Polly wrote: Who added generations 5 through 1 (Harris through Richard) to the information that my cousin sent? I have been trying for years to verify the connection between our John (who married Matilda Wray) to Harris Bradford without success. Greetings Polly, Great to hear from you. Am not sure but expect I did the connection to Harris. A good bit of what I 'see' is done by deduction..... elimination..... no one else available in that particular line. Not very scientific but sometimes..... most times impossible to get help with paper work/proofs or even corrections. I generally also look at the maternal family - in this case Prewitt/Pruitt - her mother was also a Bradford of the Richard line (May Court 1786- Will of THOMAS BRADFORD lends to his daughter ELIZABETH PREWIT) {Two of Elizabeth (Bradford) Prewit's brothers also went to TN, David Bradford to Stewart Co & probably Ephraim of whom nothing is known; Elizabeth also had an Uncle Richard Bradford b. abt. 1738 who could have gone to TN after 1785 but nothing known of him at all.}.... Mary (Prewit) Bradford's brothers Joseph, John Bradford & Thomas J. Pruitt, all went to the same area of TN..... Several of Harris's siblings went to TN also. Remember these families were! 'family' (Pruitt's & Bradford's) before the marriage of Mary & Harris. I also looked at the Wray's, they were early settler's of TN, in the Davidson/Wilson Co area, looks like they came from VA to TN - but nothing really gleaned from their info. The only paper I note is the 1820 census and a paragraph out of the Bradford's of Charles City Co. Sometimes there just is no paper connection we can put our hands on. Do you have an alternative for the father of your John? Once again the beauty of genetics raises its head. 20875 has the 'modal' markers of the Richard line so that eliminates every other Bradford ancestor in the country but descendants of Richard. Since JOHN was born in ABT 1801 in TN, the next step would be to determine which Richard descendants were in TN and available to be his father. Then you eliminate them one by one, some had wills, some had bible records, etc. so their children can be determined. (At the moment I can't remember who I found or looked at.) As we get more Y-DNA results from the different Bradford families it just keeps narrowing down the possibilities. ie. the Fauquier Co, VA results that just came in indicate that you need not look at any of that family who was in TN or KY. We need several more results from that line to confirm the numbers but the one we have is totally unique and kin to no other Bradford lines in the project. (Am interested to see the results of 58679, my line, because historically they have tried to connect through Fauquier Co VA, to Maryland, to Plymouth Colony. My Grandma said so!!! ...not to mention NC History books, etc.) Anyway that's about it... I don't know if Harris is correct or not but do know that I try to look at the entire picture and all probabilities as far as possible. It was an independant conclusion so its interesting that you have been trying to make that connection. I'll also make it clearer on the Participant page that anything above the dotted line is my deduction and not what the participant sent in. Regards, Becky NOTES: 1820 Smith Co., TN Census [26 total Bradford's in TN] BOOKER BRADFORD - brother of HARRIS THOMAS BRADFORD - ID? maybe another line; Orange? THOMAS BRADFORD - ID? maybe another line JOSEPH BRADFORD - could be son of Booker HARRIS BRADFORD - subject 1830 TAX LIST, Gibson Co., TN Harris with sons, Levi, James C. HARRIS and most of his sons ended up in Gibson Co..... but Henderson Co where John ended up is just a few miles further east. They all seem to have migrated west within a few years of each other. James Wray was given the right to operate a ferry at the mouth of Wartrace Creek, and this shows further that that section was then in Smith County. “Ordered that James Wray be allowed to keep a ferry at the mouth of Wartrace Creek on Cumberland River, and that he be allowed the sum of 12 ½ cents for each man and horse; 6 ¼ cents for a single man or a single horse; 12 ½ cents for each pack horse, and for each head of horned cattle 6 ¼ cents; and for all other livestock, two cents for each. For each wagon and team, one dollar; for each cart and team, 50 cents; for each four-wheeled carriage of pleasure, for the conveyance of persons, one dollar; and for each two-wheeled carriage of pleasure, 50 cents, who came into Court and gave security according to law.” This shows the boundary line between Jackson County and Smith County in the year 1802 to have been above the mouth of Wartrace Creek, which is above the present Fort Blount location. ========================================= THIS IS THE GRANDSON OF HARRIS... THIS BIO IS INTERESTING AS IT IS SAYS THE SAME THING I SAID ABOVE ABOUT waiting on the results of my line because they thought that they descended from the Governor. I have Absolem's wife name as MARGARET WARREN.... and Robert's as MARY BAKER - there don't seem to be any Bradford's in her line, so assume Goodspeed mixed up things with Elizabeth, Mother of Mary Pruitt, w. of Harris. (I had not heard any Richard descendants say this but the 'JOHN' line from Richard. All others have a fairly secure paper trail back to Richard, so did not need to 'invent' an ancestor.) ===================================== Goodspeed Bibliographies, 1887, Gibson County, TN Robert D. Bradford is of English descent, and was born in Bedford County, Tenn., July 23,1833, son of Absalom and Margaret (Warren) Bradford, who were North Carolinians, and moved to Middle Tennessee when young. Here they married and became the parents of twelve children. They came to Gibson County in 1836, where they followed agricultural pursuits and spent the remainder of their days. Absalom Bradford was a Democrat, and was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was with Jackson on his Seminole campaign. He was a man of broad mind and liberality, and died in 1849. His widow continued to reside on the old homestead, and died in 1878. Her mother's maiden name was Bradford and she was a relative of Gov. Bradford, of Plymouth Colony. Robert D. Bradford's early days were spent on a farm, and while growing up, his education was wholly neglected. At the age of sixteen he began to battle his own way in the world. He delighted in gaming and horse-racing, but at the same time carried on! farming. In 1853 he married Mary Baker, who was born January 8, 1830, and to their union were born eleven children. In 1855 Mr. Bradford located in the woods on the present side of Bradford, and here has since made his home. When the railroad was built, a town sprang up and took the name of Kimble; but was afterward changed to Bradford in honor of our subject. Mr. Bradford owns eighty acres of land adjacent to the town and in addition to farming, trades to some extent in stock. In 1861 he joined Capt. Walker's company of Twelfth Tennessee Confederate Infantry and was so severely wounded at Shiloh, that he was disabled for further service. He is a Democrat, and a member of the Christian Church. His wife is a Missionary Baptist. P.S. It won't be myself who figures this out ... but as upgrades to 59 markers come in it MIGHT be possible (for Adam) to discern when lineages split in some instances. This would narrow things considerably.

