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A sentence in an old letter reads thus: "Anne Bradford gave to me last Sabbath in the Noon House a peecing of the Blazing Star; tis much Finer than the Irish Chain or the Twin Sisters. I want yelloe peeces for the first joins, small peeces will do. I will send some of my lilac flowered print for some peeces of Cicelys yelloe India bed vallants, new peeces not washed peeces."
Long extracts copied from books filled page after page of this strange diary, interspersed with records of business transactions, of letters received and answered, of wages paid, and of the visits of Jeremiah Bradford. "We talked long to-night upon the immortality of the soul," one entry ran. "Jeremiah does not believe it, but I must or die."
Like her beloved associate, Miss Hasseltine was early in life a pupil at Bradford Academy, and made commendable progress in her studies. There she was beloved by all. The teachers regarded her as an industrious, dutiful, and talented scholar; her associates looked upon her as a sincere, openhearted, cheerful companion. Unlike Mrs.
"Give me their medicine and directions, I can care for them well enow and for Bradford whose huckle-bone giveth him sore distress to-night." Hip-bone. "I doubt me if he wins through," said the Doctor softly; "and White and Molines will never see the morning, and Mistress Winslow is going fast well, I leave the maids and Bradford to thee." "Ay, I'll do my best," replied Standish briefly.
The train on which they were returning collided with one going in the opposite direction, and four members of the company were killed and some thirty injured. General McClellan thanked Governor Curtin for the timely aid of the State militia, and the moral support thus rendered to the army. Governor Bradford, of Maryland, made a similar acknowledgment.
There now and thou hadst not this matter in hand, I'd wive thee to Barbara Standish 't is the best wench alive, I do believe, and full of quip, and crank as a jest book." "Thy cousin?" asked Bradford rather absently. "Ay, but I know not just how nigh.
I should be glad to learn whether it be such as you approve, and would undertake to publish at as early a period as possible. Address, Mr. Currer Bell, under cover to Miss Bronte, Haworth, Bradford, Yorkshire." Some time elapsed before an answer was returned.
The view towards Minehead is charming. It is said that the sea at very low water uncovers the remains of a submerged forest. It is a picturesque place, noteworthy for its huge walnut trees. It is separated from the sea by a stretch of shingle. Bradford, a parish on the Tone, 4 m. S.W. of Taunton, with a church ded. to St Giles.
After his return to New York, Ripley, and Charles Lane, of Fruitlands, wrote him in a way which indicated their faith in him as a man of judgment and liberal aims. He spent some months in Concord, had George P. Bradford for his tutor, and he rented a room of Mrs. Thoreau, the mother of Henry D. Thoreau.
Weston himself described them in a letter to Bradford, as 'tolerably rude and profane. And a friend of the Pilgrims wrote from England to warn them against having any connection with the new colony: and recommended them to have it distinctly explained to the Indians, that they were a new and independent society, for whose conduct and good faith they could in no way be responsible.
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