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Lt. Arthur Bragdon, Sr.

Lt. Arthur Bragdon, Sr.[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]

Male Abt 1590 - Bef 1678  (~ 88 years)


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  • Name Arthur Bragdon 
    Prefix Lt. 
    Suffix Sr. 
    Birth Abt 1590  Stratford-upon-Avon, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13] 
    • "Saco Valley..." says about 1598, close enough. Find-a-grave has 17 Jul 1597, which I suspect is a baptism date. All other sources have about 1597. If he married Jone Gold in 1609, then he had to have been born around 1590 or so.
    Gender Male 
    Emigration 1630  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • He arrived on the "Hopewell", one of the Winthrop Fleet.
    Property 11 Jun 1637  York, Maine, New England, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    was deeded land
    Occupation 1640  York, Maine, New England, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 14] 
    constable
    Occupation 1641  York, Maine, New England, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 6] 
    alderman
    Fidelity Oath 22 Nov 1652  [3, 11] 
    to the Massachusetts government
    Death Bef 2 Oct 1678  York, Maine, New England, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 8, 9, 11] 
    Inventory 2 Oct 1678  [11] 
    Burial Wells, York, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Cemetery:
    Bragdon Cemetery
    Person ID I5894  Duane's Ancestors
    Last Modified 28 Oct 2019 

    Father Thomas Bragdon,   b. Abt 1543, Stratford-upon-Avon, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F193  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Joan Gold  [10] 
    Marriage 7 May 1609  Stratford-upon-Avon, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Church:
    Holy Trinity
    Children 
     1. Thomas Bragdon,   b. 1611, Stratford-upon-Avon, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1639 (Age 28 years)
     2. Anne Bragdon,   b. 16 Nov 1612, Stratford-upon-Avon, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Elizabeth Bragdon,   b. 1613, Stratford-upon-Avon, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1613, Stratford-upon-Avon, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
     4. Joyce Bragdon,   b. 1614, Stratford-upon-Avon, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1624, Stratford-upon-Avon, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 10 years)
     5. Joan Bragdon,   b. 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1638 (Age 22 years)
     6. Elizabeth Bragdon,   b. 1618, Stratford-upon-Avon, Worcestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F194  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Apr 2020 

    Family 2 Mary Garde,   b. 1626/7   d. 1678, York, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years)  [15] 
    Marriage Abt 1642  [9, 16] 
    Children 
    +1. Thomas Bragdon,   b. 1643, York, Maine, New England, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Oct 1690, Cape Neddick, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 47 years)
    +2. Arthur Bragdon, Jr.,   b. 1645, York, Maine, New England, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Oct 1690, Cape Neddick, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 45 years)
     3. Samuel Bragdon, Sr.,   b. 1647, York, Maine, New England, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Dec 1712, York, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years)
    Family ID F1588  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Apr 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt 1590 - Stratford-upon-Avon, Worcestershire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - Church:
    Holy Trinity - 7 May 1609 - Stratford-upon-Avon, Worcestershire, England    		 Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEmigration - 1630 - England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProperty - was deeded land - 11 Jun 1637 - York, Maine, New England, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - constable - 1640 - York, Maine, New England, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - alderman - 1641 - York, Maine, New England, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Bef 2 Oct 1678 - York, Maine, New England, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - Cemetery:
    Bragdon Cemetery - - Wells, York, Maine, United States    		 Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 
    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Coats of Arms
    Bragdon Coat of Arms    		Bragdon Coat of Arms

  • Notes 
    • The history of this ancient Suffolk family traces its ancestry as a family of Anglo Saxon origin before the year 1100 and appears first in the ancient records in Suffolk. The first BRAGDON to come to America was Arthur. There is much known about Arthur but there is also much that is not known about him. The unknown becomes as important as the known because there is much confusion and contradiction surrounding Arthur. It is said by some that Arthur came on the Hopewell, but the Hopewell is said to have arrived in 1630 by some and 1640 by others. (maybe both). I have found that the Hopewell was part of the Winthrop fleet that sailed in 1630. Arthur's name is not on the passenger list and .to date I haven't found Arthur on any passenger list. Banks says that Arthur came on the Bonaventure in 1634. I have found two Bonaventures and Arthur is not on the passenger list. Banks got his information in 1900 from a person in Boston with the surname Bragdon who could not remember his source. Some have suggested that Arthur may have been a crew member or in the Kings Army and would not be on the list for passengers. Arthur signed some land papers in York in 1636. I have also heard that he was in Essex before coming to York. (Is that Essex Mass. or Essex England?) Downeast Ancestry says that Arthur is the son of Thomas and married Jone GOLD and is from Stratford-Upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. Records from Stratford-Upon-Avon not only doesn't bear this out but seem to disprove it. There is a "BRAGDEN family there with all the same names and dates for the children but that Arthur2 BRAGDEN(Thomas1) is too old to be our ancestor Arthur. It is that Arthur who married Jone Gold. There is also an Arthur2 BROGDON(Thomas1) there that sold property in 1630. (just
      before the Winthrop fleet sailed.) He's mother was Alice. Is he our Arthur or is he Arthur BRAGDEN or is he just who the records say he is, "Arthur BROGDON". There was a BRAGDON shipyard in Scotland from whence the Maine BRADGDONS came (C.E. Banks, History of York Maine, 1931-5, 1967, p 74). Conventional history says that Arthur had three sons, Arthur, Thomas and Samuel. But it is questionable whether Samuel is the son of Arthur or if he came from England a little after Arthur. Saco Valley Settlements and Families, by Ridlon, State Lib. Ridlon states "SAMUEL BRAGDON is said to have come from ENGLAND. He was early settled in York, Me." Samuel refers to a Deacon BRAGDON in his will as his "dear cousin". This leaves us with Thomas and Arthur Jr. and Arthur himself threw us a curve here when he named Thomas in his will as his only son. The only alleged son of Arthur's that withstands the test of time is Thomas. After this the decent becomes clearer.

