Descendants of Bradford
Generation No. 1
1. ROBERT1 BRADFOURTH1 was born 14351, and died Abt. 15231.
More About ROBERT BRADFOURTH:
Taxed: 15221
Child of ROBERT BRADFOURTH is:
2. i. PETER2 BRADFOURTH, b. 1460, Bentley, Arksey, County Yorkshire, England; d. Bet. 1542 - 1543.
Generation No. 2
2. PETER2 BRADFOURTH (ROBERT1)1 was born 1460 in Bentley, Arksey, County Yorkshire, England1, and died Bet. 1542 - 15431.
Child of PETER BRADFOURTH is:
3. i. ROBERT3 BRADFOURTH, b. 1487, of Wellingley, Tickhill, County Yorkshire, England; d. Bet. 1552 - 1553.
Generation No. 3
3. ROBERT3 BRADFOURTH (PETER2, ROBERT1)1 was born 1487 in of Wellingley, Tickhill, County Yorkshire, England1, and died Bet. 1552 - 15531. He married <UNNAMED>1. She died Unknown.
Child of ROBERT BRADFOURTH and <UNNAMED> is:
4. i. SQUIRE WILLIAM4 BRADFORD I, b. WFT Est. 1532-1563; d. 1596, Austerfield, County Yorkshire, England.
Generation No. 4
4. SQUIRE WILLIAM4 BRADFORD I (ROBERT3 BRADFOURTH, PETER2, ROBERT1)2,3 was born WFT Est. 1532-15633, and died 1596 in Austerfield, County Yorkshire, England4. He married (1) <UNNAMED>5 Bef. 15525. She died Unknown. He married (2) MARGARET FOX5 19 Oct 1567 in Harworth, County Nottingham, England5. She died Unknown.
More About SQUIRE WILLIAM BRADFORD I:
Burial: 10 Jan 1596, Austerfield, County Yorkshire, England5
Occupation: A subsidy man at Scroby, England6
Residence: 1575, One of 2 persons of property in Austerfield, County Yorkshire, England7
Child of WILLIAM BRADFORD and <UNNAMED> is:
5. i. WILLIAM5 BRADFORD II, b. 1560, Austerfield, County Yorkshire, England; d. 1591, Austerfield, County Yorkshire, England.
Generation No. 5
5. WILLIAM5 BRADFORD II (WILLIAM4, ROBERT3 BRADFOURTH, PETER2, ROBERT1)8 was born 1560 in Austerfield, County Yorkshire, England9,10, and died 1591 in Austerfield, County Yorkshire, England11. He married ALICE HANSON12 21 Jul 1584 in Austerfield, County Yorkshire, England13, daughter of JOHN HANSON and MARGARET GRESSAM. She was born Bef. 08 Dec 156213, and died Aft. 23 Feb 159313.
More About WILLIAM BRADFORD II:
Burial: 15 Jul 159113
More About ALICE HANSON:
Baptism: 08 Dec 156213
Child of WILLIAM BRADFORD and ALICE HANSON is:
6. i. GOV. WILLIAM6 BRADFORD III, b. Mar 1588, Austerfield, County Yorkshire, England; d. 09 May 1657, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
Generation No. 6
6. GOV. WILLIAM6 BRADFORD III (WILLIAM5, WILLIAM4, ROBERT3 BRADFOURTH, PETER2, ROBERT1)14,15 was born Mar 1588 in Austerfield, County Yorkshire, England16,17, and died 09 May 1657 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts18. He married (1) DOROTHY MAY18 Bet. 10 - 30 Nov 1613 in Amsterdam, Holland19,20,21, daughter of HENRY MAY. She was born 19 May 159022, and died 07 Dec 1620 in Cape Cod Bay, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts23,24. He married (2) ALICE CARPENTER25,26 14 Aug 1623 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts27,28, daughter of ALEXANDER CARPENTER and <UNNAMED>. She was born Abt. 1590 in Wrenton, England29,30, and died 26 Mar 167031.
