On 28 Oct 1802 when Charles was 25, he first married Elizabeth Perkins Clark in Thomaston, Knox County, Maine. Born on 3 Apr 1776 in Maine. Elizabeth Perkins died in Persifer Township, Knox County, Illinois, on 6 Jan 1835; she was 58. Buried in Bradford Cemetery.
Perhaps Elizabeth’s surname was Brown rather than Clark. Perhaps she was Elizabeth Perkins who married first Ebenezer Brown, then Benjamin Clark, then Charles Bradford. She might have been born at Ipswich, MA.