Alden Bradford was born in Duxbury, Massachusetts on 19 November 1765.[1] He graduated from Harvard in 1786 and received a degree of LL.D. there.[2] He was then ordained as a Congregational church pastor, serving in Wiscasset, Maine. After moving to Boston he served from 1812 to 1824 as secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.[2] At times a bookseller and journalist, his works included a History of Massachusetts and Memoir of the Life and Writings of Rev. Jonathan Mayhew.[3]
He was a descendant of Plymouth Colony governor William Bradford (c. 1590 – 1657).[4]
Alden Bradford built (or arranged to have built) the Bradford House, built 1794, a historic house in Wiscasset Historic District.[4]
^ abc"The Late Alden Bradford, Esq". Christian Examiner and General Review. Boston, MA: James Munroe and Company: 375. January 1844. Retrieved 21 March 2023 – via Google Books.
^Bradford Family History (American Genealogical Research Institute, 1978).
