"To all persons to whom these presents shall come, Greetings. Whereas David Bradford, late of the county of Washington in the State of Pennsylvania, attorney at law, has in his petition declared his contrition, and sincere repentance of all his errors and misdeeds in relation to the late insurrection in the western parts of the State aforesaid, committed or done against the United States of America, and has implored a pardon for the same, and whereas the sufferings of the said David Bradford an exile in a foreign land, and separated from his wife, his children and his former friends, during the space of more than four years, have already been great, and whereas the restoration of peace, order and submission to the laws in the said Western parts of the said State render it necessary to make examples of those who may have been criminal, the principal and of heinous punishment being the reformation of offenders and the prevention of crimes in others, for these and other good cause, I—John Adams, President of the United States of America, have granted, and by these presents do grant unto the said David Bradford a full, free, absolute and intire pardon for all treasons, suspicions of treasons, felons, misdemeanors and other crimes and offences by him committed or done against the United States, in relation to the Insurrection aforesaid hereby remitting and releasing all pains, and penulties by him incurred by reason of the promises.
In Testemony whereof. I have hereto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed this ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thou. and seven hundred and ninety-nine, and in the Twenty-third year of the Independence of the said United States
John Adams, By the President, Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State."
David Bradford
David Bradford was a successful lawyer, businessman, and Deputy Attorney General of Washington County.
Bradford had become a very important figure in the Whiskey Rebellion. It caused an insurrection partly from the lack of federal courts, the large numbers of landlords and also causing conflicts with the Native Americans. Therefore,
President George Washington ordered 13,000 troops to the Washington, Pennsylvania. As soon has the militias arrived they began accusing people of being rebels, and among those were David Bradford.
Bradford had become a very important figure in the Whiskey Rebellion. It caused an insurrection partly from the lack of federal courts, the large numbers of landlords and also causing conflicts with the Native Americans. Therefore,
President George Washington ordered 13,000 troops to the Washington, Pennsylvania. As soon has the militias arrived they began accusing people of being rebels, and among those were David Bradford.