3895. Levi Bradley (Daniel Bradley , Daniel Bradley , Daniell Bradley , Daniel Bradley , Abraham Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born 1, 2, 3 on 11 Nov 1792 in Wallingford (Cheshire), Connecticut, USA. He died 4, 5, 6 on 18 Mar 1877 in Meridien, Connecticut, USA. He was buried in Walnut Grove Cem., Meridien, Connecticut, USA.
"Levi was the discoverer of the first Barytes Mines in Cheshire in 1840."
[Edmond and Alice R. Brodeur, "The History of Cheshire St. and Vicinity 1694-1971, March 1971, 3-4]
Levi married 1 Abigail Ann Atwater daughter of Samuel Atwater and Patience Peck on 30 Sep 1819 in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA. Abigail was born 2 on 17 Oct 1800 in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA. She died 3 on 5 May 1897 in Cheshire, Connecticut, USA. She was buried in Walnut Grove Cem., Meridien, Connecticut, USA.
They had the following children:
+ 5294 F i Emeline Amelia Bradley is printed as #4245. + 5295 M ii Samuel Atwater Bradley is printed as #4246. + 5296 M iii William Lambert Bradley is printed as #4247. + 5297 M iv Nathaniel Lyman Bradley is printed as #4248. 5298 F v Abby Ann Bradley is printed as #4249.
3896. Chloe Bradley (Aaron Bradley , Daniel Bradley , Daniell Bradley , Daniel Bradley , Abraham Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born 1 on 17 Jul 1780 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. She died on 19 May 1864.
Chloe married Levi Dickerman son of Levi Dickerman on 17 Oct 1798. Levi was born about 1776 in (of) Hamden, Connectictut, USA.
They had the following children:
+ 5299 M i Levi Dickerman
3899. David Bradley (Aaron Bradley , Daniel Bradley , Daniell Bradley , Daniel Bradley , Abraham Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born 1 in 1792. He was christened on 8 Jan 1792 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He died on 1 Oct 1854 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
David married Beda Ives daughter of Elam Ives and Sarah Hitchcock in Nov 1813 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Beda was born on 31 Dec 1793 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. She died on 17 May 1818 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
They had the following children:
5300 F i Amelia Bradley was born about 1814 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. She died in (prob.) Newark, New Jersey, USA. 5301 M ii Henry Bradley was born about 1816 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
3903. Lois A. Wildman (Anna Bradley , William Bradley , Daniell Bradley , Daniel Bradley , Abraham Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born in 1804. She died in 1880.
Lois married John Frank Beard in 1826. John was born in 1803. He died in 1888.
They had the following children:
+ 5302 F i Mary A. Beard
3905. Chloe Alling (Hannah Bradley , Jabez Bradley , Daniell Bradley , Daniel Bradley , Abraham Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born 1 on 19 Jul 1779 in Hamden, Connecticut, USA. She died 2 on 12 Jan 1861 in Racine, Wisconsin, USA.
Chloe married 1 Miles Bradley son of Eli Bradley and Esther Goodyear on 6 Nov 1796 in Northville, New York, USA. Miles was born 2 on 22 Jan 1774 in Hamden, Connecticut, USA. He died 3 on 25 Feb 1825 in Montezuma, New York, USA.
They had the following children:
5303 M i Leverett Bradley was born 1 on 25 Nov 1798. He died 2 on 6 Sep 1875 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA.