Hi all. I just want to apologize to everyone about my neglect on this project! Life as been very hectic for me and I just started my own professional genealogy business, which makes it even worse. I'm also applying to grad school to get my 2nd MA in library science. Once I get my application off in the mail this week, I'll be setting up a schedule for my evenings so that I can get everything done that I have. Maybe then I'll be able to live up to my goal of 1 new document online at the NC Bradford Project page a week. Erin Erin Bradford eabradfo@yahoo.com List manager http://www.ncalhn.org ALHN County Coordinator for multiple NC Counties http://www.gendepository.com (the Genealogy Depository-Barringer, Black, Bradford, Coventry, Eller, Hackett, Hupp, and Kern)

Hi all! I've been pretty absent from the list and website lately. Sorry for that, just been very busy. I wanted to let everyone know about a new feature that will be coming within a week to the website and also take a vote on another feature. 1st, I have decided to add a message board to the site (the site is in my signature). I've thought about doing this for years, but put it off because there is a plethora of message boards for genealogists out there. I finally decided to add them as just another tool for everyone to use and I really don't expect a lot of use on these boards. I am in no way advocating using my boards over Ancestry.com/Rootsweb.com boards, these are just another tool you can use. Anyone can view the boar, but to help control spam and unwanted posts to the board, I have set it up so that you have to register to post a message and you have to register to see the poster's contact info (user name, email, etc.). If I find that these security measures are not enough, I can upgrade them and make the restrictions tighter. Also, when you register, a message will be send to the email address you give in order to confirm your address before you can post. I know to some this will be seen as an inconvenience, but it's all to protect your email from spammers who search for email addresses on message boards. There are still some kinks I need to work out and hopefully will get that done within the week. Check the main website under the announcements in about a week for the new boards. 2nd, I have the option to add a chat room to the website. Is this something that you would like? I know there are also a plethora of chat sites online as well (I'm a host at one). If a chat room is added, I'd like to keep the chats related to the surnames on the website/lists I moderate. There is a good chat forum for locality chats (http://www.genealogyforum.org), I host Southern US on Monday nights, but there are chats for pretty much any location and general chats for locations that don't have a specific chat. Ideas of how a chat room on the GenDepository site could be utilized is everyone of a surname get together to share information (this could be good for the "lurkers" on these lists who never post), or possibly a meeting place for a special research topic on one of the surnames to give each other updates, etc. 2 special topics I can think of right now are the NC Bradford project I'm working on and also the Bradford DNA project. For the Eller list, maybe all the descendants of George Michael Eller. Maybe for the Black list all Blacks in a certain location or from a common ancestor. I would be more than happy to set up this chat room if it will be used. The chat room itself is free for me to set up, but if I do set it up and it's never used, it would be a waste of disk space and bandwidth. Please respond to me off the list if you are interested in this feature. Please don't clog up the mailing list by responding there, send you vote off the list. If you are on list mode (Surname-L), you should just be able to hit reply and respond to me directly. If you ware digest mode (Surname-D), copy my email address, hit reply, and paste my address over the one in the "to" field. Thanks all and good luck to all in your research! Erin Bradford eabradfo@yahoo.com List manager http://www.ncalhn.org ALHN County Coordinator for multiple NC Counties http://www.gendepository.com (the Genealogy Depository-Barringer, Black, Bradford, Coventry, Eller, Hackett, Hupp, and Kern)

