A Guide to the Bradford Family Papers, 1722-1795 Bradford Family Papers, 1722-1795 28556

A Guide to the Bradford Family Papers, 1722-1795

A Collection in
the Library of Virginia
Accession Number 28556

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Processed by: Jay Gaidmore

Repository

The Library of Virginia

Accession Number

28556

Title

Bradford Family Papers, 1722-1795

Physical Description

3 leaves and 12 pages

Creator

Bradford Family

Language

English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Bradford Family Papers, 1722-1795. Accession 28556. Personal Papers Collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift, 2 December 1970, of John Santerre, Grand Prairie, Texas.

Biographical Information

The Bradford family was a prominent family of Prince William and Fauquier Counties, Virginia. John Bradford (d. 1734) married a widow, Mary Marr Kingcart about 1717 and they had nine children, including John, Daniel, and Alexander. Daniel Bradford (d. 1800) married Alice Morgan, and they had children including John and William (d. 1825). Alexander Bradford (1728-ca. 1795) and his wife Jemima Bradford had twelve children.

Scope and Content

Papers, 1722-1795, of the Bradford family of Prince William and Fauquier Counties, Virginia, containing land grants, 1722/3 and 1788, for land in the Northern Neck Proprietary and in Fayette County, Virginia (now Kentucky); deeds, 1745-1795, for property in Prince William, Fauquier, and Richmond Counties; and a commission, 16 May 1795, to William Walker and William Eve from Madison County Court to examine Jemima Bradford concerning a deed from her and her husband to Daniel Bradford and their statement that she concurs in the sale. Land grant, 1722/3 in the Northern Neck Proprietary and deed, no date, for property in Richmond County, Virginia, to Mary Kingcart (Bradford) may be two separated parts of the same grant.

Contents List

Land grant, 1722/23, in the Northern Neck Proprietary to [grantee's name mutilated].

Deed, 22 July 1745 and recorded the same date, for land in Prince William County (later Fauquier County), Virginia, from Mary Bradford to her son John Bradford, both of Prince William County.

Deed, 22 July 1745 and recorded the same date, for 316 acres in Prince William County from John Bradford to his brother Daniel Bradford.

Deed, 1760, for 309 acres in Fauquier County, Virginia, from William Ellzey and Alice Ellzey his wife of Prince William County to Daniel Bradford, of Fauquier County, there is no recordation date.

Deed, 25 June 1770 and recorded same date, for 15[4?] acres in Fauquier County from Daniel Bradford to John Burdell, both of Fauquier County.

Land grant, 13 March 1788, for 1000 acres in Fayette County, Virginia (now Kentucky) from Edmund Randolph, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia to John Bradford and William Bradford.

Deed, 16 May 1795 and recorded 28 September 1795, for 153 acres in Fauquier County from Alexander Bradford and Jemima Bradford, his wife, both of Madison County, Virginia, to Daniel Bradford of Fauquier County.

Commission, 16 May 1795, to William Walker and William Eve from Madison County Court to examine Jemima Bradford concerning a deed from her and her husband to Daniel Bradford and their statement that she concurs in the sale.

Deed, no date, Northern Neck Proprietary to Mary Kingcart (Bradford) for land in Richmond County, Virginia.