Short Biography of Daniell Broadley

The first Bradleys are said to have come from the market town of Bingley in the West Riding of Yorkshire, about twelve miles north-east of Leeds, on the river Aire. The town of Bradley was about six or seven miles to the north. The name is Anglo-Saxon, meaning a broad field or pasture. The father of the first emigrants is not known, nor is the name of his first wife. His second wife, Elizabeth, came to America with the children: 1, William; 2, Daniel; 3, Joshua; 4, Ellen; 5, Nathan; 6, Stephen. Later, she married second, John Parmelee, who died Nov. 8, 1659; and maried third John Evarts, May 27, 1663, who died May 10, 1669. She died in January 1683. Both of her American husbands were Guilford men. Mrs. Bradley is said to have come over in 1648. All the members of the first generation here given are Mrs. Elizabeth Bradley's step-children and children.

Source: "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register" ³⁶³³