Mary White was born to Jonathan White and Faithey Hicks on Sept 30, 1731 in Granville,North Carolina[1]
Spouse: Thomas Bradford. Mary White and Thomas Bradford were married in 1751 in Granville County, North Carolina.
Their children are:
Thomas Bradford was born in 1731 in Westover, Charles City County, Virginia, United States. He died in May 1786 at the age of 55 in Granville County, North Carolina. Date of death has also been found as 1785. Parents: Philemon Bradford and Mary Byrd.
3 Elizabeth Bradford was born in 1752 in Granville County, North Carolina, United States. She died in 1789 at the age of 37 in Granville County, North Carolina, United States. Parents: Thomas Bradford and Mary White.
5 Philemon Bradford was born on 17 April 1757 in Granville County, North Carolina, United States. He died on 17 June 1824 at the age of 67 in Granville County, North Carolina, United States. Parents: Thomas Bradford and Mary White. Spouse: Susana Clopton. Susana Clopton and Philemon Bradford were married on 25 March 1779 in Franklin County, North Carolina, United States. Their date of marriage has also been found as 25 Apr 1779. They lived in Greenville, Greenville County, South Carolina, United States in 1800. They lived in Greenville County, South Carolina, United States in 1810. Susana and Philemon lived in Greenville County, South Carolina, United States in 1820. Children were: Benjamin Bradford, Jonathan Bradford, Henry Bradford, Mary Bradford, Thomas C. Bradford, William D. Bradford, Elizabeth Bradford, Archibald Archer Bradford, Ann Bradford, Benjamin Bradford, Philemon Bradford, Susan Bradford, Lemuel J. Bradford.
7 Thomas William Bradford was born in 1761 in Granville County, North Carolina, United States. He died on 1 December 1851 at the age of 90 in White County, Tennessee, United States. Parents: Thomas Bradford and Mary White. Spouse: Eva Kearney. Eva Kearney and Thomas William Bradford were married on 2 April 1782 in Granville County, North Carolina, United States. They lived in Granville County, North Carolina, United States in 1784. Children were: Kearney Bradford, Elizabeth Bradford, Barbara Bradford, Mariah Bradford.
Spouse: Mary Polly Hargraves. Mary Polly Hargraves and Thomas William Bradford were married. They lived in Franklin County, North Carolina, United States in 1790. Children were: Alice Bradford, Timothy Bradford, Brazil Ransom Bradford, Thomas Madison Bradford, Margaret Bradford, Mary Bradford, Nathaniel Thomas Bradford, Nancy Bradford, Betsey Bradford.
Generation No. 4 THOMAS4 BRADFORD (PHILEMON3, RICHARD2, RICHARD1, BRADFORD) was born 1731, in Westover, Charles City County, VA, and died March 22, 1785, in Granville County, NC. He married MARY WHITE HOLMES. Children of THOMAS BRADFORD and MARY WHITE HOLMES are: ELIZABETH BRADFORD, b. 1752, Granville County, NC; d. 1789, Granville County, NC. MARY BRADFORD, b. 1754, Granville, County, NC; d. unknown; m. JONES FULLER, b. 1735, Granville County, NC. Note: No, she married Richard? Lovett. Sarah married Jones Fuller PHILEMON BRADFORD, b. April 17, 1757, Granville County, NC; d. June 17, 1824, Granville County, NC; m. SUZANNA CLOPTON, b. June 22, 1761, in Franklin County, NC. DAVID BRADFORD, b. 1758, Granville County, NC; d. 1800, Granville County, NC; m. MARY KEARNY, b. ABT 1764. THOMAS BRADFORD, b. 1761, Granville County, NC; d. 1849, White County, TN; m. POLLY HARGRAVES (1782), MARTHA GARRISON (1804). BENJAMIN5BRADFORD, b. 1763, Granville County, NC; d. 1826, Granville County, NC; m. POLLY SMITH. EPHRAIM BRADFORD, b. 1765, Granville County, NC; d. unknown. SARAH BRADFORD, b. 1767, Granville County, NC; d. 1800. SEALY BRADFORD, b. 1769, Granville County, NC; d. unknown.
Granville County North Carolina Tax List of 1753 Whites 1 Blacks 1 Total 2 Thomas Bradford negro Hanner[2]
Col. William Eaton's Militia Regiment Granville Co., NC - roll taken 8 Oct 1754 William Eaton, Colonel William Person, Lieut. Colonel James Paine, Major Capt. John SALLIS' Company (90 men) George MORRIS, Lieut. James MITCHEL, Ensign 11. Thomas BRADFORD Cit. This muster roll [found in Vol. 22 of the North Carolina State Records] is generally considered to be the first true accounting of all able-bodied men in Granville County. Those men in this regiment are believed to range in ages from young (teens) to much older (perhaps even some grandfathers!)
