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Bradford family papers 1831-1834 Bradford family

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Maria W. Bradford and her husband Claudius moved from Massachusetts to Cincinnati in 1831 when he was appointed Professor of Languages at the newly established Woodward High School. Soon after, her sister Lucia joined them. Maria, Claudius, and Lucia all wrote long letters to the mother, father, and sisters back home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, detailing their experiences in the "western" United States.

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Bradford, Claudius

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Bradford, Maria Weston Bradford, 1804-

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Bradford, Sarah B., b. 1772

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Descendants of Governor William Bradford had lived in Duxbury, Massachusetts nearly as long as there had been a Duxbury. Gershom Bradford (1774-1844), was the son of Sarah Alden (1731-1788), and Col. Gamaliel Bradford Jr. (1731-1807), who commanded the 14th Massachusetts regiment of continentals during the Revolutionary War. Duxbury is conveniently located right along Plymouth Bay, and Gershom was a mariner by trade. He married Sarah B. (b.1772), who was probably the daughter of Wil...

Woodward High School.

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Bradford, Lucia Alden.

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