Hannah Bradley

Despite what many researchers state, Hannah was not the daughter of Nehemiah Smith. Her baptismal record, which most people use to support their claim, does not name Nehemiah as her father. The assumption that Nehemiah was her father was made by Henry Write, the transcriber, in his publication in 1855 (The New England Historical and Genealogical Register). Hannah remained in New Haven after Nehemiah Smith moved to New London. She married Stephen Bradley in New Haven, which would have been unlikely had she moved to New London with Nehemiah Smith.

21 December 2015 by Mark Edwin Geesey Posted on FamilySearch
https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=ancestor&person=LK45-PXG

The following in disputed:

Should be listed as daughter of Rev. Nehemiah Smith, not George. Both Smiths lived in the same area, at the same time, and often get confused.

http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.smith/21309.1.1/mb.ashx
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Notes

• Baptism 14 December 1645. First Congregational Society, New Haven. "Hannah, dau. of George and Sarah Smith."

Sources

• Donald L. Jacobus.
• New Haven Vital Records.

Links

• http://trees.wmgs.org/getperson.php?personID=I8464&tree=Schirado

Fifty Puritan Ancestors 1628 - 1660 Genealogical Notes - 1650 - 1900 Elizabeth Todd Nash New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor 1902

[Transcribed by Coralynn Brown]

SMITH

GEORGE SMITH was one of the original settlers of New Haven, coming with Davenport and Eaton, 1639. [New Haven Co., Rockey, Vol. II, p. 277]. In the first tax list he had one in family, £5o estate, and five acres in neck, three acres in meadow and twelve acres in second division.2 He married Sarah _____.

CHILDREN

SARAH, twin, b. 1642; Sarah m. John Clark 1661. MARTHA, twin, b. 1642. HANNAH, b. 1644; all three bapt. Dec. 14, 1645. MARY, b. Feb. 22, 1646; m. John Benham 1669. JOHN, b. April 18, 1647. ELIZABETH, b. Sept. 16, 1649; m. John Hall, Nov. 13, 1668, of Guilford. SAMUEL, b. Dec. 4, 1651. EBENEZER, b. Nov. 15, 1653. JOSEPH, b. Aug. 14, 1655. NATHAN, b. Dec. 27, 1656; d. May 17.

Hannah Smith, daughter of George and Sarah Smith, born 1644, married Stephen Bradley, Jr., of Guilford, 1663. [Savage, Vol. II, p. 112].

This Hannah is a daughter of George Smith & Sarah Smith Jackson (Unknown). See Hannah Bradley

From Find a Grave:
Hannah Smith was born about 1644 in New Haven, Connecticut. Then, on 14 Dec 1645 in New Haven, she and two sisters were baptized. According to the Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, Hannah, Sarah and Mary, daughters of Sarah Smith, were all baptized on this same date. Sarah and Mary were born about 1642, Hannah about 1644.

Most sources give her parents as George Smith, a founder of New Haven, and his wife Sarah, maiden name unknown. However, a researcher listing self as B. Griffin argues that there is clear evidence for George Smith's four sons, but that the three daughters including Hannah actually were the children of Nehemiah and Sarah Smith.

Torrey's New England Marriages to 1700, page 1391, shows George Smith marrying Sarah, maiden name unknown, in 1642 in New Haven. Torrey's, page 1401, lists Nehemiah Smith marrying Ann Bourne in Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, then moving to Norwich, Connecticut. Ann is thought to be Sarah Ann and so the other Sarah Smith. Unproven.

On 1 Nov 1663 or 9 Nov 1663 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, Stephen Bradley married Hannah Smith, according to New England families, genealogical and memorial, Vol 4, edited by William Richard Cutter, page 2011, and other sources such as New England Marriages Prior to 1700.

They had three daughters and three sons, including Abraham I, the first of a line of four men of that name, the last being Abraham Bradley IV, US deputy postmaster general.

Hannah Bradley died about 1690 in Guilford. She likely was buried in Guilford's original Town Green Cemetery that was eliminated in the early 1800s.

About 1691 in Guilford, her husband Stephen was remarried to Mary Fenn, the widow of William Leete, son of Gov. William Leete of Connecticut, according to The descendants of William Leete and Fifty Puritan Ancestors.

NOTE: Entry for Stephen Bradley and wife Sarah Smith on the Bradley Foundation Genealogy site is found here:

http://www.bradleyfoundation.org/genealogies/Bingley/tobg02.htm#11151

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/159424982/hannah-smith