fymdl Wlmvmxty fSitatg THE GIFT OF (Vdlt*^. $Mc^3..^M^. A. At. 7.0 5^ ^J^r.h.XLOL 1357 Cornell University Library CS71 .B79 1900 Governor William Bradford and his son olin 3 1924 029 819 327 Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924029819327 GOVERNOR William Bradford, AND HIS SON, Major William Bradford, BY JAMES SHEPARD. New Britain, Conn., JAMES SHEPARD, 1900. HERALD, PRINT- ^\s r L{,^O^ i COPYRIGHTS : SEE AUTHORITIES. TO MY DAUGHTER. OELIA ANTOINETTE SHEPARD, THE NINTH IN DESCENT FROM GOV. WILLIAM BRADFORD, THIS WORK AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED. TTWE MMEo A WmLLLLLAM JHBAtfDFCDIBIJD. WOtLG=OM0©Ki»®^ = ALOE!) MMOTM ^<^m AUSTEKFOILD, * on the corner of Main street and Town square at the time of ; ° his death. It is also remarked that he wrote no more history after 1647, the year he is supposed to have left his farm. A portion of this farm has never been sold to this day, but has descended by inheritance or bequest from the Pil- grim Governor to the present owners. In 1822 a portion, including the home lot, was sold to Francis Drew, who o married into the Bradford family, and on Sept. 30, 1897, this 5 2 BRADFORD. lot passed from Dr. Thomas Bradford Drew to the Massa- chusetts Society of the Mayflower Descendants as a memorial to Gov. William Bradford and his son, Major William Brad- ford. It is situated on a slight eminence overlooking Jones' river with a full view of the monument to Myles Standish, three miles distant in an easterly direction across the water, while Plymouth is distinctly seen at the right, four miles away. At present (1898), the lot is designated by a single sign board bearing the following inscription : "This eminence is a portion of The ancient estate of William Bradford, the illustrious Governor of Plymouth Colony, where he had a house before 1637. Here his son, the Honourable Major William Bradford lived and died in the year 1704. Wamsutta, the Indian Chieftain, tarried here just previous to his death in 1662." The opposite side of the same board is lettered "The Old Bradford Lot." While it is thought by some that Bradford occupied the Kingston House only during the five years when he declined the cares of office, it is recorded that during one of his official years (1643), he was there. His household was large enough so that he could have occupied both places at the same time, stopping in Plymouth as business required, and returning to his farm for rest when his presence in Plymouth was not necessary. BRADFORD'S FAMILY. The fourth marriage in the colony was Governor Brad- ford to Mrs. Alice Southworth, widow, Aug. 14, 1623. She was the daughter of Alexander Carpenter. It is a favorite old Colony tradition that Bradford and Alice Car- penter were lovers in adjacent English houses, but that the ALICE (CARPENTER), BRADFORD. 55 father Carpenter forbade the match on account of Bradford's social inferiority ; that Alice was given to the well to do Edward Southworth, while Bradford, going to Holland made a loveless match with Dorothy May, who found a sought for solution of her loneliness in the waters of Cape Cod Harbor, and that Bradford then wrote to the now widowed Alice to come to him. This story is groundless and absurd. Alexander Carpenter, the father of Alice, lived at Wring- ton near Bath. From Austerfield to Wrington would then have been an expensive, arduous journey of some weeks du- ration. Bradford was only seventeen when he began his migration to Holland which he accomplished a few months later. It is quite absurd to suppose without some evidence that previous to that early age he had been busy with amatory pursuits in a remote part of the country. He was at Leyden in 1609. The first mention of Carpenter being there is in 1612. There is no reason whatever for supposing that Brad- ford ever saw the Carpenters before their arrival at Leyden. He was then a young man of more property and culture than most of his associates, and was fast becoming a leader. In all probability the obscure Mr. Carpenter, who is only known to us as the father of his daughters, would have most gladly welcomed an alliance with him. In the autumn of 1613 Bradford married Dorothy May. There is nothing to indi- cate that they were not a thoroughly affectionate couple ; and that the union was pleasant may be inferred from Bradford's semi-confidential correspondence in later years with his father-in-law, John May, who remained in Holland. Edward Southworth was early at Leyden where he mar- ried Alice Carpenter, May 28, 16 13. The widowed Alice had good reasons for coming to Plymouth. Her little prop erty would there be a competence, and her two boys might expect good positions at maturity, she was of its faith, her 56 BRADFORD. brother Fuller was already there, and her brother and sister Morton, with her five nieces, and Fuller's wife were to go in S the Anne; that she accompanied them is easily accounted q for without reference to Bradford. Then the latter's house o o much needed a mistress ; the lady's relatives were among Bradford's intimate friends, and brief wooing was quite ac- cording to the spirit of the times. We have a