Family of Humphrey * BRADSTREET and Bridget * HARRIS

Husband:	Humphrey * BRADSTREET (1594-1655)
Wife:	Bridget * HARRIS (1604-1665)
Children:	Hannah BRADSTREET (c. 1625- )
	John BRADSTREET (c. 1631- )
	Martha BRADSTREET (c. 1632- )
	Mary BRADSTREET (c. 1633- )
	Sarah * BRADSTREET (1638-1721)
	Rebecca BRADSTREET (1639- )
	Moses BRADSTREET (1643- )
Marriage	1622	Rattlesden, Essex, England1

Husband: Humphrey * BRADSTREET

Wife: Bridget * HARRIS

Name:	Bridget * HARRIS
Sex:	Female
Father:	John * HARRIS (1578-1650)
Mother:	Bridget * GILMAN (1582-1665)
Birth	1604	Ipwsich, Essex, MA, US
Death	16 Nov 1665 (age 60-61)	Ipwsich, Essex, MA, US
Burial		Rowley Burial Ground
	Rowley, Essex, MA. US

Child 1: Hannah BRADSTREET

Name:	Hannah BRADSTREET
Sex:	Female
Birth	1625 (est)

Child 2: John BRADSTREET

Name:	John BRADSTREET
Sex:	Male
Birth	1631 (est)

Child 3: Martha BRADSTREET

Name:	Martha BRADSTREET
Sex:	Female
Birth	1632 (est)

Child 4: Mary BRADSTREET

Name:	Mary BRADSTREET
Sex:	Female
Birth	1633 (est)

Child 5: Sarah * BRADSTREET

Child 6: Rebecca BRADSTREET

Name:	Rebecca BRADSTREET
Sex:	Female
Birth	1639

Child 7: Moses BRADSTREET

Name:	Moses BRADSTREET
Sex:	Male
Birth	1643

Note on Husband: Humphrey * BRADSTREET

Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, Volume 1 by Henry Sweetser Burrage, Albert Roscoe Stubbs

 

Humphrey Bradstreet came from Ipswich, England, in the ship "Elizabeth," William Andrews, master, the last of April, 1634, bringing with him his wife Bridget and children as follows: Hannah, aged nine; John, aged three; Martha, aged two; and Mary, aged one year. At that time his age is given as forty years, and that of his wife as thirty years.

 

He settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he received a considerable grant of land on the north side of Egypt river, his being the most northerly grant made by the town of Ipswich; the northerly boundary of this farm was the southerly boundary of the town of Rowley, settled in 1639, and in 1784 the farm for the convenience of its occupants was set off from Ipswich to Rowley.

 

From the location of this farm, after the Rowley settlement, the Bradstreets were associated almost wholly with Rowley, having their membership in the Rowley church, burying their dead in the Rowley cemetery, and training with the Rowley military company. In the following lists of children, where not otherwise stated, the births are from Ipswich records and the baptism from the Rowley church record.

 

Humphrey Bradstreet was made a freeman May 6, 1635, and was a representative for Ipswich to the general court in the same year; he died in the summer of 1655.

 

His will, dated July 21, 1655, proved September 25, 1655, directs, among other things, that son Moses is to have the home farm after the decease of his mother; "son John is to have the farm at Muddy river. His wife Bridget Bradstreet died in November, 1665. Her will is dated October 16, 1665. The children of Humphrey and Bridget Bradstreet were: Hannah, John, Martha, Mary, Sarah, Rebecca and Moses.

Family links:

Spouse:

Bridget Harris Bradstreet (1604 - 1665)

Children:

Moses Bradstreet (1644 - 1690)*

Sources

1	"US and International Marriage Records, 1550-1900" (on-line, Yates Publishing, Provo, UT).

2	Edmund West, "Family Data Collection - Births" (Provo, UT 2001).

3	"MA Town and Vital Records 1620-1988 Record".