Bradley Family

• Name	Bradley Family
  Gender	Male
  Biography	The following is taken from Peters: _______________________________ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY In Rowley, Massachusetts, is found the first progenitor of the Bradleys of Essex County: [BOLD:] Daniel Bradley. 1 [:BOLD] Who were his parents, or whence he came, is not known, neither is his age or his relationship to any of teh other Daniels who appear in New England prior to 1662, and one of whom is first mentioned in Rowley itself in 1654, and int the Ipswich town records in 1645. Rowley was settled in 1639 by the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers and his parishioners. According to Cotton Mather the town was named for Rowley in the East Riding of Yorkshire, where Rogers had been pastor and which he left in 1638 for New England. Rowley, in England, is an extensive parish composed of several hamlets; there is one church and a rectory; the manor belongs to the Harrison-Bradley family. 2 Here we have a clue to a possible ancestry for the Bradleys who were first mentioned in Rowley and the neighboring town of Ipswich, though there seems to be no record of them until some years after the advent of the Rev. Ezekiel and his flock, 3 the earliest mention being that of Mary, who was married to Thomas Leaver in Rowley, Sept. 1, 1643. There are Bradleys, however, who appear in another part of Essex County earlier than this, and who may, or may not, be the same family. There can be little doubt--though the compiler has no positive proof--that the Bradleys of New Haven were of the same family and near relations to those of Essex County, coming there and thence emigrating to New Haven; the extraordinary similarity of the names of the children of the first William of New Haven to those of Daniel of Rowley and Haverhill being most significant. Joshua, who is "barely fifteen in 1653," marries in Rowley, Mass., May 26 1663, Judith Lume (or Lumbe) and has a first child Martha born Feb., 1663/4; his second child, Joshua, born 1665, in recorded both in Rowley and in New Haven and seems to form the connecting link. The compiler has failed to find any record or proof of the statement that Benjamin Bradley, and apothecary, of London, came from Leicestershire, in 1600, and lived in the market town of Bingley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire; died abt. 1638; md. twice; the eldes son, William, came to America and joined the New Haven colony, July 16, 1645; he had five children by his second wife; Ellen, Daniel, Joseph, Nathaniel, Stephen. This statement will be found in the [BOLD:] History of Cantebury, New Hampshire, [:BOLD] by Colonel Lyford, who gives no authority for it. 1 Who married Mary Williams in 1662. 2 [BOLD:] Essex Antiquarian, [:BOLD] vol. xi, p. 36, January, 1907. 3 This would easily be accounted for if, as probably was the case, no births, marriages, or deaths occurred during the interval. The following is from the Haverhill Library and was probably written about 1890: In the West Parish a little off from the main road to Lawrence stands a very old house known as the Low Bradley place. It was built by one Lufkin, probably about 1730. There was at this time a lock in the river about opposite the house which was no longer used, and Lufkin took the stones of wich it was constructed to build his celler. Having one more than he needed, he left it in the river, and it is now called "Lufkin's Rock". When the house was finished Lufkin thought it was too expensive a place for him to live in, and accordingly he sold it to Capt. Daniel Bradley [Joseph (2), Daniel (1)]. Capt. Bradley died in 1785 leaving this house to widowed daughter, Mrs. Ruth Pecker. Here she lived for some years with her son Daniel and finally sold it to her cousin Enoch Bradley in 1799. He gave it to his son Enoch,Jr. in or about 1834. This Enoch Jr. fitted it for a tavern, and there was a large dance hall which was frequently the place of gathering for the young people of the neighborhood. Near the house there was a landing place on the river bank known as Bradley Landing. The tavern sign is still in the dance hall. It is four feet square,and on one side is painted the figure of an Indian. On the other side is the sun with the moon and stars. Enoch Bradley,Jr. left the place to his son Enoch Low Bradley, who still owns and occupies it at 83 years of age. There used to be another house near it built by one of the Bradley's for his sons, and so much superior to the old house that it was called the "Bradley Mansion", but it was destroyed by fire some years since. If you desire to find this old house, which will well repay a visit, take the main road to Lawrence, called Lowell Avenue. A little past the brick school-house the road descends, and crosses "Creek Brook". At the foot of the hill on the right is a very old mill always called "Bradley's Mill". Just opposite is the road leading to the Bradley homestead. It can be distinguished by a great number of willow trees. The house has quite recently been repaired. [UND:] Addenda - 1930. [:UND] The Low Bradley house was torn down in 1919. According to Alice and Clementine Ayer, the Bradley Mill is on land deeded in 1748, in the 22nd year of his Majesty's Reign. It was a saw mill and was moved from Crystal Lake and converted into a grist mill. It was purchased from Amini Hayes, who ran the mill the first year. In 1825 more land was purchased nearby.
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  Last Modified	20 Sep 2016