clue to Bradford's family four years after this mar- riage, when the cattle division was ordered, May 22, 1627. For the purpose of this division the people of the Colony were divided into twelve lots, of thirteen persons each. It is clear that there was no one family, other than Bradford's that alone was large enough to include thirteen persons. In every case except Brad- ford's it was expressly stated that others were "joyned" to or with the person whose name stood at the head, while with Bradford the word "joyned" was omitted, merely adding to his name "and those with him," as if they were already of his family, or in some sense already "with him" without being added or joined thereto. "An heifer of the last year which was of the great White Back Cow that was brought over in the 'Anne'", (the same _. 1 ship in which Mrs. Bradford came), fell to the Governor, £ Mr. William Bradford and those with him, "to wit: his wife § ! Alice Bradford, William Bradford, Mercy Bradford, Joseph a Rogers, Thomas Cushman, William Latham, Mannassah Kempton, Juliana Kempton, Nathaniel Morton, John Morton, Ephraim Morton, and Patience Morton." The Governor, his wife and the two children require no ex- planation. Of the others "Thomas Rogers dyed in the first sick- ness," and his son, Joseph Rogers, had no doubt been taken care of by this kind hearted and fatherly man. z THE SOUTHWORTH BOYS. 57 Robert Cushman's last request of Bradford. "Have a care of my son as of your son " was generously fulfilled, (and thus we find this son in the Bradford family) and so worthy was the result that Thomas Cushman was chosen as Brew- ster's immediate successor. William Latham came over in the Mayflower as the boy servant of Governor Carver and no doubt when Carver died, Latham too fell to Bradford's care. The Kemptons were brother and sister-in-law to Bradford, Mrs. Kempton being his wife's sister. The four Morton children were the children of Mrs. Kempton by her first husband, George Morton, who came to Plymouth in 1623, and died in 1624. Every member of the be- reaved family doubtless received the kind attention of Governor Bradford, and thenceforward Nathaniel Morton was the object of paternal kindness from his illustrious uncle. Although Nathaniel Morton's mother lived nearly as many years as Mrs. Bradford, so endeared was he to his loving aunt, that in the closing lines of his poem to her memory he calls her mother. "Adoe my loving friend, my aunt, my mother Of those that's left I have not such another." Some time after this cattle division, Bradford's son John, came over and a son Joseph was born in 1630, thus making in all, four Bradford children. About 1628 Mrs. Bradford's two Southworth boys joined the Bradford family. They were received by Bradford as own sons and their advanced studies were under his care. They did him and their mother ample credit, becoming leading citizens. Captain Thomas Southworth, though only twenty-eight when elder Brewster died was proposed as his successor; but Bradford, who had designed him for the civil service, caused the substitution of another of his proteges, Thomas Cush- o 58 BRADFORD. man. In 1654 died John Faunce, who had married South- worth's cousin, Patience Morton. At the head of the grave, during the burial, stood a pitiful group of little orphans left • in poverty, but Lieutenant Southworth taking by the hand ^ Thomas, a boy of eight years, led him away to adopt into his family and, transmitting that which he had received from Gov. Bradford, gave the orphan a good education, secular and religious, for which Thomas Faunce, the last ruling elder known in Plymouth, said that he had "reason to bless God to all eternity." About 1644 another member was added to the Bradford family. Bradford wrote a letter to Mrs. Bradford's sister Mary in England (who had just buried her mother), and invited her to come to them, "they would be helpful to her, though they had grown old," and he offered to pay her passage if she needed it. Among the Deaths on the Plymouth Church records for March 1667 we find this entry : "Mary Carpenter, sister of Mrs. Alice Bradford, the wife of Gov. Bradford, being newly entered into the 91st year of her age. She was a Godly old maid, never married." Governor Bradford has not generally been credited with hav- ing established the first orphan Asylum in this country, but this review of his family shows that it contained, at least seven and probably ten orphans and it is doubtful if so many bereaved chil- dren had ever before, in America, been gathered into one band. His children, her children and their children were not enough for the generous Bradford so long as any worthy child needed a pa- rent's care. Of the eighteen members of his family hereinbefore supposed, only one-third of them bore the name of Bradford. It was not alone as Governor that Bradford ruled the colony. He was called the father of the colony, and Mrs. Bradford was the recognized mother. Her son Constant held many offices, both civil and military, and was, for sixteen years, the Colony's treas- HIS INVENTORY. 