Brief Life History of Samuel
When Samuel Bradford was born on 8 May 1720, in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, William Bradford, was 33 and his mother, Grace Elliott, was 32. He married Mary Taylor on 29 December 1743, in Middleton, Essex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died in August 1776, in Hillsborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Acworth, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States.
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- Samuel Bradford, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Samuell Bradford, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Samuel Bradford, "Find A Grave Index"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New Hampshire is 9th state.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places, large and small, called Bradford; in particular the city in Yorkshire, which originally rose to prosperity as a wool town. There are others in Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Greater Manchester, Norfolk, Somerset, Cheshire, Wiltshire and elsewhere. They are all named with Old English brād ‘broad’ + ford ‘ford’.
History: This name was brought independently to North American by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. William Bradford (1590–1657), born in Austerfield in South Yorkshire, England, the son of a yeoman farmer, was among the Pilgrim Fathers who emigrated to North America on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a signer of the Mayflower Compact and in 1621 he was elected governor of Plymouth colony, being re-elected thirty times. Another William Bradford (1663–1752), printer, came from Barnwell, Leicestershire, England, to Philadelphia, PA, in 1685, subsequently moving to New York, where he set up a printing press and founded a paper mill. His grandson, also called William Bradford (1721–91), was known as ‘the patriot printer’, famous for his Philadelphia newspaper, which among other things denounced the Stamp Act, "which no American can mention without abhorrence".
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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