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From: "Joseph H. Gardner" <>
Subject: Fw: [BRADFORD-L] RICHARD BRADFORD, Halifax NC>Wilkes Co.GA.
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:55:16 -0500


Ms Johnson forget to cc the list when she replied to my reply to her
original query. Here it is, in case it's of help to any one else on the
list.

----- Original Message -----
From: dana l johnson <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: [BRADFORD-L] RICHARD BRADFORD, Halifax NC>Wilkes Co.GA.


> Hi Joseph. Thank you for your response. I am researching the
> Bradford line for my sister. It is her paternal side. Up until Nov. of
> 2001 my sister didn't know anything past her grandmothers name ,Esther
> Bathsheba, and the fact that her grandmother told her many years ago that
> the family line was from Gov. Bradford. How she knew, I don't know, but
> no one seemed to care---that is until all the interest from whence we
> come.
> In 2001 someone gave us the information from a Bradford family
> Bible that stated her grandmother's name, her siblings, her parents,
> grandparents, ggrandparents. We have just recently documented her father
> (Wm. Pitt Bradford)as the son of Richard Bradford, b. 1796 Wake Co. NC,
> m. Bathsheba Baird. and the Bible shows Richard's parents as John
> Bradford b. 1745 in Halifax, NC. m. Elizabeth Barksdale. This surely is
> correct as one of Esther's brothers is John Barksdale Bradford.
> Did Col John Bradford die at the time his will was written in
> 1787? Our John had his son Richard in 1796.
> We are trying to verify if what my sister's grandmother said is
> true, altho someone told me that most of the southern state Bradford's
> come from a Richard Bradford that came to VA. as an indentured
> servant in the 1600's. and I am sure that I will need all the help I can
> get. Best Wishes, Dana
>
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