According to the History of Swanzey, Cheshire County, NH
TAKEN FROM TWO SOURCES:
1. History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, New Hampshire
Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co., 1886, 1073 pgs.
2. Gazetteer of Cheshire County, N.H., 1736-1885 by Hamilton Child,Syracuse, N.Y.: H. Child, 1885, 882 pgs.

page --- & 428

.....The first proprietor's meeting was held at Concord, Mass., June 27, 1734, later in October 1734 some land was divided into sixty-three lots, equal as practicable in area and quality, and appointed Eleazer Robbins, Nathaniel Hammond, Ephraim Jones, Benjamin Read and Nathaniel Mattoon, as a committee to make such a division....

Benjamin Read is mentioned several more times in connection to the division of lots through to 1736.

Seems Benjamin Read was probably born about 1700, maybe in MA., but looks like he received lots of land in Swanzey NH ~ hoping to find further information on Benjamin Read...marriage, children etc.

I would suspect that the Benjamin Read who published the book History of Swanzey around 1892 is a descendant?

Help appreciated, thanks
Janice