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Descendants
and Ancesters of Captain John Braddick
Updated March 22, 2008
The following
text as well as the information was provided by J. G. (Jerry) Braddock Sr.
For any questions concerning
this database please email Jerry Directly.
This
presentation is the collaborative result of research by a list of descendants
of John Braddick of Long Island far too long to enumerate here.
For those
interested in this family please visit Jerry's web site
and consider purchasing his
book on this family called "Wooden
Ships - Iron Men," on their exploits."
Capt.
John Braddick was a mariner in Southold in the mid-1600's. His daughter Grace
married into the Vail family of Southold and has many descendants. His son,
also Capt. John Braddick, lived in Southold and operated vessels between
other New England ports as well as far distant ones.
He was
made a '"freeman" in 1702 for his services in Queen Anne's War. He is mentioned
several times in the "Council Journal of the Colony of Connecticut," in 1711
for providing bread for an expedition against Canada and in 1721 in connection
with a pirate ship that ventured into waters between Long Island and Connecticut.
He was killed aboard ship in 1734 by an Indian. His will, which is in the
NY Historical Collections, reads:
"In the name of God, Amen.
I, JOHN BRADDICK, of Southold in Suffolk County, mariner, being at this present
time at Boston, in Massachusetts Bay, in good bodily health. I leave
to my wife Mary 1/3 of all my estates during her life. I leave to my son
John, all my lands and tenements. To my daughter Mary, £5. To
Thomas Sandforth, of Southold, who is now my partner, £100. All
the rest of my estate is to be sold by my executors, and the proceeds divided
among my five youngest children, Alice, Elizabeth, David, Peter, and Abigail.
I make my son John and Thomas Sandforth, executors. “I have hereto
set my hand and seal at Boston.” September 6, 1733. Witnesses, Stephen
Boutineau, Gillam Phillips, John Payne. Proved before Brinely Silvester,
Esq., September 6, 1734."
One of
his sons, still another Capt. John Braddick, married Lucretia Christophers
of Connecticut and has many descendants, some of whom are on various
web pages.
Another
son, David Cutler Braddock, my 5th great-grand-father, was first mate on
a rice ship captured by the Spanish of the Carolina coast in 1740. He escaped
from their "fortress" at St. Augustine and made his way up the coast to Georgia
where the founder and leader of Georgia, James Oglethorpe, placed him in
command of a military schooner. Braddock's vessel helped repel the Spanish
attempted invasion of Georgia in 1742. He was then hired by South Carolina
to command one of their two new half-gallies to protect the colony from the
Spanish. The southern tip of Hilton Head Island, where his galley was stationed,
has been called Braddock Point ever since. In 1746, he moved to Savannah
where he received a large land grant and became a member of the governor's
council. He commanded the colony's scout boat for a while and then became
a highly active and successful privateer against Spanish shipping. When Georgia
changed from a trusteeship to a royal province in 1754, he was elected to
the Lower House of Assembly, where he served until his death in 1759. His
son, John Cutler Braddock, carried on the mariner tradition by commanding
the Georgia Rebel galley "Lee." He was so effective the British named him
on three of their lists of traitors. John Cutler Braddock's sons migrated
to North Florida while it was still a Spanish possession and became progenitors
of an extremely large number of descendants, as several genealogy web sites,
devoted to them, can testify. My knowledge of these men is the result of
five years of personal research which I have concluded with the creation
of a 300 page book entitled, "Wooden
Ships - Iron Men," on their exploits."
NOTE From Jerry - July 2, 2001
I am happy to announce that
a reprint of "Wooden Ships - Iron Men" is in process and can now be ordered.
The book, a 300 page chronology of the exploits of Captains David Cutler
Braddock, John Cutler Braddock, William Lyford Sr., and William Lyford Jr.,
was first published in 1996 and was sold out within two and a half
years with copies in 29 states and four foreign countries.
The four heroes of the book,
all mariners of considerable note in Southeastern waters during Colonial
and Revolutionary times, were progenitors of a large number of Braddocks
and allied families now residing in Florida and surrounding states.
