Reading, Vermont

 

Windsor county. First settled, 1772. This is an elevated township, uneven and mountainous. Several small streams rise here and pass to the Queechy and Black rivers. This town affords excellent pasturage, in which about 6,000 sheep are kept. Reading lies 53 miles S. from Montpelier and 10 W. from Windsor. Population, 1830, 1,409.

From Hayward's New England Gazetteer 1839