12 Marker results are in for our FAUQUIER Co, VA participant, #53454. No relationship is indicated to other Bradford families in the project, but more participants are needed that descend from John Bradford & Mary Marr Kingcart to confirm the numbers for this family. http://www.familytreedna.com/public/bradford An outline of this family is located on the Immigrant page: http://www.bradfordgenealogy.org The good news is that other unconnected participants can now eliminate a connection to this Bradford line and concentrate their research on other avenues.

gdianpatterson <skeeter@saferinternet.com> wrote:I am looking to correspond with anyone who might have this little girl in their Bradford family. This would be Celia Leota Bradford..She died of diptheria at 9 years of age, Ohio. Her birthdate is 7 August,1887, in Knox Twp.Guernsey County. Ohio. Her parents were:Valentine Bradford and Sarah Melissa Baker.She had one brother,Ernest Bradford. When did she die and where is she buried ? Please contact me at skeeter@saferinternet.com Erin Bradford eabradfo@yahoo.com List manager http://www.ncalhn.org ALHN County Coordinator for multiple NC Counties http://www.gendepository.com (the Genealogy Depository-Barringer, Black, Bradford, Coventry, Eller, Hackett, Hupp, and Kern)

Keep in mind that in 1766, Frederick County was larger than its 1810 boundaries, also including Shenandoah, Jefferson, and Berkeley Counties. On 3/29/06, Becky Mosely <beckymosely@comcast.net> wrote: > Ran across this: > > VIRGINIA GAZETTE 1766 > > George III, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the faith, etc. To the sheriff of Frederick county, greeting: We command you that you summon Philip Busb and Charles Darnall Bradford to appear before our Justices of our General Court, in Chancer, at the Capitol in Williamsburg, on the first day of the next court, to answer a bill in chancery exhibited against them by John and Thomas Kirkpatrick, merchants and partners; and this they will in no wise omit, under the penalty of each 100 l. and have then there this writ. Witness Francis Fauquier, Esq; our Lieutenant Governour, at Williamsburg, the 18th day of October, in the 6th year of our reign. > BEN. WALLER > > In the Virginia 1810 Census a HENRY BRADFORD is listed in FREDERICK CO. VA > > I also ran across entries at the S.C. Archive site for CHARLES DARNELL BRADFORD. > > > > ==== BRADFORD Mailing List ==== > Come visit the Genealogy Depository at http://www.gendepository.com > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bradford Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3YF.2ACIB/1986 Message Board Post: I have an ancestor named Seaborn Bradford born 1834-35 in Georgia. Both Parents were born in Georgia also. He married Hannah S. Warren then Linnie Cathrine Stephens. this is as far back as i have been able to go. He is a caucasion male who also resided in Alabama and Mississippi. If anyone has any info and might think that they have decended from his line I would appreciate any info . Thank you. email is rebelyankeemoma@aol.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bradford, Zacharias, McFarland, Serfass Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3YF.2ACIB/1985 Message Board Post: My g-g-grandmother Susannah (Susan) Mary Bradford McFarland (Apr. 12 1871- Nov, 24 1948) was the daughter of a George Bradford, according to our family Bible. I have no other information, except that Susannah's birthplace is Polk Township, Monroe County, PA. Her mother is Ebethenia Zacharias Getz (listed in my family bible as Ebazina Bradford Getz) and was born and remained in the Monroe County area for most of her life. Whether she married George Bradford I don't know. In the 1880 Census Ebethenia and Sussannah were living in Ebethenia's parent's home in Polk Township. If anyone has any possible connection or leads to this George Bradford I would appreciate hearing from you!!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BRADFORD Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3YF.2ACIB/1984 Message Board Post: CROUCH_1_Robert_Isaac_and_Kathryn_BRADFORD.JPG I photographed this gravestone in the Southland Memorial Park Cemetery, Grand Prairie, Dallas County, Texas . Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 137,546 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com

Hi list Is anyone researching BRADFORDs from Sheffield South Yorkshire England. June Chatterton Sheffield www.junechatterton.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk Tracing relatives of BRADFORD, HAWLEY, LEMONS AND MITCHELL and CHATTERTON, BENSON, FIELDSEND, KENNY/KENNEY