The book can be ordered directly
from its publisher:
VJB Press
1710 Garden St.
Charleston, SC 29407
For $20 plus $5 Priority Mail shipping and
handling.
For further information, check out VJB
Press' web page: Wooden Ships
The Legacy of a Long Island
Born and Bred Mariner
The Legacy of David Cutler Braddock:
1717: Born in
Southold to Capt. John Braddick and Mary Cutler. David Cutler Braddock grew
up on Long Island, breeding ground in colonial days of superb mariners. His
father was a notable mariner in New England waters as had been his grandfather,
also Captain John Braddick. He did not waste the maritime legacy he received
from them nor the experience he gained in apprenticeship upon the decks of
his father’s vessels:
11/1740: Twenty-three,
he served as first mate on rice ship Ancona when she was captured by Spanish
privateers and taken into St. Augustine.
1/31/1741 He made an affidavit
of his capture and escape to British Fort Frederica on St. Simon’s Island
in Georgia.
7/17/1741 Gen. James Oglethorpe,
leader of Georgia, sent him to Charles Town with orders to purchase a schooner
capable of carrying 90 men, two nine-pounders, four six pounders, and swivel
guns. The orders included instructions to recruit a crew for the vessel,
which he would command in defending the Georgia Coast.
3/6/1742 The South Carolina
Gazette reported that he returned from a mission to Florida with a party
of Indians to capture prisoners with three scalps and five Spaniards.
6/1742 In command of the
schooner “Norfolk,” he helped repel a Spanish invasion of St. Simon’s and
was in the fleet that chased them back to St. Augustine where he participated
in the shelling of the Spanish fort Castillo de San Marcos.
9/1742 Because of the abilities
he showed against the invading Spanish fleet, he was given command of the
“Beaufort,” one of two of South Carolina’s recently completed half-galleys.
11/7/1742 He married his
commander’s daughter, Mary Lyford.
12/1742 He and several
other captains successfully petitioned for monetary retribution for slaves
who served on their vessels during the Spanish attempted invasion.
1742/1746 He made numerous
cruises along the Southern coast to keep an eye on Spanish activities. Part
of this time his vessel was stationed in a small cove at the southern point
of Hilton Head Island. Today, the island is a famous resort, and the cove
and point still bear his name.
1/28/1743 He and his commander,
Captain William Lyford Sr.--also his father-in-law--successfully petitioned
for better pay and rations for the crewmen under them.
5/1745 He successfully
defended himself before the governor’s council against false charge that
he had conspired to trade with the Spanish of St. Augustine.
1/27/1747 He received a
grant in Georgia for 500 acres on the Ogeechee River outside Savannah and
became a privateer.
9/26/1747 Records in the
Bahamas archives show that he, as commander of the privateer “Viper,” captured
a Spanish vessel appraised at 12,500 pounds.
11/6/1747 The same records
show that, aboard the “Viper,” he captured another Spanish prize (enemy vessel)
valued at 1,050 pounds.
3/25/1748 The same records
show that, commanding the “Isabella,” he captured a Spanish prize valued
at 15,000 pounds.
1/10/1749 As a councilman
in Georgia’s Trustee government, he was one of many who signed a letter to
the king in England seeking approval for slavery, which had been banned in
Georgia since its founding in 1733.
1/1751 A letter to Georgia’s
secretary in England named Capt. David Cutler Braddock as the man on whom
the colony should rely to solve navigation problems of the Savannah river.
8/17/1852 He was involved
in a variety of maritime ventures; one was commercial shipping. As reported
in the South Carolina Gazette, his vessel was captured by a Spanish privateer
while on a voyage to England and taken into Mexico.
1/1754 He acted as pilot
of British man-of-war “Shoreham” while she was on station in the Caribbean.
1754/1756 BPRO (British
Public Records Office) shipping records show he was engaged in commercial
shipping between Caribbean islands and the mainland.
