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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 the Dutch Republic in order to escape persecution from King James I of England , and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620.
He died on December 8/18 and William Bradford wrote that he died in the First Sickness, which also took the life of his wife several weeks later in January 1621. Their daughter Mary survived them to live a long life in Plymouth. James Chilton also was most likely buried ashore on Cape Cod in an unmarked grave.
In 1869, Austin published a story titled "William Bradford's Love Life" in Harper's, in which she claimed that Dorothy Bradford, the wife of Plymouth governor William Bradford, committed suicide by jumping off the Mayflower because she believed William was in love with Alice Carpenter Southworth. Despite having no historical basis, the story ...
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 ]
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.
Standish's wife Rose died in January. [28] Standish was one of the very few who did not fall ill, and William Bradford credited him with comforting many and being a source of strength to those who suffered. [29] Standish tended to Bradford during his illness, and this was the beginning of a decades-long friendship. [30]
Just 17 months after the death of her husband, Dana tragically died in March 2006, leaving Will an orphan at 13. "That's when I realized I was completely alone," the 32-year-old says in the film ...
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.