"Bradley C. Kimbrough and his uncle Thomas Kimbrough were neighbors in Louisa County, Virginia, and must have been very fond of their other for both sold their land in 1747 and bought property in Orange County, Virginia, where they lived for many years until both sold out again and move to North Carolina in the 1760's, probably to Orange County. Bradley was constable in Orange County, Virginia, in 1751. He was in Rowan County, North Carolina, between Salem (Winston-Salem) and Uharie, within a day's ride of of Salem. (At that time Rowan County was much larger than now.) He was still in the area in 1792, living on hunt's Fork of Abbot's Creek, probably in present Davidson County. In 1795 he was presumably deceased, as four of his sons signed a deed disposing of his farm, or 1797 according to J. Brad Kimbrough, who also states the Bradley had received in 1789 North Carolina Land Grant No. 1815 (Land Grant Book 71, page 103, File 2525).
"Bradley Kimbrough's father was John Kimbrough, according to his grandson, but it has never been established beyound doubt which John Kimbrough it was. Felix Kimbrough thought it was John Kimbrough I, supplying the latter with an intermediate wife, Sarah Bradley, and bolstering the argument with the family tradition of a shipboard romance involving John Kimbrough I and the daughter of Rev. Thomas Bradley. He placed the birth of Bradley Kimbrough at cat 1695 in order to get Sarah Bradley out of the way in time ofr the marriage ca 1698 to margaret. Since Bradley Kimbrough died in 1795, this would have made him 100 years old. The tradition of a shipboard romance is also current in the William kimbrough branch, and could equally well have happened to John Kimbrough II, as he also was a "colonist." It seems pretty obvious that the John Kimbrough who married Miss Bradley was the father of Bradley Kimbrough, and there is evidence that John Kimbrough II married Elizabeth Bradley (Kimbro Newletters III, 3, 16; IV, 1, 17; IV, 2, 17). See also IV, 2, 18. Some of the descendants of Bradley are listed in I, 2, 14; II, 4, 17: III, 4, 11 - 14." (Early Kimbroughs and Some of Their Descendants - Synthesis of Kimbrough Data," prepared by F. Tom Carson, 1968, Charlottesville, Virginia. A Synthesis of Data Published in the First Four Volumes of the Kimbro - Kimbrough Quarterly Association, page 8.)
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