Bradstreet, John
soldier, was born in 1711, in England. He participated in the attack on Ticonderoga in 1758, after which he was made full quartermaster-general with the rank of colonel. He captured Fort Frontenac, which he razed to the ground, and destroyed such stores as could not be removed. He served under Amherst in his expedition against Ticonderoga and Crown Point in 1759, received his colonelcy in February, 1762, and was advanced to the rank of major-general in 1772. During Pontiac's war he commanded an expedition against the western Indians, with whom he negotiated a treaty of peace in Detroit in 1764. He died Sept. 25, 1774, in New York city.