59 urer. Her son Thomas was even more prominent, and among his many public offices he was for a long term of years Colonial Com- missioner, and Assistant for the Colony at large, Bradford's son Major William was next to Standish, a chief military man of the Colony. He was assistant treasurer, Colonial Com- missioner, Judge of Probate, besides being assistant or Deputy Governor for thirty-four years. Bradford's son, Joseph, was also a Major, and his grandson John was one of the representatives from Plymouth in the first General Court at Boston, after the union with Massachusetts. The second Ruling Elder of the Colony, Thomas Cushman, and the third and last Elder, Thomas Faunce, were of the Bradford family and training. Ephraim Morton was for many successive years a member of the Council of war, and Nathaniel Morton was Secretary of the Colony for forty years. It is no common thing to find so many public servants in one family or to find the public so largely under the influence of one man. HIS INVENTORY. The inventory of the estate of Gov. Bradford enables us to take a look into the great house where this large family lived. We find "Bedding and other things in ye old parler," including a green rugg, a wainscot bedsted and settle, a court cubbard, "a winscott chist and cubburd," leather chairs, great wooden chairs, three matchlock muskets, a snaphance muskett, a birding piece and another small piece, besides a pistol and cutlass. "In the great Rome" are two great carved chairs, small carved chair, three striped carpets, thirteen cushions, a fowling piece, a pair of old bandeleers and many other things. Of linen there is quite an array including over six dozen napkins. There are eight pewter plates, thirteen platters, five saucers, four basons, five dishes, a candlestick, a salt, and a bottle, besides sixteen other pieces, making a total of sixty-four pieces of pewter. "In the kitchen" we find four venices glasses, only seven earthen dishes, and the four dozen 60 BRADFORD. trenchers which served as plates. Also many brass articles includ- ing a brass mortar and pestal and numerous other things down to a "peec of old iron to lay before a dripping pan." And then we find "In the new chamber his clothes" the first item of which is "a stuffe suite with silver buttons & a coate." Some of the other items are — a cloth cloak faced with taffety, "a sod coullered cloth suit," a turkey grogram suit and cloak, "a kid wastcoat, a lead coullered cloth suit with silver buttons, a light coullered stuffe coate, an old violett coullered cloake and an old green goune." Of "the plate or silver we find "one great beer bowle, another beer bowle, 2 wine cupps, a salt, the trencher, salt and a drame cup and 13 silver spoones." "In the studdie" are fourteen pairs of shoes and various kinds of cloth, " linnin-woolcey, moheer, penistone, broadcloth, carsye, kid plaine, kash and hol- land," amounting in all to one hundred and thirteen yards. Then there are "his books" too numerous to mention, "his desk" and several "chists." No doubt there were other rooms in the house which the appraisers did not name, and we cannot vouch for all of the things having been found in the rooms indicated, for they have recorded the various live stock, and even his lands, under the head of "In the studdie." BRADFORD RELICS. We wonder what has become of these various things and can- not help but covet them. We even go so far as to select the par- ticular things that we would like, and yet, we would be contented with only just one of those silver buttons. But few of these relics are now known to exist. Among the relics of the Plymouth church on exhibition in Pilgrim Hall is a book written by Rev. John Robinson, published in 1610, and presented by Robinson to William Bradford. Governor Bradford's antique arm chair was used by the g presiding officer of the Old Colony Club, established at o HIS DEATH AND BURIAL. 6l Plymouth, 1769. It reverted to the heirs of Dr. L. Lee! „ Baron on the dissolution of the club, and is now preserved by the family of N. Russell, Esq., of Plymouth. | S Mr. Joseph Belcher Waters of Salem, Mass., has his Bible printed 1592. It is in Old English Letters ; the covers and margins are worn down to the reading. It has a family , % record from the Governor's birth in 1690, Mr. Waters being o in the seventh generation. Through these six generations the Holy Book has de- scended with the loss of only a few of the first and last leaves, g but the boards of the cover are gone, the margins worn down § almost to the text, and the leather of the back rolled up. BRADFORD'S DEATH AND BURIAL. Governor Bradford last presided in Court Feb. 13, 1657. On March 15th, he was absent from illness and Collier took the chair. Yet he felt himself not what he counted sick, till May 7th, the night after which the God of heaven so filled his mind with ineffable consolations that he seemed little short of Paul, rapt up unto the unutterable entertainments of Para- d id dise. The next morning he told his friends that the good s spirit of God had given him a pledge of his happiness in 2 another world and the first fruits of his eternal glory ; and on the day following he died, May 9, 1657, in the