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Joseph Thomas Read, a native of READ Wales, was born in 1689, and was among the early settlers of West New Jersey, to which colony he came early in the eighteenth century. He obstinately ad- hered to the orthography of his name Read as it obtained in his native country, the oldest in literary excellence and purity of speech and writing of the English-speaking people of Brit- ain. He secured, by grant of the proprietors of the colony, on reaching his majority, a large · tract of land at the headwaters of the Ranco- cas creek and of Great Egg Harbor river. where the water shed between the Atlantic ocean and Delaware river had its apex. Here he built a home for the protection and com- fort of his family. He had married shortly after his arrival in America Rachel Eldridge. The distance to the place where he fixed his home from neighbors and evidences of civiliza- tion gained for it the name "Long-a-coming," the infrequency of visitors and the devious trail by which it was reached from the South river settlement suggesting the same. His farm proved to be productive and he prospered in spite of the disadvantages of location.
Nine children were born to the pioneer set- tler and they were named in the order of their birth: William, Obadiah, Joseph T., Samuel, John, Asca, Rachel, Allen and Abby. Of these William married Sarah Taylor and set- tled at Lamberton, where six children were born as follows: Charles Thomas, William Thomas, Ruth, Sarah Ann, Martha and Rachel. The Welsh custom of carrying a christian name is here illustrated in the family of his eldest son in recognition of the grand- father. Joseph Thomas Read, the pioneer, died in 1763.
(II) Joseph Thomas (2), son of Joseph Thomas ( I) and Rachel ( Eldridge) Read, was born on his father's farm soon after the settle- ment, and died on the homestead established by him upon his marriage to Almira Vezey, of Philadelphia, at Greenwich, Gloucester county, at no great distance from his birth- place. Children of Joseph Thomas and Al- ii -- 28
mira (Vezey) Read were born in Greenwich in the following order: William Thomas, Al- mira, Elizabeth, Clara, David, see forward. Joseph Thomas Read died in Greenwich, New Jersey, November 12, 1755, and was interred in the Presbyterian burial ground in that place. His father outlived him.
(III) David, youngest child of Joseph Thomas (2) and Almira (Vezey) Read, was born in Greenwich, Gloucester county, New Jersey, November 19, 1752. His father died when he was three years of age and he was brought up by his mother on the farm. When he had just reached his majority the revolu- tionary war was calling all patriotic young men to the battle field. He answered the call and joined the revolutionary army as a private in Captain John Barker's company and was subsequently transferred to Captain Warren's company. At the close of the war he mar- ried Rachel Peck, of Greenwich, and their three children were baptized in the Presby- terian church at Greenwich. They were : David, James, Joel, see forward. Near the close of the century he removed to the small village of Camden, opposite Philadelphia, where he engaged in business as a pork and sausage dealer, preparing his products for the Philadelphia market. He lived to be over eighty-six years of age, and was the last rep- resentative in Camden county of the soldiers in the American revolution. He died in 1838 and his remains were interred in the Newtown burying ground, near where the old meeting house stood.
(IV) Joel, third son of David and Rachel (Peck) Read, was born in Greenwich, Glou- cester county, New Jersey, in 1794. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, serving in the "Jersey Blues" along the Delaware river front at Billingsport, opposite Fort Mifflin, Chester county, Pennsylvania. He was a brush maker in Camden and Philadelphia, but late in life returned to Camden where he died at the home of his daughter Charlotte. He was married in 1812 to Mary Jones, a member of a promi- nent family belonging to the Society of Friends, and related to the family descended from Thomas Thackara, who came from Leeds, England, by way of Dublin, Ireland, and became prominent in the early history of West Jersey and of the Society of Friends. Joel and Mary (Jones) Read had six children : I. Charlotte, married and had two children : Rachel and Mary. 2. Joseph J., born March 24, 1815; married (first) Cecelia, daughter of John R. Rue, in 1840; children : i. John Rue,
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a lawyer in Philadelphia; ii. Cecelia, married Abraham Tollman; iii. Mary, married Joseph B. Bush, of Newport, Rhode Island ; iv. Annie, married William B. Knowles, of Philadelphia ; v. Kate, married Edwin B. Powell, of Brook- lyn, New York; vi. Emily, died young ; vii; Joseph J. Reed married (second) in 1881, Elizabeth M. (Etris), widow of Captain Henry Schillinger, of Camden. 3. Rachel, married and had four children: Mary, Char- lotte, Rachel and Amelia. 4. William Thack- ara, died 1842. 5. John Smilie, see forward. 6. Edmund Elliott, married Anna Peak and they had four children: i. Harriet; ii. Sarah Lippincott, married Henry L. Jones and had one child, Mary ; iii. John ; iv. Anna.
