Botetourt County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Biographies.....Bradford, Enoch March 10, 1795 - 1866 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Alaina Lawrence (nee Bradford) aabradford@carilionclinic.org February 4, 2025, 10:29 am Author: Alaina Lawrence I started research on Enoch Peter Bradford, my fifth great grandfather, through Ancestry.com in 2006. Almost immediately, I came to the proverbial genealogical "brick wall." I always think of Enoch Peter Bradford as the pivotal person in my Bradford genealogy history. He is where the "easily" traceable trail ends and where all my questions begin. I have devoted years to researching him, his immediate family, his descendants, and his life. I consider him the true patriarch of my Bradford family and deserving of the focus around which I think all other connections and relationships will eventually fall into place. Upon beginning my research of Enoch Peter, I could find no proof of parentage whatsoever and still cannot find any documentation that would provide irrefutable evidence of his relationship to the earliest generation of Bradfords in Botetourt County, Virginia. When I first started researching, the earliest record I could find was his marriage record to Eve "Crowy" on October 27, 1818 in Montgomery County, Virginia. For a long time, I could not determine who Eve Crowy was. Over time, I came to learn that Crowy was a phonetic spelling of Croy, and ultimately discovered his wife was Mary Eve Croy, likely the oldest daughter of Adam Croy Senior and wife Susanna – this supposition bears out in mine, my dad’s, and my great uncle’s genetic matches. After 1818, Enoch does not appear as head of household in any of the 1820 censuses for either Botetourt or Montgomery County, Virginia. It is possible the couple were living with another family or were simply not included in the census at all. I found Enoch in the 1830 and 1840 federal census records for Botetourt County and in the 1850 and 1860 census records for Montgomery County. Enoch also appears in marriage records for the majority of his eight children and in several chancery records related to land disputes and transactions. Aside from these records, I could find almost nothing about Enoch Peter Bradford except for second-hand reports from other researchers online - many of which were 10 years old at the time - now closer to 30-year-old reports. In one of the second-hand reports, I read that Enoch was "bound out" as a young boy into the cooper trade to a man named Adam Crist in Botetourt County. For years I researched this lead. I learned that to be bound out meant that a child was ultimately traded or taken from a family and given to a local family or relative who was wealthier and better able to provide for the child. The intent was that the children learn a trade, but I suspect it was often closer to indentured servitude. I also learned that a cooper is a person who is trained to make wooden barrels or other items where wood and metal are formed together, such as buckets or shovels. I did find Adam Crist in the 1810 Botetourt County federal census. In the census, Adam Crist is listed with his wife and a boy aged 10-15. I strongly suspect the boy living with Adam Crist and his wife to be my grandfather, Enoch. Again, I spent a significant amount of time researching Adam Crist and was unable to find a connection to the cooper trade or to the Bradford family. Because I could find no definitive proof of this information, I knew I needed first-hand records. In 2016, I made a trip to the Botetourt County courthouse. At the same time, I wrote a letter to the Montgomery County courthouse requesting information on Enoch Bradford. The records I received from Montgomery County were all related to Enoch's marriage to Eve Croy or to their children and did not provide any information about his early life. At the Botetourt County courthouse, I made a revelation in finding the original record where it is hand written that Enoch Bradford was bound out into servitude. In one of the large volumes in the courthouse reading room, there is a record of court proceedings from 1805. One of the hand-written entries dated April 10, 1805 the court transcript states, "Ordained that the overseer of the poor bind according to law Enoch Bradford 10 years old the 10th of last March to Adam Crist to be taught the trade of tailor." This confirmed the information I found online was partially true - he was bound out to Adam Crist, but into the tailor trade - not the cooper trade. This also gave me Enoch's birth date, March 10, 1795, and his likely birthplace of Botetourt. Because the federal census for 1810 was done in August, this bolstered by suspicion that Enoch was the child aged 10-15 living with Adam Crist. He would have been living with Adam and learning the tailor trade for about five months at the time the 1810 census was taken. Many researchers, particularly on Ancestry.com, list Enoch Peter Bradford's parents as William Bradford and Mary Lambert, but I have found no proof at all that this is true, and ultimately believe the information is inaccurate. William Bradford and Mary Lambert are heavily documented throughout history and can be found through multiple credible