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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Brady
Given Name:
John
Variant Surname Spellings:
Bradye
Soundex Code:
B630
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Male
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
before 1640
Place of Indenture
Colony:
Virginia
Residence
County:
Surry
Colony:
Virginia
Spouse
Given name:
Eleanor
Death Information
County:
Surry
Colony:
Virginia
Date of Death:
about 1675
Testate:
Yes
Research Notes
Proof of Immigrant Servant Status:
"1640 Oct 13. John Bradye, a runaway indentured servant, was 'Branded with an Iron in the shoulder,' for his involvement in 'a most dangerous conspiracy.'" (2)
Post-Servitude Sources:
"In the Name of God Amen[.] I Jn: Bradye...doe make declare and ordaine this my last Will and Testam. in manner of forme following. I Give & bequeath unto my Son in law George Williams my plantation with all the Land & houseing thereto belonging to him & his heirs forever. I Give & bequeath unto my said Sonn in Law George Williams my Gun Sword & Shotbag. If it please God my said Sonn in Law George Williams [were to die], then my Will is that my Loveing Wife Eleanor Brady shall have hold possess & enjoy the aforesaid plantation Land & houseing to her and her heyrs forever. I Give & bequeath unto my Loveing Wife Eleanor two Cows Named old Cherry & young prime old. I Give & bequeath all the rest of my Estate (after Debt--funerall Expenses and all other charges paid) unto my said Loveing Wife Eleanor & my Said Sonn in Law George Williams to be Equally divided between them makeing and [---] them Exe S of this my said Last Will & Testamt. June 28, 1675. Signed the marke of Jn. "B" Brady." (2)
Source Citations:
(1) "Decisions of the General Court," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Jan 1898), 233-241; (2) Edward Boyd Braddy, “Servants and Freedmen in Colonial Virginia, 1619 to 1670,†M.A. Thesis, James Madison University, 1997, 41, 72, quoting H.R. McIlwaine, Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia (Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1979), 467, also quoting Surry County [Virginia] Deeds, Wills, Etc., Microfilm Reel 2, p. 107, Richmond, Virginia State Library.