Notes for GOV. WILLIAM BRADFORD III:
[Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W S Tyler, DD,LLD, (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), page 290.]
"He was in Holland at Amsterdam and Leyden about ten years, and joined with Pastor Robinson in his plan of removing the English Church at Leyden to America."
"...on board the Mayflower, which, after putting into Plymouth Harbor to escape a storm, eventually reached the harbor of Cape Cod."
[Ibid., page 290 and 291.]
"The first governor of the colony, Carver, died April 5, 1621, and Mr. Bradford was elected in his place, a position he held continuously till his death, except when he refused to serve. He was very successful in his dealings with the Indians. He was well educated, knew something of Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and was well informed in history and philosophy. He was an able writer. His most important work was his History of Plymouth Plantation, covering the period from 1602 to 1647. This manuscript was stolen from the old South Church in Boston in 1775, and carried to England by the British soldiers. The manuscript was returned to Massachusetts in 1897. In pleading to obtain this return, Senator Hoar said to the Lord Bishop of London: 'If there were in existence in England a history of King Alfred's reign for thirty years, written by his own hand, it would not be more precious in the eyes of Englishmen than this manuscript is to us.'"
[http://members.aol.com/calebj/bradford.html, William Bradford from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers, "Electronic."]
"The early years of Bradford's life are described by Cotton Mather in his book Magnalia Christi Americana first published in 1702:
"Among those Devout People was our William Bradford, who was Born Anno 1588. in an obscure Village call'd Austerfield, where the People were as unacquainted with the Bible, as the Jews do seem to have been with part of it in the Days of Josiah; a most Ignorant and Licentious People, and like unto their Priest. Here, and in some other Places, he had a Comfortable Inheritance left him of his Honest Parents, who died while he was yet a Child, and cast him on the Education, first of his Grand Parents, and then of his Uncles, who devoted him, like his Ancestors, unto the Affairs of Husbandry. Soon and long Sickness kept him, as he would afterwards thankfully say, from the Vanities of Youth, and made him the fitter for what he was afterwards to undergo. When he was about a Dozen Years Old, the Reading of the Scriptures began to cause great Impressions upon him; and those Impressions were much assisted and improved, when he came to enjoy Mr. Richard Clifton's Illuminating Ministry, not far from his Abode; he was then also further befriended, by being brought into the Company and Fellowship of such as were then called Professors; though the Young Man that brought him into it, did after become a Prophane and Wicked Apostate. Nor could the Wrath of his Uncles, nor the Scoff of his Neighbours now turn'd upon him, as one of the Puritans, divert him from his Pious Inclinations.
". . . Having with a great Company of Christians Hired a Ship to Transport them for Holland, the Master perfidiously betrayed them into the Hands of those Persecutors; who Rifled and Ransack'd their Goods, and clapp'd their Persons into Prison at Boston, where they lay for a Month together. But Mr. Bradford being a Young Man of about Eighteen, was dismissed sooner than the rest, so that within a while he had Opportunity with some others to get over to Zealand, through Perils both by Land and Sea not inconsiderable; where he was not long Ashore ere a Viper seized on his Hand, that is, an Officer, who carried him Unto the Magistrates, unto whom an envious Passenger had accused him as having fled out of England. When the Magistrates understood the True Cause of his coming thither, they were well satisfied with him; and so he repaired joyfully unto his Brethren at Amsterdam, where the Difficulties to which he afterwards stooped in Learning and Serving of a Frenchman at the Working of Silks, were abundantly Compensated by the Delight wherewith he sat under the Shadow of our Lord in his purely dispensed Ordinances. At the end of Two Years, he did, being of Age to do it, convert his Estate in England into Money; but Setting up for himself, he found some of his Designs by the Providence of God frowned upon, which he judged a Correction bestowed by God upon him for certain Decays of Internal Piety, whereinto he had fallen; the Consumption of his Estate he thought came to prevent a Consumption in his Virtue. But after he had resided in in Holland about half a Score Years, he was one of those who bore a part in that Hazardous and Generous Enterprize of removing into New England, with part of the English Church at Leyden, where at their first Landing, his dearest Consort accidentally falling Overboard, was drowned in the Harbour; and the rest of his Days were spent in the Services, and the Temptations, of that American Wilderness.
