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William Bradford
1590 - Born on the 19th of March, near Doncaster, in Austerfield, Yorkshire.
1606 - He was a committed member of what was termed a "Separatist" church, since the church-members had wanted to separate from the Church of England.
1608 - Bradford fled to the Netherlands, along with many members of the congregation.
1609 - He left England and went to Holland seeking religious freedom.
1609 - He immigrated with the congregation, led by John Robinson, to the Netherlands.
1597 - Bradford married his first wife, Dorothy May.
- He helped organize an expedition of about 100 Pilgrims to the New World.
1620 - Bradford's wife died. On the 7th of December, Dorothy Bradford died while the Mayflower was at anchor in Provincetown Harbor.
1621 - He helped draft the Mayflower Compact aboard the group's ship, and he served as governor of the Plymouth Colony for all but five years.
- He helped establish and foster the principles of self-government and religious freedom that characterized later American colonial government.
- Half the colonists perished, including the colony's leader, John Carver. Bradford was selected as his replacement in the spring.
1623 - William Bradford's second wife, the also widowed Alice Carpenter Southworth, came to Plymouth aboard the Anne.
1627 - He and four others assumed the colony's debt to the merchant adventurers who had helped finance their immigration in return for a monopoly of the fur trading and fishing industries.
1630 - He began to compile his two volume Of Plymouth Plantation.
1657 - Died on the 9th of May.
1606 - He was a committed member of what was termed a "Separatist" church, since the church-members had wanted to separate from the Church of England.
1608 - Bradford fled to the Netherlands, along with many members of the congregation.
1609 - He left England and went to Holland seeking religious freedom.
1609 - He immigrated with the congregation, led by John Robinson, to the Netherlands.
1597 - Bradford married his first wife, Dorothy May.
- He helped organize an expedition of about 100 Pilgrims to the New World.
1620 - Bradford's wife died. On the 7th of December, Dorothy Bradford died while the Mayflower was at anchor in Provincetown Harbor.
1621 - He helped draft the Mayflower Compact aboard the group's ship, and he served as governor of the Plymouth Colony for all but five years.
- He helped establish and foster the principles of self-government and religious freedom that characterized later American colonial government.
- Half the colonists perished, including the colony's leader, John Carver. Bradford was selected as his replacement in the spring.
1623 - William Bradford's second wife, the also widowed Alice Carpenter Southworth, came to Plymouth aboard the Anne.
1627 - He and four others assumed the colony's debt to the merchant adventurers who had helped finance their immigration in return for a monopoly of the fur trading and fishing industries.
1630 - He began to compile his two volume Of Plymouth Plantation.
1657 - Died on the 9th of May.
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