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| Although I am not a descendant of Clement Read, some of his descendants married into my family.
Consequently, I have devoted Allied Family Topic R to his family. |
Clement Read, in his own words |
| If he could speak to us today, Clement Read might describe his life as follows. |
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I married Mary Hill who was likely a daughter of Isaac Hill and Margaret Jennings who married in Christ Church Parish 28 July 1708.  We were the parents of 8 children. |
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With Col. Richard Randolph, of “Curles,” I purchased large tracts of land in what was then Lunenburg County. I was for many years the county clerk of Lunenburg County and served in the House of Burgesses (1748-54, 1758-63) with the great leaders of the Revolution including Washington, Jefferson, and Henry. I was also a vestryman of Cumberland Parish (1747-57), and its churchwarden (1746-48), and on 4 September 1753 I took the oath of a militia lieutenant. |
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I died in 1763 and was buried at my plantation “Bushy Forest” in Charlotte County. One-third of my personal estate of £3,339 went to Mary and the remainder to my eight heirs: son-in-law Paul Carrington husband of Margaret, the orphans of son-in-law Thomas Nash who married Mary, and children Clement, Thomas, Isaac, Edmund, Jonathon, and Nancy Read. |
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Mary, “a pious woman and an exemplary member of the Episcopal Church,” who survived me 23 years, died at “Bushy Forest” 11 November 1786, at 75 years of age. |
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Clement was the brother of John Read upon whose estate he was granted administration June 1748. |
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Mary Read Sr., who was head of a household of one white and 26 blacks in Charlotte County in 1782, left a will that named daughter Ann Jameson, granddaughter Mary Jameson, great-granddaughter Mary Read Cameron, a daughter of Anne Owen Cameron, son Jonathon Read, and son Thomas Read (will dated 26 April 1783 and proved 1 Jan. 1787). |
Descendants of Clement Read |
Information about the children of Clement Read, their descendants, and allied families previously found at Virginians.com is
now available as Southside Virginia Genealogies.
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| Names found in this topic include the following. |
| | Mary (Read) Nash (c.1732-c.1738), |
| Col. Thomas Nash, |
| Thomas Bouldin, |
| Maj. Clement Read Nash, |
| Anne Owen Nash, Rev. John Cameron, D.D., |
| Mary Read Cameron, Daniel Anderson, |
| Duncan Cameron, Rebecca Bennehan, |
| Richard Benehan, |
| John Adams Cameron, Eliza Adam, Catherine (McQueen) Halliday, |
| Mary Read Cameron, Dr. Pride Jones, Col. Cadwallader Jones, |
| Eliza Jones, |
| Mary Jones, |
| Halcott Jones, |
| John Donald Cameron, |
| Anna Nash Cameron, |
| Catherine Lafayette Cameron, |
| Duncan William Cameron, |
| Eliza Adam Cameron, |
| Jean Cameron, Rev. Andrew Syme, D.D., |
| William Ewan Cameron, Anne Call, Judge Daniel Call, |
| William Evelyn Cameron, |
| Anna MacKenzie Cameron, |
| Thomas Nash Cameron, Jean Wilder, Isabella Wilkins, |
| Donald Cameron, Mary Anderson, |
| Ewan Cameron, Frances Buford, |
| | Col. John Nash (-1776), |
| Ann Owen, Sir Hugh Owen, |
| Thomas Nash, Mr. Abner Nash, |
| Daniel Fore, Joseph Morton Jr., |
| Col. Thomas Nash, Mary Read, |
| Mary Nash, Col. Clement Read Jr., |
| Col. John Nash, Elizabeth Fisher, Charles Fisher, |
| John Nash, Anna Tabb, Thomas Tabb, |
