Person:Vashti Morrell (1)

MORRELL was her widowed named, not her maiden name, at the time she married Bradish. (JBC, p. 8)

JBCurley, p. 7: "Although Robert accumulated some degree of wealth, it is sad to learn that, Vashti ended in great poverty and misery with the store for income and all of Robert's properties and possessions. The next two documents are answers to court petitions nfrom Vashti and son Joseph. "In answer to the petition of Vashty Braddish, widdow, this Court, considering the sad condition of said Vashty Braddish, and having proved her husvand's will, who hath made hir sole execcutrix, and given all his lands and goods to be at her dispose, and for as much as she i snow reduced to great poverty and misery and hir body very weak, nd her understanding debilitatd and there being a house and lands at Cambridge, prt of her late husbgband's estate and how at hir dispose by the will, the rent whereof will jot reach by farr to maintentin her, the premisses considered, it is ordered by this Court that Capt. Thomas Savage and Mr. Peter BVracket shall and hereby are authorized and pouwered to ake sal e of all or so much of he said ladsnds as ashall be necessary to mataine the said widdow during her life and keep and account of what is disbursed and tender it to the County Court of Suffolk or Midlesex when called thereunto; proivded always that the children of the late Robert Bradish hav the first tender of the sale of the said land, that if they desire to purchase it, and make suitable pay for relief of the said widdow." p. 8: In answer to the peitition of Jseoph Braddis, in behalf of his sisters and broteher as well as himself, the Court, y their committee having heard and considered what the petitioner cann say in referernce to the content of the petition (those gentlment who were betrusted in behalf of the widdow being present) do judge that all due respsects ought to be had to the will of the deceased, who seems to have a tender respect to the mother and chidlren, one as well as the other, yet preferring, as duty bindeth, the mother's necessary supply before the children, therefore the widdow having to her own use the whole estate of ovea bles, if not already spent, do order, that the remainder, in houses and lands (the annual rent not being considerable for her maintenance) that sale thereof be made, according to the former order of the Court, by the tenltment therein betruste with the management thereof, and the th eone half of th eprice of the whole be disposed to the relief of the widow, and the reminadre to be divided among the children, according to their father's will. [Source cited by JBC: Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, editor, The Records of THe Governor and Company of Colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New England (1854), Vol. 4, part 2, pages 525 and 559.]

1. ↑ Chandler, Harlow
   Email of 3 May 2005.

   Robert Bradish's will, Register 9:225, names his wife Vashti

2. ↑ Curley, Juanita Bradish. A genealogy & history of Robert Bradish in America. (Northville, Michigan: Unicorn Press, 2000)
   p. 1.