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Simon Bradstreet was born on March 18, 1603 in Horbling, England and was the grandson of a Suffolk gentleman of estate and the son of a non-conformist minister living in Lincolnshire.
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Simon Bradstreet was born on March 18, 1603 in Horbling, England and was the grandson of a Suffolk gentleman of estate and the son of a non-conformist minister living in Lincolnshire.
Simon was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he took the A. B. degree in 1620 and the A. M. in 1624.
Bradstreet's connection with the New England colony began in 1629 when he was made assistant of the Company of Massachusetts Bay just as its emphasis of interest in colonizing was passing from trade to religion. He sailed to New England in 1630 with Winthrop's fleet, from which time down to 1692, with the exception of the three years of the Dominion, 1686-89, he was continuously in public employ.
He was secretary of the colony from 1630 to 1636 and frequently received appointment to important committees of the General Court.
He was chosen in 1643 one of five to treat with Connecticut, New Haven, and Plymouth concerning the establishment of a confederacy. As a result of their negotiations the New England Confederation was formed and he and William Hathorne were chosen commissioners the following yearn. Bradstreet acted in that capacity for thirty-three years.
Massachusetts found it hard to accept colonial status upon the restoration of Charles II, and in 1661 appointed a commission of which Bradstreet was a member, to consider the relations of the colony to the mother country.
Finally the General Court decided to send agents to England to negotiate with Charles for favor and selected Bradstreet and John Norton. Both accepted appointment reluctantly. As a result of their successful mission Charles confirmed the charter, but sent a letter making such demands on the colony that the agents were charged, upon their return to New England, with having been too mild.
After the death of Leverett, Bradstreet was elected governor in 1679, in which post he served until the establishment of the Dominion of New England was established under the temporary rule of Joseph Dudley.
While governor, as well as earlier, he won the reputation of being "moderate" toward England, even Edward Randolph reporting him as one of the three "most popular and well principled men" in the magistracy. As the charter struggle drew on, this conciliatory attitude brought him increasingly into ill favor with the supporters of the old theocracy, resulting in his being declared an enemy of his country in 1684.
Because of his moderate proclivities Bradstreet received appointment as councillor of the new Dominion, but refused to serve on the grounds that a government without a representative assembly was contrary to Magna Charta. Upon the revolt against the Dominion in April 1689, he and many others formed a council of safety which called a convention of representatives from the towns to settle the government until orders should come from England. The convention voted for restoration of the charter government with the officials in office in 1686.
Somewhat reluctantly Bradstreet, at this time an old man of eighty-six, assumed the office of governor, continuing therein until the arrival of Sir William Phips, the new royal governor, in May 1692.
He lived at various times in Cambridge, Ipswich, Andover, and Boston, but spent his last years in Salem, where he died.
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Bradstreet, like many of the moderate party, was interested in land speculation and colonization, and with such men as the Winthrops, Richard Wharton and others, was a member of the Atherton Company for developing a large territory in the Narragansett country. He was also interested in mercantile affairs, and belonged to a company incorporated for trading on the frontier.
Bradstreet's two marriages brought him into close connection with the small governing group in the colony. His first wife being the well-known Puritan poet, Anne Bradstreet, and his second wife Mrs. Ann (Downing) Gardner, niece of John Winthrop.