"William Bradford came to America on the Mayflower with his wife Dorothy (May), leaving son John behind in Holland. Dorothy fell off the Mayflower and drowned on 7 December 1620, when it was anchored in Provincetown Harbor.
"This was an accidental drowning. The story of the suicide, affair with Captain Chrostopher Jones, etc. comes from a fictional "soap opera" story published in a national women's magazine in 1869--a story published as truth by the author, based on "family stories", but which the author later admitted was an invention of her own imagination. For further information on this, see Mayflower Descendant 29:97-102 , and especially 31:105.
"After the death of John Carver in April 1621, Bradford was elected governor of the Plymouth Colony, and continued in that capacity nearly all his life. In 1623 he married Alice (Carpenter) Southworth, widow of Edward Southworth. A description of the marriage is found in a letter written by a visitor to Plymouth Colony, Emmanuel Altham, in 1623:
"Upon the occasion of the Governor's marriage, since I came, Massasoit was sent for to the wedding, where came with him his wife, the queen, although he hath five wives. With him came four other kings and about six score men with their bows and arrows--where, when they came to our town, we saluted them with the shooting off of many muskets and training our men. And so all the bows and arrows was brought into the Governor's house, and he brought the Governor three or four bucks and a turkey. And so we had very good pastime in seeing them dance, which is in such manner, with such a noise that you would wonder. . . . And now to say somewhat of the great cheer we had at the Governor's marriage. We had about twelve pasty venisons, besides others, pieces of roasted venison and other such good cheer in such quantity that I could wish you some of our share. For here we have the best grapes that ever you say--and the biggest, and divers sorts of plums and nuts which our business will not suffer us to look for.
"William Bradford died in 1657, having been governor of the Plymouth Colony for almost the entire period since 1621. Cotton Mather in his Magnalia Christi Americana wrote that William Bradford:
". . . was a Person for Study as well as Action; and hence, notwithstanding the Difficulties through which he passed in his Youth, he attained unto a notable Skill in Languages; the Dutch Tongue was become almost as Vernacular to him as the English; the French Tongue he could also manage; the Latin and the Greek he had Mastered; but the Hebrew he most of all studied, Because, he said, he would see with his own Eyes the Ancient Oracles of God in their Native Beauty. He was also well skill'd in History, in Antiquity, and in Philosophy; and for Theology he became so versed in it, that he was an Irrefragable Disputant against the Errors, especially those of Anabaptism, which with Trouble he saw rising in his Colony; wherefore he wrote some Significant things for the Confutation of those Errors. But the Crown of all was his Holy, Prayerful, Watchful and Fruitful Walk with God, wherein he was very Exemplary. At length he fell into an Indisposition of Body, which rendred him unhealthy for a whole Winter; and as the Spring advanced, his Health yet more declined; yet he felt himself not what he counted Sick, till one Day; in the Night after which, the God of Heaven so fill'd his Mind with Ineffable Consolations, that he seemed little short of Paul, rapt up unto the Unutterable Entertainments of Paradise. The next Morning he told his Friends, That the good Spirit of God had given him a Pledge of his Happiness in another World, and the First-fruits of his Eternal Glory: And on the Day following he died, May 9, 1657 in the 68th Year of his Age. Lamented by all the Colonies of New England, as a Common Blessing and Father to them all.
