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May 4, 1745. (lied there. Ma}- 7. 183.S, huried in North Laurel Hill Cemetery, lie was a printer and publisher in Philadelphia. Dur- ing" the revoltition he was captain of a militia company, also deputy commissary general of prisoners in American army with rank of lieutenant-colonel. He married, November 2T,. 1768, Mary Fisher, daughter of Samuel Fisher and Elizabeth (Coleman) Fisher. Issue, six children.

Samuel Fisher Bradford, son of Lieuten- ant-Colonel Thomas and Mary (Fisher) Bradford, was born in Philadelphia in 1776. He was a publisher in Philadelphia and New ^"ork. He married, March 7, 1799. Abigail Inskeep. daughter of John Inskeep, and died August 2, 1837. Issue, seven children.

Major Edmund Bradford, son of Samuel Fisher and Abig-ail (Inskeep) Bradford, was born at Philadelphia, July 31, 1816. He graduated with distinction at the West Point Military Academy, and served throughout the Mexican war, and in recog- nition of his gallantry was presented with a handsome sword by his native city of Philadelphia. After some years he resigned from the United States army and retired to private life. When the civil war broke out he enlisted in the Confederate army and served until the end of the war when he re- ttirned to Norfolk, wdiere he resided until his death April 26, 1889. He married, Octo- ber 7. 1847, Anne Elizabeth Tazewell, born October 28, 1817, died December 15, 1898, daughter of Governor Littleton W^aller Tazewell, of Virginia. Children: i. Little- ton Waller Tazewell (changed from Brad- ford), born July 16, 1848; married, Novem- ber 6, 1883, Mary Louisa Walke, born March 28, 1856; children: Littleton Waller, born February 13, 1887; Calvert Walke, October 14, 1888; Edmund Bradford, October 25, 1891. 2. Annie Nivison, married Richard W^alke (see Walke VII). 3. Mary Fisher, born March 21, 1852, died August 18, 1884; married, June 22. 1876, \Mlliam Turnbull PUirwell. lieutenant in the LTnited States navy ; children : Edmund Bradford, born April 13, 1877; Mary h'isher, June 20, 1880; William Turnbull, May 4, 1883. 4. Samuel Sidney, born November 25, 1853; married, No\'ember 25, 1880. Kate Spotswood Brax- ton; children: Edmund Marshall, born Oc- tober 29, 1882 ; Samuel Sidney, April 2, 1894; Olivia Braxton, June 6, 1897. 5- ^d-

nuind I )e \'aux. Imru Marc-li 15. 1856; mar- ried Virginia Cooper; died January 4, 190T. . Ella Tazewell, born March 30. 1857; mar- ried, October 24 1895, William rurnlnill lUirwell. commander t'nited States na\)-.

William James Woodward, ilistory in- forms us that several persons bearing the name ot Woodward suffered j^ersecution among the h'riends of England, and one of them, named Henry, died in prison. In Worcestershire we find the names of Joan, John, Richard and Thomas, all of whom suffered more or less for their religious opin- ions. From careful research we find that there appears to have been as many as five different settlements of those bearing the name of Woodward in the early coloniza- tion of this country. They settled in Massa- chusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Mary- land and Virginia. Those of Maryland, in the counties of Anne Arundel and St. Mary's were found there among the earliest settlers, near St. Anne's chapel, which is supposed to be one of the earliest churches oi the Episcopal denomination in America. The Woodwards of Virginia antedate all others of the early settlers. Henry Woodward came to \"irginia in the ship "Diana."' and was living at Hog Island, with Jane, his wife, in ir)24. The Rev. James Bacon, of England, first cousin of Sir Francis Bacon, married Martha, a daughter of George Woodward, of Buckinghamshire, England, and had issue, Nathaniel, born 1620, died in 1692, member of council in \'irginia, 1657; burgess of York. 1^)59; acting governor, 1689; this was not the rebel. During the reign of Charles, fifteen thousand families had l)een ruined for their religious ])ersua- sions, and on the accession of James, twelve hundred Friends were released from filthy prisons and noisome dungeons, in which five thousand had perished for conscience's sake. In 1690 grants of land were made in North Carolina to William and Samuel Woodward. In T719, grants w^ere made to Flenry, James and Edward Woodward. A\> find other records as follows : Thomas \\'oodward, clerk of the assembly, in March. 1655 ; Thomas Woodward, of the Isle of Wight, in 1678; Thomas Woodward constituted sole surveyor of North Carolina, in 1662. Captain PTenry Woodward was an active participant in the French and Indian wars,