Map showing Worcestor County and next-door Somerset County, Maryland |
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And yet it is interesting to note that the Purnell Bradford family came from Worcestor County, Maryland,which is right next to Somerset County, Maryland where our Miller's first settled when they came to America. Is this when the Miller and Braford families became acquainted?
Also, as you can see from the handwritten letter at the end of this post, the Purnell Bradford family eventually moved to Adams County, Ohio, and finally settled in the Maysville, Kentucky area.
It so happens that our Rebecca Bradford Miller's brother, William Bradford, and his wife, Margaret nee Parkinson, moved to Adams County, Ohio, and then to Maysville, Kentucky according to the paragraph in blue below which was shared with me by another Bradford family researcher.
That these two Bradford families (and possibly our Millers) wound up living so close to each other in three different locales seems almost beyond coincidence .
Thoughts? Opinions? Any DNA experts out there??
William BRADFORD (son of Samuel BRADFORD & Sarah BRADFORD) was
born on 8 Jan 1770 in Cecil Co., MD. He
died on 19 Oct 1862 in Maysville, Mason Co., KY. He was buried in Bradford Cemetery, Sprigg
Twp, Adams Co., OH. William Bradford was
a native of Cecil County, Maryland, but lived in Washington County for a number
of years. A few years after their 1799
marriage, William Bradford (1770-1862) and Margaret Parkinson Bradford (1780-1852)
moved to Brooke County, West Virginia.
They built a flat boat in 1816 and moved down river to an area now known
as Manchester, Adams Co., Ohio, and purchased a farm about four miles up river
from Aberdeen, Brown County, Ohio, where they built a brick house in 1822. Sometime in the 1840's they
moved to Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky, which is across the river from
Aberdeen, Brown Co., Ohio. William Bradford owned two slaves, both of whom were
freed when the Civil War began. Both he
and his wife are said to have been buried in the family plot on their farm
located on Lick Skillet Road between Aberdeen and Manchester, Ohio.
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