Joseph Bradford (174828 May 1808) was a British

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and travelling companion of

John Wesley John Wesley ( ; 2 March 1791) was an English cleric, Christian theology, theologian, and Evangelism, evangelist who was a principal leader of a Christian revival, revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies ...

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 President of the Methodist Conference 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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