Welcome to My Reed/Read/Reade Genie Page
As stated on my Home Page, I am adopted, but I know my birth parents.  I have been able to obtain my genealogy on my father's side from my own research and connecting with others in the family who were also researching.  A HUGE thank you goes out to Claire Louden who spent many hours and much effort putting together a wonderful book that was published entitled "Sprigs and Twigs of the Read Family Tree 1598-1996."
This line began in the States in Massachusetts.  They settled in Rowley (Essex Co.) MA.  The town  Rowley was originally known as Rogers' Plantation named for Rev. Ezekiel Rogers who was the spiritual leader of those who came over from Hull, England with him for religious reasons. An Act of Incorporation states "4th day of the 7th, 1639 - Mr. Rogers' Plantation shall be called Rowley."   The original settlers of Rowley arrived in 1637 on the ship JOHN.  In the "old country" they were weavers, carpenters, farmers, millers and herdsmen and continued those trades here.  According to the book "Wonder-Working Providence" the residents of Rowley
" . . . were the first people that set upon making cloth in this western world, for which end they built a fulling-mill, many of them having been clothiers in England."  It was the people of Rowley who first manufactured cloth in New England.  Due to the continued growth of Rowley there were expansion problems such as compulsory attendance at town meetings, church going, transportation of materials, school attendance, trade and a close-knit neighborhood.  The setting of territorial limits for Rowley created the establishment of the towns of Bradford, Boxford, Groveland, Haverhill, Merrimack and Georgetown.  The Merrimack River was used for transporting goods and helped with the settlement of this area. 
Robert (B 1615-1619; D 8/27/1674; Married 1638 to Ann (last name unknown) D 7/26/1684.  First couple to be married in Rowley, MA.  Father of Robert was Peter Haselton. (Brother of Robert was John, it is presumed Robert to be the eldest due to various documents)  Last name also referred to in writing as Haseltine.  Robert and John took Freeman's Oath on 5/13/1640

Children of Robert and Ann:
      Anna (Feb or Apriil 1, 1640; married Caleb Kimball)
      Mercy (Aug or Oct 16, 1642; married Benjamin Kimball)
      David (1644; married Mary Jewett)
      Abraham (5/23/1648; D 4/28/1711; married Elizabeth Longhorne)
      Deliverance (1/22 or 3/21 1651; buried 7/14/1654)
      Elizabeth (1/15/1652 or 1653; buried 7/18/1654)
      Deliverance (1654/1655; married Nathaniel Deane)
      Robert (9/7/1657 or 11/7/1657; married  (1) Elizabeth Jewett; (2) Hannah)
      Gershom (1/31/1661 OR 1662; married Abiah Dalton)

Abraham and Elizabeth Haseltine:  Abraham was the Town Clerk in Bradford;  Elizabeth's last name may have been spelled Langhorn/Langhorne/Longhorn/Longhorne.   She was born September, 1649 to Richard Longhorne and Mary Crosby.  She died 3/29/1704.   Abraham was made a Freeman in 1672.

Children of Abraham and Elizabeth:
      Mary (B 4/30/1672; married (1) Samuel Stickney; (2) Joseph Tidd 8/30/1722)
      Robert (B 8/16/1674;  D 6/5/1760; married Sarah Spofford)
      Elizabeth (B 4/29/1677; married Thomas Carlton)
      Richard (B 11/13/1679; D 3/8/1755; married (1) Abigail Chadwick 1/14/1702
                                                                             (2) Sarah Borron 8/13/1752
      Bethiah (B 5/16/1682; married Thomas Spofford 12/30/1701; moved to Lebanon, CT
              in 1715)
      Abraham (B 11/6/1684; married Rachel (Atwood) Fry, widow  of James Fry)
      Mehitable (B 3/20/1687/88; married John Chadwick of Bradford)
      Jonathan (B 4/12/1694;  D 11/10/1715; married Ruth Dow of Haverhill)

Jonathan and Ruth Haseltine:  Jonathan was a weaver by trade.  Ruth Dow was the child of Samuel Dow and Ruth Johnson (widow of Timothy Ayers).  Ruth and her sister, Abigail, were among the 11 petitioners for a women's pew to be built in the meeting house (The family's earliest known Feminist!)

Children of Jonathan and Ruth:
      Abigail (B 8/6/1716)
      Samuel (B 11/11/1718; D 3/15/1719)
      Timothy (B 10/9/1720; married (1) Ann Hancock; (2) Mrs. Ruth Wilson Stickey)
      Samuel (B 12/26/1722)
      Peter (B 9/14/1725; married Sarah ?)
      Abraham (B 6/14/1728; D 6/21/1728)
      Joshua (B 6/23/1729; married Susanna Heath)

Ok.  We now have to move on to another page to continue this line from Joshua Haseltine.
We have to get through all the "begots" to eventually get to the Read/Reed part of this early family history.