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He married, July 27. 1854, Vesta Ryerson, born May 21, 1830, daughter of Charles and Lydia ( Ryerson) Ryerson, of Paris, Maine. ( See sketch of Ryerson family herewith). Children, born at Boston: 1. Ella Gertrude, born November 27. 1856, married Alanson David Brown: children: i. Stella G. Brown, married Warren Finley McElroy: ii. Jennie M. Brown, married William Collins ; iii. Alan- son G. Brown, married May Stigall ; iv. Helene C. Brown, married John Richie ; v. Vesta Ryer- son Brown: vi. Ruth Brown. 2. Ida Estella. born April 16, 1861, married William A. Moody; children: i. William A. Moody, Jr. : ii. Charles C. N. Moody : iii. Louis M. Moody : iv. Ira Moody.
RYERSON The surname Ryerson is identical with the Dutch Rey- ertsoon, a personal name, the change in spelling being due to its anglicization. As early as 1390 this name was common in
Amsterdam, Holland. In that year William Reyertzoon was burgomaster of the city : another of this name held this office in 1414 and 1418. Many of the name were prominent in Dutch affairs and in the expulsion of the Spanish from Holland. Two of the family were banished, and one beheaded by the Span- ish King, April 12. 1537. The coat-of-arms of the Reyertzoon family. registered at Amster- dam, is: Eradicated arz. one and four sable a tree withered and eradicted arz two and three arz three halberts bend ways and in bend sinis- ter the middle one longer than the others sable the blades vertical, surtout azure a martley or. Crest : a swan roussant. Motto: Voor God en Faderland." The registered coat-of-arms is proof of the nobility of one branch of the family, at least.
(1) Martin Reyerson or Ryerson, immi- grant ancestor, came to America with his brother Adriaen from Amsterdam in 1646 and settled in Brooklyn, New York. There Mar- tin married, May 17. 1663. Ann Rapeljea, and resided until 1685. He joined the Dutch church there in 1677, and was magistrate in 1679 and constable in 1682. In 1685 he re- moved to Flatbush, Long Island, of which he was one of the patentees. Children: Mar- ritze, Joris ( George ), mentioned below : Ryer ( the personal name from which Ryerson is derived ) : Catalyntie, Sarah, Cornelis, Jaco- bus. Gaertie. Helena, Franz.
( II) Joris ( George ) Ryerson, son of Mar- tin Ryerson, was baptized in Brooklyn, Sep- tember 19. 1666. He married, August 11, 1691. Ann Shouten, daughter of Theunis Dircksen Dey, of New York. In 1695 Rver- son in company with Anthony Broekholst, Arent Schuyler, Colonel Nicholas Bayard and John Meet, all of New York, Samuel Berry, Henry MeDonna and David Mandeville, of New Jersey, purchased from the governor and council of East New Jersey. four thousand acres of land then in Bergen county, now Pas- saie, extending northward from the junction of the Pompton river with the Passaic river. Of this traet Ryerson eventually became the owner of the greater part and there he settled. Children, baptized in New York: 1. Martin, baptized 1698. 2. Helena, baptized 1701. 3. George, baptized 1703. 4. Lucas, mentioned below. 5. Blandina. Perhaps others born in New Jersey.
(Il) Lucas (Luke) Ryerson, son of Joris (George ) Ryerson, was baptized in New York in 1706. He removed with his parents to Ber- gen county, New Jersey. The history of Ber-
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gen county says: "The Ryersons are the most numerous to-day of any family in the western part of Bergen County." All are descendants of George (2).
