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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Private / Ensign
Bradford Family Farm Cemetery is located on the property patented in 1790 by James Bradford ( my 4th great grandfather )
Several Bradford families have lived on the farm in Whiteley Twp, Greene Co, PA and 30 souls are buried in this plot of land - Jim Bradford
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
Per notes on find-a-grave, Bradford Family Cemetery located the land patented in 1790 by James Bradford known as "Long Hill" and is located on Bradford Run, a tributary of Dyer's Fork of Whiteley Creek, Whiteley Twp, Greene County, Pennsylvania
No GPS on find-a-grave
Author: Terry Fowler
James Bradford was born 1 Jan 1754.
James Bradford married Barbara Yoho about 1781 in Whiteley, Greene County, PA.
James & Barbara Yoho Bradford had ten children:
Mary, John, Robert, James, Jacob, Henry, William, Margaret, Barbara, and Ann Bradford.[1) Mary (1783-1870); 2) son, Robert (1790-1857); and 3) James, Junr. (1796-1861) m. Mary Dye by 1828, PA]
James Bradford served in the Revolutionary War as a Private First Class in the Pennsylvania Militia, First Battalion, Washington County, PA, in the company commanded by CPT James Archer. The company was recruited in the vicinity of Fort Jackson (Waynesburg), PA. His service was in 1782 or 1783. (Penna. Archives, Series VI, Vol.2, pp.17-18)
Died 18 Apr 1822 at age 68 years, 3 months,18 days - buried in Bradford Family Cemetery located the land patented in 1790 by James Bradford known as "Long Hill" and is located on Bradford Run, a tributary of Dyer's Fork of Whiteley Creek, Whiteley Twp, Greene County, Pennsylvania
The Bradford family is of English descent and came to Brownsville, Fayette County, PA from Northern Ireland in 1774, making James twenty years of age when the family arrived in America.
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