In the Fall of 1869, Thomas Alva Edison operated a small shop in the electrical instrument factory of Leverett Bradley in Jersey City, New Jersey.Leverett married 1 Mary Sheldon on 16 Mar 1820. 5304 F ii Mary Bradley was born 1 on 2 Sep 1800. She died 2 in Oct 1867 in Auburn, New York, USA. Mary married 1 Lewis Seymour on 20 Feb 1838. 5305 M iii Calvin Bradley was born 1 on 21 Oct 1802. He died 2 on 18 Mar 1877 in Quincy, Illinois, USA. Calvin married 1 Mary (Doan) Alvord on 20 Oct 1825 in Tiffin, Ohio, USA. 5306 F iv Lavinia Bradley was born 1 on 19 Feb 1805. She died 2 on 12 Oct 1839 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Lavinia married 1 Jason Goodyear on 10 Mar 1825 in Northville, New York, USA. 5307 M v Miles Allen Bradley was born 1 on 18 Dec 1806. He died 2 on 28 May 1866 in Canada. Miles married 1 Delilah White on 5 Jun 1832 in Auburn, New York, USA. 5308 M vi Lucas Bradley was born 1 on 22 Jun 1809. He died 2 on 10 Jan 1889 in Racine, Wisconsin, USA. Lucas married 1 Lucinda King on 3 Jun 1832 in Sennett, New York, USA. 5309 M vii Cyrus Bradley was born 1 on 24 Jul 1811. He died 2 on 5 Mar 1832 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, unmarried. 5310 M viii Grove Bradley was born 1 on 11 Sep 1813. He died 2 on 7 Apr 1868 in Weedsport, New York, USA. Grove married 1 Elizabeth L. Cady on 1 Dec 1835 in Sennett, New York, USA. 5311 M ix Dwight Bradley was born 1 on 28 Dec 1815. He died 2 on 24 Apr 1839 in Syracuse, New York, USA, s.p., suicide by poison. Dwight married 1 Juliet Lathrop on 24 Jan 1839 in Victory, New York, USA. 5312 M x Lemi Bradley was born 1 on 7 Jan 1818. He died 2 on 29 Aug 1847 in the Mexican War. Lemi married Unknown. 5313 M xi Daniel W. Bradley was born 1 on 27 Jan 1821. He died 2 on 9 Apr 1840 in Sandusky, Ohio, USA. 5314 F xii Emily Bradley was born 1 on 1 Jul 1823. She died 2 on 22 Aug 1877 in Racine, Wisconsin, USA. Emily married 1 Horatio G. Winslow on 21 Oct 1846.
3917. Dan Bradley (Jabez Bradley , Jabez Bradley , Daniell Bradley , Daniel Bradley , Abraham Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born 1 on 1 May 1794. He died 2 on 29 Jul 1826.
They had the following children:
5315 M i Nelson Bradley.
3918. Henry Bradley (Jabez Bradley , Jabez Bradley , Daniell Bradley , Daniel Bradley , Abraham Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born 1 on 23 May 1796. He died 2 on 15 Dec 1878.
They had the following children:
5316 M i Henry Bradley. 5317 M ii Ogden Bradley. 5318 F iii Jane Bradley. Jane married ? Sheppard.
3924. Harriet Bradley 1 (Dan Bradley , Jabez Bradley , Daniell Bradley , Daniel Bradley , Abraham Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born 2 on 3 Mar 1793 in Whitestown, New York, USA. She died 3 on 4 Feb 1824 in Cassawago, Crawford Co., Pennsylvania, USA.
They had the following children:
5319 F i Eunice Curtis was born in Cassawago, Crawford Co., Pennsylvania, USA. 5320 F ii Harriet Curtis died in Cassawago, Crawford Co., Pennsylvania, USA.
3925. Augustus Bradley 1 (Dan Bradley , Jabez Bradley , Daniell Bradley , Daniel Bradley , Abraham Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born 2 on 2 Feb 1797 in Marcellus, Onondaga Co., New York, USA. He died 3 on 19 Aug 1864 in Meadeville, Crawford Co., Pennsylvania, USA.
Augustus married 1 Elizabeth Alden about 1820.
They had the following children:
5321 M i Warren Bradley was born 1 in 1824. 5322 F ii Louisa Bradley was born 1 in 1827. 5323 M iii Augustus Bradley was born 1 in 1832. 5324 F iv Susan Bradley was born 1 in 1834. 5325 F v Elizabeth Bradley was born 1 in 1837.