sixty-ninth year of his age. This worthy gentleman was interred with the greatest solemnities that the jurisdiction to which he belonged was in a capacity to perform, many deep sighs, as well as loud 62 BRADFORD. volleys of shot declaring that the people were no less sensible of their own loss, who were surviving than mindful of the worth and honor of him that was deceased. You might now easily discern a heavy heart in the mournful countenance of every sober minded and considerate man. It was no common procession that bore the dead leader up that sharp ascent to Burial hill. The whole community stood sadly and reverently by, while the grave was filled. The train band fired over the spot the volleys due to a chief magistrate, but accordingto Colonialusage therewere no other ceremonies. Yet the mourning was profound throughout the United Colo- nies of New England, for he was everywhere regarded "as a common blessing and father to them all." His last resting place was happily selected. It is on the brow of the hill looking down on that spot where, from the early days, was his happy home. All along, just below it, lies the town of which he was in such large part the founder and guardian ; farther out lies the harbor, with its islands and headlands including that monumental hill where lived the great comrade Standish, and in clear weather, across the sparkling bay appears Cape Cod where his young wife Dorothy, found a watery grave before Plymouth had been reached. It is a beautiful and grand panorama, which offers to the eye not a few of the most interesting land marks of Pilgrim history. Bradford is the only one of the Mayflower Pilgrims whose resting place is definitely known. Although no stone was origi- nally erected to his memory, his burial place is identified by that of his son William, who died in 1703. Ebenezer Cobb was then nine years of age, and has from time to time made the statement that Major William, by his own special request, was buried by the MRS. ALICE BRADFORD. 65 side of his father the Governor, and thus the stone of Major William shows his father's resting place over which a monument has since been erected. It is but a modest, and inconspicuous shaft, with which some of his descendants have marked the spot and nothing more is needed, for, ever foremost in the hearts and memory of those who love our Pilgrim Fathers, will be the man Bradford, the prop and glory of Plymouth Colony, a common blessing and father to all the colonies of New England, the father of American history, and the_ progenitor of more than fifty thousand American people. Our illustration shows the south side of his monument. The east and west sides have no inscription. On the north side there is a Hebrew sentence of one line variously translated to signify "Jehova is our help" and "In Jehova's name I die." Then follows : Under this stone rest the ashes of WILL M. BRADFORD, a zealous puritan & sincere christian Gov. of Ply. Col. From April 1 62 1, to 1657, the year he died aged 69. except 5 yrs, which he declined. Then there is a Latin sentence in three lines, the same having been translated, as "Do not basely relinquish what the Fathers with difficulty attained." MRS. ALICE BRADFORD. Mrs. Bradford according to tradition brought a fair property from England. She is said to have labored dilli- gently for the improvement of the young women of Plymouth 66 BRADFORD. and to have been eminently worthy of her high position. By her first husband she is said to be the ancestress of all the Southworths in this country. It has been inferred that her labors were in the direction of literary education ; but such training was not then the rule among women below the gentry. Mrs. Bradford, like many genuine ladies of her time, could not write her name, and attached her mark to several in- struments. After a long debility she died, April 5, i6yo(N. S.), aged about eighty. She asked in her will to be laid "as near to her husband as may conveniently be" and on the third day after her death her body was born to the spot with special ceremony. q "On the 26th day of March, 1670, misstres Alice Brad- g j ford Senr. changed this life for a better, having attained to k four score years of age. or there about. She was a godly * Matron, and much loved while she lived and lamented tho o J aged when she died and was honorably interred on the 29th 3 O s 2 I day of the month aforesaid att New Plymouth.' The inventory of her estate amounted to ^162, 17s. and in her will she made a small bequest to her servant Mary Smith. BRADFORD'S WILL. The nuncupative will of Governor Bradford is recorded at Plymouth, upon the testimony of three of his family orphans, as follows : j "The last will and testament, nuckupative, of Mr. William > Bradford senr., deceased May the 9th, 1657 and exhibited in a Court held at Plymouth June 3d, 1657. £ Mr. William Bradford Senr. being weake in body, but in g I ppct memory having deferred the forming of his will in Bradford's will. 67 hopes of having the healp of Mr. Thomas Prence therein, feeling himself very weake and drawing on to the conclusion of his mortal life spake as followeth. I could