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Note: Per Bradeen Book of Genealogy by Effie Bradeen Ridley :
While a resident of York District, then a part of Massachusetts, he enlisted in the Revolutionary War, April 1775, and served eight months as a private in Captain Samuel Derby's Company, Col. Scammon's Mass. Regiment, and was in the battle of Bunker Hill.
He enlisted again in March or April 1776 and served two months as a private in Capt. Abel Moulton's Co., Col. Prescott's Mass. Regiment. He enlisted about November 1777 and served three months as a private in Capt Abel Moulton's Co., Col. John Frost's Regiment.
Robert Bradeen is buried in the Elder Gray Cemetery in North Waterboro (currently Chadbourne Ridge Road), the first person to be buried there. A bronze plaque, issued by the United States Government, commemorating this Revolutionary War soldier, was placed beside the grave by Raymond Bradeen. The marble foot for the plaque was given by Dr. Ansel Davis of Springvale, a great-great-grandson of Robert Bradeen.
Note from the History of Waterboro Compiled by Willis Lord, 1987
The Elder Grey Meeting House was built in 1806 near the foot of Ossipee Pond between the now residence of Rev. Chandler Holmes and the New Dam Road. In later years the pastor, who lived on the far side of the ridge, stated that he was unable to make the trip up and down the hill so the congregation decided to move the Meeting House nearer to his residence--a distance of two miles. By the time the hoses and cattle with their load reached the top of the hill, the men were tired, tow chains were broken, the crew decided they had met Elder Grey half way and the Meeting House was deposited on its present site. Land for the site was given by Joseph Bradeen, and land for the cemetery across the road was given by Colonel Samuel Bradeen. This building is the only historical building in town listed in the National Archives of Historical Buildings. An active association keeps the Meeting House and cemetery in repair and services are conducted the first Sunday in August, every year.
Copies of Robert's pension records have been obtained.
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