Both Reads and Richardsons removed to Cheshire, Mass., before 1770, and Daniel and Susannah were married there.

It was but a few months after this marriage when the first gun was fired at Lexington and the whole country was ablaze with excitement.

At the close of the sermon, on a bright spring morning, the old minister, his voice trembling with patriotic fervor, asked every man who was ready to enlist in the Continental army to stand forth, and Daniel Read was the first to step out into the aisle of the little meeting-house.

Leaving the girl-bride he entered the service and soon became conspicuous for his bravery.

He was one of the memorable expedition against Quebec under Arnold, in 1775, and of the party commanded by Ethan Allen at the capture of Ticonderoga.