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From: "Toni Cullum" <>
Subject: Re: trying something new...from the listowner
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 22:14:07 -0500


Dear George,
I have a record of John Bradford Jr. (1730 -1787) often referred to as
Colonel John Bradford of Halifax listed in the book "The Bradfords of
Charles City CountyVA" There is more information if you are interested.
Toni
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From: George McSwain <>
To: INTERNET: <>
Date: Wednesday, February 11, 1998 3:51 PM
Subject: trying something new...from the listowner

>Here is my John Bradford and his children. Anyone recognize him?
>
>
>Descendants of John BRADFORD Col.-861
>
>First Generation
>
>1. John BRADFORD Col.-861 was born 1708. He died Nov 1787 in Halifax
>County, NC.
>BIOGRAPHY: According to the Watts Family traditions, from Brunswick
>County, Virginia he moved to Fanquier County, Virginia where his uncle
>William lived and signed his name "John of Virginia of the House of
>Bradford". He obtained from John Earl of Granville, a grant of land under
>the seal of George II of England, said grant reserving to the king all gold
>found on or in said lands, situated in what is now Halifax County, NC.
> According to Lamar H. Roberts in a letter in 1954, he moved to his
>familes land grant in what is now Halifax County, NC and raised a family.
>He served with distinction in the Revolution, held a Colonel's Commission
>in the American Army, raised and equipped his own regiment and was at
>Yorktown when Cornwallis surrendered. Was on the committee which drafted
>the first constitution of North Carolina.
> According to an article in the "Littleton (NC) Observer" dated 23 July
>1970: He was the great-great grandson of Governor William Bradford of the
>Pilgrim Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts and he served with distinction in
>the affairs of the colony and state of North Carolina. In 1760 he was the
>Commissioner of Peace for the Halifax County and from 1762-68 he served as
>a member of the North Carolina Colonial Legislature. He served in the
>Provincial Congresses of April and November 1776 and in 1777 was elected to
>the North Carolina Senate. He was appointed Colonel from the Halifax County
>by the Provincial Congress in September 1775 and was a member of the
>Halifax Assembly which placed North Carolina under Military organizations
>and on 12 april 1776 declared the famous "Halifax Resolves" for
>independence.
>!BIRTH: The direct link to his great-great grandfather Governor William
>Bradford of the Pilgrim Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts is established by
>several sources, but not the Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families
>which does not list Col. John as a child of John Bradford and Rebecca
>Bartlett.
>There appears to be some confusion about who moved from MA to VA to NC and
>when.
>John married (1) Patience READE-862 on 1750.
>They had the following children:
> + 2 F i. Rebecca BRADFORD-863 was born 25
>Dec 1752.
> 3 F ii. Elizabeth BRADFORD-865 was born 1
>May 1754.
> 4 F iii. Tabitha BRADFORD-866 was born 7 Dec
>1756.
>Tabitha married (1) Samuel CROWELL-867.
> 5 F iv. Frances BRADFORD-868 was born 25
>May 1759.
>Frances married (1) William WOOTEN-869.
> + 6 M v. Henry B. BRADFORD Rev.-841 was born
>4 Dec 1761 and died 14 Mar 1833.
> 7 M vi. John BRADFORD-870 was born 15 May
>1764.
>
>John also married (2) Dorothea Miriam-871.
>They had the following children:
> 8 F vii. Miriam BRADFORD-872 was born 15 Jun
>1769.
>Miriam married (1) CROWELL Col.-873.
> 9 M viii. Richard Henry BRADFORD-874 was born
>30 Sep 1770.
> 10 F ix. Ann BRADFORD-875 was born 12 Sep
>1772.
>
>John also married (3) Elizabeth-876.
>They had the following children:
> 11 M x. Neal BRADFORD-877 was born 10 Feb
>1775. He died 29 Jul 1775.
> 12 F xi. Sara BRADFORD-878 was born 2 Jun
>1776.
> 13 F xii. Martha BRADFORD-879 was born 6 Jan
>1779.
> 14 F xiii. Mary BRADFORD-880 was born 7 Nov
>1780.
> 15 M xiv. William BRADFORD-881 was born 20
>Sep 1786.
>He never married and died at 38 leaving a great deal of money and a
>magnificant silver sugar bowl. "Uncle Billy" was very fond of his nephew
>Edward(Ned) - his half-brother Henry's son. He paid for his education
>including a medical education in Germany.
>
>
>
>
>Second Generation
>
>2. Rebecca BRADFORD-863 was born 25 Dec 1752.
>Rebecca married (1) John BRANCH-864.