have desired abler men then myself in the disposing of that I have, how my estate (is), none knowes better than yourself said he to Leiftenant Southworth. I have desposed to John and William already theire proportions of land which they are possesed of. My will is that what I stand engaged to p, forme to my chil- dren and others bee made good out of my estate, that my name suffer not. Further my will is that my dear and loving wife Alice Bradford shall bee the sole Exequitrix of my estate, and for her future main tainance my will is that my Stocke in the Kennebecke trad bee reserved for her comfortable sub- sistence as farr as it will extend, and soe further in any such way as may be judged best for ner. I further request and appoint my wel beloved Christian ffreinds Mr. Thomas Prence, Captain Thomas Willet and Lieftenant Thomas Southworth to be the supervisors of the desposing of my es- tate according to the p,mises confiding much in theire faith fullness. I comend to your wisdome some small bookes written by my owne hand to bee improved as you shall see meet. In speciall I comend to you a little book with a black cover, wherein there is a word to Plymouth and a word to Boston and a word to New England with sundry useful verses. These p'tculars were expressed by the said William Bradford Govr. the 9th day of May, 1657 in the p, sence of us, THOMAS CUSHMAN, THOMAS SOUTHWORTH, NATHANIEL MORTON. The inventory of his estate is as follows : 68 BRADFORD. INVENTORY. A trew Inventory of the Estate of Mr. William Bradford Senir. lately deceased taken and appraised by us whose names are underwritten, the 22eond of May 1657, and exhibited to the court holden att Plymouth the 3d. of June 1657 on the oath of Mrs. Alice Bradford. Beding and other things in ye old parlor, npr. one feather bed and bolster, a feather bed a feather bolster a feather pillow, a canvas bed with feathers and a bolster and 2 pillows, one green rugg. a paire of whit blanketts, one whit blankett, 2 pairs of old blanketts, 2 old coverlidds, 1 old white rugg and an old kid coverlidd, 1 paire of old curtaines darnickes & and an old paire of sach curtaines, a court cubbard, a winescot bedsteed and a settle, 4 lether chaires, 1 great lether chaire, 2 great wooden chaires, a table & forme and 2 stooles, a winscott chist & cubburd, a case with six knives, 3 matchlock musketts, a snaphance muskett, a birding peece and an other smale peece, a pistoll and cutlas, a card and a platt, In the great Rome. 2 great carved chaires, a smale carved chaire, a table and forme, 3 striped carpetts, 10 cushens, E. d. 3- 00. 00 3 00. 00 1. !5- CO 1 00. 00 i . 00. 00 12. 00 1. 00. 00 1 . 00. 00 1 . 00. 00 IS' 00 1 . S- 00 1. 10. 00 1. 12. 00 10. 00 8. 00 1. 5- 00 1. 5- 00 5- 00 2. 2. 00 1. 00. 00 18. 00 12. 00 5- 00 1 4- 00 6. 00 1 2. 00 1 S- 00 1. X, 00 INVENTORY. 69 It. 3 old cushens, It. a causlett and one head peece, It. 1 iouling peece without a locke 3 old barrells of guns one paire of old bandeleers and a crest, Linnin. 2 paire of holland sheets, 1 dowlis sheet, 2 paire of cotton and linnen sheets, 2 paire of hemp and cotten sheets, 2 paire of canvas sheets, 2 paire of old sheets, 4 fine shirts, 4 other shirts, a dozen of cotten and linnin napkins, a dozen of canvas napkins, a diaper tablecloth and a dozen of diaper napkins, 10 diaper napkins of another sort a. diaper table- cloth, 2 holland tableclothes, 2 short tableclothes, 2 old tableclothes, a dozen of old napkins, halfe a dozen of napkins, 3 old napkins, a dozen of course napkins & a course tablecloth, 2 fine holland cubburd clothes, 3 paire of holland pillowbeers, 3 paire of dowlis pillow beers and an old one, 4 holland towells and a lockorumone, pewter. 14 pewter dishes weying47 pound att I5dp pound, 6 pewter plates & 13 pewter platters wejing thirty 2 pounds att I5d p pound, 2 pewter plates 5 sawsers 4 basons and 5 dishes weying eighteen pounds att I5d p pound, 2 ppeplates of pewter, 3 chamber potts, 7 porrengers, £. s. d. 2. 00 *• 10. 00 16. 00 2. 00. 00 10. 00 1. iS- 00 1 . iS- 00 1 . 10. 00 is- 00 2. 00. 00 1 . 00. 00 12. 00 6. 00 2. 10. 00 3- 00. 00 1 00. 00 10. 00 5- 00 3. 00 8. 00 2. 00 6. 00 12. 00 18. 00 14. OD 5- OO 2. iS. 09 2. 00. OO 1 . 2. 06 3- 04 9- OO 3- 06 76 BRADFORD. d. It. 2 quart potts & a pint pott, It. 2 old fflagons an a yore, (?) It. a pewter candlesticke a salt and a little pewter bottle, It. 4 venice glasses and seaven earthen dishes, It. 2 ffrench kittles, In the kitchen brasse. It. i brasse kittle, It. 2 little ffrench kittles, It. an old warming pan, It. 2 old brasse kittles, It. a dash pan, It. 3 brasse skilletts, It. 3 brasse candle stickes and a brasse morter and pestle, It. an old brasse skimmer and a ladle, It. a paire of andirons, It. an old brasse stewpan, It. 2 old brasse kittles, It. 2 iron skilletts and an iron kittle, 2 old (?) iron pottes, It. 2 iron potts lesser, It. 2 paire of pot hangers 2 paire of pot hookes, It. 2 paire of tongges and an old fier shouvel, It. one paire of andirons and a gridiron, It. a spitt and an old iron driping pan, It. a paire of iron rackes and an iron peele and another peec of old iron to lay before a driping pan It. 4 dozen of trenchers, It. 2 juggs and 3 smale bottles. In the new chamber his clothes. It. a stuffe suite with silver buttons & a coate, It. a cloth cloake faced with taffety lineed threw with baies, It. a sod coullered cloth suite, It. a turkey Grogorum [Grogram] suite and cloake, It. a paire of blacke britches and a kid wastcoat, It. a lead coullered cloth suit with silver buttons, 7 00 9 . 