11/1/1756 With a new privateer,
“Cockspur,” he drew up a privateering contract with several others and immediately
captured a French ship in the Savannah River.
12/1756 While in the area
on a privateering expedition, he made a chart of the Florida Keys, which
is now in the Library of Congress. In writing of Tampa Bay in a book published
in 1776, naturalist and explorer Barnard Romans stated, “Captain Braddock
was generally acknowledged as being the first Englishman who explored this
bay.”
5/12/1757 Even the best
of sea-fighters meet their match: The “South Carolina Gazette” reported,
“On Monday arrived Capt. Roberts from Providence, by whom we have the following
advices, viz. . . . That a Virginia Privateer had sent in there, a Rhode
Island Vessel, laden with Horses, Provisions, &c. which she took just
entering a French Port: That this vessel had spoke with the ‘Cockspur’ Privateer,
of Georgia, commanded by Capt. David Cutler Braddock, who had 5 Hours Engagement
with, and several Times boarded a French Privateer Schooner, of superior
force, off Cape Francois, which killed 3 of his Men and wounded several more,
and so terribly maul'd the ‘Cockspur,’ that while they repaired her Sails
and Rigging, the Frenchman escaped, and got safe into the Cape; Braddock
soon after met with some New York Privateers, who supplied him with everything
he stood in need of.”
2/10/1758 Undaunted and
with a new privateer, “King of Prussia,” he was granted a letter-of-marque
by the Court of Vice Admiralty at Savannah.
11/20/1758 The “South Carolina
Gazette” reported that, “. . . a new Privateer Brigt. (reckoned one of the
best fitted in America) sailed on a cruize from New Providence, mounting
18 carriage and 20 swivel guns, with 130 choice fellows on board (the
prime of all the Bahamas), called the ‘King of Prussia,’ commanded
by Capt. David Cutler Braddock.” The article also mentioned that three French
prizes were taken by the “King of Prussia” and two other privateers.
12/23/1758 The “South Carolina
Gazette” reported that two more prizes he captured were taken into New Providence.
8/1760 With the declining
privateering “industry,” he returned to commercial shipping and also to command
of the Georgia scout boat.
3/18/1763 The 14-gun man-of-war
“Epreuve” ran aground in the Savannah River and was given up by all as lost.
7/14/1763 After the four-months’
efforts of all others to salvage the “Epreuve,” the “South Carolina Gazette”
carried the following article echoing an accolade printed earlier in the
“Georgia Gazette,” “The ‘Georgia Gazette’ of 14th of July, contains
the following compliment to Capt. Braddock, commander of the king's scout-boat,
to whose skill and uncommon perseverance is said to be principally owing the
saving of his majesty's ship the ‘Epreuve,’ after it was
thought by most people impossible. ‘It is with pleasure
we acquaint the public, that the “Epreuve” has
safely come to her moorings in this harbour, which adds great honour
to the merit and assiduity of Capt. David Cutler Braddock, and plainly elucidates
the experience and great abilities of that gentleman.’”
10/25/1764 He was elected
a representative to the colonial Georgia General Assembly. Holding this office
until his death, he served on numerous committees engaged in activities to
improve the young colony. Among matters with which committees he served on
were concerned were: regulating the provincial militia, endowing of a college,
establishing ferries, inspecting conditions of the Savannah River,
appointing tax examiners, corresponding with the colony’s agent in England,
developing new roads, appointing collectors of duty, and appointing a new
agent to represent the colony in England--Benjamin Franklin.
2/1769 The exact date of
his death is not known. It was reported in the February 8th issue of the “Georgia
Gazette.” The mariner legacy he received from his father and grandfather
did not die with him. He handed it down to his son John Cutler Braddock who
used it quite capably to establish himself as a mariner of note and a man
of service. But that’s another sea story.
J. G. Braddock Sr.
For further Information
on this family be sure to visit
Verna Mae (Braddock) Campbell's Web
Site at http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/a/m/Verna-M-Campbell/
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