Henry C. Bradford (1757 - 1815)

Born Nov 1757 in Fauquier County, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth Chichester (Payne) Bradford — married about 1785 in Tennessee, United States [uncertain]

Descendants

Died Jul 1815 at age 57 in Hendersonville, Sumner, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

American Revolution <Virginia> <Continental Army> <3rd Virginia Regiment, Capt. John Blockwell's Co. under Col. Thomas Marshall.>

On 12 Feb. 1770, with his mother's consent, Henry Bradford apprenticed himself for his minority to John Cook, a tailor. Enlisted in patriots' cause in 1775. Was a member of Capt. John Blockwell's Co., 3rd Virginia Regiment, commanded by Col. Thomas Marshall; wounded in 1777 at Battle of Brandywine and discharged as a sergeant Dec. 23, 1777; granted land warrants and, in the fall of 1784, started out for the Cumberland Country but was attacked by Indians near Hazelpatch, Ky, recorded in "Early Times in Middle Tennessee." Paid taxes in 1794 in Sumner Co., Tn, on Drake's Creek near Nashville; was revenue collector for the Ohio Territory under Presidents Adams and Jefferson, 1796-1802. Became a major in the Indian Wars. A GRANT BY HENRY BRADFORD WHICH SERVES IN PLACE OF A WILL Henry Bradford To Deed Gift His Children:

Be it known to all persons that I Henry Bradford of Sumner County in the State of Tennessee that for and in consideration of the love and duty of my daughter Cecilia Bradford to me and the love I have for her and other valuable considerations, hath given and by these presents do give, grant convey, those hundred & Twenty acres of land in Jones' Bend, the same I hold in deed from Gen'l. James Robertson also the following Negroes, Silvia, Luke, Jerry & Aley and the second colt my Truxton mare has or may have. Further, one fifth part of my furniture and utensils of every sort unless or except such articles as are given to some of my other children by special description of this date this Intended the stock of all sorts are subject to the above division. ~ Be it known also that I in the same manner, on the same conditions and for the same considerations do give grant convey & confirm to the heirs of Ira Bradford under his direction for their use, my part of an undivided tract of six hundred & forty acres of land lying on Station Camp Creek and my part of several tracts of lands on Red River also the following Negroes, Hampshir, Charles, Esther and Orange (?), with one fifth part of all my furniture and utensils of every sort unless or except such articles as are or may be given to some of my other children by description of this date. ~ I do hereby give convey & confirm to William Carroll the property I have given Cecilia Carroll in as full & ample a manner as I have given it to her as witness my hand & seal this first day of July Eighteen hundred & fifteen. ~ Test Henry Bradford (seal) George R. Sampson, et al.

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6757512/henry-bradford