Joseph Reade

Joseph Reade (1694 – March 2, 1771) around 1691. His brother was John Reade. His sister, Mary Reade, was first married to William Vesey, the first rector of Trinity Church in Manhattan. After his death, she married Daniel Horsmanden, a chief justice of the supreme court in the Province of New York and member of the governor's executive council.

Career Reade was prominent in New York business, political and social life. He was first a member of the vestry of Trinity Church in 1715, and later a warden of the Church, a role in which he served for over fifty years. While on the council, he advised the next governor, Sir Henry Moore, and his Lt. Governor, Cadwallader Colden, to "delay the issuance of the stamped paper required by the unpopular Stamp Act."

Reade participated in the grand jury, with Frederick Philipse II as Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature, of New York Slave Conspiracy trials of 1741 which, Anna was the sister of Philip French III, who married Susanna Brokholst, Together, they were the parents of seven children, In his will, Laurence acknowledged and provided for the three children he had with "a mulatto woman on the Island of Jamaica." Joseph Reade. Mary Reade, who married Francis Stephens. at which point he had considerable holdings in mines, minerals, and ores, which were left to his three surviving sons in his will.

Through his daughter Sarah, he was the grandfather of James Abraham de Peyster (1753–1798), a Loyalist during the Revolutionary War who married Catherine Livingston (1759–1839) and moved to Saint John, New Brunswick, where he eventually became treasurer of the province; Sarah de Peyster (1761–1802); and Mary Reade de Peyster (1765–1790), who married Dr. Jacob Ogden Jr. (1762–1802) in 1789 (the parents of James de Peyster Ogden, the President of the New York Chamber of Commerce and Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York).

Joseph was also the grandfather of Joseph Reade (d. 1809) and John Reade (1745–1808), who established a prominent freighting business and married Catherine Livingston (1756–1829) in 1774. They were the parents of Catherine Livingston Reade (1777–1863), wife of Nicholas William Stuyvesant (1769–1833); Helen Sarah Reade (1790–1879), wife of Erie Canal Commissioner James Hooker (1792–1858); and Anne Reade, the wife of Robert Kearney (grandparents of Anna Morton, the Second Lady of the United States).

Legacy Reade Street in New York City's Lower Manhattan is named after him.