3928. Dan Beach Bradley (Dan Bradley , Jabez Bradley , Daniell Bradley , Daniel Bradley , Abraham Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born 1 on 18 Jul 1804 in Marcellus, Onondaga Co., New York, USA. He died on 23 Jun 1873 in Bangkok, Siam (Thailand).
2 Apr 1833 - Enrolled at NYU, New York, New York, USA
1845 - only return to America, after his 1st wife's death (Francis R. Bradley, Omaha, NE, USA)
"The family papers of Dan Beach Bradley, which consist of letters, letterpress books, diaries, diary transcripts, journals, notebooks, writings, and photographs, document the missionary careers in nineteenth-century Siam (modern Thailand) of the Rev. Dan Beach Bradley (1804-73) and his first wife, Emilie Royce Bradley (1811-45). The collection also includes a small amount of correspondence and writings created by two of their children, Sophia Royce Bradley (1839-1923) and Cornelius Beach Bradley (1843-1936). Except for fourteen letters, very little documentation exists of the forty-three-year missionary career (1850-93) of Bradley's second wife, Sarah Blachly Bradley (1817-93) of Dane, Wisconsin.
The collection is divided into four subgroups: I. Papers of Dan Beach Bradley; II. Papers of Emilie Royce Bradley; III. Papers of Cornelius Beach Bradley; and IV. Bradley Family Records. Within subgroups, records have been arranged into records series; within series, materials are typically arranged chronologically or alphabetically. Series arrangement is as follows: Subgroup I, Papers of Dan Beach Bradley: Series 1. Correspondence (Calendared); 2. Correspondence (Uncalendared); 3. Diaries and Journals; 4. Journal Abstract; 5. Notebooks; and 6. Financial Records. Subgroup II, Papers of Emilie Royce Bradley: Series 1. Diaries and Album; 2. Diary Transcript; and 3. Letters. Subgroup III, Papers of Cornelius Beach Bradley: Series 1. Journal; 2. Letter-press Copy Book; and 3. Writings. Subgroup IV, Bradley Family Records: Series 1. Letters of Sophia Bradley McGilvary; 2. Letters between Bradleys and King of Siam; 3. Miscellaneous Papers; 4. Photographs; 5. Research Files of Julian S. Fowler; and 6. Account Book.
The bulk of the Bradley Family Papers consists of Dan Beach Bradley's correspondence (1800-73), diaries (1832-73), notebooks (1830-54), and financial records (1847, 1850-66). The bulk of these papers was created in Bangkok between 1835, the year of Bradley's arrival, and 1873, the year of his death. Records predating the Bangkok years include thirteen letters (1800-34); diaries (1832-35), and lecture notes taken in medical school (1830). One notebook records Bradley's stay in Oberlin, Ohio, and West Haven, Connecticut, between 1847 and 1850.
Correspondence relating to Bradley's missionary, medical, and literary endeavors includes nine uncalendared letters (1836-67) and 340 leaves of calendared correspondence (largely incoming) with family members in America and colleagues in the mission field, 1829-73. (Also filed here are three letters written by Bradley's father, Judge Dan Bradley, dated 1800-1803.) Subjects treated in the letters include the voyage to Siam, Emilie's illnesses and childbearing, the children's' health, abolitionism, news of Finney's preaching, and the Bradleys' doctoral disagreements with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (A.B.C.F.M.). Interfiled with this correspondence are drafts of Bradley's annual reports to the Corresponding Secretary of the A.B.C.F.M. Additional papers include a diary written in Singapore at the close of the voyage to Thailand in 1835, a chronology drafted in 1847 for inclusion in Bradley's publication The Bangkok Calendar entitled, "Notices of the Protestant Missions to Siam, 1827-46", and numerous invoices recording goods purchased by Bradley from importers in Singapore, such as nursing suppliers for Sarah, paper, lithography tools, cloth, and foodstuffs (1847, 1850-66).
