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who raised him as a farmer. At the age of twelve he heard the ser mons of Richard Clyfton, a nonconformist
minister, and was spiritually moved en ough that in 1606 he became a member of a group of Separatists who had
formed t heir own congregation in the village of Scrooby under the direction of Clyfton, John Robinson, and
William Brewster, the group's preeminent elder. Because of pressure to conform to the hierarchy of the Anglican
Church, the Scrooby group in 1608 fled to Holland and eventually settled in Leyden.
"In 1620 part o f the Leyden congregation, along with an assortment of less pious emigrants, de parted on the
Mayflower to establish a settlement where they could maintain a c hurch of 'ancient purity' freed from European
entanglements. In November they arrived off the shores of what is now Cape Cod, Massachusetts (somewhat
farther north than they had intended), and in December disembarked at Plymouth. . . W hen Plymouth's first
governor, John Carver, died in 1621, Bradford was elected to take his place." (From "The Heath Anthology of
American Literature," 3d ed. , Paul Lauter, ed., 1998.)
Bradford was re-elected to the office of Governor thirty times, serving almost continuously for a total of thirtythree
years un til his death in 1657. He was one of the most efficient persons in directing a nd sustaining the new
settlement; or, in the words of an ancient writer, he "wa s the very prop and glory of Plymouth Colony, during all
the whole series of ch anges that passed over it."
Bradford was accompanied on Mayflower by his wif e, whose maiden name was Dorothy May. This lady never
reached Plymouth, but wa s accidentally drowned, on the 7th of December, 1620, while Mayflower rode at a
nchor in Cape Cod Bay and her husband was absent on an examining tour. She was the first English female who
died at Plymouth, and the first whose death is re corded in New England. On Aug. 14, 1623, he married widow
Alice Southworth, wh ose maiden name is supposed to have been Carpenter. She came over in "Ann" in 1623
and lived till the 26th of March, 1670, when she deceased, aged about 80.
[The above two paragraphs have been taken from NEHGR, Volume 4, page 41 (185 0)].[2836643.FTW]
Name Prefix: Governor
William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth Colony, was born at Austerfield, in Yorkshire, England, in 1588. By
the age of seven, Bra dford was orphaned of both parents and a grandfather, and was sent to live with his uncles,
who raised him as a farmer. At the age of twelve he heard the ser mons of Richard Clyfton, a nonconformist
minister, and was spiritually moved en ough that in 1606 he became a member of a group of Separatists who had
formed t heir own congregation in the village of Scrooby under the direction of Clyfton, John Robinson, and
William Brewster, the group's preeminent elder. Because of pressure to conform to the hierarchy of the Anglican
Church, the Scrooby group in 1608 fled to Holland and eventually settled in Leyden.
"In 1620 part o f the Leyden congregation, along with an assortment of less pious emigrants, de parted on the
Mayflower to establish a settlement where they could maintain a c hurch of 'ancient purity' freed from European
entanglements. In November they arrived off the shores of what is now Cape Cod, Massachusetts (somewhat
farther north than they had intended), and in December disembarked at Plymouth. . . W hen Plymouth's first
governor, John Carver, died in 1621, Bradford was elected to take his place." (From "The Heath Anthology of
American Literature," 3d ed. , Paul Lauter, ed., 1998.)
Bradford was re-elected to the office of Governor thirty times, serving almost continuously for a total of thirtythree
years un til his death in 1657. He was one of the most efficient persons in directing a nd sustaining the new
settlement; or, in the words of an ancient writer, he "wa s the very prop and glory of Plymouth Colony, during all
the whole series of ch anges that passed over it."
Bradford was accompanied on Mayflower by his wif e, whose maiden name was Dorothy May. This lady never
reached Plymouth, but wa s accidentally drowned, on the 7th of December, 1620, while Mayflower rode at a
nchor in Cape Cod Bay and her husband was absent on an examining tour. She was the first English female who
died at Plymouth, and the first whose death is re corded in New England. On Aug. 14, 1623, he married widow
Alice Southworth, wh ose maiden name is supposed to have been Carpenter. She came over in "Ann" in 1623
and lived till the 26th of March, 1670, when she deceased, aged about 80.
[The above two paragraphs have been taken from NEHGR, Volume 4, page 41 (185 0)].
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