His brother was Lt. Colonel
Seth Read, who commanded the Massachusetts 26th and 15th regiments and founded
Erie, Pennsylvania. The Read brothers owned half of the land in the towns of Uxbridge and
Northbridge, Massachusetts, in the mid 18th century. The family is known as "Reed" in Pennsylvania, and the Read name and spelling continued in Massachusetts. At some point after the revolution, Joseph Read moved to Brookfield, Massachusetts, where he died in 1801. He and his wife Eunice are buried in Brookfield. His brother Seth Reed, founded Erie, PA, and died there in 1797. ==Notes==