I spent most of the day on the Library and Archives Canada site looking up my ancestors' land petitions. I found quite a few, some I knew about and others were a complete surprise. The biggest surprise was when I started reading my 6th great-grandfather's petition. The surprise was that he wasn't co…
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Where Did The Bradt Family Originate From?
The Bradt family originated in Norway and went to Holland before coming to the New World in the 1630's. The Loyalist Bradt family lived in the Mohawk Valley in New York. They had a large estate and were considered fairly well-off. After the Revolutionary war broke out, they joined John Butler's Corp…
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