Descendants
Children of Thomas and Mary (Perkins) Bradbury were:
- Wymond Bradbury (1637–1669) m. Sarah Pike, daughter of Major Robert Pike - Judith Bradbury (1638–1700) - Thomas Bradbury (1640–1718) - Mary Bradbury (1642–1724) - Jane Bradbury (1645–1729) m. Henry True - Jacob Bradbury (1647–1669, Barbados) - William Bradbury (1649–1678) m. Rebecca Wheelwright - Elizabeth Bradbury (1651-?) - John Bradbury (1654–1678) - Ann Bradbury (1656–1659) - Jabez Bradbury (1658–1677)
Her descendants include:
- Ray Bradbury, American science fiction writer.
- Bradbury Robinson (1752–1801), a great-great grandson, fought for the patriots at the Battle of Concord (1775) and testified that the British fired first.
- Bradbury Robinson (1884–1949), threw American football's first legal forward pass.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, transcendentalist, a fourth great-grandson of Mary Bradbury, descendant through her daughter Judith.
- Victoria Bradbury, 10th great-granddaughter, new media artist whose interactive artwork "Blue Boar" is based on Mary Bradbury's trial.
- John Gagon (1971–present), modern day occultist and polymath
Mary's younger brother Jacob Perkins was an ancestor of Humphrey Bogart, Calvin Coolidge and Mary Aspinwall, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's paternal grandmother. Another brother of Mary, John Perkins, was an ancestor of Millard Fillmore and Endicott Peabody.
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