"William Bradford wrote Of Plymouth Plantation, chronicling the history of the Plymouth Colony, and the events that led up to their leaving England for Holland, and later to New England. William Bradford also wrote part of Mourt's Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, and he recorded some of the important letters he wrote and received in a letterbook which still partially exists. Nathaniel Morton's 1669 book, New England's Memorial also records a poem written by William Bradford on his deathbed. There are also two elegy poems written in 1657 after Bradford's death--the first elegy poem is anonymous, and the second elegy poem was written by Josias Winslow."
[http://members.aol.com/calebj/will_bradford.html, William Bradford from the Alphabetical Listing of Mayflower Passengers, "Electronic."]
"Will of William Bradford
"The last Will and Testament Nunckupative of Mr William Bradford senir: Deceased May the Ninth 1657 and exhibited to the court held att Plymouth June 3d 1657
"Mr William Bradford senir: being weake in body but in prfect memory haveing Defered the forming of his Will in hopes of haveing the healp of Mr Thomas Prence therin; feeling himselfe very weake and drawing on to the conclusion of his mortall life spake as followeth; I could have Desired abler then myselfe in the Desposing of that I have; how my estate is none knowes better then youerselfe, said hee to Lieftenant Southworth; I have Desposed to John and William alreddy theire proportions of land which they are possessed of;
"My Will is that my son Josepth bee made in some sort equall to his brethern out of my estate;
"My further Will is that my Deare & loveing wife Allice Bradford shalbee the sole Exequitrix of my estate; and for her future maintainance my Will is that my Stocke in the Kennebecke Trad be reserved for her Comfortable Subsistence as farr as it will extend and soe further in any such way as may bee Judged best for her;
"I further request and appoint my welbeloved Christian ffrinds Mr Thomas Prence Captaine Thomas Willett and Lieftenant Thomas Southworth to be the Suppervissors for the Desposing of my estate according to the prmises Confiding much in theire faithfulnes
"I comend unto youer Wisdome and Descretions some smale bookes written by my owne hand to bee Improved as you shall see meet; In speciall I Comend to you a little booke with a blacke cover wherin there is a word to Plymouth a word to Boston and a word to New England with sundry usefull verses;
"These pticulars were expressed by the said William Bradford Govr the 9th of May 1657 in the prsence of us Thomas Cushman Thomas Southworth Nathaniell Morton; whoe were Deposed before the court held att Plymouth the 3d of June 1657 to the truth of the abovesaid Will that it is the last Will and Testament of the abovesaid Mr William Bradford senir."
Baptism: Mar 1589, Austerfield, County Yorkshire, England31,32
Elected: Bet. 1621 - 1657, 2nd Governor of Plymouth Colony, Plymouth County, Massachusetts33
Embarked: 22 Jul 1620, From Holland for England34
Emigration: 1620, Emigrated to Cape Cod Bay, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts on the "Mayflower"35,36
Publishing: History of Plymouth Plantation, covering the period from 1602-164737
Residence: Bet. 1610 - 1620, Amsterdam and Leyden, South Holland, Netherlands38
More About DOROTHY MAY:
Cause of Death: Drowned39
More About ALICE CARPENTER:
Emigration: Jun 1623, Emigrated to Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts in the "Ann"39,40
Marriage Notes for WILLIAM BRADFORD and ALICE CARPENTER:
[Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W S Tyler, DD,LLD, (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), page 254.]
"Tradition says that Governor Bradford as a young man paid his attentions to Alice Carpenter, but her family prevented a marriage at that time."
"The fourth (marriage) settled in the colony."
[Ibid., page 291.]
"Bradford had known her in early life, but the tradition is that they were prevented from marrying by her family. He wrote her after the death of his first wife, and she crossed the ocean to marry him."
Child of WILLIAM BRADFORD and DOROTHY MAY is:
i. JOHN7 BRADFORD41, b. 1618, Leyden, South Holland, Netherlands41; d. Bef. 21 Sep 1676, Norwich, New London County, Connecticut41; m. MARTHA BOURNE41, Bef. 165041; d. Unknown.
