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/1932 Message Board Post: BRADFORD, THOMAS, Temporal Coadjutor, a native of Cambridgeshire, born 1612; entered the Society 1638, and was formed November 21, 1649. He died at Ghent, November 1, 1668. In "Stoneyhurst MSS. Anglia, vol. v. is a very interesting letter from Brother Bradford to the Very Rev. Father General, dated Tunis, from the Bagno, June 5, 1657. He had been sent to Maryland 'en route' for the Indies, and, falling sick there, was taken prisoner by Turkish pirates on his way back to Cadiz, made a slave to the Bey, and was cruelly treated to compel payment of a ransom. He was afterwards carried to Tunis for sale, and wrote to beg prayers for his constancy. RECORDS OF THE ENGLISH PROVINCE OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS, VOLUME 7, Ogden, Utah Family History Library, Book # 4948/ 942K2EP vol.7, page 77