The text in fact says very little at all about Christianity, while it obsessively documents the colonists' business negotiations with their English investors, their crooked business agent, and with the native people. It is known as "Of Plymouth Plantation" from the heading on the first page. 419 pgs. 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William Bradford's diary of the Plymouth pilgrim's journey and years in Plymouth is ESSENTIAL reading and completely DEBUNKS the nonsense of the 1619 Project's revisionist history. endobj The Bradford journal is the single most complete authority for the story of the Pilgrims and … The text of Bradford's journal is often called the History of Plymouth Plantation. 63 0 obj The following obituary of Bradford was published in the Maryland Herald on October 11, 1791: PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 29. @�է��)O����w�#�N�6F^�9��t��!�c��sW��������wC ���c`� 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. 1 Comment. We learned he was from the eastern parts. Her writings appear in other national media, including The Wall Street Journal and Fox News. �&��=F6�#[�w)���`ׁE�s����,A\���hcy���PJt1�Ƿ�_d��M� ~���U�jWں�! William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation: 1620-1647 This hypertext version provides limited excerpts of Chapters 1, 2, 4 and 9 from Bradford's text. At the top of the original text is Of Plim̃oth Plantation, but newer prints of the text often use the modern spelling, "Plymouth." %PDF-1.5 � It is also sometimes called William Bradford's Journal. Author: William Bradford. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts Language: English: LoC Class: F001: United States local history: New England: Subject: Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. Wikimedia. The Indian’s name is Samoset, his ability to speak English so well surprised many of us, we marveled at his pronunciation of each word. Bradford P. Wilson is Executive Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Lecturer in Politics, and Faculty Fellow of Butler College at Princeton University. endstream In Wilberforce's text it is cited as History of the Plantation of Plymouth. As the co-author of Mourt's Relation, the author of Of Plymouth Plantation, and the long-term governor of Plymouth Colony, his documented activities are vast in scope. 3FI�YZ�{�����2�?VU�8�n�^� �������r �— %���� William Bradford is the author of the journal "Of Plymouth Plantation." endobj William Bradford was an English Puritan separatist originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England. The private nature of Bradford's history and its delayed publication in the nineteenth century complicate the issue of the text's reception. This electronic text was prepared by Courtney Danforth in September, 1997, for the Xroads Projectof the American Studies Department at the University of Virginia. 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