Children of WILLIAM BRADFORD and ALICE CARPENTER are:
7. ii. MAJOR WILLIAM7 BRADFORD IV, b. 17 Jun 1624, Plymouth Colony, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; d. 20 Feb 1704, Kingston, Washington County, Rhode Island (on the Jones River).
iii. MERCY BRADFORD42, b. Bef. 22 May 1627, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts43; d. Bef. 09 May 165743; m. BENJAMIN VERMAYES43, 21 Dec 1648, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts43; d. Unknown.
iv. JOSEPH BRADFORD44, b. 1630, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts45; d. 10 Jul 1715, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts45; m. JAEL HOBART46,47, 25 May 1664, Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts47; d. Unknown.
Generation No. 7
7. MAJOR WILLIAM7 BRADFORD IV (WILLIAM6, WILLIAM5, WILLIAM4, ROBERT3 BRADFOURTH, PETER2, ROBERT1)48,49,50 was born 17 Jun 1624 in Plymouth Colony, Plymouth County, Massachusetts51,52,53, and died 20 Feb 1704 in Kingston, Washington County, Rhode Island (on the Jones River)54,55. He married (1) ALICE RICHARDS56,57,58 Aft. 23 Apr 1650 in Plymouth Colony, Plymouth County, Massachusetts59,60, daughter of THOMAS RICHARDS and WELTHEAN LORING. She was born Bet. 16 - 17 Jun 1627 in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts61,62, and died 12 Dec 1671 in Plymouth Colony, Plymouth County, Massachusetts63,64. He married (2) <UNNAMED>65 Bet. 1662 - 167665. She died Unknown. He married (3) MARY WOOD65 167665. She died Unknown.
Notes for MAJOR WILLIAM BRADFORD IV:
[Susan B. Stavropoulos, v10t0507.FTW, (World Family Tree submission Volume 10 Tree 0507), "CD-ROM," Date of Import: Dec 25, 2000.]
Next to Miles Standish, he ws the most porminent
military commander in Plymouth Colony. Was Commander-in-Chief of Plymouth
forces in King Philip's War. Carried to his grave musket ball received in
battle of Narragansett Fort. Died at Kingston on the Jones River.
Married twice more after death of 1st wife. Third wife was Mary (Woods) Holmes.
Appointed: 1658, Assistant to the Governor and Commissioner of the United Colonies66,67
Elected: 1683, Deputy Governor of Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts68,69
Military service: 1659, Captain69
Children of WILLIAM BRADFORD and ALICE RICHARDS are:
8. i. ALICE8 BRADFORD, b. Bet. 1657 - 1658; d. 1745.
9. ii. HANNAH BRADFORD, b. 09 May 1662, Plymouth Colony, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; d. 27 May 1738, Norwich, New London County, Connecticut.
Generation No. 8
8. ALICE8 BRADFORD (WILLIAM7, WILLIAM6, WILLIAM5, WILLIAM4, ROBERT3 BRADFOURTH, PETER2, ROBERT1)69 was born Bet. 1657 - 165870, and died 174571. She married (1) REV. WILLIAM ADAMS III71 29 Mar 1680 in Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts71, son of WILLIAM ADAMS and ELIZABETH STACY. He was born 27 May 1650 in Dedham, Suffolk County, Massachusetts71,72, and died 17 Aug 168573. She married (2) REV. JAMES FITCH73 Aft. 168574. He was born WFT Est. 1644-166475, and died WFT Est. 1678-175075.
Notes for REV. WILLIAM ADAMS III:
Tyler, William Seymour D.D.,LL.D. with genealogy history written by Cornelius B. Tyler, Autobiography of W S Tyler, DD,LLD, (Privately Printed, Massachusetts, 1912), page 290.
