Hello Robert, It has been awhile since we e-mailed concerning the Shaw and Bradley families. I am going to Vermont this week in hope of finding a birth record for Rebecca Bradley and family. Any help you can offer would be appreciated. I have looked through LDS FHC films for Jericho, clerk records, and the church records but found no record for her. I did find a lot of information on the Taylor and extended families through published genealogies. George Wyllys and John Haynes are buried in the old cemetery in Hartford and I have photographed their head stones and inscriptions. If there is anything you are interested in let me know. Thanks in advance, Bud -----Original Message----- From: shaw-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:shaw-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of relativity49@yahoo.com Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:52 PM To: SHAW-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SHAW] Daniel Shaw & Rhoda Taylor, James Bradley & wife Sarah 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/BAHBAEB/2145.2148.2150.2153.2156.21 61.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.2.1.5 Message Board Post: Here are some of the family stats for you, Bud. Rhoda Taylor was born August 24, 1755 in Westfield, MA to Eldad and Esther (Day) Taylor (birth recorded there). Rhoda married Daniel Shaw in Becket, MA (intentions) January 16, 1772. Rufus was born in Becket May 5, 1773 (birth recorded there.) Rufus and Rebecca had the following births recorded in Williston, VT: Sally 1799 Enos April 24, 1801 (my ggg grandfather) Ansan Minerva Julius Sally/Polly June 14, 1813 Dennis James Bradley was born June 15, 1726 in East Haven, CT. His parents were William Bradley (b 1682) and Elizabeth Chidsey (b 1692/3). (William Bradley's parents were Isaac Bradley and Elizabeth Darrish. Elizabeth Chedsey's parents were Ebenezer Chidsey and Proscilla Thompson.) James Bradley's father died either before he was born or when he was a baby. James married Sarah, maiden name unknown - but some descendents have plausible a theory that it might be Newton.) James died in Jericho, VT at the home of his daughter, Sarah Rood. (Sarah Rood's husband (Thomas Drakely Rood) was the person who married Rufus and Rebecca.) James and Sarah Bradley had children: our Rebecca, born in Shelton CT (birth recorded by church- youngest in the family) Sarah (married Thomas D Rood) Lucy (married a Rood) Joanna (also married a Rood) Hephzibah Mehitable Emma Joseph (married Naomi Taylor - our Rhoda Taylor's sister - and Joseph is our Sarah's brother) Elisha (married Asenath Barber) 2 more sons According to a descendant of Sarah (Bradley) Rood, James Bradley was in the shipping business in CT before the the revolutionary war. Herman Rood (?) said that James Bradley lost a ship to British attack in the revolution. James is also said to have sold land in New Haven to Yale U. As for Daniel Shaw, I have been trying to piece together information to try to locate his parents. The Williston VT clerk gave me an "unofficial" date of birth for him of 1740. He died in Williston July 1, 1804. The Daniel Shaw (our Daniel's son and Rufus's brother) is listed by name on the estate records from when our Daniel died in 1804. Daniel Shaw, Jr was "unofficially" born in 1757, which would mean that Rhoda Taylor was not his mother - and our Daniel was married before. He married Polly Woodworth. Now, an account in Williston says that Daniel Shaw was from Taunton MA. Daniel Shaw and Jemima Hodges were married in 1739 and lived in Taunton. Records destroyed by fire in Taunton, but a birth in 1740 would match up very nicely for them to be his parents. More later..... ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SHAW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message