(V) John Smilie, second son of Joel and Mary (Jones) Read, was born in the old dis- trict of Southwark, Philadelphia, Pennsylva- nia, March II, 1822. He was proprietor of a large commercial house dealing in wall papers in Philadelphia. He was also a director and treasurer for twenty-five years of the Camden Fire Insurance Company, and at the time of his death was a commissioner of the Morris Plains Insane Asylum, under appointment of the Governor of New Jersey. He was also appointed by the legislature of New Jersey a director of the Camden & Amboy Railroad Company. He served the city of Camden as a member of the board of education and presi- dent of the board, and as a member and presi- dent of the city council. He was a builder and owner of large blocks of commercial build- ings in the city, and one of the projectors of the Camden Building and Loan Association. His fraternal affiliation with the Masonic fra- ternity came through initiation in Camden Lodge, No. 15, and Royal Arch Chapter, No. 91, of Philadelphia. He married ( first) Mar- garet Mason; married (second) Harriett, daughter of Thomas and Abigail Peak, of Camden. Children of first wife: I. Elizabeth Mason, married John Campbell, of Camden ; children: John and Mary C. Campbell. 2. William Thackara, married Lucretia McCor .. mick and had one child, William T. Read. Child of second wife: Edmund Elliott, see for- ward. John Smilie Read died while residing for the benefit of his health at Stroudsburg, Monroe county, Pennsylvania, August 6, 1882.
(VI) Edmund Elliott, only child of John Smilie and Harriett ( Peak) Read, was born in Camden, New Jersey, August 7, 1859. He was prepared for college at the school of Will- iam Fewsmith, of No. 1008 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, and was graduated at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, A. B., 1879; he was a member of the Philomathean Society and the winner of the Henry Read prize at graduation. He studied law in the office of Peter L. Voor- hees, and was admitted as an attorney in June, 1882. He became the president of the Cam- den Fire Insurance Association, of which he was for many years a director. He was also an officer of the Franklin People's and City Building associations, and served as a member of the Camden Educational Board. He mar- ried, December 27, 1882, Margaret W., daugh- ter of John W. and Kate O. (Hopkins) Mul- ford, of Camden, New Jersey. Their son, John Smilie, was born in Camden, New Jersey, November 11, 1883.
ELY The ancestor of the Ely family of the line here under consideration is doubtless descended from an English rector, and was himself undoubtedly an active member of the christian church; and so also have his descendants to a large extent maintain- ed the christian character of their ancestor. The American Elys claim the distinction of a coat- of-arms, described as follows: "Field argent, a fesse engrailed between six fleurs-de-lis sable." Crest, on an helmet and wreath of its colors, an arm erect, couped below the elbow, cuff argent, holding in the hand proper a fleur-de-lis sable. The motto: "Re et merito" (by actions and merit).
