Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register

Bradshaw, Humphrey (elsewhere written Bradsheere, Bredsha, and Bredshew), was in Camb. in 1652, and received his dividend of the Shawshine lands. By his w. Patience, dau. of Geo. Bowers, he had Sarah, b. 3 May 1653; John, b. 24 June 1655, had liberty to build a seat in the meetinghouse, 1678, and is supposed to have afterwards resided in Medford; Ruth, b. 3 Nov. 1657. His w. d. and he m. Martha, wid. of William Russell, 24 Mar. 1665-6. He resided in Menotomy, frequently held minor offices and acted on committees for the town, and d. 9 May 1682. His wid. m. Thomas Hall, 24 May 1683.

Mary, perhaps sister to Humphrey, m. William Mitchelson, 26 Ap. 1654. Stephen, s. of John, bap. 25 July 1708. Henry, m. Hannah Gibbs Cooke, 3 June 1781.

Bradstreet, Simon, was one of the original founders of Camb. He resided at the easterly corner of Brighton Street and Harvard Square. He was a prominent citizen here, as well as in other towns where he successively resided, and was one of the first board of Selectmen, or Townsmen, elected in Camb. About the time of Hooker's emigration to Hartford, he removed to Ipswich, and thence to Andover, about 1644; of which town he was a principal founder, and Selectman from its organization until 1672. He afterwards removed to Boston, and thence to Salem, in 1695, where he d. 27 Mar. 1697, a. 94 years. Before he left England, he m. Ann, dau. of Gov. Thomas Dudley. She d. at Andover, 16 Sept. 1672, in the 60th year of her age. He afterwards m. a sister of Sir George Downing. His children, all by his first w., were Samuel; Simon; Dudley; John; Dorothy, m. Rev. Seaborn Cotton 25 June 1654, had nine children, and d. 26 Feb. 1671-2; Hannah, m. Andrew Wiggin of Exeter, N. H.; Sarah, m. Richard Hubbard of Ipswich, who d. in 1681, and she m. Samuel Ward of Marblehead, a Major in the Canada Expedition of 1690, in which he lost his life; Mercy, m. Maj. Nathaniel Wade, who d. in Medford, 28 Nov. 1707. These names are gathered from Gov. Bradstreet's will. Some writers name another daughter, Ann, whom I regard as identical with Hannah; these two names were often used interchangeably, and the father mentions only one in his will. Those who make a duplicate of Ann and Hannah, omit Sarah entirely, and thus preserve the number, four sons and four daughters, which Mrs. Bradstreet claimed as her own. The name of Mercy has been called Mary, in some publications, but erroneously; it is Mercy in her father's will, and on the Medford Records, where the birth of her children is recorded.

2. Samuel, s. of Simon (1), m. Mercy, dau. of Capt. William Tyng, and had, in Boston, Elizabeth, b. 29 Jan. 1663-4, d. young; Annice or Ann, b. 17 Nov. 1665, d. young; Mercy, b. 20 Nov. 1667, m. Dr. James Oliver of Camb., and d. 29 Mar. 1710. Dr. Bradstreet's w. Mercy d. 6 Sept. 1669, and he m. Martha, and had Ann, b. 3 Sept. 1670; John; Simon, b. 1680, elected John Leverett. Esq., as his guardian, 29 July 1697, being then 17 years old. Samuel the f. grad. H. C. 1653, and was Fellow. He was a physician in Boston, Representative of Andover, 1670, removed to Jamaica, and d. 1685.

3. Simon, s. of Simon (1), m. his cousin Lucy, dau. of Rev. John Woodbridge of Newbury, and had Simon; John, b. 1677; Lucy, b. 1680, m. Hon. Jonathan Remington of Camb., 5 Sept. 1711, and d. 18 Ap. 1743. John, a. 20, and Lucy, a. 17, chose Samuel Ruggles of Roxbury (whose wife was their aunt), to be their guardian, 9 Sept. 1697. Simon the f. grad. H. C. 1660, preached for a time at Charlestown, was settled at New London, and d. 1683; his wid. Lucy m. Daniel Epes, and d. at Medford. Her will, dated 20 Dec. 1707, was proved 11 July 1710.

4. Dudley, s. of Simon (1), m. Ann, wid. of Theodore Price, 1673 (Felt's Hist. Salem), and had Dudley, b. Ap. 1678, grad. H. C. 1698, taught school in