Person:Samuel Bradley (4)

When Samuel Bradley (Jr.) was a boy there was a plain buckskin belt with buckle which was worn by General LaFayette when he was wounded in the battle of Brandywine and which was stained with his blood. This buckle his father kept carefully stowed away in a drawer. The boys found it one day and made it into a collar for their dog. There is no record of how the belt came into possession of Jabez in the first place, but the PIECES were kept in the family for some time. The highway over which Washington and LaFayette passed was through Coventry near Tolland. Samuel W. Bradley was a Lumberman. He owned and left a 'handsome estate'. Judge D. H. Bowles paid him high tribute in one of his articles entitled - 'Chattarangus Lumbermen of the Fifties'.