Born about in Massachusetts Bay Colony
Ancestors 
Daughter of Joseph Bradish Sr
and Mary (Frost) Bradish
Sister of
Mary (Bradish) Green, Sarah Bradish, Hannah (Bradish) Marrett, Joseph Bradish Jr, James Bradish Sr. and John Bradish
Wife of
Thomas Ford
— married
5 Apr 1711 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Wife of
Thomas (Ford) Foord
— married
5 Apr 1711 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Descendants 
Died
at about age 60
in Marshfield, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Profile last modified
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Biography
On 4 April 1704, Ruth and several members of her family were plaintiffs in the Suffolk County Inferior Court of Common Pleas in a civil lawsuit against Samuel Smith, a Boston shipwright. The plaintiffs were listed as James Bradish, Sudbury, Co. Midx, yeoman; John Bradish, Cambridge [glazier]; John Green, same, husbandman and Mary his wife; Sarah Bradish, same, spinster; Edward Mariott, same glazier and Hannah his wife; and Ruth Bradish, same, spinster.[1]
Ruth married Thomas Foord on 5 April 1711 in Cambridge with her marriage also recorded in Marshfield.[2][3]
She died on 4 June 1742 in Marshfield at the 61 years of her age.[4]
Sources
- ↑ Williams, Alicia Crane. "Plaintiff/Defendant Guide to Suffolk County (Mass.) Common Pleas." Mayflower Descendant: A Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, vol. 36, no. 2, July 1986. page 177, citing Suffolk County Inferior Court of Common Pleas records, Vol. 1701-1706, page 165.
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHWJ-345 : Wed Oct 25 21:31:59 UTC 2023), Entry for Thomas Ford and Ruth Bradish, 5 Apr 1711.
- ↑ Ancestry.com. (https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/6388309:2495) Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47601081/ruth-foord: accessed 08 November 2023), memorial page for Ruth Bradish Foord (1682–4 Jun 1742), Find a Grave Memorial ID 47601081, citing Cedar Grove Cemetery, Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by 47117651 (contributor 47117651).
- Mayflower Families Vol. 17 p. 82
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