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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.
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.
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
2 days ago · As food shortages worsened, Plymouth Colony Governor William Bradford relied on Tisquantum to pilot a ship of settlers on a trading expedition around Cape Cod and through dangerous shoals. During that voyage, Tisquantum contracted what Bradford called an "Indian fever".
2 days ago · William Floyd Weld (born July 31, 1945) is an American attorney, businessman, author, and politician who served as the 68th Governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997.
4 days ago · All About William Bradford • After boarding the Mayflower in 1620 to depart from England, William Bradford was one of the first people to settle in the Plymouth Colony. Bradford, who became governor of Plymouth in 1621, had a significant impact on the direction of the governance there. Throughout the next 30 years, he intermittently served as ...
5 hours ago · William & Mary professor Hugh Jones wrote that he experienced “as splendid entertainment . . . as I have seen any where else” at the “Governor’s House upon birth-nights, and at balls and assemblies.” 16 Another young man who was considering moving to Williamsburg learned from his brother that “you must have one Suit of handsome full-dressed Silk cloaths to wear on the King’s ...