The Will of Thomas Bradford
Granville County, NC
March 22, 1785
NOTES: Words and phrases identified like this? in my transcription below signify the best guess.
Thomas Bradford's will, page 1
In the Name of God Amen I Thomas Bradford
of Granvil County of the State of North Carolina being weak
in Body but of perfect mind & Memory do make appoint
& Ordain this my last will & Testament that is to say first
& principally I give & Recommend my Soul into the hand
of Almighty God who at first gave it me & my body to the
Earth to be buried at the Discretion of my Executor here
after named & as for such worldly Estate wherewith it
hath pleased God to bless me with in this life my just debt
& funeral charges being first paid I Give & Dispose
of in manner & form following -
Item I Lend to my Daughter Elisabeth Prewit an Negro Girl
named Betty During her Natural life & after her
Death She & her Increase to be Equally Divided amongst
all her Children Also one cow & calf to them & their
heirs forever
Item I give to my Daughter Mary Lovet fifty pounds
? ? to her & her heirs forever
Item I give to my Son Phillemon Bradford one Negro Man
Named Bass likewise two parts out? of sale? of a Negro
woman named Han one part being given me & the other bought
of Phillemon While which he is to have after the Death
of Sarah Pruett? Also half my Mill & the other half to my
Son David Bradford to be halved? Between them to him
& his heirs forever
Item I Lend to my Beloved & Lawfull Wife Mary Bradford one
hundred & Seventy Eight Acres of Land be the Same? more
Or less Being the Land that formerly belonged to James &
Charles Heflen? During her Natural life Also one
Negro Girl Named Jenny three Cows & Calves one featherbed
& furniture one Iron pot Six plates & my Chest & my black
Mare Two Dishes & one bason & two Sows & Thirteen Shotes that
? ? on Quicksand
Item I give to my Son Thomas Bradford one Negro boy Named
Demps? & one hundred & Seventy Eight Acres of Land that I lent
to my Wife after her Death to him & his heirs forever
Thomas Bradford's will, page 2
Page 2
Item I give to my Son David Bradford one Negro Girl named
Jenny after the Death of his Mother likewise four hundred
Fifty acres of Land Including the plantation Where in I now ? ?
To the East Side for Compliment Adjoining David Bradford &
John Bradford & joining his Brother Phillemon Bradford's home
to Include his Compliment Two Cows & Calves Two Sows & pigs
five head of Sheep one featherbed & furniture one Iron pot
to him & his heirs forever.
Item I give to my son Ephraim Bradford four hundred & Eighteen
acres of Land Joining My Son Phillemon Bradford & my Brother
Richard Bradford ? ? for Compliment Likewise four hundred
acres of Land I purchased of Edward More on the South Side
of the Adkin & Lying on Rials? Creek three head of Cattle five
head of sheep one featherbed & furniture one Iron pot Two Sows
& piggs & one Negro Woman named Aggy & her Increase to him & his heirs forever
Item I give to my Son Benjamin four hundred & fifty acres of
Land being the place where he formerly Lived including the
Chappal adjoining Lewis? Taylors line & Jeremiah Blalocks
& Joining Quicksand Creek for Compliment one Negro Boy
Named Peter to him & his heirs forever
Item I give to my Daughter Sealey? Bradford one featherbed
& furniture one Iron pot one Negro Girl Named Milley
five Cattle & one bay horse I lately purchased of Edward More
& my Chest after the death of her Mother to her & heirs forever
Item I Give to my Daughter Sarah Bradford one Negro Girl named
Anne one featherbed & furniture five head of Cattle four head
of Sheep one Desk one Iron pot After the Death of her mother
Likewise one Sorrel ? ? to her & her heirs forever
my Will & Desire is that the Remainder of my Estate not given
Be Sold & Equally Divided amongst all my Children my will &
Desire is that if Any of my Children should die with it? Lawfull
Issue their part of my Estate to be Equally Divided amongst
my surviving children I appoint my Beloved & Lawfull Wife
Mary Bradford & my Son Phillimon Bradford whole Executor & Executrix
of this my Last Will & Testament hereby Revoking & Disanulling
all other Will, heretofore made appoint this only to be ? ? my last will
Inwitness hereunto I have Set my hand & Seal this Twenty Second? Day of
March one thousand seven hundred & Eighty Five
Test Simon Clement? ? ?
Thos Bradford seal
Jurat Mary ? ? ? ?M Clement?
Benjamin Morgan Jurat[3]
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