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2 days ago · The main record for the voyage of Mayflower and the disposition of the Plymouth Colony comes from the letters and journal of William Bradford, who was a guiding force and later the governor of the colony.
Jul 14, 2024 · Discover the personal life of William Bradford, the influential governor of the Plymouth Colony, born to a wealthy family in 1590.
2 days ago · William Brewster (c. 1566/67 – 10 April 1644) was an English official and Mayflower passenger in 1620. He became senior elder and the leader of Plymouth Colony, by virtue of his education and existing stature with those immigrating from the Netherlands, being a Brownist (or Puritan Separatist ).
2 days ago · Alongside William Bradford, he, too, chronicled the pilgrims in his 1624 book titled Good News from New England, or as the longer title has it, A True Relation of Things very Remarkable at the Plantation of Plymouth in New England Showing the Wondrous Providence and Goodness of God in their Preservation and Continuance being Delivered from many Apparent Deaths and Dangers.
Jul 18, 2024 · Also aboard was William Bradford, who became a leader in the New World colony for 30 years, governor and author Of Plymouth Plantation. The phrase in Cushman’s Bible is attributed to Bradford. “We are all, in all places, strangers and pilgrims.”
1 day ago · As it sank, tradition says, the evening sky grew darker, and the woods threw forth a more sombre shadow.” In reality, Plymouth’s governor William Bradford claimed to have acted against Merry Mount because of Thomas Morton’s violation of a statute forbidding the sale of firearms to natives. 12
Jul 8, 2024 · According to tradition, the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock on December 26 and built their first fort and watchtower on Burial Hill (so called because it contains the graves of Gov. William Bradford and others of the original group).
