Governor Simon Bradstreet

  Events

• On 12 Jun 1630 he arrived in Salem on the ship "Arabella" in John Winthrop's party

• He received the degree of A. B. at Cambridge in 1620, A.M. in 1624. March 18, 1630 he was appointed assistant to the Massachusetts Bay Colony and came over with Governor Winthrop. He was secretary of the colony from August 23, 1630 to 1636; deputy governor 1673-1678, governor 1679-86; again after the rising against Sir Edmond Andros, 1689-1692. He died March 27, 1697, aged ninety-four.
He married Ann, daughter of governor Dudley, who was born in Northampton, England in 1576, came to Massachusetts in 1638 with the commission of deputy governor, was governor from 1634 to 1640; was one of the signers of the charter of Harvard College.

He was in continuous public service for 62 years except for the periods when Dudley and Andros were Govenor. On the date of his Will, 12/23/1689, Samuel's three children by his second wife, John, Simon and Anne, had been sent to him from Jamaica and were in expectation of receiving property from England and Jamaica. Mercy Bradstreet, the only surviving child of the first wife had been maintained and educated by her grandfather from Sept. 1760 to that time.

Simon married Anne Dudley. (Anne Dudley was born on 20 Mar 1612 in Northampton, Northa, England, Great Britain, christened in 1612 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, died on 16 Sep 1672 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts and was buried on 18 Sep 1672 in The Burying Point, Salem, , Massachusetts.) 

Ann Dudley was the first poetess of note in New England; one of her brothers was later governor of the colony and a nephew was chief justice. She died September 16, 1672, and Governor Bradstreet married second Ann, widow of Joseph Gardner, daughter of Emanuel Downing.