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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.
The front page of the Bradford journal Of Plymouth Plantation is a journal that was written over a period of years by William Bradford , the leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts . It is regarded as the most authoritative account of the Pilgrims and the early years of the colony which they founded.
Governor Bradford’s decreed, “For the next 100 years, every Thanksgiving Day ordained by a governor is in honor of the bloody victory, thanking God that the battle had been won.”
The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place in 1636 and ended in 1638 in New England, between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the colonists from the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their allies from the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes.
The traditional "first Thanksgiving" story taught in American schools tends to erase the true history between the Wampanoag tribe and the Pilgrims. ... and Pilgrim leader Gov. William Bradford ...
Coat of Arms of William Bradford. Major Bradford was the son of Governor William Bradford and his second wife, Alice Carpenter Southworth. Born four years after the Pilgrims arrival in 1620, William was his father's second child, but the first born in the new world. His older half-brother John Bradford had been left behind in Leiden, Netherlands.
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This event is vaguely referred to in Thanksgiving: "Hundreds of Pequots were killed, leading Governor Bradford to proclaim that Thanksgiving from then on would be celebrating "the bloody victory, thanking God that the battle had been won."" I would have supposed a massacre which became one of the origins of joyful Thanksgiving might have been ...