William Bradford was an English Pilgrim Separatist and Governor of Plymouth Colony, originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England. He moved to Leiden in the Dutch Republic in order
A conjectural image of Bradford, produced as a postcard in 1904 by A.S. Burbank of Plymouth
Manor House, Austerfield—presumed birthplace of William Bradford
A modern view of the city of Leiden featuring the Hooglandse Kerk
Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620, a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris from 1899
Plymouth Colony was the first permanent English colony in New England, founded in 1620, and the third permanent English colony in America, after Newfoundland and the Jamestown Colony. It was settled b
William Bradford (governor)
…in Northern England. He moved to Leiden in the Dutch Republic 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 Plymouth Colony intermittently for about 30…
Edward Winslow negotiated the treaty with the Wampanoags, served as the Pilgrims' ambassador to their financial backers in England, and was as one of the first governors of Plymouth Colony. This portrait is the only portrait of a Pilgrim that was painted from life.
The cover of John Smith's A Description of New England, published in 1616, which was the first text to use the name "New Plymouth" to describe the site of the future colony
Interview of Samoset with the Pilgrims, an 1852 book engraving
"Signing of the Mayflower Compact" by Edward Percy Moran, c. 1900