| Elizabeth Fisher Nash, John Nash Read, |
| John Tabb Nash, Susan Watkins Pankey, |
| Abner Nash, Lucy Gaulding, Jesse Gaulding, |
| Charles Fisher Nash, Judith Pankey, Martha Redd, |
| Elizabeth Fisher Nash, Dr. John Blair Smith, |
| Susanna Fisher Nash, Peter LeGrand, |
| Charles Fisher Nash, Sarah Thweatt, |
| Abner Nash, Nancy Bentley, Rachel Bentley, |
| Anna Nash, Andrew Johnston, |
| Lucy Nash, Peter LeGrand III, |
| Rev. Nash LeGrand, Margaret Holmes Jones, Col. Joseph Jones, |
| Paulina Cabell, |
| Betsy Ann LeGrand, John Morton, |
| Nash LeGrand, |
| Peter LeGrand, Susanna Fisher Nash, |
| John Nash LeGrand, Jane Bain, |
| Abner Nash LeGrand, Janet Morton, Mary Jane Rogers, |
| Lucy Nash LeGrand, John McDowell, |
| Elizabeth LeGrand, William Todd, |
| Mary Owen LeGrand, William Todd, |
| Nancy LeGrand, |
| Elizabeth Nash, Col. Thomas Read, |
| Abner Nash, William Simmons, John LeNeve, William Ligon, |
| Justinia (Davis) Dobbs, Mary (Whiting) Jones, |
| Gen. Francis Nash, Sally Moore, |
| Alfred Moore Waddell, |
| Anne Nash, Col. Thomas Harrison Haskins, |
| | Margaret (Read) Carrington (-1766), |
| Judge Paul Carrington, |
| | Col. Clement Read (1736-1770), |
| Mary Nash, |
| Lt. Clement Read, |
| Mary Hill Read, Robert Bedford, Stephen Bedford, |
| Charles Crenshaw, William Foster, |
| Clement Read Bedford, |
| Maj. John Nash Read, Elizabeth Julia Spencer, Sion Spencer, |
| Elizabeth Fisher Nash, |
| Mary Barksdale, |
| James Allen Read, Tabitha Lannon, |
| Francis Nash Read, |
| Harrison Read, |
| Thomas Read, Anna Haskins, |
| Betsy (Sims) Clarke Sims, David Clarke, David Lewis Sims, Betsy Sims, Thomas Haskins Read, |
| Priscilla Read, Nicholas Edmunds Read, |
| Thomas Read, Sarah Embry Scott, |
| Mary Anne Read, |
| Dr. William Sims Read, Susanna Hart Shelby, |
| John Nash Read, |
| Mariah Sims Read, |
| | Col. Isaac Read (1739-1778), |
| Sarah Embry, |
| | Col. Thomas Read (1741-1817), |
| Elizabeth Nash, |
| Margaret Read, |
| | Maj. Edmund Read (-1802), |
| Lewis, Paulina Cabell, |
| | Ann (Read) Jameson Elliott (-1815), |
| Maj. William Jameson, |
| Col. Richard Elliott, Martha Merritt, |
| Hamilton Jameson, |
| Mary Jameson, William Elliott, |
| John Morris, |
| Ann Read Elliott, |
| William Edward Pritchett, |
| William Jameson Morris, Marcella Harris, |
| John Morris, |
| Henry Morris, |
| Eliza Morris, John Hill, |
| Margaret Morris, Madison Hughes, |
| Clement Read Jameson, Elizabeth Elliott, |
| Margaret Jennings Jameson, Dr. Thomas Colgate Elliott, |
| Edmund Jameson, Jane Pankey, Nancy Wyatt Scott, Francis Scott, |
| Elizabeth Jameson, |
| Julia Elliott, Joseph Bass Friend, |
| George Elliott, Elizabeth White, |
| | Capt. Jonathon Read (1752-1795), |
| Jane Lewis, John Lewis, |
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| Notables |
This family topic includes the following notable individuals.
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Selected sources |
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Boddie, John Bennett. “Jennings-Hill of Middlesex and Brunswick.” Southside Virginia Families. Redwood City, Cal.: Pacific Coast Publishers, 1955(1):281-283. • Background on Isaac Hill and Margaret Jennings, parents of Mary Hill who married Clement Read and William Hill who married 1st Katherine and 2nd, Priscilla Wilkinson. |
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Read, Alice. The Reads and Their Relatives. Cincinnati: Johnson and Hardin Press. 1930. • A remarkable account of the family of Clement Read and Mary Hill. |
Notes |
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includes 182 citations and the names of 197 individuals.
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