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Descendants of Edward Bradbury

Generation No. 12

66. John¹² Bradbury (Wymond¹¹, Wymond¹⁰, Thomas⁹, Wymond⁸, William⁷, Matthew⁶, William⁵, Robert⁴, William³, Robert², Edward¹)³²⁷ was born September 09, 1697³²⁷, and died December 03, 1778 ³²⁸. He married Abigail Young³²⁹, daughter of Joseph Young and Abigail Donnell. She was born in of York, ME³²⁹, and died September 28, 1787 ³³⁰.

Notes for John Bradbury:
From the Bradbury Memorial, p. 76: John Bradbury was known as "The Elder" ... He was founder of the York family of Bradbury, a leading man in town affairs and in the Presbyterian church of which he was elder. At the breaking out of the Revolutionary War he warmly espoused the cause of the colonies, and it is said that on one occasion he rebuked his minister in open meeting for disloyal sentiments expressed in his sermon. He was several terms a member of the provinical legislature, and of the executive council ten years, He was also judge of porbate."

More About John Bradbury:
Bradbury Memorial #: 21
Charlemagne: Descendant

Children of John Bradbury and Abigail Young are:

+	83	i.		Cotton¹³ Bradbury, born October 08, 1722; died June 14, 1806.
	84	ii.		Lucy Bradbury ³³¹, born January 18, 1724/25³³¹.

More About Lucy Bradbury:
Bradbury Memorial #: 61
Charlemagne: Descendant

iii.

Bethulah Bradbury³³¹, born March 20, 1726/27³³¹. She married James Sayward³³¹.

More About Bethulah Bradbury:
Bradbury Memorial #: 62
Charlemagne: Descendant

iv.

Mariah Bradbury³³¹, born April 05, 1729³³¹. She married Simpson³³¹.

More About Mariah Bradbury:
Bradbury Memorial #: 63
Charlemagne: Descendant

Abigail Bradbury³³¹, born August 12, 1731³³¹.

More About Abigail Bradbury:
Bradbury Memorial #: 64
Charlemagne: Descendant

vi.

Elizabeth Bradbury³³¹, born January 05, 1733/34³³¹.

More About Elizabeth Bradbury:
Bradbury Memorial #: 65
Charlemagne: Descendant

vii.

John Bradbury³³¹, born September 18, 1736³³¹. He married Elizabeth Ingraham³³¹.

More About John Bradbury:
Bradbury Memorial #: 66
Charlemagne: Descendant

viii.

Joseph Bradbury³³¹, born October 23, 1740³³¹. He married Dorothy Clark³³¹.

More About Joseph Bradbury:
Bradbury Memorial #: 67
Charlemagne: Descendant

ix.

Anne Bradbury³³¹, born June 02, 1743³³¹. She married Moulton³³¹.

More About Anne Bradbury:
Bradbury Memorial #: 68
Charlemagne: Descendant

73. Mary¹² Moody (Samuel¹¹, Judith¹⁰ Bradbury, Thomas⁹, Wymond⁸, William⁷, Matthew⁶, William⁵, Robert⁴, William³, Robert², Edward¹)^332,³³³ was born 1702 ^334,³³⁵, and died 1779 ³³⁶. She married Rev. Joseph Emerson³³⁷. He was born April 20, 1700 in Chelmsford, MA, and died 1767³³⁷.

Notes for Rev. Joseph Emerson:
He was the officiating minister at the marriage of John Haskins and Hannah Upham

Child of Mary Moody and Joseph Emerson is:

Rev. William¹³ Emerson, born 1743; died October 20, 1776.

