Bradbury family collection, 1797-1877.

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Bradbury family collection, 1797-1877.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/428733089

Deeds, estate papers, wills, biographical and genealogical materials, correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers, chiefly of/and or relating to the Bradbury family, but also including material relating to the families of Hovey, Walker, Harrison, Gemberling, and Palmer. Of special interest is copy of letter from John Perkins to Captain Fairfield (1813) and three photographs of a Liverpool, England pitcher with the image on it of Ulysses (ca. 1806), a Kennebunk ship. Also includes deeds and other papers of Charles Bradbury; genealogies of the Bradbury and Palmer families; handwritten biography of the Walker family; biography of John Merrill Bradbury (1877); handwritten histories of Wells and York, Me., and plans of Kennebunkport; and leather wallet (19th century) with Smith Bradbury in gold lettering.

2 wallets.

Brick Store Museum

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SNAC Resource ID: 7481274

Brick Store Museum

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Bradbury family.

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Residents of Kennebunkport, Me. From the description of Bradbury family collection, 1797-1877. (Brick Store Museum). WorldCat record id: 428733089 ...

Bradbury, John Merrill, 1818-1876

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Palmer family.

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Harrison family.

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Hovey family.

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Gemberling family.

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Fairfield, James, 1784-1820

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Shipmaster, of Arundel (Kennebunkport), Me.; sailed ships for Tobias Lord, Jr., of Kennebunk; master of brig Somers. In 1806 married Lois Walker of Arundel. His favorite sister, Mary, married Joseph Lord, and the brothers-in-law bought real estate together in Arundel. When Thomas Jefferson imposed his embargo and the War of 1812 began, Fairfield and Lord became privateers. Their brig Macdonough was captured by the British and Fairfield and Lord were imprisoned in Dartmoor Prison. They were there...

Ulysses (Ship)

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Perkins, John, active 1813

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Bradbury, Smith

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Walker family.

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Bradbury, Charles, 1799-1864.

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