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in KmO. uithtlie title 'The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, etc." It was several times rei>ublishetl, ami some of the succeeding eilitit)ns containeil verses of more merit than any in the original collection. J. H. Ellis edited and published her writings under tlie title " Works in Pro.se and Verse," by Anne Bradstreet (1867). AuKing her descendants were the jurists, Richard and Francis Dana; the poets, Oliver Wendell Iii.hnes and Kii-hard Henry Dana, and Richard Henry l);in:i. Jr. She died Sept. 16, 1672.

BRADSTREET, John, soldier, was born in Horbling, Lincolnshire, England, in 1711. He entered the English army when quite young, and was ordered to America. In the expedition against Louisburg he was lieutenant-colonel of Pepperell's (York, Me.) regiment, and liis knowledge of the topography of the place and its conditions con- tributed largely to the .success of the undertaking. He became a captain in 1745, and a year later was api>ointed lieutenant-governor of St. Johns, New-

GOVERNOR BRADSTREET HOUSE.

foundland. In 1755 he was appointed adjutant- general to Governor Shirley, and conveyed a large quantity of stores and provisions from Albany to Oswego, successfully resisting an attempt made by a strong party of French to gain possession of them. He was one of the attacking party at Ticonderoga and at Fort Frontenac, 1758; served with General Amherst in his Ticonderoga expedi- tion of 1759, and later participated in the In- dian wars in the west. He concluded the Detroit treaty of peace with the Indians in 1764, and in 1772 was promoted major-general. "An Impar- tial Account of Lieutenant-Colonel Bradstreet's ExfKidition to Fort Frontenac " was published in 17.5t>. He difd in New York city, Sept. 25, 1774.

BRADSTREET, Simon, colonial governor, was bom in Horbling. England, in March, 1608. He was exlucated at Emanuel college, Cambridge, and immigrating to Massachusetts in the summer of 1630, he was made assistant judge of the first court established in the colony. He became one of the founders of Cambridge and of Andover, himself residing at Salem, Ipswich, and Boston. In 1653 he opposed the proposed making of war on

the Hollanders of New York and the eastern tribes of Indians. In 1662 he was sent with Mr. Norton by the colony, to England, to congratulate Charles II. upon his accession, and to act as agent for Massachu-setts. In 1670 he was chosen assist- ant, and in 1678 deputy-governor, and held the position until 1679, when he succeeded Sir John Leverett as governor. He held this office until 1686, when the charter was annulled, and Joseph Dudley appointed president of New England. On the imprisonment of Andros, three years later, he was again chosen governor, and served in that capacity until May, 1692. when a new charter was enforced, which deprived the people of the right of choosing their chief magistrate. He was then nearly ninety years of age, and had lield office with universal approval for upwards of sixty years. He died in Salem, Mass., March 27, 1697.

BRADWELL, James B., was born at Lough- borough, Eng., April 16, 1828. His parents immi- grated to America in 1829, locating at Utica, N. Y., and in May, 1834, removed to Cook county, lU. His education was obtained in an academy at Chicago, and at Knox college, Galesburg, 111. His Kmited means did not enable him to pursue a full course, and for a number of years he worked as a mechanic in Chicago. He in vented a process for half-tone engraving, and made the first half-tone cut ever produced in Chicago, — that of Chief Justice Fuller of the supreme court. While supporting himself as a mechanic, he studied law, and was admitted to the Illinois bar. In 1861 he was elected judge of Cook county for the term of four years, and was re-elected in 1865. In 1873 he was elected to the legislature of Illinois and was returned in 1875. He held numeroiis offices of charitable and other institutions, and presided over the convention that organized the American woman suffrage association at Cleve- land. He also served as president of the Chicago press club ; of the Chicago bar association ; of the Illinois state bar association ; of the Chicago photo- graphic society; of the Chicago soldiers' home, and chairman of the arms and tropliy department of the N. W. sanitary commission and soldiers' home fair of 1865. He was one of the founders of the Union league club of Chicago, and president of its board of directors. He was the first judge to hold that the civil rights of slaves, being suspended during .slavery, revived upon emancipation. His wife, Myra (Colby), was founder and editor of the Chicago Legal Xeics ; his .son, Thomas Brad well, his daughter, Bessie Bradwell Helmer, his son-in- law, Frank A. Helmer. and his nephew. James A. Peterson, all being members of the Illinois bar. After the death of his wife, which occurred in 1894, Judge Bradwell and his dau^-hter, Mrs. Frank A. Helmer, a.ssumed the editorship of the Chicago Legal News.