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State of Service: MA
Qualifying Service: Civil Service
Author: Timothy D. Mallory
The Revolutionary War Patriot, The Honorable Moses Bradbury, Sr., is the son of Jacob Bradbury, Esquire, (William, Thomas), and Elizabeth Stockman of Salisbury, Massachusetts, who resided in North Yarmouth in the Province of Maine in early 1700s. Moses Bradbury, Sr. was born Nov. 3, 1715; one of ten children. Moses Bradbury, Sr. married Abigail Fogg, Dec. 28, 1737 in North Yarmouth, daughter of Benoni Fogg and Abigail Cass of Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. She was born Mar. 17, 1720 in Hampton Falls. Abigail Fogg was a descendant of Samuel Fogg of Exeter or Wales, England, who came to America in 1630 and settled in Hampton Falls.
Children all born in North Yarmouth: Mary Bradbury was born Sept. 11, 1738; Jacob was born Dec. 13, 1740; Hannah born Apr. 11, 1742; Benjamin born Jun. 30, 1745, married Apr. 23, 1766 to Eleanor Fellows; Enos born May 10, 1748; Sarah born Apr. 9, 1751, married David Dinsmore of Minot, Maine; Moses Jr. born Jun. 29, 1755 (also a Rev. War Patriot), married Eunice Millet; Samuel (no birth record) married 1st Bethulah Haskell, and 2nd Hannah Noyes; Naomi (no birth record) married Abner Brown of Greene, Maine; and Abigail (birth unk.) married in 1782 Deacon Isaac Allen of Minot, Maine.
Moses Bradbury, Sr. moved in 1790 to New Gloucester, Cumberland County, Maine from North Yarmouth and settled his family on Bradbury Hill. His daughter Mary Bradbury married Capt. William Harris of North Yarmouth, a son of Amos and Hannah (nee Larrabee) Harris, Nov. 19, 1755, who was born Nov. 7, 1731. Moses Bradbury, Sr. provided civilian service as a Town Commissioner in support of the Revolutionary War.
Moses Bradbury Sr. served as a Tax Collector for the town of New Gloucester, which is cited in “Documentary History of the State of Maine, Vol. 19” -- Resolve on Certificates From General Wadsworth in the House of Representatives, Nov. 20, 1780. According to Commonwealth of Massachusetts court records, Mr. Moses Bradbury was paid $65 the old currency per bushel for supplying forty-eight bushels of Indian corn to the Troops at Cambden engaged in the Revolutionary War. The 1798 Direct Tax for Maine provides an assessment for the property owned by Moses Bradbury, and his heirs in New Gloucester; he owned 77 acres of land valued at $94.00. The Portland Gazette newspaper published on Apr. 25, 1803 a public notice for unpaid taxes regarding Moses Bradbury’s land in New Gloucester. Taxes were unpaid by his heir’s on District 3 in the 2nd Division for the years 1800, 1801, and 1802. Moses Bradbury, Sr. likely died between 1798 and 1800 based on this historical information.
This biography cites information contained in Bradbury Memorial by genealogist John Merrill Bradbury of Ipswich, Massachusetts, published in 1890. Moses Bradbury, Sr. is a fourth generation descendant of Thomas Bradbury who came from England to America in 1634 as a land agent for Sir Ferdinando Gorges and helped establish York, Maine. This branch of the Bradbury family moved from Salisbury to North Yarmouth in the mid-1700s during the French and Indian Wars.
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