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10 BRADHURST, BROADHURST, de BRADEHURST
and he had a second wife, Martha, who died 6th August, 1693.
third wife, Hannah, died i6th April, 1710.' From this date there is
no further trace of him, and Ralph Bradhurst, of Roxbury, seems to
have entirely disappeared, perhaps (as someone has suggested) in
quest of another wife. Of his daughters, Rhoda married, 13th March,
1704, John Colburn.
His
Others of the name—usually spelt " Broadhurst "—have appeared
in the Colonial records and archives from time to time ; but as their
kinship is doubtful and, in any case, remote, it would be beside the
mark to enumerate them.
The Bradhursts of Pinehurst, in New York, are derived from the
Staffordshire branch of the family. The similarity of Arms borne by
the Broadhursts of Staffordshire in the seventeenth century, and
(much later) by the Broadhursts of Foston Hall, and by the American
Bradhursts in the eighteenth century, is worthy of note, for, apart
from the proof afforded by records, it forms a link between the latter
family and their progenitors in the County of Stafford. There is in
the Author's possession an old coloured illustration of the Arms and
Crest of Samuel Bradhurst [third), beneath which the name is spelt
" Broadhurst," and on the back of which is written, " Samuel Brad-
hurst, New York." The Arms are not depicted in accordance with
the strict rules of heraldry,—no uncommon occurrence in America,
especially at that period,—but it is obvious that they are intended for
the "Azure, fretty of eight pieces, raguly, or," displayed by the
Broadhursts of Staffordshire, Samuel Bradhurst's immediate fore-
father having hailed from Derington, in that county. The Crest,
however, is different ; a difference for which there is no particular
explanation but, ; to those versed in such matters. Arms are of far more
importance than a Crest. Thus in lieu of the lion's head borne by
the Staffordshire Broadhursts, Samuel Bradhurst bore, " A dexter
arm in mail, embowed, the hand proper, grasping a club with spikes,
or," which, as a matter of fact, is the Crest of the English family of
Bathurst. Thus it is that the American Bradhursts combine this
Crest with the Arms of their Staffordshire ancestors, and have for their
2 A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, shoiving three
Generations of those who came before May, 1692, by James Savage. Vol. I.