00 3 00 10 00 I 10. 00 iS- 00 6. 00 5- 00 2. 00 4- 00 4- 00 7- 00 1. 00 6. 00 6. 00 5- 00 iS- 00 I 00. 00 7- 00 6. 00 3- 04 5- 00 5- 00 10. 00 2. 06 2. 00 4- 00. 00 3- 10. 00 2. 00. 00 2. 00. 00 iS- 00 2. 00. 00 INVENTORY. 71 It. a sod coullered short coate and an old serge suite. It, a blacke cloth coate, It. a broad cloth coate, It. a light coullered sluffe coate, It an old green goune, It. a light collered cloth cloake, It. an old violett coullered cloake It. a short coate of cloth, It. 2 old dublett and a paire of briches a short coate and an old stuffe dublit and wastcoate, It. 2 paire of stockens, It. 2 hates a blacke one and a coullered one, It. 2 old hatts, It. 1 great chaire and 2 woought stooles, It. a carved chist, It. a table, the plate It. one great beer bowle, It. another beer bowle, It. 2 wine cupps, It. a salt, It. the trencher salt and a drame cup, It. 4 silver spoones, It. 9 silver spoones, In the studdie It. eight paire of shooes of the 12s, It. 6 paire of shoes of the 10s, It. one paire of the eights, It. 3 paire of the 7s, It. 2 pairs of the sixes, It. t paire of the 5s 1 paire of the 4s 1 paire of the 3s, It. 4 yards and an halfe of linnin woolcye, It. 3 remnants of English cotten, It. 3 yards and an halfe of bayes, It. 17 yards of course English moheer, It. 4 yards and 3 quarters of purpetuanna, It. 18 yards of kid penistone, 5 yards of broadcloth, It. 2 yards of broadcloth, £. s. d. 1 10. 00 '5- 00 1. 5- 00 16. 00 1. 00. 00 1 'S- 00 1. 5- 00 10. 00 1, 00. 00 7- 00 1 . 10. 00 16. 00 1. 00. 00 1. 00. 00 '5- 00 3- 2. 00. 00. 00 00 u a. 2. 00. 00 x 3- 00. 00 3 O 1. 2. 15- 4- 5- 00 CO 00 s >• 2. OO. OO I. 4. OO 3 04 9. 00 2. oS 6. 00 13. 06 16. 03 7. OO 2. 2. 06 1. OO. OO 3- 3- °° 3. 15. 00 i. 10. OO 72 BRADFORD. It. z^ yards and an halfe of olive cullered carsye, It. a yard and a halfe of whitish carsey, It. 4 yards of Gray carsye, It. 5 yards and an halfe of kid carsye, It. 4 yards and a quarter of carsey ollive coullered, It. 7 yards of carsye sod cullered, It. io yards of gray carsye, It. 6 yards and an halfe of kid plaine, It. 9 yards and an halfe of kash, It. 6 yards of holland, It. a remnent of cushening, It. 7 smale moose skines, It. in cash, It. his deske, It. 2 caskes with some emty bottles, It. 3 or 4 old cases, his bookes in folio It. Perkines workes, It. 3 of docter Willetts workes viz on genesis exedus and daniell. It. the ffrench acaddamey, It. the Guictardian, (?) It. the history of the church, It. bodins comons wealth, It. B. Bablingtons workes, It. Peter martine comon places, It. Cartwright on the remish testament, It. the history of the Netherlands, It. Peter Martine on the Romans, It. Mayors workes on the New testament, It. Cottens concordance, Speeds general description of the world, Weames christian sinnagogue and the portrature of the image of god in man, It. Luther on the gallations, It. the method of phissicke, It. Cahins harmony and Cahins comentary on the actes, It. dounhams 2 cond pte of Christian warfare, £. s. d. 15 OO 7 OO i 4 OO i 7 06 i. IO 00 2 6 08 2. IO 00 I. 19 00 3- 16. OO i. 8 OO 9- OO 4- 8. 00 J5 1 - 9- 06 S- OO IO. OO 3- OO i. IO. 00 i. 00. 00 S. 00 IO. OO 8. OO 6. OO 8. OO iS- OO IO. OO IS- OO 3- 00 i. OO. 00 8 OO i . IO. OO 8. OO 2. OO 2. OO 8. OO 3- OO INVENTORY. 73 £. s. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It- It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. It. Mr Cottens answare to MrWillam, Taylers libertie of phrophecye, Gouges domesticall dutyes, ( justification of seperation or reasons descused & observations devine and morall the synode att dort the appollogys, Mr Ainsworths workes the counterpoison the triang out of the truth, Mr Ainsworth on genisis, exedus and Iivitticus, Calvin on genises, dike on the deceitfulness of mans hart, Gifford refuted, doe on the commandements & another of his, three and fifty smale bookes, Cahine on the epistles in duch with divers other duch bookes, 2 bibles, a paire of boots, in lether, 2 old chists, 6 old barrells a bucking tubb a brewing tubb other old lumber, a pcell of cotten woole & a pcell of sheepes woole, a pcell of feathers, 3 ewe sheep, 3 middleing sheep and a poor one, a rame lambe and an halfe & a half an ewe lamb the old mare, a lame mare and an horse coult, a horse of two yeare old and advantate, another horse coult of yeare and advantage, 4 bullockes, 7 cowes, a bull, 2 young bulles of two year old, a heifer of three yeare old not with calfe, 2 heifers of two years old, 4 yearlings, five calves, 2. oo i. 06 2. 06 2. oo 4- oo 2. 06 I. 06 06 3- oo i. 6. 06 15- . oo. oo oo E/3 a a. o 5 iS. oo oo a a 10. oo X H . oo. oo 2 > i. 00. 00 2. 10. 00 12. 00 4- 10. 00 4- 00. 00 16. 06 12. 00. 00 I 4 . 00. 00 7- 00. 00 5- 10. 00 20. 