In 1571 Rev. George Ely became vicar of Tenterden, in the county of Kent, and contin- ued to sustain that living until his death in 1615. The patrons of the living were the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, and the records of that body mention his institution at the date named, without any other particulars about him. He is described, however, as George Elye, otherwise Heely. In the parish register in Tenterden the name is variously written Ely, Elie, and Elye, although he him- self wrote it Ely and so signed his will. So near as can be determined he was born about the year 1545, probably took his degree about 1566, when he would have been of full age, and five years later obtained the living of Tenterden. It is supposed that he married in 1571. The baptismal name of his wife was Florence, and all of their children except one were baptized at Tenterden. After forty- five years of wedded life George Ely and his wife both died about the same time, as may be seen from the burial register of Tenterden : "1615, August 18, Florence, wife of Mr. George Ely, vicar. 1615 August 21, Master
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George Ely, vicar of Tenterden." The chil- dren of George and Florence Ely were : Nathaniel, baptized September 28, 1572; An- drew, June 12, 1575; Zachary, October 14, 1577; Samuel, December 13, 1579; Obadiah, December 16, 1581; Lydia, June 14, 1584, died young ; Daniel, June 5, 1586; Lydia, Sep- tember 29, 1588; Abigail, March 21, 1590-91 ; Judith.
(I) Rev. Nathaniel Ely, probably the eldest child of Rev. George and Florence Ely, was baptized at Tenterden, Kent, England, Sep- tember 28, 1572, and in the record of his mar- riage he is described as "clerk, master of arts ;" therefore he must have been a member of one of the universities, and while it is known that he was not of Oxford he must have been of Cambridge. There is a hiatus in the list of graduates between 1588 and 1602, during which period he must have taken his degrees, so that it is impossible to determine with accuracy his particular college, there being no general matriculation register at Cambridge.
(Il) Nathaniel (2), born about 1605, fourth son of Rev. Nathaniel (1) Ely, came to Amer- ica in the "Elizabeth" in 1634, from Ipswich, England. He settled first in Newtown (Cam- bridge) on the lot adjoining that of Robert Day, with whom he became intimately associ- ated, and with whose descendants the Elys frequently intermarried. Mr. Ely was made freeman at Cambridge in May, 1635, but in 1636 he and his neighbor Day formed part of the colony that accompanied Rev. Thomas Hooker to Hartford, on the banks of the Connecticut river, near where was the earlier settlement of Hollanders called Dutch Point. Here too Nathaniel Ely and Robert Day. owned and occupied adjoining lands. Both were planters. In 1639 Ely was made con- stable of the town and was selectman in 1643 and again in 1646. He also appears to have been one of the leading men of the plantation in purchasing the lands of Governor Ludlow, and in making the first settlement at Norwalk. According to the town records there was no permanent settlement at Norwalk until Na- thaniel Ely made the first movement in that direction. In 1649, on the petition of Nathan- iel Ely and Richard Olmstead, the general court gave permission to found a new planta- tion at Norwalk, and four years afterward the inhabitants there were invested with town privileges. In 1659 Nathaniel Ely sold his lands in Norwalk and removed to Springfield. Massachusetts, and spent the remainder of his life among Mr. Pynchon's planters. He sus-
tained various important town offices, being selectman of the town in 1661 and five times afterward. Whatever may have been his pre- vious occupation, it is certain that in 1665 Nathaniel Ely became keeper of the "ordi- nary," for which service in the plantation only the most respectable men were chosen; the court would license no other. The records of the court at Springfield sets forth his license in these words: "Nathaniel Ely of Spring- field, being desired and putt upon to keep an ordinary there, or house for Comon Enter- taynment, was by this Corte lycused to that worke, as also for selling wines or strong liquors for ye yeere ensuing, Provided he keep good rule and order in his house. Also ye said Nathaniel Ely is up on his desire by this Corte released from Trayning in ye Town soe long as he continues to keep ye Ordinary." He held this license until his death in 1675. The house he lived in was on Main street but was moved to the corner of Sanford and Dwight streets, probably the oldest house in Spring- field. Nathaniel Ely died in Springfield, De- cember 25, 1675, and his wife Martha died there October 23, 1688. He left no will, and his property was inventoried at about one hundred and sixty-four pounds. Among other items in the inventory was one negro man, f15. He had two children, Samuel, of whom men- tion is made in the next paragraph, and Ruth, born probably in Hartford, died in Spring- field, October 12, 1662; married, August 3, 1661, Jeremy (or Jeremiah) Horton, son of Thomas and Mary Horton.
(III) Samuel, son of Nathaniel (2) and Martha Ely, was born probably in Cambridge or Hartford, died in Springfield, March 19, 1692. His name first appears as witness to the Indian deed given to his father and others, dated February 15, 1651, and does not appear again in the Norwalk records. He removed with his father's family to Springfield, and appears to have been quite successful in acquiring property, for he left a considerable estate. He married, October 28, 1659, Mary, youngest daughter of Robert and Editha (Stebbins) Day. She was born in Hartford in 1641, died in Hatfield, Massachusetts, October 17, 1725. After the death of Samuel Ely she married (second) April 12, 1694, Thomas, son of Thomas and Hannah (Wright) Steb- bins. He was born in 1648 and died in 1695. She married (third) December 11, 1696, Dea- con John Coleman, of Hatfield, born about 1635, died January 21, 17II, son of Thomas and Frances (Welles) Coleman. Samuel and
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Mary (Day) Ely had sixteen children : I. Child, born 1660, died in infancy. 2. Samuel, March 1, 1662, died young. 3. Joseph, August 20, 1663, died April 29, 1755. 4. Samuel, No- vember 4, 1664, died young. 5. Mary, March 29, 1667, died April 19, 1667. 6. Samuel, May 9, 1668, see forward. 7. Nathaniel, January 18, 1670, died March 16, 1671. 8. Jonathan, July 1, 1672, died young. 9. Nathaniel, Au- gust 25, 1674, died May, 1689. 10. Jonathan, January 24, 1676, died February 27, 1676. II. Martha, October 28, 1677, died November 25, 1677. 12. John, January 28, 1678, died Janu- ary 15, 1758. 13. Mary, June 20, 1681, died December 21, 1681. 14. Jonathan, January 21, 1683, died July 27, 1753. 15. Mary, February 29, 1684, died Hatfield. 16. Ruth, born 1688, died Belchertown about 1747.
(IV) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) and Mary (Day) Ely, was born in West Spring- field, Massachusetts, May 9, 1668, died there August 23, 1732. He took a prominent part in public affairs in the town, was selectman in 1702, 1716 and again in 1719, clerk of the second parish of Springfield (West Spring- field) from 1702 to 1721, except during the years 1714 and 1715. As clerk of the parish and custodian of the records he had much to do with the division and distribution of town lands, and otherwise was active in town affairs for many years. He married (first) November 10, 1697, Martha Bliss, born June I, 1674, died July 6, 1702; married (second) December 7, 1704, Sarah Bodurtha, born Oc- tober 18, 1681, died May 8, 1766, daughter of Joseph and Lydia Bodurtha. He had in all nine children, three by his first and six by his second wife: I. Martha, born December 21, 1698. 2. Mary, February 14, 1700, died May 27, 1714. 3. Samuel, September 21, 1701, see forward. 4. Sarah, August 30, 1705. 5. Na- thaniel, September 22, 1706. 6. Joseph, Octo- ber 4, 1709, died April 4, 1741. 7. Tryphena, April 7, 1712, died December 30, 1755. 8. Levi, February 12, 1714. 9. Mary, April 5, 1717, died January 30, 1761.
(V) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) and Martha (Bliss) Ely, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, September 21, 1701, died in West Springfield, December 8, 1758. He mar- ried, May 3, 1722, Abigail Warriner, born December 8, 1703, died September 27, 1762, daughter of Samuel and Abigail (Day) Warri- ner. They had seven children: I. Samuel, born September 14, 1723, died November 21, 1794. 2. Thomas, December 1, 1725, died May 10, 1790. 3. Abigail, July 15, 1727, died
August 9, 1805. 4. Joel, November 13, 1728, died July, 1815. 5. Levi, November 26, 1732, see forward. 6. Simeon, January 25, 1734, died January 15, 1817. 7. Nathan, January 9, 1739, died October 31, 1798.
(VI) Captain Levi, a revolutionary soldier, was the son of Samuel (3) and Abigail (War- riner) Ely, and was born in West Springfield, Massachusetts, November 26, 1732. He was killed by Indians in a battle on the Mohawk river, in the province of New York, October 19, 1780. A monument was erected to his memory at Springfield, Massachusetts. He left home in command of a company on a short expedition against the Indians in the Mohawk valley and before their term of enlistment had expired nearly all the men of his company were killed. Captain Ely lived in West Springfield near the old Congrega- tional church edifice. All of his children were born there and all lived and died in West Springfield. He married, October 12, 1758, Abigail Sergeant (Sargent), born Northfield, Massachusetts, January 26, 1729, died West Springfield, October 3, 1812, daughter of Lieu- tenant John and Abigail (Jones) Sergeant. Lieutenant John Sergeant was one of Captain Josiah Willard's company at Fort Dummer, Vermont, in 1748, in the old French and Indian war. Captain Levi and Abigail (Ser- geant) Ely had eleven children, all born in West Springfield : I. Lucretia, May 12, 1759, died January 19, 1819. 2. Huldah, July II, 1761, died April 30, 1808. 3. Jerusha, Febru- ary 8, 1763, died February 2, 1836. 4. Levi, February 27, 1765, died September 17, 1819. 5. George, December 30, 1766, died January 20, 1819. 6. Daniel, August 10, 1768, died February 15, 1822. 7. Sabra, January 22, 1770, died March 8, 1839. 8. Theodosia, Feb- ruary 4, 1773, died October 14, 1865. 9. Solo- mon, December 22, 1774, died April 25, 1828. IO. Elihu, July 6, 1777, see forward. II. Abi- gail, May 7, 1780, died November 23, 1828.
(VII) Elihu, son of Captain Levi and Abi- gail (Sergeant) Ely, was born in West Spring- field, Massachusetts, July 6, 1777, died in Westfield, Massachusetts, February 23, 1829. In 1797 he married Grace Rose, born in Prov- idence, Rhode Island, in November, 1777, died in Westfield, September 28, 1840, daughter of Colonel Samuel Rose, of Providence. They had nine children, all born in Westfield: I. Elihu, May 19, 1799, died May 21, 1866. 2. Samuel, 1801, died 1803. 3. Samuel Rose, December 29, 1803, died Roslyn, Long Island, May II, 1873. 4. Abigail, January 29, 1806,
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died Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 13, 1880. 5. Joseph Minor, November 26, 1807, died June 14, 1885. 6. Levi, December 22, 1809, died La Porte, Indiana, May 18, 1869. 7. Thomas, December 22, 1811. 8. Addison, De- cember 16, 1814. 9. William, see forward.
(VIII) William, youngest son and child of Elihu and Grace (Rose) Ely, was born in Westfield, Massachusetts, April 17, 1817, died in Elizabeth, New Jersey, February 9, 1886. He married (first) in Westfield, September 5, 1836, Emeline Letitia Harrison, born West- field, December 13, 1818, died there February 18, 1862, daughter of Seth and Letitia (Veits) Harrison ; married (second) in South Orange, New Jersey, March 8, 1865, Nancy Judson Harrison, a sister of his first wife. She was born in Westfield, April 6, 1827, died Febru- ary 28, 1895. Seth Harrison belonged to the family of which President William H. Harri- son was a member. Emeline Letitia (Harri- son) Ely was a granddaughter of Jabez Bald- win, who enlisted in the revolutionary war eight times, and served every years of the war. He had ten children, all born of his first mar- riage and with the exception of one in West- field: I. Thomas Jefferson, June 11, 1838, died February 2, 1839. 2. Grace Rose, July 4, 1840; married, April 10, 1861, Jared Sand- ford, born Lodi, Seneca county, New York, October 16, 1834, son of Halsey and Fanny Maria (Howell) Sandford. 3. Emma Jose- phine, September 30, 1842, died June 9, 1849. 4. Abigail Letia, October 27, 1844; married Marshall Clement; died Mt. Vernon, New York, June, 1893. 5. Nancy Judson, Novem- ber 30, 1846, died September 23, 1848. 6. Emma Josephine, New Buffalo, Michigan, December 23, 1848. 7. William Henry Har- rison, May 10, 1851. 8. Addison, May 23, 1853, see forward. 9. Thomas Jefferson, June 2, 1855, died April 10, 1858. 10. Nancy Jud- son, October 10, 1857; married, 1881, M. Eugene. Cady ; died February 15, 1909, at Westfield, Massachusetts.
(IX) Captain Addison, son of William and Emeline Letitia (Harrison) Ely, was born in Westfield, Massachusetts, May 23, 1853. His ancestors on both sides were prominent both as soldiers and citizens from the earliest colo- nial times. The records of the adjutant gen- eral's office in the state of Massachusetts show that the Elys, Roses, Sargents, Harri- sons and Baldwins, the latter two being his mother's ancestors, sustained no mean part in the early national struggles. The civil regis- ters in the towns of Hartford, Connecticut,
and Springfield and Westfield, Massachusetts, from the year 1636 to modern times bear clear evidence that the Elys were a moral, public- spirited, educated family through many gener- ations, called with frequency to serve their countrymen in offices of trust and honor. Addi- son was a boy of eight years when his father removed to Bloomfield, New Jersey, within a few miles of which place he has resided. He was given a good elementary education at the Davis Latin School in Bloomfield and at the Newark (New Jersey) Academy and prepared for college at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Insti- tute and the equally famous Phillips Exeter Academy. His purpose was to make the colle- giate course at Harvard, but at the age of eighteen he turned his attention to educational work. He first taught the public school at Union, Union county, New Jersey, and two years later became the first principal of the Caldwell high school in Essex county. While there he took up the study of law, but in 1879 he discontinued law for a time and became principal of the Rutherford high school, later resuming law reading, having never abandoned the idea of entering the legal profession. As a teacher he was very successful. A life license to teach anywhere in New Jersey, gained by examination, in those days a rare acquisition though common now, was granted him, and of which he is very proud. It was signed by Ellis A. Apgar and Washington Hasbrouck, examiners. They were distin- guished New Jersey educators, since deceased. Mr. Ely's old pupils, of whom many are suc- cessfully settled in the immediate vicinity of Newark, remember his thoroughness both as an instructor and a disciplinarian. He was always the active friend of his pupils. At the February term of the supreme court, Captain Ely was admitted as an attorney, in February, 1892, as counsellor at law. Since that time he has devoted his attention to general law prac- tice in the state and county courts. He is a forceful lawyer, careful, studious and con- scientious. Occupied with the responsibilities of a large practice, he finds time to devote to public concerns which tend to promote the gen- eral welfare of the community, commending merit and without hesitancy condemning all schemes for the advancement of selfish ends at public expense. He organized the Dover, New Jersey, Gas Company, and built works and for many years has owned its securities and controlled its management. He was also one of four most active organizers of the Gas and Electric Company of Bergen County and
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has held the office of director of the company for many years.
Captain Ely became a member of Company C, Third Regiment, in 1872, continuing as such for seven years. In 1893 he organized and became captain of Company L, Second Regiment, which company was among the best military organizations in the state in general efficiency and discipline. Captain Ely offered his Company L to the governor of the state of New Jersey for service in the Spanish-Amer- ican war. No other organization at the time had been tendered. Largely through his tender and efforts the Second Regiment was chosen for Spanish war service. Seventy of seventy- three enrolled members of his company, ready for service, marched out of their Rutherford Armory, May 2, 1898, amid scenes of patri- otism that will long make the day memorable. During this war Captain Ely was attached to General Lee's Seventh Corps, and by his special order was made provost marshal of the corps, though officially attached to the staff of General Arnold, commanding the Second Division of the Corps. He later organized and became captain of Company M, Fifth Regiment, which office he resigned in 1904. As an officer he was never absent at roll call during his entire service.
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