Mary C. READ

1716 - 1782  (65 years)

• Name	Mary C. READ
  Birth	14 Apr 1716	Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut
  Gender	Female
  Death	12 Mar 1782	Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
  Burial	Old Burying Ground (St. Pauls), Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia
  Person ID	I85743	Zentmeyer Main Tree
  Last Modified	19 Jan 2026

  
  

  Father	Hon. John READ,   b. 29 Jan 1679, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut d. 17 Feb 1749, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Ruth TALCOTT,   b. 12 Sep 1677, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut d. 20 Jul 1759, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	1699
  Family ID	F1208	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Charles MORRIS, III,   b. 8 Jun 1711, Hopkinton, a suburb of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 4 Nov 1781, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada (Age 70 years)
  Marriage	1730	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
  Notes	Assuming Mary Read's birth date is correct, as it has several historical citations and no alternative date has been suggested, she would have been fourteen years old when she married nineteen-year-old Charles Morris, and she would have given birth to their son Charles at the age of fifteen. The minimum legal age for a woman to marry in colonial Massachusetts was twelve.
  Children	+ 1. Charles MORRIS, IV,   b. 31 Dec 1731, Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 26 Jan 1802, Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (Age 70 years)   2. John MORRIS,   b. 1736, Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts + 3. William MORRIS,   b. 19 Feb 1736, Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 22 May 1756, Halifax, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age 20 years)   4. Hezekiah MORRIS,   b. 11 Mar 1738, Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts + 5. Mary Elizabeth MORRIS,   b. 27 Mar 1742, Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 26 Feb 1766, Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 23 years)   6. Alexander MORRIS,   b. 21 Mar 1743, Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts   7. Francis MORRIS,   b. 21 Dec 1746, Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts   8. Samuel MORRIS,   b. 12 Jun 1748, Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts   9. James Rainsthorpe MORRIS,   b. 20 May 1750, Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts   10. Sarah MORRIS,   b. 23 Dec 1757, Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F23195	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2025

  
  

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  Headstone for Mary Read Morris Located in the Old Burying Ground (St. Pauls), Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia Photo courtesy LMK Here lays Depolited The Sacred Remains of Mrs. MARY MORRIS Consort of the late CHARLES MORRIS Esq. One of His Majestys Council Chief Land Surveyor and a Judge of the Supreme Court in Nova Scotia (bottom line unreadable)