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Ezra BRADFORD

Bradford, Ezra & son Lyttleton. Ezra was born in Virginia ca. 1765/68 married ca. 1794/95 to Sarah Curtis born Virginia  ca. 1797. Ezra was the owner of a plantation and slaves near Norfolk, but had a conscience. He thought that slavery was  wrong, freed his slave and removed to Ohio in 1805. He purchased 300 acres of land on Turkey Creek, Scioto County, Ohio and  remained there until his death. Their son Lyttleton Bradford, was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1796, and succeeded to his  father land. Lyttleson married Abigail Samson daughter of David Samson, born ca. 1797/98. David Samson was and early settler  in Scioto County, Ohio (name later recorded as Samson).

Lyttleton and Abigail had six sons and three daughters:

                 1) Ezra
 2) William
 3) Henry Cole born: 27 Sept 1838 at Friendship, Scioto County, Ohio
died: 23 Feb 1918
married: Sarah Elizabeth Fenton of Wheelersburg on Dec 1863.

     Lyttleton died in Scioto County on the land his father had purchased. He named the post office at Friendship, and he  was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.


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