sources. The couple was born in Massachusetts in about 1710 and 1715 respectively. They moved to New Hampshire where Mary died about 1770, and William died in 1791. They apparently did have a son named Enos who was born about 1744 which might be where some of the confusion comes from. This William and Mary lived some 650 miles away and were both deceased before our Enoch Peter Bradford was born in 1795 in Botetourt County, Virginia. Additionally, there was no documented William Bradford living in Botetourt at the time before or around Enoch Peter's birth who would have been old enough to be his father. The William Bradford found in the 1810 Botetourt census is listed as age 16-25, too young to be Enoch's father. I believe this William is the son of John Bradford Senior and likely the uncle of Enoch Peter Bradford. In a second-hand, online account one researcher references a chancery document in which there is a William Bradford listed who would have been old enough to be Enoch Peter's father, but upon finding the actual record, I discovered that the record referenced someone else entirely and there was no mention of a William Bradford at all. There is also a family rumor that came to me through a distant relative that Enoch was bound out after the death of his father. This theory would be plausible if he were the son of Rachel Bradford who is listed as head of household in the 1810 Botetourt census, except that in one of the original Botetourt County records, Rachel Bradford is listed as the unmarried (not widowed) mother of a likely illegitimate child being bound out. The second possible daughter of John Bradford Sr, Betsy Bradford, is likely too young to be Enoch's mother. However, I did entertain the idea that it is possible that one of these two women were his mother and that he was the illegitimate son of an unknown Whitehill and that this was where the Whitehill connection came in. But upon plotting out the genetic connections between the descendants of the Bradford family and the Whitehill family, I discovered that several of the Whitehill descendants match to descendants of John Bradford Jr and Joseph Bradford. While these matches could be coincidental, it still opens up the possibility that the Whitehill connection is further back in the family tree, possibly originating with John Bradford Sr’s wife. This leaves us with John Bradford Sr and wife being the most likely candidates for Enoch Peter Bradford's parents. It is unclear how long Enoch Peter stayed with Adam Christ to learn the tailor trade, but by 1818 he was married and likely on his own. He does not appear in the 1820 census, but by 1830 he is listed as head of household with his own family and living back in Botetourt County where he stayed until sometime after 1840 when he moved to Montgomery County. It is possible that in the time before 1851, he and his family were actually living in a small area of western Botetourt that is today Craig County, Virginia. Despite being trained as a tailor, Enoch Peter Bradford grew up to become a farmer and was somewhat more prosperous than the older generations (and later generations) of Bradfords in the area. He owned a 30-acre farm in Montgomery County located on Paris Mountain. Enoch Peter's land adjoined his son, Adam Bradford, and neighbors Silas and Booker Cundiff's land (also relatives of mine from my paternal grandmother's side). On May 14, 1856, Enoch deeded the 30 acres to his wife, Mary E. Bradford. In a chancery record from 1866 in Craig County, Enoch Bradford is mentioned as a defendant. Enoch's son, Peter C. Bradford, was enlisted in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and died from unknown causes in Winchester, Virginia on February 8, 1862. Before his death, son Peter made a partial purchase of 167 acres of land from John Etzler in Craig County on September 1, 1859. After Peter's death in 1862, John Etzler came to Enoch Bradford as Peter's living heir to seek recompense for the loss of money and land. The chancery case was filed in 1866, and it is unclear what the outcome of the case was. At some point in history, the family land was either sold or lost. But in the 1960s, my great grandfather, William Frank Bradford, repurchased 140 acres of land on Paris Mountain. After the death of my great grandfather, the land was parceled out among my great uncle, grandfather and grandmother, my dad, and two aunts. Since then, the land has been further parceled off and sold so that only a few acres of the remaining original purchase remain with the Bradford family. I was young when my great grandfather died, but I would be curious to know how much of our Bradford family history he knew and if he was aware that our ancestors had lived on Paris Mountain in the 1800's. I believe Enoch Peter Bradford and his family were very religious. My great uncle had a family bible that was passed down through the generations and which I now possess. The bible belonged to either Enoch Peter Bradford or his son, Enoch Bradford Jr. Inside the cover of the bible is written names Enoch Bradford, Martha Bradford, and George Bradford. Martha and George were both children of Enoch Jr. The bible is missing about half the pages and the leather cover is worn and dry-rotted. The