00. 00 28. 00. 00 4- 00. 00 4- 10. 00 3- 5- 00 5- 00. 00 6. 00. 00 3- 00. 00 2. 15- oo I. 4- oo I. IO. oo 45- oo. oo 16. oo 74 BRADFORD. £. s. d. It. a sow and 2 hoggs, It. 2 shoats, It. five smale shoates, It. the house and orchyard and some smale pcells of land about the towne of Plymouth, It. 2 spinning wheeles and a wether, At the Westward in debts upon the duch account consisting in divers pcells 153. 00. 00 Item debts owing to the estate. It. the Kenebeck slock consisting in goods and debts both English and Indians, 256 00. 00 More debts owing in the bay, in douce the shoomakers hands, 5. 00. 00 in Mannasah Kemptons hands, 5. 00. 00 more belonging to the estate in divers pticulars, 57. 00. 00 Debts owing from the estate to Mr Davis and Mr Sheffe, 5. 00. 00 to Samuell Stirtivant, 2. 3. 00 2 the townes land, 1. 12. 00 It. John Jourdaine about, 2. 00. 00 It. to goodman Clarke about, 3. 10. 00 It. two goodman Nelson for killing of cattle & for veale, 18. 06 It. to William Palmer, 12. 4. 00 It. to the church of Plymouth, 5. 10. 00 Som pcells of land not mencioned above belonging to Mr. William Bradford, Senr. It. one pcell att Eastham and another att Bridgewater. It. a smale pcell about Sautuckett and his purchase land att Coaksett with his right in the townes land att Punckatessett. By us THOMAS CUSHMAN, JOHN DUNHAM. It. Sundry implements forgotten belonging to the teame. It. V", a It. It. u M a, X It. h D It. z It. HERALDRY. 75 SEAL AND ARMS. We here add a copy of Governor Bradford's autograph to- gether with his seal. }fi$icinL^3ra vi T o V-} M-„ i - K 1 v '8 v, S . -■ vJ vS ;, £ ^ .* V * ■5. S.bv£ \ 5 II £ v? s -^ I vg s ^ " b o. ^^14 ^1^^ ^4^ r 1 4 ? X MAJOR WILLIAM'S CHILDREN. 93 Mrs. Mary (Sherwood), Fitch, daughter of Capt. Matthew and Mary (Fitch), Sherwood of Stratford, Conn., and widow of Capt. Daniel Fitch, who was brother to his first wife Anna. Capt. Matthew Sherwood's wife Mary was a daughter of Thomas Fitch of Norwalk, and if Joseph Bradford's mother was also a daughter of the said Thomas Fitch as has been stated, then his second wife Mary Sherwood was his own cousin. By third wife. 12. Israel, married Sarah, daughter of Benjamin Bartlett of Duxbury, Mass., and resided in Kingston. 13. Ephraim, married Feb. 13, 17 10, to Elizabeth Brewster, the daughter of Wrestling Brewster, the son of Love, who was the son of Elder William Brewster. The records of Plymouth give her name as Bartlett, but she could not have been the daughter of Benjamin Bartlett as stated by Davis. 14. David, married Elizabeth, daughter of John Finney, 1714. He lived at Kingston and died March 16, 1730. His widow married a Mr. Ludden of Boston. 15. Hezekiah, married Mary Chandler of Duxbury, Mass., and resided in Kingston. CONCLUSION. On the preceding page we give a fac simile of the last page of Bradford's manuscript history of Plymouth, as one of the con- cluding pages of our life of Bradford, 94 ARRANGEMENT OF SUBJECTS. PAGE. Authorities, .... ii The Name [Bradford], r 3 Ancestry, ..... 14 In Austerfield, .... iS Associates with Brewster, 21 Sufferings at Scrooby, 2 3 In Holland, 24 In America, 26 Chosen Governor, . 29 The Governor's Duties, 3 1 Bradford's Character, 32 Bradford, as Governor, 35 Colony Affairs, 37 Liberal Character, 39 Poetry, 41 Bradford's "History of Plimouth Plantation," 42 Description of Lyford, 49 Bradford's Property, 50 The Farm at Kingston, 5i Bradford's Family, . 52 Alice (Carpenter), Bradford, 55 The Southworth Boys, 57 His Inventory, 59 Bradford Relics, 60 Bradford's Death and Burial, 61 Mrs. Alice Bradford, 6 S Bradford's Will, 66 Inventory, ..... 68 ARRANGEMENT OF SUBJECTS. 95 Heraldry, ..... PAGE. 75 Seal and Arms, .... 75 His Children, .... 77 Major William Bradford, 78 Major Bradford's Will, &3 Major Bradford's Homestead, 87 Major Bradford's Children, 88 Conclusion, .... 93 y6 ARRANGEMENT OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE. The departure of the Pilgrims (Frontispiece), . 2 The Shepard-Bradford line, . • 7 Ancient Chapel, Austerfield, Eng. , 16 Bradford House, Austerfield, Eng., 18 Plymouth Rock, . . .27 Bradford lot, Kingston, Mass., . 53 Bradford monument, . 64 Gov. Bradford's autograph and seal, . 75 Bradford arms, . 76 Major William's tomb-stone, . 82 Major William's autograph, . .87 Major William's tankard, . . . 88 Major John Bradford's house, , . 89 Page of Bradford's manuscript, . . . .92 INDEX OF PERSONS. INDEX OF PERSONS.* Adams, William, 90 Ainsworth, -, 73 Alcott, Statira, 7 Alden, . ", 26 Alden, Charles L. (Mrs.), 11 John, 50 Alexander, , 80 Allerton, •, 33 Isaac, 29 Andros, , 79 Arber, • ■', 18,31, 36 Atwood, , 79 John, 77, 79 Mary, 77, 79 Bablington, B., 72 Baker, Kenelm, 90 Sarah, 86 Barriff, ,84 Bartlett, Benjamin, 93 Elizabeth, 93 Joseph, 89 Rebecca, 89 Sarah, 93 Baylies, • I[ > »7> 2 °. 2 °. 2 9. 3!.3 2 >34. 