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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.
Mayflower passengers from William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, 1650. Bradford, William (1856). Charles Deane (ed.). History of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford, the second Governor of Plymouth. Boston: Little, Brown. Bunker, Nick (2010). Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and their New World, a History. New York: Knopf.
William Bradford (1624–1703), [9] son of Governor William Bradford of the Mayflower and military commander of the Plymouth forces during King Philip's War [citation needed] William Bradford (1729–1808), American physician, lawyer, and U.S. Senator from Rhode Island [10] William Bradford (1823–1892), [11] American painter, photographer ...
William Bradford's manuscript journal is a vellum-bound volume measuring 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 by 7 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches (292 × 197 mm). There are 270 pages numbered (sometimes inaccurately) by Bradford. In 2015, the manuscript was conserved and digitized at The Northeast Document Conservation Center. [7]
The government issued a Pilgrim Tercentenary half dollar, which portrays the ship on its reverse and passenger William Bradford on its obverse. According to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants , there are "35 million Mayflower descendants in the world".
Gov. William Bradford. Bradford (1590-1657) was the second, fifth, ninth and 11th governor of Plymouth Colony. ... William Brewster. Another Mayflower passenger, Brewster (1566/67-1644) was a ...
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 ...
According to the writings of Gov. William Bradford, with the help of the Wampanoag people and a man named Squanto, the Plymouth Plantation in 1621 had an especially good harvest and then had a ...