spine has been repaired by hand-sewing it back together. Enoch died sometime after 1866, as did his wife Eve. The case that was brought against him for his son, Peter Bradford's, land payment in Craig County is the last record that mentions him. Family history tells that Enoch Peter was buried where he lived in an unmarked grave on Paris Mountain in Montgomery County. I have searched for family gravesites on the mountainside several times but have no idea where he may be buried or where his original house was. There is a family gravesite near the top of the mountain on the right side of the road, but this is a family graveyard for the Reece family and does not contain any headstones for Bradford family members. Enoch Peter Bradford and Mary Eve Croy had at least eight children who lived to adulthood. I have seen family trees in which there is a ninth child with only the first initial "T" listed. I have seen this person listed as both male and female in different trees, but can find no further proof of a child with a name that starts with "T." Based on the 1830 and 1840 Federal Census records, there is possible an unknown male child that would have been about the same age as Enoch Junior. But there is no further evidence that would point me to a known person. The eight known children of Enoch Peter and Mary Eve are listed below. 1. Jacob Bradford (1820-1869) – married Elizabeth Jane Wheeling and had seven children. Jacob died sometime after the conception/birth of the couple’s youngest child, Jacob Jr in 1868 and before 1870 when Elizabeth appears widowed living with her children in Montgomery County, Virginia. Three of the couple’s children moved to Warren, Tennessee. 2. Mahala Bradford (1822-1900) – married Benjamin Franklin Tinnell and had six children. Three of their six children died young. Mahala died sometime before 1900 in either Roanoke, Virginia or Macoupin, Illinois. Benjamin appears widowed with his remaining children in 1900 in Macoupin where he lives until he died in 1918. 3. Enoch Bradford "Jr" (1825-1907) - Enoch Bradford “Jr” and his first wife, Cassandra Catherine Stover, are my fourth great grandparents. Enoch was born between 1824-1826. In his marriage record to his second wife, Martha Hinchey, he lists his birthplace as Botetourt County, Virginia. This coincides with the census data for his father Enoch Peter Bradford for the time period. Though I list him as Enoch Bradford “Jr” to distinguish between him and his father, Enoch Peter Bradford, he is never listed as a “junior” in any of the historical records, neither is he ever listed with a middle name. It is unclear when Enoch and Cassie were married. To date, I have not been able to find a marriage record for them. They were likely married sometime around 1847-1848 before the birth of their first child, James Barney Bradford. On his marriage license to Martha Hinchey, the certificate of time and place of marriage lists the preacher as a member of the Dunkard Church. This coincides with the records of America Bradford's family being members of the Dunkard church. I think our Bradford family from southwest Virginia was very religious. This may be the clue to eventually determining where our Bradford family originated. Dunkards or Dunkers/Tunkers as they are sometimes called, are members of the Church of the Brethren or German Baptist Brethren. Though the history of the church is German in origin, I do not think the Bradford family is of German descent. More likely they adopted a denomination of the religion at some point after the Brethren churches were founded in America - predominantly Germantown, Pennsylvania outside of Philadelphia. Whether our Bradford family originated in Pennsylvania and adopted the religion there before migrating south or adopted the religion after settling in southwest Virginia from English/Scotch/Irish origins is unclear. Incidentally, Pennsylvania is rich with Bradford family history from multiple families, and this is where the Croy, Whitehill, and Stover families migrated from – all families that intermarried or are genetically connected to our Bradfords. Regardless of religion or ancestral country of origin, I tend to lean toward Pennsylvania as the next step in tracing our Bradford family in southwest Virginia. Enoch lived during a very turbulent time in America’s history and according to verbal family history, he was a hard man. Two of his daughters, both of whom are my direct ancestors, Nancy Alice Bradford and Mary Catherine Bradford, "dated" men in the community, a fact which apparently made Enoch furious. I suspect this was due to the family's very conservative religious values. One family story tells of Enoch being so angry with his grandson, William Chester Bradford, that he struck him across the face with a riding crop leaving him forever scarred. There is a Montgomery County chancery record in which Enoch is a defendant in a case brought by his brother, Adam. In 1849, the two brothers apparently purchased 100 acres of land from Anthony Obenchain for $100. The brothers were each supposed to pay $50, and each would have half the land. At the time, Adam was considered an "infant" under age 21 and so his brother apparently paid his half of the $100. But in 1875, when