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What is known today of the wording of the Mayflower Compact comes from William Bradford’s manuscript, apparently copied from the original document. The original of the Mayflower Compact has long been lost, possibly stolen during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). The text was first published in 1622 and then in Bradford's journal ...
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.
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 was an English sailing ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. After 10 weeks at sea, Mayflower, with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30, reached what is today the United States, dropping anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on November 21 [O.S. November 11], 1620.
William Bradford wrote that the "overmasting" strained the ship's hull, but attributes the main cause of her leaking to actions on the part of the crew. [3] Passenger Robert Cushman wrote from Dartmouth in August 1620 that the leaking was caused by a loose board approximately two feet long. [5]
The identification of passengers comes largely from the 1623 Division of Land list and its distribution of lots as transcribed by William Bradford.From that list comes the following Fortune passenger list comprised from the works of authors Charles Banks and Edward Stratton based on their research as well as author Caleb Johnson with his information based directly on the 1623 Division of Land.
Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor, painting by William Halsall (1882). This is a list of the passengers on board the Mayflower during its trans-Atlantic voyage of September 6 – November 9, 1620, the majority of them becoming the settlers of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.
Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620, a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris 1899. Winslow is the man standing in the center of the painting, with his right hand on the document and the ink horn in his left hand. Statue of Edward Winslow in St. Andrew's Square, Droitwich Spa, England. The Mayflower departed Plymouth, England