(IV) Luke Ryerson, son or nephew of Luke Ryerson, was born in Bergen county. New Jersey. about 1735-40. He settled in York county, Maine, when a young man, and his first child was probably born there. Ile removed to West Buckfield, Maine, and locat- ed on what is now known as the Rounds Place. The history of Paris, Maine, relates that at the time of its publication General George Cush- man, then living, could remember attending the funeral of Luke Ryerson in 1812, when he ( Cushman ) was eleven years old. After Ryerson's death the family followed the elder sons who had settled in Paris, Maine. He married (first), February 1, 1767, Abigail Ellery, daughter of Dependence Ellery ; (sec- ond ) Sarah Coombs, born at York. December 14, 1766. His widow Sarah married Cox. He was the father of twenty-three chil- dren. Children of first wife: I. Abigail, died young. 2. William, born August 4, 1769. mentioned below. 3. Luke, born 1772, married Keziah Cushman. 4. Elizabeth. 5. George, married Elizabeth Jenks. 6. Polly. 7. John. 8. Joseph, died young. 9. Samuel. 10. Benja- min. 11. Susanna, married John Pearce. 12. Abigail, married - -- Irving. Children of second wife: 13. Sarah, born June 16, 1793, married John Cole and lived in Poland, Maine. 14. Joseph, born October 7, 1794, resided at St. Albans, Vermont. 15. Howell, born March 6, 1796, married Churchill: (second)
Roberts; (third) White. 16. Nancy, born March 9, 1798, married Jonathan Pulsifer. 17. Nehemiah, born July 9, 1799, kept a hotel in Portland, Maine. 18. Esther, born March 6, 1801, married John Moore. 19. Redley, born August 20, 1802, married Anna Whittemore. 20. Nathaniel Osgood, married Nancy Hersey. 21. Christiana, born Novem- ber 20. 1804. 22. Simeon, born August 20. 1807. married Miranda Walker : resided at North Paris, Maine. 23. Ebenezer, born Aug- ust 20, 1807.
(V) Colonel William Ryerson, son of Luke Ryerson, was born in Buckfield, Maine, Aug- ust 4, 1769, died at Paris, Maine, May 18. 1838. He was colonel of his regiment in ac- tive service at Portland in the War of 1812. He married Sally Parsons, born January 29. 1778, died July 24. 1826. Children, born at Paris: 1. Sarah, born November 6, 1797. married Josiah J. Knight, formerly of Paris,
later Rumford, Maine. 2. William, born Feb- ruary 18, 1800. 3. Charles, born January 20, IS02, mentioned below. 4. Mary, born Sep- tember 29, 1804, married Herman Proctor. 5. Charlotte, born August 14, 1806, died 1820. 6. Joseph Parsons, born May 3. 1808, married Mathews. 7. Caroline, born June 10, 1811. married Robert Skillings: resided at South Paris. 8. Columbia, born April 13, 1819. died February 23. 1837.
(\'1) Charles Ryerson, son of Colonel Wil- liam Ryerson, was born in Paris, Maine, Janu- ary 20. 1802, in the old homestead, and died there August 27, 1841. He married September I. 1828. his cousin, Lydia Ryerson, born June 7. 1807. daughter of Luke Ryerson, Jr. Chil- dren: I. Charlotte Isabel, born March 18, 1829, married ( first ), October 21, 1849, Abel Bosworth : ( second) James Billings. 2. Vesta, born May 21, 1830, married Charles Colburn Bills, July 27, 1854. (See sketch of the Bills family herewith). 3. Caroline C., born Sep- tember 18, 1838, died February 4, 1905, (11)- married.
Joseph Beal, ancestor of George BEAL Raynolds Beal, was born in Nel- son, New Hampshire, October 8, 1791. died March 17, 1871. His father, who married a daughter of Rev. Jacob Foster, was an adopted son of John Beal, an uncle by marriage. Joseph Beal married Lois Ward- well, born in Andover, Massachusetts, April 1, 1801, died July 20, 1880, daughter of Ezra and Lois ( Whitney) Wardwell. Children of Joseph Beal: 1. Justus Foster, born Septem- ber 27. 1831, at Nelson, New Hampshire, died February 24, 1890, at Boston, Massachusetts ; married (first) Chadwick; married (second) Emma I. Gale; children: Joseph and Viola Louise. 2. Joseph Raynolds, born August 18, 1834, at Nelson, New Hampshire, died January 6, 1895. at Keene, New Hamp- shire ; married Eleanor J. Cummings : child, Jessie Gertrude. 3. Ezra Wardwell, see for- ward. 4. Sarah Frances, born May 16, 1837, at Nelson, New Hampshire, died April 10, 1896, at Keene, New Hampshire. 5. William Henry Harrison, born April 26, 1841, at Nel- son, New Hampshire, married (first) Frances E. Norton : married (second) Laura H. Bur- nap ; child by first wife, Frances E., who died March 30, 1897.