the case was brought against him, Adam claimed that he had paid the money back and his brother would not give him his half of the land. It is very difficult to follow and read, but it seems as though the case was open for many years. From what I can tell, there were several surveys done and the outcome was inconclusive as to which portions of land were actually theirs to begin with and it seems as though the matter was left alone for many years until the case was stricken from the docket in May 1892. This makes me wonder if maybe the brothers had conflict for many years before Adam's death in 1893. Shortly after the case above was closed, Enoch was a defendant in a second case in which W E Oliver was the plaintiff. This case is also difficult to follow because of the handwriting, but from what I can tell, in February 1892 Enoch transferred all his ownings to his wife, Cassie. This was possibly done to avoid losing his property and belongings as a result of a poor outcome in the case. From what I can tell, Enoch was to pay $100 to W E Oliver. Enoch served as a private in the American Civil War. He was part of the confederate 23rd Battalion of Virginia Infantry in company G. His enlistment date was April 25, 1863. He would have been approximately 39 or 40 years old. In the U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865 record found on Ancestry.com, he was mustered out a short time later on August 25, 1863 as a deserter. This was shortly after the Gettysburg Campaign when approximately 50,000 men died and the amount of deserting was affecting the confederacy's ability to fight in the war. Enoch's brother, Peter, had died in the war the previous February in 1862. My dad always used to tell me about a rock cave near our family property on Paris Mountain that Civil War deserters would use to hide. In their book, Voices from Eastern Montgomery County, Fran and Don Poole give a great account of The Isaac Rock. It's unclear when exactly Cassie died, but likely sometime before 1904 when Enoch married for the second time. On December 12, 1904, Enoch Bradford "Jr" married Martha Hinchey Yearout in Montgomery County. According to verbal family history, Enoch Bradford died on January 6, 1907 in Montgomery County and is buried in Old Williams Cemetery on the mountain near where his home was located. There is a cemetery called the Williams Cemetery in Shawsville, Virginia. It is located in Alleghany Springs on Mount Pleasant Road behind the house that is directly across from Lavender Road. I would very much like permission to one day visit the cemetery and see if there are any headstones for the Bradford family. Enoch's second wife, Martha, remarried shortly after his death and died in 1926 in Raleigh County, West Virginia. Enoch and Cassie had a total of eight children. My great uncle, my dad, and I have genetic matches from all of Enoch and Cassie's children except for George Bradford, who likely did not have children, and William Harrison Bradford. 4. America Bradford (1827-1914) - In my opinion, America Bradford is the most interesting of Enoch Peter Bradford and Mary Eve Croy's children. She has a very long and unique life and is well documented in history. America was born in August 1827 in either Montgomery or Botetourt County, Virginia. She married John William Finch on September 17, 1850 in Montgomery County. By 1860, America and her family were living in Salem in Roanoke, Virginia, and by 1870, the family of 12 had moved west to Grainger, Tennessee. John William Finch died in 1880 in Tennessee. In the book, A History of California and an Extended History of Its Southern Coast Counties written in 1907 by J. M. Guinn, there is a detailed account of John William Finch and America Bradford and their oldest son, William Bernard Finch. According to the account in the book, John William Finch was brought up on a plantation and served in the Civil War under Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Confederate General and original commander of the Army of Northern Virginia known as the Army of the Potomac. John W Finch was an active member of the 54th Virginia Regiment for three years. Following the end of the Civil War, he went back to farming. The couple were members of the Dunkard Church. The account goes on to detail the life of William Bernard Finch who at age 24 married Darthula Petillo in Jefferson County, Tennessee. In 1882, William Bernard moved his family to the San Joaquin Valley in California where he settled in Ripon. In 1888, he moved approximately 300 miles south to Los Angeles where he rented 400 acres of land in La Puente, California. In time, he became so successful that he grew the rented property to 1700 acres. In 1899, he bought his own 55-acre ranch in Compton, California. He primarily farmed alfalfa, but also grew apples, pears, peaches and other fruits. The couple had two daughters. By 1910, the couple had moved to Plano, in Tulare, California where William Bernard Finch died September 28, 1925. Darthula died on June 13, 1935 in Tulare, and the couple is buried in the Oakdale Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendora, Los Angeles. In my research on the family, I found a conversation thread on Ancestry.com from 1999 where two