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- The Ryerson Genealogy , p. 16
He was County Collector from 1759 to 1765 and served as Captain in the Militia.
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Documents Relating to the Colonial History of New Jersey Vol XXVI
"On Wednesday the 5th Inst. a melancholy accident happened here. On the afternoon of said day, Captain DANIEL READING, Son of the Honorable JOHN READING, Esq; late of this place, deceased, and two other Gentlemen, each with his fowling-piece, charged with small shot, went out to divert themselves, in the pursuit of game, in the neighboring woods.
...Having discovered a squirrel on a tree, one of the gentlemen presented; but the object moving, he took down his piece, and, as he confidently thinks, half cocked it. Whilst they were walking about the tree, in order again to discover the game, the gun of the gentleman, who had presented, being in his hand, accidentally went off, and Captain Reading being at a little distance, in a direction nearly straight before the muzzle of the gun, unhappily received the charge in his right-arm, rather above the joint of the elbow, which not only lacerated the flesh, and fractured the bone where it struck, but broke it off short, a little above where it entered. With much difficulty he got home, in most excruciating pain, which continued for some days.
Skillful surgeons were immediately called to his relief, who willing, agreeable to his own desire, and that of his friends, to use their utmost endeavors to save his arm, did not proceed to an amputation.
Little or no fever ensued, and after a few days the pain abated, and the wounded part began to suppurate.
But notwithstanding many flattering symptoms of a favorable issue, yet, on the morning of the 15th instant, he unexpectedly and suddenly expired, without any visible mortification in the part, unless livid and blackish streaks, under his wounded arm, and on that side might be judged indications of it.
Captain Reading's placid, easy, open, benevolent, engaging disposition and conduct, had rendered him the object of universal esteem and affection wherever he was known; hence his death is very justly and greatly regretted! It is not only an unspeakable loss to a deeply afflicted widow, and a large family of small children, but to the particular society to which he belonged, of which he was a very useful member, and to all his acquaintance. He was one of the most loving and affectionate husbands, the tenderest of fathers, and a steady friend; and his immature and unexpected death, in the prime of his days, and in the midst of usefulness, shows the vanity of man in his best estate, and the great necessity of attending to our Lord's admonition, "Be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh."
It is said the Gun, which was instrumental in the above unhappy Affair, had sundry Times before gone off in the same unexpected and surprising Manner."
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IV. CAPT. DANIEL READING, b. Feb. 2, 1727; d. Oct. 15, 1768. He was County
Collector from 1759 to 1765 and served as Captain in the Militia. Capt. Reading
m. Feb. 26, 1755, Euphemia Reid, daughter of Col. John Reid. Capt. Dani
Reading and Euphemia Reid had eight children:
I. JOHN REID READING, b. Oct. 30, 1756; d. April 30, 1821; m. Mary Ann Kennedy.
II. ELLEN READING, m., first, Benjamin Rogers; second, Lieut. James Montgomery.
III. EUPHEMIA READING, b. May, 1761; d. July 2, 1837; m. Major Barzillai Newbold.
IV. DANIEL REID READING, b. Feb. 5, 1765; d. April 9, 1854; m. Jane Kennedy.
V. ANN READING, m. Thomas Newbold Wood.
VI. SARAH READING, m., first, her cousin, Ferdinand Reading, son of Richard Reading; second, Benjamin Wallace, of Albany, N. Y.
VII. THEODOSIA READING, m. Rev. Thomas Grant.
VIII. MARY READING, d. Oct., 1816; m. Capt. Arthur Gray.
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Davis Uriah I | Born 1707
1727 - 1768 (41 years)