Looking for BRADLEY parents/ancestry/vitals or any corrections,etc: [* First Generation is UNCOMFIRMED for parents of Joshua BRADLEY Sr. source is J.C. Cooley's, errorprone 1898 RATHBONE GENEOLOGY. *] =========================== FIRST GENERATION 1. Ebenezer BRADLEY. s/o _______________________ & ______________________. He b _________ @ ________________. He d _________ @ ________________. He m. Mary (_______) on _________ @ ________________. d/o _______________________ & ______________________. She b ____________ @ ________________. She d ____________ @ ________________. Children of Ebenezer BRADLEY and Mary (_______) : [2] i. Joshua BRADLEY Sr., [b c1745 or bef], m. 1770; d.1795 (other children?) ----------------------------------- SECOND GENERATION 2. Joshua BRADLEY Sr b _________ @ __________________. He was "of Roxbury, Mass." in marriage record (1770). He is listed in the 1790 FED Census for New London co., CT with fields: 1-1-4-0-0 [himself-son-wife&3daus-noOther-noSlaves] d 29 Nov 1795 in New London, New London co., CT. m Sarah CLAPP, 9 Jan 1770, ?Dorchester, Suffolk co., MA. She d/o Jonathan & Jane (TUCKER) CLAPP of Dorchester/Roxbury. Sarah CLAPP b 8 Jun 1749, Dorchester, Suffolk co., MA. She died on 23 Jan 1829, of dropsy and apoplexy. Children of Joshua BRADLEY Sr and Sarah CLAPP were: i. Deborah BRADLEY, b 4 Nov 1770. ii. Joshua BRADLEY Jr., b 30 Apr 1775; [3] iii. Sally BRADLEY, b 8 Mar 1777, New London, CT. d 30 Oct 1805. m 1794, Christopher MANNERING/MANWARING. iv. Polly BRADLEY, b [bef 1790]_______; d 25 Dec 1842. (perhaps others?) ----------------------------------- THIRD GENERATION 3. Joshua BRADLEY Jr, b 30 Apr 1775. d [after 1823] _____________ @ ________________________. He may have moved temporarily to Brookfield area, Madison co., NY, as it is reported (Cooley) that his dau Sarah was b there in 1807; and there was also an unclaimed letter, reported by A.B. SIZER, P.M., for a Joshua BRADLEY at the P.O. [Cazenovia Pilot, 12 Oct 1808] If so, he returned soon after to the Stonington, CT/Hopkinton, RI area. m Dorcas RATHBUN on 1 Jan 1801 in Kingstown, Wash. co., RI. [Cooley's says both m on the 1st and 6th Jan on 2 diff pages] Dorcas RATHBUN, b 29 Dec 1782 in Kingstown, Wash. co., RI. d/o Acors & Lydia (ROBINSON) RATHBUN of Stonington, CT. She d 15 Apr 1825 in Hopkinton, Wash. co., RI. Cause of death, inflamation of the brain, bur in Center Cemetery, New London, CT? Children of Joshua BRADLEY Jr and Dorcas RATHBUN were: i. Lydia BRADLEY, b abt 1802 in Ashaway, Wash. co., RI. ii. Mary Robinson BRADLEY, b 6 Jun 1805. d Ashaway, RI. She may have married. iii. Sally Manwaring BRADLEY, b 6 Mar 1807, ____________, NY; d 12 Mar 1888 Galesburg, Knox co., IL. m 18 Oct 1831, New London co., CT to Shermin WILLIAMS of Utica, NY, Sherman b abt 1811, __________, NY; d. aft 1870, prob Galesburg, IL; s/o Daniel & Martha (________) WILLIAMS of Russia, Herkimer co., NY. iv. Joshua Thomas Clapp BRADLEY, b 4 Apr 1808, Stonington, CT. d 13 Sep 1855. [Cooley says he m 13 Sep 1855] m Amthusa/Arathusa WHITE, b 1825; d 1868; bur Westford Hill Cem. v. Deborah BRADLEY, b 6 May 1811, d in Liberty, Adams co., IL. m 16 Jul 1837 to Joseph SHOHONY. vi. Abby Ann BRADLEY, b 13 Jun 1813 in Hopkinton, RI. d 12 Jul 1830 in Hopkinton, RI. bur N. Stonington. vii. Clarinda Wells BRADLEY, b 10 Oct 1815 in Hopkinton, RI. She died in Liberty, Adams co., IL. viii. William Penn BRADLEY, b 4 Oct 1818, Hopkinton, RI. m 28 Sep 1844, Abby FITTS. ix. Lucretia BRADLEY, b 7 May 1821 in Hopkinton, RI. d aft 1858. m 10 Aug 1858, Algernon J. HUBBELL. x. Cornelius BRADLEY, b 25 Mar 1824, Hopkinton, RI. m(1) 9 Sep 1850, Mary Ann PECKHAM. m(2) 26 Aug 1860, Mary Alice RATHBUN. =========================== End of report ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]