Joseph Bradford (174828 May 1808) was a British

preacher A preacher is a person who delivers sermons or homilies on religious topics to an assembly of people. Less common are preachers who preach on the street, or those whose message is not necessarily religious, but who preach components such as a ...

and travelling companion of

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Life

Bradford was John Wesley's travelling companion 1774–1780 and again 1787–1790.Vickers Wesley entrusted Bradford with transcribing his Journal and in 1785 also entrusted him with a letter to be read to the

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after Wesley's death. When Wesley was on his deathbed his friend Joseph Bradford was at his side. Bradford was twice

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in 1795 and 1803. Bradford served as the first governor of

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from 1795 to 1802. Bradford suffered a severe paralysing stroke some months before his death in 1808.Dickinson pp407,409

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