Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameAbraham Bradshaw - DDirect Ancestor 
Birth14 Oct 1724, Medford, Middlesex, Mass., BNA
Death23 May 1775, Chester, Lunenberg, N.S., Canada
FatherDeacon Jonathan Bradshaw - DDirect Ancestor (1696-1769)
MotherMary Watson - DDirect Ancestor (1700-1776)
Spouses
Birth1724, Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay, BNA
Death8 Feb 1796, Chester, Lunenberg, N.S., Canada
FatherJoseph Merriam - DDirect Ancestor (1697-1745)
MotherMary Brewer - DDirect Ancestor (1695-1769)
Marriage13 Feb 1748, Woburn, Middlesex, Mass., U.S.A.
Notes for Abraham Bradshaw - DDirect Ancestor
Responded to the call by the lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia, Charles Lawrence, to New Englanders to come and help settle Nova Scotia. He sailed on Captain Robert MacGowan’s sloop with 33 other families and settled at Shoreham, on 30 July 1759. Shoreham was renamed Chester. These people were called ‘Planters’ or ‘Bluenosers’. The 1791 identfies him as a ‘Master of Vessel’.