Excerpt from Sketch of the Bradleys in Washington: A Paper Read Before the Columbia Historical Society Tuesday, May 13th, 1902 The brief sketch which I am invited to give relates to the families and descendants of two brothers, Abraham and Phineas Bradley, who settled in this City early in the century just completed elder of the two, coming in May, 1800, having in charge the removal of the General Post Office Department from Philadelphia to Washington, and Phineas in 1801, having accepted a position in the same Department. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.