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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.
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.
William Bradford, in his memoirs, listed the Tilley family on the Mayflower as: "John Tillie, and his wife; and Elizabeth, their daughter." [1] Elizabeth would have been about 13 years old during the journey. "The Landing of the Pilgrims" (1877) by Henry A. Bacon. This painting is in the Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
William Richard Bradford (May 18, 1946 – March 10, 2008) was an American convicted murderer and suspected serial killer and serial rapist who was incarcerated in San Quentin State Prison for the 1984 murders of his 15-year-old neighbor Tracey Campbell and barmaid Shari Miller.
William Bradford Bishop Jr. (born August 1, 1936) is a former United States Foreign Service officer who has been a fugitive from justice since killing his wife, mother, and three sons in 1976. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] On April 10, 2014, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) placed him on the list of its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives . [ 4 ]
William Bradford's marriage to Alice Carpenter on August 14, 1623 is known to be the fourth. [2] The first was that of Edward Winslow and Susannah White in 1621. Francis Eaton's marriage to his second wife Dorothy, maidservant to the Carvers, was possibly the second.
William Bradford (printer, born 1663) (1663–1752), English-born printer in Pennsylvania and New York William Bradford (printer, born 1719) (1719–1791), American printer, grandson of the above William R. Bradford (1933–2019), American general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Mary Chilton's mother's name has been listed as "Susannah, possibly Furner" in many places. She is listed by William Bradford as "Mrs. Chilton" or "James Chilton's wife." He may have never known her given name. [1] At the age of thirteen, Mary Chilton accompanied her parents on the voyage to Plymouth.