a member of the board of trustees, and on July 6. 1797, was ordained an ilder of the church, with power to "conduct divine worship and read a sermon when the pastor was absent." He occupied the homestead farm of four hundred acres, near Flemington Junction, devised by his father to his executors in trust for the use of Thomas and his wife for life, with remainder to his two sons, Joseph and Thomas, in fee simple. He probably engaged in the iron industry with his cousins, the Ryersons, and the vicissitudes of the Revolutionary War brought about his ruin. He m. Rebecca Ellis, dau. of Jonathan Ellis, of Waterford, Gloucester County; he d. Dec. 14, 1814, in Amwell tounship. _The Reading Family, by J. Granville Leach, Philadelphia, 1898, pp. 52, 125; Stryker's Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolution; First Century of Hunterdon County. (Excerpted from William Nelson's book) A different set of dates from the internet: b. Sept 24, 1734 D. December 15, 1814 Some dates say b. 1724. Thomas Ryerson Reading seems to be his full name.