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William Bradford (c. 19 March 1590 – 9 May 1657) was an English Puritan Separatist originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England. He moved to Leiden in Holland in order to escape persecution from King James I of England , and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620.
William Bradford (1624–1703), [9] son of Governor William Bradford of the Mayflower and military commander of the Plymouth forces during King Philip's War [citation needed] William Bradford (1729–1808), American physician, lawyer, and U.S. Senator from Rhode Island [10] William Bradford (1823–1892), [11] American painter, photographer ...
William Bradford's manuscript journal is a vellum-bound volume measuring 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 by 7 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches (292 × 197 mm). There are 270 pages numbered (sometimes inaccurately) by Bradford. In 2015, the manuscript was conserved and digitized at The Northeast Document Conservation Center. [7]
It was another matter for him to prove to the Mayflower Society his lineage to one of the 102 men, women and children who departed from Plymouth, UK on September 16, 1620 and spent 66 days on the ...
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 ...
But Richard came on the Mayflower alone, deciding to wait until conditions in the New World were satisfactory before bringing over his family. [4] Governor William Bradford recalled of that time, "Mr. Richard Warren, but his wife and children were lefte behind, and came afterwards." [6] The Mayflower departed Plymouth, England on 6/16 September ...
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 ...
Mayflower passengers from William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, 1650. Bradford, William (1856). Charles Deane (ed.). History of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford, the second Governor of Plymouth. Boston: Little, Brown. Bunker, Nick (2010). Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and their New World, a History. New York: Knopf.