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[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 22, Ed. 1, Tree #3104, Date of Import: Dec 9, 1998]
At Chester Monthly Meeting 25 12th month 1752 "Richard Bradley appeared here and produced a certificate from Settle Mo. meeting inco. York, Great Brittain, which is received and ordered to be lodged with other certificates." (a search for the document was unsuccessful 1966) As members of Providence Meeting, he and his wife rec. a certificate to Goshen 25 8 mo 1755 which says that he "some years ago came well Recommended by certificate from England to us, and during his abode here his conversation hath been sober and orderly. Elizabeth, his wife, being brought up among us, hath been of an orderly conversation and well esteemed of us; their affairs settled to satisfaction as far as we know." They took a certificate back to Chester dated 16 5th mo 1757, and received one for themselves and a child directed to Cane Creek, NC dated 24 4th mo. 1758.
It is said they settled at first in Guilford Co. where there was a colony of Friends, but they afterward rem. to Wilmington, where many of their descendants still reside. The Friends' records of that state have not been accessible, but it is understood that their children left the Society early in life, yet their posterity hold in great veneration the memory of their Quaker ancesters, Elizabeth Bradley, Richard Bradley's mother is said to have been a Wood and his birthplace Kendal in Yorkshire.
Richard was Commissary under English Governor until Revolution
Richard Bradley 