(II) Ezra Wardwell Beal, son of Joseph and Lois (Wardwell) Beal, was born at Nel- son, New Hampshire, March 8, 1836, and is now (1908) living in Waltham, Massachu-
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setts. He is engaged in the produce commis- sion business, and is one of the oldest in the business, having begun in 1854-55. Ile is a deacon and was for a number of years treas- urer of the First Parish Church of Waltham. He married ( first ) Frances R. Goodrich, who bore him children: 1. Frank Wardwell, died in infancy. 2. William Goodrich, born May 30, 1864, died July 19. 1898: married Nettie L. Nichols : children : Lois Nichols and Wil- liam G. Ile married (second ), October 2, 1867, Lucretia Kendall Brown, born June 20, 1841. daughter of George and Susannah ( Wellington ) Brown ( Brown ancestry appears in this sketch). Children by second wife: Susan W., born July 10, 1868. 4. George Ray- nolds, see forward. 5. Justus Hunting, born July 18. 1874. married Gertrude E. Howell : child, Howard Lawrence, born November 13. 1906. 6. Henry Foster, born August 12. 1879. married Marion Alice Cushman.
(111) George Raynolds Beal, son of Ezra Wardwell and Lucretia K. ( Brown ) Beal, was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, March 20. 1870. He was reared there and secured his early education in the public and high schools. He later attended llarvard College and was a member of class of 1891, but did not complete his course. He then studied law and was ad- mitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1905. He engaged in the banking business, and now holds the office of treasurer of the Waltham Savings Bank. He is a Republican in politics. and is now president of the board of aklermen of Waltham, having served in this body three terms. He is a Mason, and member of Moni- tor Lodge in Waltham. He is unmarried.
Mrs. Lucretia K. ( Brown ) Beal, wife of Ezra Wardwell Beal, and mother of George Ray- nolds Beal, is descended from Abraham Browne, of Watertown.
Among the early settlers of Watertown there were three Brownes-Richard. Abraham and John. The two last named were probably nephews of Richard Browne. Abraham Browne was a very early settler, perhaps one of the first of Watertown, and was admitted a freeman March 6, 1631-32. He was a land surveyor, and held many important offices and trusts. From 1636 to 1643, inclusive, he was a selectman : in 1634 he was appointed with Robert Seeley "to survey all the lands that are granted." and they were also appointed "con- servators of timber trees," in 1635 he was one of seven freemen appointed to divide every man "his propriety" of meadow and upland that is ploughable, and the rest to lie in com-
mon : in the same year he was appointed with John Warren to lay out all highways and to see that they are repaired, also to survey the lots granted by the selectmen. In 1638 it was ordered that all lots, both of freemen and foreigners, shall be measured and bounded by Abraham Browne, who shall give a note of each survey to be enrolled in the town books. In 1640, Abraham Browne, "Surveyor of the Town," was directed to survey the subdivi- sions of the Hither and Further Plains, and the next year he was directed to do the same. Also, it was ordered that he have 4d. the acre for surveying the two plains and the remote meadows. Also, he was empowered in 1643 to warn trespassers on public timber, and to have one-fourth of the fines. October 7. 1641. the general court appointed him one of the committee for laying out the one thousand acres of land granted to the Artillery Com- pany at its first organization. The first civil records of Middlesex county show that Octo- ber 1. 1650, his will and inventory were "ac- cepted at court." An order of court, made October 6, 1691. respecting the final settlement of his estate, recites of him as "deceased in the vear 1650." Ilis widow, Lydia Browne, mar- ried (second ). November 27, 1659. Andrew Hodges, of Ipswich. She died September 27. Children of Abraham and Lydia Browne: 1. Sarah, born in England, married. December 16, 1643. George Parkhurst. 2. Mary, born probably in England, married. April 10, 1650, John Lewis, of Charlestown : children: i. Abraham, born December 10. 1650 : ii. Jonathan. Jannary 4. 1651, died 1651- 52: iii. Mary, born January, 1652-53. married Samuel Penfield: iv. Hannah, married John Melvin: v. Isaac, married. March 25, 1680, Mary Davis : vi. Trial, born January, 1657-58. 3. Lydia, born March 22, 1632-33. in Watertown, married Lieutenant William Lakin, Jr., of Groton : children: i. Jonathan, born June 28, 1661: ii. Abraham, January 10. 1663-64: iii. William. May 1666; iv. Abraham, September 11. 1667: v. Eliab, October 10, 1660. died young. 4. Jonathan, see forward. 5. Hannah. buried March 15. 1638-39. aged fourteen days. 6. Abraham, born March 6, 1639-40, died 1667 : married. February 5. 1662-63. Mary Dix : children: i. Lydia, born November 11. 1663. married George Woodward, Jr. : ji. Abraham. born 1665. died May, 1678. The widow of Abraham married (second ), 1668. Samuel Rice, of Sudbury.
