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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.
William Bradford (governor) (1590–1657), English Governor of Plymouth Colony William Bradford (Rhode Island politician) (1729–1808), U.S. Senator William Bradford (Attorney General) (1755–1795), American lawyer and judge; second U.S. Attorney General
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]
William Bradford (September 14, 1755 – August 23, 1795) was a lawyer and judge from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the second United States Attorney General in 1794–1795. Early life [ edit ]
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.
Bradford was born to John Taylor Bradford (1860–1900) and Ida Brooks Bradford (1863–1929) in Tallahassee, Florida. He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1916 and later from the Saumur Cavalry School in France.
William Bradford (May 20, 1663 – May 23, 1752) was an early American colonial printer and publisher in British America. Bradford is best known for establishing the first printing press in the Middle colonies of the Thirteen Colonies , founding the first press in Pennsylvania in 1685 and the first press in New York in 1693.
William Bradford (b Middlesex 1696; d Rochester 1728) was an English Anglican priest. [1] The son of Samuel Bradford, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from 1716 to 1724, he himself was educated there. [2] He became a Fellow of Corpus in 1717 and Vicar of St Nicholas, Newcastle upon Tyne in 1721.