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Author: Mike Flood
David Bradbury was born October 13, 1760 near Elizabethtown, Essex County, New Jersey. David’s mother was left a widow, and he, when quite young, was taken by a shoemaker to learn that trade, but the Revolutionary war called his master into the service, and he, also, in some capacity or another, was in the service a great portion of the time until the close of the war; say from the age of thirteen to twenty. He served as a private in the Essex County, New Jersey Militia under as certified by R. Heber Breintnall, Adjutant General of the State of New Jersey under the date of February 23, 1906. He was in the battles of Monmouth and Staten Island, as related by his son Daniel in his memoirs published in 1889. He says he distinctly remembers having heard his father describe these battles as being a very hot day that his gun got so hot that he had to lay it down three times during the battle; he was engaged in other battles, names of which Daniel cannot now remember.
At the close of the war David was totally illiterate, but through the aid of his wife, after their marriage, he became a tolerably fair English scholar. David and Susannah had small estates left them. Their guardians paid them off in Continental money which proved worthless, all except some real estate which belonged to Daniel’s mother, Susannah, and after they had moved to Kentucky, which was in the year 1778, David went back on foot, sold the land for one hundred silver dollars, all of which he brought back and gave to his wife. She put it into a tin cup and placed it in her chest till, to be kept to buy them a home with, which was done, they buying one hundred acres of land in Fleming County, Kentucky, paying that same one hundred dollars in silver and a rifle gun for the land.
After the war he married (1) Susannah Craig February 21, 1781. She was born April 27, 1762, and died May 27, 1819.
He married again sometime after, 1819.
Children of David Bradbury and Susannah Craig are: 1. Josiah Bradbury, born December 09, 1782. 2. Mary Bradbury, born November 19, 1785. 3. James Bradbury, born January 08, 1787. 4. Mary Bradbury, born March 07, 1789. 5. David Bradbury, born July 31, 1791. 6. James Bradbury, born September 18, 1793. 7. John Bradbury, born March 13, 1796. 8. Abner Bradbury, born July 08, 1798. 9. Daniel Bradbury, born September 22, 1800. 10. Ezekiel Bradbury, born April 25, 1803. 11. Sarah Bradbury, born September 22, 1807. 12. Phoebe Bradbury, born September 22, 1807.
Children of David Bradbury and Unknown Wife are: 1. William Bradbury, born September 26, 1820. 2. Rachel Bradbury, born after 1820. 3. Malvina Bradbury, born after 1824.
David died on his farm, west of Green’s Fork in Wayne County, Indiana, May 07, 1824 and was buried in the church yard at Jacksonburg, Wayne Co., Indiana.
DAR 61932, National number of Emma Bradbury. DAR 56235 Supplemental of Anna Bradbury Memoir of Abner M. Bradbury, addressed to his family, published by Palladium Print, Richmond, Ind. Memoir of Daniel Bradbury published by L. P. Harris of Hagerstown, Indiana, 1889. Biographical and genealogical history of Wayne, Fayette, Union and Franklin Counties, Indiana Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1899
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