Descendants of William Bradford (Plymouth governor) explained

William Bradford (1590–1657) was the governor of Plymouth Colony (now part of Massachusetts) for most of his life. Descendants of William Bradford, some of whom are listed here, have achieved noteworthy standing in numerous fields.

Descendants

• Serena Armstrong-Jones, Countess of Snowdon,^[1] wife of David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon
• Mabel Keyes Babcock, American landscape architect^[2]
• The Baldwin brothers: Alec, Daniel, William, and Stephen,^[3] American actors
• Ambrose Bierce,^[4] American dystopian novelist and satirist
• Gamaliel Bradford I (1704–1778),^[5] an American colonel and great-grandson of William Bradford
• Gamaliel Bradford II (1731–1807), an American (Patriot) lieutenant colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
• Gamaliel Bradford III (1763–1824), an American sea captain and privateer in the Quasi-War with France; the USS Bradford (DD-545) was named for him
• Gamaliel Bradford IV (1795–1839), an American physician, superintendent of Massachusetts General Hospital, and abolitionist
• Gamaliel Bradford V (1831–1911), an American banker from Boston, Massachusetts who helped organize the American Anti-Imperialist League
• Gamaliel Bradford VI (1863–1932),^[6] American biographer, critic, poet, dramatist, and journalist
• Robert F. Bradford,^{[7] [8]} American lawyer, Republican Party strategist, and Governor of Massachusetts from 1947 to 1949
  • William Bradford (1624–1703),^[9] son of Governor William Bradford of the Mayflower and military commander of the Plymouth forces during King Philip's War William Bradford (1729–1808), American physician, lawyer, and U.S. Senator from Rhode Island^[10]
• William Bradford (1823–1892),^[11] American painter, photographer, and explorer
• James G. Carter,^[12] American congregational minister, Massachusetts State Representative, and pioneer of Normal schools and public education
• Julia Child,^[13] American entrepreneur and chef of French and French-influenced cuisine
• Frederic Edwin Church,^[14] American landscape painter
• Charles W. Comstock,^[15] United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut and former Connecticut judge
• The Dimmicks (SE was a first cousin of brothers MM and WH, and father of JB. SE was also the father-in-law to eventual second wife of Benjamin Harrison.)^[16]
  • J. Benjamin Dimmick (1858 - 1920), Mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania
  • Milo Melankthon Dimmick (1811–1872), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1849–1853, candidate for president; Judge in Pennsylvania 1853
  • Samuel E. Dimmick (1822 - 1875), Pennsylvania Attorney General (1873 - 1875).
  • William Harrison Dimmick (1815–1861), Prosecuting Attorney of Wayne County, Pennsylvania, 1836–1837; Pennsylvania State Senator, 1845–1847; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1857–1861
• Frank Nelson Doubleday,^[17] American publisher, and his descendants, including Nelson Doubleday, Nelson Doubleday, Jr., and Russell Doubleday
• George Eastman,^[14] American inventor and the founder of the Eastman Kodak Company
• Clint Eastwood,^[18] American film actor, director, and producer
• Harold Eugene Edgerton,^{[19] [20] [21]} professor at MIT; developer of pioneering stop-action photographic techniques and electronic flashes
• Catherine Drew Gilpin Faust,^[22] (born September 18, 1947), is an American historian, college administrator, and the president of Harvard University.
• Sally Field^[23] (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress, singer, producer, director, and screenwriter.
• Charles Dana Gibson,^[24] Life magazine publisher and illustrator, best known for his "Gibson Girl" drawings
• Hugh Hefner, Playboy founder^{[25] [26] [27]}
• Daniel Gibson Knowlton, classicist bookbinder at Brown University
• Edward "Ned" Lamont,^{[28] [29]} American businessman and politician, 89th Governor of Connecticut
• John Lithgow,^[30] American actor and philanthropist
• Jan Masaryk,^[31] Czechoslovak diplomat and politician
• George B. McClellan,^[32] Civil War general, Governor of New Jersey, Democratic opponent of Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 United States presidential election
• Michaela Paetsch (1961-2023),^{[33] [34]} American violinist and the first American female to have recorded all 24 Paganini Caprices for solo violin.
• Thomas Pynchon,^[35] American short story writer and novelist
• Christopher Reeve,^[36] American film actor and political activist
• William Rehnquist,^[37] Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1972 to 1986 and Chief Justice of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2005
• Deborah Sampson,^{[38] [39]} female member of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War
• Benjamin Spock,^[32] child care specialist and author
• Adlai Stevenson III,^[38] United States Democratic Senator representing Illinois from 1970 to 1981, two-time candidate for Governor of Illinois
• Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.,^[40] publisher of The New York Times since 1992
• Charles Sumner,^[41] American statesman and Republican Party politician
• Telford Taylor, Second Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
• Dick Thornburgh, former Pennsylvania governor and US Attorney General
• Noah Webster,^[42] American educator, journalist, and lexicographer noted for the Webster's Dictionary
• William Collins Whitney,^{[43] [44]} American financier and politician, and his descendants, the Whitney family
• Lyman Spitzer Jr.,^{[45] [46]} American theoretical physicist, astronomer and mountaineer. Namesake of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
• Ariovistus Pardee, American engineer, coal baron, philanthropist, and director of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Founder of Hazeltown, Pennsylvania.
• Ario Pardee Jr., officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, son of Ariovistus Pardee.
• Calvin Pardee, businessman from Pennsylvania, son of Ariovistus Pardee.
• Harold E. B. Pardee, American cardiologist^{[47] [48]}

See also

• William Bradford

Notes and References

1. Web site: Genealogical Thoughts by Gary Boyd Roberts #14 . Roberts, Gary Boyd . New England Historic Genealogical Society . 2007-06-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110720122603/http://www.americanancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/14_659_414.asp . July 20, 2011 .
2. "Mabel Keyes Babcock". Lewiston Daily Sun, December 8, 1931.
3. Newcomb, Bethuel Merritt (1923). Andrew Newcomb and his Descendants: A Revised Edition of "Genealogical Memoir of the Newcomb Family" by John Bearse Newcomb. New Haven, CT: The Tuttle, Morhouse, and Taylor Co.
   Daniel LeRoy Martineau, mentioned in the book, is the grandfather of the Baldwin brothers.
4. Morris, Roy (1996). Ambrose Bierce: Alone In Bad Company. New York: Crown, p. 10. Retrieved on 2007-05-05.
5. Book: Gardiner Hall . Ruth . Descendants of Governor William Bradford through the First Seven Generations . 1951 . Edwards Brothers, Inc. . 074040153X.
6. Bradford, Gamaliel. Correspondence: Guide . Houghton Library, Harvard College University. Retrieved on 2007-05-04.
7. http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0104 Robert Fiske Bradford Papers, 1909-1971
8. https://web.archive.org/web/20071224205409/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,931700,00.html?iid=chix-sphere "Blue Bloods,"
9. William Bradford V (or William Bradford the Younger) was Deputy Governor of the Plymouth Colony, 1682-1686 and 1689-1692 when the colony was merged with the Massachusetts Bay Colony
10. Book: Philbrick, Nathaniel . The Mayflower and the Pilgrims' New World . 2008-09-04 . Penguin . 978-1-101-50040-8 . en.
11. Web site: William Bradford: Sailing Ships & Arctic Seas by Richard C. Kugler from Antiques & Fine Art magazine. October 10, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20071010080942/http://208.112.91.216/articles/article.cfm?request=436. 2007-10-10.
12. The Mayflower Quarterly, Vol. 51, General Society of Mayflower Descendants: 1985 (quarterly journal).
13. Fitch, Noel Riley. Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child; New York: Doubleday, 1999; pp. 10.
14. http://www.americanancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/36_659_436.asp Roberts, Gary Boyd. "Genealogical Thoughts by Gary Boyd Roberts #36"
15. Book: White, J.T.. The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Volume 17. 1921.
16. See Samuel E. Dimmick article for lineage and sources.
17. Doubleday, Frank Nelson. The Memoirs of a Publisher; New York: Doubleday, 1972; appendices.
18. https://books.google.com/books?id=w6i25jxBIwcC McGilligan, Patrick. Clint: The Life And Legend
19. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~edgerton/FrankEugene1875.htm
20. http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~edgerton/genealogy/Samuel1670.htm
21. Web site: Our New England ancestors and their descendants, 1620-1900 . Henry . Whittemore . 1900 . Library of Congress.
22. Web site: Hollick . Martin E. . Notable Kin: The New England Ancestry of Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard's 28th President . AmericanAncestors.org . New England Historic Genealogical Society . 2008 . 2010-04-21.
23. Sally Field's ancestry was researched by Henry Gates and staff, for the PBS television series, Finding Your Roots, which aired November 11, 2014. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/finding-your-roots/profiles/sally-field/
24. Roberts, Gary Boyd. Notable Kin: Volume Two; Santa Clara, CA: Carl Boyer, 1999.
25. https://web.archive.org/web/20071224205342/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1112823,00.html "Mr. Playboy"