"...graduated from Harvard College 1671, 'the earliest graduate of this copious name.'"
"At his funeral prayers were publicly offered 'for the first time in New England on such an occasion.'"
Graduation: 1671, Harvard College, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts76
Individual Note: 27 May 1685, Preached General Election sermon at Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts77,78
Ordination: 03 Dec 1672, Dedham, Suffolk County, Massachusetts79,80
Religion: 2nd minister at Dedham, Suffolk County, Massachusetts81
More About REV. JAMES FITCH:
Residence: of Norwich, New London County, Connecticut82
Child of ALICE BRADFORD and WILLIAM ADAMS is:
i. ELIZABETH9 ADAMS, b. 21 Feb 1681, Dedham, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; d. 21 Dec 1766, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut.
9. HANNAH8 BRADFORD (WILLIAM7, WILLIAM6, WILLIAM5, WILLIAM4, ROBERT3 BRADFOURTH, PETER2, ROBERT1)83,84 was born 09 May 1662 in Plymouth Colony, Plymouth County, Massachusetts85, and died 27 May 1738 in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut85. She married JOSHUA RIPLEY85,86 28 Nov 1682 in Plymouth Colony, Plymouth County, Massachusetts87, son of JOHN RIPLEY and ELIZABETH HOBART. He died Unknown.
Child of HANNAH BRADFORD and JOSHUA RIPLEY is:
10. i. HEZEKIAH9 RIPLEY, b. 10 Jun 1695, Windham, Windham County, Connecticut; d. 04 Feb 1779, Windham, Windham County, Connecticut.
Generation No. 9
10. HEZEKIAH9 RIPLEY (HANNAH8 BRADFORD, WILLIAM7, WILLIAM6, WILLIAM5, WILLIAM4, ROBERT3 BRADFOURTH, PETER2, ROBERT1)87,88 was born 10 Jun 1695 in Windham, Windham County, Connecticut89,90, and died 04 Feb 1779 in Windham, Windham County, Connecticut91,92. He married MIRIAM FITCH93,94 25 Nov 174695. She was born WFT Est. 1694-172995, and died 17 Nov 1778 in Windham, Windham County, Connecticut95.
Child of HEZEKIAH RIPLEY and MIRIAM FITCH is:
11. i. HEZEKIAH10 RIPLEY, b. 25 Sep 1748; d. 11 Nov 1836.
Generation No. 10
11. HEZEKIAH10 RIPLEY (HEZEKIAH9, HANNAH8 BRADFORD, WILLIAM7, WILLIAM6, WILLIAM5, WILLIAM4, ROBERT3 BRADFOURTH, PETER2, ROBERT1)95,96 was born 25 Sep 174897,98, and died 11 Nov 183699,100. He married EUNICE BRADFORD101,102 29 Apr 1784103. She was born WFT Est. 1745-1771103, and died WFT Est. 1797-1858103.
Child of HEZEKIAH RIPLEY and EUNICE BRADFORD is:
12. i. LUCY11 RIPLEY, b. 10 May 1794; d. 1888.
Generation No. 11
12. LUCY11 RIPLEY (HEZEKIAH10, HEZEKIAH9, HANNAH8 BRADFORD, WILLIAM7, WILLIAM6, WILLIAM5, WILLIAM4, ROBERT3 BRADFOURTH, PETER2, ROBERT1)103,104 was born 10 May 1794105,106, and died 1888106. She married ELIJAH WORTHINGTON BLISS107,108 1815 in Brockport, Monroe County, New York109,110, son of GAD BLISS and ABIAH COLTON. He was born 1781110, and died 1845110.
Children of LUCY RIPLEY and ELIJAH BLISS are:
i. GEORGE R.12 BLISS, D.D., LL.D., b. 1816; d. 1893.
ii. LUCY ANN BLISS, b. 1826; d. 10 Aug 1873, Hillsdale, Hillsdale County, Michigan.
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