Person:Humphrey Bradshaw (1)

Captain Humphrey Bradshaw
b.Cal 1614
  • HCaptain Humphrey BradshawCal 1614 - 1682
  • WPatience BowersBef 1633 -
m. Bef 1653
  1. John Bradshaw1655 - 1745
  2. Ruth Bradshaw1657 -
  • HCaptain Humphrey BradshawCal 1614 - 1682
  • WMartha Unknown - Bef 1694
m. 24 Mar 1665/66
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Captain Humphrey Bradshaw
Gender Male
Birth[1][3] Cal 1614
Marriage Bef 1653 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States (probably)Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child.
to Patience Bowers
Marriage 24 Mar 1665/66 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Martha Unknown
Death[1][3] 9 May 1682 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bradshaw, in Weis, Frederick Lewis. One Thousand New England Ancestors of Frank Chester Harrington and Leora (Leighton) Harrington. (Worcester, Mass.: Privately Printed, 1958)
    44.

    "1. Captain Humphrey Bradshaw was born in 1614, and he died at Cambridge (the part now Arlington), Massachusetts, 9 May 1682. He came to New England, 1632, and settled in Cambridge, 1652, and received his dividend of land at Shawshine (now Andover). He married Patience Bowers, who died before March 1665/6, the daughter of Mr. George and Barbara Bowers of Scituate and Cambridge. He married, second, 24 March 1665/6, Martha, widow of William Russell; and she married, third, 24 May 1683, Thomas Hall."

    There is no sketch of Humphrey Bradshaw in The Great Migration series, indicating that there is no record evidence that he was in New England prior to 1636 at the earliest.

  2. Humphrey Bradshaw, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    1:234-235.

    "Bradshaw, Humphrey, Cambridge, ar. co. 1642, by w. Patience had Sarah, b. 3 May 1653; John, 24 June 1655; and Ruth, 3 Nov. 1657. He took sec. w. 24 Mar. 1665, Martha, wid. of William Russell, wh. after his d. had third h. 24 May 1683, Thomas Hall, and she d. 1694.

    [Additions and Corrections] [Savage 1:507] [Vol. 1] Page 235, l. 1, aft. 1694. ins. Ruth m. 3 Jan. 1684, John Bennet of Charlestown."

  3. 3.0 3.1 Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year of 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1914-15)
    2:482.

    "Bradshaw, … Humphry, [died] May 9, 1682, a. 68 y."