MILITARY: Pension, Lent Bradley; Westfield, Chautauqua co., NY
surname: Bradley, Bristol, Collins

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CHAUTAUQUA CO. - REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION   LENT BRADLEY

BRADLEY, LENT--Born in New Haven, Conn., 1751. Died Dec. 20, 1840, aged 89
years. Grave in Westfield Cemetery with D. A. R. marker: "Corp. Lent Bradley,
Haven's Mass. Mil. Rev. War." Enlisted at Stockbridge, serving as private and
later as Corporal; was a prisoner at Ticonderoga one winter. While in the
Revolutionary army he was at one time out all night in a cold rain, suffering
greatly from the exposure and was never able after to speak above a whisper.
It is related of him that when his pension money came, he always gathered his
grand-children about him and divided the money among them. He was in the fifth
generation from William Bradley, ancestor, who was one of the first settlers
of New Haven, Conn., and who brought with him armorial bearings given him by
Richard II of England for services rendered the King. His first wife, Ann
Bristol, was the mother of their children, Mary, William, John, Joel, Ann, and
Cornelia. His second wife was Roxana Collins, of Ripley, who died May 17,
1854, aged 80 years, and whose grave is beside him in the Westfield Cemetery.
He became a settler of Westfield in 1831, and is mentioned in the Pension List
of 1840.

Soldiers of the American Revolution

Author: no author

Call Number: F127.C7D2

This book contains the names of soldiers of the American Revolution who were
residents of Chautauqua County, New York.

Bibliographic Information: Soldiers of the American Revolution. 1925.