BRADSTREET, Simon, Governor [~1612-1672] -- English colonial administrator, Immigrant: Winthrop Fleet
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Served as commissioner of the New England Confederation
(1646-79) and twice as governor (1679-86, 1689-92);
married Anne Dudley, America's first poet, daughter of Governor Thomas Dudley.
Two of their sons were accused of witchcraft but not tried;
A daughter (Dorothy) married Seaborn Cotton,
son of the famous Puritain clergyman John Cotton, known as "The Patriarch of New England."
Bookmarks (off-site links) |
- Works by
- Works about
- Biographical
- Specific periods, events, aspects
- 1-9, Grandfather's Chair, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1840 The chair had been Bradstreet's
- Guide to Likeness of New Hampshire Officials and Governors
- Simon Bradstreet
- Specific periods, events, aspects
- Genealogy
- Historical
- Memorials, tributes, shrines
- Bibliographies and Link Farms
- Biographical
- Gallery
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