( 11) Jonathan Browne, son of Abraham and Lydia Browne, was born October 15.
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1635. in watertown, died in 1690-91. He mar- ried, February 11, 1661-62, Mary Shattuck, born August 25, 1645, died October 23, 1732, buried in Waltham graveyard, daughter of William Shattuck, of Watertown. Children : I. Mary, born October 5, 1662, married, March 22, 1682-83, John Warren; children: John and Jonathan. 2. Elizabeth, born September 10, 1664. married, March 25. 1687, Daniel Benjamin, nine children. 3. Jonathan, born October 25, 1666, died young. 4. Patience, born March 6, 1668-69, married, March 5, 1686-87, James Bigelow ; one child, James, baptized May 6, 1688. 5. Abraham, born Aug- ust 26, 1671. died November 27. 1729. 6. Samuel, born October 21, 1674. 7. Lydia, born March 31, 1677, married, January 18, 1698-99, Benjamin Wellington. 8. Ebenezer, born September 10, 1679. 9. Benjamin, born February 27, 1681, died March II, 1753. IO. William, see forward.
( III ) William Brown (he having dropped the final e), son of Jonathan and Mary ( Shat- tuck) Browne, was born September 3, 1684, died October 28. 1756. He was prominent in church and municipal affairs of Watertown and Waltham, serving for many years as dea- con, and was a member of the first board of selectmen of Waltham after its incorporation. He married (first ), January 10, 1704-05. Han- nah Pease, of Cambridge ; she died March IO, 1717-18. He married (second ). December II, 1718, Sarah Bond, only daughter of Colonel Jonas and Grace (Coolidge) Bond; she died June 10, 1777. Children : I. Ebenezer, sce forward. 2. Hannah, born January 22, 1706- 07, died November 2, 1762: married, Novem- ber 10, 1726, Samuel Livermore, Esq., of Waltham: nine children. 3. Sarah, born July 6, 1708, died young. 4. William, born Sep- tember 27. 1710. married Mary Fessenden. 5. Isaac, born December 5, 1711, died October 6, 1759. 6. Susanna, born May 16, 1714, died 1774; married, January 12, 1737-38, Henry Prentice, of Cambridge. 7. Samuel, born 1716, died 1786; married, probably, Jerusha Loomis. 8. Grace, born 1719. died 1769 ; mar- ried, May 13, 1742, George Lawrence. 9. Jonas, born December 9, 1721; died in child- hood. 10. Josiah, born August 2, 1724, died March 16, 1776. 11. Sarah, born March 14, 1727-28, died 1802-03; married, October 5. 1749. Colonel Benjamin Hammond, of New- ton : children : Nathaniel and Ebenezer (twins), born May 2, 1750; Nathaniel, died 1753: Sarah, born November, 1751 ; Ann, born December, 1754: Jonathan, born December 19.
1756; Benjamin, born and died August 19, 1759 ; Lucretia, born December 11, 1761 ; Eliz- abeth, born May 26, 1764; Benjamin, born June 12, 1768. 12. Thankful, born April 28, 1730, married, 1751, Abijah Pierce.
(IV) Ebenezer Brown, son of William and Hannah ( Pease ) Brown, was born in Water- town, October 23. 1705, died December 17, 1785, in Waltham. He served as 'assessor and selectman of Waltham. He married, May 20, 1727. Abigail Adams, of Lexington : she died December 26, 1784. Children : I. Abigail. born March 5, 1728, died 1807 ; married, Octo- ber 26. 1749, Jonathan Myrick. 2. Jonas, see forward. 3. Ebenezer, born December 29, 1730, died 1758. 4. David, born February 21, 1731-32, married, November 25. 1755, Mind- well Cummins. 5. Nathaniel, born Septem- ber 30, 1733, died in the army, 1755. 6. HIan- nah. born February 5, 1734-35, married, Jant- ary 12, 1758, Josiah Smith. 7. Martha, born April 6, 1736, died December 25, 1768; mar- ried. April 1. 1756, Benjamin Green. 8. Amos, born September 18, 1738, died February 3. 1812. 9. Susanna, born February 9, 1741, died in childhood. 10. Susanna, born February 9, 174-, married. April 10, 1760, John Welling- ton. 11. Elijah, born May 31, 1744, died Oc- tober 24, 1816: married (first), December 13, 1770, Susanna Bigelow, of Waltham ; she died May 1, 1807: married (second) Abigail, widow of Gershom Flagg, a sister of his first wife ; children : Elijah and Henry.
