The Fielding Bradford House is an historic house built on a tract of land near North Elkhorn and Cane Run Creeks in Scott County,

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. The house was originally owned by Fielding Bradford and is an example of an early Kentucky weatherboarded log house. The property was added to the U.S.

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on December 4, 1973. Fielding Bradford was the brother of printer and early Kentucky settler

John Bradford John Bradford (1510–1555) was an English Reformer, prebendary of St. Paul's, and martyr. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London for alleged crimes against Queen Mary I. He was burned at the stake on 1 July 1555. Life Bradford was born in ...

. He left working on the

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in the spring of 1788 when he married Eleanor Smith Barbee and moved to Scott County where he became a political and military leader. He served in the Kentucky General Assembly as a State Representative in 1802, 1803, 1808, 1809 and 1811. During the

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he was quartermaster for George Trotter's Regiment of Kentucky Mounted Militia. He was also a county court judge.

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