descendants of the Bradford family are exchanging information about George Edward Finch. One of the persons in the conversation thread is a great grandchild of George Edward Finch and details a fantastic account of the family history which came from Lillie Ann Finch, daughter of John William Finch and America Bradford. According to the family history, George was born February 12, 1855. As a young boy he moved to Tennessee and then later was the first of the family to move to California to work as a farmhand on the John Peterman's land sometime in the late 1870s. John Peterman was apparently a pioneer who crossed the United States in a train of 200 wagons during the gold rush. On September 7, 1879, George Edward Finch married John Peterman's daughter, Melissa Alice Peterman at her father's home in San Joaquin County, California. In time, the couple moved south to Covina and then to Conejo which is now known as Newberry Park, California. George Edward Finch owned a farm, horses, cattle, vineyard, and fruit orchard. The couple had seven children. George Edward Finch died on May 12, 1894 from injuries sustained from being kicked in the head by a horse. George is buried in the Covina Cemetery beside his oldest son, Johnny, who died at age four. This account also notes that George attended old-fashioned Dunkard Brethren meetings. Melissa Ann Peterman died on May 10, 1941 and was said to be steadfastly religious - a theme which I have often picked up on in my research of the Bradford family. Sometime after the death of her husband in 1880, America and the remainder of her children, except for Josephine Lucy Finch who moved first to Oklahoma and then Texas, moved to California. In 1900, at age 72, America was living with her daughter Virginia Amina "Jennie" Finch and her husband Isaac Overholtzer in Rowland, Los Angeles, California. In the 1910 federal census America is living at age 82 with her daughter, Martha Cornelia Finch and her husband, William Overholtzer. America Bradford died May 23, 1914 in Los Angeles, California - approximately 2500 miles from where she was born in Virginia in 1827. In the June 21, 1935 edition of The Covina Argus Newspaper in Covina, California, the town celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of the Covina Church of Brethren - the first organization of the denomination in California. In 1885, eighteen members, including America Bradford, founded the Covina Church of Brethren. Their first meeting was held in a member's home on Puente Street. Of America Bradford and John William Finch's many descendants, my dad, myself, my great uncle and several close cousins have upward of 60 known genetic matches. We have more genetic connections to the descendants of America Bradford than any other of Enoch Peter Bradford's children including our own family line through Enoch Bradford Jr. The descendants of America Bradford heavily match each other but also have shared matches with the descendants of Enoch Bradford Jr, Jacob Bradford, Mahala Bradford, Hannah Bradford, Joseph Bradford (1797-1869), John Bradford Jr (1783-1860), and Whitehill descendants. Needless to say, America's family is one of the most prolific and interesting families in my Bradford heritage. At the time America and her children moved to Los Angeles, the population was only around 50,000- 75,000 people. By 1900, the population was approximately 100,000 - a far cry from the nearly four million people living there today. 5. Adam Bradford (1829-1893) - The family of Adam Bradford is one of the most disappointing for me from a historical and genealogical standpoint. I think it likely that the entire Bradford family suffered from tuberculosis - this is true for a lot of members of the Bradford family in southwest Virginia even up to relatively recent generations including my second great grandfather. I think it is likely the entirety of Adam Bradford's family succumbed to the disease. To my knowledge, there are no living descendants for Adam Bradford. Adam first appears in 1850 at age 21 living with his family in Montgomery County. On April 6, 1854, he married Catherine Martin. The couple had five children before Catherine died sometime between 1870 and 1873. In 1860, the couple appears with one child, Mary Bradford who was nine months old at the time. However, I think there were at least two sons who were born and died before this time. There is a birth record for John Bradford born February 21, 1855, and a birth record for Oliver Bradford born July 12, 1857. Both children were born to parents Adam and Catherine Bradford in Montgomery County. However, neither child appears with the family in the 1860 census which makes me think they likely died before this time. In 1870, the couple appears again in Montgomery County in the Alleghany Springs area with children, Mary, Peter, and Nancy. After Catherine's death, Adam remarried S J Dudley on September 2, 1873. Both parties are listed as widowed in the marriage register. Adam's parents are listed as E and L Bradford. The wife's parents are listed as hash marks. I believe S J Dudley is Sarah J Barnett who married Winston Dudley. Winston Dudley died in 1873. Sarah apparently died before 1880. In 1880, Adam appears at age 51 listed as a widower living with his teenage children, Peter and Nancy. Adam's daughter Mary married Wiley James Murdock on December 1, 1878. Mary died at age 22 in April 1880 in childbirth. Wiley remarried again in 1884 to Lillie Mullins. There are no further records for Adam and Catherine's son Peter after the 1880 census except his marriage to Sarah "Eliza" Jane Martin on September 2, 1888. Eliza died of an unlisted cause in July 1890. Her husband and father reported her death. There are no further records for Peter after that time. Nancy Bradford married Felton Trent on October 1, 1889. Sadly, Nancy died a short time later on July 9, 1890. Her cause of death was listed as consumption (tuberculosis). Adam died sometime before 1900 and there are no additional records for him after 1880. 