(V) Jonas Brown, son of Ebenezer and Abigail (Adams) Brown, was born July 26, 1729. died October 27, 1810. lle was a resi- dent of Waltham. He married, January 31, 1758, Elizabeth Meriam, daughter of Thomas and Tabitha Meriam, of Lexington. Children : 1. Mary, born June 8, 1759. 2. Abigail, born February 26, 1761, died 1842, unmarried. 3. Miriam, born January 23, 1763. 4. Elizabeth, born March 21, 1765, died October 15, 1800. 5. Jonas, see forward. 6. Martha, born March 5, 1769, married, April 5. 1803, Robert Bald- win, of Waltham.
(VI) Jonas Brown, Jr., son of Jonas and Elizabeth ( Meriam) Brown, was born January 29, 1767. He was selectman of Waltham, 1802-03-07-08-11-19. He married, February 4. 1795, Relief Pierce, born July 15, 1770, daughter of Isaac and Hannah ( Mason) Pierce. Children : 1. Hannah, born December 5. 1795. 2. Mary Ann, born November 2, 1797. 3. George, see forward. 4. Elizabeth Miriam, born January 17, 1805. 5. Jonas, born July 26, 1812, married, as her second
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husband, Susanna Wellington, widow of his brother, George Brown.
(VII) George Brown, son of Jonas, Jr. and Relief ( Pierce ) Brown, was born Janu- ary 5. 1801. He married Susanna Wellington. and their daughter Lucretia, born in Waltham. June 20, 1841. became the wife of Ezra Ward- well Beal, as before stated.
Joseph Bradley, the immi-
BRADLEY grant, was born in London, England, in 1649, and settled in Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1659. He mar- ried, April 4. 1691, Hannah Heath, of Haver- hill. The fifth garrison was in his house and under his command. During an Indian raid in 1695 his son Isaac, aged fifteen, and Joseph Whittaker, aged eleven, were taken captive while in the open field near Joseph Bradley's house on Parsonage road near the north brook. Whittaker's house was on the Derry road, west of Bradley's. Joseph was large, over- grown and exceedingly clumsy. On their ar- rival at the Indian camp at the Lake, the boys were placed in an Indian family consisting of a man, squaw and three or more children, the Indians intending to take them to Canada in the spring. Isaac contracted a fever from which he nearly died, the kindness and care of the squaw alone saving his life. But upon his recovery he planned his escape, managed to get away with his companion and ran all night to the southward. The Indians, of course, pursued the boys, and next day their clogs found the wretched youngsters, who gave the meat they had taken for food to give the dogs, and as the dogs knew the boys, they gave no evidence of discovering the hiding-place when their Indian masters appeared, the boys being hid in a hollow log. Some days later the boys came upon an Indian camp and were greatly disheartened at running into this new danger. They continued, almost without food and clothing, for eight days. On the morn- ing of the eighth day Joseph sank down ex- hausted and his companion - went forward alone. Soon afterward he discovered a set- tler's home and returned to save his compan- ion. Joseph was sick for a long time at Saco. but Isaac was able to return to his home in Haverhill in a short time.
