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The front page of the Bradford journal. Of Plymouth Plantation is a journal that was ... through the 1620 Mayflower voyage to the New World, until the year 1647.
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.
In his book, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647, Bradford writes: Francis Cooke is still living, a very old man, and hath seen his children's children have children. After his wife came over with other of his children; he hath three still living by her, all married and have five children, so their increase is eight.
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 ...
The first use of the word pilgrims for the Mayflower passengers appeared in William Bradford's 1651 Of Plymouth Plantation. In recounting his group's July 1620 departure from Leiden, he used the imagery of Hebrews 11 ( Hebrews 11:13–16 ) about Old Testament "strangers and pilgrims" who had the opportunity to return to their old country but ...
Weston's activities in regard to the Plymouth colony are detailed in William Bradford's history - "So, Mr. Weston had come hither again, and afterward shaped his course for Virginia, and so for the present I shall leave him." [1] [2] Thomas Weston often figures in William Bradford's "History" and Robert Cushman's letters. He was an Adventurer ...
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 ...
Levett was named to advise Gorges as the governor of the Plymouth ... Bradford, William. History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620–1647, Vol. ... to New England, 1620 ...