• Born: 11 Oct 1787, Guilford CT
• Died: 28 Nov 1867, Hartford CT

Cause of his death was Murdered by John Brooks.

  General notes:

Silversmith and clockmaker

  Events in his life were:

• He worked circa 1810-1830 as a silversmith and clockmaker in Hartford CT
  Listed in the 1828 city directory at 15 Morgan Street. ³

• Example: Watchpaper, circa 1825, in American Antiquarian Society.

• Partnership: Rufus? Bunce, in 1830-1840, in Hartford CT. As BRADLEY & BUNCE.
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• He worked in 1840-1867 as a silversmith and clockmaker in Hartford CT ³

• His obituary was published in The New York Times on 1 Dec 1867 in New York City NY.
  Richard Bradley, aged 81 years, a jeweler in Hartford, Conn., unmarried, and a quiet, inoffensive man, was murdered on the evening of the 28th inst., by an English thief named John Brooks and a colored man named Alexander Henry, who broke into his store and robbed it of a few articles of cheap jewelry, knocking the owner
  down and gagging him with a handkerchief. Both the villains were arrested. Immediately after the arrest, the officers entered the store and, though but a few minutes had elapsed, Mr. Bradley was dead of suffocation.