In 1697 Joseph, Martha and Sarah Bradley were captured by the Indians. April 17, 1701, Daniel Bradley was reported missing. The wife of Joseph Bradey was captured twice. The garrison at his house was surprised Feb- ruary 8, 1704, and his wife taken for the sec-
ond time and carried away. An infant child. born to her soon afterward, died of exposure and want. or was killed as related below. Mrs. Bradley received no kindness from her captors. subsisting on bits of skin, ground nuts, bark of trees, wild onions and lily roots on the terri- ble journey to Canada, after the baby was born. The child was sickly and annoyed the Indians with its crying. They thrust embers from the fire into its mouth, gashed its fore- head with their knives, and finally, during her temporary absence from the child, they ended its life by impaling it on a pike. She managed to live through the journey and was soll to the French for eighty livres. She was kindly treated by her owners. Her husband started for Canada on foot in March, 1705, with a dog and small sled, having a bag of snuff to present to the governor of Canada from the governor of the province of Massachusetts. He redeemed his wife and set sail for Boston. We are told that during one attack on the Bradley house she poured hot soft soap on an Indian and killed him, and that the torture of her child was in retaliation. Joseph Bradley died October 3. 1729: his widow Hannah died November 2, 1761. They had ten children. some of whom are: 1. Abraham, resided until 1754 in Concord, New Hampshire. 2. Joseph, mentioned below. 3. Martha. 4. Sarah, killed March 11, 1697, by Indians. 5. Isaac, born 1680, taken prisoner in 1695. 6. Daniel, drowned; Chase says he was killed June 13, 1680. Several others.
( 11) Joseph Bradley, son of Joseph Bra lley (I), was born in Haverhill about 1675. He was captured in 1697, but probably soon re- leased by the Indians.
( 111 ) Deacon Joseph Bradley, son of Joseph Bradley ( 2), was born in Haverhill, February 13, 1706; married, February 3, 1735, Hannah Marsh, of Haverhill. He signed a petition, 1748, relating to a town meeting over which there was some controversy. He lived in the west parish of Haverhill and was the deacon of the church. His wife died in 1747. Ile married, second, Mrs. Sarah ( Marble) French. of Newbury, Massachusetts. He died Oc- tober 1. 1749. He had four children by his first wife. The only child by his second wife was Enoch, mentioned below.
(IV) Enoch Bradley, son of Deacon Joseph Bradley (3), was born in Haverhill, Massa- chusetts, June 22, 1742: married Mary Low, who was born in Essex, Massachusetts, May 18, 1747. daughter of General Low, of Ips- wich, Massachusetts. He and his wife Mary
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had nine children, five daughters and four sons. He died May 29, 1831. His wife died August 3. 1822. He owned an extensive farm in Hav- erhill, extending five miles along the banks of the Merrimac river, and in 1814 utilized the mill privilege on his property. He was a soldier in the revolution, a sergeant in Cap- tain Timothy Eaton's company, Colonel John- son's regiment, April 19, 1775. He amassed considerable wealth and did a considerable banking business. He owned a pew in each of the Congregational churches and in the Universalist church. At the cross-roads, where the ways to these churches parted, he used to give the decision to his horse and attended the church to which the road selected by the horse led him. Children: 1. Mary, born April 10, 1771, married Ezekiel Barhard. 2. Abigail, born June 1. 1772. married George Corliss. 3. Sarah, born February 1, 1774, married Peter Ayer. 4. Enoch, Jr., mentioned below. 5. Caleb L., born February 22, 1780, married Abigail Ayers. 6. Patty, born December 25, 1782, married a Mr. Page. 7. Joseph, born June 4. 1786, married Margaret Bowers. 8. Bickett, born June 10, 1789, married, first, Hannah Merrill : second, Lucretia Page.
(\') Enoch Bradley, Jr., son of Enoch Bradley (4), was born in Haverhill, April 22. 1778. He married Abigail Hildreth, of Meth- uen, Massachusetts, daughter of Dr. Samuel Ilildreth. They had ten children. He died April 6, 1855. aged seventy-seven years; his wife Abigail died May 12, 1856, aged seventy- seven. From 1810 to 1815 he was adjutant of the state militia of Massachusetts. He had a large and productive farm and conducted a mill. He held many offices of public trust. He was the founder of the Haverhill Academy and became one of its first trustees. Children : Mary L., died young; Enoch L., Eliza A .. Margaret B., Samuel Prescott, mentioned be- low : Louisa, Mary L., Abigail A., Joseph H. (\'1) Samuel Prescott Bradley, son of Enoch Bradley, Jr. (5), was born March 17. 1812, in Haverhill. He was educated in the public schools of Haverhill, and became a prominent merchant and manufacturer of his native place. He was in early life a success- ful dry goods merchant and later a manufac- turer of boots and shoes. After he retired from the shoe business he devoted his time to the cultivation of his farm, bequeathed to him by his father who was the fourth in direct line to own and live on the Bradley homestead. Mr. Bradley was commissioned quartermaster with the rank and title of lieutenant in Colonel
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