Alden Bradford
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==Biography== |
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Alden Bradford was born in [[Duxbury, Massachusetts]] on 19 November 1765.{{Cite journal |url=https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofmas5519mass/page/153/mode/1up |title=Memoir of Alden Bradford |first=Samuel Eliot |last=Morison |journal=[[Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society]] |volume=LV |page=153 |date=November 1921 |access-date=21 March 2023 |via=Internet Archive}} He graduated from Harvard in 1786 and received a degree of LL.D. there.{{Cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lzA4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA375 |title = The Late Alden Bradford, Esq. |journal=Christian Examiner and General Review |page=375 |publisher=James Munroe and Company |location = Boston, MA | date = January 1844 |access-date=21 March 2023 |via=Google Books}} He was then ordained as a Congregational church pastor, serving in [[Wiscasset, Maine]]. After a short time he resigned his pulpit, ostensibly for health reasons, and became active as a local politician. As an ardent Federalist, Governor Elbridge Gerry dismissed him as clerk of Lincoln County's court. |
Alden Bradford was born in [[Duxbury, Massachusetts]] on 19 November 1765.{{Cite journal |url=https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofmas5519mass/page/153/mode/1up |title=Memoir of Alden Bradford |first=Samuel Eliot |last=Morison |journal=[[Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society]] |volume=LV |page=153 |date=November 1921 |access-date=21 March 2023 |via=Internet Archive}} He graduated from Harvard in 1786 and received a degree of LL.D. there.{{Cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lzA4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA375 |title = The Late Alden Bradford, Esq. |journal=Christian Examiner and General Review |page=375 |publisher=James Munroe and Company |location = Boston, MA | date = January 1844 |access-date=21 March 2023 |via=Google Books}} He was then ordained as a Congregational church pastor, serving in [[Wiscasset, Maine]]. After a short time he resigned his pulpit, ostensibly for health reasons, and became active as a local politician. As an ardent Federalist, Governor Elbridge Gerry dismissed him as clerk of Lincoln County's court. Joshua M. Smith, ''Making Maine: Statehood and the War of 1812'' (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2022), 19-20.'' |
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After moving to Boston he served from 1812 to 1824 as secretary of the [[Commonwealth of Massachusetts]]. At times a bookseller and journalist, his works included a ''History of Massachusetts'' and ''Memoir of the Life and Writings of Rev. Jonathan Mayhew''.''Bradford Family History'' (American Genealogical Research Institute, 1978). |
After moving to Boston he served from 1812 to 1824 as secretary of the [[Commonwealth of Massachusetts]]. At times a bookseller and journalist, his works included a ''History of Massachusetts'' and ''Memoir of the Life and Writings of Rev. Jonathan Mayhew''.''Bradford Family History'' (American Genealogical Research Institute, 1978). |
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