from Reading's Colonial Roof(?) trees Built Before
1800 by C Neison Bishop (19440
XIII--Father of Local Bancrofts
Joseph Jr. later established a homestead near the
junction of Lowell Street and Bancroft Avenue and
his sons, Joseph and Emery later divided his estate
and built houses there which stand today on
diagonaily opposite corners and considered to have
been built in the early 1800's. Their combined
estates covered a good part of the present Reading
Highlands.
Another son, Timothy, was to have succeeded to his
father's homestead. He married Lydia Parker,
daughter of Daniel and Sarah, who owned the red
house on Pearl Street, just beyound the school.
Another son, Thomas, moved to Lynnfield. The next
son Nehemiah, settled on the Abraham Foster place
on Grove Street and for many years ran the saw
mill, known later as the Slab City Mill. He married
Sussannah Beard and their daughter Eliza married
Capt Charles Parker, a later owner of the red house
on Pearl Street.
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