Excerpt from Bradley of Essex County: Early Records, From 1643 to 1746, With a Few Lines to the Present DayThis volume conforms to its title Early Records it is not intended as a genealogy, although it may serve as a foundation for one.Begun as a genealogy many years ago, the unusual and interesting features disclosed in the lives of the early frontier families, caused the compiler to Widen the scope of this little work, SO that it now includes certain con temporaneous events, in which neighbors and relatives played a more conspicuous part than did the members of the Bradley family, but in which the Bradleys were, nevertheless, more or less intimately concerned. These pages are, therefore, first of all, a record of New England frontier struggles and vicissitudes, and as such, the com piler believes that this volume will rest upon a more enduring foundation, be of larger interest and of greater value, than were it a genealogy merely.With this end in View, while the earliest years have been fully recorded, few lines have been carried to the middle of the eighteenth century, and one only - the compiler's own - has been brought to the present day.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.