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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.
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.
The text of Bradford's journal is often called the History of Plymouth Plantation. When Samuel Wilberforce quoted Bradford's work in A History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America in 1844, the document is cited as History of the Plantation of Plymouth. [1] It is also sometimes called William Bradford's Journal.
William Bradford became governor in 1621 upon the death of John Carver. On March 22, 1621, the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony signed a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags. Bradford surrendered the patent of Plymouth Colony to the freemen in 1640, minus a small reserve of three tracts of land. He served as governor for 11 consecutive ...
The core group (roughly 40 percent of the adults and 56 percent of the family groupings) [2] were part of a congregation led in America by William Bradford and William Brewster. They began to feel the pressures of religious persecution while still in the English village of Scrooby, near East Retford, Nottinghamshire.
William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American inventor, physicist, and eugenicist. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain .
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
William Bradford Wilcox (born 1970) is an American sociologist. He serves as director of the National Marriage Project and professor of sociology at the University of Virginia , [ 2 ] senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute . [ 1 ]