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    Of Plymouth Plantation
    Of Plymouth Plantation
    Of Plymouth Plantation
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    Of Plymouth Plantation

    By William Bradford

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    Of Plymouth Plantation was written by William Bradford, leaders of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.  Written between 1630 and 1651, it is an oft cited first person account of Pilgrim life in the Colony.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781537807539
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      Of Plymouth Plantation - William Bradford

      OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION

      ..................

      William Bradford

      LACONIA PUBLISHERS

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      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2016 by William Bradford

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      PLYMOUTH PLANTATION.

      CHAPTER I.: Discontent of the Puritans. Decision to go to Holland.

      CHAPTER II.: Their Departure into Holland, and their Troubles there; with an Account of some of their Many Difficulties.

      CHAPTER III.: Settlement in Holland, and Manner of Living There.

      CHAPTER IV.: Showing the Reasons and Causes of their Removal.

      CHAPTER V.: Showing what Means they used in the Preparation for this Great Voyage.

      CHAPTER VI.: Plans proposed by London Merchants to assist in the Undertaking.

      CHAPTER VII.: Departure from Leyden. Arrival at Southampton, where they all met together and took in their provisions.

      CHAPTER VIII.: Their Departure from England and Voyage to America.

      CHAPTER IX.: Search for a Landing.

      CHAPTER X.: Arrival at Cape Cod.

      CHAPTER XI.: The Remainder of the Year 1620.

      CHAPTER XII.: Events of 1621.

      CHAPTER XIII.: The Arrival of The Fortune and The Charity. Trouble with the Indians.

      CHAPTER XIV.: Arrival of The Charity.

      CHAPTER XV.: Lyford and Oldham.

      CHAPTER XVI.: Expulsion of Lyford and Oldham from the Colony.

      CHAPTER XVII.: Events of 1626 and ’27. Return of Standish. Distribution of Land.

      CHAPTER XVIII.: Kennebec Patent. Intercourse with the Dutch. Expulsion of Morton.

      CHAPTER XIX.: Mr. Allerton’s Mistakes. Return of Morton, 1629-30.

      CHAPTER XX.: Roger Williams. Settlement of the Connecticut River.

      CHAPTER XXI.: Scourge of Small-pox among the Indians.

      CHAPTER XXII.: Events from 1635-1645.

      HISTORY

      OF

      Plymouth Plantation.

      BY

      WILLIAM BRADFORD,

      The Second Governor of the Colony.

      puritans going to church

      Arranged and Annotated for Schools.

      LIFE OF WILLIAM BRADFORD.

      William Bradford was born in 1590 at Austerfield, an obscure town in Yorkshire, England. Here and in some other places, writes Cotton Mather, to whom we are indebted for what is known of Bradford’s early life, he had a comfortable inheritance left him of his honest parents, who died while he was yet a child and cast him on the education, first of his grandparents, and then of his uncles, who devoted him, like his ancestors, unto the affairs of husbandry. Long sickness kept him, as he would afterwards thankfully say, from the vanities of youth, and made him the fitter for what he was afterwards to undergo. When he was about a dozen years old, the reading of the Scriptures began to cause great impressions upon him; and those impressions were much assisted and improved when he came to attend the ministry of Rev. Mr. Richard Clifton, not far from his abode; he was then also further befriended, by being brought into the company and fellowship of such as were then called professors. . . . Nor could the wrath of his uncles, nor the scoff of his neighbors, now turned upon him as one of the Puritans, divert him from his pious inclinations.

      When about eighteen years of age, Bradford, with a company who had separated from the established church, went to Holland. He was twice arrested for having fled from England; but an explanation of his reasons secured his early release, and he was permitted to join his friends at Amsterdam. While there he became apprenticed to a Frenchman engaged in the manufacture of silks. On coming of age he promptly converted the property left him in England into money, and engaged in business for himself at Leyden, Here he continued until, with a portion of Mr. Robinson’s church, he embarked in the Mayflower for New England.

      The perils and hardships endured by the Pilgrims on this famous voyage are faithfully and graphically recorded in the History from which these selections have been made, and no doubt Bradford was an equal sharer in the many trials of the colonists on land. He was chosen the second governor of the colony in 1621, and continued in that office, with the exception of five years, until his death in 1657.

      He was a person for study as well as action; and hence, notwithstanding the difficulties through which he passed in his youth, he attained unto a notable skill in languages. . . . He was also well skilled in history, in antiquity, and in philosophy; and for theology, he became so versed in it, that he was an irrefragable disputant against the errors, especially those of Anabaptism, which with anxiety he saw rising in his colony; wherefore he wrote some significant things for the confutation of those errors. At length he fell sick, and so continued through a winter and spring, and died on the 9th of May following, in the sixty-ninth year of his age.

      The opportunities which Governor Bradford had for writing the history of the Plymouth colony were superior to those of any other colonist; and although his duties as chief magistrate "would seem to afford him little leisure for writing, yet he thereby acquired an entire familiarity with every subject of a public nature in any way connected with the colony. This, taken in connection with the high

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