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BRADFORD, ALEXANDER, Dorchester 1638, in his will, of wh. abstr. is in Genealogical Regis. III. 81, made 17 Aug. 1644, pro. 2 Oct. 1645, names 2. Sarah, br. Walter Merry, but no children.
BRADFORD, JOHN, Plymouth 1643, Duxbury 1645, eldest s. of Gov. William, wh. did not come over the seas till some yrs. after his f. rem. 1653 to Marshfield, was rep. of ea. town; thence a. 1660 to Norwich, there d. 1678, without ch. His wid. Martha d. of Thomas Bourne of Marshfield, m. bef. 20 Feb. 1680, lieut. Thomas Tracy, and d. a. 1689. Caulkins, Hist. of Norwich, 100.
BRADFORD, JOSEPH, Plymouth, youngest br. of the preced. m. 25 May 1664, Jael, d. of Rev. Peter Hobart of Hingham, had Joseph, b. 18 Apr. 1665; and Elisha; d. 10 July 1715; and his wid. d. 1730, aged 88. His s. Elisha nam. one of his 13 ch. Carpenter, in honor of the boy's gr. gr.mo.
BRADFORD MOSES, Salisbury 1669, perhaps s. of Robert, rem. to Boston, ar. co. 1677, d 23 Mar. 1692 by drown.
BRADFORD, MOSES, Boston, by w. Eliz. had John, b. 18 Sept. 1693; Thomas, 24 Dec 1697; Robert, 30 Aug. 1699; Eliz. 20 Sept. 1701; Joseph, 14 May 1705; and James, 22 Sept. 1707.
BRADFPRD. ROBERT, Boston 1640, tailor, freeman, 1642, by w. Martha had Moses, bapt. 10 Mar. but town rec says, b. 2 Aug. 1644; and Martha, 9, bapt. 16 Nov. 1645. His will, 16 Nov. 1677, names w. Margaret, wh. d. 12 Mar. 1697, aged 92, and the same docum. calls Martha w. of Peter Maverick.
BRADFORD, WILLIAM, Plymouth, came in the Mayflower, 1620, with w. dorothy (m. at Leydtn, 30 Nov. 1613), surnam. May, wh. fail. to reach the l. of promise, being, drown. at the anchorage in Cape Cod, 7 Dec.; was b. or bapt. Thursday, 19 Mar. 1590, at Austerfield, a village tak. its name, perhaps, from lying in the extreme South of Yorksh. His father William was bur. 15 July 1591, and this his youngest ch. hav. gain. some instruct. in letters from the noble spirits of William Brewster, and John Robinson, left his native country, at the age of 18, to seek freedom of worship in Holland. There he m. the first wife presumed to have been a May. Prob. a fugitive from Eng. for religion's sake, with her parents; had Joh,m above ment. He was chos. Gov. after death Carver, early in 1621, aged only 31, and until his death 9 May 1657, the date of his nuncup. will, was by ann. elect. every yr. cont. exc. three, thwn Edward Winslow, and two, when Thomas Prence partook the burden. On 14 !
Aug. 1632, he m. a lady with wh. he had been acquaint. many yrs. bef. Alice, wid. of Edward Southworth, wh. came in the Ann a few days bef. from Eng. whose maiden name was Carpenter, as has been infer. from the phrase in Plymouth ch. rec. under 1667, mention of the d. of Mary Carpenter, wh. d. 19 Mar. of that yr. in her 91st yr. of course b. 1577. But she was so much older than this sec. w. of the Gov. that possib. she may have been d. of one, wh. after m. a Reyner, and had Alice. For tradit. at Plymouth made Alice, this w. of Bradford, to be sis. of Rev. John reyner. See Davis in Morton's Mem. 217, in notis, and Young's Chron. of Pilgr. 353. In notis. Reyner was a name of distinct. in the neighb. of Bradford's youth, and Carpenter was not. She surv. till 26 Mar. 1670, aged 79, and had William, b. 17 June 1624; Mercy, wh. m. 15 June or 21 Dec. 1648 (such is the diversity of rec. tho. the later date is more prob.) Benjamin Vermayes; and Joseph, above ment. 1630. Winsor!
mistakes in mak. this youngest ch. tw. with Mercy, for she is nam. at the div. of cattle, 1627, Mather, Magn. II. c. 1; Shurtleff's Recol of the Pilgr. in Russell's Guide to Plymouth; Davis's Morton's Memo.; Belkn. Amer. Biog.; Hutchinson's Hist. of Mass.'; Young's Chron. of the Pilgr.' and the last acquisit. to our minute details in Hunter's Founders of New Plymouth, London 1854; beside the noble confessor's won Hist. Boston 1856, as Vol.III. in 4 Mass. Hist. Coll.
BRADFORD, WILLIAM, 5 June 1664, d. 19 Sept. 1665; and John, bapt. at C. 21 Apr. 1667. He d. that yr. See Newell's Ch. Gath. 50. His wid. m. 24 Mar. 1668, Samuel Alcock. Her third h. was Thomas Graves; and fouth, John Phillips.
BRADFORD, JOHN, Billerica, s. of Richard, m. Hannah, d. of William French, and had ten ch. His w. d. 9 May 1674, and he m. 3 Mar. 1675, Ruth Ellis, and had four ch. and d. 18 Mar. 1686.
BRADFORD, JOSIAH, Billerica, br. of the preced. m. 4 Feb. 1673, Eliz. Waldo, prob. d. of cornelius of Chellmsford, had one d. b. 1674, rem. to Braintree, and had ano. d. 1678.
BRADFORD, PETER, Braintree, freem. 10 May 1643, ar. co. 1648, rep. 1644, and often after, for his own town, and for Scarborough in 1673 and 4, and he was deac. By first w. Priscilla, had Martha; Peter; John, b. 30 Nov. 1641; Joseph, 13 Oct. 1612; and prob. other ch. for the Boston gr. of ld. to him, 1640, was for twelve heads. Ano. ch. by the same w. was Hannah, b. 14 Aug. 1656, but she d. June following. His last wife was Mary, wid. of Nathaniel Williams, wh. bec. one of the first of the third ch. mem. after d. of this h. In his latter days he lov. in Boston. In 1662 he pruch. of the Ind. the tract on wh. Mendham was erect. Martha m. 23 Nov. 1655, Robert Twelves.
BRADFORD, PETER, Billerica, prob. s. of Richar, m. 7 Aug. 1661, Eliz. bosworth, freem. 1680. His w. d. 30 Nov. 1686, and he m. 30 Mar. foll. wid. Sarah Foster of Cambridge.

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