The most valuable resource for understanding Bradley the man is his twenty-five-volume diary (1832-73). In addition to this diary, the collection contains a modern transcript of portions of the original: Abstract of the Journal of Rev. Dan Beach Bradley, M.D., Medical Missionary in Siam 1835-1873, George Haws Feltus, editor, 1936. The diary itself, which records events during the thirty-eight years of Bradley's residence in Siam, sheds light not only on the mission but also on the wider foreign community in Bangkok. Early entries (1832-34) in the diary describe his medical studies and also include a sketch of his early years.
Emilie Royce Bradley's papers include an album and two diaries (1827-30; 1831-33; 1840-42) kept in Clinton, New York and in Bangkok; a microfilm copy and a modern transcription of a diary (1834-36) whose original may still remain in private hands; a journal letter written aboard ship during her voyage to Siam in 1834-35; and a record book containing summaries of letters sent. The summaries often refer to "my large letter book", probably indicating that only a portion of Emilie's correspondence has survived. Only three letters in her hand (1835-38) are included in the calendared correspondence of Dan Beach Bradley; the accompanying index to the calendar erroneously ascribes ten letters to her.
Papers of Cornelius Beach Bradley include a journal (1864), a letterpress copy book (1872-74, 1884), genealogical data on the Bradley family, and several unrelated publications and writings. As a student in 1864-65 in Oberlin College's preparatory department, he wrote the "Critique on the Rhetorical Exercises of March 13, 1865". Later writings include three drafts of the "Sketch of the Life of Reverend Dan Beach Bradley By His Son C.B. Bradley," n.d.
Biographical information about Dan Beach Bradley collected during the late 1960s by Oberlin College Emeritus Librarian Julian S. Fowler (1890-1975) is included in Subgroup IV, Bradley Family Records, together with letters of Sophia Bradley McGilvary, five original letters and photographs of letters between Bradley and the King of Siam (1858-88), and family photographs (1860-70, 1991, n.d.). Subgroup IV also includes a day book, or account book, for the Bradley family in Bangkok, dated 1882-84."
[Oberlin College Archives, Oberlin, Ohio, USA, RG 30/5 - Dan Beach Bradley Family]"King Mongkut's prediction surpassed those of European scientists.
"In the 19th century, King Mongkut of Siam (now Thailand), an amateur astronomer, paid the ultimate price for eclipse-chasing: his life.
Mongkut, formally Rama IV, was fascinated by the precision of Western scientific measurement. He filled his chambers with clocks, thermometers and barometers and taught himself astronomy, erecting an observatory on his palace grounds.
In 1868, the palace announced a solar eclipse expedition. On Aug. 18, the moon's shadow cone would sweep a 245-kilometre-wide swath across the Earth's surface, intercepting the promontory of Siam south of Bangkok. For nearly seven minutes, observers would see day becoming night, stars and planets popping into view and a ghostly corona embracing the invisible moon.
Villagers believed that all eclipses foretold misfortune. They saw them as attempts by the dragon Rahu to swallow the sun and used clanging bells and fireworks to induce Rahu to disgorge it.
Mongkut believed he could assuage these fears if he could accurately predict the event. He had calculated the eclipse parameters and was determined to place himself as close to the centre of the moon's shadow cone as possible. His predictions, he hoped, would turn out to be better than those of French professionals. In his letter of invitation to prospective guests, he told them to come to "longitude 99 degrees 42' east and latitude 11 degrees 39' north," on his kingdom's southeast coast, overlooking the Gulf of Siam.
Mongkut invited a French astronomical mission to watch the eclipse and issued proclamations so that all in his kingdom would know of his astronomical expertise. The court astrologers, however, were convinced he was wrong. The people, though not doubting the King's accuracy, thought the eclipse foreshadowed some national disaster.
The King sailed for the site with a small fleet of steamers, accompanied by his eldest son, Chulalongkorn, and a large retinue. Included were the doubting astrologers, numerous foreigners stationed in Bangkok, the French astronomical mission and a herd of 50 elephants, as well as horses and cattle. Nearly a thousand eclipse chasers -- and several telescopes -- stood on Hua Wan beach at the foot of Mount Khoa Luang, awaiting the great event.