74. Capt. Thomas¹² Bradbury (Jacob¹¹, William¹⁰, Thomas⁹, Wymond⁸, William⁷, Matthew⁶, William⁵, Robert⁴, William³, Robert², Edward¹)^338,³³⁹ was born August 16, 1699 in Salisbury, MA^339,³⁴⁰, and died Abt. 1775 in Buxton, ME ³⁴¹. He married Sarah Merrill^341,³⁴² April 16, 1724 in Salisbury, MA ^343,^344,^345,³⁴⁶, daughter of Moses Merrill and Mary Clough. She was born April 07, 1706 in Salisbury, Essex, Mass ^347,^348,^349,³⁵⁰, and died Aft. 1749 in Buxton, Maine ³⁵¹.

Notes for Capt. Thomas Bradbury:
From the Bradbury Memorial, p. 81: "He was much in the military service during the Indian Wars, and after they were over he moved to what is now Buxton, where he died about the year 1775."

From " A Merrill Memorial" by Samuel Merrill, Cambridge, MA 1917-1928 p 198: "Capt. Thomas Bradbury son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Stockman) Bradbury of Salisbury was born 16 Aug 1699; lived Salisbury until about 1744, and then removed to Biddeford and afterword to "Narraganset, No. 1" (now Buxton), ME. Capt. Bradbury was one of the first settlers of Buxton and was a distinguished soldier and Indian fighter. He commanded, in 1748-49, at the block-house on the west side of the Saco River, Near Union Falls."

From the book, "The Allens" , He was a yeoman. He lived in Salisbury, and after his fathers death in 1718 be became owner of the family hoestead. ... They were living in Salisbury in 1741, and probably as late as 1745 when daughter Mary was born. But since at least three of his sons were later from Biddeford, Me., it is possible he and his family removed to Biddeford at about that time. "

Summary:
1699 Born in Salisbury, MA
1744- 1745 Moved to Biddeford
17xx moved to Buxton
1775 died in Buxton

More About Capt. Thomas Bradbury:
Bradbury Memorial #: 43 ³⁵²
Charlemagne: Descendant

More About Thomas Bradbury and Sarah Merrill:
Marriage: April 16, 1724, Salisbury, MA ^353,^354,^355,³⁵⁶

Children of Thomas Bradbury and Sarah Merrill are:

Samuel¹³ Bradbury, born October 16, 1724 in Salisbury, Essex, MA ³⁵⁷; died January 06, 1729/30 in Salisbury?, Essex, MA³⁵⁷.

More About Samuel Bradbury:
Bradbury Memorial #: 118³⁵⁷
Charlemagne: Descendant

ii.

Elizabeth Bradbury, born April 13, 1727 in Salisbury, Essex, MA^357,³⁵⁸; died January 18, 1820³⁵⁸. She married Samuel Merrill, Jr ^359,^360,³⁶¹ March 03, 1746/47 in Salisbury, MA³⁶¹; born January 08, 1728/29 in Salisbury, MA³⁶¹; died May 04, 1822³⁶¹.

More About Elizabeth Bradbury:
Bradbury Memorial #: 119 ³⁶²
Charlemagne: Descendant

Notes for Samuel Merrill, Jr:
From the book, "A Merrill Memorial Volume 1" , pp. 143-145:

Buxton, Me. The Narraganset War was a brief episode of the war against King Philip, chief of the Wampanoags, and it was fought in 1675. The Massachusetts soldiers who took part in the campaign were promised, in the event of success, grants of land in addition to their usual service pay, but for many years the terms of the promise were not complied with. At last, in 1734, a grant of land (Source: "Portland in the Past," by William Gould, (Portland,1886), pp. 330-331.) on the east side of the Saco River in Maine, some ten miles above its mouth, was made to 120 proprietors, the proprietors being soldiers of the Narraganset War, or their representatives. The township was given the name Narraganset No. 1, (*) and by this name it was known until, at its incorporation in 1772, it received the name Buxton.

Settlement was begun in 1742, but little progress in this direction had been made when, in 1744, war between England and France broke out, and the few settlers were forced to abandon their farms and take refuge in the more easily defended towns along the coast. In 1750, the war having ended, some of the settlers returned, and thereafter nothing happened to cause them to desert their homes.

