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The text of Bradford's journal is often called the History of Plymouth Plantation. When Samuel Wilberforce quoted Bradford's work in A History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America in 1844, the document is cited as History of the Plantation of Plymouth. [1] It is also sometimes called William Bradford's Journal.
The frontispiece of Mourt's Relation, published in London in 1622. The booklet Mourt's Relation (full title: A Relation or Journal of the Beginning and Proceedings of the English Plantation Settled at Plimoth in New England) was written between November 1620 and November 1621, and describes in detail what happened from the landing of the Mayflower Pilgrims on Cape Cod in Provincetown Harbor ...
William Bradford's most well-known work by far is Of Plymouth Plantation. It is a detailed history in journal form about the founding of the Plymouth Colony and the lives of the colonists from 1621 to 1646, [54] a detailed account of his experiences and observations. The first part of the work was written in 1630; toward the end of his life, he ...
Bradford's transcription of the Compact. The original document has been lost, [10] but three versions exist from the 17th century: printed in Mourt's Relation (1622), [11] [12] which was reprinted in Purchas his Pilgrimes (1625); [13] hand-written by William Bradford in his journal Of Plimoth Plantation (1646); [14] and printed by Bradford's nephew Nathaniel Morton in New-Englands Memorial ...
William Bradford's account of the colony in Of Plymouth Plantation conflicts with this, calling the colony "Merie-mounte" from the English word merry. [7] Whatever the etymology, Morton sought to commemorate the new name by erecting a maypole and holding a celebration on May Day, 1627.
The English ancestry and homes of the Pilgrim Fathers who came to Plymouth on the "Mayflower" in 1620, the "Fortune" in 1621, and the "Anne" and the "Little James" in 1623. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company. Mayflower passengers from William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, 1650. Bradford, William (1856). Charles Deane (ed.).
Plymouth Plantation may refer to: Of Plymouth Plantation, a book by William Bradford; Plimoth Patuxet, a living museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts, formerly known as Plimoth Plantation; Plymouth Colony (sometimes New Plymouth), the English colonial venture in North America from 1620 to 1691
Morton, in his 1669 book New England's Memorial, recorded that "This Year [1628] died Mr. Richard Warren, who .... was an useful Instrument; and during his life bare a deep share of the Difficulties and Troubles of the first Settlement of the Plantation of New-Plymouth [sic]" (p. 68). [1] [11] [16] From Bradford's recorded Plymouth history: