From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Colonel John Reading
Colonel John Reading
Col. John Reading was the first white landowner in Hun- pp. 47. http://books.google.com/
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New Jersey, serving in 1747, and again in from September Retrieved May 12, 2009.
1757 to June 1758.
Born in England, Colonel Reading emigrated to
Gloucester, in what was then the Province of New Jersey
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in approximately 1684.[1] He was a member of the assem- • Reading Family Biography
bly and was Clerk of Gloucester county from 1688-1702. Persondata
Along with two others, he was commissioned by the Name Reading, John
Provincial Council of West Jersey to purchase land from
the Native Americans which encompassed 150,000 acres Alternative names
(610 km2) between the Raritan and Delaware rivers. He Short description
served as a judge of the Supreme Court of the Province Date of birth
starting in 1712.[1] He died in Amwell, New Jersey in 1717.
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[1] ^ Reading, Miller K. (1903). William Bowne, of
Yorkshire, England and his descendants. H. E. Dents.
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