Gertrude Ross Read
BIRTH
1733
DEATH
September 2, 1802
FAMILY
FATHER:
George Ross
(1679-1754)
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Read, Gertrude Ross
(1733-1802)
Gertrude Ross Read (1733-1802) was a member of a prominent Revolutionary-era family and the spouse of George Read. George Read was a public official and lawyer whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Gertrude Ross Read to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. Surviving documentation is strongest in genealogical, family, estate, and marriage records rather than in a separate public biography. Including Gertrude Ross Read in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.
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HUSBAND
George Read
(1733-1798)
George Read
(1733-1798)
John Read
(1920-2006)
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DIED:
Sep 2, 1802
The exact date and place of Gertrude Ross Read’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Gertrude Ross Read is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Gertrude Ross Read died on Sep 2, 1802. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.