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Subject: [BRADFORD-L] Re: [Bird-Flock] Re: BRADFORD-L] Roll Call!-Bradford 1800's
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 23:11:57 EST

In a message dated 12/13/98 10:52:15 PM, wrote:

<<From: "Toni Pedersen" <>

Does it seem to you like there are a number of us on both the Bird and the
Bradford Lists?
I am....I am Antoinette "Toni" at .
My lists of Birds and Bradfords are all out of Orange/Alamance, North
Carolina.
James Bird/Mary "Polly" Wilder Vincent>
Nancy L. Bird>James Bradford whose parents were David Bradford/Elizabeth
Carrigan.
My ggrandmother was Mary J. Bradford, B 1847 who married William Henderson
Morris in Webster Co, Missouri. She died in childbirth with my grandfather,
John Bradford Morris in Webster Co. He married my grandmother, Susan
Antoinette Melton, and they had one son, my father, Robert Wayne Morris, B
1908, Springfield, Missouri.
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Subject: [Bird-Flock] Re: BRADFORD-L] Roll Call!-Bradford 1800's
Bird/Gant/Ashford/Bradford

>From:
>
>John,
>
>I must have been living Right to get this at
>this time. The Maryland GANT line does not appear
>to be related to the NC GANT/GANTTs in this country,
>but they have made some very interesting contributions
>to the GANT/GANTT/GAUNT family newsletter called
>GANTTREES, published by Ben Gantt of Houson with
>Joseph Gantt of Asheville as editor. It's quire an
>impressive 16-page quarterly.
>
>Ben and Joseph will be taking a year off from the
>newsletter, and guess you just inherited the job -
>ME. So, I am desparate for any new info for my
>first issue in March. I think this e-mail has some
>interesting possibilities, and I will be contacting
>you and the sender a little later. (Have such a large
>backlog of e-mail, I just scanned it quickly.)
>
>Merry Christmas to you and Bebe,
>Helen
>
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Hi Toni and All,

Yes, those of the Bird family and the Bradford family did have connections
with each other in the early settlement years of Orange County, which
eventually fragmented into Caswell, Person, Alamance and Orange. I have a
deed of purchase of land purchased from David Bradford to be added to the land
for a church in Orange/Alamance in the very community where the Birds settled
and lived. A King family also had connections with the Bradfords and the Bird
family. William Bradford was married to Sally King; both Thomas Bradford and
R. Bradford were witnesses to the will of John King who died in 1797.

I have found that families tended to migrate to other areas and continued
their friendship/marriage/land/religious, and social relationships in the
"new" place. For my part, a little knowledge of the families who lived,
worked, and worshipped in the same community, helps tremendously in
understanding a great deal about the main families that I am researching. I
usually find that connections, which seemed rather brief and cursory, actually
run more deeply that that upon further study.

Best regards,

John Fox
Winston-Salem, NC

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