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William Bradford was born on 2 February 1781 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. He and Mary ("Polly") Smith were married on 1 February 1804 in Bristol, Rhode Island. He died on 23 April 1851 at age 70.

He was a sea captain and merchant, residing at Bristol. William Bradford had person sources.¹

John Bradford and Jemima Wardwell were married on 17 November 1794 in Bristol, Bristol, Massachusetts. She died on 5 September 1842.

William Parnell Bradford was born on 29 May 1805 in Bristol, Rhode Island. He and Rebecca G. Nooning were married on 2 August 1827 in Bristol, Rhode Island. He died on 7 February 1872 at age 66.

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William Parnell Bradford and Rebecca G. Nooning were married on 2 August 1827 in Bristol, Rhode Island.

Edward James Bradford was born on 20 September 1806 in Bristol, Rhode Island. He died on 23 November 1822 at age 16 in Bristol, Rhode Island.

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Nancy Smith Bradford was born on 7 April 1811.

Nancy Smith Bradford had person sources.¹

Mary Bradford was born on 29 June 1813.

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Peter James Bradford was born on 31 December 1815.

Peter James Bradford had person sources.¹

Major William Bradford was born on 15 September 1752 in Bristol, Rhode Island. He and Elizabeth ("Betsy") Tanner were married on 11 July 1777 in Bristol, Rhode Island. He died on 29 October 1811 at age 59 in Bristol, Rhode Island.

He was commissioned major during the Revolutionary War and served on the staff of General Charles Lee. He was a charter member of the Order of the Cincinnati founded by Washington after the Revolution. He lived at Taunton, Rehoboth, and finally at Bristol. He was a judge of the county court for many years. Major William Bradford had person sources.¹

Elizabeth ("Betsy") Tanner was born about 1756 in Bristol, Bristol County, Rhode Island. Major William Bradford and she were married on 11 July 1777 in Bristol, Rhode Island. She died on 17 December 1832 at age ~76.

Elizabeth ("Betsy") Tanner was born in England.

Mary Bradford was born on 30 December 1778 in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

Mary Bradford had person sources.¹

Elizabeth Bloom Bradford was born on 18 February 1785 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Bloom Bradford had person sources.¹

Henry Bradford was born on 18 February 1787 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. He died in 1808 at age ~21 in Died at sea.

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John Wyllys Bradford was born on 26 December 1793. He died on 12 October 1819 at age 25.

John Wyllys Bradford had person sources.¹

Sarah Bradford was born on 19 January 1799 in Bristol, Rhode Island.

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William Bradford was born on 4 November 1728 in Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. He and Mary LeBaron were married on 22 March 1751 in Bristol, Rhode Island. He died on 6 July 1808 at age 79 in Bristol, Rhode Island.

"The natural bias of his mind at first seemed to incline him to the paractice of medicine, and the best advantages were therefore afforded him to pursue the study of that science. At. the age of twent-two, under the tuition of Dr. Ezekiel Hersey of Hingham, MA, a distinguished physician and early benefactor of Harvard college, he attained the best medical education which was possible at that time...

"After practicing a few years at Warren, RI, he removed to Bristol, an adjacent town, where a better field for the exercise of his abilities awaited him. His name appears in the town records of Bristol as early as 1758.

"In 1761 Cotor Bradford was chosen to represent the town of Bristol in the general assembly of Rhode Island, of which he was destined for so many years to be the most conspicuous member. In 1764 he was elected speaker. It must have been about this time that he began to read law. His interest in politics and legislation naturally drew his attention to the legal profession...

...from 1775 to 1778 he was deputy governor; in 1778 he was again in the assembly from Bristol... The general assembly deposed Governor Wanton from office in November 1775, declared the office of governor vacant, and elected Nicholas Cooke, the lieutenant-governor, to fill the vacancy. Bradford was elected lieutenant-governor in place of Governor Cooke. He was therefore the last deputy governor of the colony of Rhode Island and the fist to hold the same office in the independent state which succeeded it, for when the assembly met again, May 4, 1776, the act adjuring allegiance to the British crown was adopted... That he never lost his interest in surgery is shown by the fact that he assisted in dressing the wound of Colonel Barton at the time Bristol was burned in 1778. When the report spread that the British, after the taking of Newport, meant to march to Boston, a convention of three delegates from each of the New England states met at Provide, December 25, 1776, and Bradfor was one of the three from Rhode Island. He was also one of three delegates from Rhode Island at a convention in Springfield "to consider the subject of the currency and the defense of Rhode Island." In 1777 Mr. Bradford was placed in charge of leasing the estates of Tories; in October 1779, he was one of a council of war; in July 1780, he was elected to a convention of the New England states held in Boston for the purpose of providing means for furnishing supplies to the French allies... In October 1792 he was elected to the United States Senate, and he served the state until 1797, when he resigned. Immediately afterward he was elected again from Bristol to the General Assembly and regularly reelected until 1804. For eighteen years he was speaker of the House of Representatives of the Colony and State of Rhode Island...

"He was visited by General Washington in 1793 at Mount Hope Farm, formerly owned by Isaac Royal, a Tory, and confiscated by the State." per New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial, pp. 1266-67. William Bradford had person sources.¹

Mary LeBaron was born on 20 March 1731. William Bradford and she were married on 22 March 1751 in Bristol, Rhode Island. She died on 2 October 1775 at age 44 in Bristol, Rhode Island.

Lazarus LeBaron Bradford was born on 31 May 1754 in Bristol, Bristol, Massachusetts. He died on 25 September 1793 at age 39 in Bristol, Bristol, Massachusetts. He was buried in 1793 at Juniper Hill Cemetery in Bristol, Bristol, Massachusetts.

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Mary Bradford was born on 2 September 1760 in Bristol, Bristol County, Rhode Island. Henry Goodwin and she were married on 20 May 1782 in Bristol, Bristol, Massachusetts. She died on 14 January 1834 at age 73 in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island.

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Hannah Bradford was born on 22 November 1762 in Bristol, Bristol County, Rhode Island.

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Nancy Ann Bowman Bradford was born on 6 August 1770 in Bristol, Bristol, Massachusetts. James D'wolf and she were married. She died on 2 January 1838 at age 67 in Bristol, Bristol County, Rhode Island.

Nancy Ann Bowman Bradford had person sources.¹

Ezekiel Hersey Bradford was born on 8 March 1772.

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Lydia Bradford was born on 11 April 1774 in Bristol, Bristol County, Rhode Island. Charles Collins, Jr., and she were married on 8 October 1797 in Bristol, Bristol, Massachusetts. She died on 29 March 1854 at age 79.

Lydia Bradford had person sources.¹