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From: Terrance Fregly <>
Subject: [BRADFORD-L] Re: BRADFORD FAMILY CONNECTION
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 13:21:56 -0400


I suggest you join the roots list for Bradford send an e mail to
web.com with subscribe in the subject line leave the body
blank. I will forward this message to the list . I have no information on this
General but do on Mann

Terry

"B. Russell" wrote:

> Dear Terrance;
> Sometime back, maybe as much as two years, I contacted you by telephone
> in regard to the Bradford Family. Recently I have gone on line and so I
> thought I would make the attempt again.
> All I know for sure about my Bradford ancestors is that I am descended
> from Mary Ann Bradford who married John Russell in Grainger County,
> Tennessee, on January 14, 1800; with Benjamin Bradford posting the
> marriage bond.
> It is my belief at this time there is a very strong possability that
> Mary Ann is the daughter of David Bradford of North Carolina, and his
> second wife, Elizabeth Mann.
> However, there is also a possability, though a slim one, that Mary Ann
> is the daughter, or granddaughter, of General David Bradford, of
> Pennsylvania and Whisky Rebellion fame, and his first wife, name
> unknown.
> Following the collapse of the Whiskey Rebellion, it is reported that
> the General became a fugitive, and spent some time in Tennessee, in or
> near Grainger County, Tennessee, before moving on the Louisiana where he
> took a 2nd wife, name also unknown, and reestablished the family
> fortune.
> It is a fact that Benjamin Bradford, who also posted the marriage bond
> when Elizabeth Bradford married James Russell, in Grainger County in in
> 1798. It is strongy thught James Russell is the father of John Russell,
> who married Mary Ann Bradford.
> Of interest is the fact that I have found Benjamin Bradford on the same
> 1799 and 1800 taxe rolls of Grainger County with a John Russell, and
> James Russell, among others.
> It is even more interesting that it has been reported that Benjamin
> Bradford was also a General, who departed for Lousiana, about 1804, the
> same year that James and his wife Elizabeth, and the widow, Mary Ann
> (Bradford) Russell, left Tennessee and settled in what is now Franklin
> County, Indiana, where Mary Ann gave birth to a second son, on Feburary
> 1, 1805, and named him John, in memory of his dead father. Her first
> son, David Russell, born 1802, in Tennessee, is my Great Grandfahter.
>
> The purpose of this letter is to ask if you have any information on
> General David Bradford. And if so would you share it with me. I would
> like to prove, as some would like to believe, that the General is (or is
> not) the father or grandfather of Mary Ann.
> While I personally do not believe Mary Ann is a descendant of the
> General, I do believe there is a connect, but it would be back three or
> four generations, back to the early to mid 1700s.
> If you cannot help me, perhaps you know someone with eamil that can. As
> I turned 70 yeasterday, with some major health problems, I would like to
> solve the mystery of who Mary Ann's father and grandfather is, for sure
> and certain, before it is my turn to cross over The Rainbow Bridge.
> I hope I have your correct email address and this message goes through.
> - BGR - Bobby Glen Russell.

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