On eclipse day, a wet monsoon was blowing and the sun was invisible. The Siamese prime minister communicated his anxiety by playfully suggesting to the ladies-in-waiting that if the sky were overcast at the time of the eclipse, he would blame it on the dark clouds of soot they had been sending up all morning in the course of producing smoked glass to look at the sun prior to totality.
The clouds had dissipated somewhat when the moon's disc had bitten the first chunk from the sun. When about one-twentieth of the sun was hidden, the King had a cannon fired to alert his subjects.
As an American missionary, the Rev. Dan Beach Bradley, wrote in his diary: "We heard the pipes and trumpets sounding in the courtyard of the Royal Pavilion, it being a relic, we suppose, of the old superstitions about Rahu's swallowing the sun, which their enlightened king did not feel that it would be wise to entirely discount."
Twenty minutes before the moon completely covered the solar disc, the sky began to clear. Ten minutes later, a crescent-shaped sliver of sun burst through a great opening in the clouds. Finally, totality in all its glory was seen under perfect conditions, starting at the exact second predicted by the King.
Bradley, again: "The gradual withdrawal of the sun's light, wholly unlike every other gradual diminution of his power, leaving the darkness to come on us without a twilight, with the king of the day reduced to the smallest section of a circle, and then in another instant entirely shut in, as it were a death grasp, was a scene unutterably sublime. There was an indescribable feeling as if something dreadful might come next. The planet Venus shone out brightly sometime before the eclipse became total. Then many stars peeped out from the clouds in different parts of the heavens. A distinct chilliness was reported by many. The Prime Minister shouted -- Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! He became quite ecstatic with joy, and was on the alert, taking all the observations he could with his long telescope."
The eclipse had taken place precisely as the King had predicted, the total phase lasting six minutes and 46 seconds. In fact, his calculations were better -- by about two seconds -- than those of the now exhausted French astronomers, who acknowledged his accuracy. The European scientists conceded that he was a brilliant mathematician and a real astronomer. The court astrologers were dumbfounded.
But though the King was right, so were his subjects.
His pavilion for viewing the eclipse was built on low ground in a mosquito-infested spot: Malaria struck widely among those who had attended. Shortly after he reached Bangkok, Mongkut developed chills and fever. He died on his birthday, Oct. 18, 1868.
The eclipse that led to his end also made King Mongkut a legend. His 15-year-old son, Chulalongkorn, ascended to the throne and, strangely, did not invite his tutor -- vacationing in her homeland -- back to Siam. Effectively exiled, Mrs. Anna Leonowens then wrote The English Governess at the Siamese Court, which eventually launched several more books, four movies and a musical, The King and I. And in Canada, she founded what is now the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design."
[L. Robert Morris, National Post, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 22 December 2000]See Bradley, W.L., "Siam Then, The Foreign Colony in Bangkok before and after Anna," Pasadena, Cailfornia, 1981.
Dan married 2 (1) Emelie Royce 1 daughter of Phineas Royce and Deborah Parsons on 5 Jun 1834 in Clinton, NY, USA. Emelie was born 3 on 11 Jul 1811 in Clinton, New York, USA. She died 4 on 2 Aug 1845 in Bangkok, Siam (Thailand).
Popular fancy has been caught by Margaret Landon's fictionalized biography of Anna Leonowens, for five years an English governess to the children of the court of King Mongkut. See her "The Englis Governess at the Siamese Court," and "The Romance of the Harem." Mrs. Landon's romantic account was adapted by Rogers and Hammerstein in the musical production, "The King and I," from Mrs. Landon's "Anna and the King of Siam," ( John Day Co.,NYC, 1944)
In actual fact, Bradley had been a tremendous influence on Siamese culture, and in particular on the attitudes of the reigning monarch, Mongkut, for twenty-seven years previous to the arrival of Mrs. Leonowens. While the English widow makes a point in her writings of her espousal of the abolishment of Siamese slavery, it was Bradley who introduced the first printing press soon after his arrival, published her opinions in his periodical Bankok Calendar (US State Department Library) along with arguments with the persistently pagan Mongkut on the subject of "original depravity". The presence of Anna Leonowens at the court was just one indication of the brilliant monarch's preoccupation with Western cultures, the Bradley influence in this barbaric kingdom being the significant factor. (Mrs. Leonowens wrote her memoirs when retired to the Catskills). It is ironic that Mongkut died of fever; Bradley, after years of supplying inoculation & medication to the Siamese, was forbidden to do so on the royal person.
