Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
NameMary CUTLER 
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2604Death8 Dec 1739, New London, New London, Connecticut2603 Age: 57
FatherJohn CUTLER (-1717)
MotherMary COWELL
Individual Notes
• Parents are John Cutler & Mary Cowell.2612, p 2
Spouses
Birthabt 1675, London, England2607, place only; states born in England,2608, p 2 & p 5
Death24 Dec 1733, Caribbean Sea2608, p 6 Age: 58
Memomutiny near the British Virgin Islands
FatherJohn BRADDICK (~1640-)
MotherUNNAMED
Individual Notes
• As you probably know, John Braddick was a mariner and was also a sea captain. He sailed in and out of Southold to the West Indies, Boston, and Southold. At times he went back to England. Joshua Hempstead in his Diary talks about the Braddick family. I have that John Braddick was murdered on his ship between Southold and New London, Dec. 24, 1733, and I also have the same date here as you have for his death. I have no birth date for him or where he was born but believe that he was born in England. By the sounds of it you are coming from his second wife. I come from his first wife, name unknown. She gives Abigail Braddick m Richard Coit from second wife, Mary Cutler.
Oh yes, Capt. John was a Slave Trader.2604
• John Braddick is a mysterious man! My best research is in Totten, Christophers Genealogy, page 71. He may be born in England. His will was written/dated 16 Sept 1733, proved 6 Sept 1734. (You have death date 16 Feb 1734 at Southold, LI, NY). I have he resided in Southold - a mariner or sea captain. I have a daughter or sister - Grace Braddick, b 1669, d 1754, Southold, m John Vail, 1684, whose dates are 1663-1737, Vail Genealogy, p 33, 29, at Suffolk County Historical Society, 300 West Main Street, Riverhead, NY 11901. I also got some info from the Salmon Records, NYG&B, 48:24.2607
• Capt. John Braddick was a mariner in Southold in the mid-1600s. His daughter Grace married into the Vail family of Southold and has many descendants. His son, also Capt. John Braddick, lived in Southold and operated vessels between other New England ports as well as far distant ones.
He was made a “freeman” in 1702 for his services in Queen Anne’s War. He is mentioned several times in the “Council Journal of the Colony of Connecticut,” in 1711 for providing bread for an expedition against Canada and in 1721 in connection with a pirate ship that ventured into waters between Long Island and Connecticut. He was killed aboard ship in 1734 by an Indian.2609, p 1
• Captain Braddick, in command of his brigantine Recovery, sailed from Boston in late 1733 for the Island of Madera near Portugal. Later that same year, on December 24, while returning to the Western Hemisphere, several crewmen, Ziggey John Witness, who was an Indian from Long Island, John Smith, master caulker John Main, and Thomas Parker, mutinied as the Recovery neared Salt Island in what is now the British Virgin Islands. Witness was an Indian from Long Island. Parker was a 16 year old youth from England who had previously served on two British men-of-war and had come aboard the Recovery at Madera. Captain Braddick and his son Peter were murdered in the mutiny. The mutineers were tried at Barbados. Based on the testimony of second mate Henry Peck, who took no part in the mutiny, the mutineers were found guilty. Two of them, Witness and Parker, were hung February 23, 1734. Their confessions are at Confessions of two of the men who murdered Captain John Braddick and others at sea
A gruesome account of the mutiny appeared on page 4 of The American Weekly Mercury issue of Feb. 5 - Feb 12, 1734:
Philadelphia, Feb. 12. We have advice from Barbados, That Capt. John Braddock in a Brig. bound from Madera to the Cape de Verde Island, was barbarously murder’d, together with his Chief Mate and Boy, by his Vessels Crew. The Brig. was afterwards met off of St. Lucia By Capt. Walter Pemberton in a Sloop belonging to Barbados, who upon Information of the Fact from one of their Men, took the Brig. and brought up two of the Men Prisoners to Barbados, who were committed to the Goal there, and left some of his Men to bring up the Brig. and the other two, which were all the Men on board (one being shot in taking her). The Brig. was not arrived when this Account left Barbados, she not going so well as the Sloop. The Person who cut Capt. Braddock's Throat was an Indian who had been some time with him; ‘tis said he was so strong that three Men could not bind him, and they were forced to Hamstring him before they could Master him. They put the Boy's Eyes out and flung him over- board, but he swimming took hold of the Vessel and they cut his Hands off.2608, pp 6-7
Oh yes, Capt. John was a Slave Trader.2604
• John Braddick is a mysterious man! My best research is in Totten, Christophers Genealogy, page 71. He may be born in England. His will was written/dated 16 Sept 1733, proved 6 Sept 1734. (You have death date 16 Feb 1734 at Southold, LI, NY). I have he resided in Southold - a mariner or sea captain. I have a daughter or sister - Grace Braddick, b 1669, d 1754, Southold, m John Vail, 1684, whose dates are 1663-1737, Vail Genealogy, p 33, 29, at Suffolk County Historical Society, 300 West Main Street, Riverhead, NY 11901. I also got some info from the Salmon Records, NYG&B, 48:24.2607
• Capt. John Braddick was a mariner in Southold in the mid-1600s. His daughter Grace married into the Vail family of Southold and has many descendants. His son, also Capt. John Braddick, lived in Southold and operated vessels between other New England ports as well as far distant ones.
He was made a “freeman” in 1702 for his services in Queen Anne’s War. He is mentioned several times in the “Council Journal of the Colony of Connecticut,” in 1711 for providing bread for an expedition against Canada and in 1721 in connection with a pirate ship that ventured into waters between Long Island and Connecticut. He was killed aboard ship in 1734 by an Indian.2609, p 1
• Captain Braddick, in command of his brigantine Recovery, sailed from Boston in late 1733 for the Island of Madera near Portugal. Later that same year, on December 24, while returning to the Western Hemisphere, several crewmen, Ziggey John Witness, who was an Indian from Long Island, John Smith, master caulker John Main, and Thomas Parker, mutinied as the Recovery neared Salt Island in what is now the British Virgin Islands. Witness was an Indian from Long Island. Parker was a 16 year old youth from England who had previously served on two British men-of-war and had come aboard the Recovery at Madera. Captain Braddick and his son Peter were murdered in the mutiny. The mutineers were tried at Barbados. Based on the testimony of second mate Henry Peck, who took no part in the mutiny, the mutineers were found guilty. Two of them, Witness and Parker, were hung February 23, 1734. Their confessions are at Confessions of two of the men who murdered Captain John Braddick and others at sea
A gruesome account of the mutiny appeared on page 4 of The American Weekly Mercury issue of Feb. 5 - Feb 12, 1734:
Philadelphia, Feb. 12. We have advice from Barbados, That Capt. John Braddock in a Brig. bound from Madera to the Cape de Verde Island, was barbarously murder’d, together with his Chief Mate and Boy, by his Vessels Crew. The Brig. was afterwards met off of St. Lucia By Capt. Walter Pemberton in a Sloop belonging to Barbados, who upon Information of the Fact from one of their Men, took the Brig. and brought up two of the Men Prisoners to Barbados, who were committed to the Goal there, and left some of his Men to bring up the Brig. and the other two, which were all the Men on board (one being shot in taking her). The Brig. was not arrived when this Account left Barbados, she not going so well as the Sloop. The Person who cut Capt. Braddock's Throat was an Indian who had been some time with him; ‘tis said he was so strong that three Men could not bind him, and they were forced to Hamstring him before they could Master him. They put the Boy's Eyes out and flung him over- board, but he swimming took hold of the Vessel and they cut his Hands off.2608, pp 6-7