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ROBERT BRADISH (bp. 1596–1657/9)
Robert Bradish is probably the Robert, son of Robert, who was baptized in 1596 in St. James's Parish, Bury St. Edmunds, co. Suffolk. [1][2, 45] He died between 12 May 1657 and 8 September 1659. He had a first wife Mary and is probably the Robert who married Mary Howes on 1 May 1620 in St. James's, Bury St. Edmunds [1][3] She died in September 1638 in Cambridge. [4][6] Robert married second the widow Vashti Morrill. [4] She died by 8 March 1672/3.
Robert migrated to New England in 1635 and settled in Cambridge. [4] He moved to Boston by 1657. [4]
Robert was a dyer. [4]
Robert was chosen a fence viewer in Cambridge on 13 March 1653/4. [4]
Robert made his will on 12 May 16157; it was proved on 29 October 1659. He left his estate to his wife Vashti and named her his executor. After her death, he bequeathed his estate to his sons James, John, and Joseph Bradish, his son-in-law [step son] Ezekiel Morrill, and his daughters Mary Gibbs and Hannah. He named his brother Isaac Morel his overseer. Inventory was taken on 8 September 1659 and amounted to £207-02-02. Administration of the estate of widow Vashti Bradish was granted to her two sons Joseph and John and 8 March 1672/3. [4]
Anderson concluded that Vashti's first husband was an unknown brother of Isaac Morrill and that he came to New England with his wife Vashti and son Ezekiel. [4]
See the wikitree pages for Robert Bradish and Mary Howes.
Children of Robert Bradish and Mary Howes:
i. James Bradish was baptized in St. Mary's on 10 October 1624. [1] He died between 3 November 1664 and 16 July 1665. He married first Hannah Manning. [1] He married second Katherine (Cronenburg) Albertszen on 28 July 1659 in the Dutch church in New York. [1] She married first Pieter Albertszen. [1] She married second Peter Simons after 30 October 1665 (license) in New York. [7]
James town clerk of Newton, Long Island.. [7] He was the clerk on 3 November 1664. [8] His widow sold property on 16 July 1665. [7]
ii. Hannah Bradish was baptized on 13 January 1628/9 in St. Mary's. [1]
Robert Bradish of Cambridge apprenticed his daughter Hannah to Thomas Hawkins for four years. [4]
Hannah appears to have gone to New York with her brother and it was alleged that she lived adulterously with Joseph Langton in Flushing. [1] Joseph was apparently the son of Roger Langton. [1] He had married, but was divorced from, Rachel (Varney) (Cook) (Langton) Vinson. [1] Rachel was the daughter of William Varney and widow of Thomas Cook. [1] After her divorce, she married William Vinson. [1]
Joseph was presented for drunkenness at the 26 March 1650 court in Essex County. He was presented for beating his wife's children on 1 July 1652. Rachel was granted a divorce on 22 May 1661. [1]
iii. Mary Bradish was born say 1632. She died in 1660 in Sudbury. She married Matthew Gibbs.
iv. Joseph Bradish was born in May 1638 in Cambridge. [4][6] He married Mary, the daughter of Edmund Frost, on 10 April 1664 in Sudbury. [4]
A letter from Reverend John Higgonson to his brother Nathaniel, dated 3 October 1696 says: [9]
And there was one Bradish, a Cambridge man, who sailed in an interloper bound for India, who, in some part of the East Indies, took an opportunity, when the captain and some of the officers were on shore, to run away with the ship, and came upon our coast, and sunk their ship at Block Island, and brought much wealth ashore with them; but Bradish, and many of his company, and what of his wealth could be found, were seized and secured. But Bradish, and one of his men broke prison and run away amongst the Indians; but it is supposed that he will be taken again.
Savage says, "I infer that Joseph B. a pirate, sent to England with the notorious capt. Kidd, 1699 from Boston, and execut. at London, was gr.s. of Robert, and prob. s. of Joseph." [10]
Children of Robert Bradish and Vashti Unknown:
v. Samuel Bradish was born on 13 February 1639[/40?] in Cambridge and died there on 6 July 1642. [4][6]
vi. John Bradish was born on 3 December 1645 in Cambridge. [4][11] He married Susanna ___ by 1674. [4]
vii. Samuel Bradish was born on 28 November 1648 in Cambridge and was buried there on 9 December 1648. [4][11]
Endnotes:
1. Gail Ion Harris, "The Wives and Children of James Bradish of Newton, Long Island, New York," The American Genealogist 78 (2003): 96–102.
2. Bury St. Edmunds, St. James Parish Registers: Baptisms 1558–1800 (Bury St. Edmunds: Paul & Matthew, Butter Market, 1915).
3. Bury St. Edmunds, St. James Parish Registers: Marriages 1562–1800 (Woodbridge: George Booth, 1916).
4. "Great Migration 1634–1635, A–B," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume I, A–B (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999), 381–4.
6. David Pulsifer, "Records of Boston," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 3 (1849): 248.
7. Gale Ion Harris, "James Bradish of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Newton, Long Island, New York," The American Genealogist 75 (2000): 47–50.
8. Transcriptions of Early Town Records of New York: Town Minutes of Newtown, 1656–1688 (New York: The Historical Records Survey, June 1940), 53.
9. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Series 3, volume 7: 210.
10. James Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, 4 vols., (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1860–1862), vol. 1, 233.
11. William B. Trask, "Early Records of Boston," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 9 (1855): 167–8.
Last revised: 06-Jan-2024