[US Library of Congress, Bradley-Mongkut material]
They had the following children:
5326 M i Charles Bradley was born 1, 2 in Mar 1835 in transit, on voyage from the US to Bangkok, Siam (Thailand). He died 3, 4 on 4 Nov 1836 in Bangkok, Siam (Thailand). 5327 F ii Emelie Jane Bradley was born 1 on 26 Nov 1836 in Marcellus, Onondaga Co., New York, USA. She died 2 on 27 Jul 1848 in Bangkok, Siam (Thailand). + 5328 F iii Sophia Royce Bradley 5329 F iv Harriet Bradley was born 1, 2 on 7 May 1842 in Bangkok, Siam (Thailand). She died 3, 4 on 30 Dec 1842 in Bangkok, Siam (Thailand). + 5330 M v Cornelius Beach Bradley
Dan married 1, 2 (2) Sarah Blachly on 1 Nov 1848 in Dane, Wisconsin, USA. Sarah was born 3, 4 on 23 Dec 1817 in (of) Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA. She died 5, 6 on 16 Aug 1893 in Bangkok, Siam (Thailand).
They had the following children:
5331 F vi Sarah Adorna Bradley 1, 2 was born 3 on 8 Apr 1850 in Singapore. Sarah married Dr. Alphonso Cheek , Missionary of the Presbyterian Board of Bangkok. Alphonso was born in (of) North Carolina, USA. 5332 M vii Dwight Blachly Bradley 1 was born 2 on 13 Oct 1852 in Bangkok, Siam (Thailand). He died 3 on 10 Sep 1939 in Northboro, Massachusetts, USA. Dwight married 1 Annie E. Davis in Oct 1878 in Hong Kong. + 5333 F viii Mary Adelle (Dellie) Bradley + 5334 M ix Dan Freeman Bradley 5335 F x Irene Belle Bradley 1 was born 2 on 19 May 1860 in Bangkok, Siam (Thailand). She died 3 in 1943 in Bangkok, Siam (Thailand), unmarried.
3930. Walter Bradley (Dan Bradley , Jabez Bradley , Daniell Bradley , Daniel Bradley , Abraham Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born 1, 2 on 2 Oct 1807 in Marcellus, Onondaga Co., New York, USA. He died 3, 4, 5, 6 on 23 Oct 1839 in Marcellus, Onondaga Co., New York, USA.
Walter married 1 Elpha Reed on 3 Jun 1831 in Marcellus, Onondaga Co., New York, USA.
They had the following children:
5336 F i Cornelia C. Bradley was born in 1832 in Marcellus, Onondaga Co., New York, USA. She died 1 on 4 Dec 1842 in Marcellus, Onondaga Co., New York, USA.
3934. Isaac Bradley (Dan Bradley , Jabez Bradley , Daniell Bradley , Daniel Bradley , Abraham Bradley , William , Danyell ) was born 1, 2 on 19 Jan 1817 in Marcellus, Onondaga Co., New York, USA. He died 3, 4 on 21 Nov 1904 in Marcellus, Onondaga Co., New York, USA. Isaac resided in Auburn, Cayuga Co., New York, USA.
Isaac married Mary Bosworth Thompson.
They had the following children:
5337 M i Charles Thomson Bradley was born in 1844. He died 1 on 21 Jul 1850 in Marcellus, Onondaga Co., NY, USA. + 5338 F ii Mary Elizabeth Bradley 5339 F iii Isabel Bradley was born 1 in 1849. She died 2 in 1923.
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