      On Oct 13, 1703, the wife and five children of Arthur were killed by the Indians (Penhallow's Indian Wars.) Some say only the wife and the two youngest were killed, the older children were taken by the Indians.

      Sheila Chlotiel: In a deposition Arthur Bragdon states his age which places his birth in 1597 and he was therefore 81 years old when he died. His wife's name was Mary, but there is nothing to suggest her family name or connection . . . it further states Arthur Bragdon left issue three sons. No daughters are known. This article has his signature and states he was undoubtedly a native of Stratford-upon-Avon. The men were butchers, same as followed by John Shakespeare, and Arthur Bragdon must have known the Bard of Avon, for he was 19 years old when Shakespeare died. This statement is made on circumstantial evidence arising on the existence of a Bragdon family living in Shakespeare's parish, whose sons carried the names of Arthur and Thomas as did the York family and the only Bragdon family found in England which bore these Christian names. It is stated that another resident of Stratford was an early emigrant in Maine, settling in the adjoining town of Kittery. At this period business
      communication was common between towns in Warwickshire by means of navigation of the Severn, and Bristol was probably the port from which he emigrated.

      Arthur is first of record here in 1636 as witness to the sale of property. This land was situated on Bass Cove. This grant was contested by Godfrey as to the extent of its bounds, and arbitrators Richard Vines and Henry Josselyn awarded the case in favor of Bragdon which was confirmed by Godfrey 21 January 1643, making the limits of his land on the NE to the path leading from the Plantation of Christian Point.

      Arthur Bragdon on the Jury of Life and Death:
      The Jury doeth find Robert Collins guiltie of the acke of Incontinence, not guiltie of the forsement.

      Captains Grant and Bragdon are instructed to march to Narridgewock after the enemy, "Taking care that no Hostility be acted by you anywhere eastward of the Kennebeck River, but at Narridgewock, and that nothing be done on that side of the river contrary to the Cessation agreed on with the Penobscot Tribe. You may be very exact in your journal in noting down everything that is worthy of your observation, and send an account of your proceedings." (Letters of Col. Thomas Westbrook)

      Arthur had a land grant of 100 acres in York, Maine (Massachusetts Colony).

      Other men came here directly from England and founded families which continued the original names in town for three hundred years. Arthur Bragdon, a planter at Bass Cove, presumably furnished food to the fishing fleet.

      Beginning with the house of Edward Godrey [Godfrey?], "the first bylt there" (1630), which stood close to shore at high tide on the south side of Meeting House Creek, the earliest houses were built around the shore of the Creek. Colonel Walter Norton's, along side of Godrey's, occupied till 1640 by Governor Hooke; Edward Johnson's to the west of Godrey's; Rowland Young's, Henry Simpson's and Ralph Blaisdell's, farther down near the Market Place; Henry Donnell's near Stage Island; Arthur Bragdon's on the river bank near Bass Cove.

      He (Sir Ferdinando Gorges) appointed Thomas Gorges to be the first mayor (1641) of Gorgeana (Agamenticus) as well as the deputy governor of the Province of Maine, and for the first eight aldermen he named "Edward Godrey, gentleman; Roger Garde, George
      Puddington, Bartholomew Barnett, Edward Johnson, Arthur Braginton (Bragdon), Henry Simpson, and John Rogers."

      A study of the names of the York signers of petitions from 1652 to 1668 in order to determine who were for Gorges and who were for Massachusetts will not easily distinguish the followers from the opponents. Most consistently for Massachusetts were Peter Weare and Capt. Francis Raynes. Among those who signed Peter Weare's letters to help him get out of jail were . . . Arthur Bragdon, Jr., Samuel Bragdon . . .

      ***

      There were six trainbands or companies of militia in the county; the troops of York were under the command of Job Alcock, Lieutenant, and Arthur Bragdon, Ensign.

      ***

      1649: "It is ordered at this Courte, that Arthur Bragdon of Agamenticus shalbe sworne a constable for that plantation at the next Courte holden there."
      Constable of Gorgeano.

  • Sources 
    1.  1.  [S34] Penobscot Pioneers, Volume 4, 24, 00420.

    2.  2.  [S66] Saco Valley Settlements and Families, 523, 00464.

    3.  3.  [S103] The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 23, 00539.

    4.  4.  [S988] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 105, 00218.

    5.  5.  [S783] History of York, ME, 1:106, 00779.

    6.  6.  [S1149] TMG, 28:99, 00999.

    7.  7.  [S576] TGMSP, Edward Fountaine, 00516.

    8.  8.  [S259] NEHGS Register, 82:129, 00390.

    9.  9.  [S1122] Find A Grave, Memorial# 70725486, 00974.

    10.  10.  [S1355] England Marriages, 1538-1973, 58381870, 00209.

    11.  11.  [S103] The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 24, 00539.

    12.  12.  [S783] History of York, ME, 1:107, 00779.

    13.  13.  [S943] Duane Barton, 00168.

    14.  14.  [S103] The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 22, 00539.

    15.  15.  [S1122] Find A Grave, Memorial# 114660730, 00974.

    16.  16.  [S34] Penobscot Pioneers, Volume 4, 25, 00420.