6. Rebecca Bradford (1834 - ? ) – Rebecca and Hannah are likely twins based on their birthdates. Almost nothing is known of Rebecca Bradford or her life. She only appears once in recorded history in the 1850 Montgomery County, Virginia census where she is found living with her family. There are several family trees online that list her married to Christian Overholtzer. This would make sense since her sister's children married into the Overholtzer family, but unfortunately, I have not been able to confirm this and I think it's more likely that the Rebecca who married Christian Overholtzer was actually a Getz by birth and from Shenandoah, Virginia. Interestingly, in a published interview of Ironto Pearl Bradford Burkett, Ironto supposedly mentioned that she thought Rebecca Bradford married an Overholtzer. This may be where the idea originated, but I have been unable to verify the information. I suspect Rebecca likely died in her youth sometime shortly after 1850. 7. Hannah Bradford (1834 - after 1880) - Hannah was the twin sister of Rebecca Bradford and was born sometime around 1834. Hannah first appears living with her family in the 1850 Montgomery County census. On April 15, 1858, Hannah married James W. Smith. James is thought to be the son of Harry and Mary Smith (Mary’s maiden name is unknown). In 1860, Hannah is back living with her parents and her 11-month-old baby, William B. Smith. Family history tells that James went off to work at Enoch Peter Bradford's saw mill one day and never came home. Another family story says that he went west with friends to mine for gold. It's unclear what truly happened to him or where he went. Hannah does not appear again in the 1870 census. On May 20, 1875, she married a much older William Doyle (approximately 35 years her senior). The couple appears in the 1880 Montgomery County census living with Hannah's son, 20-year-old William B. Smith. The couple did not have any more children and William Doyle died a few years later at the age of 83 in 1882. There are no further records for Hannah and it is assumed she died before 1900. 8. Peter Bradford (1836 - 1863) - Peter C Bradford died at age 26 from injuries he received while fighting in the Civil War. He was never married and there are no known living descendants for him. The primary records that tell about his life are the chancery records in which his father is defendant after Peter’s death. Between myself, my father, my great uncle, and three of our close Bradford cousins, we have over 130 genetic matches to descendants of Enoch Peter Bradford confirming our descendancy from his line. Peter Bradford died during the Civil War and left no issue. What became of Rebecca Bradford is unknown, but there are some second-hand accounts online that say she married into the Overholtzer family. To date, I have been unable to find any proof of her marriage, or later life, or known descendants. Likewise, Adam Bradford's entire family died within a few years of each other (I suspect from a communicable disease like tuberculosis) and left no living descendants. Aside from those three children, we have genetic matches to descendants from every other one of Enoch Peter Bradford's children. Beyond the genetic connections to descendants of Enoch Peter Bradford, we do have some tentative genetic links to two of the other possible children of John Bradford Sr - John Bradford Jr who moved to Ohio and Joseph Bradford who moved to West Virginia. One of the descendants of Joseph Bradford submitted his DNA to the FamilyTreeDNA Bradford Project. The goal of the project was to create a repository of genetic evidence to distinguish the known Bradford groups in the United States. Based on the results of this project, the descendant of Joseph Bradford falls into group 2 - possible descendants of Thomas and George Bradford of Orange County, North Carolina. My dad and great uncle are both genetic matches on Ancestry.com to the daughter and grandchildren of the man who descends from Joseph Bradford. Between the three of them, they have in common numerous shared matches who are also descendants of Enoch Peter Bradford as well as Whitehill matches. My full research on the Bradford and other families can be found on my website here: https://aabradford9.wixsite.com/bradfordsofbotetourt/bradford-family File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/botetourt/bios/bradford31nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/vafiles/ File size: 31.8 Kb