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About Colonel Dudley Bradstreet, Esq.,Govenor
Colonel Dudley Bradstreet (1648-1702) - Born in Andover, Massachusetts to Simon and Ann Dudley Bradstreet, he grew up to marry Ann Wood, also of Andover, on November 12, 1673. His father, Simon would serve as the Colonial Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1670 to 1686, and his mother would be America's first published poet. He was an attorney, a colonel in the militia, schoolteacher, and served as a selectman and town clerk in Andover. He would also serve as a Deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts and later, was a member of the Governor's Council.
Though he opposed the entire witchcraft delusion, he found himself in the unenviable position of Justice of the Peace in Andover during the hysteria. In the eight weeks from 15 July 1692 until the "touch test" on September 7th, Bradstreet granted out arrest warrants against, and committed, some 30 Andover persons to prisons for supposed witchcrafts. On September 7th, after the ludicrous "touch test," he dutifully wrote out an additional 18 warrants. However, after he had issued those warrants, he refused to grant any more.
Not long afterwards, both he and his wife Ann, were themselves, accused of witchcraft, with the "afflicted" claiming that they had killed at least nine people. In response, Colonel Bradstreet and his wife fled the area.
However, he later returned to Andover and his name appears first on the petition written in late December. The petition, presented to the Superior Court of Judicature at Salem at its opening session on January 3, 1693. It was signed not only by Colonel Bradstreet, but also the Reverend Cotton Mather, Reverend Francis Dane, Reverend Thomas Barnard, 37 other men, and 12 women. The petition was on behalf of Mary Clement Osgood, Eunice Potter Frye, Deliverance Haseltine Dane, Sarah Lord Wilson and Abigail Wheeler Barker, who were all church members who had been arrested together at the Andover touch test. He died in Andover, Massachusetts in 1706.
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Colonel Dudley Bradstreet, Esq.,Govenor's Timeline
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1648
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Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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February 19, 1674
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Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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April 27, 1678
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Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts
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November 5, 1681
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Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts
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November 13, 1706
Age 58
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Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
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November 13, 1706
Age 58
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Old North Parish Burying Ground, North Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
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Of Andover
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