Joseph Reade (politician)

[6] After his death, she married Daniel Horsmanden, a chief justice of the supreme court in the Province of New York and member of the governor's executive council.

[2] In 1725, the same year he endorsed "a petition to ban the sale and export of spoiled flour", he was elected assessor of the East Ward of New York.

"[2] Reade participated in the grand jury, with Frederick Philipse II as Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature, of New York Slave Conspiracy trials of 1741 which,[2] based upon questionable testimony, resulted in death sentences for thirty-four defendants and the deportation of ninety-one others away from the colony.

[9] Anna was the sister of Philip French III, who married Susanna Brokholst,[10] daughter of Anthony Brockholst, acting Governor of Colonial New York under Sir Edmund Andros.

[11] Together, they were the parents of seven children,[2] including: Reade died on March 2, 1771,[1] at which point he had considerable holdings in mines, minerals, and ores, which were left to his three surviving sons in his will.