35.36,37.4 T .43 Belknap, — . ".33) 34 Belknap, Jeremy, n Bishop, Bethia, 90 Bodin, , 72 Bourn, Anna, 89 Martha, 77 Thomas, 77 *Names of authors that appear in the faced type. Bowes, Cornelia, 26 Bradford, Alice, 14, 19, 56, 58, 65, 66, 67, 68, 78, 79, 90 Amory H., 12, 33 Carpenter, 78 David, 84, 85, 86, 88, 93 Dorothy, 26, 62 Elizabeth, 14 Ephraim, 84, 85, 86, 93 Hannah, 87, 90 Hezekiah, 84, 85, 86, 93 Israel, 85, 86, 87, 93 John, 26, 57, 59, 67, 77, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89 Joseph, S7.S9-77.79.8S.90.93 Lydia, 76 Margaret, 14 Mary, 84, 88, 90 Meletiah, 7, 90 Mercy, 56, 77, 90 Nathan, 88 Robert, 14, 19 Samuel, 40, 83, 85, 86, 87, 90 Sarah, 90 Thomas, 14, 19, 84, 85, 89 William, (Gov.), 2 to 77 William, (Maj.), 3, 7, 13, 40, 52, 56, 59, 62, 65, 67, 77. 78 to 93 William, 7, 14, 15, 19, 79, 84, 86, 89 Brewster, , 21, 22, 32, 33, 39, 4°. 57 margin through the book are indexed in bold INDEX OF PERSONS. Brewster, Elizabeth, 93 Love, 93 William, 21, 93 Wrestling, 93 Briggs, Robert, 14, 19 Bronson, Hannah, 7 Brown, . 12, 43, 44 Brown, John, 12 Burke, , 76 Bunyan, , 47 Burroughs, , 87 Cahin, , 72, 73 Calvin, , 73 Capen. — - 12. 50 Capen, Nahum, 12 Carver, , 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 57 John, 26 Carpenter, , 20, 55 Alexander, 52, 55 Alice, 7, 52, 55 Mary, 58 Cartwright, , 72 Chandler, Mary, 93 Clarke, , 74 Clifton, , 20, 21, 22 Cobb, Ebenezer, 62 Collier, , 61 Elizabeth, 78 William, 78 Cooke, Rollin H., io Cotten. , 72, 73 Cudworth, , 80 Curtis, Celia Adelaide, 7 Cushman, Thomas, 56, 57, 59, 67, 74 Robert, 57 Davis, .12. 23, 33, 39,40, 50, 51, 79, 80 Davis, , 74, 93 William T., 12 Deane, . ". *9. 22, 4 2 . 43.44 Deane, , 46 Charles, 11 Dexter, . ", 15, 16, 36, 37, 40, 41 Dexter. Morton, 12 De Rasiers, , 51 Dike, , 73 Doe, , 73 Doyle, 1 ". 35. 3 6 > 44. 47 Doyle, John A., 11 Drake, ■ ". 3 2 Drake, , Samuel G , 11 Drew, — . »> 5 1 . 52, 83, 84,85, 86, 87, 88 Drew, Francis, 51,87 Thomas Bradford, 11, 52 Driulette, , 31 Dunham, , 72 John, 74 Elliott, ■ ". 21. 25, 33, 34,35, 3 6 . 4° Elliott, Charles W., 11 Fairbairn, , 76 Faunce, John, 58 Thomas, 58, 59 Fessenden, ,",i3.3 8 .75. 8 ° Fessenden, , 75, 89 G. M.. 11 Finney, Elizabeth, 93 John, 93 Fitch, Alice, 86 Anna, 90, 93 Daniel, 93 James, 90 Mary, 93 Priscilla, 90 Thomas, 79, 93 Fletcher, Henry (Rev.), 15 INDEX OP PERSONS. IOt Fuller, , 32, 39, 56 Gifford, , 73 Goodwin, . 12, 15. 2°. 22, 26, 3°. 3i. 32, 33- 34- 37. 38. 39. 49. 5°. 52. 55. 56. 57. 58,61,62,65,66,79 80,83 Goodwin, ,79 John A , 12 William Bradford, 12 Gresham, 15 Margaret, 14, 15 Gouge, , 73 Hanson, , 15 Alice, 7, 14, 15 John, 14, 15 Margaret, 14 Hatherly, , 80 Haxtun, . 12, 21, 33, 38, 39 Haxtun, A. A. (Mrs.), 12 Heep, Uriah, 49 Hill, James, 14 Hoar, Senator, 46 Hobart, Jael, 77 Peter, (Rev.), 77 Holmes, John, 77, 79 Mar/, 77 Hopkins. , 33 Hubbard, . ". 29. 3° Hubbard, , 34, 45 Humphrey, James, (Mrs.), 76 Hunt, Mary, 86 William, 90 Hunter, • ". 15. '7. 19. 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 Hunter, , 76 Joseph, 11, 17 Hutchinson, Thomas, 45 Jones, Capt. , 87 jourdaine, John, 74 Kempton, , 57 Juliana, 56 Mannassah, 56, 74 Latham, , 57 William, 56, 57 Lee Baron, Dr. L., 61 Leete, W.'w. (Rev.), 9 Lewis, J. W. & Co., 12 Little, Ephraim, Jr., 87 Lord, . »i 44 Lord, Arthur, 11 Loring, Thomas, 87 Lucy, Charles, 2 Ludden, , 93 Luther, , 72 Lyford, , 35, 49 John, 49 Lysle, William, 25 Mallory, Thankful, 7 Martine, Peter, 72 Mason, John, 90 Priscilla, 90 Massasoit, , 80 Mather, . ". 21,23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 34, 61 Mather, , 17, 18, 19, 45 Cotton, 11, 17 May, Cornelia, 26 Dorothy, 26, 55 John, 26, 55, 77 Mayor, , 72 Meade, ■ ".43 Meade, Editor, 11 Moore, . ". 20, 60, 61 Moore, Jacob Baily, 11 Morse, • ".61 Morse, Abner, 11, 12 Morton, . ".4 1 . 4 2 ,44, 6l > 62 Morton, , 41, 56, 57 INDEX OF PERSONS. Morton, Ephraim, 56, 59 George, 57 John, 56 Nathaniel, n, 45, 56, 57, 59.67 Patience, 56, 58 Neal, , ii. 3°. 38 Neal, Daniel, n Nelson, , 74 Oldham, , 35 Palmer, William, 74 Pareus, , 84 ' Perkins, , 72, 84 Philip, , 78, 80, 89 Pierce, , 32 Prince, , 30, 31, 41, 45 Thomas, 45, 67, 89 Raynor, Elizabeth, 78 Revel, Fleming H. Co., 12 Richards, Alice, 7, 77, 78, 79 Thomas, 77, 78 Welthean, 77, 78 Ripley, Hannah, 86, 90 Joshua, 90 Robinson, , 26, 33, 36, 80 John (Rev.), 60 Rogers, Elizabeth, 90 Hannah, 90 John, 87, 90 Joseph, 56 Thomas, 56 Russell, N, 61 Shakespeare, , 44 Sheffe, , 74 Shepard, Amos, 7 Celia Antoinette, 5, 7 James, 3, 7, 10 Samuel, 7 Sherwood, Mary, 93 Sherwood, Matthew, 93 Skiff, , 80 Smith, , 32 Anna, 89 Mary. 66 Nehemiah, 89 Southworth, , 57, 58, 66, 67 Alice, 52 Constant, 58, 78 Edward, 55, 78 Elizabeth, 78 Thomas, 57, 59, 67, 78 Speed, ,'72 Standish, , 30, 32, 33, 37, 39, 59, 62, 80 Myles, 50, 52 Steele, Bethia, 7, 90 George, 90 James, 90 John, 7, 90 Meletiah, 86 Mercy, 86 Samuel, 90 Stevens, Samuel, 74 Stipek, A. W., 9 Stirtivant, Samuel, 74 Taylor, , 73 Tracy, Thomas, 77 Tyler, , 12. 23,24, 45, 46, 47, 48. 49. 5° Tyler, Moses Coit, 12 Vermayes, Benjamin, 77 Vermont, , 76 Waigestafe, Alice, 14 Wamsutta, , 52, 80 Warren, Joseph, 88 Mercy, 88 Waters, , 61 Joseph Belcher, 61 INDEX OF PERSONS. 103 Weames, , 72 Weston, , 36, 37 Willett, , 72 Thomas, 67 William, III., 88 Williams, , 73 Roger, 32 Wilson, , 32 Roger, 25 Winsor, , 12 Winslow, , 30, 32, 33, 37, 39, 51, 80 Edward. 29 Winthrop, , 32, 39, 75 Wiswall, Pastor, 77, 79 Wood, John, 79 Young, 11, 5 2 --'. ; -v ; :t ;