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BRADFORD Classification: Cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3YF.2ACIB/1983 Message Board Post: BRADFORD_Arthur_C_and_Hannah_M.JPG I photographed this gravestone in the Southland Memorial Park Cemetery, Grand Prairie, Dallas County, Texas . Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 137,546 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bradford Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3YF.2ACIB/1982 Message Board Post: Looking for information on John "Jack" Bradford. He was born 30 July 1900, and died 20 April 1948. Looking for his parents name, and where he was born, I know he died in Port Jervis, Orange County, New YOrk and is buried in the Westbrookeville Cemetery. But that is all I know, each time I search census records I come up with a blank for his age group. If someone could help I would appreciate it.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BRADFORD Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3YF.2ACIB/1981 Message Board Post: I am searching for the parents and siblings of my great-grandfather, William Henry Bradford. He was born April 19, 1848 in Poage's Landing, KY and died abt 1919 most likely in WV. All censuses indicate his mother was born in KY. One census indicates his father was born in Ireland and others indicate WV. He resided in Belmont Co., OH in 1880 and Ohio Co., WV in the 1900 and 1910 censuses. Please visit my website for further info: http://home.earthlink.net/~kithandkin/ Thank you.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BRADFORD Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3YF.2ACIB/1980 Message Board Post: Not related but may be of interet to someone vho is. Vern D ////////////////////////////////////////// Transcribed by "Dee Sardoc" <deesar@frontiernet.net> CASANJOA-L@rootsweb.com /////////////////////////// Weekly Stockton Democrat Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA December 1858 ************************* Sunday, 19 Dec 1858 ******************** FUNERAL -- The funeral of the late Mr. C.W. BRADFORD, that was to have taken place Saturday, was postponed until Sunday, owing to an unusual severe storm. The funeral sermon was preached in the Cumberland Presbyterian church. The building was not sufficiently large to contain the great number that attended. The procession formed by the Firemen, Odd Fellows and citizens generally, preceded by the Stockton Band, formed a lengthy line, and escorted the body to the Odd Fellows Cemetery. It was a procession worthy of one who had ever been found a worthy citizen.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bradford Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3YF.2ACIB/443.997.1 Message Board Post: Do you know any more info about your William? I have a William Bradford in my line that was born approx 1911 in Missouri, and then moved to Wilmington, DE between 1920s-30s. I don't have any information on his wife.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3YF.2ACIB/1979 Message Board Post: I was told last year that the Bradford/Evans families have a family reunion. My family and I are very interested. If anyone has any information it would be great. Robin Robinj4778@aol.com

This is a truly great link..... http://www.clocations.com/default.aspx Locates cemeteries, streams, lakes, churches, historic things, etc. All pinpointed and if you click the HYBRID view, it names roads as well as the ariel. The East Georgia Genealogical Society is compiling a book of family 'sketches' who were in the 28 county area covered by their organization. "EAST GEORGIA SETTLERS" Go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaeggs/projects.html for full information on the project as well as the organization. (Not necessary to be a member.)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3YF.2ACIB/1304.3.1 Message Board Post: Hi Brenda, Just let me know what you're stuck on and I will try and help you if I have the information that you're needing. You can email me at marciacrabtree@hotmail.com and just put Bradford Info. on subject line and I will answer you asap. Marcia

Ran across this: VIRGINIA GAZETTE 1766 George III, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, defender of the faith, etc. To the sheriff of Frederick county, greeting: We command you that you summon Philip Busb and Charles Darnall Bradford to appear before our Justices of our General Court, in Chancer, at the Capitol in Williamsburg, on the first day of the next court, to answer a bill in chancery exhibited against them by John and Thomas Kirkpatrick, merchants and partners; and this they will in no wise omit, under the penalty of each 100 l. and have then there this writ. Witness Francis Fauquier, Esq; our Lieutenant Governour, at Williamsburg, the 18th day of October, in the 6th year of our reign. BEN. WALLER In the Virginia 1810 Census a HENRY BRADFORD is listed in FREDERICK CO. VA I also ran across entries at the S.C. Archive site for CHARLES DARNELL BRADFORD.

BRADFORD Project page at FTDNA = http://www.familytreedna.com/(rf5fvq3jskjwyentsfd0i1iq)/public/bradford/inde x.aspx?fixed_columns=on BRADFORD Y-DNA Project Web site = http://www.bradfordgenealogy.org/ Diane Carrington Bradford Atlanta, GA -----Original Message----- From: mandpthompson@bellsouth.net [mailto:mandpthompson@bellsouth.net] Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 8:35 AM To: BRADFORD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BRADFORD-L] Re: BRADFORD-D Digest V06 #30 Could you direct me to the main site for the Bradford DNA project? My husband is related through the Brazil Bradford line. Thank you, Phyllis T. From: BRADFORD-D-request@rootsweb.com Date: 2006/03/25 Sat AM 06:00:04 EST To: BRADFORD-D@rootsweb.com Subject: BRADFORD-D Digest V06 #30 ==== BRADFORD Mailing List ==== Looking for a genealogy chat? Come check out Genealogy Chats, Inc. at http://www.genealogyforum.org