Capt. Thomas Bradbury of Biddeford was one of the proprietors of Narraganset No. 1. He was a native of Salisbury, Mass., and married Sarah4 Merrill (Moses3, Daniel2). His daughter Elizabeth married Samuel5 Merrill of Salisbury, a great-grandson of Daniel2 Merrill through John3 and Thomas4. (See page 359.) Capt. Bradbury was noted as an Indian fighter, and in 1748 and 1749 had command of a block-house on Saco River, opposite the southern extremity of the present town of Buxton. But Capt. Bradbury did not become a resident of Narraganset No. 1 until about 1763.

Samuel5 Merrill had been a soldier at the block-house, under his father-in-law's command, in 1748. He was living in Narraganset No. 1 on the 17th of May, 1751, for on that day he was one of the signers of a petition for a meeting of the proprietors of the Plantation. Capt. Bradbury had purchased two lots of land in the Narraganset township, paying for them �600, old tenor. One was described as Lot 1, Range D, 1st Division, and the deed recites that a dwelling house stood upon it. This "was probably the first dwelling house in the town worthy of the name."(**) Capt. Bradbury gave a deed of this farm to his son-in-law, under date of 22 Nov. 1753, and here Samuel5 Merrill spent the remainder of his long life, dying in 1822 at the age of ninety-three years. The homestead was near Salmon Falls, and in 1872 a portion of the farm was in possession of Ansel9 Merrill, greatgreat-grandson of Samuel5 Merrill.

(*) There were seven "Narraganset" townships. No. 2 is now Westminster, Mass.; No. 3, Amherst, N.H.; No. 4, Goffstown, N.H.; No. 5, Bedford, N.H.; No. 6, Templeton, Mass.; No. 7, Gorham, Me. (**) "Buxton Centennial," (Portland, 1874), p. 236.

In 1754 Samuel Merrill was a second time a petitioner for a proprietors' meeting, this time the fear of attack by the Indians impelling the proprietors to provide for the erection of a fort, the structure "to be forty feet square bilt with Pillasaders or Stockades three feet & one half in the ground & ten feet above the Ground & Said Stockades to be Sett Double & a Good flanker or watch box at two opposite Corners of Said fort." By good fortune no attack was made by the Indians in the course of the seven years' war, from 1754 to 1761. Once Indians were seen in the vicinity, and all the inhabitants hastened to the garrison, "who were aided and assisted on this occasion by the coolness and decision of Lieut. Samuel Merrill." (*)

Samuel5 Merrill was a man of prominence in the community. In 1761 at a meeting of the proprietors it was "Voted that the proprietors give to Samuel Merrill the old meeting house for said props meeting in Said merrills dwelling house on Lords days heretofore." He was repeatedly chosen surveyor of roads, and after the incorporation of the town he was frequently elected selectman. His military service continued as late as the Revolution, and he served as a lieutenant at the battle of Bunker Hill, in the company commanded by Capt. Jeremiah Hill. (**) Ten of his children lived to grow up; and they left many descendants in Buxton. His name was handed down in the successive generations, Rev. Samuel-Hill Merrill, the genealogist (see pages 1-4), and Governor Merrill of Iowa (see page 534), among others, receiving the name Samuel as part of their inheritance.

(**) "Buxton Centennial," pp. 163, 272. His son Samuel6 was a member of the same company.

From the book, "A Merrill Memorial Volume 1" , pp. 359: "After 1753 he lived near Salmon Falls, Buxton, Me, of which town he was one of the first settlers. (see pages 144-5) He was lieutenant at the Battle of Bunker Hill..."

More About Samuel Merrill and Elizabeth Bradbury:
Marriage: March 03, 1746/47, Salisbury, MA ³⁶³

+	95	iii.		Jacob Bradbury, born Abt. September 15, 1728 in Salisbury, Essex, MA; died 1801.
	96	iv.		Moses Bradbury, born February 14, 1730/31 in Salisbury, Essex, MA ³⁶⁴.