Carpenter Bradford (1738 - 1823)

Born 7 Feb 1738 in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Gay) Bradford — married 18 Jun 1761 in Stoughton, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Husband of Mary (Steele) Bradford — married 26 Jun 1815 in Cushing, Knox, Maine

Descendants

Died 27 Jan 1823 at age 84 in Friendship, Knox, Maine

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Biography

Descendant of Mayflower passenger William Bradford.

Carpenter was born in 1738. He is the son of Elisha Bradford and Bathsheba Brock.

He married Mary Gay - parents of Hannah, Mary Gay & Prudence Bradford

He is buried at Old Village Cemetery, Friendship, Knox, ME

His nephew Asa Waters of Stoughton MA (sister Alice’s son) wrote a letter to a daughter giving her some family genealogy which included: ^[1]

Carpenter was active and enterprising and a man of good morals. He had but one son; his name was William. His daughters’ names were Azubah, Hannah, Mary and one or two more. He resided in Stoughton a year or two after he married and then moved to Nova Scotia to a place called Onslow, in the British Dominion, where he lived by farming. He was a soldier in the old French war, was taken prisoner by the French and Indians and was carried to Quebec; there he learned French. At length he returned to Stoughton MA, where his two sisters [Alice & Asenath] lived, but when the attack was made against Quebec by General Wolf, he engaged under General Ruggles of Boston as an interpreter.

He was at the Battle of Quebec with General Wolfe and had a musket ball pass through the calf of his leg. He then returned to Stoughton and was married as before mentioned. He lived comfortably and happily at Onslow until the commencement of the Revolutionary war, then he left Onslow and came to the State of Maine and joined the army of the United States and had a commission under Colonel Eddy, leaving his wife and children at Onslow. When British authorities heard of his enlistment in the United States service they offered several hundred dollars for his apprehension.

When his engagement had expired with Colonel Eddy, he shipped himself on board a vessel for Boston. The vessel was commanded by Capt. Green Crabtree. He came from Boston to his friends at Stoughton, staid a short time, then went to the State of Maine to the town of Friendship, where his sister Hannah’s son Cornelius Bradford and relations lived. Here he purchased a lot of land, built him a log house and by some means or other he got his wife and children from Onslow. Here he lived the remainder of his days. His wife died before he did, and he married the widow Steele of Boston. He died April, 1823, aged 85 years. The Congress granted him 600 acres of land in Ohio to compensate for his loss at Onslow, it was all wild land when it was granted to him, but now the State House of Ohio stands on the land which was Carpenter Bradford’s.

Children: ^[2]

1. Chloe-1 Bradford b Jan 4 1762, d. Mar 4 1770
2. Azubah Bradford b. May 21 1765
3. Hannah Bradford b. June 28 1767
4. William Bradford b. 1770
5. Mary Bradford b. Nov 8 1772
6. Chloe-2 Bradford b. 1776
7. Emily Bradford b, Mar 6 1781

Sources

1. ↑ Sisson, Eliza Paddock Waters. Reminiscences of the Bradford and Waters families, 1885, p.9. https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesof00siss/page/10/mode/2up
2. ↑ Hall, Ruth Garner. Descendants of Governor William Bradford / compiled under auspices of Bradford Family Compact, 1951, p.41.https://archive.org/details/descendantsofgov00hall/page/40/mode/2up

• Fessenden, G.M. A Genealogy of the Bradford Family, New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, 1850) Vol. 4, Page 49

• "United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHR3-MY5 : accessed 25 January 2022), Carpenter Bradford, Medoncook Plantation, Lincoln, Maine, United States; citing p. 535, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 6; FHL microfilm 218,676.

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86411701