William Bradford
Governor of the Plymouth Colony
Died when: 67 years 51 days (805 months)Star Sign: Pisces
William Bradford (c. 19 March 1590 – 9 May 1657) was an English Puritan separatist originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England.
He moved to Leiden in Holland in order to escape persecution from King James I of England, and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620.
He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact and went on to serve as Governor of the Plymouth Colony intermittently for about 30 years between 1621 and 1657.
His journal Of Plymouth Plantation covered the years from 1620 to 1646 in Plymouth.
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