Preliminary Inventory of the Bradley Family Papers, 1774-1882

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Descriptive Summary

Title

Bradley Family Papers, 1774-1882

Creator

Bradley Family

Extent

1 Linear Foot
792 Items

Repository

Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University

Language

English.

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Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

However, patrons must sign the Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibility and Privacy Rights form before using this collection.

Also, all or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center. Consequently, there may be a 24-hour delay in obtaining these materials.

Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use this collection.

Use Restrictions

The copyright interests in this collection have not been transferred to Duke University. For more information, consult the copyright section of the Regulations and Procedures of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Bradley Family Papers, 1774-1882, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.

Provenance

The Bradley family papers were acquired in December 1990.

Processing Information

Processed by Don Sechler

Completed July 6, 1998

Encoded by Lisa Stark

This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.

This collection is unprocessed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.

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Biographical Note

1754	Stephen Row Bradley born.
1782	Stephen's son, William Czar Bradley, born.
1783	Stephen was appointed judge of the County Court of Windham County.
1791-1795 and 1801-1813	Stephen served in the U.S. Senate from Vermont.
1813-1815 and 1823-1827	William Czar Bradley served in the U.S. Congress from Vermont.
1815-1820	William was a U.S. agent under the Treaty of Ghent with England.
1830	Stephen Row Bradley died.
1867	William Czar Bradley died.

Stephen Row Bradley and his son William Czar Bradley were lawyers practicing in Westminster, Vermont and New Hampshire.

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Collection Overview

Stephen Row Bradley and his son William Czar Bradley were lawyers who, as residents of Westminster, Vermont, served in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives respectively. Later Stephen moved to Walpole, New Hampshire. Many prominent New Englanders corresponded with them about Federalist, Republican, and Democratic politics, patronage, and legal and personal matters. Stephen's son-in-law, Samuel Griswold Goodrich ("Peter Parley") was his most frequent correspondent. Other subjects of the correspondence include the Vermont militia, relations between the U.S. and Tripoli, attitudes toward the War of 1812, surveying of the northeastern boundary between the U.S. and Canada, General Lafayette's visit to Thomas Jefferson in 1824, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson.

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Subject Headings

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