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Anthony
E. Bradt
Anthony E. Bradt was born in January 1727. He was a middle child in the family of Albany residents Egbert and Elizabeth Lansing Bradt.
His
marriage record is complicated! "Anthony E. Bradt's wife" was buried from the Albany Dutch church in November 1761 - when he would have been thirty-four-years-old! In 1764, he married Maria/Mollie Van Deusen. Their son, Egbert, was born the following year. In 1773, he married the widow Alida Hogan Van Schaick. Between 1752 and 1777, five of his children were baptized in the Albany Dutch church where he was an occasional baptism sponsor and probably a member.
Perhaps
he was the Anthony Bradt of Albany who was a prisoner
at Montreal in 1756.
His
home was along the waterfront in Albany's third ward.
He was a ship's carpenter but also identified as
a farmer and businessman. City assessment rolls from
the 1760s and 70s testify to his prosperity.
Although
he served as a firemaster in 1757, he did not hold
municipal offices until he was elected to represent
the third ward on the Albany Committee of Correspondence
in May 1775. He participated in committee work, lent
financial support to the revolutionary cause, and
was exempted from active service in 1778 because
of his age. Later, he was granted a land bounty right
in conjunction with the city regiment of the County
militia.
Anthony
E. Bradt was dead by June 1785 when his heirs were
referenced in a real estate transaction.
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Sources: The life of Anthony E. Bradt is CAP biography number
4204. This profile is derived chiefly from family
and community-based resources. He was known in the
community as "Anthony E. Bradt." Anthony Bradt's incarceration
is described in a deposition made in October 1756
and printed in the Johnson Papers, volume 2, pp.
647-50.
By Stefan Bielinski, Colonial Albany Social History Project [http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany]
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