BIO: Adam READ, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 169.
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  READ, CAPT. ADAM, was a native of the Province of Ulster, Ireland, 
where he was born in 1703.  He located in Hanover on the Swatara about 
1725, and secured the possession of large tracts of land.  He was a 
gentleman of education and became quite prominent in Provincial days. 
He was for many years one of His Majesty's justices, and during the 
French and Indian wars held the commission of captain, doing gallant 
service on the frontiers.  Considerable of his correspondence is found 
among the archives of the State, mostly relating to Indian forays and 
earnest appeals for protection.  Captain Read was an elder in Hanover 
church, and in the old graveyard on Bow creek rest his remains.  He 
died February 2, 1769; and his wife Mary, born in 1712, on the 11th of 
June, 1783.  Their two daughters married respectively - Mary, John 
Harris, the founder of Harrisburg, and Eleanor, Robert Whitehill, of 
Cumberland county.