Joshua Bradford (1710 - 1758)

Born 23 Jun 1710 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah Bradford — married 17 Feb 1736 in Kingston, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 22 May 1758 at age 47 in Meduncook, Massachusetts Bay

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Descendant of William Bradford Mayflower passenger.

Biography

Joshua, son of Israel and Sarah (Bartlett) Bradford, was born in Plymouth on June 23, 1710 and died in Friendship, MA (now ME) on May 22, 1758 (killed by Indians).

Joshua married Hannah Bradford, daughter of Elisha and Bathesheba (Brock) Bradford, on February 17, 1736 in Kingston. Bathsheba was born in Plymouth on April 10, 1720 and she was also killed by Indians on May 22, 1758 in Friendship. Joshua and Hannah Bradford were second cousins, both great-grandchildren of Gov. William Bradford.

"A letter of the same date (22 May 1758) from 'St George's at the Eastward' was printed in the Boston News-Letter of June first: 'This Day at Two o'Clock a whaleboat came up from Meduncock, with the melancholy News of the Indians falling upon the Inhabitants there this Morning half an Hour after Sunrise; killed and scalped Mr Bradford, his Wife and Mr. Mill's Wife and kill'd her Children: two of Bradford's Boys [Joshua and Benjamin] they carried off Prisoners; wounded one of his Daughters and a Boy of Mill's dangerously: The People hearing the Indians yell got out and prevented their killing any more: One child in the House escaped by crawling Under a Bed'...The two boys came back after the peace" (New England Captives, 2:283).

Joshua is buried at Garrison Island Cemetery, East Friendship, Knox, ME (Garrison Island is a tidal island that is connected to the mainland at the tip of Bradford Point, Friendship, ME at low tide. The cemetery is at the northern tip of the island and is enclosed by an old stone wall and the shoreline).

Sources

• Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, comp., Robert Bartlett of the "Anne" and His Descendants for Four Generations, (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2000), p. 36

• Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes, comp., Alicia Crane Williams, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, John Alden, Volume 16, Part 1 of 5, (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2002), p. 232

• Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes, comp., Alicia Crane Williams, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, John Alden, Volume 16, Part 2 of 5, (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2002), p. 172-173

• Ann Smith Lainhart, Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, comps., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, William Bradford, Volume 22, (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2004), pp. 29, 122

• Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, et. al., comps., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Richard Warren, Volume 18, Part 2 of 3, 2nd edition, (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2011), p. 1

• Susan E. Roser, comp., Mayflower Births & Deaths, two volumes, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1992), 1:137

• Susan E. Roser, comp., Mayflower Marriages, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1990), p. 45

• Plymouth, Mass., Vital Records, The Mayflower Descendant, (Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1909), Volume 13, p. 168 (birth)

• <http://www.condit-family.com/ps04/ps04_200.html />

• Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/46295610/joshua-bradford : accessed 27 April 2021), memorial page for Joshua Bradford (23 Jun 1710–22 May 1758), Find A Grave: Memorial #46295610, citing Garrison Island Cemetery, East Friendship, Knox County, Maine, USA ; Maintained by J.L. (contributor 47713575) .

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZP7-VXX

• Mayflower Society Application Database: "Community Trees," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:QVQV-348 : accessed 11 April 2021), entry for Joshua Bradford, cites sources; "Mayflower Pilgrim Genealogies" file (2:2:2:MMXD-DP8), submitted 24 February 2020 by FamilySearch. Source: Barbara Lambert Merrick, E. Virginia Hunt, Mayflower Families in Progress - William Brewster of the Mayflower and the Fifth Generation Descendants of his son Love ([Plymouth, Massachusetts]: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2003) Source: Robert S. Wakefield, FASG; John Bradley Arthaud, MD, FASG; Jane Fletcher Fiske, FASG; Judith Haddock Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations - Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass December 1620 (Vol. 18 Pt. 2) ([Plymouth, Mass Source: Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes, Alicia Crane Williams, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations - Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass December 1620 (Vol. 16 pt. 2) ([Plymouth, Massachusetts]: General Society of Mayflower Descend Source: Ann Smith Lainhart; Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations - Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass December 1620 (Vol. 22) ([Plymouth, Massachusetts]: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2004)