26. Child, Christopher C., Discredited Descendants, which discusses earlier versions of this page which cited a non-existent article in the Mayflower Quarterly allegedly disputing Hefner's Bradford descent. No such article existed and Hefner's descent has been verified.
27. Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, 359-360
28. http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/opinion/nyregionopinions/15CT_Sleeper.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Sleeper, Jim. "The American Lamonts,"
29. Lamont, Corliss, ed. The Thomas Lamonts In America; New York: A. S. Barnes, 1971. The family-published history of the Lamont family in America details how the socialist Lamonts arrived in America in the 1750s and married into New England Pilgrim and Puritan families, including descendants of William Bradford.
30. The Mayflower Quarterly, Vol. 64, General Society of Mayflower Descendants: 1998 (quarterly journal).
31. http://www.americanancestors.org/education/articles/NEXUS/notable_kin_foreign_prime_ministers_or_presidents_659_90521.asp Roberts, Gary Boyd and Wood, Michael J. "Notable Kin: Foreign Prime Ministers or Presidents with New England-Derived Forebears or Wives: Part II - Europe"
32. http://www.wargs.com/political/romney.html Ancestry of Mitt Romney
33. Web site: String Concert by Paetsch Family Scheduled Friday . Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph . 13 Jul 1972 . Feb 21, 2023.
34. Web site: Obituaries and Funerals - Helena Drea . Newspapers.com . 30 December 1986 . February 21, 2023.
35. http://www.AmericanAncestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/48_659_448.asp Roberts, Gary Boyd. "Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources #48"
36. http://www.americanancestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/GBR_77.asp Roberts, Gary Boyd. "Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources #77"
37. http://www.wargs.com/other/rehnquist.html Ancestry of William Rehnquist
38. https://books.google.com/books?id=zsYY4RDnAGcC Scott, Fred. Clifton William Scott and Mildred Evelyn Bradford Scott of Ashfield, Mass.: Volume 1 (Genealogical record)
39. Young, Alfred. Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004; pp. 4-5.
40. http://www.AmericanAncestors.org/education/articles/research/special_guests/gary_boyd_roberts/42_659_442.asp Roberts, Gary Boyd. "Genealogical Thoughts by Gary Boyd Roberts #42"
41. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus:text:2001.05.0206 Pierce, Edward L. Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1
42. Webster, Noah . 28 . 463.
43. Biddle, Flora Miller. The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made New York: Arcade Publishing, 1999; pp. 26. Account of F. M. Biddle, president emeritus of the Whitney Museum, describes the descent of W. C. Whitney's mother Laurinda Collins (Whitney) from Bradford.
44. http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Archive:William_Collins_Whitney_(1841-1904) "William Collins Whitney (1841–1904)"
45. Web site: Lyman Spitzer - Biography. 2020-11-15. Maths History. en.
46. Smolinski. Reiner. December 2010. Strangers and Pilgrims, Travellers and Sojourners: Leiden and the Foundations of Plymouth Plantation. By Jeremy Dupertuis Bangs. (Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2009. Pp. xxxii, 894. $55.00.). The New England Quarterly. 83. 4. 724–726. 10.1162/tneq_r_00050. 147021136. 0028-4866.
47. Web site: MISS TREVOR ENGAGED.; She Is to Marry Dr. Irving H. Pardee -- The Date Not Set. . 2022-06-20 . timesmachine.nytimes.com . en.
48. Web site: HISTORY OF HOMOEOPATHY AND ITS INSTITUTIONS IN AMERICA By William Harvey King, M. D., LL. D. Presented by Sylvain Cazalet . 2022-06-20 . www.homeoint.org.