>They had the following children:
> + 16 M i. John BRANCH Jr.-904.
>
>
>
>6. Henry B. BRADFORD Rev.-841 was born 4 Dec 1761 in Halifax, NC. He
>died 14 Mar 1833 in Enfield, NC.
>BIOGRAPHY: Pioneer Methodist minister ordained on 2 March 1804 at
>Whitaker's Chapel near Enfield, NC and married by his close friend the
>famous Methodist Bishop Francis Asbury.
> According to an article in the "? Observer" dated 23 July 1970: A state
>historical highway marker honoring his memory was placed at the site of his
>church on the Glenview Road (NC #481) about two miles southwest of Enfield,
>NC.
> He fought as a private in the War for American Independence and also in
>1812. Asbury's famous journal records several visits to the Bradford home
>in 1801-04 and in 1815 and compliments Bradford's work as a Methodist
>preacher.
>Bradford's Meeting House was one of the oldest places of worship in North
>Carolina, organized in the late eighteenth century and deeded to Bishop
>Asbury and the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1792. Originally log huts for
>camp meetings before the first permanent structure was built, Bishop Asbury
>preached there on Sunday, March 15, 1801. After meetings of the Roanoke
>Union Society to discuss the reform issues in 1824-25 of which he was an
>early reform member and for which he was brought to trial with a group of
>Methodist ministers, the congregation moved into the new branch of
>Methodism in 1828. It remained a thriving church with a large congregation
>during the middle and latter part of the nineteenth century but by 1912
>membership at Bradford's church had decreased and the building was sold and
>subesequently torn down. In 1824 Henry Bradford advertised the "Bradford's
>Female Academy" which subesequently became the Bradford Public School.
>Henry married (1) Sarah CROWELL-842, daughter of Edward CROWELL-843 and
>Martha RAEBURN-844 on 1 Jan 1782. Sarah was born 8 Jun 1763 in Halifax, NC.
>She died 1839 in FL.
>The Crowell family said to have descended from Oliver Cromwell. Some of her
>sons moved to Florida where their cousin John Branch, Jr. was Governor and
>established plantations. She was there when she died.
>
>Henry and Sarah had the following children:
> 17 F i. Martha BRADFORD-845 was born 10 Oct
>1782.
>Martha married (1) John JUDGE-846.
> 18 M ii. Nathaniel BRADFORD-847 was born 30
>Mar 1784.
>He served in the Georgia Senate. Moved to Talahassee with his brothers.
>Nathaniel married (1) Sarah TEMPLE-848.
> 19 F iii. Elizabeth BRADFORD-849 was born 10
>Jul 1786. She died as an infant.
> + 20 M iv. John BRADFORD-837 was born 3 Dec
>1787 and died 9 Nov 1855.
> 21 M v. Thomas BRADFORD-850 was born 17 Feb
>1790.
>Considered the black sheep of the family - he had refused to learn a
>profession so his father, Henry, sent him to live with his brother John in
>Tennessee in 1820, and all he did was marry Elizabeth Eelbeck (John's
>wife's sister) who was also visiting at that time. Later moved to
>Talahassee, Florida in 1831 with his three brothers and settled at Walnut
>Hill in the same vicinity.
>Thomas married (1) Elizabeth EELBECK-851.
> 22 M vi. Henry BRADFORD-852 was born 30 Oct
>1791.
>Moved in 1831 to Leon County, Florida from Halifax County, NC with his
>three brothers. Lived on an establishment on the Thomasville Road.
>Henry married (1) Nancy HARRIS-853.
> 23 F vii. Mary Crowell BRADFORD-854 was born
>29 Jan 1793.
>Mary married (1) Ely Whitaker TAYLOR-855.
> 24 F viii. Sallie BRADFORD-856 was born 22 Sep
>1796. She died as an infant.
> + 25 M ix. Edward (Ned) BRADFORD Dr.-857 was
>born 25 Aug 1798.
> 26 M x. Richard Henry BRADFORD-859 was born
>15 Nov 1800.
>BIOGRAPHY: Moved in 1831 to Leon County, Florida from Halifax County, NC
>with his three brothers. Developed "Water Oak Plantation", near his brother
>Ned's plantation "Pine Hill" some ten miles north of Tallahassee. His son
>Capt. Richard H. Bradford was the first soldier killed in Florida in the
>War Between the States. His mother died at his home in Florida in 1838.
>Richard married (1) Ann Bryan FOORT-860.
>
>
> George McSwain
> 1219 62nd St. NW
> Bradenton, FL 34209
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