Collection Overview
Title: Bradford Family Collection II
Dates: 1868-1900
Creator: Daniel Bradford and Gershom Bradford II
Repository: Drew Archival Library
Call Number: DAL.MSS.093
Accession Number: 1998.005/DAL.2013.030
Location: Fogg Archives Room
Quantity: 1 box
Language: English

Administrative Information
Access Restriction: Collection is open to researchers
Acquisition Information: Donation, William Taylor, 1998
Preferred Citation: DAL.MSS.093, Bradford Family Collection II, Duxbury Rural & Historical Society
Finding Aid Prepared by Carolyn Ravenscroft, 2017

Scope and Content
The collection consists of three items donated by William Taylor, all relating to the Bradford Family. Three photographs of the interior of the Bradford House at 931 Tremont Street, Duxbury, are mounted on a single card. These interior images show the house as it was arranged in the early 20th century. A journal or ship’s log written by Capt. Daniel Bradford, the nephew of Capt. Gershom and Sally Bradford, describes Daniel Bradford’s voyages to Manila, Honolulu, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Europe (1868-1876) aboard the Nehemiah Gibson and the Crusader. Also included is a notebook belonging to Gershom Bradford II, the grandson of Capt. Gershom and Sally Bradford. This notebook, entitled “Oyster Notes” (1880), was created while Bradford was in the U. S. Coastal Survey.