In a message dated 4/28/99 12:13:54 AM, you wrote: > Do have any further information about Olive Bradford and maybe her father >Capt. William Bradford? My exact note to you was: "My source notes the Bradford (as in Mayflower) Genealogy, starting at 297-4: Family of William Bradford and Hanna Parker, m. Winslow, Maine, Mar 1783. Of their nine children, the third child was Olive, b. May 7, 1787. " I said nothing about William being "Capt."; however, upon checking my notes further, I find that he was indeed the Captain William Bradford in a line with many Williams. I do not have any info yet on the early family life, just vital statistics. I only recently found the "Mayflower" web site and haven't had the time to delve deeper. I know Olive and William were probably living in Maine in 1825. Quoting from _History of Hardin County, Iowa_, published in 1883: "Olive Bradford Miles was born in Newport, Penobscot Co., Maine, April 24, 1825. She was educated at Newport Academy, and commenced teaching school at the early age of fifteen years, always commanding the highest wages . . ." Since you knew this William was the "Capt.", do you have info to share?